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Pakistan International School-JUBAIL
UNIT: 1 Nature and humans
Page 8 1.1 The leopard 1: The writer tells us how the tallest mountain peaks are at the distance and how nature attracts us how the sun rises behind the trees and how the morning cool air is filled with tweets and singing of birds. The writer explains that nature is always peaceful, powerful and impressive. It is an escape from worldly tensions and stress. b. The good characters are Ruby and Praveen because they are nature lovers but Toad, Stinger and Garjan Mankar (the film star) are bad characters because they destroy peace in nature by the sound of gunfire and hurt the leopard. 2. A) SUMMARY OF EXTRACT 1 Summary: It was a wonderful morning in the mountains Ruby and her friend Praveen were walking in the mountains where they found a campfire which was still warm. They got warmed up and continued walking, after some time they heard a terrifying sound of a gunshot and they continued to walk. They came across a diverging and saw the three men (Toad, Stinger and Garjan Mankar) who shot in front of them was an injured leopard. B: The tone changes from peaceful to intense atmosphere after the line “Praveen raises his finger to his lips.” The characters become tense and fearful after hearing gunshot. Pakistan International School-JUBAIL
C) The tone plays a significant part in the development of story.
Tone can make reader calmed, excited, and fearful and also is used to gather attention of reader. 3. The use of verbs in present simple tense makes the story immediate because we read the events which are happening in present. The writer uses the verbs of present tense to show pleasant scene of morning. Page 12 4. i) VICTIM FIGURE: This means the character human or non- human which is innocent and something unfair happens to him/her/it. In the story the leopard is presented as a helpless victim due to its injury. ii) VILLAN FIGURE: A character who commits evil/crime and is hard-hearted and unjust. The three men holding gun and shooting at the leopard make them villain like figure. iii) THE LINK BETWEEN WRITER AND LEPORD: The link between the leopard and writer is that the writer has vowed to protect the leopard and takes a picture to use it as evidence against shooters. The writer shows the sadness for leopard and anger for the shooters. iv) VOCABULARY SHOWING BEAUTY OF LEPOARD: Beautiful coat, velvety sheen black rosettes and long white tail all these word indicate beauty of leopard. v) The verb ‘snarling’ is used to show the anger of leopard despite being injured. The verb limp is used to show vulnerability of the leopard. The verb thud shows the dead weight of it as it falls on the ground. Pakistan International School-JUBAIL
1.2 The Mysterious figure
Page 15 2. The audio scripts include tone how the characters speak lines. It also includes sound effects to make the audience to understand what the characters speak.
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3. Foliage: It means greenery like plants, shrubs, trees, etc
Cradle: It means to hold gently.
4. And the mountains roar with me
This line shows that not only Ruby is angry and sad at the death of leopard but the nature itself is sad also. The mountain is silent apart from howling wind. The line reflects narrator’s surprise at the discovery of cub and its need to remain silent to protect itself from shooters.
5. The writer creates a scene of beautiful morning in the lap of
nature. But the story shows that men take least care of nature and its object and ruin the beauty of nature. Men hunt wild animals for their pleasure and income. The nature is also sad and disturbed at this attitude of man.