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THE BFG BY ROALD DAHLPACKET

CHAPTERS:

“The Witching Hour”“Who?”“The Snatch”

VOCAB: 1. Dormitory –

Noun - A large bedroom for a number of people in a school or institution.Sophie is an orphan, so the dormitory is where she sleeps.

2. Greengrocer – Noun – A grocery that sells fruits and vegetables.

Roald Dahl was British, this is usually a term only used there! 3. Smothered –

Verb – To suffocate someone by covering their mouth and nose. When the BFG took Sophie he covered her mouth and nose in the

blanket!4. Seized -

Verb – To take hold of by force, to grabThe BFG seized her from the dorm!

QUESTIONS:

1. What was Sophie feeling when she saw the Giant for the first time?

2. What do you think the trumpet is for?

3. What do you think the Giant wants Sophie for?

4. What is “The Witching Hour?” Do you believe in “The Witching Hour”?

CHAPTERS: “The Cave”“The BFG” “The Giants”

VOCAB:

1. Sensation –Noun - A physical feeling or perception resulting from something that

happens to or comes into contact with the body.

2. Galloping –Noun - The fastest pace of a horse or other quadruped, together in each

stride

3. Rattling – Adjective – Lively, brisk

4. Desolate – Adjective – Devoid of inhabitants, deserted

5. Craggy – Adjective – Rough, rugged

6. Gushing – Verb – To give off a lot of

7. Rasher – Noun – BRITISH WORD!!! – thin slice

8. Peculiar –Adjective – odd, strange

9. Rummaging –Verb – to search thoroughly

10. Hullabaloo –

Noun – uproar

11. Colossal – Adjective – a lot, big, huge

QUESTIONS:

1. What is the Giant’s cave door made out of?

2. What was lined up on the cave walls?

3. What are 7 funny words the Giant uses?

4. What does he say people from Greece taste like?

5. What does he say people from Panama taste like?

6. What does he say people from Wellington taste like?

7. What does the BFG stand for?

8. Why can’t he let Sophie go? What does he think she will do?

9. What does he call Americans?

10. Why do you think he doesn’t hang out with the other Giants?

CHAPTERS: “The Marvellous Ears”“Snozzcumbers” “The Bloodbottler”

VOCAB:

1. Marvelous – Adjective – extremely good, extraordinary

2. Welled – Verb – to rise up to the surface

3. Preposterous – Adjective – ridiculous

4. Queer – Adjective – strange or odd

5. Straightaway – Adverb – immediately

6. Transfigured –Verb – transform into something more beautiful

7. Perambulator – Noun – BRITISH WORD!!! – a baby carriage

8. Winsome – Adjective – childlike charm

9. Awesome – Adjective – terrific or awesome

10. Passionately -Adjective – enthusiastic

11. Dignified – Adjective – to be of high value, high worth

12. Insult - Adjective – to be an embarrassment

QUESTIONS:

1. What does the BFG do when Sophie tells him about the orphanage and Mrs. Clonkers?

4. What does he ask Sophie to show him how to make?

3. What does Sophie find out the trumpet is used for?

4. What kinds of things does the BFG tell Sophie he can hear? Name at least 3.

5. How does he catch them?

6. What is the food the BFG lives off of? What kind of vegetable does it remind you of?

7. Why does he BFG say he talks funny?

8. Where does Sophie hide from the Bloodbottler?

9. What does Sophie say she is going to help the BFG do?

Chapters“Frobscottle & Whizzpoppers”“Journey to Dream Country”“Dream-Catching”

1. Rubbish – noun – waste or trash

2. Glamorous – adjective – charm, romance & excitement

3. Tremendous – adjective – a very great amount

4. Gurgling – verb – make a hollow, bubbling sound in your throat

5. Ecstasy – noun – an overwhelming feeling of great happiness or joyful excitement 6. Reverberated – verb – be repeated several times, like a loud echo

7. Astonishing – verb – surprise or impress someone greatly

8. Skulking – verb – keep out of sight

9. Intercept – verb – stop someone or something from doing something 10. Menace – noun – a person or thing that is likely to cause harm

11. Vying – verb – compete eagerly with someone in order to achieve or do something

12. Phenomenal – adjective – extraordinary or very remarkable 13. Fury – noun – wild or violent anger

15. Anguish – noun – severe mental or physical pain

Questions

1. What do all giants drink?

2. What is weird about the bubbles in the drink?

3. What happens when you make whizzpoppers?

4. Where does Sophie hide, so the giants won’t see her, when the BFG takes her to Dream Country?

5. What did the other giants do to the BFG?

6. What are their names?

7. What criticism does the BFG have about human beans?

8. What is the name of the good kind of dream?

9. What is the name of the bad/nightmare dream?

10. Draw a picture of what a captured Trogglehumper looks like.

*No questions on “A Trogglehumper for the Fleshlumpeater”!

