New Words
Prayed – to speak to God or a god in order to give thanks or to ask for help.
Clothes – the things that you wear, for example trousers, shirts, dresses, coats, etc..
Knife – a sharp flat piece of metal (a blade) with a handle. A knife is used for cutting things or as a weapon.
Troubled – to make somebody worried, upset, etc..
Bleed – to lose blood.
Agreed – If two or more people are agreed, they have the same opinion.
Bowl – a deep round dish without a lid that is used for holding food or liquid.
Shocked – surprised or upset because something unexpected and usually unpleasant has happened.
Do it yourself
I. Arrange the given sentences in proper sequence as given in the story.
(a) They begged their mother to cut two inches of tail.
(b) The woman kept a bowl of milk in her room.
(c) The sons were lazy.
(d) A poor farmer and his wife lived in a village.
(e) A snake came to her every night.
(f) The snake started bleeding and died.
(g) The poor family became rich.
Answer –
(d) A poor farmer and his wife lived in a village. 1
(c) The sons were lazy. 2
(b) The woman kept a bowl of milk in her room. 3
(e) A snake came to her every night. 4
(g) The poor family became rich. 5
(a) They begged their mother to cut two inches of tail. 6
(f) The snake started bleeding and died. 7
II. Answer the following questions:
(a) How many sons did the farmer have?
Answer – The farmer have seven sons.
(b) What did the woman keep in her room at night?
Answer – The woman keep a bowl of milk in her room at night.
(c) What happened- when the woman cut two inches of the snake’s tail?
Answer – When the woman cut two inches of the snake’s tail, it started bleeding profusely and within a few minutes the snake was died.
(d) Describe the farmer’s sons in two sentences.
Answer – The farmer’s sons were very lazy and they were extremely greedy.
III. Arrange each of these letters to form a word from the story.
(a) roop – poor
(b) merfar – farmer
(c) zaly – lazy
(d) kesna – snake
(e) dygeer – greedy
IV. Divide the passage into sentences by using full stop (.) and capital letters wherever necessary.
the woman kept the milk on the floor the snake drank the milk then she took a knife and cut off two inches of his tail the snake started bleeding and died
Answer –
The woman kept the milk on the floor.
The snake drank the milk then she took a knife and cut off two inches of his tail.
The snake started bleeding and died.
V. Find the past tense of the following words from the story.
(a) come – came
(b) drink – drank
(c) keep – kept
(d) give – gave
(e) take – took
(f) become – became
(g) see – saw
(h) tell – told