The Importance of Trees

TREES

Why should people plant and care for trees? Read some of the reasons on the website below, choose 6 at least that you consider the most important ones, write them down and be prepared to discuss them in class:

https://www.treepeople.org/resources/tree-benefits      Top 22 Benefits of trees

A Poem by Charles Causley

Read this poem by Charles Causley :

"What Has Happened To Lulu?"

What has happened to Lulu, mother?
What has happened to Lu?
There's nothing in her bed but an old rag-doll
And by its side a shoe.

Why is her window wide, mother,
The curtain flapping free,
And only a circle on the dusty shelf
Where her money-box used to be?

Why do you turn your head, mother,
And why do tear drops fall?
And why do you crumple that note on the fire
And say it is nothing at all?

I woke to voices late last night,
I heard an engine roar.
Why do you tell me the things I heard
Were a dream and nothing more?

I heard somebody cry, mother,
In anger or in pain,
But now I ask you why, mother,
You say it was a gust of rain.

Why do you wander about as though
You don't know what to do?
What has happened to Lulu, mother?
What has happened to Lu?

Charles Causley

II Writing Tasks:

1 Write the letter from Lulu to her mother explaining why she has gone away and how she feels.

2  Have you ever felt like running away? What are the main causes of conflict between parents and children nowadays?

3 Write down some information about the poet.

 http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/charles-causley

"The Flying Machine" by Ray Bradbury

a) Fill in the blanks with the right word:

Main characters:

The ____________: the sovereign or supreme male monarch of an empire

The ____________: the producer of something for the first time through the use of the imagination or of ingenuous thinking and experiment.

The ____________: a person who is employed to do work for another person.

Setting:

The Emperor's p___________ in the countryside surrounded by The Great _________ of ______________.

Plot:

The E______________ decides to e___________the F___________ Man whose beautiful and miraculous i____________ poses a serious threat to his d_________________.

Climax:

The e_______________ of the i__________.

II Replace the sentences below by similar ones used in the text:

1 "Don't kill me!"
_____________________________________

2 "Don't say a word!"
_____________________________________

3 "I am not compassionate. No, only very much confused and scared."
_____________________________________

4 "A man's life is sacrificed to save the lives of others."
______________________________________

5 "I must find comfort in this reflection." 
______________________________________

III Say whether these sentences are true or false and explain the false ones:

1 The Emperor of China and the inventor were very talented and they both saw the advantages and disadvantages of the flying machine.

2 Emperor Yuan was as excited as his main servant when he saw the Flyer in the sky.

3The end of the story clearly shows that Emperor Yuan would have loved to fly the machine.