Question

Read the following extract and do the given activities:

A1. Match the describing words from the Cloud ‘A’ with Cloud ‘B’: (02)

	Cloud ‘A’		Cloud ‘B’
1.	broad	a.	noise
2.	humorous	b.	jest
3.	chuckling	c.	way
4.	trifling	d.	grin

 

“There to the printer,” I exclaimed, And, in my humorous way, I added (as a trifling jest,) “There’ll be the devil to pay. He took the paper, and I watched, And saw him peep within At the first line, he read, his face Was all upon the grin He read the next; the grin grew broad. And shot from ear to ear; He read the third; a chuckling noise I now began to hear. The fourth; he broke into a roar; The fifth; his waistband split; The sixth; he burst five buttons off And tumbled in a fit.

A2. Pick out two lines from the extract that indicate humour. (02)

A3. Write two pairs of rhyming words from the extract. (01)

Answer 1

A1.

	Cloud ‘A’	Answers
1.	board	grin
2.	humorous	way
3.	chucking	noise
4.	trifling	jest

A2. Lines that indicate humour are:

1. The fifth; his waistband split;
2. The sixth; he burst five buttons off
3. And tumbled in a fit.

A3. Rhyming Words:

1. within - grin
2. ear – hear
3. spilt - fit