The
BFG
By Roald Dahl
Illustrated by
Quentin Blake
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The Witching Hour
Who?
The Snatch
The Cave
witching hour
lavatory
enormous
fierce
bedclothes
cloak
desolate
vast
Vocabulary
Context Clues
Watch & Learn
Four Types of Context Clues
Context Clues are used to determine the meaning of unknown words.
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Context Clues Ch. 1
Word | Context Clues | My Thoughts | My Meaning |
witching hour | Definition Clue “Perhaps, she told herself, this was what they called the witching hour. The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world to themselves.” | In the quote it says it is “in the middle of the night” when everyone is asleep. Maybe this time is around 3:00 AM because I know in my house everyone is asleep at that time. I think it must be a scary time because the word “witching” makes me think of witches and “dark things.” | Middle of the night around 3:00 am when everyone is asleep. |
lavatory | Inference Clue “You got punished if you were caught out of bed after lights out. Even if you said you had to go to the lavatory, that was not accepted as an excuse and they punished you just the same. | | |
Your turn!
A figure of speech that is used to compare two things using like or as
cold as ice | big as an elephant | white as snow |
fought like cats and dogs | slept like a baby | sparkled like diamonds |
Authors use similes to help make descriptions more vivid and detailed so readers can understand what is happening.
"This was followed by an arm as thick as a tree trunk..."
This simile doesn’t mean his arm literally was a tree trunk. It is used to show how extremely large the BFG is in comparison to Sophie.
“The moonbeam was like a silver blade slicing through the room on her face.”
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Context Clues Ch.2
Word | Context Clues | My Thoughts | My Meaning |
enormous | Inference Clue “As the Giant withdrew the trumpet from the window and bent down to pick up the suitcase he happened to turn his head and glance across the street. In the moonlight, Sophie caught a glimpse of an enormous long pale wrinkly face with the most enormous ears.” | | |
fierce | Synonym Clue “There was a fierce and devilish look about them.” | | |
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“And there she crouched, still as a mouse, �and tingling all over.”
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Context Clues Ch.3
Word | Context Clues | My Thoughts | My Meaning |
bedclothes | Synonym Clue “This time Sophie really did scream, but only for a second because the huge hand clamped down over her blanket and the scream was smothered by the bedclothes.” | | |
cloak | Inference Clue “He was running so fast his black cloak was streaming out behind him like the wings of a bird.” | | |
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“This was followed by an arm, an arm as thick as a tree trunk, and the arm, the hand, the fingers were reaching out across the room towards Sophie’s bed.”
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Predictions
The first three chapters of The BFG don’t give us much information of what is really going on and ends with a real cliffhanger as we don’t know what is going to happen to Sophie.
To help us think about what we have read, we can make a PREDICTION of what we think might happen.
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Make Your Prediction
Think about the events that occurred in chapters 1-3 of The BFG and make a prediction of what YOU think will happen in chapter 4.
Type your prediction here, on this collaborative Google Slides. Make sure and only work on the slide with your name on it. When finished read your classmates predictions!
Context Clues Ch.4
Word | Context Clues | My Thoughts | My Meaning |
desolate | Synonym Clue “He went rattling through a great forest, then down into a valley and up over a range of hills as bare as concrete, and soon he was galloping over a desolate wasteland that was not quite of this earth.” | | |
vast | Synonym Clue “Where the stone had been, there appeared a vast black hole. The hole was so large the Giant didn’t even have to duck his head as he went in.” | | |
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Summarization
How to Summarize:
The purpose of writing a summary is to show you understand the main idea and details of what you have read.
Somebody: Who is the main character? |
Wanted: What does the character want? |
But: What is the problem? Why can’t they get what they want? |
So: How does the character solve the problem? |
Then: What does the character do after they solve the problem? |
Retelling the main events of a story in a shorter version using your own words.
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The BFG
The Giants
The Marvelous Ears
Snozzcumbers
ucky-mucky
gogglers
swalloped
frumpkin pie
dollop
swizzfiggling
fibster
disgusterous
sickable
rotsome
maggotwise
foulsome
Vocabulary
“The teeth were very white and very square and they sat in his mouth like huge slices of white bread.”
