two stories about flying

TWO STORIES ABOUT FLYING

HI DEAR STUDENTS

We will do the textual excercise of the lesson two stories about flying today. Everyone should read the slides carefully and should do the excercises as directed

THINKING ABOUT THE TEXT

Thinking about text

Answer the questions that follows in your own words

Open Ended

Why was the young seagull afraid to fly? Do you think all young birds are afraid to make their first flight, or are some birds more timid than others? Do you think a human baby also finds it a challenge to take its first steps?

Open Ended

“The sight of the food maddened him.” What does this suggest? What compelled the young seagull to finally fly?

Open Ended

“They were beckoning to him, calling shrilly.” Why did the seagull’s father and mother threaten him and cajole him to fly?

Open Ended

Have you ever had a similar experience, where your parents encouraged you to do something that you were too scared to try? Discuss this in pairs or groups.

Open Ended

In the case of a bird flying, it seems a natural act, and a foregone conclusion that it should succeed. In the examples you have given in answer to the previous question, was your success guaranteed, or was it important for you to try, regardless of a possibility of failure?

Open Ended

“I’ll take the risk.” What is the risk? Why does the narrator take it?

Open Ended

Describe the narrator’s experience as he flew the aeroplane into the storm.

Open Ended

Why does the narrator say, “I landed and was not sorry to walk away from the old Dakota…”?

Open Ended

What made the woman in the control centre look at the narrator strangely?

Open Ended

Who do you think helped the narrator to reach safely? Discuss this among yourselves and give reasons for your answer.

Thinking About Language

Study the sentences and attend the questions that follows

Study the sentences given below

(a) They looked like black mountains. 

(b) Inside the clouds, everything was suddenly black. 

(c) In the black clouds near me, I saw another aeroplane. 

(d) The strange black aeroplane was there.

The word ‘black’ in sentences (a) and (c) refers to the very darkest colour. But in (b) and (d) (here) it means without light/with no light.

Difference in meaning

Black’ has a variety of meanings in different contexts. 

For example: 

(a) ‘I prefer black tea’ means ‘I prefer tea without milk’. 

(b) ‘With increasing pollution the future of the world is black’ means ‘With increasing pollution the future of the world is very depressing/ without hope’.

Now, try to guess the meanings of the word ‘black’ in the sentences given below. Check the meanings in the dictionary and find out whether you have guessed right. 

Check the meanings in the dictionary and find out whether you have guessed right. 

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Go and have a bath; your hands and face are absolutely black.

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The taxi-driver gave Ratan a black look as he crossed the road when the traffic light was green.

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The bombardment of Hiroshima is one of the blackest crimes against humanity.

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Very few people enjoy Harold Pinter’s black comedy.

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Sometimes shopkeepers store essential goods to create false scarcity and then sell these in black.

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Villagers had beaten the criminal black and blue.

Look at these sentences taken from the lesson you have just read:

(a) I was flying my old Dakota aeroplane. 

(b) The young seagull had been afraid to fly with them. 

In the first sentence the author was controlling an aircraft in the air. Another example is: Children are flying kites. In the second sentence the seagull was afraid to move through the air, using its wings.

Multiple Choice

'Fly a flag' means

• Move quickly/suddenly

• Be successful

• Display a flag on a long pole

Multiple Choice

Fly into rage

• Become suddenly very angry

• Escape from a place

• Be successful

Multiple Choice

Fly along

• Be successful

• Move quickly/suddenly

• Escape from a place

Multiple Choice

Fly high

• Escape from a place

• Be successful

• Become suddenly very angry

Multiple Choice

Fly the coop

• Escape from a place

• Display a flag on a long pole

• Become suddenly very angry

Multiple Select

We know that the word ‘fly’ (of birds/insects) means to move through air using wings. Tick the words which have the same or nearly the same meaning.

• swoop

• spring

• paddle

• flap

• glider

Home Work for you

Answer all the Thinking about Text activities in your note book
Also find out 10 important questions and answers which you feel important and copy it to your book