From a Railway Carriage (Lesson 6)

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Key words: hedge ditch charge wink bramble tramp stringing lump glimpse

A Listen, read aloud and recite the poem.

From a Railway Carriage

Faster than fairies, faster than witches,

Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;

And charging along like troops in a battle

All through the meadows the horses and cattle:

All of the sights of the hill and the plain

Fly as thick as driving rain:

And ever again, in the wink of an eye,

Painted stations whistle by.

Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,

All by himself and gathering brambles;

Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;

And here is the green for stringing daisies!

Here is a cart runaway in the road

Lumping along with man and load;

And here is a mill, and there is a river:

Each a glimpse and gone forever!

[Robert Louis Stevenson]

B Read the poem silently and match the words with their meanings.

Words	Meanings
hedge	attack or rush
ditch	a signal made quickly by closing and opening an eye
charge	hanging
wink	a prickly bush
stringing	a row of bushes or small trees
lump	a look at something for a very short time
bramble	a canal or drain
tramp	move heavily along
glimpse	a homeless and jobless person

C Make a list of things that you can see passing quickly by a running train.

D Make a list of the words and phrases that tell us about how fast the train is running. Examples: faster than fairies, charging along etc.

E Listen and read the first two lines with stress.

Faster than fairies, faster than witches,

Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;

F How fast can you say?
The rain in Spain stays in the plains.

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