Homophones task Boy by Roald Dahl

Task One:
You have read First Day. You now have three minutes to find as many words with three
or more letters as you can in

Weston-super-Mare

Task Two:
Skim read the chapter again filling in the missing words in the sentences below.

Reread page 69

1. Roald Dahl’s mother chose a Prep School in a part of England which was as near as it
could possibly be to the family home in South ____________________________________ .

2. Weston-super-Mare is a seaside resort with a vast sandy ___________________________ .

3. Weston-super-Mare also has a long _____________________________________________ .

Reread page 70

4. Every _________________ of clothing Dahl wore on his first day at school was brand new.

5. Dahl’s grey woollen stockings had ______________________________________ turnovers.

6. No-one was allowed to pry into the contents of a pupil’s tuck-box. This included no other
__________________________________________ , no teacher, not even the Headmaster.

Reread page 71

7. Mrs Dahl was encouraged to send her son a large ______________ cake more than once a
______________________ .

8. The soldiers in Dahl’s tuck-box were made of ____________________________________ .

9. When Roald Dahl arrived at St Peter’s School he had absolutely ______________________

idea what was in store for him.

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Task Three:
All of the words that you have placed in the spaces provided above are homophones.
These are words that have the same sound as another word but have a different meaning
and spelling: pair and pear, flour and flower, flea and flee … .
List below alternative spellings for the words that you have provided in the 10 spaces in
Task Two. Write each one in a sentence to show that you understand the word. The
first one is done for you.
You may use a dictionary to help you.

1. Whales have a blowhole on their head to breathe through.

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