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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