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By Roald Dahl

Copyright 2006 www.englishteaching.co.uk

Danny The Champion of the World

CHAPTER 1 - "The Filling Station"

VOCABULARY:
champion - lavish - spokes - kerosene - gypsy - scruffy
rickety - bunk - caravan - engineer - bough

Homework task

HOMEWORK: Learn how to spell the above words – using
the ‘copy’, ‘cover’, ‘write’ technique. Spelling test next lesson.



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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Chapter 1. The Filling-Station

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



CHAPTER 2 -"The Big Friendly Giant"

VOCABULARY:
marvelous - stern - enormous - wheelbarrow - cavern - occasionally
- stride

mysteriously - shrill - prowl - blowpipe - tremendous - gait - hedge

Homework task




Chapter 2: The Big Friendly Giant.

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



We learn many things about the BFG.

Answer the following questions.

1. What does the BFG stand for?
2. How tall is the BFG?
3. Where does the BFG live?
4. When can the BFG be seen?
5. What does the BFG do inside his home?
6. Which of his senses are ‘ fantastic’?
7. What does the BFG do in ‘the dead of night’?
8. What items does he always carry with him?
9. What did the BFG wear when Danny’s dad saw him?
10. How did Danny’s dad feel when he saw the BFG?



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.


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.

How to write a description:
•Begin by saying who that person is and how you know them
•Describe their appearance – hair colour, facial features, height etc.
•Explain what this person does and why you like them

HOMEWORK: Finish this task as home work by the next
lesson.

Homework task


CHAPTER 3 - "Cars and Kites and Fire Balloons"

VOCABULARY:
mechanic - grindstone - amazing - majestically - inevitable- interval -
swoop - sapling
compliment - soar - sterno - stilts - meadow - tangled - crouch -
boomerang

Homework task




In this chapter Danny and his father go to the
top of the hill behind the filling-station to fly a
kite.
Write Danny’s diary for that day.

Start by planning your work
In your diary entry say:
•What happens in the chapter to Danny
•How Danny feels
You could start with

Dear diary…



CHAPTER 4 - "My Father’s Deep Dark Secret"
& CHAPTER 5 - "The Secret Methods"

VOCABULARY:
complicated - doze - aghast - ravenous - quirk - yearn - fetch - mania
faint - poach - rear - filthy - panic - pheasant - disgusted - sheepish



In chapter 4 Danny wakes up in the
night to find his father missing. In
the thought bubble below, write
down Danny’s thought and feelings
during that night.



In chapter 4 and 5 Danny’s father shares
with him a secret. He tells Danny that he
is catching pheasants in the night. He does
this using two different methods
a) The Horse-hair stopper
b) The Sticky Hat

NOW create a ‘story board’ showing ONE of
these methods used by Danny’s dad.



CHAPTER 6 - "Mr. Victor Hazell"
& CHAPTER 7 - "The Baby Austin"

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.

In the speech bubbles below write
what Danny tells the reader about
Mr Hazell in this chapter.



In chapter 7 Danny drives the Baby
Austin.
Imagine that you are Danny write a
letter to a friend telling him what
happened that day.

The caravan,
Behind the Filling Station

Dear Sam,



CHAPTER 8 - "The Pit"

VOCABULARY:
queer - collapse - knuckles - accelerator - roost - shiver - jar
(v.) - speedometer - ankle
tangle - support - approach - grasp - presumably - agony -
anesthetic



In this chapter Danny’s father has fallen into the pit.
Look closely at the beginning of the chapter. How does the author make
us feel scared.
Look at:
• the words used
• the length of the sentence
• what Danny says.

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.



CHAPTER 9- "Doc Spencer"
& CHAPTER 10 - "The Great Shooting Party"

VOCABULARY:
retired - mooch - injection - plaster - patient - flabbergasted - loathsome
brood - astonished - surgery - blunt - infuriating - trousers - trout
stretcher - sneer - ambulance - diabolical - parcel - triumph



Doc Spencer – looking closely at the chapter;
How does Doc Spencer look
What is Danny’s opinion of him
What kind of person is he
What we learn about his method of catching trout.



CHAPTER 11 - "The Sleeping Beauty"



Describe Danny’s idea about how to catch all 200 pheasants

Why did they decide to wait until Friday to carry out their plan?


Show their plan in the form of a story board



CHAPTER 12 "Thursday and School"

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



Imagine you are Danny’s father.
Write his diary, when Danny returns from school and tells him what
has happened that day.



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



How does Danny feel and how
does his dad feel when they
are in the woods planting the
raisins?

DANNY DAD



CHAPTER 15 - "The keeper"
& Chapter 16 - "The Champion of the World"

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.


How did Dad react when he saw Mr. Rabbetts

Who is Charlie Kinch, and why did he come to the wood?



CHAPTER 17 - "The Taxi"
& CHAPTER 18 - "Home"

VOCABULARY
astounded - vicar - prance - equipment - crafty - vicarage
roasted - parsnips - aghast - survey - succulent - freezer



Find as many details as
you can about Enoch
Samways and why Danny
dislikes him.



CHAPTER 19 - "Rockabye Baby"
& CHAPTER 20 - "Good-bye Mr. Hazell"

VOCABULARY
genius - frantic - hush - constable - ridiculous - shriek - dismount
scoundrel - convert - lubricate - neutral - absurd - conjuror - squat
rogue - infernal - cargo - resplendent - entice - uproar



In this chapter the pheasants are
hidden in the bottom of a
pram.
Write a paragraph from
a) The baby’s point of view
b) The pheasant’s point of view.



CHAPTER 21 - "Doc Spencer’s Surprise"
& CHAPTER 22 - "My Father"

VOCABULARY
astonishing - varmint - luscious - thoroughbred
mare - porch - terrace - lounge



1. Why was Mrs. Clipstone upset?
a)
b)
2. What was Doc Spencer’s surprise?
3. How did Dad and Danny decide to spend Saturday?
a) First go to ______________ in order to _________________.
b)Then go to ______________ in order to _________________.
4. I would recommend this book to my friends because:
a)
b)
c)



Create a comic book that illustrates
the story. Show the main events that
occur in the story and the things
that Danny learned from his dad.



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?


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