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 Chapter 3
Two Stories about Flying

I. His First Flight - Thinking about the Text

1. Why was the young seagull afraid to fly? Do all young birds are afraid
to make their first flight or are some birds more timid than the others? Do
you think a human baby also finds it a challenge to take its first step?
Ans.: The young Seagull was afraid of flying as he thought that his wings
were not able to support him. Yes, it is a natural fact that all young birds
are afraid to make their first flight. Yes, even a human baby is also
confronted with the fear of taking its first steps.

2. “The sight of the food maddened him.” What does this suggest? What
compelled the young seagull to finally fly?
Ans.: “The sight of the food maddened him,” suggests that the seagull
was so hungry that when he saw the food, he excitedly wanted to have it.
The young seagull had been hungry for the past 24 hours and desperately
wanted to eat something but he could not get it which made him furious.
The sight of a fish in his mother’s beak who flew upwards was eventually
successful in making the seagull spread his wings for the first time. Thus,
it was the food that forced the seagull to take the risk of his life.

3. “They were beckoning to him, calling shrilly.” Why did the seagull’s
father and mother threaten him and cajole him to fly?
Ans.: The young seagull was afraid to fly as he thought that his wings
would not support him. His two brothers and his sister had already flown
away the day before and so, he was left alone and hungry on the ledge.
His father and mother threatened to starve him on the ledge and cajoled
him to fly because learning the art of flight was very necessary for a bird.
But the young seagull was too timid to fly.

4. Have you ever had a similar experience, where your parents

encouraged you to do something that you were too scared to try? Discuss
this in pairs or groups.
Ans.: Yes, I have had a similar experience in my life. It is absolutely
natural to feel scared in doing something new. It also happened to me
when I was a small child. I had a great fear of cycling. I thought that I
would not be able to balance it properly. This feeling had seized me
altogether. However, my parents encouraged me to conquer my fears and
go ahead.

One day my father took me to the ground with my bicycle. I began to ride
it but failed in my initial attempts. But my father’s continuous help and
support eventually helped me fearlessly in completing my first round.
Then I gradually gained confidence and after the second and third rounds,
I was able to make a good balance. Thus I was able to overcome my fear
of cycling.

Q.5 In the case of a bird flying, it seems a natural act and a foregone
conclusion that it should succeed. In the examples you have given in
answer to the previous question, was your success guaranteed or was it
important for you to try, regardless of a possibility of failure?
Ans.: When we learn any new skill, we come across a set of difficulties.
However, it is these difficulties that have to be bridged in order to be
successful in learning a new skill.
In the case of the seagull, his parents cajoled him to fly.
In the same way, I was cajoled by my father to learn cycling. Although
my success was not guaranteed it was very important to try as it has been
very rightly said, “Try try until you succeed.”

I. His First Flight – Speaking

Q.1 We have read about the first flight of a young seagull. Your teacher
will now divide the class into groups. Each group will work on one of the
following topics. Prepare a presentation with your group member’s and
then present it to the entire class.
A) Progression of models of Airplane
B) Progression of models of Motor cars
C) Birds and their wing span
D) Migratory birds-tracing their flights
Ans.: A) The very first model of an aircraft was found long back in Egypt
in 1898. And, with the dream of flying in the sky came Wright brothers
from America. They were the first in the world to successfully invent and
fly the airplane. The two brothers set a milestone for the aviation industry.
And today, there exist many models of airplane and aircraft.

B) The credit of inventing the first motor car goes to a French person. He
invented the first internal combustion motor car in 1808. After him,
another successful discovery of the first petrol car was invented by a
German engineer, Karl Benz in 1885. And, then finally a diesel motor car
was invented in 1890’s by Rudolf Diesel.

C) Birds are amazing animals which can fly around in the sky and are
exist different types of species according to different environmental
conditions. Birds have wings of different lengths, some have short wings
whereas some have very large wings. The wingspan of a bird is the
distance from one wingtip to another wingtip. In the living birds, the
wandering albatross has the largest wingspan ranging from 8 ft to 11 ft.

D) The birds migrate due to various reasons. The two most important
reasons being the food and nesting conditions. Due to the scarcity of food
in one location to the regions of high resources of food. But a very
common fact is known about migrating birds is that two-thirds of the birds
prefer flying in the nights.

I. His First Flight – Writing

Q.1 Write a short composition on your initial attempt at learning a skill.

