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Pre-reading
1.	Bats and birds both fly. How do they look different from one another? Is there anything in the illustration that you did not know before?
During reading
2.	When do you recognise that the poem is not mainly about birds and bats?

In a small city at dusk

Martin Carter

In a small city at dusk

it is difficult to distinguish

bird from bat. Both fly fast:

one away from the dark

and one toward the dark.

The bird to a nest in the tree.

The bat to a feast in its branches.

Strangers to each other they seek

planted by beak or claw or hand

the same tree that grows out of the great soil.

And I know, even before I came to live here,

before the city had so many houses

dusk did the same to bird and bat and does

the same to man.

Post-reading
3.	Look at the illustration. As you can see bats and birds are very different. Explain why it is difficult to distinguish between them at dusk.
4.	Why does each of them seek out the same tree?
5.	Explain how a tree can be planted by “beak or claw or hand”.
6.	In what way are the bat and the bird strangers to each other?
7.	Explain the parallel the speaker draws right at the end of the poem between what dusk does to these two creatures and what it does to humans.