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Imagine you are Sophie. Tell me what you are thinking after you see the BFG.
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What do you think the long, thin trumpet is for? ___________________________________
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Draw a picture of Sophie showing how she felt when the BFG told her the good news that he
didnt eat human beings.
The Giant uses funny words when he talks. Using context clues what do you think the following
words mean? Write your answers in complete sentences.
You think I is a man-gobbling cannybull?
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The Turks are more scrumdiddlyumptious!
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Some are uckyslush.
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Your head is emptier than a bundongle.
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They would put me in the zoo with all those squiggling hippodumplings and crocadowndillies.
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Draw a picture below of what Sophie saw when she looked out of the cave. On the lines below
your picture, list phrases from the book describing the giants.
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BFG
Me
Vocabulary
Protest (pg. 70) ___________________________________________________________
Wasteland (pg. 71) _________________________________________________________
Intercept (pg. 72) _________________________________________________________
Clustering (pg. 73) _________________________________________________________
Hurled (pg. 75) ____________________________________________________________
Desperately (pg. 78) ________________________________________________________
Phenomenal (pg. 79) ________________________________________________________
Blurred (pg. 79) ___________________________________________________________
Vast (pg. 80) _____________________________________________________________
Barrier (pg. 80) ___________________________________________________________
On the next sheet, use a flow map to sequence the main events in this chapter! If you finish
early, you should add illustration to your boxes!
Good Dreams
Bad Dreams
Chapter 14: Dreams (Draw a phizzwizard and a trogglehumper. Use a double bubble map
to compare and contrast the good and bad dreams.)
Dream Recipe
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Dream Recipe
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Dream Recipe
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Read Chapter 17 and answer the questions in complete sentences. Chapter 16: Dream Recipe
Chapter 17 Journey to London
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Describe what Sophie saw when she woke up (after she realized the setting has changed!)
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How long did it take the other giants to leave London? ______________________________
After seeing the giants with their full bellies, Sophie became very ill. Did this stop her
mission or did this cause her to try even harder? _________________________________
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What was the curious orange-colored glow that appeared in this chapter? _____________
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What caused the BFG to become confused? ______________________________________
How did Sophie explain? _____________________________________________________
What did the BFG have to do before they finally made it to the Queens backyard at the end of
the chapter? _____________________________________________________________
Read Chapter 18 and answer the questions in complete sentences.
Chapter 18 The Palace
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How did Sophie feel at the end of the chapter? ___________________________________
What caused her to feel this way? _____________________________________________
How would you have felt? Why? _______________________________________________
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On the next page:
Using the description in the book, draw a picture of how you imagine the Palace!
Use a flow map to sequence this chapter.
Predict what will happen in the chapter The Queen
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How did the Queens servants accommodate the BFG for breakfast? ____________________
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What happened at breakfast that embarrassed Sophie and upset the BFG? _______________
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How many eggs did the BFG consume and why did he stop? ____________________________
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Why did the Queen ask the BFG where the giants went two nights ago and three nights ago?
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What do you think the Queen is planning to do based on what she requests at the end of this
chapter? ________________________________________________________________
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What plan did the BFG give to the Queen and Army? ________________________________
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Why was the Air Marshal not use to being told he was talking slushbungle? ______________
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What special request did the BFG have at the end of this chapter?
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A Cover
Characters
The Setting
The Plot
Your Opinion
6. Themes
7. Your recommendation / Summary - Have fun writing!!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here is a recipe for Frobscottle that smells and tastes like the description in the novel and the
students have a grand time actually believing they will have to Whizzpop after drinking it! All
you do is mix a little green food coloring with cream soda in a three liter bottle and make your
own soda label with a Made in Giant Country and attach it to the bottle.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------As students read have them add similes and metaphors to a class tree map. (Create a poster
board tree map before lesson 1. Examples: Chapter 1 The moonbeam was like a silver blade
slicing through the room on to her face. Everywhere was deathly still.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A good ongoing project throughout the book is to create a BFG dictionary where the children
define the strange words the BFG uses.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Homework Assignment: Create a dream jar. Decorate a jar. Write down your dreams and put
them in your dream jar. Share your dreams with your class.
butteryflies
scrumdiddlyumptious
frobscottle
scrumplet
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4. Do you think the use of these words makes the book more interesting?_____________
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As a culminating activity for this novel have students write acrostic poems. Listed below are a
few examples.
