Set - 1
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 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 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.
A1. State the sentences True or False.
1. The young seagull has two brothers and one
2. The young seagull felt certain that his wings would never support
3. His brothers and sisters wings are longer than
4. The young seagull had been afraid to fly.
A2.The young seagull‘s feelings while trying to fly.
He was afraid of …………………………………………..
He felt that …………………………………………………..
He could not gather……..………………………………..
He ran to the brink of ……………………………………
A3. 1: Write the same meaning words for……..
a. The edge of a steep place._____________________________________
b. in a loud, harsh voice.____________________________________
A3.2: To muster up courage (Use this phrase in your own sentence.)
A4. 1. It was such a long way down. (Make Exclamatory)
2. He failed to muster up courage to take that plunge. (Make Negative)
A5. How would you react if you had to travel alone?
Set - 2
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. 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.
A1. Fill in the blanks.
1.The seagull had not eaten anything from……………… hour.
2. Parents taught brother and sister to ……………………………..
3. The seagull felt the heat because…………………………………
4. The seagull pretended to be ………………………………..
A2. Attitude towards the young seagull for his cowardice by..
Brothers and sister:
Father:
Mother:
A3. Pick out from the passage the Homophones for the following.
1. Won: ………………….
2: I ………….
3: Son ……………….
4: Knot………………………..
A4. 1. His father was preening the feathers on his white back. (Voice)
2. He felt the heat because he had not eaten since the previous nightfall. (Clause)
A5. What should we do to overcome the fear?
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