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All answers (Chapter The Ant and The Grasshopper )written by Willan Somerset maugham

Answer 1

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Chapter 20 – The Grasshopper and the Ant

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Question 1:

hardworking, arrived, starve, slammed

Answer

1) Hardworking: to work with energy Example sentences: 1) My father is a hardworking family man. 2) She is a hardworking girl.

2) Arrived: to reach at a place Example sentences: 1) We arrived at the airport on time. 2) He arrived at his house in the evening.

3) Starve: to die from hunger Example sentences: 1) My mother left me at home to starve. 2) We should not starveourselves to get thin.

4) Slammed: to shut something forcefully Example sentences: 1) He slammed the door while leaving. 2) I slammed the brakes.

Page No 169:

Question 1:

How did the grasshopper spend his days?

Did the grasshopper find food in winter?

What did the ant tell the grasshopper when he asked for food?

Answer

The grasshopper spent his days by only singing and playing.

No, the grasshopper did not find food in winter.

The ant shook in anger and scolded the grasshopper for being lazy all the summer and not not doing any work.

Page No 169:

Question 1:

If you were asked to store things for the winter what would you store? Name any three things.

Which season do you like the best?

Tell the class the story of the grasshopper and the ant in your own language.

Answer

Disclaimer: These are sample answers. Students are advised to write the answers based on their own experience and observation.

If I were asked to store things for the winter, I would store apples, star fruit and peas.

I like rainy season.

Page No 169:

Question 1:

Circle the words that mean the same.

speaktalkshoutcompletefinishstartsmallthinlittlesickillstoutbiglargefat

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Page No 170:

Question 1:

When you hear winter and summer, what are the words that come to your mind? Write these words in the bubbles.



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Page No 171:

Question 1:

Letters with numbers are given in the box. Pick up the letter under each number and replace the numbers by writing it in the blanks. 1. The

24 153 2323211017171615eats

4 1015 7 23.

2. The

3 221223eat

2415 3  9 2223.

3.

4  9 22121615is very

8 102011.

4.

2326 7  7 1615is very

4  3 15 7.

31481116224219135207ABCDEFGHIJKLM22101711523122619425186NOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Answer

1. The G R A S S H O P P E R eats W O RM S.

2. The A N T S eat G R A I N S.

3. W I N T E R is very C O L D.

4. S U M M E R is very W A R M.

Page No 172:

Question 2:

Under picture A sentences describe what each person/animal is doing. Under picture B write down what each is doing.

Disclaimer: Kindly refer the textbook for the images.

Use the words ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘it’, ‘they’ instead of a lady, a man, two girls and a dog. A lady is cycling. ________________________________

A man is running. ________________________________

Two girls are playing. _____________________________

A dog is sleeping. _________________________________

Answer

Picture A

1) Two girls are playing football. 2) One man is jogging in the park. 3) A dog is sleeping in the grass. 4) One girl is cycling.

Picture B

Two girls are skipping the rope. A dog is licking milk from the bowl. A woman is cutting grass. A man is in the cot.

1) She is cycling. 2) He is running. 3) They are playing. 4) It is sleeping.

Page No 173:

Question 1:

The sun shines in the sky.

Answer

Instructions: Join the dotted lines to form the given sentence.



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Answer 2

Answer:

in the winter the grass was cold