Question 1:
Why does the poet want to know where the teachers go at four o’clock?
Answer:
The poet thinks that a teacher’s life is different from ordinary people. He is curious to learn about their lives.
Question 2:
What are the things normal people do that the poet talks about?
Answer:
Normal people live with their families. They wash their clothes and pick their noses. In the evening, they wear pyjamas and relax usually watching T.V.
Question 3:
What does he imagine about
where teachers live?
Answer:
The poet is curious to know if teachers also live in houses.
Question 4:
What does he imagine about
what they do at home?
Answer:
He wonders if the teachers too wash clothes, wear pyjamas and watch T.V like other people after they go back home.
Question 5:
What does he imagine about
the people with whom they live?
Answer:
He wants to know if they live with their families and have mums and dads too.
Question 6:
What does he imagine about
their activities when they were children in school?
Answer:
He wonders whether his teachers ever scribbled on their desk, wrote a spelling wrong or were punished for doing something wrong.
Question 7:
Why does the poet wonder if teachers also do things that other people do?
Answer:
The poet feels that his teachers are perfect and that they can never make mistakes. He regards his teachers far above the ordinary people.
Question 8:
How does the poet plan to find out? What will he do once he finds out?
Answer:
The poet plans to follow his teachers home to find out what they do after they leave school. Once he knows what they do he would write a poem about them describing their life.
Question 9:
What do you think these phrases from the poem mean?
punished in the corner
Answer:
punished in the corner - children are made to stand alone in the corner of a room, when they make a mistake.
Question 10:
What do you think these phrases from the poem mean?
leave their greens.
Answer:
leave their greens - many children don't like to eat green vegetables so they leave them in their plates.