The BFG
Tramping around the world blowing dreams into bedrooms.
Hiding Sophie in his ear.
England is where Sophie was raised.
"BFG" Sophie called through the Queens window.
Filling his house with whizzpoppers.
Giving the giants snozzcumbers.
The BFG
The BFG was 50 feet tall and had no knowledge.
He lived in a cold cave.
Every morning he would go out and catch dreams.
BFG lived in Giant Country with nine other giants.
Frobscottle made him whizzpop.
Giants only got to eat human beans and snozzcumbers.
The BFG
The Big Friendly Giant
Has big ears.
Everyone can see him from a mile away.
Big Friendly Giant is a
Frizzle
Giant.
As a culminating lesson allow students to act out the readers theater version of The BFG.
GENRE: Fantasy
GRADE LEVEL: 4-7
ROLES: 4+
TIME: 10 min.
ROLES: Narrator 1, Narrator 2, BFG, Sophie, (Dream Characters)
NOTE: For best effect, position BFG closest to NARRATOR 1, and SOPHIE closest to
NARRATOR 2.
NARRATOR 1: Imagine late one night you couldnt sleep, so you got out of bed and looked out
the window, and there you saw a giant!
NARRATOR 2: Thats what happened to a little girl named Sophie. There across the street was
a giant, with a long, thin trumpet and a large suitcase.
NARRATOR 1: Then the giant saw Sophie. Sophie jumped back into bed and under the covers.
But the giant reached through the window and grabbed her!
NARRATOR 2: Then he ran all night, until they reached his enormous cavein Giant Country.
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BFG: (to himself, speaking of Sophie) Now, what has us got here?
NARRATOR 1: The Giant put the trembling Sophie on the table.
SOPHIE: (to herself) Now he really is going to eat me.
NARRATOR 2: Sophie thought.
NARRATOR 1: The Giant stared hard at Sophie. He had truly enormous ears. Each one was as
big as the wheel of a truck.
BFG: (grins widely) I is hungry!
NARRATOR 1: He grinned, showing massive square teeth.
SOPHIE: P-please dont eat me!
BFG: (stares at her in surprise, then bellows with laughter) Just because I is a giant, you think
I is a man-gobbling cannybull! Me gobbling up human beans! This I never! All the other giants is
gobbling them up every night, but not me! I is the Big Friendly Giant! I is the BFG! What is your
name?
SOPHIE: My name is Sophie.
NARRATOR 2: Sophie said, hardly daring to believe the good news she had just heard.
SOPHIE: But if you are so nice and friendly, then why did you snatch me from my bed and run
away with me?
BFG: Because you saw me. I cannot possibly allow anyone to be seeing me and staying at home!
The first thing you would be doing, you would be scuddling around yodeling the news that you
were actually seeing a giant, and then people would be coming rushing and bushing after me and
they would be catching me and putting me into the zoo with all those squiggling hippodumplings
and crocadowndillies!
NARRATOR 2: Sophie knew that what the Giant said was true. If any person reported actually
having seen a giant, there would most certainly be a terrific hullabaloo. For a few moments, the
cave was silent.
SOPHIE: May I ask you a question?
BFG: Shoot away.
SOPHIE: Would you please tell me what you were doing in our village last night? Why were you
poking that long trumpet thing into those kids bedroom and then blowing through it? And that
suitcase you were carrying. What on earth was that all about?
BFG: If you is really wanting to know what I am doing in your village, I is blowing a dream into
the bedroom of those children.
SOPHIE: Blowing a dream? What do you mean?
