This poem describes a father working with horses to plough a field. The father's shoulders are broad like a sail between the horse shafts and the furrow. He expertly guides the horses with clicks of his tongue and sets the wing of the plough to cut the sod without breaking it, pulling it over with a single movement.

1. By
Seamus Heaney

2. My father worked with a horse –plough,
His shoulders globed like a full sail strung
Between the shafts and the furrow.
The horses strained at his clicking tongue.
An expert .He would set the wing,
And fit the bright steel-pointed sock.
The sod rolled over without breaking
At the head rig , with a single pluck

3. Silent Reading

4. Tracking the Reading
Familiar words
Unfamiliar words
Confused words
Surprising words

5. Sharing with pair

6. Working in Group

7. Megaphoning

8. Glossary reference

9. Shafts

10. Horse shafts

11. Furrow

12. Sod

13. Loud Reading

14. Seamus Heaney
 Born : 13 April 1939, Northern Ireland
 Country: Irish
 1995 : Nobel Prize in Literature
 1965: First Book , Eleven Poems
 1980: Selected Poems 1965-1975
Preoccupations : Selected Prose 1968-1978
• At Present : Dublin
Activity

15. Assignment
 Write a paragraph about the ways in which you help
your father

16. HAVE A NICE DAY