English Teachers Manual

Contents
1. Spark English-Teachers Manual Book I 2

2. Spark English-Teachers Manual Book II 10
3. Spark English-Teachers Manual Book III 19
4. Spark English-Teachers Manual Book IV 31
5. Spark English-Teachers Manual Book V 45
6. Spark English-Teachers Manual Book VI 59
7. Spark English-Teachers Manual Book VII 73
8. Spark English-Teachers Manual Book VIII 87
Revised Edition, 2017
Shubharambha Publication Pvt. Ltd.

Kathmandu Nepal
Spark English Reader - Book I Teachers Manual
Spark English –Teachers Manual
UNIT-1 2. Take help of the poem.

3. Take help of the poem.
Fun with Reading 4. Take help of the poem.
Story Time: The Quarrel 5. The correct words are:
1. Unscramble the letters. spaghetti, baguette, swallowed, steady, nervous
a. settle b. kernel c. settling 6. Answer the following.
d. teacher e. belongs 1. Yeti is a large hairy creature.
2. Match the words. 2. Betty met the yeti in the mountains of Tibet.
Quarrel-fight 3. Betty cooked spaghetti for the yeti.
Woods-jungle 4. Betti baked a baguette for the yeti.
Shell- hard outer covering of a nut 5. Yeti said, "Mmmm. The best one yet."
Settle- solve 6. The answers may vary.
Apt- just, suitable Fun with Grammar
Kernel- the soft fruit inside the nut he, we, he, she, she
3. Correct the following sentences. Fun with Creative writing
a. Prem and Jeevan were going home after the The man runs.
school. The boy washes dish.
b. They found a large nut under a tree. The bird flies.
c. The teacher divided the nut into two equal parts. The little cat sleeps.
d. The boys got none of the nut. Mac is a dog.
4. The correct order is: a, g, f, b, c, e, d UNIT-2
5. Who said the following expressions?
a. Prem b. Jeevan Fun with Reading
c. Ms Kamala d. Ms Kamala Story Time : The Fox and the Little Red Hen
6. Answer the following questions. 1. Who said the following.
a. Prem and Jeevan were good friends. a. Mamma Fox b. Papa Fox
b. They were coming from school. c. Papa Fox d. Mamma Fox
c. They found a nut on the way. e. Baby Foxes f. Papa Fox
d. Prem saw it first. 2. Choose the correct words.
e. Ms Kamala was their teacher. a. little b. foxes
f. The problem between the boys was who did the c. woods d. in
nut belong to. e. front
g. Their teacher solved the problem by dividing it 3. Match the following words with their meaning.
into two equal parts. Grab- to hold suddenly
7. Possible sentences. Pantry- a small room where food is kept
Large: We saw a large elephant in Chitwan. Peep out- look out
Under: The cat slept under the sofa. Quick as a flash- very quickly-
Run: We must not run in the street. Snuck up- to move in quietly
Pick: She picked up an apple. Woods- land covered with trees
Agree: I agree with your opinion. 4. Answer the following questions.
Poem Time: Betty Met a Yeti a. The Little Red Hen live in a little white house.
1. Match the following. b. The Papa Fox smelled fresh cake and a little red
Mountains- plains Best- worst hen.
End- beginning Never- always c. The Little Red Hen was eating a cake.
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d. The Papa Fox kept the Little Red Hen into the Places ----------- Nepal, Pokhara, India, China
bag. Birds ------------ dove, pigeon, peacock, eagle
e. The Little Red Hen found scissors. People ----------- Jane, Jim, Raju, Hari, Sita
f. The Little Red Hen put a big stone in the Papa 4. Look at the pictures and unscramble the letters to
Fox's bag. match their names.
h. The foxes' family never again tried to catch the Eagle
little red hen because they were badly burnt by Snake
the boiling water. Umbrella
5. Take help of the story. drum
6. Make sentences. Fun with Creative writing
Want: I want a beautiful cat. Answers may vary
Find: I found a pencil under the bench. Fun time
Run: Suman can run very fast. a. principal b. puppy
Smell: I like the smell of the rose. c. pencil d. present
Held: The teacher is holding a duster in her hand. e. piggybank f. pilot
Take: Please, take my book.
Stop: Stop making noise. UNIT-3
Keep: I always keep my room tidy.
Spill: She spilt a glass of milk in the kitchen. Fun with Reading
Clap: Clap your hands. Story time : The Hen that Laid Golden Eggs
Poem Time 1. Write T for true and F for false statements.
1. Choose the correct word. a. F b. T c. F d. T e. F
a. visit b. go 2. Match the words.
c. came d. That's Greedy- mean Happy- glad
2. a. 1st , b. 3rd c. 2nd d. 5th or last e. 4th Rich- wealthy Bitterly- sadly
3. Take help of the poem. Rushed- ran towards
4. Take help of the poem.
5. Choose the correct words from the list. 3. Find these lines in the story and check the
a. bike b. boat answers.
c. sled d. whoa 4. Make sentences.
e. grandparents Greedy: We should not be greedy.
6. Answer the following questions. Golden: I like golden colour.
a. The boy wants to visit his grandparents. Rich: Ram wants to be rich.
b. No, the boy cannot take a boat to see his Sharp: The whale has sharp teeth.
grandpa. 5. Correct the spelling.
c. The boy cannot take a sled to see his grandma greedy, looked, rushed, surprised, special, single,
because there is no snow. bitterly, stomach
d. Yes, the boy loves his grandparents. 6. Choose the correct verb.
e. Yes, the boy met his grandparents because they a. lived b. became
came to see him. c. decided d. would
Fun with Grammar e. died
2. Underline the nouns in the following sentences 7. Answer the following questions.
and write them in the blank spaces. i. There were four members in the farmer's family.
a) I want to visit dentist. ii. One of the hens was laying a golden egg.
b) I can ride a bicycle. iii. They kept the hen in the special house.
c) The cat is sleeping. iv. They killed the hen to be wealthy taking out
d) He goes to school. the golden eggs form the hen's stomach.
e) She is a teacher. v. No, they did not get any eggs after killing the
3. Match the following nouns according to their groups. hen.
A B Poem Time
Vegetables -- - Tomato, Chilli, Peas, Brinjal Magic Pencil
Animals ------- - cat, dog, snake, tiger, bear A. Take the help of the poem to check the answer.
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B. Find the lines in the poem and check the 7. Answer the following questions.
sentences. a. Mother duck sat on the eggs to keep her
C. Find the lines in the poem and check the eggs warm.
sentences. b. The ugly duckling came out of the last egg.
D. Answer the following. c. No, the other ducks did not like him.
a. The speaker in the poem likes a shiny yellow d. The hen asked the ugly duckling if he could
pencil. lay egg.
b. Yes. e. When the ugly duckling put his head to the
c. The speaker likes to draw animals, things and water he saw himself a white swan.
people with his magic pencil. Poem Time: I Wish It Would Rain
d. They are spaceship, house, bear and ducks. 1. Find these lines and in the poem and
e. His yellow shiny pencil is magical fairy wand. complete them.
E. Make sentences. 2. The rhyming words are:
Answers may vary. Some possible answers: sky- dry lane- rain
Like: I like reading books. tea- see shining- blowing
Rub: I use eraser to rub. 3. Find these lines and in the poem and arrange
Draw: I can draw a ship. them accordingly.
Want: My brother wants to play with me. 4. Find these lines and in the poem and choose
Use: He uses my sharpener. the correct word.
Fairy: The fairy came and blessed her. 5. Answer the following questions.
a. What does the speaker wish?
Fun with Grammar The speaker wishes it would rain.
he, he, she, he, he, she, it, we b. Is there cloud in the sky?
Fun with creative writing No, there is not cloud in the sky.
Help the students do the exercise using the c. How is the weather?
information about them. The weather is dry.
Fun Time d. What does the speaker have?
lamp, bird, fridge, water The speaker has an umbrella.
UNIT - 4 e. Why does the speaker wish it would rain?
The speaker wishes it would rain to use his umbrella.
Fun with reading
Fun with Grammar
Story Time: The Ugly Duckling Now complete the following sentences by using
1. Fill in the blanks with the correct words from the these/those.
list. Use these to show the things that are near and
a. under b. sat on those that are far from the speaker.
c. came out d. into Fun with creative writing
e. down to Help the students do the exercise using the
2. Make sentences. information they provide.
Ugly: I saw two ugly ducklings.
Big: She lives in a big house. Fun Time
Walk: Don't walk fast. Tick the best answer.
Swim: Fish swim in water. 1. That apple 2. This apple
4. Find the words in the text. 3. That 4. Those
Duckling, Turkey, Splash, Corner, Children, 5. Those 6. These, that
Winter UNIT-5
5. Who said the following?
a. The mother duck Fun with Reading
b. The cat Essay Time : My village
c. The mother duck 1. Choose the correct word to fill in the gaps.
d. The ugly duckling a. hills
e. The old woman b. different jobs
6. Punctuate. c. natural beauty
Find the sentences in the story and correct them.
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d. Sherpas lemon, lemons cap, caps
2. Match the following words to make sentences. apple, apples
A farmer works in the farm. B. Correct plural form
A teacher teaches in a school. a. Children b. teeth
A bus driver drives buses. c. mice d. geese
The Hindus celebrate Dashain. e. men f. feet
The Buddhists follow Buddhism. C. Correct plural noun
3. Give correct answer to the following a. pennies b. scars
questions. c. dishes d. peaches
i. Answer may vary. e. calves f. cherries
ii. Dingla is in Bhojpur district. g. wishes h. pouches
iii. The main occupation of the Dingla people is i. wolves j. foxes
farming. D. Identify singular and plural and keep them in the
iv. The writer's closet neighbor is Ramesh. right box.
v. Hindus celebrate Dashain and Tihar. singular plural
4. Correct spelling errors. guava, banana, pineapple, mangoes, oranges,
a. people/village b. villagers/honest peach, strawberry, watermelons,
c. other d. lives sugarcane, fig cucumbers
e. gentle/innocent/behavior
5. Look at the fourth paragraph of the essay and Fun with creative writing
punctuate the text. Help the students tell about their village. Give them
6. Make sentences. idea about writing a letter.
Work: Farmers work in the field.
Engage: The people in village engage in different UNIT 6
works.
Teach: My father teaches in the school. Fun with Reading
Flow: The river flows down the hills. Story Time: The Shepherd Boy and a Wolf
Help: We must help the poor. 1. Correct the spelling.
Poem Time: Wayne the Stegosaurus V Running, village, sheep, dropped, tomorrow,
1. Find the stanza in the poem and check the attacked, matter, lesson, terrified, tree
missing words. 2. Match the words in column 'A' with their
2. Look at the third and fourth stanzas and meanings in column 'B'.
match the sentences. Liar ----------------------------a person who tells lies
3. The correct order is: c, a, d, b Ignored ----------------------- neglected
4. Answer the questions. Grumble ---------------------- complain
a. Wayne thinks the sky is chocolate brown. Pounced --------------------- attached
b. Wayne a bow tie on his tail. Terrified ---------------------- very afraid
c. Wayne hides covering his eyes while playing hide 3. Who said the following?
and seek. a. the boy b. the villagers
d. at night c. the boy d. the boy
e. Wayne is happy when he is ill. e. the boy
f. There are six stanzas in the poem. 4. Answer the following questions.
g. Tree rhymes with freeze. i. The village was near a forest.
h. Three words are long, wide and tall. ii. The boy spent time playing the flute while
g. Some species of dinosaurs are tyrannosaurus the sheep were grazing.
rex, spinosaurus, deinonychus, carnotaurus, iii. The villagers stopped their work and ran to
allosaurus, etc. help the boy when they heard the boy.
5. Unscramble the words. iv. The wolf attacked the boy after it had eaten all
bananas, brain, freeze the sheep.
Fun with Grammar v. Yes, the villagers were angry with the boy.
A. Singular or plural 5. Find the lines in the story and do the
tree, trees chair, chairs necessary correction.
6. Make sentences.
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Help: I help my father in his work. UNIT 7
Hear: I heard a strange noise last night.
