• Anna Sewell was born on

March 30, 1820, in Great

Yarmouth, Norfolk, England.
After a childhood injury, she
was confined to her house as
an invalid and got around
largely by carriage horse.
Sewell spent her last years
writing the children's classic
Black Beauty (1877), a fictional
autobiography of a gentle
horse. She died of hepatitis in
1878, just five months after her
book was published.
 Summary of the Story
* It is a story of a horse named Black Beauty. In the
beginning, he lives very fine young life with his
mom, however, when he is sold, first to one owner,
then another, and another, he learns how hard and
sad horses’ life can be. He suffers from many
incidents with people’s personalities like kindness,
consideration, sympathy, cruelty, and stupidity. At
the end, Beauty meets his previous groom who was
very friendly and kind to him. The man promises
him not to sell again.
BLACK BEAUTY
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words meanings
• Frost Low temperature
• Mist Thin fog
• colts Young male horses
• pricked Pointed
• Cantered Ran
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WORDS MEANINGS
• tearing down • demolishing
• Howl • Mournful cry
whine • High- pitched sound
galloping • running
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words meanings
• fright • Fear
• Burst over • To enter or exit hurriedly
• Whipped off • Strike with a whip
• Brook • Stream
• groaning • Crying with pain
Answers:
a. The horse’s mother and an old riding horse knew all about the
hunt ,the way men rode good horses and used dogs to catch wild
creatures such as the hare and fox. Perhaps they too had once taken
part in such hunts.
b. The dogs stopped barking and began to run with their noses to the
ground because they had lost sight of the hare and were trying to find
its scent again.
c. ‘The old horses snorted and looked eagerly after them, and we
young colts wanted to be galloping with them,’. It seems as if the
young horses wished to join in with the galloping.
d.The hare was ‘wild with fright’ because the dogs were chasing it.
Answers:

e. The hare tried to get through the fence; it was too thick, and she
turned sharply round to make for the road, but it was too late; the
dogs were upon it with their wild cries, and thus it met its end.
f. The huntsman whipped off the dogs because otherwise they would
soon have torn her to pieces.
g. The young horse was astonished by the sight of these men on fine
horses with barking dogs chasing and killing a hare.
These questions are more difficult. Discuss them first.
h.The following sentence: ‘I and the other colts were feeding at the
lower part of the field--’ makes us to realize that a horse is telling a
story.
i.The horses and men were injured in the hunt.
Answers:

Part : a They have lost the scent,’ said the old horse; ‘perhaps the hare
will get off.’
i. The old horse is speaking to Black Beauty, her mother, and the other
colts in the field.
ii. ‘The scent’ refers to the smell of the hare, which the dogs were
following.
iii. The speaker is asking about the hare.
Part :b ‘And serves him right, too,’ said one of the colts.
i. These words are addressed to Black Beauty’s mother.
ii. ‘Serve him right’ means he deserves the same punishment .
iii. The speaker is referring one of the rider who has broken his neck
and fell into the brook.
 WORKING WITH WORDS
EXERCISE: B (page:22)

WORDS MEANINGS
a. Meadow a. Grassland
b. Whine b. High- pitched sound
c. Horseback c. The back of a horse
d. Snorted d. Noise by blowing out of the
nose
e. Likely e. Appropriate , suitable
f. Brook f. a small stream
g. Seemed g. Appeared
h. astonished h. surprised
 WORKING WITH WORDS
EXERCISE: B (page:22)
• EXPRESSIONS:
a. Pricked up his ears means Paid attention to / listened carefully
b. Lost the scent means unable to find the smell of the trail
c. Wild with fright means frightened to the point of behaving wildly
d. A great deal means a lot