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The Lovedale Senior Secondary School, Class 3 English NOME, Poem 8 outside my window, Hard Words, , 1, Magpie, 2. Squirrel, 3. Foraging, 4. Berries, 5. Plucked, 6. Wriggling, 7. Ruts, , 8. Arguing, 9, Squabbling, 10. Hollers, 11, Swoops, 12. Bicker, , Word Meaning, , 1. Bicker- to argue about trivial matters., , 2. Din- noise, , 3. Foraging- searching for food., , 4, Hollers- shouts or cries out loudly, , 5. Plucked- quickly removed from its place, 6, Ruts- tracks created by repeated use, , 7. Squabbling- arguing, , Comprehension, , 1, Answer these questions, , A. Do the two animals get along with each other?, , Ans. No, they do not get along., B, Who is the narrator of the poem?, Ans. The narrator of the poem is a child., , C. What are both animals collecting?, , Ans. Both animals are collecting food for themselves,, , D. What food is a favourite for both of the animals?, , Ans. Little bugs are a favourite food of both.
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2., , E, What does squirrel say to magpie?, , Ans. Squirrel tells magpie that it is sqirrel’s garden., F, What does magpie say to squirrel?, , Ans. Magpie tells squirrel not to take its snack., , G. Find four words that mean the same as ‘quarrel’., Ans. Fight, arguing, squabbling, bicker., , H. x, , I. x, , Jum, Answer the questions about these lines from the poem., | watch and wonder, Why must they bicker?, , A. Who is the narrator watching?, , Ans. The narrator is watching the squirrel and the magpie., B. What does bicker mean?, Ans. Bicker means to argue about trivial matters., , cx, , Rhyming words, , Son ovshkt wn, , . Kind- find, , . Nuts-ruts, , . Day-way, , . Snack-back, , . Base-race, , . Din-in, , . Bicker-quicker, . Yell-well
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Cy, , 1M, , h the words nA w, Abbreviations, , ith the abby eViations in 6., are short forms, , 22, hs cal], , , , Sometimes we write short forms for n, , Sunil Datta, Enid Blyton, , AITO,, S. Datta, , Exaniyole, , § Blyton, , John Foster Dulles LF. Dulles, , Write these Names using short forms, , 4 George Bernard Shaw, b. Charles Dickens, , © William Makepeace Thackeray, , d. Your own name, , X Use the following in sentences of your own, Be, , careful, the meaning changes, when the words are split!, , . nobody b. somebody, anyone d. no body, e some body f anyone
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20k at Che following sentence, The goat drank the water, The goat’ is the subject of the sentence., , drank’ is a verb., , the water’ is the object of the verb ‘drank’, , verb,, We can find the object of a verb by putting the words who or what after the, , The goat drank what? He drank the water, , the water is the object of the verb ‘drank’, , Find the objects of the verbs in the following sentences., , | The squirrel eats nuts,, , 2. The old man built a new house. ', 3, My father killed a very large cockroach., , 4 My uncle lost an extremely valuable watch, , 5. The farmer caught the chicken,, , 6 Eat your vegetables!, , ). She shouted at the Magpie in the garden., , Note that some verbs don’t have an object., Example The boy slept, , The sun rose., , The old man walked, , My father and mother left, , The beautiful girl was breathing., , 1, All these words contain the letter z, What are they?, a The noise made by a bee b MZ., b. An animal like a horse, with stripes Zeb 24.0, c. Aplace where you might see this animal, d. Not hard-working; sluggish and idle, © Asharp tool with which to shave
