The Man Who Swallowed a Snake | Lesson 4 | English | Class 5th | Questions and Answers |

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The Man Who Swallowed a Snake | Lesson 4 | English | Class 5th | Questions and Answers |

Lesson 4: The Man Who Swallowed a Snake

Words to Remember

 

slide: move smoothly سرکنا

dismount: get off a horse, bicycle or motorcycle نیچے آنا

club: a heavy stick ڈنڈا

abruptly: suddenly اچانک

fled: ran away فرار

rotten: decayed; something that can no longer be used سڑا ہوا

stuff (v): completely fill with something اسباب

offend: make someone upset or angry ناراض کرنا

pursuer: someone who chases پیچھا کرنے والا

bruise: a dark area on the skin where one has been hurt زخم کا داغ

nightfall: the time in the evening when it is dark آغاز شب

fright: shock and fear خوفزدہ

 

Thinking about the Text

 

Q1. What did the wise man see while riding?

Ans. The wise man saw a snake sliding into the sleeping man’s mouth.

Q2. What did the wise man do when he could not scare the snake away?

Ans. When the wise man could not scare the snake away, he took up his club and struck the sleeping man with several powerful blows.

Q3. Why did the wise man chase the man?

Ans. The wise man chased the man so that he could vomit and everything including the snake he had swallowed, would come up from his stomach.

Q4. Why did the man fall on the wise man’s feet?

Ans. The man felt on the wise man’s feet because he saved his life.

Q5. Do you think that the wise man proved to be intelligent enough to save the man’s life?

Ans. The wise man proved intelligent enough to save the man’s life.

 

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Language Work

 

A) Find from the text words/phrases which mean the following:

 

a) To make a person or an animal frightened

Ans. Terrify

b) To flow quickly and in large amounts

Ans. Pour

c) Completely filled

Ans. Stuff

d) A short period of time

Ans. Quickly

e) To empty the contents of the stomach through the mouth

Ans. Vomit

 

B) Find the opposites of the following words from the text:

 

Foolish, awake, mount, slowly, powerless, danger, blessed, virtue, stop, backward, old, remember, difficult, beautiful, white, alive

 

Ans.

 

Foolish – Wise

Awake – Sleep

Mount – Dismount

Slowly – Fastly

Powerless – Mighty or Powerful

Danger – Safety

Blessed – Cursed

Virtue – Demerit

Stop – Start

Backward – Forward

Old – New

Remember – Forget

Difficult – Easy

Beautiful – Ugly

White – White

Alive – Dead

 

Grammar Work

 

(A) Look at the following sentence from the text:

 

The wise man dismounted quickly and tried to scare the snake away, but to no avail.

The underlined words in the above sentence are verbs. These verbs are regular verbs. A regular verb is a verb that has –ed or –d in past and past participle forms. e.g.

 

Talk         talked      talked

Dance      danced     danced

Say          said          said

 

Whereas other verbs that do not need –ed or ‘d’ for forming past tense and past participle are called irregular verbs e.g.

 

Cut          cut           cut

Go            went         gone

Tell          told          told

Feed         fed           fed

 

Some verbs are both regular and irregular, e.g.,

 

Learn       learnt       learnt       learned    learned

Spoil        spoiled     spoiled     spoilt       spoilt

Light        lit             lit             lighted     lighted

 

Now complete the table given below. Consult a dictionary if necessary.

 

Ans.

 

 

Present	Past	Past participle
Be	was/were	been
Beat	beaten	beaten
Bet	bet	bet
Buy	bought	bought
Lean	leant/leaned	leant/leaned
Spill	spilled or spilt	spilled or spilt
Choose	Chose	Chosen
Dig	dug	dug
Find	found	found
Forgive	forgave	forgiven
Lay	laid	laid
See	saw	seen
Sink	sank	sunk
Spring	sprang	sprung
Sting	stung	stung
Took	take	taken

 

 

(B) Pick out five action words from the story and write them in the spaces below:

Ans.

Dismount Terrify Pour Run Chase

 

(C) Look at the following Sentences.

 

Direct: He said to me, “Are you going to Jammu tomorrow?”

Indirect: He asked me whether/if I was going to Jammu the next day.

Direct: I said to the child, “What are you doing?”

Indirect: I asked the child what he was doing.

 

The above sentences in, direct speech, are interrogative sentences (Questions)

In changing an interrogative sentence from direct into indirect speech, the following changes are made:

 

a) The reporting verb is changed to ask, enquire, demand, want to know, etc.

b) If or whether is used after the reporting verb when the question begins with a helping verb.

c) If the question begins with a question word (who, what, which, why, how, etc.) no conjunction is used to connect the reporting speech with the principal clause.

d) The question form is changed into the assertive form and the question mark is removed.

 

Now change the following sentences from direct into indirect speech:

 

1. My friend said to me, “Will you help me in this matter?”

Indirect: My friend asked me whether I would help him in that matter.

2. He said to me, “What can I do for you?”

Indirect: He asked me what could he do for me.

3. I said to her, “Why is the child weeping?”

Indirect: I asked her why was the child weeping.

Or “I enquired her of the weeping of the child.”

4. The wolf said to the lamb, “Why are you making the water muddy?”

Indirect: The wolf asked the lamb why he was making the water muddy.

5. She said to me, “How often do you take tea?”

Indirect: She asked me how often did I took tea.

6. I said to her, “Is it snowing?”

Indirect: I asked her whether it was snowing.

7. I said to Mubashir, “Will you lend me your book?”

Indirect: I asked Mubashir if he lends me his book.

8. The teacher said to the student, “Have you solved the question?”

Indirect: The asked the student whether he had solved the questions.

9. They said to me, “Did you watch TV last night?”

Indirect: They asked me if I watched the TV the previous night.

10. I said to her, “Do you really belong to Kashmir?”

Indirect: I asked her whether she really belongs to Kashmir.

 

Now Change the following into direct speech:

 

1. The teacher asked the newcomer what his name was.

Direct: The teacher said to the newcomer, “What is your name?”

2. My friend asked me if I was feeling well.

Direct: My friend said to me, “Are you feeling well?”

3. I asked her when she would go to Mumbai.

Direct: I said to her, “When will you go to Mumbai?”

4. He asked me if he could use my computer.

Direct: He said to me, “Can I use your computer?”

5. I enquired of him what the house had cost him.

Direct: I said to him, “What the house has cost you?”

6. The teacher asked the students if they had revised the lesson.

Direct: The teacher said to the students, “Have you revised the lesson?”

7. He asked his brother if he wanted to become a doctor.

Direct: He said to his brother, “Do you want to become a doctor?”

8. I asked my friend if he would accompany me to the market.

Direct: I said to my friend, “Will you accompany me to the market?”

 

Let’s Talk

Did you enjoy reading the story? Share your views with your classmates.

 

Let’s Write

The wise man saved a life with his wisdom. Recall any such story and write it briefly in your own words.

    It was the month of February. The sun was shining brightly. There was a bit warmer. I was sitting on the veranda of my house. Suddenly I heard the noise of crows. They were flying here and there. The cawing of crows made me curious and I thought that something is wrong outside the yard of my house. As I was thinking of this my sight felt on a broken tree. Some crows were trying to pull a bird. I picked up a snowball and threw it in the air so that to release the bird from the crows. When I got nearer, I found a mynah stuck there. I immediately informed some elders. They brought a ladder, hold the bird and set it free. In this way, I saved the life of a bird.