Call: I call my uncle every day. Fun with Reading
Spend: I do not like to spend money. Story Time: Torn Doll
Come: Please, come in. 1. Write 'True' or 'False' against the following
Poem Time: Bring Me a Letter sentences.
1. Unscramble the letters and make words a. False b. False
derived from the poem. c. True d. True
Letter, Tomorrow, Fairy, Postman, Garden, Frock e. True
2. Find a rhyming word for each from the poem 2. Match the following words with their correct
and supply one from your own. meanings.
You- do- coo Mend ------------------ - repair
Tea- be -pea Pleasant ------------- - beautiful
None- fun -gun Effects ---------------- - results
3. Find the words from the poem. Annoy ----------------- - make angry
a. tomorrow Porch ----------------- - verandah
b. garden 3. Find the words.
c. frock Pretty little girl Proper places
d. fun Great harm Pleasant yard
e. tea Open air Pet dog
4. Find the lines in the poem and match them. Happy time Nicest doll
5. Find the lines and complete them. 4. Locate the given lines in the story and find the
6. Answer the following questions. missing words.
a. The postman brings me a letter. 5. Answer the following questions.
b. The girl will wait at the garden gate for the a. Mary was pretty, but careless girl.
postman. b. No, her mother was not happy with her habits.
c. The fairy is going to come to tea. c. She kept her books and playthings where
d. She is going to wear a party frock at the she had used them last.
party. d. Das was the girl's pet dog. The dog tore
e. The letter will bring fun to the girl. Mary's doll.
Fun with Grammar e. Mary promised her mother not to be
1. Write a or an. careless in the end.
A nest A coin Poem Time: My Phone
A candle A globe 1. Choose the correct word.
An owl An aeroplane Tons, fifty, store, nifty,
2. Write a or an. 2. Match the lines looking at the poem.
a. a b. a c. an 3. Complete the lines looking at the poem.
d. the, a e. an f. a 4. Look at the poem and arrange the lines
correctly.
Fun with creative writing 5. Answer the following questions.
A cap seller was sleeping under a tree. a. The phone in the poem has one hundred
Monkeys took his caps and climbed the trees. and fifty rings.
After sometime the man woke up. b. The phone in the poem can download
He saw that the monkeys had taken all his caps. music, take photos, and make videos and
The man thought of an idea to get his caps back. movies.
When threw his cap, all the monkeys threw the caps. c. The speaker's phone can predict the
He collected all his caps. weather.
And he walked away happily. d. People used their phones to talk to people.
Fun time e. flash- splash, rings- things
a. sum b. lemon Fun with Grammar
c. gold d. ball 2. Make sentences for the following pictures as in
e. milk f. cherry the given example.
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She is my friend. iii. The hare ran very fast.
He is my brother. iv. The tortoise ran slowly and steadily.
They are camping. v. The hare took a nap.
I am flying kite. vi. The tortoise won the race.
Fun with Creative Writing
Make sensible sentences rearranging the following Poem Time: The Rainbow
words. 1. Find the words from the poem that rhyme with
i. I am flying kite. these words. One has been done for you.
ii. We are good friends. Rainbow know
iii. We are playing hide and seek. Sky by
iv. He is reading a story book. Sunlight sight
v. It is raining. Seen green
Answer the following questions. Blue too
a. Rameshwor is seven years old. 2. Arrange the following lines as they appear in
b. His brother is Som and sister is Soni. the poem.
c. Rameshwor and Shyam are good friends. There is a rainbow
d. Rameshwor and Shyam are active. In the sky
Now complete the following paragraph giving Do you know
similar information about your friend. How it came by?
Help the students complete the paragraph with 3. Unscramble the letters and make seven
suitable information they like. colour words found in the rainbow.
Red Yellow Indigo
Fun Time Green Violet Blue
Across 4. Look at the poem and number the lines.
1. mouth 2. house 5. Look at the poem and find the missing parts.
3. towel` 4. loud 6. Answer the following questions.
Down i. The rainbow is in the sky.
1. mouse 2. hell ii. The drops of water and sunlight gave pretty
3. doll 4. desk sight.
Unit 8 iii. We can see seven colours in the rainbow.
iv. I like red among the seven colours. (Answer
Fun with Reading
may vary)
Story Time: The Fastest Animal Fun with Grammar
1. Complete the following sentences. 1. Write the following, filling each blank space with a
a. proud b. fastest noun which pairs with the one given.
c. he challenged d. tortoise Man and woman
e. fast f. nap Boy and girl
g. tortoise Son and daughter
2. Match the following. Brother and sister
Proud- having a feeling of pride Grandson and grand daughter
Fixed- arranged Father and mother
Crawled- walked Actor and actress
Steadily- firmly King and queen
Nap- a short sleep Uncle and aunt
3. Spot the letter a. Prince and princess
years, fastest, challenged, anyone, laughed, Sir and madam
snail, crawled, steadily, towards, congratulation Husband and wife
4. Who said the following? Host and hostess
Hare, Hare, Hare, Tortoise, Hare 2. Match the following.
5. Answer the following questions. Prince- ---------------- Princess
i. The hare lived in a forest. Master- -------------- Mistress
ii. The hare thought himself as the fastest Monk- ---------------- Nun
animal in the earth.
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Tiger- ----------------- Tigress f. The cricket said to the ant.
Dog ------------------- - Bitch g. The cricket said to the ant.
Stag ------------------- - Goose 6. Make sentences.
Fun with Creative Writing Answers may vary.
1. Let the students collect information themselves and Poem Time: I am the Happiest!
complete the table. 1. Find the words from the poem that rhyme with:
2. Can you tell the name of each? The word in the Care---------------------- - fare
box will help you. Kite ---------------------- - night
1. I am a doctor. 2. goalkeeper Run ---------------------- - fun
3. pilot 4. motorist Please ------------------- - ease
5. English 6. artist Toy- ---------------------- joy
7. typist 8. farmer See- ---------------------- me
9. postman 10. guard/ watchman 2. Find the sentences in the poem and match
UNIT 9 them.
3. Choose the correct words.
Fun with reading
gives, shows, give, buy
Story Time : The Ant and the Cricket 4. Find the lines in the poem.
1. Tick the correct sentence from the pairs. 5. Read the poem and answer in one word.
a) The ant was very hard working. a. father b. friend
b) The cricket was very lazy. c. granny d. sister
c) The ant played the flute. e. teacher
d) The winter was coming soon. Fun with Grammar
e) The cricket had no food to eat in winter. 1. Add -ing and make new words like in the
f) The cricket was very hungry. examples.
g) The ant gave food to the cricket. Walking Blowing Jumping
2. Complete the sentences. Cooking Crossing Seeing
a. an ant Smelling Shouting Peeling
b. a cricket Visiting
c. hardworking, lazy Rewrite the given sentences adding -ing to the
d. ant, cricket words given.
e. winter eating, watching, watering, playing, swimming,
f. The cricket went to ask help from the ant. standing, crawling
g. sympathetic Fun with creative writing
3. Find the opposite words. 1. Hari is eating.
Lazy- hardworking Summer- winter Sita is sleeping.
Stand up- sit down Near- far Bijaya is throwing a ball.
Nothing- something Inside- outside Ritu is cleaning her room.
Stronger- weaker Cold- hot Maya is cooking rice.
Slow- fast Punishment- reward Janet is jumping.
4. Answer the following questions. Jim is washing.
a. The cricket was very lazy. Rosy is ironing her clothes.
b. The ant was very hard-working. 2. mending, fixing,
c. The cricket played the flute. cooking, teaching,
d. The winter season was coming soon. playing
e. The ant saved food for the winter. UNIT-10
f. The cricket was very hungry.
g. The ant helped the cricket. Fun with reading
5. Who said the following expressions and to whom? Story Time: The Crow and the
a. The cricket said to the ant. Pitcher
b. The ant said to the cricket
1. Write True or False.
c. The ant said to the cricket.
a. True b. False
d. The cricket said to the ant.
c. False d. False
e. The cricket said to the ant.
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e. False Fun with Grammar
2. Tick the correct option. 1. Change the following sentences into negative.
a. clever a. They are not running.
b. thirsty b. She is not watching T V.
c. by dropping pebbles into the jug c. He is not talking on the telephone.
d. there was very little water in the jug d. I am not riding a bicycle.
3. Find the opposite words. e. We cannot play chess.
Dull- clever Far- near f. You will not meet him.
Noisy- quiet Strong- weak g. It is not flying high.
Sad- happy Absence- presence h. I shall not call you tomorrow.
4. Answer the following questions. i. She is not washing clothes.
a. Crow had built his nest on a tree near the 3. Write in contracted forms.
village. a. doesn't b. didn't c. shan't
b. The crow was clever. d. couldn't e. hasn't f. shouldn't
c. The crow saw a house on the lakeside while
he was searching for something to eat. Fun with Creative Writing
d. The crow felt so thirsty because he flew for a a. Complete the following paragraph about your
long distance. school.
e. The crow put a lot of pebbles in to the (Answer may vary)
pitcher. So the level of water rose up. Then My School
he became able to drink water. The name of my school is New Creative English
5. Make sentences. Boarding School. It is in Balaju, Kathmandu. It
Search: The crow search for water. was established in 2062 B.S. There are 14
Curious: I am curious to learn new things. classrooms in my school. My school provides
Jump: The monkey jumps on a tree. education up to grade ten. There are about 300
Sneeze: Do not sneeze without covering your students in my school. My school has two
nose. buildings. There is a big playground. We can play
Delighted: My uncle was delighted to see me. different games during tiffin hours and sport
classes. We have a library at school. We can
Poem Time: I Lost my Head read the books we like in the library.
1. Find the opposite words. b. Write a short paragraph on 'The Dog'. Take help
Forward- backward Today- yesterday of the following questions.
After- before Last- first (Answer may vary)
Lose- find Happy- sad The Dog
Up- down Evening- morning The dog is a pet animal. It is a four- footed
Finished- started Under- above animal. It has two ears and two eyes. The dogs
2. Read the poem and find the missing words. are of different colours. Some dogs are very big
3. Read the poem and match the lines. but some are very small. It has curve tail. it eats
4. Read the poem and arrange in order. different foods as we provide. But it likes meat
5. Correct spelling. the most. It has sharp teeth. A dog is very useful
remove, nightstand, stretch, stumbled, tumbled, for us because it guards our house. They are
shortly harmful too. Sometimes they may bite us. I have
6. Answer the following questions. a small puppy at home. I like to play with it every
a. Each night, the speaker removes his head before evening. I like it a lot.
he goes to bed. Fun Time
b. The speaker puts his head back on his neck in tight, kite, sight, white, knight, height, fright, right,
the morning. might, night, bright, site, flight, bite, invite, delight,
c. Yesterday, he put his head on backward. write.
d. No, the speaker did not find his head.
e. No, he will be sad.
f. bed: head
gone: on
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Spark English Reader –Book II Teachers Manual
UNIT - 1 Kathmandu. She was called Daisy. She had a

Fun with Reading brother. His name was Kamal. They had tamed a
Story Time : Bad Company small white rabbit. It was very clever.
A. Good or bad activity 2. Identify the proper and common nouns in the list
bad, good, good, bad and rewrite them in the respective columns.
proper nouns common nouns
B. Match the words with their meaning.
Pokhara, Rita, Dharhara, school, shoes, dog,
a. rich- wealthy
India book, doves, shop
b. correct- to make right
c. company- friends
Is doing what?
d. happy- pleased
when?
e. advice- suggestion
What?
C. Complete the following sentences:
Who?
company, worried, rotten, happy, bad
Why?
D. bad, bad, good, bad, good
Fun Time
E. Answer the following questions.
Ask students to find messes themselves.
i. The boy was bad.
ii. The boy's father planned to set his father UNIT - 2
right. Fun with Reading
iii. The man bought some rotten apples. Essay Time: Clever Parrots
iv. The boy put the apples into the almirah. 1. Fill in the blanks with suitable words or phrases
v. Yes, the boy gave up his bad habits at the from the list.
end. a. colorful
Poem Time: With A Friend b. Buds, fruits and nuts
A. Find rhyming words from the box as in example. c. Holes
talk walk chalk d. Zoo, pet shops and homes
play clay stay e. Naughty
eat sit beat 2. See if you can guess the following words. All the
ride pride bride words are in the text.
much such touch colourful, beak, egg, wild
near dear hear 3. Rearrange the following words.
