3rd Standard English First Language
Chapter – 8
The Three friends
Answer the following questions:
a. What kind of a boy was Chintoo?
Answer: Chintoo was very naughty boy. He troubled everyone. He would take his friends’ toys and break them. Sometimes he would pinch his friends till they cried.
b. What did he do to Robert in the school?
Answer: The very first day Chintoo stole Robert’s pencil box and pinched him very hard.
c. What happened to Chintoo in the forest?
Answer: Chintoo slipped and fell into a deep pit in the forest. He could not get out.
d. Who helped Chintoo?
Answer: Robert and others helped Chintoo.
e. Do you think Chintoo should have been helped? Why?
Answer: Yes. Chintoo should have been helped.
I. Answer these questions orally:
1. What did the peacock like in the parrot?
Answer: The peacock liked the parrot’s green feathers and red beak.
2. Why didn’t the peacock and the parrot like the crow?
Answer: Crow was black. So both the parrot and the peacock did not like her.
3. Who came near the parrot’s nest?
Answer: A snake came near the parrot’s nest.
4. How did the crow save the parrot’s eggs?
Answer: The crow saw the snake and attacked it. The snake was frightened and it went away. This is how crow saved the parrot’s eggs.
5. Who attacked the peacock?
Answer: A wicked fox attacked the peacock
II. Answer these questions orally:
- Why do you think the crow saved the parrot’s eggs?
Crow believes in helping others is good. She thinks one day others will help her.
- How do you think a friend should be?
Answer: Friends should be helping each other in any difficulties in a life.
Let us write:
III. A. Write the answers to the following in your notebook.
- The parrot liked the peacock-
Answer: c) for his beautiful feathers
- Why did the parrot thank the crow?
Crow attacked snake and saved parrot’s eggs. So parrot thanked the crow.
3. The peacock could not move because he was seriously ill.
4. How did the crow save the peacock?
Answer: Crow called the other crows for help. Together all of them pecked at the fox and frightened it away. That is how crow saved peacock.
5. What did the parrot and the peacock realize?
Answer: The parrot and the peacock realized that even though they had ignored the crow.
B. Write 4-5 sentences in your notebook about how we should choose our friends.
We are very careful when we are choosing the right friend. It will affect our character also. Some friends are having bad habits and nature. Some friends are always disturbing and irritating others. So we have to choose right friends. Because true friend is a great asset to us.
Let us practice language:
IV. A. Look at the following words and fill in the blanks:
Climb climbed
Frighten ….frightened…………..
Thank ….thanked…………..
attack ….attacked…………..
return …..returned………….
call …..called………….
B. The words in the following are jumbled up. Rearrange them to make meaningful sentences And write them down in your notebooks.
a) beautiful/ peacock/ the/ had/ feathers
The Peacock had beautiful feathers.
b) nest/parrot/eggs/laid/her/in/the/the
The Parrot laid her eggs in the nest.
c) a/attacked/wicked/the/peacock/fox
A wicked fox attacked the peacock.
d) saved/ parrot’s/the/ eggs/crow/the
The Crow saved the parrot’s eggs.
Let us learn new words:
V. A. Write suitable words describing each picture
A _____red________ rose.
A ___beautiful__________ feather.
A _____black________ board.
A _____big________ tree.
A ____long_________ rope
Fill in the blanks choosing their opposites given in the box below
big __small_______
kind ____cruel_____
happy ___sad______
wise ___unwise______
long __short_______
full ___empty______
sad, unwise, short, small, cruel, empty
Some letters are missing in each word. Write OO/UE in each word. One is done for you.
POOL CLUE Write some other words for
stool qlue
cool blue
fool glue
