The World in a wall

Vocabulary Words:

 ancient: very old

 moss: a small flowerless green plant which lacks true roots

 intricate: very complicated or detailed

 revealed: cause or allow to be seen

 peer: look closely

 languidly: drooping from exhaustion

 barged: moved forcefully

 tessellated: decorated with mosaics

 blotched: covered with spots

 withered: dried up

 rotund: large and plump

 inhabitants: a person or animal that lives in or occupies a place

 enormous: huge

 gesture: action

 clumsy: awkward in movement or in handling things

 assault: a physical attack

 distressing: causing anxiety

 glimpses: partial view

 courtship: the behaviour of animals aimed at attracting a mate

 entwined: wind or twisted together

 forbidden: not allowed

 dawdling: move slowly and idly

 impending: about to happen

 doom: terrible fate

 protest: expressing disapproval of or objection to something

 implore: beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something

 prudent: showing care and thought for the future




Answers to Textual Questions:

1. Complete the sentences:

a) hunters: the toads and the geckos; the hunted: the crane-flies, moths and

beetles

b) the last glow worm dragged his frosty emerald lantern to bed

c) the scorpion

d) a mass of tiny babies; mother’s back

e) roar of fright; Lugaretzia

2. Find another word:

1) pandemonium

2) slaughtered

3) labyrinth

4) siesta

5) surreptitiously

3. Answer the following questions:

a) because the moment he would switch on the torch, the partners would

stop, pause for a moment and then, seeing that the author is not going to

extinguish the light, they would turn round and walk away firmly

b) she was agitated and a trifle annoyed at being shut up in a matchbox for

so long so she hoisted herself out of the box with great rapidity

c) since no one had bothered to explain things to him, Roger was under the

mistaken impression that the family were being attacked, and that it was

his duty to defend them. As Lugaretzia was the only stranger in the room,

he came to the logical conclusion that she must be the responsible party,

so he bit her

d) Student specific.



Answers to Textual Questions:

1. Complete the sentences:

a) hunters: the toads and the geckos; the hunted: the crane-flies, moths and

beetles

b) the last glow worm dragged his frosty emerald lantern to bed

c) the scorpion

d) a mass of tiny babies; mother’s back

e) roar of fright; Lugaretzia

2. Find another word:

1) pandemonium

2) slaughtered

3) labyrinth

4) siesta

5) surreptitiously

3. Answer the following questions:

a) because the moment he would switch on the torch, the partners would

stop, pause for a moment and then, seeing that the author is not going to

extinguish the light, they would turn round and walk away firmly

b) she was agitated and a trifle annoyed at being shut up in a matchbox for

so long so she hoisted herself out of the box with great rapidity

c) since no one had bothered to explain things to him, Roger was under the

mistaken impression that the family were being attacked, and that it was

his duty to defend them. As Lugaretzia was the only stranger in the room,

he came to the logical conclusion that she must be the responsible party,

so he bit her

d) Student specific.

THE FLOWER SCHOOL

Answers to textual questions:

1. a) blossom

b) to reach out to their mother in the sky

c) in closed rooms

2. a) The branches, the leaves and the thunder clouds celebrate the holidays

by clashing together in the forest, by rustling and by clapping their giant

hands respectively.

b) They do their lessons with doors shut, and if they want to

come out to play before it is time,

their master makes them stand in a corner.

c) Here the poet has presented an analogy, between offshoots of flower

plants preparing underground before they come out and the way

children get typically schooled - behind the doors shut - apparently

preparing their lessons but longing from within for freedom to reach their

mother or to play in a field - disciplined by a master who asks them to

stand in a corner if they come out to play early.

UBUNTU

Vocabulary

 orator: a public speaker

 chirped: spoke in a happy voice

 horror: an intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust

 unpleasant: bad, not very good

 weird: strange, unknown

 interrupted: to stop in between the act

 culture: the ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or

society

 glimpses: see or perceive briefly or partially

 awesome: extraordinary

 respond: do something as a reaction to someone or something

 thrilled: to have a sudden feeling of excitement and pleasure

 multiracial: made up of or relating to people of many races

 nervous: easily alarmed

 hectic: tiring

 adapting: to adjust to new surroundings

 accent: a distinctive way of pronouncing a language

 confident: feeling or showing certainty about something

 injured: harmed, damaged or impaired

 impressed: feeling or admiration and respect

 preoccupied: engross the mind

 opportunities: a time or set of circumstances that makes it possible to do

something

 discrimination: bias, differentiation

 ignorance: lack of knowledge or information

 thunderous: a loud noise

 applause: approval or praise expressed by clapping

Answers to textual questions:

1. a) you open your heart to understand the world around you.

b) they were going to have the ‘Orator of the year – 2013’ competition

c) they had never heard of Ubuntu

2. a) Apoorv wanted his classmates to know that Africa is much more

than just jungles and wildlife. It’s a wonderful culture with loving, caring

and open-minded people.

b) The people in Africa made Apoorv nervous because they were

robust and strong.

c) From his stay in Africa, Apoorv learnt more and more about Africans.

His experiences in South Africa gave him many opportunities to realize

that we are all children of this Mother Earth and we are equal. His stay

there gave him great confidence to socialize with all kinds of people

as he also began believing in Ubuntu like his African friends.

3. a) disheartening b) soccer field c) togetherness