When the Sky Falls by Phil Earle Chapters 1 & 4

Chapter 1: Find and copy, one word from the second paragraph that means not permanent.

Chapter 1: Select one word in the quotation below that suggests that there was not enough room on the trains for all the evacuees.

‘But instead of being shoehorned onto a train, he was marching away from one, having just arrived.’

Chapter 1: What three things did evacuees carry with them?

• Regulation case

• tag

• coat

• gas mask box

Chapter 1: Joseph stole two packages from another passenger. What was in them?

• a block of cheese and bread

• sandwiches his gran had made for him

• sliced bacon and a block of cheese

• cakes and bread

Chapter 1: Reorder the following in the order in which they happened.

• Joseph searched the crowd

• The woman gripped Joseph's strap of his box.

• A man accuses Joseph of stealing from him.

• Joseph lies about the contents of the packages

• The woman waved to the policemen

Chapter 4: Find one word that shows Joseph was thankful.

Chapter 4: Find one word in the quotation below that suggests that the nurses were disordered.

‘Joseph hadn’t expected to see a gaggle of nurses in full white uniform digging amongst the rubble, for starters.’

Chapter 4: Look at the paragraph beginning ‘The image of her applying make-up...’ p.25

Find and copy one word that shows Joseph crashed hard into Mrs F’s back.

• reduced

• ploughed

• racing

• shock

Chapter 4: Walking past the cages, what two sounds could Joseph hear?

• singing

• growling

• disjointed, jarring cries

• screeching

Chapter 4: What was the dog’s name?