The Fabulous Fabled Silk Road Poem Questions & Answers
A. Close your books and listen to your teacher read out the poem. Answer these questions.
1 Where does the Silk Road lead? What kind of landscape does the Silk Rood cover?
Answer:
The Silk Road Leads in the entire Eurasia, from Europe to Asia. The Silk road passes through many cities and towns , over mountains and deserts.
2. How long have people been using the Silk Road?
Answer:
The people have been using the Silk Road for more than 2000 years.
3. Why did people travel on the Silk Road? How did they travel?
Answer :
The people travelled on the Silk Road for trade. They travelled by caravans, horses or sometimes on foot.
Now open your books and read the poem silently. Did you get all the answers right?
B. Work with a partner and complete this fact sheet about the Sik Road.
1. places
2. landscape
3. travellers
4. means of transport
5. goods
Why do you think the Silk Road developed?
Answer: 1- Turfan, Khotan, Kashgar & Smarkland
2- Gobi desert, The Pamir Mountain
3- Traders , merchants and Families.
4- Caravans & horses
5- Silk, Spices, gems and glass, papers & perfumes.
Answer : The Silk Road developed economically because of the traders and merchants. One of the most famous trader macro polo has also travelled through it.
C. Answer these questions
1 Journeying from Xion to Boghdad
a. Who were on the journey?
Answer:
Traders , merchants with their families were on the Journey.
b. By which route were they travelling ?
Answer:
(b) They were travelling by Xian to Baghdad route.
2. On the same fabulous fabled Silk Road
A. What did people do on the Silk Road?
Answer:
People did trade of Silk, Spices, gems and glass, papers & perfumes through Silk road. Then back they went with other goods. It shows that they were exchanging Ideas, selling and buying goods
B. Why does the poet use the word' same 'here?
Answer:
The poet use the word 'same' as traders use the same route of Silk Road to come back their houses.
D. Think and discuss with your partner. Share your answers in class
1. While reading the poem. could you imagine the Silk Road and the travel
2 Alliteration the occurrence of the same letter sound at the beginning of adjacent or dosely connected words. For example fabulous fobie Create a few others using the words in the poem
Rhyme and Rhythm
E. Work in a group. Recite the poem woud while we are clos were travelling in a group How does the reported to be contribute to the poem's rhythm
Answer:
D 1 - Yes, we could imagine the silk road and the travellers while reading the poem.
2- Alliteration:- weaving web, Silk Spices, trudging traded, went with
E-Repetition of lines make the poem very interesting.
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