B. Write any four things that the speaker shares with a. Parrots are beautiful and intelligent birds.
his friends. b. They can be taught to speak.
Umbrella, bicycle, plaything, tiffin c. Parrots are too mischievous.
C. Name any four things that you can share with d. We can see parrots in the zoo.
your friends. (Answers may vary) 4. Make sentences using the following words.
Plaything, tiffin, pencil, book beautiful: Rita is a beautiful girl.
D. Fill in the blanks with appropriate information break: Parrots can break a hard nut.
from the poem. lay: A hen lays eggs.
i. his friends clever: My dog is very clever.
ii. He plays with a bicycle. dance: Peacock can dance well.
iii. He sometimes disagree with the friend complain: She always complains about her
iv. A friend can mean so much to him. studies.
E. Supply the missing words in the following verse. 5. Answer the following questions.
You can look back at the poem if you want. a. Yes I have seen a parrot.
I can eat with a friend b. A parrot eats fruits, nuts and buds.
And compete with a friend c. We can teach them to speak.
And even sometimes d. Yes, parrots are found in Nepal.
Disagree. e. Parrots harm the farmers their ripe corns and
Fun with Grammar fruits.
1. Read the following paragraph and underline Poem Time: I Wonder Why
names of persons, places and things. 1. Find words from the poem that rhyme with the
Once upon a time, there was a beautiful girl in following.
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rest, green, suppose, sky, found, about a. The goat had six children. False
2. Read the poem again and complete the following b. The wolf had rough voice. True
lines. c. The wolf made his paws white and clean. True
a. We cannot see the wind. d. The children ate the wolf. False
b. Birds build their nests. e. The mother killed the wolf. True
c. The stars give us light. f. The mother took out all her children from the
d. We can see the rainbow in the sky. wolf's stomach. True
e. The poet tells the trees to take a rest. 3. You can see a list of words in the box below.
3. Match the words in Column A with the suitable Choose the appropriate words and complete the
word in Column B. following sentences.
That which cannot be seen - invisible a. The old mother goat had seven children.
When the moon is not quite round - crescent b. She went to the market
A person who paints - painter c. The wolf came there pretending to be the
A person who writes poems - poet mother goat.
4. Answer these questions. d. The wolf swallowed six children.
i. The grass is green in colour. e. The mother goat cut open the wolf's
ii. The birds make nest. stomach.
iii. The trees take rest. f. The wolf fell into the well.
iv. The stars twinkle at night. 4. The following sentences are from the story. They
v. The lightning flashes. are not in correct order. Read them carefully and
Fun with Grammar number them in the box as they occur in the story.
2. Look at the following sentences and do the same a. The children saw his black and hairy paws
with the sentences given below. and said "No, you are not our mother." 3
a) The boys are tall. b. As soon as the mother goat left, the children
b) The girls are clever. started playing. 1
c) Her hands are dirty. c. The seven kids danced and shouted, "The
d) The trees are big. wolf is dead! The wolf is dead!" 5
e) They are naughty d. The wolf crawled out in the yard, laid down
Fun with Creative Writing under a tree and went to sleep. 4
1. Ask the question to the students and collect their e. The children recognized the wolf's voice and
responses. Make them write their responses in a said, "You are not our mother! Your voice is
paragraph. deep and rough." 2
2. Write a few sentences about your favourite bird. You 5. Use the following words in your own sentences.
can include its colour, what it eats, where it lays protect: The house protects us from rain and sun.
eggs, where you can see it, what it can do, etc. careful: We should be careful while chopping
Parrot fruits.
I am a bird lover. My favourite bird is parrot. Many pretend: The wolf pretended like the mother goat.
parrots are vividly coloured, and some are multi- thirsty : The man was thirsty.
coloured. They eat seeds, nuts, fruit, buds and swallow : The snake swallows the grog.
other plant material. Almost all parrots nest in 6. Answer the following questions.
tree hollows (or nest boxes in captivity), and lay a. The mother goat had seven kids.
white eggs from which hatch young. They imitate b. The mother goat went to the market.
human voices enhances their popularity as pets. c. The voice of the wolf was rough.
Trapping wild parrots for the pet trade, as well as d. No, the wolf did not kill all the kids. He only
hunting, habitat loss and competition from swallowed them.
invasive species, has diminished wild e. They saw the wolf sleeping under a tree.
populations, with parrots being subjected to more f. The mother goat cut open the wolf's
exploitation than any other group of birds. stomach to take the kids out.
Fun Time g. They were happy because the wolf died.
Ask students to find themselves. Poem Time: Silver Fish
a. Find the words that rhyme with the following
UNIT - 3 words from the poem.
Fun with Reading Fro--------------- go
Story Time: The Wolf and the Seven Kids Glen ------------- then
1. Read the story again and say whether the Clay- ------------play
following sentences are 'True' or 'False'.
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Fishes- -------- passes c. First time, God came out with golden axe.
2. Find the words from the poem that are opposite d. God gave him three axes.
in meaning to the following words. e. Wood cutter was honest.
big - little 2. Complete the following sentences supplying the
dark : bright correct words from those given in the box.
unpleasant .: pleasant axe, Mercury, silver, honest, happy
ugly : pretty 3. Find the following words in the story. Look them
3. One word is missing in each line of the following up in the dictionary to find their meaning and use
verse. Supply the missing words from the given them in sentences of your own.
options. Unfortunately: Unfortunately, they lost the match.
Little silver fishes Shining: We can see the stars shining at night.
Darting to and fro, Happy: She looks happy.
I can see you shining Reward: The principal gave us a big reward.
As you come and go. Honesty: Honesty is the best policy.
4. One word has been wrongly spelled in each line 4. Answer the following questions.
of the following verse. Underline the words and i. The woodcutter was cutting down a tree when
replace them with the correct words. his axe fell into the river.
bright, merrily, pleasant, summer ii. The God brought out a golden axe in his first
5. Answer the following questions. dive.
i. The little fishes swim very quickly. iii. Woodcutter accepted the axe when the God
ii. The fishes play very merrily. came out of the water with an iron axe.
iii. The summer day is very pleasant. iv. The woodcutter was an honest person.
iv. In winter, fishes remain inside water as it is v. The God gave him all three axes because he
very cold. was pleased for his honesty.
Fun with Grammar 5. Who said the following- the God or the
A. Fill in the blanks and complete the given woodcutter?
sentences correctly using ‘was’ or ‘were’. a. Why are you weeping? God Mercury
a. I was .at the party yesterday. b. Is this your axe? God Mercury
b. Dhurmus was helping people in Kavre. c. My axe fell into the river. Woodcutter
c. Dhaniya and Rambilas were acting on TV. d. Mine was not so beautiful. Woodcutter
d. Jigri and Rakshya were singing and dancing. Poem Time: Colours
e. Chamsuri was cooking rice. A. Match the following.
B. Let the students make sentences and check Pink ------------- rose
them. Blue ------------- sky
Fun with Creative Writing White ----------- goose
1. Complete the following paragraph giving information Green -----------grass
about your English teacher. B. True/ False
Our English teacher's name is Kabita Tamang. False, True, False, True
She is from Kavre. She has been teaching in our C. Answer the following.
school for three years. She is 4'8'' tall. She i. The cloud floats through the sky.
always comes to school in school uniform. She is ii. The cloud looks violet in the summer twilight.
kind to students. She loves all students. She iii. Grass is green in colour.
teaches us well. She never gets angry with iv. Black, purple, yellow.
students. She always teaches students to be D. From the poem find the words that rhyme with
honest, disciplined and hardworking. She every the following. One has been done for you.
time makes our English class funny and pink : brick red : bed
interesting. She encourages us to speak in blue : through white : light
English language. Everyone likes her a lot. violet : twilight
2. Answer may vary. Fun with Grammar
UNIT - 4 1. Pronouns
Fun with Reading A) Underline the pronouns in the following sentences.
Story Time: God Mercury and the Woodcutter a. Pramod is a tailor, he stitch clothes.
1. Correct the following statements. b. Rekha is a cobbler, she mends shoes.
a. The woodcutter was cutting down the tree. c. Cat is a domestic animal, it lives at home.
b. The God Mercury heard the cry. d. Biraj and Niraj are pilot, they fly an aeroplane.
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e. I and Binaya are writer, we write books. use: We should use CFL bulbs.
B) Read the following sentences carefully and fill in the 5. Replace the dashes with the correct letters to
blanks with appropriate pronouns of the coloured make the words in the clues.
nouns. Pollution, electricity,
a. Nepal is a landlocked country. It is in Asia. recycle, reuse,
b. The radio is new, it is very expensive. earth, reduce,
c. Bhoj Raj and Suraj do business. They are 6. Rearrange the words.
business man. The earth is our home.
d. Bharat is very talented. He can do the best. Trees are important for us.
e. Boys are playing, they are very happy. The people are destroying trees.
The earth gives us everything.
Fun with Creative Writing 7. Answer the following questions.
Now write a similar application asking for a two-day i. Our earth gives us food to eat, air to breathe,
sick leave. home to live and many more.
Balaju, Kathmandu ii. Some people are harming our earth by cutting
April 20, 2017 down the trees.
To iii. Trees keep the earth's temperature cool.
The Principal, iv. We should use CFL bulbs.
National Academy v. The go green mantra is reduce, reuse and
Dallu, Kathmandu recycle.
Poem Time: My Kite
Subject: Sick leave
1. Circle the rhyming words for each word from the
Dear sir, given choices. All the words are taken from the
With humble request I would like to beg for a day’s poem.
sick leave for two days. I am suffering from common a) AIR- ANYWHERE
cold and fever. I had been to hospital yesterday. The b) FREE- ME
doctor has advised me to have a rest for two days. I will c) BEEN - SEEN
cover my missed lessons as soon as I get recovered. d) WORD- HEARD
Your obedient student, e) GLIDES - FLIES
Jeevan Prajapati 2. Match the questions to the answers. Write the
Class- II correct number in the box.
Roll No: 15 a. What is the title of the poem?
The title of the poem is 'My Kite'.
UNIT - 5 b. How does the kite fly?
It glides gently through the air.
Fun with Reading c. What does the kite meet in the sky?
Essay Time: Go Green It meets the birds, the clouds and the sun.
1. Match the words given in Column A with their d. Did the kite reply the boy?
meaning in Column B. No, he didn't.
Necessities- ----------- needs 3. Complete the sentences with words from the
Survive- ---------------- live poem.
Harmful- ---------------- dangerous a) flies b) look c) meets
Preserve- --------------- protect d) happy e) word
Air conditioners- ------ air coolers 4. Make sentences.
2. Read the text and complete the sentences. glide: The kite glides through the sky.
a. home b. air c. landslides fly: My kite flies very high.
d. destroying e. trees f. CFL meet: I will meet you during the break.
3. Answers may vary. tell: The teacher told us a beautiful story.
chair, table, window, door, pencils, black board, hear: Can you hear me?
etc. Fun with Grammar
4. Make sentences. Answers may vary. a. a b. a c. an d. an e. a
important: Trees are important for us. f. an g. The h. a i. the
survive: We cannot survive without air. Fun with Creative Writing
protect: We should protect our earth. 1. My Best Friend
preserve: We should preserve our resources. Rameshwor is my best friend. He is from Gorkha.
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He is a student. He is eight years old. He has two ii. The flowers mentioned in the poem are
brothers and a sister. He studies in grade two Lilies, Pansies and daffodils.
with me. He is good at studies. He is friendly to iii. I feel happy when spring comes because l love
everyone. to hear birds singing, flowers blooming and the
2. Complete the letter. greenery in my surrounding.
parents....glad.......importance.......green....... 3. Write True or False.
clean......... clean........... calamities.....furniture .... a. True, b. True, c. False, d. True, e. True.
domestic ........ conserve ...... Fun with Grammar
Fun Time 1. Help the students with the use of plural verbs
Fill the crossword by choosing the correct option in the (read, play) that agree with the plural subjects
following paragraph. (monkeys, they, her brothers), and the singular verbs
From Monday to Friday, I (8) get up at 6 :00 (runs, buys, climbs) that agree with the singular
o'clock in the morning. I (6) make my bed before subjects.
going to school. I (5) take a shower every morning. I 2. Make sentences as given in the example.
