Practising Reading skills: The Landlady p.40

1)      How is the landlady presented in the story? Use your own words and try to make 3 different points.Use quotes.

2)      How is Billy Weaver presented in the story? Use your own words and try to make 3 different points.Use quotes.

3)      In what ways does Dahl use foreshadowing in the story? What is the specific effect of it?Use quotes.

4)      How is dramatic irony used in the story? Give examples, use quotes to illustrate your ideas.Use quotes.

Quotation	What does it mean? What does it suggest/imply? Why has Dahl used italics?
p.45 “ “Like you”, she added, and her blue eyes travelled slowly all the way down the length of Billy´s body, to his feet, and then up again.”
p.46 “Everyone has to do that because it is the law of the land, and we don´t want to go breaking any laws at this stage in the proceedings, do we?”
p. 50 “There wasn´t a blemish on his body.”

Useful phrases

In the story, Billy/the landlady is presented as ...

Throughout the story, it seems that ....

In the quote, Dahl suggests ... which implies that ...

The word/phrase "..." is used so as to draw attention to ...

This quote implies that ... which could suggest that ...

At first, Billy/the landlady is presented as ...

However, gradually this impression begins to change when ...

Due to the lack of ...

Despite the fact that ...

In my opinion/personally

It seems to me that ...

Term 3 Errors - Let´s not make them again! :)

Quizlet - Term 3 errors

Exam Content - Term 3

Year 11 Term 3 Exam content

·         Reading (Crit B)

Revise by reading as much as you can in English (Library books, news websites – BBC, The Guardian, The Times, Football blogs, Roald Dahl short stories). The more exposed you are to vocab, structures, English in general the more your English will gradually improve.

·         Writing (Crit C):

Vocab:

1)     List 1  (Studyblue) All in the Mind 

2)      List 2 (Headmagnet) – The world of work

3)      List 3 (Quizlet) – Term 3 exam structures

4)      Man from the south –Powerpoint emailed to class email

Grammar:

1)      Gerund/infinitive

CAE Textbook: p. 50, p. 66 (ex 4)

CAE Workbook: p. 26 CAE + website (English page) Gerund/ Infinitive

2)      Sentence transformations

 CAE Textbook – p.51, p. 66 (ex 5), p. 67 (ex3)

CAE Workbook – p.14, p.24,

Website to practise sentence transformations:
1) 38 sentence transformations
2) 70 sentence transformation

Writing styles

1)      Proposal writing (REF: CAE textbook p. 170)

2)      Formal Letter Writing (REF: CAE textbook p. 174)

For both forms of writing – revise FORMAL structures and vocabulary

Term 3 Exam Vocab

Vocab 1

Vocab 2

Vocab 3

Vocab 4 - Man from the South Powerpoint - emailed to class email

Term 3 Exam vocab and structures

Vocab 3

Verbs followed by gerunds or infinitives?

Gerund or Infinitive?

The Landlady - Roald Dahl (p.41)

Task 1

Think of 3 ways a writer can create a chilling/frightening atmosphere:

1)

2)

3)

Task 2

Look at the image of the old woman. Think of adjectives of verbs to go with the following 5 nouns, which make the woman sound SINISTER

1)      Eyes

2)      Voice

3)      Skin

4)      Hands

5)      Nails

Staring, wrinkled, sharp, glintling, high-pitched, saggy, pointed, piercing, penetrating, clasped, calculating

Task 3 (The Landlady p.41)

1.       What are your first impressions of Billy Weaver?

2.       Describe why he has travelled to Bath.

3.       What word is repeated to suggest that he is young?

4.       Why do you think that Roald Dahl places such great emphasis on Billy’s youth? 

      Task 4

      P.41 - p.41 - Should Billy enter the B and B?

PROS	CONS

Task 5
Writer´s Techniques: Find in the text examples of the following techniques

1) Foreshadowing

Example of foreshadowing (quote)	What does this suggest may happen?

2) Dramatic Irony