Roald Dahl Taste and Other Tales The Author

Roald Dahl Taste and Other Tales

The Author – Roald Dahl • 13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990 • British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot • Fantasy and suspense writer • Crime, horror, thriller, conte cruel

• Unsentimental, macabre, often darkly comic mood, kind hearted and warm undertone • James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The Witches, Fantastic Mr Fox, The BFG, The Twits and George's Marvellous Medicine • Tales of the Unexpected – adult stories

The Reader - Taste and Other Tales • Collection of short stories published in various magazines (1949 – 1959) • Suspense, plot twists and unexpected situations

• 2 nd week – Taste, A Swim • 3 rd week – Mrs Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat, The Way up to Heaven • 4 th week – The Sound Machine, The Leg of Lamb • 5 th week – Birth and Fate, Poison • For the first colloquium – whole reader

Taste

• Clairet is a wine that is dark pink in style, and may be described as a full bodied and deep coloured type of rosé. It is considered a specialty of the Bordeaux region • Rhine wine is the style of wine that was produced along the Rhine River. A lightbodied and sweeter style, Rhine is often a blend of a number of white grape varieties, each imparting certain crisp distinct characteristics

• Mosel – a white wine with low alcohol content in the 6 -9% range with intense fruity notes and high acidity

Word List • • • Anaesthetic Anxiety Approval Auction Axe Butler Chloroform Colonel deck • • • Delicate Determined Dial Epicture Fate Graceful Iodine Joint (meat) Krait

• • • Lungs Mink Pawnbroker Purser Rail Range Serum Suck Sweat • Tale • Vibrate