I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD

I. Complete the poem with the most appropriate word from the right box

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a 1___ crowd __,
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the 2______ breeze ___.
1) Load / flood / row / crowd
Continuous as the stars that shine
And 3____ Twinkle ___ on the Milky Way, 2) Peace / skies / breeze / mist
They stretched in never-ending line
3) Twinkle / sprinkle / jingle / mingle
Along the margin of a 4 ____bay_________:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance, 4) Spray / quay / bay / hay
5
___tossing______ their heads in sprightly dance. 5) Bowing / tossing / losing / shaking

The waves beside them danced; but they 6) Grey / gloomy / gay / cheery
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
7) Brought / sought / caught / fought
A poet could not but be 6 ____gay_____,
In such a jocund company: 8) Self / time / way / cough
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
9) Flash / smash / squash / brush
What wealth the show to me had
7
_____brought_______: 10) Measure / leisure / pleasure / treasure
II. Match the following verbs with
the most proper definition
For oft, when on my 8_____cough_______ I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood, 1. to glace (f) a. to look furtively
They 9__flash_______ upon that inward eye 2. to gaze (j) b. To shine (wet)
Which is the bliss of solitude; 3. to peek (a) c. to seek / to look up
4. to stare (d) d. to blink
And then my heart with 10____pleasure_________fills,
5. to browse (c) e. to roam
And dances with the daffodils.
6. to wander (e) f. to give a quick look
7. to flutter (o) g. to shine suddenly
8. to float (h) h. to move delicately
9. to twinkle(g) i. to shine with flashes
10. to flash (i) j. to look admiringly
11. to toss (n) k. to mix (a liquid)
12. to sparkle (m) l. to reflect the light
13. to glitter (l) m. to look steadily
14. to glisten (b) n. to throw
15. to stir (k) o. to wave
III. Complete the sentences with the words in
the box. Use the same word for both
sentences. You may need to change the form of the word.

Gaze Glance Browse View Stare

 1. I had a quick __view_______ at the newspaper this morning.
She kept ____view_______ surreptitiously at her watch, desperate for the meeting to
end.
2. We don’t have an encyclopaedia at home – we just ____browse________the Web.
No visit to the museum would be complete without a ___browse__________in the
bookshop.
3. I can’t see much from my house – there’s another building blocking the
___gaze________
When flat-hunting, you should ____gaze______as many properties as possible.
4. My parents always told me that it’s rude to____glance__________.
She met his friendly greeting with a blank __glance______– she clearly didn’t
recognize him.
5. I’d hate to be a celebrity, always in the public ___stare__________.
She ____stare_________ lovingly at her photograph and signed.

IV. Put the verbs in the box into the appropriate column below.

Wander Shine Flutter Float Twinkle Toss Sparkle Flash

LIGHT MOVEMENT
______flash________ __float__________
_____sparkle_________ ___toss___________
______shine________ ___flutter___________
_______twinkle_______ ____wander___________

V. Complete the gaps with the verbs in exercise four. The verbs must collocate with all
the four nouns. You don’t need all the verbs.

1 Eyelids Heart Hands Flags flutter

2 Eyes Sea Jewellery Glass sparkle
3 Eyes Thoughts Attention Mind toss
4 Eyes Lightning Neon signs Warning light flash
5 Eyes A coin One’s hair Ball Salad
6 Eyes A light A torch Shoes Silver

William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850) was a major

English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English
literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical
Ballads. Wordsworth's magnum opus is "The Prelude", a
semiautobiographical poem of his early years. It was
posthumously titled & published. Wordsworth died at
the age of 80 by re-aggravating a case of pleurisy, and
was buried at St. Oswald's Church in Grasmere.