CHAPTERS: “Dreams”“The Great Plan”

VOCAB:

1. Wondrous –

2. Gravely –

3. Contemptuously –

4. Translucent –

5. Mystical –

QUESTIONS:

1. What is the BFG making in the beginning of the dreams chapter?

2. What does he get upset with Sophie for doing to him?

3. Describe 5 of the dreams Sophie looks at.

4. How did the BFG say he learned to write?

5. How long has he borrowed the book from the little boy for? Why is this funny?

6. Why doesn’t the BFG want to show himself to the human beans? What does he think they will do to him?

7. Who does Sophie want to tell about the bad giants?

8. What does Sophie want the BFG to mix up and give to the Queen?

9. What is the Great Plan that the BFG and Sophie have come up with?

10. Make a prediction for what you think will happen next!

CHAPTERS: “Mixing the Dream”“Journey to London”

VOCAB:

1. Glimpse –

2. Tense–

3. Scurried–

4. Contraption–

5. Crevice–

6. Brutes –

7. Craned –

8. Bulging –

9. Murky –

10. Illusion –

QUESTIONS:

1. What type of dream are they going to give to the Queen?

2. What are the different dreams he mixes together? (There are at least 4!)

3. What does he use to mix the dreams together?

4. What happens to the pieces of dreams they don’t use?

5. Where does Sophie sit for her journey?

6. How does she hurt the BFG at first?

7. What do they see on their way to London that looks like a huge cloud of dust?

8. What is the name of the park that Sophie and the BFG end up in?

CHAPTERS: “The Palace”“The Queen”

VOCAB:

1. Loomed –

2. Staggered –

3. Pell-mell –

4. Gilded –

5. Absurd –

6. Quivering –

7. Punctuated –

8. Perched –

9. Beseechingly –

10. Anguish –

QUESTIONS:

1. When Sophie and the BFG get to the palace they have to stop quickly. Who almost catches them?

2. How does the BFG know who is in each room?

3. What does the BFG do when he leaves Sophie that almost makes her cry?

4. Who walks into the Queen’s room to serve her breakfast?

5. When the Queen tells her of the nightmare she had, the woman drops the tray. Why does she say this startles her?

6. What are the BFG and Sophie going to have for breakfast?

CHAPTERS: “The Royal Breakfast”

VOCAB:

1. Imposing –

2. Ingenuity –

3. Versatility –

4. Dexterity –

5. Cunning –

6. Sophistication –

7. Sagacity –

8. Discretion –

9. Ravenous –

10. Disdainful –

QUESTIONS:

1. What is the name of the Queen’s butler?

2. What types of accommodations does he make for the BFG so he can have him for breakfast in the ballroom?

3. How did he figure out how much food the BFG would need, how big the table should be and how tal his chair should be?

4. Does the BFG like coffee? What does he ask for instead?

5. What does he do that makes the Queen smile?

6. How does the Queen check to make sure the BFG is telling the truth? *Hint: She makes a phone call to two people! Who does she call and what does

she ask them?

CHAPTER: “The Plan”

VOCAB:

1. Wretches –

2. Grudgingly –

3. Admirable –

4. Tact -

5. Miffed –

6. Blighters –

7. Grotesque –

8. Trussed –

9. Contentedly –

10. Hawsers –

QUESTIONS:

1. What does the BFG call the helicopters to the Head of the Air Force?

2. What is the BFG’s job on their mission?

3. How will the Air Force and Army capture the giants? How will they bring them back to England?

4. The Head of the Air Force is looking at an atlas (which is a world map) while they are traveling. What happens on their route that makes him nervous?

5. What did they do to the giants while they were sleeping?

6. What happened when they tried to move the Fleshlumpeater’s arm?

7. What did Sophie do to save them?

8. What did the BFG have to collect and put on the helicopters before they could leave Giant Country?

CHAPTERS: “Feeding Time”“The Author”

VOCAB:

1. Contrivance –

2. Ceaselessly –

3. Everlasting –

4. Splendid -

QUESTIONS:

1. What does the BFG bring back with him to feed the giants? How did he make sure they’d have a never-ending supply of it?

2. Where are the giants kept?

3. What did the ruler of India give to the BFG? *Hint: It was something that he had wanted for a very long time!

4. Name two other gifts Sophie and the BFG received.

5. What did Sophie begin to teach the BFG?

6. What do we find out about the author?