(3) start school at 7 :30 am and I (1) finish my classes i. She washes dishes.
at 2 :30 pm. I always (2) brush my teeth after each ii. The children play hide and seek.
meal. I (4) wash my uniform in the afternoon. I (9) iii. The boys go to market everyday.
do my homework everyday. I usually (7) eat dinner at iv. The girl cracks jokes.
eight o'clock. v. Tom and Jill watch television.
vi. My brother talks on the telephone.
UNIT - 6 3. Circle the correct verbs.
a. asks, b. gives, c. drives, d. takes, e. makes, f.
Fun with Reading play, g. visit, h. come.
Essay Time: A Greedy Boy Fun with Creative Writing
1. Make sentences using the following words and A. Tick the correct words and complete the text.
phrases. is, deals, visits, loves, Ramu, X, go, love
Greedy: Peter was a greedy boy. B. Write ten sentences. Answers may vary.
Take out: Peter could not take his hand out of the i. He is carrying an umbrella.
jar. ii. A school bus is plying on the road.
Search for: Rahul searched a jar for nuts. iii. A lady is walking in the foot path.
Realize: She realised her mistake. iv. A boy is playing paper boat in the rain.
2. The correct spelling is: v. It is raining heavily.
greedy, hungry, fortunately, because vi. A man is riding a bike.
3. Who said the following? vii. A boy and his mother are walking in the rain.
a. mother b. Punte c. Punte d. Punte e. mother viii. There are many vehicles on the road.
4. Choose the correct words from the list and fill in ix. A man is travelling by on tampo.
the blanks.
i. greedy ii. mother UNIT - 7
iii. narrow iv. handful Fun with Reading
v. hurried vi. nuts Biography Time: Bhanu Bhakta Arharya
5. Answer the following questions. 1. Make sentences.
i. Peter was very greedy. clever: Parrot is a clever bird.
ii. His mother was worried because she could want: I want to become a doctor.
not improve her son's manner. impress: I impressed my teachers.
iii. The boy found a jar full of nuts. decide: We decided to play in the rain.
iv. The boy began to cry because his hand was 2. Write 'Yes' or 'No'.
trapped in the jar. Yes, No, No, Yes, Yes, No, No,
v. Yes, the boy ate nut at last. 3. Fill in the blanks.
vi. From the story, we learnt not to be greedy. Born, brahmins, books, grandfather, action, age
Poem Time: Spring Song 4. Answer the following questions.
1. Match the words. i. Bhanu Bhakta was clever, active and full of
coming- going, best-worst, now-then, zeal in his childhood.
joy-sadness, together-separately
2. Answer the following questions. ii. The grass cutter wanted to make a pond.
i. The birds make their nest by weaving straw, iii. Bhanu Bhakta learnt to serve human beings
feathers and leaves. room the grass cutter.
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iv. Bhanu Bhakta Aacharya enriched Nepali b. Hans put the needle in the hay.
literature by writing many good poems and c. The meat was eaten by the puppy.
books. iv. The butter melted in the sun.
v. Bhanu Bhakta died in 1925 B.S. v. Han's mother called him foolish.
5. Supply the correct information in the table. 3. Fill in the blanks correctly.
Father Dhananjaya Aacharya cottage, butter, sleeve, behind, puppy
Grand-father Sri Krishna Aacharya 4. Match the following.
His books Ramayan, Bhadhushikshya Needle ---------- hay
Place of birth Chundi, Ramgha of Tanahun Knife ------------ sleeve
Puppy ----------- pocket
Poem Time: Rainy Nights 5. Put the words in right order to make sensible
1. Find words from the poem that rhyme with the sentences.
following. b. You told me to put it in my pocket.
wet-jet, glass-pass, skies-lies, street-feet c. He put the knife carefully inside his sleeve.
2. pool- pond d. Hans tied the meat with a string and
gleam- shine dragged it along behind him.
pass- cross e. Granny, can I take this puppy home?
magic- spell 6. Make sentences.
3. Take help of the poem. drag: The workers dragged a big log.
4. Answer the following questions. dusty: The room is very dusty.
i. Yes, the speaker likes the rainy season. look after: She looks after her brother.
ii. The pools seem like velvet skies in the rainy find: I couldn't find my lost pencil.
nights.
Poem Time: Rain in Summer
iii. The speaker sees a fairy city in his feet.
1. Find the similar words.
iv. The author is Irene Jhompson.
attractive: beautiful, dirt: dust, wide: broad, like
Fun with Grammar
fire: fiery, flows: gushes, glass: pane
C. State the frequency.
2. True or False.
b. He goes to temple once a week.
False, True, True, True.
c. He visits his maternal uncle once a year.
3. Answer the following.
d. He goes to fun park once a month.
a. The poet describes the rain as very beautiful.
e. He plays tennis once a day.
b. (ii) the sound made by the feet of running
D. The correct sentences are: horses
a. They always have dinner in the morning. c. It gushes out from the spout.
b. Once a year, Gurungs go to tour. d. The other rhyming words are: rain-lane, roofs-
Gurungs go to tour once a year. hoofs, out-spout, pours-roars, wide-tide.
c. Nikesh goes to the cinema twice a month. 4. Take help of the poem.
d. My father reads newspaper everyday. 5. Take help of the poem.
e. He never tells lies. Fun with Grammar
f. Jeevan goes shopping once in three months. A. Complete Reema's daily routine.
g. We always have lunch at home. gets up, makes, takes, starts, finishes,
Fun with creative writing brushes, washes, does, eats, watches.
A. Activities that we normally do everyday are: B. Use 'do not' or 'does not'.
reading newspapers, listening to radio or music, a. Anju doesn't work in the kitchen.
watering flowers, washing clothes, brushing teeth, b. The children do not play kabaddi at school.
going to school.
c. Mundre does not go to temple every morning.
B. Answers will vary.
d. Badri does not watch news on TV.
UNIT - 8 e. Balchhi does not catch fish in the river.
Fun with Reading: Careful Hans Fun with creative writing
1. sleeve, cart, hay, cottage, string A. Complete the following sentences.
2. Answer the following questions. i. read ii. watch
a. Han's grandmother lived in a small cottage. iii. play iv. eat iv. have
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B. Choose the correct verbs. 3. Answer the following questions.
get up, prepares, goes, a. The boy lost his doll in the heath.
works, is, dies, b. The doll's colour was gone, arms were broken
fixes, takes, helps, and hair was damaged.
washes, watches, reads, c. Answers will vary.
helps, cleans, visit, Yes, I have doll at home. My granny bought it for
go, love, have me.
UNIT - 9 d. Answers will vary.
Fun with Reading My doll is very beautiful. It wears pink dress.
Fun with Grammar
Story Time: Thumbelina 1. What time will you get up tomorrow morning?
1. Put the letter 'e'. I will get up at 6 o’clock.
children overnight polished 2. When will your brother arrive?
Thumbelina nibbled passageway My brother will arrive very soon.
2. Write Right or Wrong. 3. Where will your father go next month?
a. x, b. , c. , d. , e.  My father will go to Jomsom.
3. Use these words in your own sentences. 4. When will you go to see the doctor?
sail: They sailed in a little boat. I will go to see the doctor the day after tomorrow.
escape: The thief escaped from the police.
break: You broke my pencil. Fun with Creative Writing.
gather: the ant gathered food for winter. She is a teacher.
4. Answer these questions. He is a librarian.
a. The woman was sad because she had no He is a chef.
children. He is a writer.
b. The woman named the tiny girl Thumbeline He is a cobbler.
because she was not bigger than a thumb. She is a gardener.
c. He took her to a field mouse's home. Unit 10
d. The little fish helped her.
e. She helped the bird by striking her feathers Story Time: A Blind Man with a Lamp
gently. A. Choose the correct answer.
f. The bird carried Thumbelina on its back to a i. see, ii. moving, iii. stupid, iv. mindless.
much warmer and beautiful place. B. The correct order is:
g. She married a king. i. They teased the blind man. (3)
5. The correct order is: ii. The lamp is for those who are careless. (4)
1. A little girl emerges from a flower iii. Once, there was a blind man. (1)
2. The girl is kidnapped by toad iv. They felt sorry for their foolishness. (5)
3. A field mouse helps the girl v. The blind man was carrying a lamp at night. (2)
4. The ugly mole wants to marry her C. Write 'T' for true and 'F' for for false statements.
5. The girl helps an injured bird true, false, true, false
6. The girl is rescued by swallow D. Answer the following questions.
7. The girl meets a prince
i. The blind man was carrying a lamp.
8. The Prince marries the girl
ii. The boys laughed at the blind man because
Poem Time: The Lost Doll
he was carrying a lamp.
1. Tick the best answer.
iii. The blind man was carrying lamp for the
a. sweet b. charmingly others.
c. health d. week iv. The two boys felt sorry at the end.
2. Match the following. v. The blind man was wiser.
The boy had a - pretty doll. E. Make sentences.
He lost the doll in - the heath. live: A frog lives in water.
He cried - for a week. cure: The doctor cured the sick man.
The colour of doll is- washed away. belong to: This book belongs to me,
The doll's arms- were trodden away. tease: The boys teased the dog.
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Poem Time: The Moon is Up e. From this story, we learn to be honest and
B. Find the words. not to be greedy.
Air- wind 3. Make sentences.
Search- seek Answers may vary.
Wealth- gold 4. Punctuation.
Find the lines in the story and supply the missing
State- main
punctuations.
Earn- gain
Beyond- across Poem Time: Tall Trees
C. Answer the following questions. 1. Complete the following like in the example.
i. The moon is in the sky. a. sleeping
ii. It is night time in the poem. b. by
iii. The wind is fresh and free. 2. Choose the best option from the list given after
iv. According to the poem, the speaker is each questions.
searching gold. a. in the earth b. in the sky
v. They are seeking the gold beyond the c. the clouds d. to rest
Spanish main. e. the moon
D. Stanza 1: stars, free, tonight, silver, sea, bright 3. Similar words.
Stanza 2: gray, old, realm, sails, main, evening: dusk, speeding: quickly, protect: shelter,
E. Before and after words. secure: safe, taking a quick look: peeping.
silver sea Earthly loss Spanish main 4. True or False.
seek for/to break out a. True, b. The birds rest in the evening: True, c.
Fun with Grammar False, d. False.
A. Change into Present perfect. Fun with Grammar
a. She has already bought vegetables. b. Underline the adjectives.
b. My parents have already worked in the i. broken ii. blue
department store. iii. smart v. busy
c. He already written a letter. v. big vi. fresh
d. I have already washed my clothes. vii. foolish viii. noisy
e. We have not cleaned the room yet. c. Answers will vary.
f. The boy has already sold his car. 2. Verb past
g. She has already leaned driving. i. They helped the poor.
h. She has just left her school. We copied answer from the board.
i. He has just watered the flowers. She wrote letters.
B. Insert just, already, yet in proper places. We liked ice-cream.
a. She has just opened the window. The boys worked hard.
b. I have not called my friends yet. The villagers burnt the forest.
c. He has already painted his house. I lent her my pen.
d. A boy has just chased a monkey. We studied hard in the exam.
e. My brother has not been to Pashupati yet. We took selfie.
f. We have already danced. Fun with Creative Writing
are.... are..... are .....
Unit 11
is ..... is ..... is ..... is .....is .....is .....is .....is
1. Write True or False.
Fun time
a. False, b. False, c. True, d. False, e. True.
Let your students do this by themselves.
2. Answer the following questions.
a. The dog was very greedy and dishonest.
b. The dog saw his reflection in the pond.
c. The dog did not grab the bread because the
bread owner was big and the dog could get
beatings if he caught the dog.
d. At the end, the dog realized that the image
in the pond was his own reflection.
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Spark English Reader – Book III Teachers Manual
UNIT - 1 Underline the predicates in the following sentences.

