28/01/2022
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CHAPTER : 12 THE NAWAB OF SALIMABAD- 1
Answer the following questions.
a. What made the Nawab's cloak wet?
Ans : The Nawab's cloak was wet because it had been raining.
b. Did the old couple's three sons write letters to them?
Ans : No, the old couple's three sons did not write letters because they could not write and their parents could not read.
c. What is a regiment?
Ans : A regiment is a unit of soldiers in the army.
d. What did the old woman give the Nawab to eat?
Ans : The old woman gave the Nawab some roti and onions to eat.
e. What did the couple grow on their land?
Ans : The couple grew some wheat and onions on their land.
18/11/2021
ENGLISH POETRY
POEM 8: OUTSIDE MY WINDOW
Answer the following questions.
a. Do the two animals get along with each other?
Ans : No, they do not get along.
b. Who is the narrator of the poem?
Ans : The narrator is a child who is looking out of his/her window into the garden.
c. What are both animals collecting?
Ans: Both animals are collecting food for themselves.
d. What food is a favourite for both of the animals?
Ans : Little bugs are a favourite of both.
e. What does Squirrel say to Magpie?
Ans : Squirrel tells Magpie that it is Squirrel's garden.
f. What does Magpie say to Squirrel?
Ans : Magpie tells Squirrel not to take its (Magpie's) snack.
g. The person listening to the animals imagines that they are quarreling. Find four words that mean the same as 'quarrel'.
Ans : Fight, arguing, squabbling, bicker.
12/11/2021
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CHAPTER 11: THE RABBIT'S EGG
Answer the following questions.
1. How did Aruna's father play a joke on Aruna?
Ans : Aruna's father played a joke on Aruna by pretending to have forgotten her birthday.
2. What was there in the garden?
Ans : In the garden there was a rabbit in a hutch.
3. What was Mrs Longears like?
Ans : Mrs Longears was white and had long ears.
4. Did Aruna have a party?
Ans : Yes, Aruna did have a tea party.
5. What strange thing did Aruna find the next day?
Ans : Aruna found a large white egg in the hutch the next day.
6. How did Aruna find out about about rabbits?
Ans : Aruna found out about rabbits by checking the information on the internet.
7. What surprise did Aruna have for her friends?
Ans : Aruna surprised her friends by showing them the baby rabbit.
8. How did Aruna play a trick on her friends?
Ans : Aruna tricked her friends by telling them that a baby rabbit had hatched from the egg.
29/10/2021
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CHAPTER 10: THE RAILWAY JOURNEY
Answer the following questions.
1. Where were Sunil and Vikram going?
Ans : Sunil and Vikram were going to Chennai to stay with their friend, Anil.
2. Who was going with the boys?
Ans : Moti, Vikram's dog was going with the boys.
3. What advice did Sunil's sister give?
Ans : Sunil's sister advised the boys to look after their money.
4. Who shared the compartment with the boys?
Ans : A fat man and a fat woman shared the compartment with the boys.
5. What did the boys see from the moving train?
Ans : The boys saw the lights of cars in the distance from the moving train.
6. What happened when the train stopped at a station?
Ans :When the train stopped at a station, a man put his hand through the window and stole Vikram's purse.
7. Did the man and woman in the compartment wake up?
Ans : The man and woman in the compartment did not wake up.
8. Who chased the thief?
Ans : Vikram and Moti chased the thief.
9. Who caught the thief?
Ans : Moti caught the thief.
22/10/2021
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CHAPTER 9: THE STORY OF SILK
Answer the following questions.
1. Where was Silk discovered?
Ans : Silk was discovered in China.
2. What did the girl who became an empress do to fill her time before she got married?
Ans: She belonged to a weaver's family and used to work in the fields from dawn to night without a moment's rest.
3. Why was the empress sad?
Ans: She had grown up in the wide open spaces of the country side, and now she was confined to a palace, magnificent though it was. She was used to working from dawn to night without a moment's rest, but now she had many servants to take care of her needs and did not know how to fill her time. In the village she had been surrounded by family and friends who exchanged news and gossip as they worked, but in the palace it was quiet and no one spoke out of turn.
4. What did the emperor do to try and make the empress happy?
Ans : The emperor noticed that the empress was sad and tried his best to make her happy. He bought her grand clothes, jewels and artifacts, threw elaborate parties, and hired the best musicians of the land to amuse her.
