Roald Dahl: Anything is Possible

Activities

• Dahl enjoyed alliteration, which often gave a comic effect to his dialogue. Children can use alliteration to invent insulting phrases similar to Miss Trunchbull’s phrase in Matilda, ‘you clotted carbuncle’.

• Dahl often used onomatopoeia (where words sound like their meaning) such as the bad dreams described by the BFG as bogthumpers and trogglehumpers. As a class, make up onomatopoeic words to describe happy peaceful dreams.

• Children can choose a recipe from a book and subvert it into a revolting recipe good enough for the Twits to eat!