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Resourcesdanny Chapterbychapter
VOCABULARY:
champion - lavish - spokes - kerosene - gypsy - scruffy
rickety - bunk - caravan - engineer - bough
Homework task
Individual
Homework task writing 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 ____________
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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.
DANNY
VOCABULARY:
marvelous - stern - enormous - wheelbarrow - cavern - occasionally
- stride
Homework task
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
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.
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Danny The Champion of the World
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.
Homework task
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Danny The Champion of the World
VOCABULARY:
mechanic - grindstone - amazing - majestically - inevitable- interval -
swoop - sapling
compliment - soar - sterno - stilts - meadow - tangled - crouch -
boomerang
Homework task
Dear diary…
VOCABULARY:
complicated - doze - aghast - ravenous - quirk - yearn - fetch - mania
faint - poach - rear - filthy - panic - pheasant - disgusted - sheepish
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.
The caravan,
Behind the Filling Station
Dear Sam,
VOCABULARY:
queer - collapse - knuckles - accelerator - roost - shiver - jar
(v.) - speedometer - ankle
tangle - support - approach - grasp - presumably - agony -
anesthetic
In this box write down words Find short sentences and copy In this box write down what
that make you feel scared: them into this box. Danny says.
VOCABULARY:
retired - mooch - injection - plaster - patient - flabbergasted - loathsome
brood - astonished - surgery - blunt - infuriating - trousers - trout
stretcher - sneer - ambulance - diabolical - parcel - triumph
Why did they decide to wait until Friday to carry out their plan?
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
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
DANNY DAD
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.
VOCABULARY
astounded - vicar - prance - equipment - crafty - vicarage
roasted - parsnips - aghast - survey - succulent - freezer
VOCABULARY
genius - frantic - hush - constable - ridiculous - shriek - dismount
scoundrel - convert - lubricate - neutral - absurd - conjuror - squat
rogue - infernal - cargo - resplendent - entice - uproar
VOCABULARY
astonishing - varmint - luscious - thoroughbred
mare - porch - terrace - lounge
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?