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Why was the young seagull afraid to fly? Do you think all young birds are afraid to make their first flight, or are some birds more timid than...
“The sight of the food maddened him.” What does this suggest? What compelled the young seagull to finally fly?
They were beckoning to him, calling shrilly.” Why did the seagull’s father and mother threaten him and cajole him to fly?
Have you ever had a similar experience, where your parents encouraged you to do something that you were too scared to try? Discuss this in pairs or...
In the case of a bird flying, it seems a natural act, and a foregone conclusion that it should succeed. In the examples you have given in Answer to...
“I’ll take the risk”. What is the risk? Why does the narrator take it?
Describe the narrator’s experience as he flew the aeroplane into the storm.
Why does the narrator say, “I landed and was not sorry to walk away from the old Dakota…”?
What made the woman in the Control Centre look at the narrator strangely?
Who do you think helped the narrator to reach safely? Discuss this among yourselves and give reasons for your
Look at these sentences taken from the lesson you have just read: (a) I was flying my old Dakota aeroplane. (b) The young seagull had been afraid to...
