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Bulldozers Question and Answer
underground trees
The poem describes how a normal day in the
countryside was interrupted by the arrival of
bulldozers. These (1) ________________ came to
clear the (2) _____________ and prepare the land
for development. The natural (3) _____________of
the creatures described in the poem was to be
(4) ___________________. The frightened animals
had nowhere to (5) ______________. Even the fox
in his (6) _______________ den was not safe.
Exercise 2: Answer the following questions
on the poem The Day the Bulldozers Came by
David Orme.
Refer to stanza 1 of the poem.
a. What are rooks?
Rooks are birds which look like crows.
b. What do egg baskets refer to?
The egg baskets refer to the rooks nests.
c. What are oaks ?
They are a type of tree.
d. What does the word them in line 6 refer to?
It refers to the green flies.
e. What does the description cold-eyed tell us about the toad?