Exercise 2: The magic of Roald Dahl 2

 

The magic of Roald Dahl 2

2Watch the video and then choose the correct answer to each question. 

• 1What are the words on the outside of the Roald Dahl Museum?

  Flashblinkingly TerrificatiousFantawfully MavelloutiousFlushbunkingly Gloriumptious

• 2What school subject was Roald Dahl good at?

  EnglishSportScience

• 3At the bottom of Roald's letter to his mother, he wrote:

  love from Roald.love from Boy.love from your son.

• 4Choose the best sentence to describe Roald Dahl's time at boarding school.

  He didn't enjoy school and he was sometimes naughty.He loved school and he was a good student.He was happy at school but he didn't like the food there.

• 5What did Roald do when he left school?

  He went to university.He worked for an oil company.He worked for a chocolate company.

• 6What did Roald do when World War II started?

  He worked as a journalist and wrote reports about the war.He moved to the United States.He joined the army and learned to fly a plane.

• 7How many children did he and Patricia Neal have?

  TwoThreeFive

• 8Roald Dahl said: 'Those who don't believe in magic, …

  will never write about it.'will never find it.'will never be a storyteller.'

• 9How old was Roald when he died?

  Seventy-four.Ninety.Seventy-nine.

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