PROJECT 1º,2º,3º ESO BILINGUAL PROGRAM: ROALD DAHL

Our students in 1st, 2nd and 3rd year of ESO have carried out a project about the famous storyteller Roald Dahl, working on his biography  and stories like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Esio Trot, Matilda, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Big Friendly Giant, Revolting Rhymes, James and the Giant's Peach,  Roald Dahl's Quotes, George's Marvellous Medicine, The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories, The Magic Finger, The Twits, The Enormous Crocodile ...
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ROALD DAHL DAY 13 SEPTEMBER

We will be celebrating the centenary of Roald Dahl's birth next week with our students by carrying  out a project about Roald Dahl's life and work. It will be lots of fun!

Roald Dahl was born on September 13, 1916, in Llandaff, South Wales. In 1953, he published the best-selling story collection Someone Like You and married actress Patricia Neal. He published the popular book James and the Giant Peach in 1961. In 1964, he released another highly successful work,Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which was later adapted for two films. Over his decades-long writing career, Dahl wrote 19 children's books. He died on November 23, 1990, in Oxford, England.

Dahl wrote his first story for children, The Gremlins, in 1942, for Walt Disney. The story wasn't terribly successful, so Dahl went back to writing macabre and mysterious stories geared toward adult readers. He continued in this vein into the 1950s, producing the best-selling story collection Someone Like Youin 1953, and Kiss, Kiss in 1959.

Dahl first established himself as a children’s writer in 1961, when he published the book James and the Giant Peach. The book met with wide critical and commercial acclaim. Three years later, Dahl published another big winner, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Both books were eventually made into popular movies. A film adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factorywas released as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in 1971, and an originally titled remake of the film, starring Johnny Depp, was released in 2005. The movie version of James and the Giant Peach was released in 1996.

In addition to James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Dahl's most popular kids' books include Fantastic Fox (1970), The Witches (1983) and Matilda (1988).

BFG (Big Friendly Giant) official trailer:

                 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory official trailer: