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English Form 1 • 2 • 3 Answers

Practice 3 FORM 3
(a) The hero is the child’s father.
(b) The father and child enjoy close relationship. Poisoned Talk by Raymond Wilson
(c) He is afraid. Formative Practice
(d) They are meant for adults who usually sleep later than
children. (accept any suitable answer) Practice 1
Practice 4 1. ✗
(a) His father is not afraid of the dead of night. 2. ✗
(b) It is associated with darkness, ghosts and monsters. 3. ✓
(c) He would not be bothered at all. 4. ✓
(d) Yes, the child is able to accept it because the poem focuses 5. ✓
on the bravery of the father rather than his weakness. The 6. ✗
mere mention of his weakness is to show that he is human 7. ✓
like everybody else. (accept any suitable answer) 8. ✓
Practice 5 Practice 2
(a) He is proud of his father. 1. ✓
(b) The kinds of films are usually those that are not suitable for 2. ✓
children. 3. ✓
(c) The line is ‘My dad could just defeat ‘em’. 4. ✓
(d) Yes, having a hero can be a source of inspiration for the child. 5. ✗
(accept any suitable answer) 6. ✗
What is Red by Mary O’Neil 7. ✓
8. ✓
Formative Practice 9. ✗
Practice 1 Practice 3
1. rose (a) The real cause of death is the consumption of the poisoned
2. blazing worm.
3. sunburn (b) It has been poisoned by the acidic soil.
4. squiggles (c) The word means unsafe.
5. Valentine (d) The fish in the lake is poisoned due to water pollution.
6. cart
7. lipstick Practice 4
8. embarrassed (a) It is polluted.
(b) Industrial waste caused it to be polluted.
Practice 2 (c) It caused the living beings in the lake to be poisoned.
Sunset, sunburn, rose, blood, brick, band, embarrassment, fire, fire- (d) It means that the destruction of the environment and the death
cracker, fire-engine, anger, Red Indian, Valentine, trimmings on a of living being is the result of men’s greed.
circus cart, lipstick, a shout, signal, rubber ball.
Practice 5
Practice 3 (a) The industrial waste, mercury caused the death of the marine
(a) The poet is Mary O’Neil. life.
(b) The words are blazing and bright. (b) The actual cause is pollution.
(c) The feeling of embarrassment. (c) The word is ‘boasted’.
(d) If I were a poet, I would use the colour blue, for it reflects the (d) (Accept any logical answer)
colour of the sky and the sea which also symbolises freedom The Day the Bulldozers Came by David Orme
and inspiration. (accept any suitable answer)
Formative Practice
Practice 4
(a) They are the sun and the rose flower. Practice 1
(b) It is used during celebrations and it is red because it creates 1. BULLDOZERS
a celebratory mood. 2. SIZZLED
(c) The poet wants to create the image of fun. A big rubber ball is 3. SCATTERING
bouncy and creates a lot of fun. 4. LEAPT
(d) It is easily noticeable so that other vehicles on the road would 5. STIRRED
give way to it during an emergency. Red is the colour that 6. TREMBLED
attracts the attention of people. (accept any suitable answer) 7. ROOKS
8. TRUNKS
Practice 5
(a) The person wants to hide away from people. Practice 2
(b) Anger and embarrassment. 1. ✓
(c) It can cause the skin to be sunburnt. 2. ✗
(d) The poet wants to highlight that the colour red is in everything 3. ✓
that we see in our everyday life and that life would be so 4. ✗
colourless without this vibrant colour. (accept any suitable 5. ✓
answer) 6. ✓

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