“The Landlady” 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? 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 Read each sentence. Try to understand the definition of each word based on the context clues. Read each sentence. Try to understand the definition of each word based on the context clues. Write down each vocabulary word and its definition. 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

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. While baking the cake, wonderful smells came forth from the kitchen. 2. The salesman, who came to the door, was very pleasant. 3. The house’s front appearance was one of the worst on the block. 4. My grandmother’s kitchen always had tempting smells coming from it. 5. 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????