Name: Stijn Van Echelpoel and Isabell Verboven
Class: 2 ILSO B
Course: English
Teacher: Jen Van Loock
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Charlie and the Chocolate factory
Roald Dahl
Teacher’s notes: Charlie and the Chocolate factory.
Sources:
Worksheets are included in the attachments
 www.emints.org/ethemes/resources
- Some of these activities are nice, especially n° 3. (+)
- They are all multiple-questions that you can do either on the computer or by printing
them. (+)
- Some of these questions are far too easy. (-)
- A lot of these questions are aimed for details. (+/-)
- There are however some mistakes in the exercises:
e.g. n° 3: pertend instead of pretend, favourite instead of favourite, make of instead of
made of. (-)
- Some of these activities are too childish to use in the classroom. (-)
 www.teachingideas.co.uk
- These are very nice exercises to train the reading and writing skills of the pupils. (+)
- Some of the questions are a bit obsolete but you can copy the exercises in Word and
change them if necessary. (-)
 http://www.penguinreaders.com/downloads/0582456185.pdf
- This is a really nice lesson about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
- Some of the exercises are a bit too easy but then again this allows you to use the text
in lower levels of. (+/-)
- Nicely illustrated, pictures used by the same illustrator as the book. (+)
- Lesson plan included + answers (+)
 http://www.roalddahlfans.com/games/quiz
- These are also multiple-choice questions that you can solve on the computer. (+).
- However there are a few questions where the possibilities are idiotic and speak for
themselves. (-)
Formation objectives:
- Language:
The pupils learn new vocabulary by reading a foreign novel.
The pupils learn how to describe different characters that we can find in people.
- Personality formation:
The pupils learn to be critical of social problems (such as poverty).
The pupils learn to be critical of television.
The pupils can emerge themselves in the world of fantasy.
The pupils can differentiate the world of fantasy from the real world.
- World view:
The pupils learn more about poverty in the world.
Background information: Roald Dahl:
Biography:
- born in Wales on September 13th, 1916
- Norwegian parents
- Age 18: salesman at Shell
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Charlie and the Chocolate factory
Travelled around the world
Age 23: Royal air force
1942: short stories in the Washington Post
1943: first book
 The Gremlins
Died in England on November 23rd, 1990
Some of his novels:
- Matilda
- Charlie and the big glass elevator
- The BGF
- The Witches
- James and the Giant Peach
Quotes:
- "Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents."
- “We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.”
- “My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night
But ah my foes and oh my friends
It gives a lovely light”
Roald Dahl
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Didactic possibilities:
Worksheets:
In the worksheets we can find two different kinds of questions.
On the one hand we have questions that we have to answer while or after reading the book.
On the other hand we have ‘personal questions’, these are meant to stimulate the critical
thinking of the pupils.
There are two fragments on the DVD.
- Charlie: in this fragment Charlie finds the 50 pence piece and buys the bar of
chocolate that contains the Golden Ticket. (Question 10)
- Veruca: in this fragment Veruca tries to catch a sorting squirrel and gets attacked.
(Question 18)
There are also a few exercises in the back of this booklet that can be used as extras. These
include:
- a matching exercise
- a creative writing exercise
There are also two kinds of tests:
- two multiple-choice tests (a and b); these are easy to correct and since there are two
different tests, the pupils can’t copy each other’s answers
- a reading test
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Solutions:
1. (Chapter 1: Here comes Charlie)
- 7 people: Charlie, Mr and Mrs Bucket and 4 grandparents.
2. (Chapter 4: Secret workers)
- Because other candy makers tried to find out his secrets and sent in their own workers
to work undercover.
3. (Chapter 1: Here comes Charlie)
- chocolate
4. (Chapter 1: Here comes Charlie)
- Once a year, on his birthday
5. (Chapter 6: The first two finders)
- Augustus Gloop, Violet Beauregarde
6. (personal answers)
7. (Chapter 8: Two more Golden Tickets found)
- Veruca: very spoiled, little brat. She wants to have everything and she gets everything
from her parents. She doesn’t know when to stop.
