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How the first letter was written, , Warming up., , Page 121, , Q.1, , Q.2, Name: Rajesh Malhotra, Words: hot, jar, tram, mesh, heat, lame, share, hare, , Q.5, , 1. Names of people: In Latin the name 'Jose' is pronounced as 'Hose'. The name Xi in Chinese is pronounced as, ‘she’ and the English name ‘Sean’ is pronounced as ‘Shawn’., 2. Name/es of place/es: The name of a town ‘Muvattupuzhe’ in Kerala is not pronounced the way it is written., The last three letters are pronounced as ‘rh’ with a roll of the tongue.

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I will get the information from the net or ask people when I want to know the correct pronunciation of names, or places., , Passage 1., , Page 122, , A.1. Simple factual activities, , 1., 2., 3., 4., , Beaver swamp. and Wagai river, Shark's teeth at the end, Broke it clean across, any extra spears, , A2 Complex factual actovoties, , 1. The author is telling the story to us, the 'Best Beloved'., 2. Tegumai lived in a cave, wore few clothes, did not know how to read and write and was usually, happy except when he was hungry., A3. Activities based on Vocabulary, , 1. O best beloved, 2. a. Cautious, b. Curious, c. Spoilt, , A4. Activities based on contexual grammar, , Underline the main clause in the following sentence, , 1. And she was Tegumai Bopsulai's Best Beloved and her own Mummy's Best Beloved, and she was not, spanked half as much as was good for her, and they were all three very happy., Page 123

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2. One day Tegumai Bopsulai went down through the beaver swamp to the Wagai river to spear carp-fish, for dinner, and Taffy went too., 3. They were miles and miles from home and Tegumai had forgotten to bring any extra spears., Page no 123, A5 Personal Response, , Answer: Yes, I like to watch movies on pre-historic man and also like to read stories about them. I enjoy, getting to know how they lived with minimal amenities and their evolution to the modern man we are today., , Passage 2, Question 1., Complete the diagram: (The answers are given directly and underlined.), Answer:, , A2 Why had Taffy stamped her foot?, Answer:, Taffy stamped her foot because she saw a shoal of very big carp going up the river just when her father couldn’t, use his spear., A3 Give the meanings of the following expressions and use them in sentences of your own :, 1. a pretty kettle of fish, 2. make the best of a bad job, Answer:, 1. a pretty kettle of fish : a messy situation., Sentence: “What a pretty kettle of fish!” exclaimed the old man when he saw the ruined house., , 2. make the best of a bad job: do something as well as one can under difficult circumstances.Sentence: When he, found that he had broken the switch while repairing it, he tried to make the best of a bad job by taping it, together., A4 In the sentence coordinating conjuctions are used .hence the clauses can be considered coordinate clauses., Page no 124, 1“Here’s a pretty kettle of fish” ! said tcngumai

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‘It will take me half the day to mend this’, A5 What is your opinion of Taffy?, Answer:, Taffy was smart and wanted to help her father. She felt no shyness or fear when she saw the stranger and did, not think twice before speaking to him. She was upset when she saw that her father was losing a big catch, because his spear had broken at the wrong time., Passage 3 Page no. 124, Simple Factual Activity., , Question 1., Write whether the following statements are True or False:, Answer:, , Tegumai did not speak to the stranger because he was busy – True, The stranger was impressed with Taffy – True, Taffy wanted the stranger to help her father repair his spear – False, Taffy could read and write well – False, Complex Factual Activity., , Question 1., What did the stranger make of Taffy’s stamping her foot?, Answer:, The stranger thought that Taffy was a very wonderful child because she stamped her foot at him and made, faces., , Question 2., Why did the stranger offer Taffy a big piece of birch-bark?, Answer:, The stranger offered Taffy a big piece of birch-bark to show that his heart was as white as the birch-bark and, that he meant no harm., Activities based on Vocabulary., , Question 1.

