The Midsummer Notebook of a Country Rat

Read passages and complete the missing parts. Read the whole passage and understand the type of words needed before beginning to fill in the words. This will help you guess the adjectives that suit the context.

All they could make out in the gloom was a , figure about the same size as Branwell; the same ears; the same tail. When he stepped out into the pool of light they could see he wasn't like Branwell. His fur was and . He wore a , shirt and his trousers were . On his head he wore a hat.

For the whole of that day Branwell stayed in his bunk. The weather turned really . The boat barely made headway against the south-westerly wind but it ploughed on, drenched with rain and spray, shuddering as it each wave.

Branwell and Lukin were alone again. The bus had gone, leaving them on an flat hill. A bank encirlced the hill and in the centre was a mound sorrounded by a ditch. A hut stood by a bridge which spanned the ditch.