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Human Beans
“All I am saying,” the Giant went on,
“all human beans is having different flavours.”
Country/Region | Taste | Reasoning |
Turks from Turkey | | |
Greeks from Greece | | |
Panama | | |
Wales | | |
Jersey | | |
Danes from Denmark | | |
Wellington | | |
England | | |
Write Your Own Town Here | | |
Use the chart above to make your own Google Map of the locations.
Include a picture and description for each pin on the map.
Human Beans
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Context Clues
Four Types
of Context Clues
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“Meanings is not important,” said the BFG. “I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.”
The BFG speaks using many nonsense words. We cannot look these up in the dictionary, so we must use context clues to decipher their definitions.
Because Meanings is Important!
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Context Clues Ch. 6
“That is why you will be coming to an ucky-mucky end if any of them should ever be getting his gogglers upon you. You would be swalloped up like a piece of frumpkin pie, all in one dollop.”
Word | My Thoughts | My Meaning |
ucky-mucky | | |
gogglers | | |
swalloped | | |
frumpkin-pie | | |
dollop | | |
“Why even your toes must be as big as sausages.”
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Click on the picture link to make your own copy of the Gobblefunk Dictionary.
After each chapter add at least 2 or more Gobblefunk word slides to the dictionary.
Context Clues Ch. 7
“Is that really true?” Sophie asked.
“‘You think I is swizzfiggling you?”
“It is rather hard to believe.”
“Then I is stopping right here,” said the BFG sharply. “I is not wishing to be called a fibster.”
Word | My Thoughts | My Meaning |
swizzfiggling | | |
fibster | | |
“I was hearing your heart beating across the road,” the BFG said. “Loud as a drum.”
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The central idea of a piece of writing
Think of theme as:
The message, life lesson, or moral of the story the author wants you to learn.
The theme is an opinion about the subject or big idea.
Subject/Big Idea | Theme (opinion on subject) |
Love | Love is complicated. |
Friendship | True friends like you for who you really are. |
Perseverance | You should never give up. |
The theme comes from details and evidence in the text
The central idea of a piece of writing
The theme comes from details and evidence in the text
Subject/Big Ideas
Judgement
Acceptance Appearance
Prejudice
Sophie speaks to the BFG and learns he is a
who
into children’s bedrooms at night.
Sophie learns
Type theme here
Context Clues Ch. 8
“It’s disgusterous!” the BFG gurgled. “It’s sickable! It’s rotsome! It’s maggotwise!
Try it yourself, this foulsome snozzcumber!”
Word | My Thoughts | My Meaning |
disgusterous | | |
sickable | | |
rotsome | | |
maggotwise | | |
foulsome | | |
Option #1
Create and describe one more yucky poo vegitable found in Giant Country.
Option #2
Describe a real vegitable you find disgusterous and filthing.
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The Bloodbottler
Frobscottle and Whizzpoppers
Journey to Dream Country
Dream Catching
snitched
bunghole
winkling
guzzling
redunculous
whizzpoppers
swiggle
glummy
splatch-winkling
hefty
trogglehumper
solos
dibbler
Vocabulary
Context Clues Ch. 9
“I is guessing you has snitched away a human bean and brought it back to your bunghole as a pet. So now I is winkling it out and guzzling it as extra snacks before my supper. ”
Word | My Thoughts | My Meaning |
snitched | | |
bunghole | | |
winkling | | |
guzzling | | |
“It had lips that were like two gigantic purple frankfurters lying one on top of the other.”
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Context Clues Ch. 10
“Redunculous!” said the BFG. “If everyone is making whizzpoppers, then why not talk about it? We is now having a swiggle of this delicious frobscottle and you will see the happy result.”
“It’s glummy!” he cried. “I love it!”
Word | My Thoughts | My Meaning |
redunculous | | |
whizzpoppers | | |
swiggle | | |
glummy | | |
“It felt as though hundreds of tiny people were dancing a jig inside her and tickling her with their toes. It was lovely.”
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“It’s glummy!”
Predictions
Think about the events that have occurred in the most recent chapters of The BFG. In this Google Slides there are two predictions for the next chapter you will read that is titled “Journey to Dream Country”.
