Before school closed
we started reading Roald Dahl’s 'George’s Marvellous Medicine'.
Underneath is a
poem that George recounts in the story when he decides to make Grandma a new
medicine.
Can you read the
poem and answer the following questions?
So give me a bug and a jumping
flea,
Give me two snails and lizards
three,
And a slimy squiggler from the
sea,
And the poisonous sting of a
bumblebee,
And the juice from the fruit of
the ju-jube tree,
And the powered bone of a
wombat’s knee.
And one hundred other things as
well
Each with rather nasty smell.
I’ll stir them up, I’ll boil them
long,
A mixture tough, a mixture
strong.
And then, heigh-ho, and down it
goes,
A nice big spoonful (hold your
nose)
Just gulp it down and have no
fear.
“How do you like it, Granny
dear?”
Will she go pop? Will she
explode?
Will she go flying down the road?
Will she go poof in a puff of
smoke?
Start fizzing like a can of coke?
Who knows? Not I. Let’s wait and
see.
(I’m glad it’s neither you nor
me)
Oh Grandmas, if you only knew
What I have got in store for you!
1) Can
you find two words that rhyme with..?
·
Flea
·
Explode
·
Fear
·
Nose
2) Can you list 4 things that George plans to
add to his medicine?
3) What adjective describes the sting of a
bumblebee?
4) A
nice big spoonful (hold your nose)
Why would the person drinking
the medicine need to hold their nose?
5) How do you think George feels by the end of
the poem?
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