5. Where was the empress when she discovered silk and what was she doing?
Ans : The empress was sitting under a mulberry bush in her garden. She was lost in her thoughts about her village while she slowly sipped hot water from a cup, she was staring up at the blue sky, remembering the birds that flew over her village.
6. What was the great idea that the empress had?
Ans : The empress had the great idea that she would take the thread from many cocoons and weave soft, strong cloth from it.
7. What type of people wore silk?
Ans : Only royalty wore silk.
8. Where did the princess who took the knowledge of how to make Silk out of China hide the cocoons?
Ans : She hid them in her long, elaborate hairdo.
21/10/2021
ENGLISH POETRY
POEM 7: SUNNING
Answer the following questions.
a. What was the dog doing?
Ans : The dog was sunning itself (lying in the sun).
b. How did the dog get rid of the fly?
Ans : The dog flapped and ear to get rid of the fly.
c. Where did the dog scratch itself?
Ans: The dog scratched itself on a spot that was itching.
d. What was the dog doing on the porch?
Ans : The dog was dozing on the porch.
e. What did the dog dream of?
Ans : The dog dreamt of chasing a rabbit.
08/10/2021
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CHAPTER 8: THE OLD MAN AND THE TIGER
Answer the following questions.
a. How did the old man earn his money?
Ans: The old man earned his money by selling wood.
b. Why did the old man become frightened in the forest one day?
Ans: The old man heard a loud growl, which frightened him in the forest.
c. How did the tiger help the old man?
Ans : The Tiger helped the old man by chopping wood.
d. Did the old man say nice things about the tiger?
Ans: The old man said some nice things but then he said that the tiger was very smelly.
e. What did the tiger ask the old man to do?
Ans: The tiger asked the old man to cut him with an axe.
f. How deep was the wound?
Ans : The wound was two fingers deep.
07/10/2021
ENGLISH POETRY
POEM 6: PUPPY AND I
Answer the following questions.
a. How many other walkers did the poet meet on the way?
Ans: The man met six other walkers on the way: a man, a horse, a woman and three brown rabbits.
b. Where were most of them going?
Ans: Most of the walkers were going down to the village.
c. What kind of day was it?
Ans: It was a nice, fine day.
d. Where was the woman going and why?
Ans: The woman was going down to the village to get some barley.
e. What answer does the poet give to the rabbits?
Ans: The poet refuses to go to the village with the rabbits.
f. What answer does the poet give to the puppy?
Ans: The poet tells the puppy that he will go with him to the hills to roll and play.
01/07/2021
ENGLISH POETRY
POEM 5: THE WHITE WINDOW
Answer the following questions.
a. When does the Moon come to the house?
Ans: The Moon comes to the house every night.
b. What does the Moon come there to do?
Ans: The Moon comes to peep.
c. What does the person in the room do?
Ans: The person in the room pretends to sleep.
d. Does the Moon make any sound?
Ans: The Moon makes no sound at all.
e. Where does the Moon then go to?
Ans: The Moon then goes to the house next door.
f. How does the Moon go to the next house?
Ans: The Moon steals by on tippy-toes to the next house.
g. Why does the Moon go next door?
Ans: The Moon goes next door to peep at the folk asleep there.
18/06/2021
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CHAPTER 5: MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE
Answer the following questions.
a. Where did the children live?
Ans: The children lived in a small fishing village by the sea in South India.
b. What did the children's fathers do?
Ans: The children's fathers were fishermen.
c. What did the children do all day?
Ans: The children spent their days building sandcastles, chasing crabs, swimming in the sea and climbing coconut palms all day long, since there was no school in the village.
d. Why did the children not go to school?
Ans: The children did not go to school because there was no school in the village in which they lived.
e. What did the children do when they found the bottle?
Ans: The children opened the cap of the bottle and found a piece of paper with some writing on it. Since they could not read or write, they took the paper to Old Manu, the village shopkeeper, who could read it for them.
f. Why did the children take the paper to Old Manu?
Ans:The children took the paper to Old Manu because he could read and write and would therefore, be able to read out the writing on the paper for them.
g. How did Old Manu help the children?
Ans: Old Manu helped the children by teaching them to read and write.
