The Worst Witch is Mildred Hubble!!
What does the castle look like?
Would you like to go there?
What do the girls do during recess?
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Vocabulary
corridors - hallways
winding- stairs turning around
staircases - stairs
gymslip
hobnailed boots - boots with nails on the sole
black and white checked dress:
School badge of Miss Cackles school: http://costumeholic.blogspot.com/2009/09/back-to-school.html
told off - being yelled at
back-to-front - backwards
bootlaces - shoelaces
writing lines - a type of punishment where you write the same thing many times.
Tell the meaning of these phrases:
told off, bootlaces, writing lines,
How many words can you find in this phrase?
back-to-front
_______ _______ ________ ________
Make sentences
were, There, narrow, long, corridors
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summer , Their , dresses , checked , black-and-grey, were
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there seemed to be
tests and exams every week.
week, seemed, every, to, exams, be, There, be, tests, and
_____________________________________
Questions
What color was the school uniform?
What clothes did the girls wear?
What color was the school badge?
What animal was on the school badge?
Why did the girls wear sashes?
Homework:
Draw your own school badge for Miss Cackle's school.
More activites:
Put in the correct word in the sentence:
Mildred is a ______ (dragon, witch, muggle)
The school uniform is ______ (green, white, black)
Mildred can ride a ________ (broomstick, chair, unicorn)
Tell what makes a witch:
1 _______ 2 ________ 3 _______ 4 ________
What witches do you know about?
1______________ 2 ________________ 3____________
Homework :
2nd half of page 2
Vocabulary:
Halfway - about 7 weeks into the school year
term - a semester of schooling
presented with - given
trained to - taught to
practical purpose - a good reason
tradition - a way of doing things that was done in the past
just a matter of taste - personal preference = how a person likes it
new-fangled nonsense - modern ideas
in her young day - her youth
paperback editions - a soft cover book
Spelling : Word bank: term halfway trained purpose paperback
p_rp_ se _erm ha_ _ w _y p _p_r_b_ck
Make sentences:
pupil given Each a broomstick was
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schools Some instead owls present
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Pupil Each copy a recieved Spells The Book Popular Spells of
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Grammar
Present Tense Match with Past Tense
train took
teach trained
is taught
take was
Choose the correct word for the sentence
Pupils were given ______ (dragon, black kitten, grey dog)
Students were taught to ride _____ (a motorcycle, a bike, a broomstick )
Miss Cackle was a __________ (modern, funny, traditional) headmistress
At the end of the first year the pupils were given ______ (The Tales of Beadle the Bard, The Popular Book of Spells, Oxford Encylopedia )
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