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Miss Honey's Home

The document describes Miss Honey's small, red-brick cottage, which resembles a doll's house and is surrounded by a wild area with nettles and thorns. The cottage features a grey slate roof, a chimney, and tiny windows, with an oak tree overshadowing it. The text also includes a glossary and reading tips for understanding vocabulary.

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Miss Honey's Home

The document describes Miss Honey's small, red-brick cottage, which resembles a doll's house and is surrounded by a wild area with nettles and thorns. The cottage features a grey slate roof, a chimney, and tiny windows, with an oak tree overshadowing it. The text also includes a glossary and reading tips for understanding vocabulary.

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Miss Honey’s Home

Matilda saw a narrow dirt-path leading to


a tiny red-brick cottage. The cottage was so small it
looked more like a doll's house than a human
dwelling. The bricks it was built of were old and
crumbly and very pale red. It had a grey slate roof and
one small chimney, and there were two little
windows at the front. Each window was no larger than a
sheet of tabloid newspaper and there was clearly no
upstairs to the place. On either side of the path there
was a wilderness of nettles and blackberry thorns and
long brown grass. An enormous oak tree stood
overshadowing the cottage. Its massive spreading
branches seemed to be enfolding and embracing the
tiny building, and perhaps hiding it as well from the rest
of the world.
Rohald Dahl

Glossary
human dwelling: a place where people
live
wilderness: a wild area
embracing: holding something
Reading tip
If you don’t know what a word means
 Think other words that look and sound similar, for example
wonderful looks like wonder and the suffix-ful added
 Read the rest of the sentence and see if you can work it out
 Look up the word in a dictionary
1a. Who lives in the house Matilda was
visiting ?
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b. Does the house have a chimney?
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c. Does the house have upstairs?
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d. Do you think the house is described well?
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e. Would you live in this house? Why?
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f. List three nouns Roald Dahl uses in the
setting of Miss Honey’s home
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g. List three adjectives Roald Dahl uses in
the setting of Miss Honey’s home
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