- Mike Teavee: a television addict, often pretends he’s fighting with his toy-guns.
8. (Chapter 9: Grandpa Joe takes a gamble)
- His grandfather gave him some money to buy the second candy bar. Unfortunately
there was no Golden Ticket inside.
9. (personal question)
- If you are able, use the DVD. This way, the pupils will be able to actually see what
happens in the book.
10. (Chapter 14: Mr Willy Wonka)
- Black top hat, tail coat made out of beautiful plum-coloured velvet
- Bottle green trousers
- Pearly grey gloves
- A fine gold-topped walking cane
- A small, neat, pointed, black beard
- Marvellously bright eyes
- Face was alight with fun and laughter
- Twinkling eyes
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11. (Chapter12: What it said on the Golden Ticket)
- you must come the first day in the month of February, at 10 o’clock sharp, don’t be
late!
- you are allowed to bring either one or two members of your own family to ensure that
you don’t get into mischief
- be sure to have this ticket with you, otherwise you will not be admitted
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12. (Chapter 16: The Oompa-Loompa’s)
- dangerous beasts: hornswoggles, snozzwangers,…
- had to eat green caterpillars that tasted revolting
13. (personal question)
14. (Chapter 19: The Inventing Room – Everlasting Gobstoppers and HairToffee)
- Everlasting Gobstoppers: candy that you have to suck on and it never gets smaller.
He has invented it for children who have very little pocket money.
- Hair Toffee: hair will start to grow; a beard, a moustache, …
15. (Chapter 23: Square Sweets that look round)
- Veruca Salt and her parents start arguing with Mr Wonka about the fact that the sweets
don’t look round at all. Mr Wonka insults Veruca Salt’s father (you old fish).
16. (Chapter 20: The great gum machine)
- The gum contains a complete meal when you star chewing it:
soup – main course – dessert
tomato soup – roast beef + potatoes – blueberry pie with ice cream
17. (Chapter 21: Goodbye Violet)
If you’re able use the DVD.
- She eats the gum even though Willy Wonka asks her not to because it isn’t perfect.
Something always happens while eating this gum.
In the end, while eating dessert, Violet starts to grow violet and starts to blow up. The
Oompa-Loompas have to roll her to the juicing machine.
18. (Chapter 27: Mike Teavee is sent by television)
- Because he’s a television addict.
- This is a way for Roald Dahl to mock television. Mike Teavee is the child that spends
his days watching nothing but television.
19. (Chapter 27: Mike Teavee is sent by television)
- This poem/song by the Oompa-Loompa’s is a mockery to society, more specific to the role
of television. Television is the electronic nanny that is used to keep children quiet.
The poem/song points to the effects of television: e.g. it rots the sense in the head.
20. (personal question)
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22.
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A) Charlie is telling his grandparents that he has found the winning ticket. Grandpa Jo
is shouting ‘Hooray!’, jumping on the bed and spilling his soup. Grandma Josephine is
watching him, and moving away from the soup.
B) Veruca’s father is bending down/ looking for Veruca/ looking down a hole in the
ground. The squirrels are chasing him/ going to push him down the hole.
C) Violet is turning purple/ swelling up/ going to explode. The Oompa-Loompas are
pushing her/rolling her/ taking her away.
23. (personal question)
Solutions to the tests:
Multiple choice tests:
A:
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B:
Reading comprehension test:
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Very small house, wasn’t large enough to fit so many people (7).
Only two rooms in the house.
Only one bed in the house.
Only one person with a job (Mr Bucket works in the toothpaste factory), but isn’t paid
that much money: he wasn’t able to make enough money to buy one half of the things
they really needed.
Bread and margarine, boiled potatoes and cabbage for breakfast.
Cabbage soup for supper.
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2. All he had to do was sit at a bench and screw tooth paste caps on the tubes of toothpaste
after they had been filled.