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Write the antonyms of the following from the passage :, , Idle, Fake, Rudely, Humble, Answer:, , Idle × busy, Fake × genuine, Rudely × politely, Humble × haughty, Activities based on Contextual Grammar., , Question 1., Your legs are longer than mine. (Rewrite using the positive degree of comparison.), Answer:, My legs are not as long as yours., , Question 2., “Don’t bother grown-ups,” said Tegumai to Taffy. (Rewrite in reported speech.), Answer:, Tegumai ordered Taffy not to bother grown-ups., , Personal Response., , Question 1., What do you think about the stranger?, Answer:, The stranger seems to be very simple and foolish. He cannot understand Taffy’s body language and the nonverbal communication. He interprets Tegumai’s behavior too in the wrong manner. He seems to be in awe of, Tegumai and Taffy, thinking that Tegumai is a haughty chief.

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Page no. 125, Passage 4, A.1. Simple Factual Activity: Name the following:, Ans 1. Bead and seed and shark-tooth., Ans 2. Her father fishing., Ans 3. The black-handled spear., Ans 4. The shark’s tooth., , A.2., Ans 1., The shark’s tooth on the stranger’s necklace was a magic shark’s tooth. He had been told that if anybody touched, it without his permission, that person would immediately swell up and burst. Taffy had touched it without his, permission, but she hadn’t swollen swollen up or burst. This made the stranger’s admiration for Taffy grow., Ans 2., Taffy’s drawing is not at all realistic. It does not show the true picture of Tegumai. The black-handled spear,, which Taffy wanted the stranger to fetch, looked as if it was sticking in Tegumai’s back. Her hair was standing, up in the picture, which it didn’t in real life. The stranger, who was nice, was not depicted as being ‘pretty’., A.3., Ans. Match the following: 1., 2., 3., 4., , Wonderful, - child, Magic, - tooth, Beautiful, - pictures, Black-handled - spear, , A.4., Ans (1) The stranger-man remained silent., Ans (2) You must refrain from joggling., A.5., Ans. When he says ‘some people’ he means the city dwellers of the modern age. The author has created a, humorous mixture of the past and the present., Passage 5

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A1, , Answer:, , A2 Taffy’s drawing is not realistic. She had put the spear in the stranger’s hands, when he did not have any spear., The beavers did not look like beavers and only the heads could be seen. The cave looked as high as the hills,, which it was not. The spear was actually inside the cave but she had drawn it outside the cave., A3 1. ‘fended’ and, 2. ‘splain’ with their proper spellings., Answer:, 1. offended, 2. explain., A4., Pick out four adverbs from the passage., Answer:, very, hard, scratchily, really, quite, inside, etc., 1. She is the most beautiful Mummy there ever was., 2. She’ll be pleased with me., Do as directed., Question 1., The cave isn’t as high as the hills. (Rewrite using the comparative form of the adjective.), Answer:, The hills are higher than the cave., Question 2., I haven’t put in all the beavers. (Rewrite beginning ‘All the beavers …, Answer:, All the beavers haven’t been put in (by me)., Do you think that giving clear directions to someone, narrating an incident clearly, etc. is important?, Answer:, Yes, it is. If your directions are not clear, people may land up at a different place, or do something completely

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different from what you intend. If a story or an incident is not narrated logically, people may get confused or, bored., Passage 6, Question 1., Complete the following statements: (The answers are given directly and underlined.), Answer:, 1. The Stranger-man looked at the picture and nodded very hard., 2. The Stranger-man raced off into the bushes like the wind., 3. Tegumai had mended his spear and was carefully waving it to and fro., 4. “It’s a little berangement of my own, Daddy dear,” said Taffy., Complex Factual Activities., How did the stranger interpret Taffy’s drawing?, Answer:, When the stranger looked at Taffy’s drawing, he thought that the beavers she had drawn were the Chiefs, enemies who were coming up from all sides with spears. According to the stranger, the Chief was afraid that his, enemies were hiding in the bushes and would see him. Therefore he had turned his back on the stranger and let, Taffy draw a picture showing his difficulties. This was the stranger’s interpretation of Taffy’s drawing., What mistaken notions made the stranger race off like the wind?, Answer:, After looking at the picture, the stranger thought that Tegumai would be slain by his enemies who were coming, up from all sides with spears. Hence he raced off to get help for him from his tribe., Write the noun forms of:, 1. wise, 2. pleased, Answer:, 1. wise – wisdom, 2. pleased – pleasure., Question 2., Write the adjective forms of:, 1. feared, 2. picture, Answer:, 1. feared – fearful/fearless/feared, 2. picture – picturesque/pictorial., Pick out the adjectives in the following sentences:, 1. He let the wise and wonderful child draw the terrible picture., 2. Now I see why the great Chief pretended not to notice me!, Answer:, 1. wise, wonderful, terrible, 2. Great

