Questions About Recycle Week 1. In your own words, explain what Recycle Week is. 2. What objects do people often forget about? 3. What does the phrase ‘reducing the need to use natural ’ mean? 4. Explain your understanding of why recycling helps to protect the environment? 5. Would you want to live near a landfill site? Explain your reason. 6. Why are glass and steel suitable for being recycled many times? 7. What can you do to recycle clothes and textiles? Page 3 of 4 8. Name two more textiles that could be recycled. 9. How would you try and persuade people to recycle? 10. Write a set of instructions to tell people how they can recycle one item. Page 4 of 4 Questions About Recycle Week Answers 1. In your own words, explain what Recycle Week is. Own explanation 2. What objects do people often forget about? People often forget shampoo bottles, conditioner bottles, tissue boxes, bleach bottles and deodorant cans. 3. What does the phrase ‘reducing the need to use natural ’ mean? It means the need to use natural materials is less. 4. Explain your understanding of why recycling helps to protect the environment? Recycling helps to protect the environment because changing the raw materials into something else pollutes the air and water. 5. Would you want to live near a landfill site? Explain your reason. No, I wouldn’t like to live near a landfill site because it would be smelly /dirty/ dangerous gas given off. 6. Why are glass and steel suitable for being recycled many times? Glass and steel are suitable to be recycled because they don’t lose their quality. 7. What can you do to recycle clothes and textiles? I could take clothes and textiles to a charity shop/ supermarket recycling point/ put them in a charity bag on your doorstep. 8. Name two more textiles that could be recycled. Other textiles that could be recycled are rugs, pillow cases, scarves, towels etc. 9. How would you try and persuade people to recycle? Recycling is important because it saves energy, the environment, resources and Own response 10. Write a set of instructions to tell people how they can recycle one item. a. Decide if it can be recycled. b. Wash the container out. c. Put it in a recycling bag. d. Take it to a recycling point or put it in the blue wheelie bin. Roald Dahl was born on 13th September 1916 in Llandaff, Wales. His parents were from Norway. He had an older sister called Astri, but in 1920, she died when she was only 7 years old. Roald’s father was so sad that he fell ill from pneumonia. A few weeks later, he also died. His mother was a great story teller and had a fabulous memory. Roald remembered many tales she told about trolls and other mythical Norwegian characters. Although Roald had a happy home life, he had an unhappy time at his school in Wales, and was often ‘caned’ for bad behaviour. His mother sent him to boarding school in Weston-Super-Mare. He was just nine years old when he arrived at St. Peters School and met the all-powerful Matron who “disliked small boys very much indeed” and the cane-wielding Headmaster. At the age of 13, Roald attended Repton Public School in Derbyshire. He was happier here. He was brilliant at sports and was very good at boxing. The boys at the school were sometimes asked to be chocolate testers for a famous chocolate company and this experience later inspired the book ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. Over the next few years, Roald Dahl worked in Africa for an oil company and then enlisted in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. In 1940, Roald Dahl was posted to Libya where he flew a Gloster Gladiator plane. He crashed in the Western Desert in North Africa, and suffered such severe injuries to his head and back that he had to stay in hospital in Egypt for six months. He returned to the RAF but, after a while, he began suffering terrible headaches from his accident. This meant he had to leave because he could not fly planes anymore. Page 1 of 4 In 1942, Roald was posted to Washington in the USA to work as an assistant air attaché. He met the author C.S.Forester, who suggested that Roald should write about his experiences flying planes in the desert. Roald started writing articles for newspapers. He met and married actress Patricia Neal. They lived in Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire, England. He wrote many of his famous stories there. Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal had five children; Olivia, Tessa, Theo, Ophelia and Lucy. However, Olivia tragically died at the age of 7 from an illness. Roald Dahl started telling his amazing stories to his children at bedtime. He realised how much his own children enjoyed his stories and decided to write them down for all children to enjoy. ‘James and the Giant Peach’ was his first published children’s book. Roald Dahl had a great talent for seeing the world through children’s eyes. He said, “If you want to remember what it’s like to live in a child’s world, you’ve got to get down on your hands and knees and live like that for a week. You’ll find you have to look up at all these giants around you who are always telling you what to do and what not to do.” He had a passion for encouraging children to read. He believed that children should be “comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.” Page 2 of 4 Questions About Roald Dahl 1. How old was Roald’s sister when she died? 2. What made Roald’s mother a good storyteller? 3. Do you think Roald would have liked the Headmaster? Explain your reasons. 4. What sport was he good at? 5. What do you think the boys thought about being chocolate testers? 6. Explain why he had to leave the RAF. 7. How did Roald start writing children’s stories? 8. What word did Roald Dahl use to describe how children saw adults around them? Page 3 of 4 9. What did Dahl believe books should be? 10. Why did Roald Dahl think learning to read was a good thing? Page 4 of 4 Questions About Roald Dahl Answers 1. How old was Roald’s sister when she died? 7 years old. 2. What made Roald’s mother a good storyteller? She had a good memory. 3. Do you think Roald would have liked the Headmaster? Explain your reasons. No because it describes him as a ‘cane wielding’ Headmaster. 4. What sport was he good at? Boxing 5. What do you think the boys thought about being chocolate testers? I think they thought it was great. 6. Explain why he had to leave the RAF. Because he had had an accident before and was having bad headaches. / He couldn’t fly planes anymore. 7. How did Roald start writing children’s stories? He told his children bedtime stories and started writing some of them down. 8. What word did Roald Dahl use to describe how children saw adults around them? He described them as ‘giants.’ 9. What did Dahl believe books should be? He believed they should be funny, exciting and wonderful. 10. Why did Roald Dahl think learning to read was a good thing? Because reading books gives people a ‘terrific advantage’. Roald Dahl was born on 13th September 1916 in Llandaff, Wales. His parents were from Norway. He had an older sister called Astri, but she sadly died in 1920 when she was only 7 years old. Roald’s father was so sad that he fell ill from pneumonia and a few weeks later he also died. His mother was a great story teller and had a fabulous memory. Roald remembered many tales she told about trolls and other mythical Norwegian characters. Although Roald had a happy home life, he had an unhappy time at his school in Wales, and was often ‘caned’ for bad behaviour. His mother sent him to boarding school in Weston-Super-Mare. He was just nine years old when he arrived at St. Peters School and met the ‘twitching’ Latin teacher Captain Hardcastle, the all-powerful Matron who “disliked small boys very much indeed” and the cane-wielding Headmaster. At the age of 13, Roald attended Repton Public School in Derbyshire. He was happier here. He was brilliant at sports and was very good at boxing. The boys at the school were sometimes asked to be chocolate testers for a famous chocolate company, and this experience later inspired the book ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. After he left school, he wanted adventure so he worked for Shell Oil Company. He was sent to Africa for 3 years, but after only one year, the Second World War broke out, so he enlisted with the Royal Air Force (RAF) and became a pilot. In 1940, Roald Dahl was posted to Libya where he flew a Gloster Gladiator plane. He crashed in the Western Desert in North Africa and suffered such severe injuries to his head and back that he had to stay in hospital in Egypt for six months. He returned to the RAF but after a while he began suffering such terrible headaches from his accident, he had to return to the UK and could not fly planes anymore.