11/06/2021
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CHAPTER 4: POTHOLE
Answer the following questions.
a. What had happened to the car that Priya saw from her window?
Ans: The car was stuck in the pothole on the road outside Priya's house.
b. Who was fixing the wheel of the car?
Ans: The driver and the man travelling in the car with his family were trying to change one of the front wheels of the car.
c. When did a traffic jam occur and why?
Ans: A traffic jam occurred when the road was blocked by a cart that had lost its load owing to the pothole on the road.
d. How many accidents had taken place in two weeks?
Ans: Nine accidents had occurred in two weeks.
e. Which words are used to describe the pothole?
Ans: The words used to describe the pothole are big, gaping mouth, waited darkly.
f. Which things did Priya collect together?
Ans: Priya collected a bucket of soil, some small flowering shrubs, a watering can filled with water, a bag of compost, three lengths of wood and some board-pins.
g. Where did Priya place the three signs that she had made?
Ans: Priya placed two ROAD CLOSED signs on either side of the pothole as she worked to turn it into a garden. After she was done, she placed the third sign (that said: PLEASE BE CAREFUL! GARDEN IN ROAD!) into the soil that she had- used to make the garden.
10/06/2021
ENGLISH POETRY
POEM 4: MY PLAYMATE
Answer the following questions.
a. When does the playmate come to play?
Ans: The playmate comes to play on a rainy day, when there are puddles on the ground.
b. Does the playmate come to play when it is not raining?
Ans: No, the playmate comes only when it is raining.
c. In what position is the playmate at all times?
Ans: The playmate is upside-down at all times.
d. What makes the boy feel sad?
Ans: The boy feels sad when he has to tread upon his playmate's feet.
e. What does the boy wish for?
Ans: The boy wishes that his playmate would talk to him.
f. Why does the speaker think the playmate lives in another land?
Ans: The boy thinks that the playmate lives in another land because he never hears him speaking.
04/06/2021
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CHAPTER 3: MY EARLY HOME
Answer the following questions.
a. Where did the horses live?
Ans: The horses lived in a large pleasant meadow which was a part of a large farm.
b. What did Black Beauty live on before he could eat grass?
Ans: Black Beauty lived on his mother's milk before he could eat grass.
c. What happened once Black Beauty was old enough to eat grass?
Ans: As soon as Black Beauty became old enough to eat grass, his mother started going out to work in the daytime, and would come back in the evening.
d. What advice did Black Beauty's mother give him?
Ans: Black Beauty's mother advised him that since he had been well-bred and well- born, he should grow up to be gentle and good, never learn bad ways, do his work with a good will, lift his feet up well while trotting, and never bite or kick even in play.
e. What job does the master do?
Ans: The master is a farmer.
f. What do we learn about Black Beauty's grandparents?
Ans : Black Beauty's grandfather had won the cup two years at the New market races. His grandmother had the sweetest temper of any horse.
g. What did the master call Black Beauty and why?
Ans : The master called Black Beauty 'Darkie' because he was dull black in colour.
h. What was Black Beauty's mother's name?
Ans : Black Beauty's mother's name was Duchess, but the master often called her Pet.
i. Who is Old Daniel?
Ans : Old Daniel was the man who looked after the horses.
03/06/2021
ENGLISH POETRY
POEM 3: THE MOON
Answer the following questions.
a. What is the moon's face compared to?
Ans:- The moon's face is compared to the clock in the hall.
b. What are the various things that the moon shines on at night?
Ans:- The moon shines on thieves on the garden wall, .streets, fields, harbour quays and birds asleep in forks of trees.
c. Which creatures love to be out at night?
Ans:- The cat, the mouse, the dog and the bat loves to be out at night.
d. What do the things that belong to the day do at night?
Ans:- The things that belong to the day sleep at night.
28/05/2021
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CHAPTER 2: THE WOODEN BOWL
Answer the following questions.
a. Where did the family live?
Ans : The family lived in a small town in Germany.
b. Who lived with his son and daughter-in-law?
Ans : An old man called Kurt lived with his son and daughter-in-law.
c. What did Manfred do for a living?
Ans : Manfred was a carpenter; he made furniture and did some carving. He sold these things to the people in the town.
d. Who was Thekla?
Ans : Thekla was Manfred's wife, Wilhelm's mother and Kurt's daughter- in-law.
e. Who sometimes broke a glass?
