M4 Lamb to the slaughter, snow day

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 4

Welcome to English!

Today you are going to work independently. You are going to listen to a short story written by Roald Dahl, called Lamb to the Slaughter.

What do you know about Roald Dahl?
Do you know any of his books?

Books:

Charlie's chocolate factory

Mathilda

James and the giant peach

The fantastic Mr Fox

BFG

The witches

What do you know about Roald Dahl?
Do you know any of his books?

These are some of his books. You may know some them.

Roald Dahl: British writer (1916-1990); wrote several children's books, but also short stories.

The story starts on the next slide. Every now and then the story stops and there will be a question for you to answer.

Enjoy the story!

Introduce short story

Discuss title: what does it mean?

(simple translation)

We'll be listening to the story and there will be several intervals (stops) at which there will be a question. Answer these quickly so that we can listen to the whole story!

00:57

Who was Mary Maloney waiting for?

1. her friend
2. her husband
3. her boyfriend
4. her child

02:33

What is Patrick's occupation?

04:09

What did Patrick tell Mary?

05:48

What did Mary use to kill Patrick?

07:57

Why did Mary go to the shop?

1. She needed vegetables
2. She needed fresh air
3. She needed an alibi
4. To talk to Sam

Whoa, what happened?

What did you learn today?

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