Comprehension Check (page 60)
1.Why did the neighbors kill the dog?
Ans:-The neighbors wanted the dog to lead them to a treasure of gold. They tried to please the dog for the purpose but the dog led them to a dead kitten. They got stinking dead kitten instead of gold. Consequently they got angry and killed the dog.
2.Underline the right item.
(i) The old farmer and his wife love the dog.
(a) because it helped them in their day-to-day work.
(b) as if it was their own baby.
(c) as they were kind to all living things.
(ii) When the old couple became rich, they
(a) gave the dog better food.
(b) invited their greedy neighbors to a feast.
(c) lived comfortably and were generous towards their poor neighbors.
(iii) The greedy couple borrowed the mill and the mortar to make
(a) rice pastry and bean sauce.
(b) magic ash to win rewards.
(c) a pile of gold.
Working with the text.
Answer the following questions.
1.The old farmer is a kind person. What evidence of his kindness do you find in the first two paragraphs.
Ans:-The old farmer is a very kind person. He has no child. He loved his dog like his own baby. His kind nature helped him give comfort to the dog like to a baby. He fed it with tidbits of fish from his own chopsticks and all the boiled rice it wanted. The old person was so kind to everything that has life, that he often turned up a sod to give food to the birds. He took care of his dog very much.
2. What did the dog do to lead the farmer to the hidden gold?
Ans:-One day the dog came running to the old man. It was trying to indicate a place which the old man did not take care thinking that it was playing. But the dog kept on whining and running to and fro for sometimes. Now the old man followed the dog. The dog scratched the spot. The old man struck his hoe in the earth and found a lot of gold buried.
3. (i) How did the spirit of the dog help the farmer first?
Ans:-One night the spirit of the dog appeared in a dream of the farmer and said to cut the pine tree over his grave to make a mortar for a rice pastry and a mill for his bean sauce. The farmer did it and got a heap of gold coins during the process of dough ready for baking.
(ii)How did it help him next?
Ans:-The dog appeared in the farmer's dream again and urged him to take the ashes of the mill and sprinkle them on the withered trees to bloom them. The old man did the same when the daimio was passing along the road. The landlord knew the farmer and ordered presents of silk robes, sponge-cake, fans and other rewards to be given to him. Also the farmer was invited to his castle. That is how the dog's spirit helped him next.
4. Why did the daimio reward the farmer but punish his neighbor for the same act?
Ans:-The greedy neighbor also wanted the daimio to order presents and rewards for him. So he also sprinkled the ashes on the cherry tree when the daimio was passing along the road. It was so disgusting that the wind blew the fine dust in the noses and eyes of the daimio and his wife. It was sneezing and choking. The landlord got angry and punished him for the same act.
Working with the language.
1. Read the following paragraph and frame questions on the italicized phrases.
Anil is in school. I am in school too. Anil is sitting in the left row. He is reading a book. Anil's friend is sitting in the second row. He is sharpening his pencil. The teacher is writing on the blackboard. Children are writing in their copybooks. Some children are looking out of the window.
(i) Where is Anil?
(ii) Which row is he sitting in?
(iii) What is he doing?
(iv) Where is Anil's friend sitting?
(v) What is his friend doing?
(vi) Who is writing on the blackboard?
(vii) What are some children doing?
2. Write appropriate questions words in the blank spaces in the following dialogue.
NEHA : When did you get this book?
SHEELA : Yesterday morning.
NEHA : Why is your sister crying?
SHEELA : Because she has lost his doll.
NEHA : Whose room is this, yours or hers?
SHEELA : It's ours.
NEHA : How do you go to school?
SHEELA : We walk to school. It is nearby.
3. Fill in the blanks with the words given in the box.
how, what, when, where, which
(i) My friend lost his chemistry book. Now he doesn't know what to do and where to look for it.
(ii) There are so many toys in the shops. Neena can't decide which to buy.
(iii) You don't know the way to my school. Ask the policeman how to get there.
(iv) You should decide soon when to start building your house.
(v) Do you know how to ride a bicycle? I don't remember when and how I learnt it.
(vi) "You should know when to talk and where to keep your mouth shut," the teacher advised Anil.
5. Use a, an or the in the blanks.
There was once a play which became very successful. A famous actor was acting in it. In the play his role was that of an aristocrat who had been imprisoned in a castle for twenty years. In the last act of the play someone would come on the stage with a letter which he would hand over to the prisoner. Even though the aristocrat was not expected to read the letter at each performance, he always insisted that the letter be written out from beginning to end.
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