Comprehension check… (Page 90)
1. What had happened to
Jody’s father?
Ans: A poisonous snake bit Jody’s father.
2. How did the doe save Penny’s life?
Ans: Penny killed the doe and used its heart to
draw out the poison.
3. Why does Jody want to bring the fawn home?
Ans: Penny killed fawn’s mother. Jody thinks that
the fawn might be hungry and scared. So Jody wants to bring the fawn home.
4. How does Jody know that the fawn is a male?
Ans: The spots on the fawn’s body were all in a
line. Jody’s father told him that it was an indication of a male fawn.
Comprehension check… (Page 91)
1. Jody did not want Mill-wheel with him for
two reasons. What were they?
Ans: Jody did not want Mill-wheel with him for
two reasons. First, if the fawn was dead, or could not found, he could not have
his disappointment seen. Second, if the fawn was found, the meeting would be so
lovely and secret that he could not bear to share it.
2. Why
was Mill-wheel afraid to leave Jody alone?
Ans: Mill-wheel was afraid that Jody might get
afraid or might be bitten by the snake too.
Comprehension check… (Page 94)
1. How did Jody bring the fawn back
home?
Ans: Jody brought the fawn back home partly by
lifting it and partly by making it walk after him on his own.
2. Jody was filled with
emotion after he found the fawn. Can you find at least three words or phrases
which show how he felt?
Ans: (i) The touch of the fawn made him delirious.
(ii) he was light-headed with his joy.
(iii) the boy’s eyes were as bright as the fawn’s.
3. How did the deer drink
milk from the gourd?
Ans: At first Jody dipped his fingers in the milk
and thrust them into the fawn’s mouth. It sucked them greedily. Then he lowered
them into the milk. The fawn sucked them and starting sipping milk.
4. Why did the fawn not follow Jody up the steps
as he had thought it would?
Ans: The fawn’s legs were
not strong enough to go up the steps. So it did not follow Jody up the steps.
Exercise.
Working with Language…
1. Here
are some questions in direct speech. Put them into reported speech.
(i)
Penny said, “Do you really want it son?”
(ii)
Mill-wheel said, “Will he ride back with me?”
(iii)
He said to Mill-wheel, “Do you think the fawn is still there?”
(iv)
He asked Mill-wheel, “Will you help me find him?”
(v)
He said, “Was it up here that Pa got bitten by the snake?”
Ans: (i) Penny asked his son if he really wanted it.
(ii) Mill-wheel
asked if he would ride back with him.
(iii) He
asked Mill-wheel if he thought the fawn was still there.
(iv) He
asked Mill-wheel if he would help him find him.
(v) He
asked if it was up there that Pa had got bitten by the snake.
2. Say whether the verb in each sentence
below is transitive or intransitive. Ask yourself a ‘what’ question about
the verb. (For some verbs, the object is a person, so ask the question ‘who’
instead of ‘what’).
(i) Jody
then went to the kitchen.
(ii) The
fawn wobbled after him
(iii) You found him.
(iv)
He picked it up.
(v)
He dipped his fingers in the milk.
(vi)
It bleated frantically and butted him.
(vii)
The fawn sucked his fingers.
(viii)
He lowered his fingers slowly into the milk.
(ix)
It stamped its small hoofs impatiently.
(x)
He held his fingers below the level of the milk.
(xi)
The fawn followed him.
(xii)
He walked all day.
(xiii)
He stroked its sides.
(xiv)
The fawn lifted its nose.
(xv)
Its legs hung limply.
Ans:
(i) Intransitive
(ii) Intransitive
(iii) Transitive
(iv) Transitive
(v) Transitive
(vi) Intransitive,
Transitive
(vii) Transitive
(viii) Transitive
(ix) Transitive
(x) Transitive
(xi) Transitive
(xii) Intransitive
(xiii) Transitive
(xiv) Transitive
(xv) Intransitive
Poem 6 The Duck and
the Kangaroo
Working with the poem…
1. Taking words that come at
the end of lines, write five pairs of rhyming words. Read each pair aloud
For example, pond - beyond
Ans: (i) hop - stop
(ii)
back - quack
(iii) duck - luck
(iv) reflection – objection
(v) bold - cold
2. Complete the dialogue.
Duck :
Dear Kangaroo! Why don’t you ------------------------------------
Kangaroo : With pleasure, my
dear Duck, though --------------------------
Duck : That
won’t be a problem. I will -------------------------------
Ans:
Duck : Dear Kangaroo! Why
don’t you give me a ride on your back, so that I can also hop around with
you and see the beautiful world?
Kangaroo : With pleasure, my
dear Duck, though your feet are unpleasantly wet and cold and I might catch rheumatism.
Duck : That won’t be a problem. I will wear
worsted socks and smoke a cigar every day to keep out the cold.
3. The Kangaroo does not
want to catch ‘rheumatism’. Spot this word in stanza 3 and say why it is spelt
differently. Why is it in two parts? Why does the second part begin with a
capital letter?
Ans: The word ‘rheumatism’
is spelt differently and is in two lines so that it can rhyme with ‘Kangaroo’
in the following line. The second part ‘Matiz’ begins with a capital letter
because it the first word of the line.
4. Do you find the poem
humorous? Read aloud lines that make you laugh.
Ans: Yes, the poem is
humorous. Take for example:
“But quite at the end of my
tail.”
“And every day a cigar I’ll
smoke”.