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Pick out the adverbs in the following sentences:, 1. The stranger nodded very hard., 2. He was carefully waving his spear., Answer:, 1. very, hard, 2. Carefully, Is it possible to promise that one will be surprised?, Answer:, No, it is not possible. Surprise is a spontaneous and not a pre-planned emotion. If one promises such a thing, then one is prepared for it and will not be surprised. This is a promise one can make to a small child., Pg 128-129, PASSAGE 7 (textbook pages 77 and 78), A1. Simple Factual Activity, Number the sentences according to their occurrence in the Story, (1) The Neolithic ladies sat on the stranger-(3), (2) The stringer ran for some miles-(1), (3) Teshumat pulled his hair-(4), (4) He found Teshumat at the door of her cave-(2), PASSAGE, The Stranger-man-did you know …… Isn’t it shocking!’, A2. Complex factual activities, 1) What was the stranger's impression of Teshumai Tewindrow?, Ans- The stranger thought that Taffy was very like Teshumai Tewindrow, especially about the upper part of the, face and the eyes., 2) What terrible message had Taffy's drawing conveyed to her Mummy?, Ans- Taffy’s drawing conveyed the message that the stranger had stuck Tegumai full of spears and frightened, Taffy so that her hair stood all on end. Teshumai thought that Tegumai’s arm was broken and he had a spear, sticking into his back. She also thought that there was a man with a spear ready to throw, another man throwing, a spear from a cave and a whole lot of people coming up behind Tegumai., A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:

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(1) Find and write the expression where the author addresses the audience directly in the passage., Ans. - Isn’t it shocking!’ , Look!’, (1) out two humorous expressions from all the Neolithic ladies sitting patiently on the Stranger man’., Ans. - 1.all the Neolithic ladies, 2. sitting patiently., A4. Activity based on Contextual Grammar, (1) Pick out the verbs in the following sentences and state their tense:, (1) He had run hard so that he panted., Ans. had run – past perfect tense panted- simple past tense., (2) He has stuck my Tegumat all full of spears., Ans. has stuck – present perfect tense, A5. Personal Response, Did you enjoy reading the story? Write down one message it conveyed to you, Ans. Yes, I enjoyed the story. The message it conveyed was that if one does not communicate properly and clearly,, it can lead to a lot of misunderstandings., Pg No -130, , LANGUAGE STUDY ACTIVITIES., (Based on vocabulary and grammar), , (A) A1 Simple Activities, (1) Write two compound words from the lesson., Ans: fireplace, drawing-room., (2) Make a meaningful sentence using the phrase ‘to and fro’, Ans: The old woman ran to and fro in search of her son., (3) Spot the error and correct the sentence:

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He done this to show that his heart was as white as the birch-bark., Ans: He did this to show that his heart was as white as the birch-bark., , Five-letter words, , Six-letter words, , Seven-letter words, , Eight-letter words, , drawn,, shore,, sword, , window,, wander,, estate, , shutter,, smatter,, maestro, , estimate,, minutest,, meditate, , (4) Pick out the infinitive from this sentence: That’s the spear I want you to fetch., Ans: to fetch-infinitive., Sentence: The poor little girl was told to fetch water from the well., (5) Identify the type of sentence:, Please lend me the shark’s tooth off your necklace., Ans: Imperative sentence., *(6) Make as many 5 – 8 letter words as you can within five minutes from the name: Teshumai, Tewindrow:, , (7) Form the present and past participle from a verb in the lesson in which the last letter is doubled., Ans: slip – slipped, slipping, (8) Punctuate the following: I can’t make you pretty in the picture so you mustn’t be offended, Ans: I can’t make you pretty in the picture, so you mustn’t be offended., A2. Medium -Level Activities, (1) Use the word ‘hair’ and its homophone in two separate sentences:, Ans: a. The hare rushed away when it saw the jackal., b. The actress coloured her hair red., , (2) “Don’t bother me,” said Tegumai to Taffy. (Rewrite using indirect speech.), Ans: Tegumai instructed Taffy not to bother him., (3) Teshumai was talking to some other ladies. (Use the present continuous tense of the verb.), Ans: Teshumai is talking to some other ladies., (4) The birch-bark was handed to Teshumai by the Stranger-Man. (Change the voice, beginning ‘The StrangerMan’.), Ans: The Stranger-man handed the birch-bark to Teshumai., (B) Challenging Activities:, (1) He stood on the bank and smiled at Taffy. (Rewrite as a simple sentence.), Ans: Standing on the bank, he smiled at Taffy., , Pg No 131

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(2) She is the most beautiful mother. (Make it comparative.), Ans:She is more beautiful than all other mothers., , Page 131, Q1 1 Answer:, The ‘Stranger-man’ was a very simple and ignorant person. He was so innocent and ignorant that he thought, that Tegumai was a great tribal chief merely because he ignored him. He was polite enough to disregard, Tegumai’s rudeness in ignoring him. He admired every action of Taffy’s, drawing his own wrong conclusions, from them. He did not even object when Taffy pulled the shark’s tooth from his necklace. He again jumped to, wrong conclusions when he saw Taffy’s drawing, and without even waiting to consult Tegumai he rushed off to, do Taffy’s bidding. This was very unwise of him, because Taffy’s mother drew her own wrong conclusions, from the drawing. He was cool, calm and polite when he met Teshumai, even though he was tired, his legs were, scratched with brambles and Teshumai was rude to him., , Pg 132, 2 Answer:, Neolithic Cave, Bopsu Forest, Rassamalai, 28th July, 2020, Dear Stranger-man Uncle,, I am Taffy, the girl who gave you the drawing on the birch-bark two days back and sent you to my Mummy, with it., When we reached home that day, Mummy told me j that you had come with the birch-bark. She also told me, what she had understood from my drawing, and how she had treated you. I was really horrified., Stranger-man Uncle, I am really very sorry for what happened to you. I did not know that Mummywould, misunderstand my drawing and beat you up. Please i accept my apology. See, I am not spoilt like people say. I, am sorry for what happened. I will learn to write j properly so that such things do not happen again., From a sorry little girl,, Taffy., 3 Answer:, I reached the cave and saw the little girl’s mother standing there with some other women. I recognized her, immediately, for she looked very much like the little girl. Relieved, I handed over the birch-bark to her. I, thought that she would immediately call upon the other members of the tribe to go to the Chiefs help but she did, nothing of the sort., Page 133

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Tegumai Bopsulai:, Answer:, The meaning of Tegumai is Man-who-does- not-put-his-foot-forward-in-a-hurry. He lived up to his name when, he showed patience in mending his spear and did not just rush off home or send Taffy back to get another spear., He also did not ask Taffy too many questions about what she had been doing when he was busy repairing his, spear, or about her conversation with the Stranger-man. He was patient and cautious., Taffimai Metallumai:, Answer:, The meaning of Taffimai is Small-person- without-any-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked. She lived up to her, name in the way in which she ordered the stranger ‘Come here’, stamped her foot and called him silly. She, wanted the stranger to do her bidding and she succeeded in it. She pulled off the shark’s tooth from his necklace, without his permission. She would not tell her father what she had done and she wanted him to promise to be, surprised. This was a silly thing to do but he did it., Teshumai Tewindrow :, Answer:, The meaning of Teshumai is Lady-who-asks- very-many-questions. Though she did not ask many questions,, she talked and shouted continuously at the poor stranger. She drew wrong conclusions and she spoke, continuously to her friends telling them all that she had understood from Taffy’s drawing.