You could describe the challenges of learning to ride a bicycle or learning
to swim. Make it as humorous as possible.
Ans.: I remember that I faced a lot of difficulties in learning swimming.
The Yamuna River flows near to my village and I had the fear of
swimming. But the children of my age often went there to enjoy and play
in the water. I too wanted to enjoy but was always taken aback due to my
deep seated fears. However, one day I decided to go in the river in the
presence of my uncle. He held me with his hands and I gave my first
attempt in shallow waters. Slowly I started to move my hands and legs
and gradually began to float in water. I repeated it again and again and
within some days of rigorous practice, I gained a lot of confidence.
Eventually, I overcame my fears and learned to swim confidently.

II. The Black Aeroplane - Thinking about the Text

Q.1 Study the sentences given below:

(a) They looked like black mountains.
(b) Inside the clouds, everything was suddenly black.
(c) In the black clouds near me, I saw another aero plane.
(d) The strange black aero plane was there.
The word ‘black’ in sentences (a) and (c) refer to a very dark colour i.e.
the colour of the clouds mentioned in both these sentences.
Whereas
In sentences (b) and (d) it means lack of light or without light.
Thus, the word ‘Black’ has a variety of meanings in different contexts.
Now, consider the following sentences for example:
(a) ‘I prefer black tea’ means ‘I prefer tea without milk’.
(b) ‘With increasing pollution the future of the world is Black ‘which
means ‘with increasing pollution the future of the world is very
depressing/without hope.”
In sentence (a) the person is conveying his preference by saying that he
prefers Black Tea which is a Tea without milk.
Whereas
In sentence (b) the person is conveying the hazards of pollution which is
making the future of the world Black. By using the word black here, he is
referring to the bleak and depressing future of the world.
Consider the following sentences and guess the meanings.
1. Go and have a bath; your hands and face are absolutely
black…………………
2. The taxi-driver gave Ratan a black look as he crossed the road when
the traffic light was green……………………….
3. The bombardment of Hiroshima is one of the blackest crimes against
humanity. …………….
4. Very few people enjoyed Harold Pinter’s black comedy.
……………………..
5. Sometimes shopkeepers store essential goods to create false scarcity
and then sell these in black…………………..
6. Villagers had beaten the criminal black and blue.
………………………
Ans.:
1. Here the word black refers to the Dirt on his hands.

2. Here the word black refers to the Angry Look.

3. Here the word blackest refers to the most wicked crimes.

4.Here the black comedy refers to the Funny side of things that are usually
taken seriously.

5. Here the word refers to selling goods at a very high rate

6.Here the words black and blue are used to show the intensity of beating
the criminals

Q.2 Look at these sentences taken from the lesson you have just read:
(a) I was flying my old Dakota aeroplane.
(b) The young seagull had been afraid to fly with them.
In the first sentence (a) the author was controlling an aircraft in the air.
In the second sentence (b) the seagull was afraid to move through the air,
using its wings.
Another example can be: Children are flying kites
III. Match the phrases given under column A with their meanings given
under column B.
A B
1. Fly a flag Move quickly/suddenly
2. Fly into rage Be successful
3. Fly along Show support for one’s country
4. Fly high Escape from a place
5. Fly the coop Become suddenly very angry

Ans.:
A B
1. Fly a flag Show support for one’s country
Eg. The soldiers of our country leave no stone
unturned in flying the flag of our country at all
times.
2. Fly into rage Becomes suddenly very angry
Eg. She suspected her mother would fly into a rage
if she asked her this question.
3. Fly along Move quickly/ suddenly
 Eg. On the sight of a lizard, she suddenly flew along.
4. Fly high Be successful
Eg. Hard work is the only key to fly high.
5. Fly the coop Escape from a place
Eg. The criminal flew the coop when he saw the
cops patrolling near by.

Q.3 We know that the bird ‘fly’ (of birds/insects) means to move through
the air using wings. Tick the words which have the same or nearly the
same meaning.
swoop flit paddle Flutter
ascend float Ride skim
sink dart hover Glide
descend Soar shoot Spring
stay fall sail Flap
Ans.:
swoopâ flit paddle Flutterâ
ascendâ floatâ Ride skimâ
sink dart hoverâ Glideâ
descendâ Soarâ shoot Spring
stay fall sailâ Flapâ
Writing

Q.1 Have you ever been alone or away from home during a thunderstorm?
Narrate your experience in a paragraph.
Ans.: Yes. During the summer vacations last year, one of my friends who
lived in Nainital invited me to spend few days with him. I reached there
on 5th June and we spent quality time together. Next day we planned to
visit some temples and we began from the Naina Devi Temple. However,
when we were going to visit another temple suddenly a strong wind started
blowing. We were surrounded by a dark dust storm. We could not see
anything except the black blanket of the wind that surrounded us. We
heard the sound of trees falling nearby which made us all the more
anxious. Soon there was thunder and lightning and it began to rain heavily.
Eventually, after some time, the dust settled down and we took a sigh of
relief and returned home safely.
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