📖 Reading Passage - The BFG Chapter 1: The Witching Hour

Read the following passage from Chapter 1 of The BFG by Roald Dahl:

Sophie couldn't sleep. A brilliant moonbeam was slanting through a gap in the curtains. It was shining right onto her pillow. The other children in the dormitory had been asleep for hours. Sophie closed her eyes and lay still. She tried very hard to doze off. It was no good. The moonbeam was like a silver blade slicing through the room onto her face.

There was never a sound in the place. A graveyard is noisier than an orphanage after lights-out. Sophie had been living in the orphanage since she was a baby, but she had never got used to the ghastly silence of the night. The building creaked sometimes. And sometimes the wind rattled the windows. But human sounds there were none; no voices, no footsteps, no laughter.

Not a soul was stirring anywhere. The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world to themselves.

The moonbeam was brighter than ever on Sophie's pillow. She decided to get out of bed and close the gap in the curtains. You got punished if you were caught out of bed after lights-out. That much she knew. But she simply had to shut out that troublesome moonbeam.

📝 Part 1: Multiple Choice Questions

✍️ Part 2: Short Answer Questions

📚 Part 3: Vocabulary and Language

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🎨 Part 4: Creative Response