1. The gardener planted flowers.
Fun with Listening 2. The pilot flew the airplane.
1) Listen to the tape and complete the following. 3. The little puppy barked all night long.
Osaka, parents, job, is a householder, Nepal, 4. The barber cut the boy's hair.
travelling, cyber cafe, people, culture 5. James' baby sister slept in her crib.
Fun with Reading 6. The flag blew in the wind.
Story Time 7. The lizard ate crickets.
Let's find the facts 8. The plumber fixed the sink.
a. True/ False
i. False ii. False iii. True iv. True V. False Fun with creative writing
b. Give short answer to these questions. 1. The boys are quarrelling.
i. The farmer was digging the field. 2. A blind man is walking.
ii. When he threw his spade in the pot, one 3. A teacher is advising his student.
hundred spades appeared in the pot. 4. A girl is helping a blind man.
iii. The king was greedy.
iv. The king died in the end. Fun Time
c. Let's explore the text Where to go? Check the right place.
a. The pot is called the magic pot because 1. Butcher’s
whatever was put into the pot became 2. Supermarket
hundred folds of it. 3. Café
b. The king was greedy as he wanted the magic 4. Car park
pot although he was very prosperous. 5. Cinema
c. The king wanted to keep the magic pot in his 6. Disco
treasury. UNIT - 2
d. The farmer left the pot in the treasury to be
free from its possible risk. Fun with listening
1) Listen to the tape and write 'True' or 'False'.
Poem Time
False, False,
Let's find the facts False, True, True
a. on the boy? b. on a tree c. joy
Let's explore the text Fun with Reading
a. The poet wishes to become an apple. Yes,
Story Time
also want to be something precious and
lovely as the poet does. Let's find the facts
b. He would fall on a man's head, if he were an a. Who said the following.
apple. i. Binod
c. He would ask the boy to eat him, if he were ii. Binod
an apple. iii. Muna
iv. Binod
Fun with Vocabulary b. Give short answer to these questions.
Undo, unfair, unpaid, i. Yes, Muna was the only child of her parents.
displace, dissatisfied, display, ii. Yes, the doll became her patient.
brainless, timeless, useful, iii. Muna does not have any brothers and
tasteless, powerless, helpful sisters.
Words in use
Fun with grammar Smell: It smells good.
Choose a subject from the box to complete each Bill (v): The doctor billed me Rs. 500 for his service.
sentence. Decide: My sister decided to be a nurse.
1. My closet 2. A buzzing bee Complete: I must complete my homework on time.
3. The eye doctor 4. the house plant Change into: Water changes into vapour if it is
5. The space alien 6. A greedy dolphin. heated.
7. My mother 8. My notebook Going to: My brother is going to be an engineer.
9. A big Spider
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a. Muna does not have any brothers and sisters. Essay Time
She is the only child of her parents. Let's find the facts
b. She decided to become a doctor as a child. a. True/ False
c. Her dolls became her patients and dollhouse i. True ii. True iii. False
became hospitals. iv. False v. False
d. Good grades are important to get better b. Give short answer to these questions.
opportunities in the future. i. The children of Bhirkot played in the open
Poem Time ground in the past but they don't play now
Let's find the facts any longer because they don't get the place
a. red b. new c. lady walking d. puddles for it..
Let's explore the text ii. Yes, the people of Bhirkot were happy..
a. No lady walks in puddles. She wants to walk like iii. The Bhirkot people walked to the nearby fair
a lady. Therefore the speaker says that she will to buy and sell goods.
not step in puddles. iv. The people of Bhirkot have several
b. The speaker is going to walk like a lady. problems now like shortage of water,
c. The words like 'new', 'bright', 'red', and 'silk' tell us epidemics of disease, change in climate and
about the umbrella. many more..
d. I feel like quite delighted and refreshed when it is Let's explore the text
raining. a. Bhirkot has been changed a lot. It has changed
into a busy town from a beautiful village. It has
Fun with vocabulary lost its natural beauty. Birds no linger sing in the
Match the following synonyms. forest. The green forest has been destroyed and
Denims ------------------ jeans rivers are getting polluted.
Explode ----------------- blow up b. Bhirkot people are not healthy today because the
Extra --------------------- additional increasing pollution has caused the spread of
Famous ----------------- famed different disease. They cannot breathe in open and
Foolish ------------------- silly fresh air because of forest destruction. Moreover
Forehead --------------- brow they cannot eat fresh vegetables and fruits.
Supply the antonyms of the following words. c. The children of Bhirkot are not active but are dull
Beautiful, clean, because they cannot get open space to play and
night, happy, freshen up. So they are not good at studies.
far, small, d. I live in Kathmandu. It is also a busy town. The
bad, short place is fully covered with tall and big buildings. It
Fun with grammar is polluted too. There is no forest in my place. So
Choose a subject from the box to complete each my place resembles with Bhirkot in many ways.
sentence. Poem Time
1. a 2. an 3. a 4. an Let's find the facts
5. an 6. a. 7. a 8. the a. i. s tree
Fun with Creative Writing b. The 'I' in the first stanza grows up into a shady tree.
b. The sentences below are not in correct order. c. The 'I' is 23 years old now.
Arrange them properly. d. The 'I' feeds the worms with tiny figs.
2, 6, 3, 1, 5, 4 Let's explore the text
Now develop the following pictures into a good story. a. Mother nature cared the tree when it was tiny
Ask students to observe the pictures carefully and seed.
help them describe the pictures in past tense. b. A tree has so many branches for the children to
Encourage their own creativity. play.
UNIT - 3 c. The tree makes homes with its tiny twigs.
Fun with listening Fun with Vocabulary

1) Listen to the tape and write 'True' or 'False'. Match the following similes with their appropriate
1. False 2.True 3. False 4. True 5. False meanings.
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As cold as ice ------------- very cold Bookseller, Customer, Customer, Bookseller,
As flat as a pancake ---- completely flat Bookseller, Bookseller, Customer, Customer,
As light as a feather ----- very light Bookseller, Customer
As old as the hills -------- very old Fun with Reading
As white as snow -------- pure white Story Time
As wise as an owl-------- very wise Let's find the facts
Fun with Grammar a. Fill in the following gaps using appropriate word
Now supply the missing gender in the following list. from the box.
Male Female i. Zeus ii. Demeter
Waiter waitress iii. Persephone iv. daughter v. winter
prince Princess b. Give short answer to these questions.
Monk nun i. Zeus was the ruler of the sky and the earth.
man Woman ii. Persephone grew up in the Olympus.
Lord lady iii. Hades lived deep under the ground in a dark
landlord Landlady place.
King queen iv. Demeter was sad because someone took
Husband wife away her daughter.
host Hostess v. Persephone goes to Hades in winter season.
Hero heroine vi. Demeter taught people how to sow, reap
Steward stewardess and store grains for winter.
widower Widow Words in use
Fun with Creative Writing Make sensible sentences.
a. children's park, crowded, clean and beautiful, Rule over: The king rules over the country.
swimming, boys, skipping, on the beach Grow up: I will grow up to a young man after few
b. Remind students what they learnt about Bhirkot years.
in the text above. Then ask them to gather similar Starve: she is starving a lot.
ideas about their place. Help them compare their Rush: A boy rushed into the house.
place with Bhirkot and encourage to write on their Bless: May God bless you with happiness.
own. Bloom: The flowers bloom in the garden.
Fun Time Let's explore the text
Across a. No, I don't think this story really happened
1. as proud as apeacock because it is only a mythical one.
4. as wise as an owl 6. as blind as a bat b. Hades carried away Persephone because he fell
7. as strong as an ox in love with her.
8. as quiet as a mouse c. Demeter was the Goddess of harvest. People
10. as slippery as an eel and animals starved when she grieved .
12. as happy as a lark Poem Time
14. as hairy as a gorilla Let's find the facts
Down a. a child?
2. as playful as a kitten b. listen stories
3. as sly as a fox c. myself
5. as meek as a lamb d. The child is in the third grade now.
6. as busy as a bee e. The child is filling up her shelf with stories, poems
9. as slow as a snail and other books.
11. as brave as a lion Let's explore the text
13. as fat as a pig a. The child likes to listen each and every page that
UNIT - 4 the elders read.
b. Yes, the child can read. We know it as she is
Fun with Listening already in grade three.
1. Listen to the tape carefully and try to identify who c. as curious.
speaks these lines. Mention either “Book Seller” or d. I am now in grade three. Yes, I like reading and
“Customer” before each sentence. listening to the stories.
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Fun with Vocabulary f. The animals can show different tricks. Some of
Now, match the following sentences with their correct them can dance and write besides talking.
meaning. Poem Time
I'm not an angel‚ but Let's find the facts
I wouldn't behave like that. - Exemplary person
a. wonderful b. mountains and plains
George is a sheep. - Follower, not a leader
You are my sunshine. - Source of my life c. scientific inventions d. beautiful
He is a pig - Eats too much e. Mary Britton Miller
Kathmandu is a melting pot. - Land of diversity Let's explore the text
Fun with grammar a. I think our world is wonderful as there are
Underline the possessive pronouns in these varieties of things like rivers, animals and other
sentences. precious gifts of nature in this small earth.
i) mine ii) ours b. All natural and manmade things existing here
iii) his iv) hers have made our world wonderful.
v) its vi) yours vii. theirs c. Different things are described in the poem.
Fun with Creative Writing Among them river, houses, flowers, automobiles
Now write a similar postcard to your friend taking help and people are in my surrounding.
of the following questions.
Help students write similar postcard as presented as Fun with Vocabulary
the model in the text book. The students will think Now write what noises these creatures make.
about the guiding questions provides. Then they will Quack, crock, cluck, bleat, buzz, roar, neigh, hiss,
start writing. trumpet
UNIT - 5 Fun with Grammar
Fun with listening a) Underline the adjectives in these sentences and
1) Listen to the tape and complete the following. mention their degrees.
Jogging, comfortable, i) Pokhara is a beautiful paradise for tourists.
How much, Rs. 6000, penny positive
ii) My pencil is longer than yours. comparative
Fun with Reading iii) Bagmati is the dirtiest river I have ever seen.
superlative
Essay Time
iv) A hare runs faster than a tortoise. comparative
Let's find the facts
v) Prem has a new erazer. Positive
1. Tick the best answer.
vi) Satin Tendulkar is the best batsmen in the
i. 80 different languages ii. Sign language
world. superlative
iii. a chimp iv. Ball has died
b) Complete the following chart by supplying the
2. Match the words with their correct meanings.
correct words.
Imitate ------------------- to copy Positive Comparative Superlative
Sign ---------------------- symbol Degree Degree Degree
Dumb -------------------- one who can speak Hard Harder hardest
Aggressive-------------- very very angry Big bigger Biggest
Distressed -------------- very sad tall Taller Tallest
Communicate ---------- to talk Long longer Longest
Let's explore the text Short Shorter shortest
a. The American scientists taught chimpanzees to Costly Costlier costliest
talk. Simple simpler Simplest
b. Animals communicate by using sign language. Good Better best
c. Koko did not feel bad and did not struck back to Beautiful more beautiful Most beautiful
Ball's mischief.
d. Koko was depressed and distressed after Ball Fun with Creative Writing
had died. You stood first in your annual examination. How you
e. No, I don't think that animals can talk but they felt at that moment write about it in your diary.
can understand our sound and reply through sign Dear Diary,
language. Today our school published the result of our annual
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examination. I am extremely delighted to know that I wall.
stood first in grade three. My parents are also as v. The spider finally reached the top of the wall.
happy as I am. It is really good of me because I vi. The king learnt to to make a tireless effort to
succeeded to happy my parents. My dad while get the aim fulfilled.
returning back to home got into a shop and bought a Words in use
beautiful school bag. Mom came into my room and Attack: The enemies attacked King Bruce.
served me a special breakfast in bed. I am so happy Fight: We should not fight with others.
that I could jump out of the window. Well I have to go Hurt: Her words hurt me a lot.
because my friends are calling me from outside to Hide: King Bruce hid in a cave.
congratulate for my success. Bye Fall down: Don't run! You might fall down.
Tired of: I am tired of working in the field.
