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A Comprehension

A1. Fill in the blanks correctly.

1. The speaker of the poem is a .

2. The traveller is riding on a .

3. The glaring thing all around him is .

4. The traveller says that is ever at his side.

5. is prying everywhere.

6. The traveller compares the desert to a wide .

A2. Answer these ques ons.

1. Describe the camel’s movement.

2. ‘It haunts me, it pursues me, if I flee or if I stand.’ What is ‘it’?

3. Can the traveller hear any sounds? What?
4. Why does the traveller feel that the sun is ‘prying everywhere’?

5. What is the meaning of the phrase ‘desolately grand’?

B Sounds and Pronunciation

Read out the following words aloud. Pay a en on to the sounds made by the

le ers in red.
 around sand horizon nothing alone

 camel hump simmering William summer

 glaring burning sang English King Kong

Now pronounce these three sounds alone – m, n and ng (or ,  and ).

Close both your nostrils using the thumb and the index finger and then try to
pronounce these sounds again. Do they sound correct? They don’t. These sounds
are called nasal sounds because they are pronounced partly through the nose.

In words like summer, swimming, thinner and winning, the letters m and n occur
twice. But when these words are pronounced, the sounds are not doubled.
Write summer, but pronounce sumer. Write thinner, but pronounce thiner.

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