● Answer the following questions
1 What was the chaos all about?
Ans. The chaos all about that a huge lion had caught the cook’s wife.
2 What did Robert Sanford do when he heard Mdisho yelling?
Ans.As Robert Sanford heard Mdisho yelling, he immediately flew into the house and came out again. |
3 How did the women in the servant quarters react to the situation ?
Ans. The woman in the servant quarters reacted the situation simply. She had come out of their huts as well and were standing in a separate group, silent and staring.
4 What did the lion do on hearing the gun shot?
Ans. On hearing the gun shot the lion instantaneously dropped the cook’s wife on the ground and ran into the jungle.
5 How did the cook’s wife behave when she was in the lion’s jaws ?
Ans. When cook’s wife was in the lion’s jaws, she did not scared of the lion, she just lay there in his mouth pretending she was dead. She was carried as gently as if she had been one of his own cubs.
● Answer the following with reference to the context
1 “Get those children indoor.”
(a) Who said these words to whom?
(b) Why did he say so ?
Ans.
- (a) Robert Sanford said these words to his wife.
- (b) Because he was chasing a lion to shoot.
2 “The lion taken the cook’s wife and he is chasing the lion !”
(a) Who said these words and to whom?
(b) Who had taken the cook’s wife?
(c) Who is ‘he’ here ?
Ans.
- (a) Mdisho said to Robert Sanford.
- (b) The lion had taken the cook’s wife.
- (c) Robert Sanford is he here.
3 “Lie down on the ground so I can shoot the Simba !”
(a) Who is ‘I’ here ?
(b) Whom did he ask to lie down ?
Ans.
- (a) Robert Sanford is I here.
- (b) He asked Pingo to lie down.
● Find out what the people living in these countries are known as
(a) India,
(b) England,
(c) America,
(d) Burma,
(e) Australia.
Ans.
- (a) Indian,
- (b) The English,
- (c) American,
- (d) Burmese,
- (e) Australian.
● Underline the adverbs in the following sentences
(a) He blindly believes in me.
(b) Riya will come here.
(c) She sings sweetly.
(d) He slept beside his mother.
(e) I have never written a story.
(f) Mary was quite surprised to see her friend’s behaviour.
Ans.
- (a) He blindly believes in me.
- (b) Riya will come here.
- (c) She sings sweetly.
- (d) He slept beside his mother.
- (e) I have never written a story.
- (f) Mary was quite surprised to see her friend’s behaviour.
● Fill in the blanks with appropriate adverbs from the bracket
(ever, accidentally, yesterday, very, sweetly, usually, early, tomorrow, never, always)
(a) I…….. go to bed at 10 o’clock.
(b) Have you …….. wanted to run away?
(c) Sam…….. slipped on the ice.
(d) Rama left home …….. Today
(e) We will go to the circus………
(f) We should …….. reach school on time.
(g) I met an old friend ……..
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(h) Good children ……… tell lies.
(i) The cuckoo sang ……..
(J) His house is …….. Far
Ans.
- (a) usually,
- (b) ever,
- (c) yesterday.
- (d) early,
- (e) tomorrow,
- (f) always,
- (g) accidentally,
- (h) never
- (i) sweetly
- (J) very.
PROSE
- 1a. The Emperor and the Nightingale
- 2a. The King and the Tree Goddess
- 3a. Sardar Patel: The Iron Man of India
- 4a. Simba
- 5a. Sindbad the Sailor: SecSolutionond Voyage
- 6a. Indigenous Games of India
- 7a. Letter to a Penpal
- 8a. Examination Time
- 9a. Florence Nightingale”The Lady with the Lamp”
- 10a. The Tiny Little Thing
POETRY
- 1b. The Skylark
- 2b. A Teacher for All Seasons
- 3b. A Nation’s Strength
- 4b. I Dram a World
- 5b. Foreign Lands
- 6b. Paper Boats
- 7b. Indian Weavers
- 8b. Exam Stress
- 9b. A Little Girl’s Poem
- 10b. I Would Choose to be a Daisy