“The Landlady”
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Picture this: You’ve just
arrived in a lovely new
town by train and your
looking for a place to stay.
You find a bed and
breakfast that looks very
enchanting (nice) on the
outside. You decide to
stop and look in the
window. What do you
think you might see?
The Landlady
By
Roald Dahl
Objective: I will use knowledge of vocabulary to
analyze fictional text.
Vocabulary
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Read each sentence. Try to understand
the definition of each word based on the
context clues.

Write down each vocabulary word and its
definition.
1.
The bakery had one of the shabbiest
facades on the block.
Facades – appearance of the fronts of a building
(sometimes fake fronts)
2. “What tempting smells emanate from
there, Tom!” said Jo.
Emanate – come forth
3. The tantalizing smells of fresh pastry
lured them in.
Tantalizing – tempting or teasing by making
unavailable
4. The mean baker was far from congenial.
Congenial – agreeable or pleasant
5. Tom was so rapacious that he took all
the money from the jar.
Rapacious - greedy
Setting
The story takes
place in Bath,
England probably
mid 1900’s.
Bath, England
Bath, England
Question of the Day 10/4
Using your vocabulary from yesterday, fill in the underlined word
blank with the correct vocabulary word
facade, congenial, rapacious, emanate, tantalizing
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
While baking the cake, wonderful smells
came forth from the kitchen.
The salesman, who came to the door, was
very pleasant.
The house’s front appearance was one of the
worst on the block.
My grandmother’s kitchen always had
tempting smells coming from it.
The greedy politician was taking money from
anyone for his campaign.
Pre-reading information
Billy Weaver arrives in Bath, England after
taking the train from London. He's never been
to the town before. However, he's due to
start a new job there soon, and he's excited
at the prospect. He heads toward The Bell
and Dragon, which is a pub he's been told he
could spend the night at. On the way though,
he notices a sign in the window of a nearby
house: "BED AND BREAKFAST”. Will it turn
out to be what he expects????