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Roald Dahl - 'The Twits' (extract)

Roald Dahl - 'The Twits' (extract)
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  • Roald Dahl - 'The Twits' (extract)
  • Duration: 03:47
  • Dramatisation of the opening sequence from Roald Dahl's 'The Twits'. Detailed descriptions of the eponymous characters, their actions and speech establish their nasty natures. Mr and Mrs Twit are shown lying in bed. Closeup views are supplemented by detailed character descriptions from the book. Mrs Twit's ugliness is explained as being due to her ugly thoughts. We then see Mrs Twit preparing a lunch of spaghetti into which she puts live worms and shows how she tricks her husband into eating them by saying them they are a new form of wriggly spaghetti. This clip has subtitles available in Flash.
  • Subject:

    Literacy

       Topic:

    Stories: Humour

  • Keywords: Roald Dahl, The Twits, character, story opening, dialogue, subtitled
Ideas for use in class
  • Could be used as an illustration of a story opening. Useful as a stimulus for discussing story openings. Could be used as a basis for discussing characters and their feelings.
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  • Clip language : English
  • Aspect ratio : 16x9
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