Reading - Roald Dahl

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• Leerjaar 1

READING PRACTICE

The Witches
by
Roald Dahl

                           Lesson goals

                                                In this lesson you:
                                                           - learn about Roald Dahl
                                                                - learn about 'The Witches'
                                              - practise reading

Roald Dahl

2016 was the centenary of Roald Dahl's birth. Find out about the life and works of one of the most popular authors in the UK.

A selection of his books

Which of Roald Dahl's books do you know?

Introduction

Roald Dahl is one of the greatest storytellers the world has ever known. He’s sold well over 200 million books.

Roald Dahl had a way of telling stories that makes them fun and easy to read. This, according to Roald himself, is because he found it very easy to remember what it was like to be a child.

Roald Dahl is a well-known ___ from the UK.

1. actor
2. journalist
3. author

Summary of his life

- born in Llandaff in Wales on 13 September 1916

- parents were both from Norway, moved to the UK before Roald was born.

- He went to boarding school 

- He was caned (hit with a stick) at school. 

In fact, Roald hated violence and cruel behaviour. In many of his stories the main characters are treated cruelly by their family, carers or teachers. However, they always come out on top.

Roald was born in ___ on 13 September 1916.

1. Wales
2. England
3. the United States
4. Norway

In many of his stories, the characters are treated ___ by other people, but they win in the end.

1. kindly
2. cruelly
3. fairly

Roald’s dream was to go to exciting foreign places, and he got the chance when he got a job with the Shell Company supplying oil in East Africa. When the Second World War broke out, he became a fighter pilot and he almost died when he crashed his plane in the desert. 

He was was sent home and given a new job in the British Embassy in Washington DC. There, he started writing speeches and war stories, and his first pieces of writing were published.

During the Second World War, Roald ___.

1. flew fighter planes
2. wrote novels
3. worked for the Shell company
4. worked at the American Embassy

In which American city did Roald get a new job?

The Witches

The story is set partly in Norway and partly in the United Kingdom, and features the experiences of a young British boy called Luke and his Norwegian grandmother in a world where child-hating societies of witches secretly exist in every country. The witches are all ruled by the extremely vicious and powerful Grand High Witch, who in the story has just arrived in England to organise her worst plot ever. But an elderly former witch hunter and her young grandson find out about the evil plan and now they must do everything to stop it and defeat the witches.

Luke's grandmother comes from ...

1. the United Kingdom
2. Norway
3. Sweden
4. the United States

The witches hate ...

The Witches

We're going to read the Witches by Roald Dahl every lesson and 

the first 10 minutes of class

We're going to watch the the Witches every last lesson of the week last 10-15 minutes of class

(depending on where we are in the book)