Roald Dahl “The Landlady” Worksheet 1 1. Find information about the setting: town, time of day, weather. TOWN: Bath TIME OF DAY: nine o’clock in the evening WEATHER: air was deadly cold and the wind was like a flat blade of ice 2. At the beginning, we find out that the story is about: a) a young man who is looking for a pub in London
Roald Dahl “The Landlady” Worksheet 2 13. Billy has now entered the B&B. What rooms and places does he find himself in, chronologically? …………………………………………………………………………………….. 14. Find information about the B&B: price of a room, number of floors, who was there at the different floors?
Roald Dahl "The Landlady" Worksheet 3 21. The landlady says: "They're all on the third floor, both of them together." This contradicts another sentence; which one? ............................................................................................ 22. Find out about the landlady's hobby: Landlady's hobby is to make stuffed animals. 23. What happened to the other guests and what is going to happen to Billy? The other guests are stuffed. Billy is going to be also stuffed like all the animals and guests (Billy drinks tea, what contains poison, and he will die). 24. Read the story again and look at the disturbing details and explain in what way they announce and explain what will take place
Roald Dahl “The Landlady” Worksheet 3 21. The landlady says: “They’re all on the third floor, both of them together.” This contradicts another sentence; which one? ……………………………………………………………………………….. 22. Find out about the landlady’s hobby: Landlady’s hobby is to make stuffed animals. 23. What happened to the other guests and what is going to happen to Billy? The other guests are stuffed. Billy is going to be also stuffed like all the animals and guests (Billy drinks tea, what contains poison, and he will die). 24. Read the story again and look at the disturbing details and explain in what way they announce and explain what will take place
ending. Many were originally written for American magazines such as ''Ladies Home Journal'', ''Harper's'', ''Playboy'' and ''The New Yorker.'' Dahl wrote more than 60 short stories and they have appeared in numerous collections. Some only being published in book form after his death. His stories also brought him three Edgar Awards: in 1954, for the collection ''Someone Like You'' and in 1959 for the story "The Landlady". He also wrote several television and movie scripts. Personal Life The same year that ''Someone Like You '' was published Dahl married film actress Patricia Neal, who won an Academy Award for her role in move ''Hud'' in 1961. The marriage lasted three decades and resulted in five children. Dahl told his children nightly bedtime stories that inspired his future career as a children's writer. These stories became the basis for some of his most popular kids' books. After Neal
of World War II. Rosaleen's fortune is zealously guarded by her brother, David Hunter, and although various family members manage to wheedle small sums out of Rosaleen, David refuses to help Frances Cloade, whose husband Jeremy is on the brink of ruin. A man calling himself Enoch Arden arrives in the village, and attempts to blackmail David by saying he knows how to find Rosaleen's first husband, Robert. Their conversation in Arden's hotel room is overheard by the landlady, who immediately tells Rowley Cloade. Later, Arden's body is discovered in his room with his head smashed in. Rowley Cloade appeals to a detective, Hercule Poirot, to prove the dead man was Robert Underhay, and Poirot produces Major Porter, who knew Underhay in Africa. At the inquest, despite Rosaleen's protests that the dead man was not Robert, Porter confirms that Arden was indeed her first husband. The estate will revert to the Cloades. Rosaleen has a strong alibi for the time of the murder
17. the barons ист. высшая феодальная знать 18. knight ист. рыцарь 19. lord ист. феодальный сеньор, феодал landlord 1. помещик, землевладелец, лендлорд 2. хозяин дома или квартиры, сдаваемых внаем landlady хозяйка дома или квартиры 20. produce [–'–] (v) производить, создавать produce ['– –] (n) продукция; продукт 21. strict строгий strictly speaking строго говоря шутл. spictly streaking 22. feudal ['fju:-] феодальный 23. impose a system внедрить систему 24
the walls full of holes, nothing but the strongest desire to do service to history could reconcile any man to so much hardship." Bergenroth had, moreover, to overcome some of the oddest phenomena ever to interfere with cryptanalysis. The plaza beneath his room was crowded with shouting donkey-drivers and visited frequently by a dulciana, whose "shrill notes, continually playing an air from Traviata and one Spanish melody, and nothing else, drive me almost mad." His landlady liked to strum on her guitar, and "none but drivers of bullock-carts could, for a single night, stand the music of the Lady della Luna." The kitchen girl "hangs my linen and that of the whole family over my balcony for drying, and then, with laudable resolution, sets to ironing it on my writing-table." More troubles faced him at the Archivio General. It consists of an old castle, with crenellated walls pierced by loopholes, surrounded by deep moats and drawbridges
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