Make a diary entry about your last birthday celebration Return: My father will return back to home
in the space provided below. tomorrow.
Help students write similar diary on their own. Let's explore the text
a. Bruce was brave because he fought again
Fun Time bravely to regain his kingdom although he had
Complete the following crossword puzzle with suitable been defeated badly before.
animal sounds. b. His soldiers were very small in size compared to
Across the opponents but they were really very brave.
2. Bees: buzz Many were hurt and killed because they could not
3. Horses: neigh withstand the strong army of enemies.
5. Ducks : quack c. Bruce called the spider his teacher because it
9. Goats, sheep: bleat was spider through which he learnt to try over
10. Lions : roar and over until he got the success.
Down
1. Mice: squeak Poem Time
4. Hogs: grunt Let's find the facts
6. Birds: chirp i. false ii. false iii. True iv. True
7. Cats: mew Let's explore the text
8. Dogs: bark i. The speaker wants to ask grownups what they
wanted to be when they were small. It is because
UNIT - 6 he is always asked that what he wants to be in
future by grownups.
Fun with Listening ii. The speaker is seven years old. We know it as it
1) Listen to the tape and state whether the following is mentioned in the poem.
statements are true or false. iii. The grownups ask the poet that what he wants to
i. false ii. false iii. true be he grows up.
iv. False v. false vi. true iv. I have been asked several questions by the
grownups. They are related to my studies, family,
Fun with Reading friends, aim and so on.
Story Time v. I want to ask them many questions about their
Let's find the facts childhood experience.
a. Which of these adjectives best describe King Fun with vocabulary
Bruce? Tick the best ones. Pure is to purify as soft is to soften
Brave, kind, happy, clever, Decide is to decision as depart is to departure
courageous, innocent, thoughtful Datum is to data as phenomenon is to phenomena
b. Give short answer to these questions. Suitcases is to few as luggage is to little
i. Bruce was the king of Scotland. Dime is to ten cents as nickel is to five cents
ii. He was hiding in a cave in order to escape Wise is to wisely as hard is to hard
from his enemies. Form is to fill out as tank is to fill up
iii. He saw a spider in the cave. Soap is to bar as cigarettes is to pack/packet of
iv. The spider was trying to reach the top of the
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Fun with grammar articles as Helen Killer, the first graduate among
i. in ii. in iii. at iv. at v. in vi. In vii. At physically challenged people contributed for the
whole humanity in the world.
Fun with Creative Writing b. Jhamak possess the virtue of strong
b. Arrange a discussion among students how do determination. Though she could not attend
they pack their tiffin box. Then help to write a school, she learnt to write with her foot and
paragraph taking help of the example given in a. started to read and write. This effort helped her to
c. iii. ix. i. v. iv. Vii. X. vi. ii. viii overcome the obstacles.
c. Physical ability is not only a key to the successful
Fun Time life. Jhamak Kumari Ghimire is physically disable.
a. dove b. very c. vest d. veil e. vane She cannot move her hands and can't speak. But
she had courage. She was determined to read
UNIT - 7 and write as the able one could do. Finally she
succeeded to gain her dream. So she has proved
Fun with listening that if we have strong will power and deter-
1) Listen to the tape and try to answer these questions. mination we can overcome any obstacles and be
a) This kind of text is called biography. able to gain success in life.
b) Narayan Gopal
c) 1996
Poem Time
d) six
e) 600
Head, streams, ground, found, boot, again
Let's explore the text
Fun with Reading
a. The child imagines various things like castles with
Biography Time dragons prowling around, gardens with magic
Let's find the facts fruits, fairies locked in a tower and many more.
a. Match the following words with their correct b. The child finds in the morning that the magic land
meanings. which he imagines is just a dream.
Inspiring- fill with the urge to do something c. The speaker finds that the castles are being
Devotion- dedication prowled with dragons and the castles have
Literature- books gardens where magic fruits are found when he
Bedridden- confined to bed goes to the bed.
Pathetic- pitiable d. The world in the garden of poet's imagination is
Felicitation- congratulation very wonderful as the trees bear magic fruits.
b. Give short answer to these questions. Fun with Vocabulary
i. Jhamak Kumari Ghimire is a disable writer a. steak b. pane c. peace
of Nepal. d. hire e. whole f. wait
ii. Jhamak was born with a disease called g. their h. allowed i. groan
cerebral palsy. j. bored k. sale l. course
iii. Jhamak's parents were disappointed
because she could not stand, walk, talk or Fun with Grammar
use her hands. a. aren't I ? b. isn't he?
iv. She learnt to write with her left foot when c. isn't she? d. aren't they?
she was nine. e. haven't they? f. hasn't he?
iv. Jeevan Kanda Ki phul, Sankalpana, Quatti, g. can't they? h. won't she?
Manchhe Vitraka Yoddaharu, Aagaman etc
are the books written by Jhamak. Fun with Creative Writing
Let's explore the text Help students to fill the blanks with appropriate
a. Though Jhamak Kumari Ghimire is physically information and develop that information into a
challenged, she has made invaluable contribution paragraph in the following exercise.
to enrich Nepali literature. She cannot speak and
write with her hands but write with her leg. Fun Time
However she has published many books and 1. bakers 2. butchers
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3. newsagents 4. hairdressers Poem Time
5. jewellers 6. chemists Let's find the facts
7. greengrocers 8. dry cleaners Find the animals and their correct homes.
9. fishmongers 10. florists Dog- --------- kennel
Horse ------- - stable
UNIT - 8 Pig ----------- - sty
Rabbit ------ hutch
Fun with Listening Parrot ------- - cage
1) Listen to the tape and complete the following. Bee ---------- - hive
woke up, get up, have breakfast, have a Let's explore the text
shower, comb my hair, brush my teeth, laptop, a. The fly, the flame of the flame on the coals, the
to leave dog, the mice, the mice, the kitten and the spider
think that people are wrong.
Fun with Reading b. They say that people are wrong because
Story Time although they are in, people say that everyone's
Let's find the facts out.
a. Identify the speaker of the following statements. c. insects and pets are not out with people. So
i. Dev Datta everyone is in.
ii. Dev Datta
iii. Siddhartha Fun with Vocabulary
iv. Chief Minister Break down- A bus going to Kathmandu broke down
v. Chief Minister at the side of the road in Gaguri.
b. Give short answer to these questions. Cheer up- He cheered up when heard the exam result.
i. Dev Datta shot the swan. Dress up- She is dressing up to go to the party.
ii. Siddhartha saved the swan. Fall down- The big building fell down yesterday.
iii. Siddhartha got the swan. Find out- Christopher find out America.
iv. The chief minister suggested king to give Look after- I look after my brother in the morning.
swan to Siddhartha. Switch on- Please, switch on the light.
c. Match the following words with their correct
meaning. Fun with Grammar
i. swan- ------------ female duck Complete the following sentences.
ii. angry- ----------- furious i) I used to play with my sister.
iii. lovingly- --------- with proper love and affection ii) My father used to play games.
iv. advice- ---------- suggestion iii) My brother used to cry.
v. surprised- ------ astonished iv) Our teachers used to suggest us all the time.
v) My friends used to help me in need.
Let's explore the text vi) My mother used to go to college regularly.
a. Dev Datta came to the king's court because
Siddhartha took away his swan. Fun with Creative Writing
b. Siddhartha saved the life of swan by taking out Now write a similar essay about your school. Include the
the arrow and putting medicines on its wound. information as in the above given text.
c. Siddhartha claimed the bird because he saved its My School
life. The name of my school is Clinton English
d. The swan started trembling when it saw Dev boarding high school. It is situated Swyambhu,
Datta as he had shot the swan. Kathmandu. It was in the year 2056. It has two
e. Siddhartha got the swan because he cured the buildings with two spacious playgrounds. It is well
swan and gave it a new life. known and popular in my locality for its educational
f. Dev Datta Siddhartha services provided to its target children. I am really glad
aggressive, cruel, proud kind, compromising, to be a member of this school family.
good, just, gentle We can enjoy different facilities in my school. We
are provided with the opportunity to take part in different
indoor and outdoor games in the school. Similarly, the
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school organizes different curricular and extracurricular e) Everyone fell asleep.
activities. Really, they help us to broaden the realm of our f) Later a brave Prince revived the princess and
exposure. Moreover, our library, music and sport classes others.
are quite entertaining and knowledge giving. g) The Prince married the Princess.
There are about 550 students and 32 teachers in my b. Give short answer to these questions.
school. There are seventeen class rooms in my school. i. The king and queen wished for a child.
They are of medium size. All rooms are equal in size. ii. Twelve fairies were invited at the party.
There are good benches, desks and whiteboards in all iii. The thirteenth fairy cursed the princess
classes. They are clean and beautiful. because she was not invited.
iv. The command of the king was to destroy all
The teachers are very experienced, friendly and
the spindles in the whole kingdom.
laborious. They pay their attention to make us fully
v. The old woman did not destroy her spindle
understood. Their contribution is obviously is the main
because she did not hear the king's command.
cause of the excellent SLC result that the school has
vi. The prince succeeded to enter into the castle.
been able to achieve in the previous years. Moreover,
vii. The prince married the princess at the end.
there is also a canteen in my school. We can have
good and delicious food and Tiffin as per our interest
a. The feast was organized because the queen
in fairly reasonable price. Fresh and healthy food is
had given birth to a beautiful child.
available over there. There is also the facility of clean
b. The gift of the twelfth fairy was the princess
drinking water. We can get both hot and cold water
would fall into a deep sleep for hundred
in the canteen.
years. It softened the curse of thirteenth fairy.
However, the school is close to the ring road. So c. When the princess touched the spindle, she
we sometimes get greatly disturbed by noise pollution. fell into a deep sleep.
I think it is the need to keep the students free from d. Everything was still because they were in a
such disturbances. deep sleep. They got life again after a prince
touched the princess.
Fun Time
Tick the correct job to go with the description. Poem Time
1. pilot 2. Teacher 3. Footballer 4. Chef Let's find the facts
5. Doctor 6. Journalist 7. driver 8. Actor a. Grandpa dropped his glasses in a pot of die.
9. Farmer 10. artist b. The colour of the dye was purple.
c. Grandpa saw everything purple inside outside the
UNIT - 9 house.
d. The things that grandpa saw are sky, hill, mill,
Fun with Listening dragonflies, fires, cider, doll etc.
1) Listen to the tape and complete the following. Let's explore the text
a. The speaker loves his grandfather the most. a) Find one word from the poem that rhyme with the
b. His grandfather is 80 years old. following and supply one from your own. One has
c. The grandfather gave him a big kiss as a gift. been done for you.
d. The grandfather for jogging in the morning. Dye Sky Fly
e. The boy will be given a beautiful camera if he Hill mill fill
tops the class. Loon spoon moon
Doll wall fall
Fun with Reading
Story Time b) Mention the colour of the following things.
Let's find the facts Hill: green Forest: green
a. Rearrange the following sentences as they occur Sky: blue Your hair: black
in the story. The first one has been done for you. Your grandpa’s hair: white/ grey
a) The King and the Queen had no children
b) The birthday party was organized. Fun with Vocabulary
c) A fairy was not invited. Now make your own sentences using the given
d) The fairy cursed the king’s family. idioms.
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a) hit the nail on the head: She hit the nail on the UNIT - 10
head while talking to the teacher.
b) face the music: We must face the music while Fun with listening
doing any work. 1. Listen to the tape and circle the words you listen.
c) stick your neck out: It is not good to stick your
neck out. Fun with Reading
d) learn by heart: Please, learn by heart. Story Time
e) an old hand: She is an old hand at teaching. Let's find the facts
f) under your thumb: Be wise. You must keep a. Find the opposites of these words.
everything under your thumb. friends, comfort, spent, happily, bought, agreed
b. Give brief answer to these questions.
Fun with Grammar i. Dhan Bahadur and Man Bahadur were poor
Read the above text again and tick the correct answer. merchants.
i. Yes, she does. ii. They found two ancient boxes full of gold
ii. Yes, she does. coins.
iii. No, she does not. iii. The merchants hid the boxes in the hollow of
iv. No, she does not. an old banyan tree.
v. Yes, she does. iv. Dhan Bahadur stole boxes at a dark night.
vi. Yes, it was. v. No, Dhan Bahadur's father was not and
honest man.