BFG: I is a dream-blowing giant. When all the other giants is galloping off to swollop human
beans, I is scuddling away to blow dreams into the bedrooms of sleeping children. Nice dreams.
Lovely golden dreams. Dreams that is giving the dreamers a happy time!
SOPHIE: (skeptically) Now, hang on a minute. Where do you get these dreams?
BFG: I collect them.
NARRATOR 1: The BFG waved an arm at all the rows and rows of bottles on the shelves.
BFG: Here is the dream-catcher. Every morning, I is going out and snitching new dreams to put
in my bottles.
NARRATOR 1: The BFG put down the pole. Then he picked Sophie off the table and stood her
on the palm of one of his huge hands. He carried her towards the shelves.
BFG: These are some of the good dreams. The "phizzwizards." Every dream is having its special
label on the bottle, so I can find it in a hurry.
SOPHIE: Would you hold me closer so I can read them?
NARRATOR 2: Sophie started to read the labels.
SOPHIE: "I is inventing a car that runs on toothpaste."
"I is able to make the elektrik lites go on and off just by wishing it."
"I is only an eight-year-old little boy but I is growing a splendid bushy beard and all the other
boys is jalous."
"I has a pet bee that makes rock & roll musik when it flies.
"I is abel to jump out of any high window and flote down safely." I like that dream.
BFG: Of course you like it. It is a phizzwizard! Its a ringbeller! Its whoppsy! This will be giving
some little tottler a very happy night when I is blowing it in. Look in the jar carefully, and I
think you will be seeing this dream.
NARRATOR 2: Sophie peered into the jar, and there, sure enough, she saw the faint
translucent outline of something about the size of a hens egg. There was just a touch of color
in it, a pale sea-green, soft and shimmering and very beautiful. There it lay, quite peaceful, but
pulsing gently, as though it were breathing.
SOPHIE: Its moving! Its alive!
BFG: Of course its alive.
SOPHIE: What will you feed it?
BFG: It is not needing any food.
SOPHIE: Everything alive needs food. Even trees and plants!
BFG: (firmly) A dream is not needing anything. If it is a good one, it is waiting peaceably
forever, until it is released and allowed to do its job.
NARRATOR 2: Sophie was silent. This extraordinary giant was disturbing her ideas. He seemed
to be leading her towards mysteries that were beyond her understanding.
BFG: You is a lovely little girl, but please remember that you is not exactly Miss Knoweverything.
Dreams is very mystical things. Human beans is not understanding them. (gazes into a bottle) At
all!
Chapters 1-7: The Witching Hour - The Marvelous Ears (pages 9-46)
1. What does BFG stand for?
2. Why didn't the giants like to eat people from Greece?
3. What was the BFG doing when he put his trumpet into the children's window?
4. What did the giant do as he walked down the street?
5. Why did Sophie think the giant had taken her?
6. Where does Bonecrunching Giant like to get his "human beans" from?
7. Describe what Sophie saw coming up the street.
8. How does the BFG catch dreams?
9. According to the BFG, why did he take Sophie from her bed?
10. What did the giant do when he looked into Sophie's room?
11. Why was Sophie having a hard time sleeping?
12. What did Sophie want to do as she got out of bed to close the curtains?
13. How did Mrs. Clonkers punish the children at the orphanage?
14. If a giant is hot, where would he go to get his supper?
15. Why aren't Sophie's parents going to be looking for her?
Chapters 1-7: The Witching Hour - The Marvelous Ears (pages 9-46)
Answer Key:
1. Big Friendly Giant
2. They all tasted greasy.
3. He was blowing in good dreams.
4. He stopped to look into the windows of each house.
5. She thought she was going to be the giant's breakfast.
6. Turkey
7. She saw something very tall, very black, and very thin.
8. He can hear them with his enormous ears.
9. She saw him.
10. He snatched her out of bed.
11. There was a moonbeam shining right in her face.
12. She wanted to look out the window and see outside.
13. She locked them in a dark cellar all day and night without food.
14. He would go north and eat an Eskimo.
15. They died when she was a baby. Sophie is an orphan.