George’s Marvellous Medicine
By Roald Dahl
A boy makes a wild new medicine for his mean grandmother, causing her and the farm animals to grow, shrink, and eventually disappear.
Worksheets
George mixes a strange medicine from random household items, and when Grandma drinks it, she grows enormously tall, leaving her and George’s parents amazed.
George, left alone with his grumpy grandmother, decides to replace her usual medicine with a new concoction to try and change her bad attitude.
Class 1
Class 2
George and his father test the medicine on farm animals to make them bigger, but the new batches work unpredictably, sometimes enlarging only parts or even shrinking them.
Class 3
In the end, George’s new medicine makes Grandma shrink until she vanishes completely, leaving everyone shocked but secretly relieved.
