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Form Groups of 5. Remember your past days and share with your friends about memories of your first day at school or your first attempt at cooking.
What role did your parents, siblings play to help you to overcome your fear?
Discuss and answer.
| 1. Were there any situations when you got afraid? | |
| 2. How would you react if you had to travel alone? | |
| 3. How would you react if you had to stay alone at home? | |
| 4. What would you do if you were lost in a new city? |
Solution
Do it yourself.
| 1. Were there any situations when you got afraid? | Yes, I am terrified of the dark at night, ghost stories, and fights. |
| 2. How would you react if you had to travel alone? | I will be thrilled to travel by myself. |
| 3. How would you react if you had to stay alone at home? | When I'm by myself at home, I feel liberated. I am free to pursue my interests. Particularly, I have a lot of great ideas for crafts, and paintings. |
| 4. What would you do if you were lost in a new city? | Would make me feel confused. I would try to find a way home, or I would go to the police to ask for assistance. |
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The young seagull was alone on his ledge. His two brothers and his sister had already flown away the day before. He had been afraid to fly with them. Somehow when he had taken a little run forward to the brink of the ledge and attempted to flap his wings he became afraid. The great expanse of the sea stretched down beneath, and it was such a long way down - miles down. He felt certain that his wings would never support him; so he bent his head and ran away back to the little hole under the ledge where he slept at night. Even when each of his brothers and his little sister, whose wings were far shorter than his own, ran to the brink, flapped their wings, and flew away, he failed to muster up the courage to take that plunge which appeared to him so desperate. His father and mother had come around calling to him shrilly, upbraiding him, threatening to let him starve on his ledge unless he flew away. But for the life of him, he could not move. That was twenty-four hours ago. Since then nobody had come near him. The day before, all day long, he had watched his parents flying about with his brothers and sister, perfecting them in the art of flight, teaching them how to skim the waves and how to dive for fish. He had, in fact, seen his older brother catch his first herring and devour it, standing on a rock, while his parents circled around raising a proud cackle. And all the morning the whole family had walked about on the big plateau midway down the opposite cliff taunting him for his cowardice. |
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3. Match the Pairs. (2)
| A | B |
| i) Upbraiding | a) a high steep face of a rock |
| ii) Devour | b) utter a shrill cry |
| iii) cliff | c) scolding |
| iv) cackle | d) eat |
4. Do as directed. (2)
Choose the correct options for the following:
- He could not rise. (Rewrite the sentence using ‘unable to’)
a. He could unable to rise.
b. He is unable to rise.
c. He unable to rise.
d. He was unable to rise. - He was tired and weak. (Make it exclamatory)
a. How tired and weak he was!
b. How tired and weak he was.
c. What tired and weak he was!
d. How tired and weak was he!
5. Personal Response (2)
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The sun was now ascending the sky, blazing on his ledge that faced the south. He felt the heat because he had not eaten since the previous nightfall. He stepped slowly out to the brink of the ledge, and standing on one leg with the other leg hidden under his wing, he closed one eye, then the other, and pretended to be falling asleep. Still, they took no notice of him. He saw his two brothers and his sister lying on the plateau dozing with their heads sunk into their necks. His father was preening the feathers on his white back. Only his mother was looking at him. She was standing on a little high hump on the plateau, her white breast thrust forward. Now and again, she tore at a piece of fish that lay at her feet and then scrapped each side of her beak on the rock. The sight of the food maddened him. How he loved to tear food that way, scrapping his beak now and again to whet it. |
A2. Complete the web: (2)
A3. Match the words in column ‘A’ with their meanings in column ‘B’: (2)
| A | B | ||
| i. | Scrapped | a. | Sleeping lightly |
| ii. | Dozing | b. | Sharpen |
| iii. | Plateau | c. | Rubbed |
| iv. | Whet | d. | A large high area of flat land |
A4. Do as Directed: (2)
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