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. 

GRAMMAR. THE PAST PERFECT

BOY (FIRST DAY)

VOCABULARY

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

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.

BOY (A VISIT TO THE DOCTOR)

VOCABULARY

Write the definitions and sentences where these words appear: Adenoids, surgery, grim, mug, steel, steam, apron, enamel, blade, tumbling, yelp, lumps, gasping, flannel, groggy, tonsils.


WATCH THE VIDEOS AND TAKE NOTES

BOY (THE MAGIC ISLAND)

VOCABULARY

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

VOCABULARY

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

BOY (MRS PRACHETT'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.