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This document contains a glossary of 15 terms from a story about a boy named Bobby, exercises analyzing Bobby's story, and exercises on grammar and usage. The story is about Bobby wanting to go to the moon on a real rocket, though his father misunderstands and thinks Bobby is referring to a toy rocket. Bobby gets into the real rocket but gets out at the last minute, worried about leaving his mother alone. His father does not realize Bobby was being serious about the real rocket mission.

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This document contains a glossary of 15 terms from a story about a boy named Bobby, exercises analyzing Bobby's story, and exercises on grammar and usage. The story is about Bobby wanting to go to the moon on a real rocket, though his father misunderstands and thinks Bobby is referring to a toy rocket. Bobby gets into the real rocket but gets out at the last minute, worried about leaving his mother alone. His father does not realize Bobby was being serious about the real rocket mission.

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Unit 6 Zero Hour


- Alexander Blade
GLOSSARY
1. Spill → Reveal (confidential information) to someone.
2. Let out → Let out
3. Overpowering → Affecting (him) very strongly
4. Looked up → Search for and find a piece of information
5. Dash out → To leave quickly.
6. Fussed around → To do something in a hasty or energetic manner
7. Slip away → Depart without saying goodbye
8. Child's stuff → Something befitting or appropriate only to children
9. Bump into → Meet someone by chance
10. Lid → A removable or hinged cover for the top of a container.
11. Climb down → Withdraw from a position
12. Peek up → To glance quickly
13. Called out → To summon someone
14. Popped open → To open suddenly
15. Grow out of → To become too mature to retain a childish habit

EXERCISE
Understanding the Text
A.
1. a. Bobby smiled and said it to his mother Mrs. John Kendall.
b. She considered his comment simple and a humorous desire.
c. It was not just kidding. But his saying was a hint to Mrs. Kendall that he would go to the Moon that
evening.
2. Bobby’s rocket was six feet long with two seats and an instrument panel. That morning Bobby did not spend
time on it with real interest. He just fussed around it until he could distract his mother and slip away unnoticed to
the rocket drome.
3. Initially, Bobby did not know that it was a Moon rocket. However, one day when he was peeking at the rocket
from his hiding place, he overheard his father and one another scientist discussing that the rocket was going to
Moon. He could not understand their conversation completely as they were speaking in low voices. As Bobby’s
father was the second biggest scientist in Buffalo Flats and since the topmost scientist was too old to go on this
mission, Bobby assumed that his father would definitely go on this mission to Moon.
4. We can see Bobby lying on his bed at night, when he was woken up by the soft touch of his father. While
speaking to his father, Bobby explained that he was already in the rocket and had decided to go to the Moon.
However, at the last minute he came out thinking about his mother that she would be all alone if both he and his
father travelled on the rocket.
5. a. Bobby said this to his father when his father asked him if he too was planning to make a trip to Moon.
b. The speaker Bobby meant that he had actually planned of travelling to Moon by getting into the real rocket.
c. Bobby’s father, however, assumed that Bobby was referring to his toy rocket and his imaginary mission to
the Moon travelling in the same rocket.
6. a. Bobby’s father John Kendall thought this comment when Bobby told him that he had planned of travelling
to the Moon in a rocket. Although Bobby was talking about travelling to the Moon in a real rocket. However, his
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father thought of Bobby’s toy rocket and his imaginary mission of travelling to Moon which according to him
was a wonderful thought of his dream world.
b. In this situation, the grown-up i.e., Bobby’s father thought himself to be wiser. However, he did not have the
fuller and the better understanding of the actual situation as he was not aware that Bobby was actually in a real
rocket and was about to fly to Moon and got down just at the last minute.

Grammar and Usage


A.
1. Refer the textbook.
2. I am in a hurry to take the bus to Bangalore.
3. She visited the library to borrow some books for her grandparents.
4. He was very kind to give up his seat for me.
5. To tell you the truth, I don’t like long road journey.

B.
1. Refer the textbook. 5. Past Participle-progressed
2. Past Participle-exhausted 6. Past Participle-nominated
3. Past Participle-painted 7. Past Participle-swollen
4. Present Participle-playing 8. Past Participle-fracture

C.
1. Refer the textbook.
2. Learning different languages is good for personal development.
3. It is great fun to do ice-skating.
4. All the students will benefit from participating in the summer camp.
5. We are bored with exercising day and night.
6. Teaching young children is a fulfilling career.

Words in Use
A.
1. b 4. b
2. a 5. b
3. a

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