The Iron Man: Chris Mould Illustrated Edition: 1

Product Information

The word ‘immense’ means large and huge in size . So in the story it tells us that the iron man is especially large in size and weight . I agree of what the author has wrote about him because he eats metal which can be heavy . Read the first paragraph of the story and imagine the answers to the questions? How far had he walked? Where had he come from? How was he made? Adamson’s illustrations for the most famous of Hughes’s works for children, The Iron Man (1968), draw on the landscape and architecture of Devon. The Iron Man himself is based on an artist’s articulated model still in the family’s possession. After playing this game for two rounds, the dragon is so badly burned that he no longer appears physically frightening. The Iron Man by contrast has only a deformed ear-lobe to show for his pains. The alien creature admits defeat. When asked why he came to Earth, the dragon reveals that he is a peaceful "star spirit" who experienced excitement about the ongoing sights and sounds produced by the violent warfare of humanity. In his own life, he was a singer of the " music of the spheres"; the harmony of his kind that keeps the cosmos in balance in stable equilibrium.

The Iron Man helps the world to become more peaceful. Think of ways that we can help to encourage people and countries to live more peacefully alongside each other.

Book Review

Time passes, and the Iron Man is treated as merely another member of the community. However, astronomers monitoring the sky make a frightening new discovery: an enormous space-being, resembling a dragon, moving from orbit to land on Earth. The creature (soon dubbed the "Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon") crashes heavily on Australia (which it is large enough to cover the whole of) and demands that humanity provide him with food (anything alive) or he will take it by force. Look at the robot illustrations (see Resources below) and write about each one. What special skills do they have? What adventures might they have?

A Vasember, transl. into Hungarian of The Iron Man by Katalin Damokos, illus. György Korga . Budapest: Móra Könyvkiadó, 1981 ISBN 978-963-11-2373-9I think the iron man is a good character because he was only trying to get some metal to eat . So that is why he ate the farmers tractors . However , I think that the iron man is a bad character as well because he ate the farmers tractors without asking . If the iron man has asked then they could have given spare metal to the iron man , that wouldn’t have caused a problem . The Iron Man’s challenge at the end of the story involves laying on some flames. What happens when different materials are heated? Why do they change in these ways? El hombre de hierro, illus. by Laura Carlin. Barcelona: Vicens Vives, 2011 ISBN 9788468206219 OCLC 794039831 For more book-themed activities and worksheets, and lots more exciting English resources, make your very own Twinkl account here.

Ted Hughes is also a poet he shows this really well in his book and he as put together story features and poetry features . In chapter 1 of this story there is a sign of poetry features such as Crash ,Crash ,Crash this is repetition as it is repeated many times . I think the author Ted Hughes used a lot of similes to describe the Iron man so you could know what kind of person he is. He used a lot of them as he wants to give as much description about the Iron man to the readers as he can .

Curriculum

Terrified, humans send their armies to destroy the dragon, but it is unharmed by their weapons. When the Iron Man hears of this global threat, he allows himself to be disassembled and transported to Australia where he challenges the creature to a contest of strength. If the Iron Man can withstand the heat of burning petroleum for longer than the creature can withstand the heat of the Sun, the creature must obey the Iron Man's commands forevermore: if the Iron Man melts or is afraid of melting before the space being undergoes or fears pain in the Sun, the creature has permission to devour the whole Earth. Looking to see how your class' reading comprehension skills are coming along? This The Iron Man Differentiated Reading Questions Activityis just what you need. Differentiated to support all abilities, the worksheets feature comprehension questions for each chapter of the story, as well as the answers for you.