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Teacher’s Notes
Level 6 – Advanced
Teacher’s Notes
Level 6 – Advanced
Student’s activities
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you have a complete plot for the novel. (j) The last guest in the house was two years ago.
2 Imagine you are Billy. You are worried about the landlady and
ACTIVITIES WHILE READING THE BOOK
the house and want to get away. At which point in the story
Man from the South do you leave and why? Compare your answer with another
student.
1 Who is ...
3 Dahl describes the landlady as “like the mother of one of his
(a) old?
best friends” and says that “she had probably lost a son of
(b) young?
her own.” What does this tell you about the landlady and
(c) English?
Billy?
(d) American?
(e) wearing clothes? The Vicar’s Pleasure
(f) not wearing clothes?
1 Think about the title of this story. What is the vicar’s
(g) given a name?
‘pleasure’? Compare your answer with another student.
(h) not given a name?
2 What two mistakes does Mr Boggis make that leads to the
2 What do the answers to question 1 tell you about the story
men destroying the commode?
and why did Roald Dahl choose to write the story in this way?
3 ‘Mr Boggis is greedier and stupider than the three men.’
3 Talk to another student. If you were the American boy would
Think about this and then discuss with another student.
you take the bet? Why/why not?
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Student’s activities
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What other noises could there be that he dislikes? Make
another list of at least five things. Compare your two lists with
another students.
3 Why do think Dahl wrote the first section of this story in which
the young pilot meets the old man? What difference does this
make the story of the old man and Judson?
The Champion of the World
1 How many ...
(a) raisins do Claud and Gordon prepare?
(b) kilometres is it from the petrol station to the wood?
(c) months can poachers get in prison?
(d) keepers are there?
(e) ways of poaching does Claud describe?
(f) sleeping pills does Gordon have left?
(g) pheasants are in the feeding ground?
(h) pheasants did Claud’s father get in one night?
(i) pheasants does Claud give Charlie?
(j) pheasants are in the pram?
2 Make two lists called “poachers” and “keepers” and write the
names of all the people on the two sides, ie poachers and all
the people who help them, and keepers and all the people
who like shooting pheasants.
3 Look at the end of the story. What happens after Mr Hazel
arrives and sees the pheasants at the garage? He sees
Claud and Gordon later when they come back. What do they
tell him? Make some notes and then have the conversation
with another student.