Collins Breez 3 Semester English Chapter 2 Birbal Identifies the thief

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COMPREHENSION

A. Choose the correct option:

1. Vikram Veer was the name of

a. a thief

✔️b. a minister

c. an emperor

2. The theft had taken place at

a. Birbal’s house

b. Alim Khan’s house

✔️c. Vikram Veer’s

 

3. Birbal applied black paint to

a. the horns of a goat

✔️b. the tail of a donkey

c. the ears of a donkey

B. Complete the following sentences.

1. Birbal thought that the thief must be one of the ministers because no thief would dare to enter a minister’s house.

2. Birbal asked the guard to get a donkey to the court and tie it to the pillar.

3. All ministers touched the donkey’s tail and said ‘I have not stolen’.

 

4. Alim Khan did not have any black patch on his palms as he only pretended to touch the donkey’s tail.

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VOCABULARY

A. Think of any six nouns. Write their singular and plural forms.

1. cat : cats

2. dog : dogs

3. book : books

4. pen : pens

5. bird : birds

6. car : cars

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GRAMMAR

Naming words

A. Look at the list of words in the box and write them in the correct column.

biscuits	children	court	donkey	dove	emperor	frog
	Kerala	library	money	mother	bottle

Person

1. children

2. emperor

3. mother

Animal / Bird

1. donkey

2. dove

3. frog

Place

1. court

2. Kerala

3. library

Thing

1. biscuits

2. money

3. bottle

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B. Look at the list of nouns. Write C for common noun or P for proper noun.

1. Australia P

2. Christmas P

3. gorilla C

4. Jane P

5. monument C

6. lane C

7. Mr. Bhowmik P

8. nest C

9. Jantar Mantar P

10. Wednesday P

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C. Fill in each blank with the correct word from the box.

cards

flowers

grapes

soldiers

students

tools

1. An army of soldiers

2. A bunch of flowers

3. A class of students

4. A cluster of grapes

5. A deck of cards

6. A set of tools

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D. Choose the correct options. There may be more than one correct options for each of these.

1. A bunch of ______________

a. apples

✔️b. bananas

c. grapes

2. A crowd of ______________

✔️a. onlookers

✔️b. people

c. zebras

3. A fleet of ______________

✔️a. boats

✔️b. ships

✔️c. trucks

4. A flight of ______________

✔️a. stairs

✔️b. steps

c. pigeons

5. A ______________ of dogs.

✔️a. kennel

✔️b. litter

✔️c. pack

6. A ______________ of stars.

a. brightness

✔️b. constellation

c. galaxy

7. A ______________ of thieves

✔️a. den

✔️b. gang

✔️c. mob

8. ______________ of trees

a. A garden

✔️b. A grove

c. An orchard

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fork

 

spade

 

 

 spoon

hose

 

E. Fill in the blanks

1.

a. I work with a ____________ (fork / spade / spoon) to dig soil.

b. I use a ____________ ( bottle / bucket / hose ) to water plants.

c. I am always in the middle of beautiful ____________ ( branches / nature / books).

d. I am a gardener.

Postman

2.

a. Once upon a time I used to ____________ (like / take / visit) every home.

b. I wear a ____________ (khaki / starch / starry) uniform.

c. I ____________ ( open / deliver / take) parcels and letters.

d. I am a postman.

Joker

3.

a. I am always dressed in ____________ (colourful / matching / neat) cloth.

b. I wear a ____________ (conical / square / triangle) cap on my head.

c. I make people ____________ (cry / laugh / wish)

d. I am a joker.

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Collins Breez 3 Semester English Chapter 1 Limerick

A. Solve the riddles:

 

1. What has a neck but no head?

Answer: A bottle has a neck but no head.

2. What is at the end of a rainbow?

Answer: The letter ‘w’.

3. What has hands but cannot clap?

Answer: A Clock.

4. What must be broken before you can use it?

Answer: An egg.

5. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

Answer: A Towel.