Fun with Creative Writing Let's explore the text
Have you ever been sent such birthday gifts? How did a. Yes, since the beginning of the story, we knew
you feel at that time? Now write a letter expressing that Man Bahadur was good and Dhan Bahadur
your feelings and thanking for the gift. was wicked. It is because Dhan Bahadur used to
Balaju,Ktm. spend money unnecessarily whereas Man
January 14, 2010. Bahadur had a lot of money left.
My dear uncle, b. Man Bahadur lit a fire at the bottom of Peepal
tree. After that, Dhan Bahadur's father ran out of
I am pleased to receive your beautiful birthday
the Peepal tree asking for help.
gift, a good school bag. I heartily thank you for this
c. The judge was very honest and decent. Yes, I
precious gift.
liked his judgment.
I was in need of a bag. I had asked my brother to d. I think Man Bahadur was wise and honest
buy it. I am quite surprised how you knew my feeling. I because he shared the treasure with his friend
am very happy to get it. Uncle, I really missed you at although he had found it and at the end he
my birthday party. I am am planning to come to meet proved himself innocent using his wisdom.
you in winter vacation. Poem Time
I wish you a very comfortable and happy life there. Let's find the facts
Find as many body parts as you can from the word
I am looking forward to meeting you soon. search puzzle given.
Your sincerely Help students do it themselves.
Pratap Let's explore the text
i. The mice are nice because of their physical
Fun Time appearance and clever activities.
Check the right couple ii. Mice are not nice because they nibble things and
1. The aunt 2. The daughter are not worthy to touch.
3. The niece 4. The girl iii. Mice run about the house at night.
5. The father 6. The sister
7. The uncle 8. The grandfather Fun with Vocabulary
9. The nephew 10. The grandfather Now match the following single word with their correct
meanings.
Carnivorous : A flesh eating animal.
Ecology : Study of environment.
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Illiterate : One who cannot read or write. but we were still behind, so we discussed how we
Autobiography : The life story of a man written by should cope with the opponent. Finally, through our
himself. tactic, we got the first place. We were pleased of how
Pauper : One who has no money. we worked it out well to win a cup and medal.
Archaeology : A study of ancient things. Whenever I play basketball, I feel healthy and
Pedestrian : One who goes on foot. stronger. Besides, I meet new friends from the
Anonymous : A letter, poem etc. whose author is neighbor. I not only like playing basketball, but I also
unknown. enjoy watching basketball on television. When I go to
Herbivorous : A grass eating animal. the beach, my family and friends would get together to
Suicide : Murder of self. play and we have a lot of fun. Also, during weekends, I
Biography : Life story of a man written by other. would call up my friends to play basketball with me.
Legal: That which is lawful. After the intense games, we would go to the teashop
nearby to relax and grab some cold drinks to cool us
Fun with Grammar down from the games we had.
Now complete the following sentences giving your
own idea. Fun Time
i) I always go to school. Complete the following crossword puzzle.
ii) My brother never gets angry with me. Across
iii) My father sometimes comes to my school. 2. an animal which lays eggs: chicken
iv) My friend does her homework every day. 4. used for milk and cheese: goat
v) I saw a one legged man yesterday. 6. found in races: horse
vi) My sister has already been to Pokhara. 9. a baby cat : kitten
vii) My sister will have returned back by next year. Down
viii) I have not finished my work yet. 1. an animal with no feet: snake
2. a popular house pet: cat
Fun with Creative Writing 3. "man's best friend": dog
Now write a similar text about yourself on ‘My 5. relative of a bull: cow
Favourite Hobby’ and compare it with your friends’. 7. produces wool: sheep
Everybody has different hobbies that they like to 8. an animal which flies : bird
do for fun or just to relax. There are many kind of UNIT - 11
activities like badminton, basketball, swimming, or
Fun with listening
baseball. It all depends on each personality. For me,
i) Listen to the tape and answer the following
basketball is my favorite hobby because it's part of my
questions.
life and I cannot live without it.
1. Mira is 9 years old.
Since I was a little girl, I started to play basketball in 2. Yes, she is in a boarding school.
the school team and also with my friends in the 3. She is a member in British library to learn English.
neighborhood. My mother told me that I liked kicking 4. She likes pets very much.
the ball around and had so much fun with it when I 5. She has got a small puppy.
was only about two years old. Since then, playing
basketball is my favorite sport and it is my hobby Fun with Reading
whenever I have free time. Story Time
Playing basketball also helps me to relax and be Let's find the facts
confident when I have stress and frustration. For a. Choose the best answer.
example, after doing my homework or when I come a) snowy b) nothing
home from school, I play a little bit with my friends c) matches d) no longer with alive
outside of my house or we go to the park, if the e) passed away
weather is nice. b. Give short answer to the following questions.
Few years ago, there was an inter-school i. It was the last day of the year.
competition. Our team members practised everyday ii. Gretchen wore her mama's sandals.
after school for 3 hours from seven till nine o’clock and iii. The girl lighted a match to warm her hands.
we slowly got better. During the first round of the iv. The meaning of falling star for grandmother
competition, we tried our best and worked together, was that something is dying.
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v. Yes, Gretchen was happy when she was with law and justice. He had not been able to teach his
her grandmother. people about honesty. After he met the chief he
Words in use learnt about the idea to give justice prudently.
Make sensible sentences using the following words or c. a wise man?
phrases. d. honest?
Run across: A boy ran across the street. e. be proud and greedy?
Smell (v): She might be cooking meat. It smells tasty.
A pile of: There is a pile of rubbish at the side of the road. Fun with Vocabulary
Light(v): Please, light on the stove. Choose the best word from the box to complete the
Freeze: The old woman froze to death yesterday. sentences below.
Let's explore the text 1. duckling 2. Gosling 3. calf
a. I feel sad and pathetic about the girl in the story. 4. eaglet 5. Streamlet 6. lamb
b. She is walking with big sandals and rags because 7. foal 8. Leveret 9. kid
she cannot afford to buy new ones. 10. rivulet 11. Cygnet 12. fawn
c. She used to sell the matches. 13. sapling 14. Islet 15. cub
d. In the story, this means that someone is dying.
e. The girl and her grandma went to the heaven. Fun with grammar
Choose the correct conjunction and write in the
Drama Time blanks.
Let's find the facts i) and ii) so iii) or
a. The words given below describe the characters in iv) but v) so vi) but
the play. Group them according to their traits. vii) and viii) but ix) so
Alexander's Chief's x) but
Alexander Chief
people people
proud, wise, proud, honest, Fun with Creative Writing
unjust, thoughtful, greedy, innocent, Now complete the following message choosing
selfish just, selfish, helpful appropriate word/s from the list below.
unselfish, clever, Next week, English teacher, until 5:30, the evening
helpful unselfish lunch
b. Give short answers to the following questions.
i. Alexander was a great conqueror. Fun Time
ii. Alexander was the Chief's guest. Complete the following crossword puzzle with the
iii. The chief offered Alexander some golden names of animal babies.
dates in the dinner. Across
iv. Hasim and Qasim were the chief's people. 2. A baby goat is a kid.
They had come to the chief seeking justice. 4. A baby cow is a calf.
v. Hashim found two bags of gold in his field. 6. A baby sheep is a lamb.
He wanted to give it to Qasim. 7. A baby goose is a gosling.
vi. Hasim refused to keep the treasure with him Down
because he thought that he had only bought 1. A baby horse is a foal.
the land but not the treasures in it. 3. A baby duck is a duckling.
vii. Qasim refused to take the treasure form 5. A baby cat is a kitten.
Hashim because taking treasure found in
the land he had sold would be unfair for him.
viii. The chief's decision was to give Qasim's
daughter in marriage to Hashim's son and
give them the treasure as gift.
a. Alexander was a great conqueror. The chief thought
that such a great man would not be satisfied with
natural dates. So he offered golden dates to him.
b. Although Alexander was a great conqueror and had
ruled over a big state, he had not maintained rule of
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Spark English Reader-Book IV Teacher's Manual
UNIT – 1 at archery. Finally, he proved that one is not great

Fun with listening (Introducing) by birth but by deeds.
See listening script page- 166 Poem time (Sunday with Dad)
Fun with reading (The True Disciple) Let’s find the facts
Let’s find the facts (a) Because his dad is home on Sunday.
A. Fill in the blanks correctly. Or It is the only day the speaker’s father stays at
i) dirt ii) trapped iii) Arjun home and gives time to the family.
iv) touch v) minds (b) In loud volume.
B. Answer the following questions. (c) Sleep little more.
i) Eklavya was a little boy from a poor family. (d) Sleep more. Or They do not want to get up/ leave
ii) Clean other people’s dirt. their beds.
iii) He saw Kuru Princes riding a beautiful chariot. Let’s explore the text.
iv) His right thumb. Fill in the blanks correctly to complete the poem’s
v) Kauravas summary.
vi) He realized that bounds and limits are in the The Sunday is a special day for the speaker. On this
minds of the people, and to fight against day the speaker’s father is usually at home with the
injustice. family. Early in the morning he watches TV with loud
Words in use volume The speaker and his sister are still in their
A. The correctly spelled words are: beds. They do not want to get up / wake up so early
Shunned Sighed but the father tries to wake them up. Even the mother
Chariot Stern has to get up early that day to prepare breakfast / tea
Dusky Archery for dad. When everyone is up, they enjoy being
Amazing Magical together for dad doesn’t go to his work / office and
Glaring Bounds plays with them.
Support Thumb
Respectful Speechless Fun with vocabulary (Word Formation)
B. i) hated – shunned 1. Unfair 2. Revisit 3. Useless
ii) having dark complxion – dusky 4. Careful 5. Attractive 6. Peaceful
iii) Surprising – amazing 7. Misheard 8. Disliked
iv) Strict – stern
v) Without verbal utterance – speechless / Fun with grammar. (Articles)
wordless 1) the 2) a 3) a 4) an 5. An
vii) Miraculous – magical 6) an 7) an 8) the 9)a 10) the
viii) Courteous – respectful
Let’s explore the text Fun with creative writing (Developing Story)
A. The words that describe Eklavya are: gentle, 1. An old man was walking along the road.
honest, skilled, wise, obedient, loyal, brave, 2. Suddenly he saw three boys laying on the
helpful, broadminded. grass under a tree.
B. Answer the following questions. 3. “He said, I’ll give a gold coin to the laziest
(i) Yes, plenty of them. boy. Who is the laziest boy?"
No. They must be discarded because they’ve 4. The first boy jumped up, ran over to the old
created social barriers. man and said, “I’m the laziest boy. Give me
(ii) That nothing is impossible in our life. One’s birth the coin!”
doesn’t limit his/her success. Do not be proud. 5. The old man shook his head and said, “No
Limits and bounds are in our minds. you aren’t. Go lie down.”
(iii) Yes. 6. The second boy reached out his hand and
C. Eklavya was born poor family. His job was to said, “I’m the laziest boy. Give me the coin.”
clean other’s dirt. He wanted to learn archery 7. The old man shook his head again and said,
from Drona. But he didn’t accept Eklavya. Later “No you aren’t.”
he learnt it by himself making a statute on a 8. The third boy said, “Please come over and
tree. He happily offered his right thumb as the put the coin in my pocket.”
guru dakshina. His self-practice made him best 9. ‘Yes,’ said the old man. You are the laziest boy!
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10. At last, he put the coin into the boy’s pocket. (d) No.
(e) The magic didn’t work after midnight (12
Fun Time O’clock).
1. pencil 2. pen 3. ruler Words in use
4. desk 5. book 6. School bag (a) Dressed Envitation
7. notebook Special Allowed
 Note for Correction (page – 14) Fancy Handsome
8. Use your ......... to correct any mistakes in your Mousetrap Whiskered
paper. Fetched Enormous
 eraser Mustache Sparkling
9. Colour the drawing with your ...... Coach Hurried
 markers Scampering Sqeeze
Let’s explore the text
UNIT – 2 (i) No. Cinderella was illtreated, unloved, uncared.
