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Chapter 1 - Exercise 1

The document provides answers to questions related to the extract 'The Winter Oak,' focusing on vocabulary meanings and character analysis. It discusses Anna Vasilevna's curiosity about the forest and Savushkin's deep connection to nature. Additionally, it highlights the writer's use of similes to convey the enchanted quality of the forest.

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Chapter 1 - Exercise 1

The document provides answers to questions related to the extract 'The Winter Oak,' focusing on vocabulary meanings and character analysis. It discusses Anna Vasilevna's curiosity about the forest and Savushkin's deep connection to nature. Additionally, it highlights the writer's use of similes to convey the enchanted quality of the forest.

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English 2
Chapter 1 - Answers
Extract 1: “The Winter
Oak”
1. Give the meanings of these words as used
in the passage:
a. Submissively: To accept the authority, control
or greater strength of somebody/something
to agree to something because of this.
b. Trefoil: A design shaped like a trefoil leaf.
c. Malevolent: Having or showing a desire to
harm other people.
Mr. Walied Mahjoub - CELTA Teacher May 27, 2025 2
Extract 1: “The Winter
Oak”
1. Give the meanings of these words as used
in the passage:
d. Enraptured: Filled with great pleasure or joy
e. Enthralled: If something enthrals you, it is so
interesting,
beautiful, etc. That you give it all
your attention.
f. Corrugations: Rumple, waving
Mr. Walied Mahjoub - CELTA Teacher May 27, 2025 3
Q2. Explain as fully as you can what you learn about
Anna
Vasilevna and her reaction to what she sees and
hears in
the forest. You should refer closely to the
Schoolmistress,
passage Anna Vasilevna was very
in your answer.
interested in the forest and all its
magical qualities. She is in a world of
her own when she didn’t even notice
Savushkin had tagged along. Although
she doesn’t really know much about the
outdoor, she is very curious and wants to
Mr. Walied Mahjoub - CELTA Teacher May 27, 2025 4

know all about it.


Q3. Explain as fully as you can how
Savushkin’s behavior in
the forest helps you to Understand him.
Refer closely to
the passage.
Savushkin loves the forest, and he is a
very self-caring person when he told the
schoolmistress that she does not have to
fear the little deer. His knowledge about
the outdoors tells that he spends a lot of
time in the forest. As if talking to a close
friend, he said an elk had been here.
Mr. Walied Mahjoub - CELTA Teacher May 27, 2025 5
Q4. What do you think Anna Vasilevna learn
from her
experience in the forest?
Anna Vasilevna learnt that she
doesn’t have to be afraid of the
forest. And that she had to keep
quiet when she doesn’t really
know the answer to all the things
Savushkin said about the forest.
Mr. Walied Mahjoub - CELTA Teacher May 27, 2025 6
Q5. Explain how the writer conveys the “enchanted”
nature of the
forest by referring closely to some of the similes
he use in his
description.
The writer explains every detail of the
passage closely, and most likely he had
the experience himself in a forest. He
reveres to the fir branches that looked
like paws heavily laden with snow and
that it looked as if they had been etched
in Indian ink on the blue surface of the
Mr. Walied Mahjoub - CELTA Teacher May 27, 2025 7

sky.

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