READING COMPREHENSION
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Discuss what effect did the story have an you? What would you have done, if you were in the narrator’s place? Does it teach you how to save yourself from danger? Now based on your reading of the story, answer the questions that follow. You may read the story again.
1. What made the narrator go on a voyage?
(a) He was rich and satisfied with his life.
(b) He felt bored of his life.
(c) He had urge to go on a voyage.
(d) He was adventurous.
2. How did the narrator and his friends feed themselves?
(a) They ate fish.
(b) They could not find anything to eat.
(c) They ate fruits to survive.
(d) They ate the food they had brought with themselves.
3. The narrator and his companions were on the tree. The serpent swallowed his companion but not the narrator. Why?
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4. How did the narrator save himself from the serpent?
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5. Find the words in the story which mean the nearest to the words given below.
(a) rich (First para) ________________________________________________________________________________.
(b) moved (Second para) ________________________________________________________________________________.
(c) tired (Third para) _________________________________________________________________________________.
(d) scared (Fifth para)
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(e) urge (Fifth para)
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6. Now find words in the story which mean the opposite of the given words.
(a) poor (First para) _________________________________.
(b) weak (Third para) ________________________________.
(c) enforce (Third para) ______________________________.
(d) insecurely (Sixth para) _________________________.
(e) offensive (Sixth para) ____________________________.
Vocabulary
1. The story of Miraculous Escape has a number of words which describe the narrator’s feeling of fear and getting tired of the journey. List the words of the two feelings and experiences.
Fear Getting tired
Terrific, _____________, Exhausted _________,
__________, _________, _________, ________,
__________, _________, _________, _________,
2. Can you now add suffix which can mean or relate to the word ‘fear’? First one has been done for you.
Fear
(a) fearsome (e) fear _________________
(b) fear ______________________ (f) fear _________________
(c) fear ______________________ (g) fear _________________
(d) fear ______________________ (h) fear _________________
Grammar
Reported Speech: Reporting questions
1. You have learnt how to report questions from direct to indirect speech. Here is a paragraph with direct speech questions. Read them carefully and report into indirect speech. Rewrite the paragraph in the space given below.
2. Now here is a set of sentences given in indirect speech. Change them into direct speech.
Indirect Speech Direct Speech
(a) Romesh asked Lata whether she (a) Romesh
could go with him for a picnic the
next day.
(b) Lata replied why had he asked her (b) Lata
to join.
(c) Romesh asked Lata why she was (c) Romesh
questioning him.
(d) Lata replied there was no use (d) Lata
visiting the place she had seen
before.
(e) Romesh asked Lata what was (e) Romesh
wrong in visiting the same place
again for the place was not the
same.
Editing
1. Some of the prepositions are incorrectly used in the following story. Correct them and read the story aloud. Then rewrite the story in the space given below.
2. Rearrange each set of words to make sentences. Use appropriate punctuation marks.
(a) when I gave her, the bad news, she turned pale
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(b) become rotten, as it has, the apple, don’t eat
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(c) great friends, last quarrel, after their, they became
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(d) first and only novel, after her, got a prize, she became famous
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Listening
1. Where is the village of Sarneshwar?
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3. Who all were there in the hut when it caught fire?
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4. Why did Shrawan run towards Jhalaram’s house?
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5. How did Shrawan save the two children?
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6. What happened to the goats?
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Speaking
Writing
1. A group of pictures are given here. They make a story. This story is from the Tales of Panchatantra.
Now write the story in the lines provided below. Provide a suitable title to the story.
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2. Courage needs no age and comes after we let go of all our fears. Every year, on the Republic Day, National Bravery Awards are given to selected children for their act of bravery against all odds. These children are able to achieve this glory as they overcome their moments of fear and do their best to save precious lives.
Make a list of any five such children and their actions for which they have been awarded the National Bravery Award. Write a few paragraphs on each child. Keep your writings in the Class Library or the Reading Club for all your friends to read.
Project
1. The stories of ‘The Snake and the Mirror’ and ‘The Miraculous Escape’ show how people face danger and are scared of animals. As children, many of us fear stray dogs. Both adults and children are scared of snakes. Fear exists in most of us. Some fears have bases and others do not. Let us conduct a survey of what people fear about. You may follow the guidelines given below.
Typing By Bhargavjyoti Bora
