Year 3 literacy unit – The Twits by Roald Dahl

If you have a copy at home, read the book! You could read alone, with a grown-up or another member of the family. Alternatively, you could listen to the book being read by logging onto a free audible version or download a free e-book:https://www.audible.co.uk/ep/title?asin=B00MOPSY3O&source_code=M2M30DFT1BkSH101614009L&msclkid=fbb5d8ddef091fba73e386a198772fa9https://yourpdfs.com/the-twits-pdf/Once you have read up to the end of the chapter called The Wormy Spaghetti:Watch the BBC clip on YouTube of Mrs. Twit making her husband Squiggly Spaghetti!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWvyB-QvbVA

Task 1:LO: To write a detailed character description of Mr. Twit. Think about:His appearance – what does he look like? Describe his facial features, his hair, how does he walk and talk?What kind of clothes does he wear? His personality – think about what you have learnt from the story so far about what kind of person he is.Before you begin, build a word bank of ambitious adjectives and vocabulary to help you (see over the page).Success criteria – try and include the following in your writing:

Planning sheet – character description Mr. TwitAppearance

UglyGrotesqueHairyHirsuteSquat_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

PersonalityUnkindCruelVengefulSchemingGreedy_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Some sentences to get you going if you need help:Mr. Twit was an extremely____________________________________________________.

His whole face__________________________________________. In addition, ______________________________________________________________.The _________________ on Mr. Twit’s ___________________ grew______________________________, despite _________________________________________________________________________________________.Mr. Twit never washed. As a result of this, _________________________________.Every day, he _______________________________________________________.

Task 2:Complete the activity/lesson on direct speech. Remember when using speech:-

new speaker, new line speech marks around what is being said punctuation inside the speech marks always say who has spoken

“Eat up your spaghetti while it’s nice and hot,” encouraged Mrs Twit.

“Can you add speech marks to these sentences?” asked Mrs Byrne.Hello, said the man. ____________________________________________________What are you doing? Said Fred.

Stop! shouted the policeman.Wait a minute, said Mark. Don’t I know you from somewhere?

Eat up your spaghetti while it’s nice and hot

I know what we’ll do, said Lucy. We’ll go to the cinema.___________________________________________________________

Can you improve these sentences using these punctuation marks –

full stops . commas , question marks ? exclamation marks ! and

speech marks ( inverted commas) “ ”Bye said Greg

Can I come in asked the man___________________________________________________________No screamed the man___________________________________________________________Is that my bag asked Joe I thought I’d lost it___________________________________________________________Run shouted Sally The dog is after us

Hey my spaghetti is moving cried Mr Twit___________________________________________________________It’s a new kind replied Mrs Twit It’s called Squiggly Spaghetti

I find it rather bitter replied Mr Twit Buy the other kind next time

Task 3To identify features of a play script

Using a key and coloured pencils identify the following features on the below playscriptCharacter namesWords being spokenScene detailsStage directions

L.O: to identify the features of a playscript

The Little Sutton PlayersThe Twits (Play script)

List of Characters (3):NarratorMr TwitMrs Twit

Scene Seven – The Wormy Spaghetti

(Lunchtime at the Twit’s dirty, grubby dinner table)

Narrator:

To get her revenge for the frog trick, Mrs Twit has dug up some wriggly garden worms and put them in Mr Twit’s lunchtime spaghetti. Oh yes - She was going to enjoy this lunch.. (Cheery music)

Mr Twit: (Yelling with shock) Hey, my spaghetti’s moving!

Mrs Twit:

(Smiling mischievously) It’s a new kind dear– It’s called Squiggly Spaghetti. It’s delicious. Go on - eat it up while its nice and hot (takes a forkful of her own spaghetti)

Mr Twit: (Loudly talking with his mouth full) It’s not as good as the ordinary kind – It’s much too squishy. (a worm falls from his fork into his filthy beard)

Mrs Twit:

(Smiling cheerfully) I find it very tasty (takes another mouthful happily)

Mr Twit: (Barking grumpily) No! No! I find it rather bitter – very bitter! Buy the other kind next time.

(More rhythmic music starts - building the suspense..dum dum dum dum..)

Narrator:

It was giving Mrs twit such enormous pleasure watching her horrible husband eat worms she felt like she might burst on the spot!

Mrs Twit:

(Starting to shake and barely containing her laughter) So, do you want to know why your spaghetti was squishy?

Mr Twit: (Wipes sauce from his beard with the tablecloth and looks suspicious) Why?!

Mrs Twit:

(screaming with laughter and rocking in her chair) Because it was worms you horrible old fool! (laughs so much falls off chair while Mr Twit splutters and makes horrible sickly groaning noises)

Narrator:

So…sometimes revenge is a dish best served warm – with worms!!

Scene endTask 4 – cut parts and re-order as a playscript

Task 5

The Little Sutton Players

The Twits (Play script)

List of Characters (3):_____________________________________________

Scene Seven – The Wormy Spaghetti(Lunchtime at the Twit’s dirty, grubby dinner table)

Narrator:

To get her revenge for the frog trick, Mrs Twit has dug up some wriggly garden worms and put them in Mr Twit’s lunchtime spaghetti. Oh yes - She was going to enjoy this lunch.. (Cheery music)

________: (___________________________________) Hey, my spaghetti’s moving!

________: (________________________) It’s a new kind dear– It’s called Squiggly Spaghetti. It’s delicious. Go on - eat it up while its nice and hot (takes a forkful of her own spaghetti)

Mr Twit: (_______________________) It’s not as good as the ordinary kind – It’s much too squishy. (_____________________________________)

Mrs Twit:

(___________________________) I find it very tasty (_____________________)

________: (________________________) No! No! I find it rather bitter – very bitter! Buy the other kind next time.

(More rhythmic music starts - building the suspense..dum dum dum dum..)

Narrator:

It was giving Mrs twit such enormous pleasure watching her horrible husband eat worms she felt like she might burst on the spot!

________: (________________________) So, do you want to know why your spaghetti was squishy?

________: (________________________) Why?!

Mrs Twit:

(________________________) Because it was worms you horrible old fool! (________________________)

Narrator:

So…sometimes revenge is a dish best served warm – with worms!!

Scene end

Task 6 – story board. Draw a picture and write a short description for each key part of the scene.

The four key parts could be:-1. Mrs Twit goes out into the garden to get worms.2. Mrs Twit mixes the worms up with spaghetti and covers them with tomato sauce and cheese.3. Mr Twit eats all of the spaghetti, complaining it is squishy and it's moving.4. Mrs Twit reveals that it is worms and laughs a lot!

1. Using your knowledge of the Squiggly Spaghetti chapter, identify the key parts of the scene. Watch the video clip again or re-read the chapter if needed. Jot down the main things that happen and in which order. You could draw it out as a comic strip if you like.

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LO: To re-tell the passage from Squiggly Spaghetti using direct speech.

3. Now re-tell the scene in your own words using direct speech to explore the conversation between Mr and Mrs.Twit. Remember:

New speaker, new line. Speech marks (inverted commas) around all the words being spoken (66

to open, 99 to close. Speech marks should be positioned just above the height of your writing).

Speech normally begins with a capital letter.

“Hey, my spaghetti’s moving!” cried Mr. Twit, poking around in it with his fork.“It’s a new kind,” Mrs. Twit said, taking a mouthful from her own plate which of course had no worms.

Extra challenge:- can you include subordinate clauses and expanded noun phrases?Start your story from when Mrs Twit goes outside eg.

One sunny day, in order to get revenge on her husband, Mrs Twit quietly sneaked outside and collected some long, slimy, and revolting worms.