3. a) Grandparents
b) (Answer depends on the pupil)
4. Then they would get seconds when serving dinner.
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Class: ………………………………………………….
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Greetings to you, the lucky finder of this Golden Ticket, from Mr Willy Wonka! I shake you
warmly by the hand! Tremendous things are in store for you!
1. How many people live in Charlie’s house? Name them and give three adjectives that are
typical for these characters.
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2. Why did Willy Wonka close the factory?
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3. What is Charlie’s favourite thing to eat? ……………………………………………………
4. How often does he get this? …………………………………………………………………
5. Who were the first 2 winners of the Golden Tickets?
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Personal question
6. Who is your favourite character so far? Why?
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7. Veruca Salt and Mike teavee were the next two winners. Can you tell something about
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8. How did Charlie get the second chocolate bar?
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Personal question
9. - Charlie found a fifty pence piece in the street. Do you think it was a
good idea to spend it on candy while his family was starving?
Why or why not?
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10. Describe Willy Wonka’s appearance. What does he look like?
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11. Name two of the important instructions Charlie must follow to get into the factory.
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12. Give 1 example of the terrible life the Oompa-loompas had in Oompa-loompaland.
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Personal question
13. - Did you think it was fair for Grandpa Joe to go with Charlie to the
factory instead of Mr Bucket?
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15. How can you tell Mr Wonka doesn’t like Veruca Salt?
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16. Describe the gum Mr Wonka has invented. What can it do?
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17. What happens to Violet Beauregard? And why?
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18. Mike Teavee.
- Why do you think his name is Mike Teavee?
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In almost every we've been,
We've watched them gaping at the screen.
They loll and slop and lounge about,
And stare until their eyes pop out.
(Last week in someone's place we saw
A dozen eyeballs on the floor.)
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IT ROTS THE SENSE IN THE HEAD!
IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD!
IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND!
IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND
HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND
A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND!
HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE!
HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE!
HE CANNOT THINK - HE ONLY SEES!
- What do you think Roald Dahl tries to tell us with this song? Is he a big fan of television?
Why? Why not?
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Personal question
20. What is your opinion on television? Do you like to watching television?
Why do you like watching television? Which programmes do you watch
then?
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21. True or false?
Charlie has six grandparents.
Charlie lives on a farm.
Augustus is greedy.
Violet likes watchingTV.
Willy Wonka makes squirrels in his factory.
Mike becomes very big when he goes in front of the camera.
Willy Wonka gives his factory to Charlie.
TRUE/FALSE
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23. Do you think Charlie is the rightful winner of the chocolate factory?
Why? Why not? Or do you think one of the other children should have won?
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Supplemental
exercises:
Matching exercise
Creative writing exercise
Matching exercise
Charlie and the Chocolate factory
Match the descriptions to the right character.
1) My parents are very rich. I get whatever I
want. I just have to say, “Daddy, I want
….!” And he buys it for me. Who am I?
2) I love to watch television. I watch TV
with my guns and pretending to be fighting
the bad guys. Who am I?
3) I love to chew gum. The piece I am
chewing now is a record breaker. I have
chewed it for 3 months. Who am I?
4) I wanted my grandson to win the golden
ticket. I even took one of my dimes (an
American or Canadian coin which has the
value of ten cents) and bought him a candy
bar. Who am I?
5) I am a boy who loves to eat. I eat all day
long. I knew I would win the golden ticket
because I eat candy bars all the time. Who
am I?
Grandfather Bucket
6) I am a poor boy. I really want to win a
golden ticket. I ate 4 candy bars trying to
win the ticket. Who am I?
7) I am the owner of the chocolate factory
favourite clothes are a black top hat, tail coat
made of plum-coloured (a dark reddish
purple colour) velvet (a cloth usually woven
from silk or cotton with a thick soft furry
surface) and bottle green trousers. Who am
I?
Roald Dahl
Creative writing
Charlie and the Chocolate factory
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Name:……………………………………….
Class: …………………..
