class 7: TERM I - Unit 1- Poem – The computer swallowed the grandma.

 

Unit 1- Poem – The computer swallowed the grandma.

Warm Up

Look at the picture, discuss in pairs and present it before the class.

If your grandmother is ...

• ready for a bicycle race, ____________.

• willing to play hide and seek, ____________.

• grabbing a lollipop from you, ____________.

• How will you react to these situations?

1. If your grandmother is ready for a bicycle race,
   → She must be very energetic and full of enthusiasm.
2. If your grandmother is willing to play hide and seek,
   → She must be playful and fun-loving.
3. If your grandmother is grabbing a lollipop from you,
   → She must be mischievous and enjoying a joke.

How will you react to these situations?

• If she wants to race, I would cheer her on or even join her for fun.
• If she wants to play hide and seek, I would gladly play along and enjoy the moment.
• If she takes my lollipop, I would either laugh and playfully ask for it back or let her have it, enjoying the humor of the moment.

Poem :

The computer swallowed grandma.

Yes, honestly it's true!

She pressed ‘Control’ and ‘Enter’

And disappeared from view.

It devoured her completely,

The thought just makes me squirm.

She must have caught a virus

Or been eaten by a worm.

I’ve searched through the recycle bin

And fi les of every kind;

I’ve even used the Internet,

But nothing did I fi nd.

In desperation, I asked Jeeves

My searches to refi ne.

The reply from him was negative,

Not a thing was found ‘Online.’

So, if inside your ‘Inbox’,

My Grandma you should see,

Please ‘Copy’, ‘Scan’ and ‘Paste’ her

In an email back to me.

Anonymous

B. Read these lines and answer the questions given below, rewriting the questions.

1. Who swallowed whom?
   → The computer swallowed Grandma.
2. How did Grandma disappear from view?
   → She pressed ‘Control’ and ‘Enter,’ which made her disappear from view.
3. Who does ‘it’ refer to?
   → ‘It’ refers to the computer.
4. What happened to Grandma?
   → She must have caught a virus or been eaten by a worm.
5. Where did the author search for Grandma?
   → The author searched for Grandma in the recycle bin, files of every kind, and on the Internet.

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C. Work in pairs. Read the last two stanzas of the poem and answer the following questions.

1. Who did the author ask for Grandma?
   → The author asked Jeeves (a search engine) to refine the search for Grandma.
2. Did the author get a positive reply?
   → No, the author did not get a positive reply; nothing was found online.
3. What is the author’s plea?
   → The author requests that if anyone finds Grandma in their inbox, they should copy, scan, and paste her back in an email.

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D. Pick out the rhyming pairs and write them in the blanks given.

• Stanza 1- true - view.                              Stanza 2 → squirm – worm
• Stanza 3 → kind – find
• Stanza 4 → refine – online
• Stanza 5 → see – me