GIST of “OUR RUNAWAY KITE”
Unit- 2
1. The Big Half Moon is always lovely in
Ans: summer.
2. The harbour is blue and calm when-
Ans: the weather is fine.
3. The narrator and Claude had some hobby in every–
Ans: summer
4. The narrator and Claude were crazy about kites in–
Ans: the last summer, before Dick and Mimi came.
5. Claude learnt how to make kites from–
Ans: a boy on the mainland.
6. The game that the narrator and Claude would play with kites was-
Ans: shipwrecked mariners.
7. The big kite was covered with–
Ans: red paper.
8. On the kite, the narrator and Claude pasted–
Ans: gold tinsel stars.
9. On the kite, they had written-
Ans: their full names- Claude Leete and Philippa Leete, Big Half Moon lighthouse.
10. There was a grand wind for–
Ans: kite flying.
11. The narrator was not sure about–
Ans: how she tripped and fell over the rocks when she was bringing the kite from the house.
12. A big hole on the kite was made by–
Ans: the narrator, Philippa Leete
13. They had to hurry to fix the kite because–
And: they wanted to sent the kite up before the wind fell.
14. They took first thing that came handy in the lighthouse because–
Ans: there was no more red paper.
15. The thing that they found on the bookcase in the sitting room was–
Ans: an old letter.
16. The mended the kite by–
Ans: patching the old letter, a sheet on each site and dried it by the fire.
17. The kite went up like a–
Ans: bird
18. The kite soared because–
Ans: the wind was glorious.
19. Claude was looking foolish because–
Ans: the kite was cut and he was standing with a torn thread in his hand.
20. After the kite was cut, it moved towards the–
Ans: mainland.
Important words with synonyms:
(i) ripple- ঢেউ (wave, surge)
(ii) crazy- পাগল, উন্মত্ত (mad, insane, berserk)
(iii) trip- হোঁচট খাওয়া (stumble)
(iv) patch- ক্ষত প্রলেপ দেওয়া, তাপ্পি লাগানো (tuck)
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