A short story by Roald Dahl

The time has come, dear students, for you to really meet Mary and Patrick. For you to unravel what sort of misteries does their story hide.

Mary and Patrick are the main characters of a short story by the famous Roald Dahl. Let's read their story here: http://onyourmarks.free.fr/lamb.pdf (copy and paste to your browser, and download the pdf document, courtesy of Onyourmarks.org).

Post-reading reaction: What do you think about the story? Did you expect something like that to happen?

Food for thought: try to think about other similar stories or short stories, or about similar films

Food for thought: do you know who Roald Dahl was? Have you read any of his books? Did you know you may have watched some of the film adaptations of his stories? Is this story similar to his most famous stories?

Surf the Internet to find out more and discuss with your partners. Google may be a really useful tool to do so.