Name : YEAR :
WAR HORSE
MICHAEL MORPURGO
CHAPTER 2 & 3 (P11 P26)
+CHAPTER 1 ( EXTRA RESOURCES )
Chapter 1: (questions & answers)
1. How did the colt become separated from his mother?
Pp. 1-2 They were both sold in an auction ring to two separate people.
2. Who befriended the colt in his new home?
Pp. 3-4 Albert, a young boy, befriended him. He saw the colt as a wonderful and brave horse.
Zoey, an old work horse who was at the same farm, also became his friend.
4. Why did Albert’s father say horses were obstinate and stupid?
P. 7 Albert thought he said this because he didn’t understand horses and was just a little
frightened of them.
5). Why had Albert’s father bought Joey when what he had gone to the auction for was to
buy a calf?
Pp. 5-6 Albert’s mother thought he bought the colt because Farmer Easton was bidding on the
colt, and Albert’s father was just denying Easton the colt due to a fencing argument the two
had had.
Farm Words
Stables
Colt
Draft Horse
Thoroughbred
Halter
Nickered
Calf
Lunge
Bolted
Vocab Words
stamina: evident: Haggling:
staying power; energy; obvious; plain; apparent bargain; barter; quibble
endurance
Consolation: Vicious: Conviction:
comfort; solace; relief; support cruel; inhuman; brutal; violent confidence; assurance;
certainty; belief
Intrigued: Obstinate: Instinctive:
interested; attracted stubborn; determined; fixed inherent; innate; natural; inborn
Chapter 2 (from page 11 to page 20)
Farm words
Whinny : (of a horse) to make a soft, high sound
Limp : to walk with difficulty because of having
an injured or painful leg or foot.
Vocab Words
Explain the meaning of these words (Pages “P” and lines “L” are indicated for you)
Hazy (P 11 L 1) Precaution (P13L 4) Lad ( p13 L 12) Lantern ( p14 L1) Stable ( P15L1)
A yearling Bearable ( P12 L8) Dusky ( P13 L 15) Undisguised ( P14L 6) Collar (p15 L3)
colt( P11 L3)
Whistle ( P11 Intricacies (P13 L9) Unmistakably ( P13 Vengeance ( P14 L24) Thoroughbred
L13) L24) (p16L20)
Ploughing Leafy lane ( p19 L Rubbing ( p19 Sane voice ( P20 L2)
(P12 L5) 1) L19)
Harrowing Soldier ( p19 L11) Straw ( P20L 15) Sober voice ( p20 L3)
( P12 L5)
1)What did Albert’s father do every Tuesday without fail?
2) . What caused Joey to strike Albert’s father with his back hooves?
3) What task did Albert’s father charge Albert with?
4) What news did Albert tell Joey about after Albert’s father won his bet with Easton?
5.) Who did Albert’s father say Britain was now at war with?
6)Joey stated that Albert’s whistle imitated the stuttering call of a what?
7)How does our impression of Albert’s father change in this chapter2?
8)How would you describe the relationship between Albert and Joey?
Art-Wise
They declared war yesterday at 11:00! Draw a picture of what you think
Albert and his family looked like at this very moment? Use the details from
the book to illustrate your picture.
CHAPTER 3: (P21 26)
1) Write-Away Albert is too young to go to war, but he says that he wants to go. How
would you feel if you were Albert? Would you want to go to war? Explain why or why
not.
2) Describe Albert’s relationship with his mother and father.
3) Where do you think Albert’s father is taking Joey and Zoey?
4) What was causing Albert’s father to worry?
5) He was worried that he wouldn't have enough money to pay the mortgage for the farm.
6) What do you think might happen next?
5) Match the word with its definition:
1) Saddle (P21L 7) a) Making sudden short movement
2) Jerking (P22 L2) b) an agreement that allows you to borrow money from a bank
or similar organization.
3) Foreboding (p22 l 20)
c) a leather seat on a horse
4) Mortgage ( P23L 4) d)a feeling that something very bad is going to happen soon.
5) Soldiering (p23 L14) e) the quality of wanting to discover as much as you can about
things.( curiosity,)
6) Inevitable ( P25 L11) f) a piece of rope or a leather strap that is tied around an
animal's head.
7) Inquisitiveness (P26 g) the job of being a soldier
L10)
8) Halter (P26L13) h) Certain to happen and unable to be avoided.
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