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Identify the character or speaker of the following line.
He banged against furniture, upsetting flower-pots and making general havoc
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Identify the character or speaker of the following line.
She stood petrified with astonishment peering over her glasses.
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Identify the character or speaker of the following line.
‘That is, I believe they do.’
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Identify the character or speaker of the following line.
‘What has that got to do that with it?’
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Identify the character or speaker of the following line.
‘I done it out of pity for him.’
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Based on your reading, rearrange the following sentences in the correct sequence.
- Since all her methods failed, finally she gave him a pain-killer.
- He told his aunt that Peter had no aunt, so he gave him the medicine.
- The pain-killer triggered adverse reactions on Peter.
- It jumped out of the open window.
- Tom was dull and depressed.
- This incident upset Aunt Polly and she questioned him.
- But, Tom gave that painkiller to the cat Peter.
- So, Aunt Polly tried different types of remedies on him.
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Why did Tom lose the charm of his life?
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Why did Aunt Polly try different remedies on Tom?
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Did Tom compel Peter to have the painkiller?
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Why did Peter wish to taste the painkiller?
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How did Aunt Polly discover the reason for Peter’s absurd behaviour?
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What was the reason given by Tom for giving the painkiller to the cat?
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Describe the different types of remedies tried by Aunt Polly on Tom.
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Narrate the funny sequence between Tom Sawyer and Peter, the cat.
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Complete the summary of the extract using the appropriate words from the box below.
| pain-killer | stopped | cruelty | remedies | teaspoon | school |
| summersets | Peter | pretended | dejected | health | crack |
Tom Sawyer felt _________ as Becky Thatcher had stopped coming to _______. His Aunt Polly was very concerned about his ________ condition. So, she began to try various ________ on him. Tom became fed up with his Aunt’s brand of remedies and __________ to like the pain-killer. He started to ask for it very often. But, Tom used the medicine to mend
the ______ on the floor. One day, Tom gave the pain-killer to his Aunt’s cat, _____. The ________ had an adverse effect on the cat and it started to jump around the room. Aunt Polly entered the room in time to see the cat throw a few ____________ and sail through the open window. She found the ___________ with a little pain-killer sticking to it and knew that Tom had treated the cat with it. She realized that what was _________ to the cat should be the same to the boy too and __________ giving medicines to him.
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In the story, we find a lot of American slang usage of English. Complete the tabular column with standard English. One has been done for you.
| Finally hit ‘pon | |
| There ain’t anything mean about me. | |
| ‘Deed I don’t know. | There isn’t anything mean about me. |
| Yes’m. That is, I believe they do. | |
| ‘She’d a roasted bowel out of me.' | |
| ‘Oh, go ‘long with you, Tom.’ |
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Complete the mind map based on the inputs from the extract.
| 1. | Becky Thatcher, Tom’s friend had ______ coming to school. |
| 2. | So, Tom became ______. |
| 3. | Aunt Polly ______ about Tom. |
| 4. | She tried ______. |
| 5. | Tom pretended to like _____ and asked for it very often. |
| 6. | One day Tom gave the pain-killer to ______. |
| 7. | The incidents that followed made his aunt ______. |
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Students can volunteer and take roles of Tom and Peter and enact the story in class. The other students who witness the role play can discuss the following.
- How well did your classmates enact the story?
- Which part did they do well?
- Which part of their role play, according to you, could have been enacted better?
- If asked to give suggestions to improve their acting skill, what would you suggest?
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