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c1 answer the following questions and share your responses
with your partner.
1. Look at the first stanza. See how a machine made of a metal
goes through a process in the making. Fill in the empty boxes
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with the appropriate steps.
1 2 3 4

mined
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5 6 7 8

hammered filed

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gauged

2. What do simple machines need to start working?

3. Name at least five machines or mechanical devices, and write
how they are useful to man.
e.g. an iron box – for ironing clothes.
4. What can a machine not do? [stanza 4]

5. What is the risk, if the machine is mishandled? [stanza 4]
Read and Write:

c2 Read and discuss with your partner. Then write.
1. How are machines and human beings different? Study the last
stanza and write.

2. Do you observe any rhyme scheme in each stanza? If you do,
write the words that rhyme together.
e.g. ask-task, play-day [second stanza]

3. List all the words that suggest motion.
e.g. pull, jump

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