C1. Answer the following questions in a sentence each :
- Who were the occupants of the carriage?
Answer: The occupants of the carriage were a small girl, and a smaller girl, and a small boy.
2. What questions haunted Cyril when he saw sheep in the field?
Answer: “Why are those sheep being driven out of that field?” The questions haunted Cyril when he saw sheep in the field.
3. What made the aunt decide that the bachelor was a hard and unsympathetic man?
Answer: The frown on the bachelor’s face was deepening to a scowl. So the aunt decided that the bachelor was a hard and unsympathetic man.
4. Who saved the little girl in the aunt’s story?
Answer: Little girl saved from a mad bull by a number of rescuers who admired her moral character.
5. Name the little girl in the bachelor’s story.
Answer: ‘Bertha’ was the name of a little girl in the bachelor’s story.
6. What remark of the bachelor’s story created a wave of reaction in favour of the story?
Answer: “but she was horribly good.” said the bachelor. The word horrible in connection with goodness was a novelty that commended itself. This remark of the bachelor’s story created a wave of reaction in favour of the story.
7. How did the prince of the country come to know about Bertha?
Answer: Everybody talked about Bertha’s goodness. So the Prince of the country got to hear about it and came to know about Bertha.
8. How did the prince of the country honour Bertha?
Answer: Prince said that as she was so very good she might be allowed once a week to walk in his park, which was just outside the town. This is how prince of the country honoured Bertha.
9. Why was it a great honour for Bertha being allowed into the Prince’s park?
Answer: Prince’s park was a beautiful park, and no children were ever allowed in it, so it was a great honour for Bertha to be allowed to go there.
10. When did Bertha begin to wish that she had never been allowed into the park?
Answer: Bertha saw the wolf and saw that it was stealing towards her in the park, and she began to wish that she had never been allowed to come into the park.
11. The wolf located Bertha while she was hiding in the bushes by
a) sniffing around
b) the clinking sound of the medals
c) her spotlessly white and clean pinafore.
Answer: a) sniffing around
12. What was the aunt’s reaction to the bachelor’s story?
Answer: Aunt’s reaction to the bachelor’s story was “A most improper story to tell to young children! You have undermined the effect of years of careful teaching.”
C2. Work in pairs and answer the following in a few lines each:
1. How did the bachelor describe
a) The pigs in the park
Answer: There were lots of little pigs running all over the place in the park. The colours of pigs was Black with white faces, white with black spots, black all over, grey with white patches, and some were white all over. There were no flowers in the park because the pigs had eaten them all the flowers.
b) The fish in the park?
Answer: There were lots of other delightful things in the park. There are many fishes in the park. There were ponds with gold and blue and green fish in them.
c) The wolf in the park
Answer: Enormous wolf came prowling into the park to see if it could catch a fat little pig for its supper. The Wolf was Mud-colour all over, with a black tongue and pale grey eyes that gleamed with unspeakable ferocity.
2. What qualities of Bertha earned her the three medals?
Answer: Bertha won several medals for goodness, which she always wore, pinned on to her dress. There was a medal for obedience, another medal for punctuality, and a third for good behaviour.
3. Give reasons for
a) the absence of sheep in the prince’s park.
Answer: There were no sheep in the park, because the prince’s mother had once had a dream that her son would either be killed by a sheep or else by a clock falling on him. For this reason the Prince never kept sheep in his park or a clock in his palace.
b) The absence of flowers in the prince’s park.
Answer: There were no flowers in the prince’s park because the pigs had eaten all those flowers.
c) Bertha feeling sorry for the absence of flowers in the prince’s park.
Answer: Bertha was feeling sorry to find that there were no flowers in the prince’s park. Because she had promised her aunts, with tears in her eyes, that she would not pick any of the kind Prince’s flowers, and she had meant to keep her promise, so of course it made her feel silly to find that there were no flowers to pick.”
4. What are the two different thoughts of Bertha on her being extraordinarily good, when she was in the prince’s park?
Answer: The two different thoughts of Bertha on her being extraordinarily good, when she was in the prince’s park are,
- ‘If I were not so extraordinarily good I should not have been allowed to come into this beautiful park and enjoy all that there is to be seen in it.’
- “If I had not been so extraordinarily good I should have been safe in the town at this moment.”
C3. Discuss in groups and answer the following questions.
- How did the medals earn respect for Bertha, as well as cause her death?
Answer: Bertha won several medals for goodness, which she always wore, pinned on to her dress. There was a medal for obedience, another medal for punctuality, and a third for good behaviour. These medals are the respect for Bertha.
The wolf was just moving away when he heard the sound of the medals of Bertha clinked again and again in a bush quite near him. He dashed into the bush, his pale grey eyes gleaming with ferocity and triumph, and dragged Bertha out and devoured her to the last morsel.
2. The aunt terms the bachelor’s story as the most improper one. Do you agree with her? Give reasons.
Answer: Yes. The aunt terms the bachelor’s story as the most improper one. I agree with her in one view. Reasons for my Disagree.
- That was Prince’s Park. There were nobody secures the park. Definitely there must be security persons to secure the small girls like Bertha.
- If there is wolf walks around freely every day, then it should be not a park.
- Small girl walking alone in a entire park.
- Nobody wears medals when they are walking in a park.
- Moral of the story of the bachelor – our goodness gets punished.
- Story of bachelor is technically good. But lot of negative contents. In a story of a children – “good things and persons should always rewarded”
2. What elements in the bachelor’s story appealed to the children?
Answer: The elements in the bachelor’s story appealed to the children because,
- There is an unexpected twist in bachelor’s story.
- Bachelor is convinced the children and his answers are accurate to children’s questions.
- Different kind of subject in the story.
3. How would the story have ended if Bertha had not pinned the medals on her pinafore?
Answer: If Bertha had not pinned the medals on her pinafore,
- Wolf will leave the place without any harm to Bertha.
- Wolf doesn’t found the place which Bertha was hide.
- She would always being proud of her character and being extraordinary good.
V1. Match the words in column ‘A’ with their meaning in column ‘B’;
Answer:
A B
1. banish expel
2. humble modest
3. domicile the place where a person lives
4. foul-smelling stinking
5. predator an animal that hunts, kills and eats other animals
6. flip turn quickly
V2. Which of the following expressions is correct?
- a flock of birds / a flight of birds.
Answer: a flight of birds
2. a swarm of insects / a colony of insects.
Answer: a swarm of insects
3. a herd of goats / a flock of goats.
Answer: a herd of goats
4. a troupe of actors / a company of actors.
Answer: a troupe of actors
5. a wad of bank notes / a roll of bank notes.
Answer: a wad of bank notes
6. a pack of cards / a deck of cards.
Answer: a deck of cards
7. a team of experts / a panel of experts.
Answer: a panel of experts
8. a bunch of grapes / a cluster of grapes.
Answer: a bunch of grapes
V3. Write the synonyms and antonyms for the following words
Synonyms antonyms
calm, quiet, rest, peace violence, unrest, atruggle
ignore, neglect, carelessness care, heed
gentle, moderate, mild rough
curious, interested uninterested
humble, humility, modest, timid conceited, vain, arrogant
revive, renovate, restore, renew weaken, replace, return
encounter, arrive, clash, meet depart, rebuff
pleasant, agreeable, amusing, pleasing painful, unpleasant
deter, discourage, hinder, encourage, prompt
warm, hot, welcoming, cordial cold, reticent, indifferent
dignified, reputed, honor, stately disrepute, undignified
charming pleasing, beautiful, delightful displeasing, ugly, unattractive
