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By Roald Dahl


VOCABULARY:champion - lavish - spokes - kerosene - gypsy - scruffy

rickety - bunk - caravan - engineer - bough

Danny The Champion of the World

CHAPTER 1 - "The Filling Station"

Homework task

HOMEWORK: Learn how to spell the above words – using the ‘copy’, ‘cover’, ‘write’ technique. Spelling test next lesson.


Homework task


Now use the details you have found about Danny in the opening chapter to write a paragraph about what you know so far.

In the opening chapter of the novel the reader learns that ____________

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Individual writing task



Chapter 1. The Filling-Station

DANNY

In this opening chapter the reader meets Danny for the first time. Search, this opening chapter, for facts about Danny. Record them in the form of a spider diagram.

When he was four months his mother dies.


VOCABULARY:

marvelous - stern - enormous - wheelbarrow - cavern - occasionally - stride

mysteriously - shrill - prowl - blowpipe - tremendous - gait - hedge

CHAPTER 2 -"The Big Friendly Giant"

Homework task





Chapter 2: The Big Friendly Giant.

During this chapter the reader meets Danny’s father. Search, this opening chapter, for facts about Danny’s father. Record them in the form of a spider diagram.

DANNY’S FATHER



We learn many things about the BFG.

Answer the following questions.

1. What does the BFG stand for?2. How tall is the BFG?3. Where does the BFG live?4. When can the BFG be seen?5. What does the BFG do inside his home?6. Which of his senses are ‘ fantastic’?7. What does the BFG do in ‘the dead of night’?8. What items does he always carry with him?9. What did the BFG wear when Danny’s dad saw him?10. How did Danny’s dad feel when he saw the BFG?



Answers.

1. The BFG stands for The Big Friendly Giant.2. The BFG is three times as tall as an ordinary man.3. The BFG lives in a vast underground cavern.4. The BFG can be seen in the dark.5. The BFG has a powder factory inside the cavern and he makes more than a hundred different kinds of magic powder.6. His sense of hearing is ‘ fantastic’.7. In ‘the dead of night’ he goes searching for children who are asleep. 8. He always carries with him his suitcase and his blowpipe.9. When Danny’s dad saw him the BFG wore a black cloak.10. Danny’s dad wasn’t scared and said it was thrilling.



Writing a portrait.

In the first two chapters of the novel we have met Danny, his father and also been given a description of the BFG.

Write a description about someone close to you. They could be your mother or father, grandparent, a relation, friend or a neighbour.

How to write a description:

•Begin by saying who that person is and how you know them

•Describe their appearance – hair colour, facial features, height etc.

•Explain what this person does and why you like them

Homework task

HOMEWORK: Finish this task as home work by the next lesson.



VOCABULARY:

mechanic - grindstone - amazing - majestically - inevitable- interval - swoop - sapling

compliment - soar - sterno - stilts - meadow - tangled - crouch - boomerang

CHAPTER 3 - "Cars and Kites and Fire Balloons"

Homework task




In this chapter Danny and his father go to the top of the hill behind the filling-station to fly a kite.

Write Danny’s diary for that day.

Start by planning your work

In your diary entry say:

•What happens in the chapter to Danny

•How Danny feels

You could start with

Dear diary…



CHAPTER 4 - "My Father’s Deep Dark Secret"

& CHAPTER 5 - "The Secret Methods"

VOCABULARY:

complicated - doze - aghast - ravenous - quirk - yearn - fetch - mania

faint - poach - rear - filthy - panic - pheasant - disgusted - sheepish



In chapter 4 Danny wakes up in the night to find his father missing. In the thought bubble below, write down Danny’s thought and feelings during that night.



In chapter 4 and 5 Danny’s father shares with him a secret. He tells Danny that he is catching pheasants in the night. He does this using two different methods

a) The Horse-hair stopper

b) The Sticky Hat

NOW create a ‘story board’ showing ONE of these methods used by Danny’s dad.





CHAPTER 6 - "Mr. Victor Hazell"& CHAPTER 7 - "The Baby Austin"

VOCABULARY:

brewery - smug - precisely - indicate - estate - superior - wriggle - dread - snob - inspect

prickly - swerve - glimpse - cozy - stealth(ily) - ruin - inflamed - twilight - petrified - immense



Mr Victor Hazell.

