GRANDMOTHER`S WARNING 1. What do witches look like in fairytales?

2. What is the most important thing to know about real witches?

3. What is the motto of all witches?

4. Do male witches exist?

REAL WITCHES

5. Who does miss?

6. In the original story by , it is much clearer what happened to them. What did happened to Boy´s parents?

7. Boy asks his Grandmother to do something what is it?

8. What story does the Grandmother first tell to Boy?

9. What colour eggs does Birgit lay?

10. Who ended up in a painting?

11. Who saw Sabine moving in the painting?

12. According to Grandmother, what is a witch always wearing?

13. Why do witches wear gloves?

14. Why do witches wear wigs?

15. Witches think children smell like…

16. What colour is a witches spit?

17. What favourite spell do have?

THE GRAND HIGH WITCH 18. What is the name of the Hotel?

19. What does Boy have in his box?

20. There is a famous couple named William and Kate-who are they?

21. What is Bruno doing with his magnifying glass?

22. There is a meeting happening at the hotel. What is it?

23. How many meetings are there each year?

24. What does Bruno have to do to get more chocolate bars?

THE WITCHES' ANNUAL MEETING

25. There are two witches talking in the audience. One of the ladies is French. What nationality does the other lady have?

26. Is the Grand High Witch British?

27. What are her orders?

28. What happens to the French witch?

29. The word giganticus doesn´t exist in English. What is the correct word and what does it mean?

30. What are chocs?

31. How many drops of magic formula must go into each sweet and chocolate?

32. What is the Grand High Witch´s plan?

33. Look up the word greedy. What does it mean?

34. What happens to Bruno?

35. What is the grand High Witch´s room number?

THE BOY -MOUSE

36. Boy also gets turned into a mouse. Is he sad about it?

37. Where to Boy and Bruno go?

38. What does Bruno do in Grandmother´s room?

39. Why does boy mouse want to steal a bottle of magic formula?

40. Who does Boy-Mouse meet under the bed?

THE BOY-MOUSE DEFEATS THE WITCHES

41. What does Grandmother have in her handbag?

42. What is on the menu for supper?

43. What does Bruno eat?

44. What are the chefs cooking?

45. Who wants the soup?

46. Who does Grandmother take into the kitchen?

47. What happens to the cockney chef? Why is he jumping about?

48. When Grandmother gets back to her table- who does she meet?

49. Who are they looking for?

50. What does Grandmother tell Mr. and Mrs Jenkins?

51. What happens to the Witches after eating the soup?

52. What does Grandmother do to the Grand High Witch?

SO LONG AS SOMEBODY LOVES YOU

53. Where are Boy and Grandmother in the last scene?

54. How long does a mouse live?

55. Why isn´t BOY sad that he is a mouse?

RESEARCH QUESTIONS a) When did Roald Dahl write The Witches? b) How many books did Roald Dahl write? c) What are The Revolting Rhymes? d) Did Roald Dahl only write stories for children? e) Why is Boy called Boy? f) Who inspired the character of the Grandmother? g) Where was Roald Dahl´s family, and his grandmother, originally from? h) Google “The Witches – theatre play” and find out where it is playing. i) A film was made of The Witches in 1990, who directed it? j) Roald Dahl liked to invent words, try to find examples from his other books. k) A very famous film director, Steven Spielberg, is directing a film based on a book from Roald Dahl. What is the name of the book? l) When is Roald Dahl day? m) Roald Dahl had a very exciting life, research why his life was so interesting.