Read the following words out loud. Which pair of letters in each word is used to create the same sound? Write down the words and underline the sounds.meals (line 1); feels (line 3)
9. Read the word “vulture”. What do you notice about the two underlined letters?
10. When we compare someone to a vulture, it means that the person is very greedy. Look at the idioms in column A and match them with the explanations in column B.
A worm’s betrayal
Fanie Viljoen
A worm made up his mind
To change his whole life
So he got a new girlfriend,
And he got a new wife.
Not once did he think
Of the worms he betrayed
Till the day he was chopped
In two by a spade.
Now the girlfriend and spouse
Still fight without fail
Over who gets his head
And who gets his tail.
Vocabulary
betrayed – hurt by someone's disloyalty, unfaithfulness, falsity
spouse – husband or wife
without fail – for certain, whatever happens
1. Look at the title of the poem. What does it mean?
2. A quatrain is a stanza that consists of four lines. How many quatrains are there in the poem?
3. Look at the first line of stanza 1. The poet states:
“A worm has made up his mind”
What is it called when human qualities are given to non-human things?
4. Give a homophone for “whole” in line 2. Make two sentences to show the meaning of the two words.
5. In lines 3 and 4, the worm has a girlfriend and a wife. What does this tell you about the worm?
6. Which worms did he betray according to stanza 2? Why?
7. Give a synonym (from the poem) for spouse.
8. What are the wife and the girlfriend fighting about?
9. What kind of worm is this do you think? Why?
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