In the speech bubbles below write what Danny tells the reader about Mr Hazell in this chapter.



In chapter 7 Danny drives the Baby Austin.

Imagine that you are Danny write a letter to a friend telling him what happened that day.

The caravan,

Behind the Filling Station

Dear Sam,



CHAPTER 8 - "The Pit"

VOCABULARY:

queer - collapse - knuckles - accelerator - roost - shiver - jar (v.) - speedometer - ankle

tangle - support - approach - grasp - presumably - agony - anesthetic



In this chapter Danny’s father has fallen into the pit.

Look closely at the beginning of the chapter. How does the author make

us feel scared.

Look at:

• the words used

• the length of the sentence

• what Danny says.

In this box write down words that make you feel scared:

Find short sentences and copy them into this box.

In this box write down what Danny says.



CHAPTER 9- "Doc Spencer" & CHAPTER 10 - "The Great Shooting Party"

VOCABULARY:

retired - mooch - injection - plaster - patient - flabbergasted - loathsome

brood - astonished - surgery - blunt - infuriating - trousers - trout

stretcher - sneer - ambulance - diabolical - parcel - triumph



Doc Spencer – looking closely at the chapter;

How does Doc Spencer look

What is Danny’s opinion of him

What kind of person is he

What we learn about his method of catching trout.





CHAPTER 11 - "The Sleeping Beauty"



Describe Danny’s idea about how to catch all 200 pheasants

Why did they decide to wait until Friday to carry out their plan?



Show their plan in the form of a story board


CHAPTER 12 "Thursday and School"


VOCABULARY:

autumn - erect - moustache - platoon - fascinating - commemorate - scarlet - repulsion

naturalist - coronation - corridor - insolent - vast - nectar - pact - apologetic

horde - butler - encourage - fury - expedition - aniseed - eclair - revolting



Imagine you are Danny’s father.

Write his diary, when Danny returns from school and tells him what has happened that day.


CHAPTER 13 "Friday" & CHAPTER 14 "In the Wood"


VOCABULARY:

knitted/knitting - squint - clearing - trance - extraordinary - anxiously

nudge - flurry - saucepan - swap - transfixed - investigate - colossal

game - ecstasy - pungent - bulge - murky - swivel - conscious



How does Danny feel and how does his dad feel when they are in the woods planting the raisins?

DANNY DAD

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CHAPTER 15 - "The keeper"& Chapter 16 - "The Champion of the World"


VOCABULARY

hover - incredible - nuisance - peculiar - superbly - Labrador - eerie - limp

suspended - pomegranate - suspicious - sacks - plummet - loiter - lurking - taxi


Find the lines that tell how Dad was feeling as he and Danny waited for the darkness to fall and write them in the box below.



How did Dad react when he saw Mr. Rabbetts

Who is Charlie Kinch, and why did he come to the wood?


CHAPTER 17 - "The Taxi" & CHAPTER 18 - "Home"


VOCABULARY

astounded - vicar - prance - equipment - crafty - vicarage

roasted - parsnips - aghast - survey - succulent - freezer



Find as many details as you can about Enoch Samways and why Danny dislikes him.


CHAPTER 19 - "Rockabye Baby"& CHAPTER 20 - "Good-bye Mr. Hazell"


VOCABULARY

genius - frantic - hush - constable - ridiculous - shriek - dismount

scoundrel - convert - lubricate - neutral - absurd - conjuror - squat

rogue - infernal - cargo - resplendent - entice - uproar



In this chapter the pheasants are hidden in the bottom of a pram.

Write a paragraph from

a) The baby’s point of view

b) The pheasant’s point of view.



CHAPTER 21 - "Doc Spencer’s Surprise"& CHAPTER 22 - "My Father"

VOCABULARY

astonishing - varmint - luscious - thoroughbred

mare - porch - terrace - lounge



1. Why was Mrs. Clipstone upset?

a)

b)

2. What was Doc Spencer’s surprise?

3. How did Dad and Danny decide to spend Saturday?

a) First go to ______________ in order to _________________.

b)Then go to ______________ in order to _________________.

4. I would recommend this book to my friends because:

a)

b)

c)



Create a comic book that illustrates the story. Show the main events that occur in the story and the things that Danny learned from his dad.



Now you will watch the video. After watching the video write down which medium you liked best, the novel or the video or both. Try and explain why?

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