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Divide your class into groups of four. Prepare a short skit of a journey by bus, train or
aeroplane.

Each member of the group performs different roles: passengers, vendors, conductors, air
hostesses and so on. Try to create interesting characters with unique personalities.

Use proper voice modulation when you are enacting a role. Ensure that everyone in
the group has an equal role in your skit. Present it to your class and teacher.

Similes are when we compare one thing to another by using ‘as’ or ‘like’. Similes help
in creating an image in the reader’s mind. In the poem, the poet has used many
similes to describe the train journey. For example, he compares the moving train to
fairies and witches. In another sentence, the poet compares the passing by of hills and
plains to the swift movement of raindrops.

Divide your class into pairs. Along with your partner, complete the following similes and
make sentences. Then, share the sentences with your class.

• as black as ____________________________

• as cold as ____________________________

• as big as ____________________________

• as bright as ____________________________

• as clean as ____________________________

Listen and Say Aloud

Word Rhyming word Word Rhyming word

witches ditches scrambles brambles

battle cattle road load

river forever eye by

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