BOY (WRITING HOME)

VOCABULARY
Write the definitions and sentences where these words appear: habit, binding, spine, neatly, peering, lousy, thrashed, leaning over, masters, subtle.

WRITING LETTERS
Watch the videos and take notes. 

BOY (FIRST DAY)

VOCABULARY

1. Write the definitions and sentences where these words appear: pier, paddle-steamer, trunk, peg, cunning, magnet, slugs, abustle, grin, glistened, linger.
2. Translate the words.

DRAW A MAP
Locate Dahl´s family home and Dahl's school. Draw the route he would follow  from his house to the school with his mother.

WRITING
Write about the first great adventure of your life (50-60 words).

BOY (A VISIT TO THE DOCTOR)

VOCABULARY

Adenoids, surgery, grim, mug, steel, steam, apron, enamel, blade, tumbling, yelp, lumps, gasping, flannel, groggy, tonsils.

1. Underline these words and write the sentences where they appear.
2. Look them up in a dictionary, translate them and copy the definitions.

WATCH THE VIDEOS AND TAKE NOTES

BOY (THE MAGIC ISLAND)

1. Write ten words that you learned from this chapter.
2. Write the sentences where they appear.
3. Look them up in a dictionary , write their definitions and translate them.
4. Watch the video. Make a list of the islands and the reasons why they are dangerous. Draw a map and locate the islands.

BOY (GOING TO NORWAY)

1. Write ten words that you learned from this chapter.
2. Write the sentences where they appear.
3. Look them up in a dictionary, write their definitions and translate the words.

BOY (MRS PRATCHETT'S REVENGE)

QUESTIONS:

1. How were they punished?

2. How did Dahl's mother react?

3. What resulted because of this incident?

VOCABULARY:

Choose ten words from this chapter that you don't understand, look them up in a dictionary and write their definitions.

BOARDING SCHOOLS

What are the pros and cons of boarding schools? Write four advantages and four disadvantages of sending children to boarding schools. 

BOY (MR COOMBES)

1. What was the result of the plot?
2. Who is Mr. Coombes?
3. What was Dahl thinking when Mr. Coombes made the whole school line up outside?
4. Why were they lined up?
4. Underline 10 words from this chapter, write down the sentences which contain the words and translate the words according to the sentences.