COMPREHENSION
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1. What had happened to Jody’s
father?
Answer: A rattlesnake had
bitten Jody’s father.
2. How did the doe save Penny’s
life?
Answer: It was the doe whose
heart and liver saved Penny’s life. The doe was killed when a rattlesnake
had bitten Penny. He used its heart and liver to extract the poison. It was a
home remedy in which the doe’s heart and liver were used to save Penny’s life.
3. Why does Jody want to bring the fawn
home?
Answer: Jody wants to bring
the fawn home because it has become an orphan. Jody killed its mother to save
his father’s life. So, he doesn’t want to leave the fawn alone. Otherwise, It
would die due to starvation.
4. How does Jody know that the fawn is a
male?
Answer: Penny, Jody’s father once told him that a male
fawn has spots in line but the female fawn has spots in random.
5. Jody didn’t want Mill-wheel with him
for two reasons. What were they?
Answer: The first reason was
that he didn’t want to show his disappointed face if he didn’t find the fawn or
it was dead. The second reason was that he didn’t want to show his lovely
meeting when he found the fawn.
6. Why was Mill-wheel afraid to leave
Jody alone?
Answer: Mill-wheel thought
that Jody is not familiar with the forest. He could lose his way to home or
could be bitten by a snake. So, he was afraid to leave him alone.
7. How did Jody bring the fawn back
home?
Answer: First of all, he
slowly stroked its neck, then put his arms around it, picked it up, and walked
through the bushes in the forest. After some time, he took rest as he was tired
carrying the fawn. He recalled his father’s words that a fawn follows if it’s
been first carried. Jody tried his best and found that the fawn started
following him after some time. When they reached home the fawn could not climb
the stairs. Jody picked it up in his arms and took it inside the home.
8. Jody was filled with emotion after he
found the fawn. Can you find at least three words or phrases which show how he
felt?
Answer: The three words or
phrases are:
Delirious – when he stroked the fawn’s neck the touch made him
delirious.
Lightened with joy- when he realized that it was his fawn, he was
lightened with the joy.
The boy’s eyes were as bright as the fawn - when he came
home with the fawn, it seemed to his father that the boy’s eyes were as bright
as the fawn.
9. How did the deer drink milk from the
gourd?
Answer: The deer didn’t know
how to drink from the gourd. It drank the milk from Jody’s hand. First, he put
the milk in the gourd but after smelling the deer didn’t know what to do. Then,
Jody dipped his fingers into the milk and put his fingers into the fawn’s mouth
so it could drink the milk.
10. Why didn’t the fawn follow Jody up
the steps as he had thought it would?
Answer: The fawn had no idea
about how to climb stairs or the steps. It lived in the jungle and was not
familiar with the situation. So, he failed to follow Jody when it reached home.
The same thing happened when Jody offered it the milk to drink.
WORKING
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93
1. Why did Penny Baxter allow Jody to go
find the fawn and raise it?
Answer: Penny allowed him to
do so because he was feeling guilty for taking its mother’s life and leaving
the fawn to starve. He agreed to Jody’s request of bringing the fawn and
raising it. He felt a sense of responsibility towards the fawn.
2. What did Doc Wilson mean when he said,
“Nothing in the world ever comes quite free”?
Answer: Since the doe was
killed by Penny to save his life, it was then his responsibility to take care
of the fawn and let it not die out of starvation. It would be unthankful to
leave the fawn alone. This is what Doc Wilson meant when he said “Nothing in
the world ever comes quite free”?
3. How did Jody look after the fawn,
after he accepted the responsibility for doing this?
Answer: Jody tried his best
and cared for it as its mother would. When he found the fawn he gently stroke
its neck and then put his arms around its body. He covered its face from the
vines while taking it home. He carried it in his arms until it was tired. When
he reached home he offered it milk to drink and also helped it to drink milk
using his fingers. So, we can say that Jody accepted his responsibility and
carried out it well.
4. How does Jody’s mother react when she
hears that he is going to bring the fawn home? Why does she react in this
way?
Answer: She was surprised when she heard that Jody was
going to bring the fawn home. But, when Jody told her that he was getting to
bring the fawn whose mother saved his father’s life, she became
speechless. She didn’t want a wild animal in her home. Besides, she said that
had nothing to feed the fawn except milk which Jody had to scarify. The reason
for her such reaction is that she wasn’t present at the time of the incident
when Penny had been bitten by the snake and that they killed the doe. Also, she
didn’t have food to feed the fawn except for milk.
WORKING WITH LANGUAGE PAGE 93
1.
Here are some questions indirect speech. Put them into reported speech.
(i)
Penny said, “Do you really want it son?”
(ii)
Mill-wheel said, “Will he ride back with me?”
(iii)
He said to Mill-wheel, “Do you think the fawn is still there?”
(iv)
He asked Mill-wheel, “Will you help me find him?”
(v) He said, “Was it up here that Pa got bitten by the snake?”
Answers:
(i) Penny asked his son
if he really wanted it.
(ii) Mill-wheel asked if
he would ride back with him.
(iii) He asked
Mill-wheel if he thought the fawn was still there.
(iv) He asked Mill-wheel
if he would help him find him.
(v) He asked if it was up there that Pa had got bitten by the snake.
2. Say whether the verb in each sentence below is transitive or intransitive. Ask yourself a ‘what’ about the verb. (For some verbs, an object is a person, so ask the ‘who’ instead of ‘what’).
(i)
Jody then went to the kitchen.
Ans: Intransitive
(ii)
The fawn wobbled after him
Ans: Intransitive
(iii)
You found him.
Ans: Transitive
(iv)
He picked it up.
Ans: Transitive
(v)
He dipped his fingers in the milk.
Ans: Transitive
(vi)
It bleated frantically and butted him.
Ans: Intransitive, Transitive
(vii)
The fawn sucked his fingers.
Ans: Transitive
(viii)
He lowered his fingers slowly into the milk.
Ans: Transitive
(ix)
It stamped its small hoofs impatiently.
Ans: Transitive
(x)
He held his fingers below the level of the milk.
Ans: Transitive
(xi)
The fawn followed him.
Ans: Transitive
(xii)
He walked all day.
Ans: Intransitive
(xiii)
He stroked its sides.
Ans: Transitive
(xiv)
The fawn lifted its nose.
Ans: Transitive
(xv)
Its legs hung limply.
Ans: Intransitive
3. Here are some words from the lesson.
Working in groups, arrange them in the order in which they would appear in the
dictionary. Write down some idioms and phrasal verbs connected to these words.
Use the dictionary for more idioms and phrasal verbs.
|
close |
draw |
make |
wonder |
scrawny |
|
parted |
clearing |
sweet |
light |
pick |
Answer:
The given words would appear in the dictionary as –
|
clearing |
close |
draw |
light |
make |
|
parted |
pick |
scrawny |
sweet |
wonder |
Some idioms and phrasal verbs connected to these words are:
Close: close down, close by.
Draw: draw stumps, draw-back.
Make: make or break, make for.
Wonder: no wonder, a nine days’ wonder.
Scrawny: scrawny chickens, scrawny persona.
Parted: take part, part and parcel.
Clearing: clearing out, clearing off.
Sweet: sweet dreams, sweet sixteen.
Light: light up, bring to light.
Pick: pick and choose, pick up.
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