THE MIDNIGHT VISITOR – NOTES “AUSABLE did not fit any description of a secret agent Fowler had ever read.”👉 Ausable did not look like the secret agents Fowler had read about in books. “Fowler felt let down”👉 Fowler felt disappointed. “For one thing”👉 One reason is… (used to explain or start a point). “You envisioned …
Summary of the poem ‘The ball’: The poet watches the boy as the ball bounces happily down the street and then disappears into the water. The poet knows it’s useless to say, “Don’t worry, there are other balls.” The boy’s sadness isn’t just about this one ball. He’s frozen in place, staring into the water …
Once, a pilot was flying his old Dakota aeroplane from France to England. It was nighttime, and he was alone in the sky, with the moon rising behind him and stars shining above. He felt happy as he looked down at the sleeping countryside below. While flying, he radioed Paris Control to let them know …
Notes/Meanings: Vocabulary Meanings from ‘His First Flight’ Expression from the Text Meaning when he had taken a little run when he ran a small distance flap his wings move his wings up and down to fly the great expanse of sea stretched down beneath the big wide sea was far below He failed to muster …
Summary: The poem “A Tiger in the Zoo” by Leslie Norris describes the difficult situation of a tiger kept in a cage within a zoo. The poet starts by showing the tiger walking back and forth in its cage, its colourful stripes standing out against the dullness of its captivity. The tiger’s movements are described …