Ans : Kurt (the old man) sometimes broke a glass.
f. Whose hands used to shake?
Ans : Kurt's hands used to shake.
g. Who was making a wooden bowl?
Ans : Wilhelm was making a wooden bowl.
h. How did Thekla and Manfred treat the old man?
Ans : Thekla and Manfred always got angry with the old man. They punished him by making him sit in a corner and eat from a wooden bowl.
i. Whose eyes filled with tears? Why?
Ans : The parents' (Thekla and Manfred's) eyes filled with tears because they had treated the old man badly. They realized that they too would grow old one day and be treated the same way.
j. Does the story teach us any lessons? What are they?
Ans : Yes, the story teaches us a lesson. It tells us that we should be careful about how we treat our elders because one day we will grow old too.
27/05/2021
ENGLISH POETRY
POEM 2: MY PLAYTIME
Answer the following questions.
a. What game are the children playing?
Ans: The children are playing a spy game.
b. What is 'the mission'?
Ans : The mission is to get 'gold from a secret place' which in reality was two apples on the big tree.
c. Who is the 'giant beast?
Ans: The children's father is the giant beast.
d. What does the child compare the bushes and the wall to?
Ans: The child says that the bushes were twisted like wire and the wall was glowing warm like fire.
e. What is the 'safe place' or 'base'?
Ans: The safe place or base is by the shed.
f. What is the 'dark lair?
Ans: An old garden chair is the dark lair.
g. What do the children do to celebrate their 'win'?
Ans: To celebrate their win the children munched on apples.
07/05/2021
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CHAPTER 1: DOROTHY MEETS THE SCARECROW
Answer the following questions. 1.What is the road made out of?
Ans : The road is made out of yellow bricks.
2.Where is Dorothy going?
Ans : Dorothy is going to the Emerald City.
3. What is Dorothy's pet called and what type of creature is he?
Ans: Dorothy's pet is called Toto. It is a dog.
4. Why is the Scarecrow in the field?
Ans: The Scarecrow is in the field to scare the birds and stop them from eating the ripe corn.
5. What does Dorothy do to help the Scarecrow?
Ans: Dorothy lifted the Scarecrow off the pole that was stuck up his back and set him down on the ground.
6. What does the Scarecrow do to help Dorothy?
Ans : The Scarecrow carried Dorothy's basket for her.
7. What did the Scarecrow want to ask the Wizard of Oz for?
Ans : The Scarecrow wanted to ask the Wizard of Oz for a brain.
8. How do we know that the Scarecrow is kind and polite?
Ans: We know that the Scarecrow is kind and polite because when he meets Dorothy, he politely says 'How do you do.' He thanks her for helping him get off the pole. He is grateful to Dorothy when she says that she will ask Oz to help him. He also carries her basket for her.
9. Can you explain why the Scarecrow is afraid of a lighted match?
Ans : The Scarecrow is afraid of a lighted match because his entire body is stuffed with straw and straw catches fire very easily.
10. The Scarecrow says that he doesn't have a brain. Is it possible to walk and talk without a brain?
Ans: No, it is not possible to walk and talk without a brain, but this is a story and the Scarecrow is a fictional character.
06/05/2021
ENGLISH POETRY
POEM 1: ROBIN
1. Answer the following questions.
a. What are the four seasons?
Ans : The four seasons are spring, summer, autumn and winter.
b. When does Robin sing with all his might?
Ans : The Robin sings with all his might in the summer.
c. What does Robin say about autumn?
Ans: Robin says that there are fruits for everyone in autumn. We should praise the Lord Almighty at all times.
d. What does Robin say during the winter?
Ans: In the winter Robin says that somebody must sing, or winter will seem long.
e. When can we still hear Robin's song?
Ans: We can still hear the Robin's song in the cold winter.
f. What does Robin say in the spring?
Ans: In the spring, the Robin says that if one keeps singing, the winter will certainly go.
g. Do you'think that Robin is a happy bird? Why?
Ans : Yes, the Robin is a happy bird because he sings with all his might through all the seasons.
h. Which of the following best describes Robin? Say why.
i. careful
ii. clever
iii. hopeful
iv. sorrowful
Ans: iii. hopeful Since Robin sings throughout the year with a note of hope, we can say that he is hopeful.
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