17 min
Roald Dahl's "Dirty Beasts" episode 3 Tell A Tale Pod - Telling tales, igniting imagination !
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This is the final part of three installments of my reading of Roald Dahl's "Dirty Beasts". In this podcast I read aloud the tales of The Cow, The Toad & The Snail and The Tummy Beast.
If you would like to listen to each poem in isolation poem one starts straight after the intro music, poem 2 starts at 4:00 and poem 3 begins at 14:20.
The Cow
How old was the cow when it came to stay?
What colour were her wings?
Which word tells you that she was flying very fast?
Do you think the man deserved his punishment? Do you think birds do this on purpose too?
The Toad and The Snail
To describe the toad’s size, what other animal does the narrator compare it to?
Why did the boy not like sitting on the toad’s back?
Find three synonyms for the word ‘clung’.
“His face all wreathed in smiles” What does ‘wreathed’ mean? What does this tell you about the attitude of the frog at that moment?
How do you know that the place in France they had landed in was very, very quiet?
The narrator says they were ‘brandishing’ knives. Find out its meaning and think about what this tells you about the inhabitants’ feelings.
Which parts of the frog do the French supposedly like to eat?
Why do you think the toad turned into a snail, even though he knew they would still want to eat him?
“I murmured through quivering lips” How does the phrases describe the sound of the boy’s voice and the shape of his mouth?
Is the Roly-Poly Bird real?
The end of the poem refers to “Wonderland” Research what this poem has in common with “Alice in Wonderland”
The Tummy Beast
What does the person in his tummy tell him to do?
What does the word ‘asinine’ mean?
List the onomatopoeia found in the poem
How do you feel towards the narrator and mummy at the end? Whose side are you on?
This is the final part of three installments of my reading of Roald Dahl's "Dirty Beasts". In this podcast I read aloud the tales of The Cow, The Toad & The Snail and The Tummy Beast.
If you would like to listen to each poem in isolation poem one starts straight after the intro music, poem 2 starts at 4:00 and poem 3 begins at 14:20.
The Cow
How old was the cow when it came to stay?
What colour were her wings?
Which word tells you that she was flying very fast?
Do you think the man deserved his punishment? Do you think birds do this on purpose too?
The Toad and The Snail
To describe the toad’s size, what other animal does the narrator compare it to?
Why did the boy not like sitting on the toad’s back?
Find three synonyms for the word ‘clung’.
“His face all wreathed in smiles” What does ‘wreathed’ mean? What does this tell you about the attitude of the frog at that moment?
How do you know that the place in France they had landed in was very, very quiet?
The narrator says they were ‘brandishing’ knives. Find out its meaning and think about what this tells you about the inhabitants’ feelings.
Which parts of the frog do the French supposedly like to eat?
Why do you think the toad turned into a snail, even though he knew they would still want to eat him?
“I murmured through quivering lips” How does the phrases describe the sound of the boy’s voice and the shape of his mouth?
Is the Roly-Poly Bird real?
The end of the poem refers to “Wonderland” Research what this poem has in common with “Alice in Wonderland”
The Tummy Beast
What does the person in his tummy tell him to do?
What does the word ‘asinine’ mean?
List the onomatopoeia found in the poem
How do you feel towards the narrator and mummy at the end? Whose side are you on?
17 min