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New Oxford Modern English, Grade 3,
By Nicholas Horsburgh, Claire Horsburgh.
Solution
Poem No. 1Playtime
DICTATION WORDS, WORDS MEANING & WORD SENTENCES
Students are requested to read full poem as discussed in class. Underline the difficult words and write the meanings with pencil on book while reading. Then use those words in your own sentences. Here I am going to write the summary of the poem for copy work and for examination purpose.
Reference: The poem 'Playtime' is written by Claire Horsburgh.
Explanation: The poem tells a story about two siblings playing a spy game in their garden. The younger sibling had to retrieve two apples from a tree, which they pretended were gold. Their dad was sleeping nearby, and they pretended he was a ferocious beast. When the younger sibling successfully retrieved the "gold", their dad woke up and pretended to be the beast. The sibling fought the "beast" and won, then ate the apples as a treat.
ExerciseSolution
Page No. 27
Understanding the poem
Answer the following questions.
a. What game are the children playing?
Answer: They are imagining that they are spies on a mission.
b. What is 'the mission'?
Answer: Getting some gold/apples.
c. Who is the 'giant beast'?
Answer: Their father.
d. What does the child compare the bushes and the wall to?
Answer: The bushes are compared to twisted wire, the wall is compared to a warm fire.
e. What is the safe place or base?
Answer: The area next to the garden shed.
f. What is the 'dark lair'?
Answer: The old garden chair.
g. What do the children do to celebrate their 'win'?
Answer: They eat the apples they have got.
h. Who do you think says, 'Ah, the monster, the beast has got you now!'? Could anyone else have said it?
Answer: Girls.
Page No. 27
Working with Words
Find rhyming words in the poem for the following.
a. old gold
b. head shed
c. grew flew
d. east beast
e. pie eye
f. call wall
g. losing snoozing
h. dreamed screamed
Page No. 28
Working with Words
Match the words that have similar meanings.
a. grabbed captured
b. snoozed dozed
c. pretend act
d. defeated beaten
e. battle fight
Page No. 28
Working with Words
Match the following.
a. as green as grass
b. as white as snow
c. as proud as a peacock
d. as sharp as a needle
e. as old as the hills
f. as fresh as a daisy
Page No. 29
Learning About Language
Underline the adjectives in these lines from the poem.
a. The mad beast was asleep.
b. I crept past the twisted bushes.
c. Happily, we munched on the big, tasty apples.
Page No. 29
Learning About Language.
Add suitable adjectives to the following, using the given letters.
a. an enormous mango
b. a cute kitten
c. an amazing actress
d. a broken ladder
e. a terrible salesman
f. an ugly duckling
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