James And The Giant Peach

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Kanravee Jing Jing

James and the Giant peach

Revision Chapter :30 - 31

PLOTFor what they saw now,swirling-and

twisting directly over their heads,was an immense black cloud.A

terrible,dangerous,thunder-looking thing that began to rumble and roar even as

they staring at it.It was quite easy to see becauseit wasn’t just raindrops.It wasn’t

raindrops at all.It was a great soild mass of water that might have been a lake or a whole ocean dropping out of the sky on top od them,and down it came,down and down and down,crashing first on to the seagulls and then on to the peach itself,while the poor travellers shriveled with fears and groped around frantically for something to catch hold of – the peach stem,the silk strings,anything thy could find – and all the time the water

came pouring and roaring down upon them ,bounching and smashing and slashing and swirling and surging and whirling and gurgling and gushing and rushing and rushing,and it was like being pinned down underneath

the biggest waterfall in the world and being able to get out.

1. P LO TThey couldn’t speak,they couldn’t see.They couldn’t breathe.And James Henry Trotter,holding on madly to one of the silk strings above the peach stem,told

himself that this must surely be the end of everything at last.But then,just as suddenly as it had started,the deluge stopped.They were out of it and

it was all over.The wonderful seagulls had frown right through it and had come out safely on the

other side.

Plot

• They saw the huge drums that were used for making

thunder, and the cloud-Men beating them fax

furiously with long hammers. They saw the frast factories and the

wind producers and the places where cyclones

and fornsdos were manufac down towards

the earth, and once, deep in the hollow of a large

billowy cloud, they spotted something that

could be only have been a cloud-Men’s city. There were caves every-where running into the cloud, and at the entrances to

the caves the Cloud-Men’s wives were crouching over little stores with frying-pans in their

hands, frying snowball for their hundreds suppers.

CHARACTER for JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH:

• Grasshspper• Grasshopper was kind and

always think positively when some emergency happened , ”we are floating beautifully. now we must all sit down and keep perfectly calm. every -thing will be all right in the end.’Pg67

THEME• Fear

• Chapter 30-page 126 “ouch!” they said. ’help! Mercy! We’re going to catch it this time!’

• ‘for what they now saw,swirling and twishting directly over their heads,was an immense black cloud, a terrible, dangerous, thundery-looking thing that

began to rumble and roar even as they were staring at it.’• Page128

• ‘while the poor travellers shrieked with fear and graped around frantically for something to catch.’

• “They couldn’t speak.They couldn’t see. They couldn’t breathe. And James Henry Trotter, told to himself that this must surely be the end of everything at

last.”• Page 131

• “oh,I do wish the morning would come!’ Miss Spider said ,shivering all over.”

DIFFICULT WORDS:deluge A sudden very heavy fall of rainWhirling To move,or make something move,aroud quickly in a circle or in a particular

directionSwashing The flow of water up the beach after a wave has broken

Swirling To move around quickly in a circle;

Longish Fairy long（稍长）Frantically Sentence ‘They worked frantically to finished on time.’

Frantic Unable to control your emotions because you are extremely frightened or worried about something.(由于恐惧或担心，无法控制感情的，发狂似的。 )

Threshing A threshing machine(脱粒机 )Coaxing Gentle attempts to persuade somebody to do something or to get a machine to

start.（试图劝诱，耐心地发动机器）String Material made of several threads together , used for trying things together; a

piece of string used to fasten or pull something or to keep something in place. (绳，线；绳子，带子 )

Tremendous Extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree.