The Day the Bulldozers Came

The Day the Bulldozers Came is written by David Orme

• True

• False

The Day the Bulldozers Came consists of 4 stanzas.

• True

• False

What is the tone for this poem?

• Joy then sadness

• Lighthearted then foreboding

• Sad then disappointed

The mood of this poem is _______________.

• dark and fearful.

• emptiness and fear.

• restless and scared.

Why does the fox feel he’s safe but actually he is not safe?

• up tree trunks, he thought the bulldozers could not reach him

• in the pond, he thought the bulldozers could not reach him

• down in the Earth, he thought the bulldozers could not reach him

We should respect the nature and the animals that depend on it.

• True

• False

The expression ‘crazy eggs baskets’ refers to something __________.

• joy

• gloomy

• down

Choose one moral value that you learnt from the poem.

• We should not be alert to any threats and changes around us.

• We should not protect our nature (flora and fauna)

• We should protect flora and fauna and the only earth we have.

What do you think the bulldozers are doing in the poem?

• Preserving the forest from pollution

• Clearing the forest to build new construction

• Cleaning the rubbish in the forest

In line 8, the squirrels were ‘scattering up the trees, shows that they are in _______.

• panic

• angry

• helpless