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.