thesauri to generate words and phrases:

- What does decay look like?

- How do you feel as you look at this food?

- What adjectives could describe the decaying food?

- What similes could describe the decaying food?

Find a picture of decaying food. Write a metaphors and adjectives to describe the piece of decaying food.

“Who wants every Tom, Dick and Harry peeping in to see what you’re

doing?” It didn’t occur to Mr Twit that windows were meant mainly for

looking out of, not for looking into.

And what do you think of that ghastly garden? Mrs Twit was the gardener.

She was very good at growing thistles and stinging-nettles. “I always grow

plenty of spiky thistles and plenty of stinging-nettles,” she used to say.

“They keep out nasty nosey little children.”

Near the house you can see Mr Twit’s workshed.

To one side there is The Big Dead Tree. It never has any leaves on it

because it’s dead.

• Independently, draw a design for the the Twits’ garden. The design should have annotations which

describe:

- The feature of the garden.

- An adjective or simile for the feature.

- The reason it is there.

• Explain to the children that they are going to design a house for the monkeys that will mean they are safe from Mr and Mrs Twit. Get them to be creative. That might make boobie traps etc to keep Mr Twit out, bullet proof sides, glue resistant walls etc.