Find the slide with your name on it. Read both predictions and determine which you think is the best by highlighting the text. Then below explain why you made your choice.
Context Clues Ch. 11
“Ho-ho there, runty one! Where is you splatch-winkling away to in such a hefty hurry?”
Word | My Thoughts | My Meaning |
splatch-winkling | | |
hefty | | |
“When the Fleshlumpeater was speaking, she got a glimpse of his tongue. It was jet black, like a slab of black steak.”
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The theme comes from details and evidence in the text
The central idea of a piece of writing
Use events from “Journey to Dream Country” to determine the theme.
Use pages 72-75 to help guide you in completing the graphic organizer below
Context Clues Ch. 12
“It’s a trogglehumper!” he shouted. His voice was filled with fury and anguish. “Oh, save our solos!”
he cried. “Deliver us from weasels!
The devil is dancing on my dibbler.”
Word | My Thoughts | My Meaning |
trogglehumper | | |
solos | | |
dibbler | | |
“From now on, we is keeping as still as winky little mices.”
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Make A Prediction
The chapter you will read next is titled “A Trogglehumper for the Fleshlumpeater”, Think about this and what you read in previous chapters to make a prediction of what you think might happen.
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A Trogglehumper for the Fleshlumpeater
Dreams
The Great Plan
Mixing the Dream
bishing
walloping
squibbling
gropefluncking
titchy
gigglehouse
frothblower
bogglebox
lickswishy
wonky
rubbsquash
chittering
plexicated
Vocabulary
Context Clues Ch. 13
“Those beasts is always bishing and walloping at one another. Soon it will be getting dusky and they will be galloping off to fill their tummies.”
Word | My Thoughts | My Meaning |
bishing | | |
walloping | | |
dusky | | |
“Blood flowed. Noses went crunch. Teeth fell out like hailstones.”
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Context Clues Ch. 14
“I,” shouted the Maidmasher, “is knowing where there is a gigglehouse for girls and I is guzzling myself full as a frothblower! And I knows where there is a bogglebox for boys!” shouted the Gizzardgulper. “All I has to do is reach in and grab myself a handful! English boys is tasting extra lickswishy!”
Word | My Thoughts | My Meaning |
gigglehouse | | |
frothblower | | |
bogglebox | | |
lickswishy | | |
“There it lay, this small oblong sea-green jellyish thing, at the bottom of the jar, quite peaceful, but pulsing gently, the whole of it moving in and out ever so slightly, as though it was breathing.”
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Option #1
Use your imagination to write a
Golden Phizzwizard dream.
Option #2
Use your imagination to write a Trogglehumper dream.
“Every dream is having its special label on the bottle,” the BFG said.
Context Clues Ch. 15
“Never,” the BFG said. “It is sounding such a wonky tall story, the Queen will be laughing and saying, ‘What awful rubbsquash!”
Word | My Thoughts | My Meaning |
wonky | | |
rubbsquash | | |
“Will he snatch them out of their beds while they’re sleeping?” “Like peas out of a poddle.” the BFG said.
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What Happened in the Text | Theme Subjects | |
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Details
Theme
Reread this text from the chapter “The Great Plan”.
Use this section to help you complete the graphic organizer and determine the theme of this chapter.
The central idea of a piece of writing
Context Clues Ch. 16
“Stay there please,” he said, “and no chittering. I is needing to listen only to silence when I is mixing up such a knotty plexicated dream as this.”
Word | My Thoughts | My Meaning |
chittering | | |
plexicated | | |
“If you would be kind enough to swivel one of your lovely big ears so that it is lying flat like a dish, that would make a very cosy place for me to sit.”
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Journey to London
The Palace
The Queen
The Royal Breakfast
puddle
boggled
telescoops
absurd
vivid
ghastly
gaping
swayed
tottled
keeled
spliffling-whoppsy
bicirculers
Vocabulary
Context Clues Ch. 17
“I is in a bit of a puddle,” he said. “You’re doing marvellously,” Sophie whispered. “No, I isn’t,” he said. “I is now completely boggled. I is lost.”
