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प्रश्न
Did something dreadful happen? How would you describe the events in the poem– comedy or tragedy?
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उत्तर
Nothing dreadful happened. The poem has comical sense. The unreasonable attitude of sage makes humour throughout the poem.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
What do crocodiles eat? Talk about it.
Choose the rhyming words from the box and write them in the correct blanks.
claws, jaws, ______ , ______
- file
- din
- caws
- nail
- while
- paws
- thin
Choose the rhyming words from the box and write them in the correct blanks.
tail, scale, ______ ,______
- file
- din
- toss
- nail
- while
- paws
- thin
How does the crocodile’s tail look?
Listen to the poem read by your teacher.
Read the poem aloud in pairs. One person reads out Raj’s words and the other reads the mother’s. Take turns and read.
Fill in the table.
Contraction is a shortened form of a word or group of words, with the omitted letters often replaced in written English by an apostrophe (').
| It’s | It is |
| Doesn’t | |
| There’s | |
| You will | |
| That’s | |
| I have | |
| He’d | |
| Aren’t | |
| He has | |
| Won’t | |
| Can not |
What qualities are needed to play a game?
Read the lines and answer the questions given below.
It’s helping your fellowman to score When his chances hopeless seem;
Its forgetting self till the game is o’re And fighting for the team.
- What does 'it' stand for here?
- Write the rhyme scheme for the above lines.
Discuss with your partner and pick out the rhyming words from the poem.
The summary of the poem is given.But there are some words missing. Fill in the blanks with the help of the box given below.
| faithfully | change | pigtail | round | sage | down | slack |
| out | hung | place | behind | vain | face |
Once upon a time there lived a______. He had a handsome______. He was worried and pondered over his pigtail's______. He wanted to______ it's place. He wanted it hanging at his______ He didn’t like it hanging there______ him. So he turned right and left and ______about, up and______, and in and______ but it still______ behind him. However he tried, his efforts were in______. But he didn’t______ in his efforts. Nevertheless his pigtail hung ______behind him.
