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PASSWORD: Choose one:)

• If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. George Washington

• "He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth." Passage of the Scripture Isaiah 53:7

• For as a lamb is brought to slaughter, so she stands, this innocent, before the king. Geoffery Chaucer in the Man of Law's Tale, 1386

B&B:

• Read page 95 and write down a possible speech from Mary Maloney's hubbie.

• Keep on reading pages 96, 97 and 98.

• Watch video about Roald Dahl's biography and interview and make a summary of it.

The Short Story:

like a lamb to the slaughter (idiom) : If someone does something or goes somewhere like a lamb to the slaughter, they do it without knowing that something bad is going to happen and therefore act calmly and without fightingagainst the situation.

The Author:

Vocabulary Focus:

• Lamb
• Slaughter: (massacre) the killing of many people cruelly and unfairly,especially in a war/ the killing of animals for meat/ an occasion when one team is very easily defeated by the other
• Whiskey
• Sideboard: a piece of furniture with a flat top and cupboards at the bottom, usually used for holding glasses, plates, etc.
• Gravel: small rounded stones, often mixed with sand:
• Tyres: a thick rubber ring, often filled with air, that is fitted around theouter edge of the wheel of a vehicle, allowing the vehicle tostick to the road surface and to travel over the ground moreeasily:
• Sewing
• Bliss
• Sunbather
• Swallow ( v ) to allow to pass down the throat to the stomach
• swallow ( n )a type of insect-eating bird with long wings and a divided tail.
• Swirls to (cause to) move quickly with a twisting, circular movement:
• Shame
• freezer
• elixir
• dove: a kind of pigeon

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