Word | My Thoughts | My Meaning |
puddle | | |
boggled | | |
“The BFG went bouncing off the ground as though there were rockets in his toes and each stride he took lifted him about a hundred feet into the air.”
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Click on the map below to access and explore the Journey to London like the BFG and Sophie.
Context Clues Ch. 18
“The very idea of it was absurd. No one had ever done such a thing before. It was a terrifying thing to be doing.”
Word | My Thoughts | My Meaning |
absurd | | |
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Context Clues Ch.19
Word | Context Clues | My Thoughts | My Meaning |
vivid | “It was all so . . . so vivid, Mary! It was so real!” | | |
ghastly | “Oh, how ghastly!” the famous voice cried out. “It’s absolutely frightful! Bones under the windows!” | | |
gaping | “The Queen was still staring at Sophie. Gaping at her would be more accurate. Her mouth was slightly open.” | | |
swayed tottered keeled-over | “He gripped the handles of the wheelbarrow. He swayed. He tottered. Then he keeled over on the grass in a dead faint.” | | |
“A pale summer mist hung over it like smoke.”
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Context Clues Ch. 20
“What a spliffling whoppsy room we is in! It is so gigantuous I is needing bicirculers and telescoops to see what is going on at the other end!”
Word | My Thoughts | My Meaning |
spliffing-whoppsy | | |
bicirculers | | |
telescoops | | |
“It’s hardly a joking matter when one’s loyal subjects are being eaten like popcorn.”
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The Plan
Capture!
Feeding Time
The Author
bellypoppers
foggiest
atlas
petrified
bellowing
contrivance
mobilized
colossal
imprisoned
Vocabulary
Context Clues Ch. 21
“You is having bellypoppers, is you not?”
“Is he being rude?” the Head of the Air Force said. “He means helicopters,” Sophie told him.
Word | My Thoughts | My Meaning |
bellypoppers | | |
“His face began to swell with fury and his cheeks blew out until they looked like two huge ripe tomatoes.”
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What Happened in the Text | Theme Subjects | |
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Details
Theme
‘That is no reason why we should follow their example,’ the Queen said. ‘Two wrongs don’t make a right.’
‘And two rights don’t make a left!’ cried the BFG
Here the author uses BFG’s words to make a statement about the theme. Use the quote and other details from the text to determine what the BFG ment and what the theme of this chapter is.
Make A Prediction
In the last chapter, the BFG laid out a plan to the Queen and her royal Air Marshal and Army General. Make a prediction of how you think the plan will go.
Type your prediction here, on this collaborative Google Slides. Make sure and only work on the slide with your name on it. When finished read your classmates predictions!
Context Clues Ch.22
Word | Context Clues | My Thoughts | My Meaning |
foggiest | “Where the devil are we going?” he cried. “I haven’t the foggiest idea,” the pilot answered. | | |
atlas | “The place we’re flying over now isn’t in the atlas, is it?” the pilot said grinning. “You’re darn right it isn’t in the atlas!” cried the Head of the Air Force. “We’ve flown clear off the last page. | | |
petrified | “The soldiers, petrified with fear, froze where they were.” | | |
bellowing | “They never stopped bellowing, but their howls were drowned by the noise of the engines.” | | |
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Chapter | BFG Idiom | Translation |
8 | “Are you sure you is not twiddling my leg?” | |
11 | “Cross your figglers!” | |
11 | “One right is not making two lefts.” | |
13 | “They is always having fifty winks before they goes scumpering off.” | |
13 | “Once in a blue baboon.” | |
22 | “Curiosity is killing the rat.” | |
Reference Guide for Idioms
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Context Clues Ch. 23
“Every earth-digger and mechanical contrivance in the country had been mobilized to dig the colossal hole in which the giants were to be permanently imprisoned.”
Word | My Thoughts | My Meaning |
contrivance | | |
mobilized | | |
colossal | | |
imprisoned | | |
How big was the hole they dug for the Giants?
“The hole itself was about twice the size of a football field and five hundred feet deep.”
| Football Field | Equation | Giant’s Hole |
Length | | | |
Width | | | |
Depth | N/A | N/A | 500 feet |
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