The Twits

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Twits are ugly people who do horrible things to each other and others. They are not nice, and they are negative people who have been negative so long that the negativity has made them ugly.

Los cretinos, bueno son exactamente eso, un matrimonio tan horripilante por fuera como por dentro y por supuesto los finales de Dahl siempre dejan al lector con una sonrisa enorme. This set of instructions explains Mr Twit’s method for catching birds to put into Mrs Twit’s bird pie and also Mrs Twit’s ‘Wormy Spaghetti’. There are lots of spelling mistakes in this extract! Your class will begin by highlighting all the mistakes and then write the correct spelling. Using their friend the Roly-Poly Bird as an interpreter of languages, Muggle-Wump and his wife and children convey the warning that any bird landing on the Big Dead Tree will be cooked into Mrs. Twit's Bird Pie. When Mr. Twit, in retaliation, spreads glue on the monkeys' cage (which serves as a substitute perch), the monkeys alter the warning. The birds end up landing on the Twits' roof. We aren't currently taking new book specific requests but we'll put your suggestion on our list for future ideas. There is an editable version of this resource, or you might want to have a look at our fabulous Create tool which will give you access to our lovely illustrations and templates. You can even upload your own images to use! :)By golly it is a Giant Skillywiggler!’ Mr Twit said. ‘It’ll bite off your nose.’ Mrs Twit leapt out of bed and flew downstairs and spent the night on the sofa. The frog went to sleep on her pillow. The Twits, although it has its moments, is one of my least favourite Dahl books, perhaps the least favourite. Netflix‘s animated film adaptation of Roald Dahl‘s book The Twits is scheduled to come to the streaming service in 2025. What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around nowadays»Ugly, dirty and bad. It's not about the movie of Ettore Scola about the slums, with Nino Manfredi as memorable protagonist. We are talking, instead, about the Twits, Mr and Mrs Twits, spending their days tremendously pranking each other with jokes of unnecessary cruelty. Mr Twits, moreover, has his own dreams: training monkeys to carry out acts upside down. In short, the Twits are evil.

We have differentiated the activity for Year 3 and Year 4 to reduce the amount of word classes the children need to focus on. Hairy Faces What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around nowadays. When a man grows hair all over his face it is impossible to tell what he really looks like. Perhaps that’s why he does it. He’d rather you didn’t know. Then there’s the problem of washing. When the very hairy ones wash their faces, it must be as big a job as when you and I wash the hair on our heads. So what I want to know is this. How often do all these hairy-faced men wash their faces? Is it only once a week, like us, on Sunday nights? And do they shampoo it? Do they use a hairdryer? Do they rub hair- tonic in to stop their faces from going bald? Do they go to a barber to have their hairy faces cut and trimmed or do they do it themselves in front of the bathroom mirror with nail-scissors? I don’t know. But next time you see a man with a hairy face (which will probably be as soon as you step out on to the street) maybe you will look at him more closely and start wondering about some of these things. So, as an adult, all I could think of is, " Dahl, what were you on??" Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever. The Twits are ugly people - through and through. They think nothing of animal neglect or outright abuse. They are horrible to each other and everyone around them.Leer a Roald Dahl es una delicia, un o de esos gustos que me tengo que daral menos de vez en cuando, esl señor era un genio, tenía una imaginación fuera de serie, pero sobre todo el mejor sentido del humor del universo, bueno además humor negro. Mr and Mrs Twit are extremely nasty, so the Muggle-Wump monkeys and the Roly-Poly bird hatch an ingenious plan to give them just the ghastly surprise they deserve! Michael Rosen - writer of the biography "Fantastic Mr Dahl" - tells how the first time he met Roald Dahl, Roald said:

Romance Billionaire Romance Erotic Young Adult Crime Fantasy Vampires Science Fiction Thriller Horror Classics Suspense The idea that someone who looks ugly to us is ugly inside too is sufficient reason on its own to cast this book aside. Your class will read the chapters and answer the questions in the resources provided. We have differentiated this resource so you can choose which best suits your class.

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If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. The Great Glue Painting Begins The Carpet Goes on the Ceiling The Furniture Goes Up The Ravens Swoop Over The Twits Are Turned Upside Down The Monkeys Escape The Twits Get the Shrinks The Twits still holds up as one of my favourite Roald Dahl books. Dahl’s speciality is over-the-top baddies and he delivers with Mr and Mrs Twit who’re as grotesque as can be. Quentin Blake’s illustrations are perfect as always - his art is as inseparable from Dahl’s prose as John Tenniel’s is from Lewis Carroll’s.

And what do you think of that ghastly garden? Mrs Twit was the gardener. She was very good at growing thistles and stinging-nettles. ‘I always grow plenty of spiky thistles and plenty of stinging-nettles,’ she used to say. ‘They keep out nasty nosey little children.’ Near the house you can see Mr Twit’s work-shed. To one side there is The Big Dead Tree. It never has any leaves on it because it’s dead. And not far from the tree, you can see the monkey cage. There are four monkeys in it. They belong to Mr Twit. You will hear about them later. Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, nastiest, ugliest people in the world. They hate everything—except playing mean jokes on each other, catching innocent birds to put in their Bird Pies, and making their caged monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, stand on their heads all day. But the Muggle-Wumps have had enough. They don’t just want out, they want revenge.Through a series of peculiar and magical happenings, James finds himself on an adventure inside a giant peach with a bunch of friendly giant insects for travelling companions. The idea of The Twits was triggered by Dahl's desire to 'do something against beards', because he had an acute hatred of them. The first sentence of the story is, 'What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around nowadays'. Some of the modern versions of Roald Dahl’s books include information about his life. Could you use this to write a biography to help others to learn about him?