Collins Breez 3 Semester English Chapter 4 Wind on the hill

1. breeze : a gentle wind

2. downpour: a very heavy shower of rain

3. drizzle: light rain.

4. gale : an extremely strong wind.

5. storm : a period of bad weather, when there is heavy rain, a strong wind and often thunder and lightning.

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No one can tell me,
Nobody knows,
Where the wind comes from,
Where the wind goes.

It's flying from somewhere
As fast as it can,
I couldn't keep up with it,
Not if I ran.

But if I stopped holding
The string of my kite,
It would blow with the wind
For a day and a night.

And then when I found it,
Wherever it blew,
I should know that the wind
Had been going there too.

So then I could tell them
Where the wind goes...
But where the wind comes from
Nobody knows.

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COMPREHENSION

A. Choose the correct option:

1. Who can see the wind?

✔a. nobody

b. everybody

c. only some people.

2. The poet believes that he can

a. run as fast as the wind

b. run faster than the wind

✔c. never catch up with the wind

3. The poet says if he freed his kite, it would blow with the wind for

a. an hour

b. a day

✔c. a day and a night

4. Nobody knows

a. when the wind blows

b. why the kite blows away.

✔c. where the wind comes from.

 

B. Read the lines from the poem and answer the questions.

1. It's flying from somewhere

As fast as it can,

I couldn't keep up with it,

Not if I ran.

a. What is ‘it’ here?

Answer: ‘It’ is the wind.

b. Who does ‘I’ refer to?

Answer: ‘I’ refers to the poet AA Milne.

 

2. And then when I found it,

Wherever it blew,

I should know that the wind

Had been going there too.

(a) What does ‘it’ refer to?

Answer: ‘It’ refers to the kite.

(b) What should the poet know about the wind?

Answer: The poet should know that the wind had been going to the place where the kite flew to.

 

C. Find rhyming words from the poem for the following words.

1. blew : too

2. can : ran

3. kite : night

4. knows : goes

Use the words in brackets to complete the similes.

1. Jia runs as fast as (fast) a deer.

2. Ravi is as gentle as (gentle) a lamb.

3. Hena is as brave as (brave) a lion.

4. Grandpa is as wise as (wise) an owl.

5. Leena is as timid as (timid) a rabbit.

6. Gurjit is as playful as (playful) a kitten.

7. The sheet was as white as (white) snow.

8. Zeba’s hair is as black as (black) a charcoal.

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