George’s Marvellous Medicine _ Print – Quizizz
Reasons for selection and synopsis
George’s nasty old grandma needs teaching a lesson. George decides the best remedy for her grumpiness is a special home-made
medicine. But Grandma gets more than she bargained for!
In George’s Marvellous Medicine, published in1981, George Kranky’s Grandma may not anticipate the results of the medicine fed to
her by her grandson, but like George, Roald Dahl also had fun mixing marvellous concoctions. He called them witches potions
and delivered them to his children just before bedtime. They included ingredients like tinned peaches blended with milk and either pink,
blue or green food colouring. His were put together carefully, though – none of the nasty side effects George’s Grandma experienced…
Before reading…
What do you think the book will be about? What things can you see on the front cover? What sort of story will it be? Who might enjoy it?
Now read the blurb – were any of your predictions correct?What might be in the marvellous medicine?
Grandma & The Marvellous Plan
Vocabulary
What is mischief?
What does griping mean?
Find and copy a phrase on Page 7 that shows that Grandma is experiencing joy.
Define beckoning. Can you beckon someone?
What does it mean if something is marvellous?
Define ‘pondering’.
Infer
How can you immediately tell that George regularly gets up to mischief?
Why doesn’t George like Grandma very much?
True or false: Grandma is demanding.
Do you think Grandma really does love eating bugs?
How does Grandma try to convince George that she is a witch?
Predict
Predict what mischief George might get up to.
Predict George’s marvellous plan.
Predict what George’s new medicine will do to Grandma.
Explain
Do you think it was fair that Grandma scalded George for growing? Why?
Explain how Dahl uses italics for effect.
Retrieve
What time does Grandma need her medicine?
Why was George so bored?
How old is George?
What does Grandma tell George he needs to eat?
Why couldn’t George put a snake down Grandma’s back?
How long does George have to make a new medicine?
Summarise
What impression do you get of Grandma? Pick one word to sum her up and explain why you chose that word.
Do the same for George.
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