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Оглавление| Pre-reading | |
| 1. | In Africa, the first real event is a welcome event. Can you explain why? |
Thundershower
Patrick Cullinan
When the rain, the first real rain of the year
Flashes on our black tin roof, we smile across
The room and know, surer than the calendar
Twelve months have passed: yet there is no loss.
We only remember how small we grow
At this sound: how a child is warm in bed
And hears the same rain heard a year ago.
The air is warm. The green days lie ahead.
| Post-reading | |
| 2. | What time of the year does the first thunderstorm come? Quote from the poem to support your answer. |
| 3. | What does the word “flashes” suggest about the rain? |
| 4. | The speaker does not expect us to believe that we literally grow small when we hear the sound of the rain. What does he mean by “how small we grow”? |
| 5. a) | The last line is in a stanza of its own. Suggest a reason for this. |
| b) | The poet describes the days that are coming as “green” days? What is the speaker referring to? |