6. What belongs to you but is used most by others?

Answer: My name.

7. I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. Who am I?

Answer: A candle.

8. I start with the letter T, am filled with T and I end in T. Who am I?

Answer: A teapot.

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There was an Old Man in a tree,

Who was horribly bored by a bee;

When they said, 'Does it buzz?'

He replied, 'Yes, it does!

It's a regular brute of a bee.'

There was an Old Man with a beard,

Who said, 'It is just as I feared!

Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren,

Have all built their nests in my beard.'

There was an Old Person of Basing,

Whose presence of mind was amazing;

He purchased a steed,

Which he rode at full speed,

And escaped from the people of Basing.

 

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Bee

 

Beard

Owl

 

 

Hen

 

 

Lark

 

Wren

Steed

 

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COMPREHENSION

A. Choose the correct option:

1. The old man in a tree was bored by a

a. bee

b. flea
c. knee

2. How many larks were there in the beard of the old man?
a. Six larks
b. Five larks

c. Four larks

3. A steed is a

a. dog

b. horse

c. donkey

4. The man who had great presence of mind was from

a. Berlin

b. Basing
c. Bengaluru

B. Read the lines from the poem and answer the questions:

1. When they said, ‘Does it buzz?’
He replied, ‘Yes, it does!’

(a) Who does ‘they’ refer to?

Answer: They refer to the people around the old man in a tree.

(b) What buzzes?

Answer: The bee buzzes.

(c) Who is ‘he’?

Answer: ‘He’ is the old man in the tree.

2. ‘It is just as I feared!’

(a) Who said this line?

Answer: The old man with a beard said this line.

(b) What was he afraid of?

Answer: He was afraid of the birds building their nests in his beard.

(c) Did his fear come true?

Answer: Yes, two owls, a hen, four larks and a wren built their nests in his beard.

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VOCABULARY

A. Write three rhyming words for each of these words. Do not repeat words from the poem.

1. cake

Answer: make, take, break

2. hen

Answer: then, ten, pen

3. speed

Answer: need, read, feed

4. thin

Answer: been, skin, pin

5. tree

Answer: be, see, free

 

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B. Tick the correct meaning of the words from the poem.

1. amazing

a. puzzling

b. shocking

✔️c. wonderful

2. built

✔️a. constructed

b. heated

c. washed

3. horribly

a. lazily

b. nicely

✔️c. terribly

4. mistake

✔️a. error

b. moth

c. writing

5. replied

✔️a. answered

b. cried

c. shouted

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C. Write the rhyming words for limericks 2 and 3 under the reading section. Also, add the rhyme scheme for each limerick.

Limerick 2

Rhyming words: beard, feared, beard;

hen, wren

Rhyming pattern: A-A-B-B-A

Limerick 3

Rhyming words: Basing, amazing, Basing;

steed, speed

Rhyming pattern: A-A-B-B-A

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D. Use the words given in the box to complete the limerick.

cold

shade

slipped

strew

thin

Vin

young

I know a young fellow from a place called Vin;

His legs are long and he is astonishingly thin.

When he sat in the shade,

To drink a cold lemonade,

He slipped through the straw and fell in.

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Gyaan Kunja Add

 

NCERT Class VIII Mathematics Chapter 1 Questions

1. Verify commutativity of addition of rational numbers for each of the following pairs of rational numbers:
(i) −115 and 47

(ii) 49 and 7−12

(iii) −35 and −2−15

(iv) 2−7 and 12−35

(v) 4 and −35

(vi) −4 and 4−7

 

2. Verify associativity of addition of rational numbers i.e., 

(x + y) + z = x + (y + z), when:

(i) x=12, y=23, z=−15

(ii) x=−25, y=43, z=−710
(iii) x=−711, y=2−5, z=−322
(iv) x=−2, y=35, z=−43

 

3. Write the additive inverse of each of the following rational numbers:

(i) −217

(ii) 3−11
(iii) −175
(iv) −11−25