Roald Dahl (1916 –1990) is famous for writing short stories and novels for children. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches and Matilda are some of his well-known novels. Roald Dahl was a master of words, and when he couldn’t find the right words, he invented new ones.
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Before reading Write on the board: What is your clearest childhood memory? Let the students freewrite for a couple of minutes before they share with a partner.
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A visit to the Doctor “A visit to the doctor” is an excerpt from Roald Dahl’s
Before reading Let the students read the introduction. Ask: • What is an autobiography? • What is a tale?
book Boy: Tales of Childhood. Boy is often referred to as an autobiography, but Dahl himself wrote in the introduction: “This is not an autobiography. I would never write a autobiography selvportræt
history of myself. On the other hand, throughout my
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young days at school and just afterwards a number of
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things happened to me that I have never forgotten.”
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Background A tale is a narrative of one or several events, real or imaginary. An autobiography is a history of a person’s life written or told by that person. Although autobiographies are stories, they are expected to be an account of true events as seen through the eyes of the narrator.
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I have only one unpleasant memory of the summer holidays
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in Norway. We were in the grandparents’ house in Oslo
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and my mother said to me, ‘We are going to the doctor this afternoon. He wants to look at your nose and mouth.’ I think I was eight at the time. ‘What’s wrong with my nose and mouth?’ I asked. ‘Nothing much,’ my mother said. ‘But I think you’ve got adenoids.’ ‘What are they?’ I asked her. ‘Don’t worry about it,’ she said. ‘It’s nothing.’ I held my mother’s hand as we walked to the doctor’s house. It took us about half an hour. There was a kind
During reading Ask: • Why did Roald Dahl go to Norway during summer holidays? Why did he have to go to the doctor that summer?
of dentist’s chair in the surgery and I was lifted into it. The doctor had a round mirror strapped to his forehead and he peered up my nose and into my mouth. He then took my mother aside and they held a whispered conversation. I saw my mother looking rather grim, but she nodded. The doctor now put some water to boil in an aluminium mug over a gas flame, and into the boiling water he placed
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