Flamingo Prose Chapter 8 Going Places English Core - Flamingo Prose Chapter 8 Going Places

It was nothing like that. Geoff It was me who spoke first. When I saw who it was I said, "Excuse me, but aren't you Danny Casey? And he looked sort of surprised And he said. "Yes, that's right. And I knew it must be him because he had the accent you know like when they interviewed him on the television So I asked him for an autograph for little Derek, but neither of us had any paper or a pen. So then we just talked a bit about the clothes in Royce's window. He seemed lonely. After all, it's a long way from the west of Ireland and then just as he was going, he said, if I would care to meet him next week he would give me an autograph then of course, I said I would"

1. Who looked sort of surprised?
i) Danny Casey
ii) Geoff
iii) Sophie
iv) none of the above

2. How did Sophie confirm that he was Danny Casey?

3. What does the above conversation reveal about Sophie?
i. that she was innocent and trusted Danny completely
ii. that she foolishly shared all her secrets with Geoff
iii.That she was enamoured by Danny
iv.All of the above

4.Which statement about Danny Casey by Geoff makes Sophie speak the above lines
i. that he could have had a string of girls
ii. that he would cheat Sophie
iii. that he was an excellent footballer
iv. none of the above

5.While going, what did Danny Casey ask her?

6. Pronunciation, intonation etc. are similar in meaning to the word accent.

Sophie watched her back stooped over the sink and wondered at the incongruity of the delicate bow which fastened her apron strings. The delicate seeming bow and the crooked back. The evening has already blacked In the windows and the small room was steady from the stone and cluttered with the heavy breathing man in his vest at the table and the dirty washing piled up in the corner. Sophie felt a tightening in her throat. She went to look for her brother Geoff.

1. Whose bow did Sophie watch?
i.her own mother
ii.her father
iii. Derek

2. What does the word incongruity mean_________.

3.Where did Sophie return from just before just before the above incident?
i. from talking to Jhansie
ii. from talking to Danny Casey
iii. from talking to Geoff
iv. none of the above

4. What did Sophie feel and what did she do then?

5. How were Sophie's dreams in sharp contrast with her the ambience of her house?

And afterwards you wait there alone in the arcade for a long while, standing where he stood remembering the soft melodious voice, the shimmer of green eyes. No taller than you No bolder than you. The prodigy, The innocent genius, the great Danny Casey And she saw it all again, last Saturday saw him ghost past the lumbering defenders, heard the fifty thousand catch their breath as he hovered momentarily over the ball, and then the explosion of sound as he struck it crisply into the goal, the sudden thunderous eruption of exultant approbation.

1. What was she remembering about Danny Casey?

2. A Prodigy is a person who is a genius (true/false)

3. the soft melodious voice, the shimmer of green eyes describe________.
i.Danny Casey
ii. Hansie
iii. Derek
iv. Geoff

4. The explosion that could be seen at the stadium was__________.

5.Pick a word from the passage which is similar in meaning to jubiliant

6. The thunderous sound exploded because?
i. The ball was crispy
ii. The ball erupted
iii. The Danney hovered over the ball
iv. The ball was struck into the goal

After dark she walked by the canal along a sheltered path lighted only by the glare of the lamps from the wharf across the water, and the unceasing drone of the city was muffled and distant. It was a place she had often played in when she was a child. There was a wooden bench beneath a solitary elm where lovers sometimes came. She sat down to wait for it to be the perfect place, she had always thought so for a meeting of this kind. For those who wished not to be observed. She knew he would approve.

1. Who walked after dark and why?

2. Why was that place suitable for meeting?

3. Find word in the passage which means stifled

4. Who else knew about this meeting?
a. Jhansie
b. Derek
c. Sophie's mother
d. Sophie's father

5.Danney Casey sat on the wooden bench and talked to Sophie that day.(true/false)

6.From the given passage we understand that Sophie was
i. Innocent
ii. Immature
iii. Trusted people foolishly
iv. All of the above

He was kneeling on the floor in the next room tinkering with a part of his motorcycle over some newspaper spread on the carpet. He was three years out of school, an apprentice mechanic, travelling to his work each day to the far side of the city. he was almost grown up now, and she suspected areas of his life about which she knew nothing, and about which he never spoke. he said little at all, ever, voluntarily.

1)Whom is the passage talking about?
i. Derry
ii. Lamb
iii. Geoff
iv. Derek

2) Find words from the passage which is closest in meaning to mending___________.

3) She suspected areas of his life because______________.

4)What does Geoff's silence symbolise in Sophie's view?
i.distant places
ii. his vague personality
iii. his jovial nature
iv. that he had many secrets which he was hiding from Sophie

5) Sophie willingly shared all her secrets with her brother (True/False)

6) Find a word from the passage which is opposite in meaning to professional......apprentice