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Question
Find three or four phrases in stanzas one and two which are likely to occur in a geography lesson.
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Solution
Some phrases that are likely to occur in a Geography lesson are ‘the city had developed the way it had’, ‘it scaled six inches to the mile’, ‘cities where the rivers ran’, and ‘the valleys were populated’.
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