Unit 2 - 2.1 The Clothesline English - Unit 2 - 2.1 The Clothesline

Wash your handkerchief clean. Hang it with a peg to dry in the wind. Watch how it flutters.

Read the poem aloud. Recite any stanza of your choice from memory.

Form groups and discuss what must have happened to the handkerchief. Write the story in your own words.

What do fairy-tale witches do?

What are the clothes compared to? Give two examples.

Complete the comparisons.
as bright as_________

Complete the comparisons.
us black as_________

Complete the comparisons.
as blue as_________

Complete the comparisons.
us red as_________

Complete the comparisons.
as green as_________

What do restive horses do?

What could have happened to the one who flew away? Who was she?

What did one of the fluttering creatures do?

List all the phrases from the poem in which two or more words are joined with ‘and’.

The events described in the poem take place at a certain place, at a certain period of the year, under specific weather conditions. Describe the place, the time and the weather conditions.

When we say that two or more words rhyme, we mean that they end with the same sound or syllable. For example, ‘ring – sing’. Rhyming words are often used in the verse at the end of the lines. List the rhyming words from the poem. Note the words ‘behind’ and ‘wind’. They have similar spellings, that is they look the same. But they are pronounced differently, that is, they do not ‘sound’ the same. This is known as ‘eye rhyme’. Separate the examples of eye rhymes from the following list.