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Reread chapter 15 ‘The Chocolate Room’.
1. Can you think of the other rooms in the factory?
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2. Wouldn’t you like your own candy factory? What would your favourite room be?
Try to think of a new room and describe it as well as possible.
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Tests after
reading:
Multiple-choice test (A)
Multiple-choice test (B)
Reading comprehension
Test after reading (A)
Charlie and the Chocolate factory
Name:………………………………………..
Class:………....
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
1. Where did Mr Bucket work?
○ a. in Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory
○ b. a newspaper shop
○ c. a toothpaste factory
○ d. Charlie’s school
2. What was special about the Sunday meal?
○ a. dessert was part of the meal
○ b. Mrs Bucket served meat
○ c. everyone got seconds
○ d. Charlie’s family came over for dinner
3. Who won the first ticket?
○ a. Augustus Gloop
○ b. Charlie Bucket
○ c. Mike Teavee
○ d. Violet Beauregarde
4. What special present will Willy Wonka give the finders of the Golden Tickets?
○ a. a trip to chocolate factories all over the world
○ b. enough chocolate and candy to last the rest of their lives
○ c. jobs in his factory when they grow up
○ d. Willy Wonka’s signed autobiography
5. What did Violet Beauregarde love to eat?
○ a. jaw breakers
○ b. chocolate candy bars
○ c. taffy
○ d. gum
6. What happened when Violet Beauregarde chewed the gum?
○ a. Mr Wonka made her go home.
○ b. She blew up like a balloon.
○ c. She turned red.
○ d. nothing.
7. Which room was top secret?
○ a. chocolate room
○ b. storeroom
○ c. gum room
○ d. inventing room
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8. What caused Mike Teavee to get small?
○ a. he went through a television
○ b. he fell in hot chocolate
○ c. he was zapped by the wrapping machine
○ d. he was squeezed through the packing machine
9. Why do the Oompa-loompas sing?
○ a. they enjoy singing
○ b. to make a point
○ c. to earn extra money
10. Which button did Mr Wonka choose in the elevator?
○ a. the Bucket house
○ b. up and out
○ c. through the roof
○ d. away we go
Good luck!
Test after reading (B)
Charlie and the Chocolate factory
Name:………………………………………..
Class: ……………………………………….
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
1. What happened to Prince Pondicherry’s castle of chocolate?
○ a. He let his family eat it.
○ b. It melted in the sun.
○ c. Prince Ponicherry ate it.
○ d. Willy Wonka took it back to the chocolate factory.
2. How many children can go in the Willy Wonka Chocolate factory?
○ a. 5
○ b. 9
○ c. 10
○ d. 6
3. What hobby does Augustus Gloop have?
○ a. football
○ b. sleeping
○ c. eating
○ d. dancing
4. How did Veruca Salt get her golden ticket?
○ a. she ate a million of candy bars
○ b. she went to every candy store in town
○ c. her mother found the golden ticket
○ d. her father bought millions of candy bars and had his workers open them
5. Who went with Charlie to the chocolate factory?
○ a. Grandpa Joe
○ b. Mr Bucket
○ c. Mrs Bucket
○ d. Grandma Josephine
6. What happened to Veruca?
○ a. She swelled up like a big blueberry.
○ b. She was mixed into a candy bar.
○ c. She fell into the chocolate river.
○ d. She was thrown down the garbage shute.
7. Augustus, Violet, Veruca and Mike left the factory with …
○ a. a truckload of candy
○ b. jobs
○ c. an Oompa-Loompa
8. Willy Wonka gives his factory to Charlie because:
○ a. He’s tired of making candy.
○ b. He wants to retire and travel the world.
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○ c. He’s getting old and isn’t able to make candy forever.
9. The glass elevator was full of …?
○ a. chewing gum
○ b. buttons
○ c. people
○ d. books
10. Which button did Mr Wonka choose in the elevator?
○ a. the Bucket house
○ b. up and out
○ c. through the roof
○ d. away we go
Good luck!
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