The Comet and the Moon
I. Ask the following questions to your partner and write down the answer.
1.Who whooshed past the moon’s pale face?
Answer:The comet whooshed past the moon’s pale face.
2.Who was sulking?
Answer:The moon always walks laboriously in the same path in chains of gravity,
so the moon thinks that he is doomed.
3.When was life better for the moon?
Answer:Life was better for the moon when the spacemen landed on it, and walked
and scratched his back.
4.Why did the comet not answer the moon?
Answer:The comet did not answer the moon because it had already left the place
to wag its tail round, Venus.
5.What did the comet want to know when he saw the
pale-faced moon?
Answer:When the comet saw the pale-faced moon, he wanted to know the reason for
his sulky behavior.
6.Why does the moon think that he is doomed?
Answer:The moon is stuck in the orbit of the Earth, so he thinks that he is
doomed.
7.Why does the moon envy the comet?
Answer:The comet is free to flare and sizzle and roam like rockets, so the moon
envied the comet.
8.Which line in stanza 5 suggests that the comet is very
active? Explain
Answer:The comet did not answer the moon’s request to stay and talk with him
and quickly left the place to wag its tail round Venus.
9.The moon is non-human He does 2 things which we humans do what are they? What figure of speed in this?
1. He looked sulky.
2. To always trod the same path The figure of speech is personification.
II . Match the words in B with the words in A
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A |
B |
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1. breezy |
a. life |
III Work with your partner and do this exercise:
Have you ever gazed at a starlit sky? Go out on a new moon night and look up at the stars. You will see crores and crores of them. You may even identify a constellation or two. A constellation is a group of fixed stars such as the Great Bear.
Gazing at the stars try to imagine the space our universe must occupy. Scientists say that the universe is a star system that circles round and round in unimaginable space at unimaginable speeds.
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