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When the air moves
This task is about finding information and making inferences from a text.
Read the poem
"When the air moves" School Journal, Part 2, No 2, Learning Media 1999
to help answer the following questions.
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a) Write down one group of words that is repeated in the first three verses of the poem.
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b) When the girl whistles, plays her recorder, and blows out the candles,
how is she making the air move?
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c) What is the main letter sound which is repeated in the first verse?
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d) Write down four words in the first verse that describe the sounds the air makes.
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e) The air acts like a person when it "steals" the school notice.
Write down another word in the poem which describes the air as if it was a person.
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f) Write down a word in the third verse which makes it sound as though the waves are acting like a person.
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g) Write down one way the last verse is different from the others.