Poem 2 Geography Lesson English - Poem 2 Geography Lesson

When the jet rose six miles high,
it was clear the earth was round
and that it had more sea than land.
But it was difficult to understand
that the men on the earth found
causes to hate each other, to build
walls across cities and to kill
From that height, it was not clear why
1. How high did the jet rise?
2. Who hate each other?
3. Where are the walls built?
4. Which word indicates violence?
5. Write the one word for the following sentence, “the planet on which we live".
6. Find the opposites of the following from the passage :
(i) easy
(ii) love

When the jet reached ten thousand feet,
it was clear why the country
had cities where the rivers ran
and why the valleyes were populated,
The logic of geography
that land and water attracted man
was clearly delineated
When the jet reached ten thousand feet.
1. At what height has the jet reached?
2. What was clear about the cities?
3. What was the logic of geography?
4. What's the scientific fact in this passage?
5. Write the one word for the following sentence, "area of land that forms a politically independent unit".
6. Find the one word from the passage which means, 'portray'.

When the jet sprang into the sky,
it was clear why the city
had developed the way it had,
seeing it scaled six inches to the mile.
There seemed an inevitability
about what on ground had looked haphazard.
unplanned and without style
When the jet sprang into the sky
1. What was clear from the sky?
2. Why has the poet repeated the first line?
3. How much did the city scale from the sky ?
4. What do you think is the message in these lines?
5. Write the one word for the following sentence, “the space seen when one looks upwards from the earth, where clouds and the sun, moon and stars appear".
6. Find the opposites of the following from the passage :
(i) plan
(ii) with