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Taste by Roald Dahl - Activities

The document contains exercises related to Roald Dahl's story 'Taste', including questions about the setting, characters, and themes. It prompts analysis of character relationships, gender representation, and significant quotes. Additionally, it encourages creative writing by asking for a letter from the perspective of a character in the story.

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Taste by Roald Dahl - Activities

The document contains exercises related to Roald Dahl's story 'Taste', including questions about the setting, characters, and themes. It prompts analysis of character relationships, gender representation, and significant quotes. Additionally, it encourages creative writing by asking for a letter from the perspective of a character in the story.

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¨Taste¨ by Roald Dahl

Exercises
A) Answer these questions:

1) Where does the scene take place?


2) What is the host's occupation?
3) ) What is Richard Pratt's favourite thing?
4) Explain the bet which usually takes place between Mike and Richard. Who usually
wins?
5) Find a quotation to show how Louise feels when Richard is talking to her?
6) How does Richard eat his fish and drink his wine? What is so strange about this?
7) Where is the Claret and why is it there?
8) What is so unusual about the bet this time? What are the stakes of the bet?
9) Who wins the bet? What does this mean that Louise will have to do?
10) What did Richard leave in the study?
11) Why is this important to the story? What does it tell us about Richard?
12) Explain the last sentence: « Keep calm now, Michael, dear! Keep calm!

B) Character Analysis

1. Make a list of all the characters and divide them into main and secondary
characters.
2. Describe Schofield and Pratt as fully as you can. Find quotes to support your
description. Explain their relationship
3. How are women represented in the play? Why is the ending surprising in this
respect?

C) THEMES: Choose 2 of these to develop and explain how they are explored in
the story

1. Friendship – Rivalry
2. Winning – Cheating
3. Patriarchal roles: Father and Daughter / Wife and Husband
4. Snobbism and social status

D) QUOTES: Who says these things? Who are they speaking to?

(a) ‘An attractive little wine, don’t you think?’

(b) ‘In my study, already open. It’s breathing.’

(c) ‘I want you to bet me the hand of your daughter in marriage.’

(d) ‘But I don’t want to hear it.’


(e) ‘Just so long as you swear there’s no danger of losing.’

(f) ‘You left them in Mr. Schofield’s study.’

E) WRITING: (100 words or more)


Imagine that you are Louise Schofield. Write a letter to a friend about the previous
evening to a friend the next day. What do you say? What happened? How did the
story continue?

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