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Question
Read the poem aloud in pairs.
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Solution
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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 |
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.
Which season am I? Read the poem, understand and solve the riddle.
Frogs and toads will visit when I am there.
Which season am I? Read the poem, understand and solve the riddle.
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Leaves will wither because of me.
Read the poem line and answer the question given below.
And though his efforts never slack
And though he twist, and twirl, and tack,
Alas! Still faithful to his back
The pigtail hangs behind him.
- Pick out the rhyming words from the above lines and give the rhyme scheme for the same.
- Did he quit his trying? How can you say?
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.
