TEACHER’S RESOURCE 1

The Way Through the Woods

Comprehension (Pages 85-86)
1. a. A road is hidden in the roads.
b. It is hidden under trees and heath.
c. The animals ‘fear not men in the woods’ because they see very few of them.
d. One might hear the beat of a horse’s feet and the swish of a skirt in the woods.
e. Yes, it does; a b c b d e f e
f. uh-ne-muh-ney
g. & h. (Answers can vary. Encourage students to think creatively and formulate their own answers.)
2. a. i. ‘It’ refers to the road in the woods.
ii. ‘It’ had been hidden under trees and shrubbery years ago.
iii. ‘It’ has been lost since then as no road exists in the current times, and it has been hidden,
leading one to believe that no such road existed.
b. i. They who seem to be using the erstwhile road know about its existence.
ii. They seemed to use the hidden road as one might hear the beat of a horse’s feet and the
swish of a skirt in the woods.
iii. The roads, sounds, and people seem to be imaginary and seem to depict an erstwhile
era, as only the poet seems to be aware of their existence.
Understanding Poetry
3. colour honest never admit about awake
instant control avoid human people insect
complete below table
4. dis-play-ed, sand-al-wood, ma-gic-ians,
peace-ful-ly, un-time-ly, hor-ri-ble,
max-i-mum, pos-sib-le, dis-tress, dis-tress-ing
5. short medial vowel sound: bread tread stead
read lead dead ready wealth health
meant deaf death spread
long medial vowel sound: bead read lead bean
mean cream team beam lean dream
6. These can be in both groups, depending on the context and meaning: read; lead
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Working with Words (Page 87)

Singular and Plural Nouns
1. views, nieces, receipts, jokes, bridges, widths
asses, flashes, taxes, gases, keys, directories, families, fairies, storeys, duties, companies, zoos,
potatoes, cargoes
cliffs, beliefs, shelves, mice
2. spoonfuls, cupfuls, formulae (formulas), apparatuses, crises, bases, brothers-in-law,
sisters-in-law, mesdames, messieurs

Learning about Language (Page 88)

1. is 2. are 3. will be 4. have
5. was, were 6. have 7. will have been

Listening and Speaking (Page 88)

1. (Answers can vary.)
danger zone, signal, alert, money
solar panel, heat, power, energy, physics, heating, rays
polar region, expedition, bear, molecule, exploration
rain forest, shower, cloud, dance

Composition (Page 88)

(Answers can vary.)
Ensure the following points are covered in the answer:
• The roads hidden from the world now seemed to be used by animals and people who seemed
to know of it from the past.
• The sound of the horse’s hooves, the skirt, and the dew have a mysterious, haunting quality.
• The causes of the sound could be supernatural beings who inhabited the unused and hidden
road in the dark of the night.
• The road could also be used by robbers or thieves who were using it for their purposes and,
since no one knew of it, they could stay hidden.
• The sources of the sound could also be the poet’s imagination, who thought of the time when
the road was used and the reality of then being transposed to the reality of today.