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Let’s Start, , , , , , , , , ® Analyse yourself and find out three good and three bad things in Your behavioy, |, write them in the given space :, , a, ee —_———, , toys or books, etc. with he, friends or cousins. Sheen;, always quarrelled with then, badly. ) Gué! *to her bac, attitude, Sheena Started, losing h r, friends one by, , fk one. Soon Sheena grew up, and it was the time for her, to go to school., , Even in school she had no, ) friends. After few days, a, , English-3
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new girl joined the school. Her name was Mia. She was very simple,, quiet and shy girl. She was not very intelligent. She became Sheena’s, , rh friend. Sheena used to dominate her but Mia had no problem. One day,, * their class teacher scolded Mia badly for not doing her homework, properly and there were lots of mistakes. All other students started, making fun of Mia. She sat quietly without saying a word. When, Sheena came back from school, she told this incident to her mother., , , , sna Her mother asked Sheena to help her. Sheena replied shrugging her, shoulders, “What can | do if she is so dumb?” Her mother scolded, Sheena and said, “That is not a nice way to talk of your friend. Let me, eq tell you a story about kindness.” Her mother narrated her the story of, by an ant and a dove. She told her that how once an ant was drawning in, water and a dove helped the ant by throwing a leaf into the water so, that the ant could safely float on it to reach the bank of the river., , Her mother further narrated that one day when a bird catcher came to, catch the dove and threw his net on it, the ant came running to save, the dove. It nipped the arm of the bird catcher sharply and saved the, , ey English—3
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eee et a a ieee ca 4, Ns Wwe Pe, , life of the dove. “My child, learn something from this story that if, are good to others, then they too will be good to you.” o, , Yo,, , , , , , , , , , , , , The next day, Sheena helped Mia to solve her problems in studies. \, thanked Sheena for helping her., , The same day their class teacher, appreciated Mia for, , improvement in her work. Mia, again thanked Sheena and, Sheena’s heart was filled with \, , happiness. She was feeling very, good today. After few days,, Sheena had a fight with some, students. She was ordered to stay back, after school. She was punished. Sheena was, feeling bad and unhappy. The punishment was that, she had to clean all the classrooms. This was very humiliating for her., She started crying but suddenly a voice came, “I! am with you.” As”, Sheena turned back to see, she was happy to see her friend Mia., , English
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Oe, , ‘mia told her that she would help, her in cleaning the classrooms., Sheena understood the, meaning of being good to, others. From that day, Sheena, decided to be a good girl., , Sheena’s mother was happy to Me, see the good behaviour of her, daughter., , LC eelgeeee, aw M > dei PRISON, spoiled : bad, quarrelted : put up a fight, dominate : control, direct, incident : happening,, , \ episode, shrugging : moving in gesture of indifference, dumb : quiet, scolded : rebuked,, called hard words, narrated : told appreciated : admired, humiliating : shameful., , , , , , © Evaluate Yourself, , A. Choose and tick (v’) the correct answer., !, , Rs pbacoanencs me, , 4. Sheena’s parents used to fulfill her every :, , (a) need O (b) demand O (c) wish, , 2. Sheena grew up to be proud, selfish and :, , (a) polite o (b) foolish 5 (c) rude, , 3. Miawasa girl., , (a) intelligent ©) (b) simple Y (c) angry, , 4. Sheena hada with some students., , (a) quarrel O (b) argument O (c) fight, 5. Mia helped Sheena in cleaning the :, , (a) house 3. (b) classrooms O (c) stairs, , a é&, , O 9 OQ &
