Lengua Inglesa I 2019/2020

“Pig” by Roald Dahl

READING COMPREHENSION

1) Think about the following questions and try to answer them:

a) Why do you think the story is entitled “Pig”?
b) Why did Aunt Glosspan decide to homeschool Lexington?
c) What was Lexington’s best subject when Aunt Glosspan taught him?
d) Why is Aunt Glosspan’s will important to the plot?
e) How would you define Lexington’s reaction to the food in the restaurant?
f) Lexington eats a dish of pork in the restaurant. Do you find it ironic? Explain.
g) How do you feel about the ending of the story?
h) Is there a moral behind the story? If so, what is it?

WRITING

2) Write a summary of the story (bearing in mind the “summary writing

guidelines” revised in class)

LANGUAGE FOCUS

3) Find in the text words belonging to the following semantic fields:

Food:
Cookery:
Body:
Money:
Babies:

4) Find at least six words that mean the opposite of “pleasant”

5) Compare the words “pig” and “pork” and explain their different usage. Can
you think of similar pairs of words? Write them down.

6) Pronounce the following words aloud and, then, check their pronunciation by
using an online dictionary.

Lawyer, hour, heir, suit, recipe, receipt, yell, mushroom, bucket, butcher, bury, berry,
very, journey, culinary, mountain, record (noun), record (verb).

7) How are the past / past participle forms of the following regular verbs to be
pronounced? /t/, /d/ or /ɪd/

Returned, deserved, admired, kissed, walked.