Fun with listening She was always made to do hard work.
See listening script Page-166 (ii) To find the right bride.
(iii) By helping her attend the ball dressed like a
Fun with reading princess.
(iv) Because she was dressed like a princess & she
Story Time: Cinderella
was the most beautiful girl in the party.
About the story
Fairy Tales are a piece of actual reality. They
Poem Time : The Silly Cricket
portray realistic views of human nature and struggle
while incorporating fictitious themes and characters to Let’s find the facts
capture the readers’ interest. Good vs. Evil is a 1. Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements.
reoccurring theme within many fairy tales. In the story i. F ii. F
of Cinderella we find this theme to be especially iii. F iv. F v. T
prominent. Good and virtue are rewarded, while evil 2. Find the words from the poem that are similar in
and injustices are punished and therefore good always meaning to the following.
triumphs over evil. Started – began Played – strummed
In the story of Cinderella, we get some insight Grumble – complain A piece of wood - wicket
into her character and personality. We find that Let’s explore the text
Cinderella is the paradigm of pious and good. i. They are collecting / saving food for the coming
Unfortunately, her mother dies and she is forced to winter.
succumb to her cruel stepmothers’ rule. The Evil ii. No. Because he spent all the summer singing
Stepmother despises Cinderella's goodness, as it and dancing.
highlights her own daughters' weaknesses. So, they iii. As hard-working, far sighted, independent, committed,
take advantage of Cinderella and force her to abide to laborous, etc.
strict rules and restrict her freedom in as many ways iv. No.
as possible. Contrary to her stepmother and stepsisters, v. “You should have worked!”
Cinderella is a person of incomparable goodness and
benevolence. She is very strong and persistent and does Fun with Vocabulary
not give up in her life. Antonyms
Let’s find the facts 1) few 2) shallow 3) short
A. (a) True (b) False (c) True 4) dirty 5) full 6) fat
(d) True (e) True 7) start 8) small 9) ancient
B. Answer the following questions. 10) rich
(a) They were cruel, jealous, stone hearted, Synonyms
unkind, vain, etc. Organization – Association Sure – Certain
(b) Because they were going to attent the great Tornado – Twister Quite – Fairly
ball in the palace. Ans, probably they thought Noon – Midday Material – Fabric
the prince will want to marry with them. Missing – Lost Bill – Invoice
(c) fairy Godmother. If - Whether Sweet - Candy
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iv. princess v. witch
Fun with Grammar b. Answer the following questions.
a) a pile of books b) A hive of bees i. The young princess.
c) A herd of cattle d) A fleet of ships ii. It fell into the nearby well.
e) a heap/bundle of clothes f) A group of people iii. The frog.
g) bunch of keys h) a pack of wolves iv. Because she had promised to make him her
companion.
Fun with Creative Writing v. When she threw him, he changed himself
SMART SHOPPING into a handsome prince.
vi. To take the prince and the princess.
In September, it's time for back-to-school Words in use
shopping. Parents take their children to the Astonished – surprised
mall to buy new clothes for school. But what Faithful – truthful
are the smartest shoppers buying? Ails – suffers
They are buying summer clothes. Smart Wicked – evil
shoppers know that "off season" clothes are Companion – friend
60-80% less than the original price. As the  Note for Correction (page – 36)
seasons change, so do the items on sale. Knocked awake
So what's for sale at different times during the Let’s explore the text
year in your town? a. Because the sun was astonished at her beauty.
b. Answers may vary.
Fun Time Possible answers:
Some words in the wordsearch puzzle are shown Yes, because he helped the princess take out the
below. Students may find some more words as golden ball.
well. No, because he was selfish. He wanted to get rid
from the witch’s curse.
c. Honest, man of words, truthful, etc.
d. To take the prince and the princess to their kingdom.
e. She was married to the frog prince.
f. beautiful, playful, proud, timid,
Poem Time : Some One

Let’s find the facts
i. He opened the door & looked around.
ii. Nothing.
iii. in the wall.
iv. tap-tapping
v. whistling
Words in use
1. Supply the correct answer.
a. thrice
b. beetle, owl and cricket
c. sure, night and wall/fall/all respectively.
UNIT – 3 Let’s explore the text
Fun with Listening i. he was sure that someone knocked at his door.
See listening script Page – 166 ii. No. Because there was no one when he opened
the door.
Fun with Reading iii. It was quiet, scarry dark night.
Story time : The Frog Prince
Let’s find the facts Fun with Vocabulary (Simile)
a. Choose the best answer Possible answers:
i. golden bowl ii. well iii. promise Pattern - 1
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Is pretty – My small sister looks like a fairy. 5. as meek as a ___ LAMB
Jumps well – He jumps like a frog/cricket. 6. as busy as a ___ BEE
Is strong – Hemant works like an ox/bull. 9. as slow as a ___ SNAIL
Eats quick - He eats like a pig. 11. as brave as a ___ LION
Pattern – 2 13. as fat as a ___ PIG
Feels soft – Her hands are as soft as wool.
Is sweet – Her voice is as sweet as a lark/an UNIT – 4
angel. Fun with Listening
Feels rough – This bed is as rough as a stone. See the listening script Page- 166.
Is heavy – This box is as heavy as an elephant.
Sounds noisy – Our classroom sounds as noisy Fun with Reading
as a fair. Story Time : Tom Thumb
Is light – She is as light as a feather.
About the story
Tom Thumb is a well-known English fairy-tale about
Fun with grammar (Adjective)
the little boy who is as small as his father’s thumb. The
i. Mohan’s car can run as fast as the Shyam’s car.
tale begins with a farmer and his wife who are
ii. Peter is not as tall as Fred.
desperate for a child. The queen of the Fairies hears
iii. The violin is not as low as the cello.
their plea and, by magic, Tom Thumb appears. The
iv. This copy is as bad as the other one. (bad)
world is a dangerous place for little Tom Thumb and
v. Oliver is as optimistic as Peter.
the tale focuses on some of his many adventures. He
vi. Today it's not as windy as yesterday.
falls into his mother’s pie mix, narrowly avoids being
vii. The tomato soup was as delicious as the
eaten, gets picked up by a bird and dropped into a
mushroom soup.
lake, and is finally swallowed by a fish, only to turn up
viii. Grapefruit juice is not as sweet as lemonade. ix.
back in his King Arthur’s kitchen. Finally he goes back
Nick is as brave as Kevin.
home to live happily ever after.
x. Silver is not as heavy as gold.
a. Use the words given below to complete the
sentences.
Possible answers:
i. provided ii. Tom Thumb
i. I go swimming in the summer.
iii. mischief iv. swallowed
ii. I play a lot of games in the school.
v. surprised
iii. I often go cycling with Joan.
b. Answer the following questions.
iv. Playing tennis is full of fun.
i. They were unhappy because they had no
v. You should’t have touched the ball with your hands.
child.
vi. You can play football in the winter.
ii. The Queen of the Fairies.
vii. I usually beat them.
iii. Tom Thumb
viii. I’m not very good in it.
iv. He was happy, playful and mischievous.
ix. My favourite player is Rafa Nadal.
v. Because she feared the wind might blow
x. My favourite sport is tennis.
him away.
Or, for his safety.
Fun Time
vi. When Tom slipped out of the fish.
Across
Words in use
1. as proud as a ___ PEACOCK
Match the following words with their meaning.
4. as wise as an ___ OWL
Monarch – king
6. as blind as a ___ BAT
Mischevious – naughty
7. as strong as an ___ OX
Wonder – surprise
8. as quiet as a___ MOUSE
Terrified – frightened
10. as slippery as an ___ EEL
Sank – looked deeply
12. as happy as a ___ LARK
14. as hairy as a ___ GORILLA
i. The fairy decided to grant the old woman’s wish.
Down
Because she seemed a kind, good mother.
2. as playful as a ___ KITTEN
3. as sly as a ___ FOX
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ii. He was as small & short as Tom’s (woman’s - It fell somewhere on the earth.
husband) thumb. iii.It means the poet’s song was still alive in the
iii. All the time she tried to keep him from danger. memory/mind of his friend.
iv. He was mischievious and playful in his childhood, iv. It refersto the poet’s friend. Or the poet’s lover.
but good, kind and helpful when he grew older.
v. Once he was nearly killed by an angry chicken. Fun with Vocabulary (Metaphor)
vi. He asked for water to wash/clean himself.  Note for Correction (page – 55)
Her eyes shiny shine like jewels in the sun.
Poem Time: The Arrow and the Song (Simile)
 Note for Correction (page – 53) a. That salesman was a shark. Metaphor
It feels falls to earth, I knew not where; That salesman was like a shark. Simile
About the poem b. The whole enterprise has a fishy smell. Metaphor
We can never predict the power of our actions. The whole enterprise smells like a fish. Simile
The word said, the deed done, disappear into the past, c. My father has a mind like a computer. Simile
but often, years later, we can be astounded to learn of My father has a computer mind. Metaphor
their impact. A friend explodes with rage over an d. His teeth are like pearls. Simile
imagined slight; a stranger thanks us for a favor we’d His teeth are white pearls. Metaphor
forgotten. e. He ran like a giant towards Jack. Simile
In this poem, Longfellow compares two forms of The giant’s steps were thunder as he ran toward
action, represented by an arrow and a song. The Jack. Metaphor
speaker shoots an arrow into the air and it falls to f. Revenge is a like wild justice. Simile
earth, out of sight. Revenge is a wild justice. Metaphor
As a weapon, with the capacity to cut and kill, the g. Life is like a dream. Simile
arrow could represent our destructive emotions and Life is a dream. Metaphor
behavior. We say a bad word, we spread a rumor, we h. Language is the art of concealing thought.
lie. Our hatred may fly out of sight, but who’s to say Metaphor
there’s no lasting damage? Language is like an art that conceals thought.
In the second stanza, the speaker breathes a song Simile
“into the air.” A song suggests something carefree and
benign. Formless and free, it is the opposite of the Fun with Grammar
arrow, but its destination is similarly unknown. This is the picture of a park. A small boy is playing
The question posed at the end of the second alone in the swing. Two big girls are standing at the
stanza creates a pause as we ponder it. When the ice-cream counter. Two small girls are running in the
poem resumes, the scene and the tone have subtly playground. Some boats are sailing in the poend. A
changed. The repetition and the three strong stresses boy and a girl are playing on the seesaw. a small boy
in the phrase “long, long, afterward,” make us feel the is holding paper wind-mill in his hand.
heaviness of the speaker’s aging body. We hear the
rueful voice of an older, wiser man. Fun with Creative Writing
As the final phrase suggests, art can create (a) Each morning the same thing occurred, and he
friendship among perfect strangers: it provides us with grew greedy; and thinking to get at once all the
a common language through which we can come to gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened
know each other in our most distinctive selves it only to find nothing. (4)
Let’s find the facts (b) When he took it up it was as heavy as lead and
i. into the air ii. out of sight he was going to through it away, because he
iii. a song iv. an oak tree thought a trick had been played upon him. (2)
v. unbroken (c) But he took it home on second thoughts, and
Let’s explore the text soon found to his delight that it was an egg of
i. Because it flew so swiftly. pure gold. (3)
 Note for Correction (page – 54) (d) One day a countryman going to the nest of his
ii. What did the poet feel when he breathed a song goose found an egg all yellow and glittering. (1)
in the air? Where did the song fall when he
breathed a song in the air? Fun Time (Fall Rhymes)
Hello – Yellow Down – Brown
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Arm – Farm Ball – Fall iv. It is a river. It is called the Bagmati.
Mops – crops Reef – Leaf v. The river is very clean.
Cool – School vi. There are many temples.
UNIT - 5 Vii. There are ancient squares in the city.
Fun with Listening viii. My city has got many shops.
1. Look at the tape script and complete. ix. There are other things too.
x. I am sending you a photo of my city.
Fun with Reading b. Fill in the gaps.
Essay Time : We can Make a Difference Email, Nepal, Dharahara, river, strange, museum,
antique, modern people
1. i. seven tons UNIT - 6
ii. ten tons Fun with Listening
2. both, off, clean, power, clean, trash, separate, 1. Answer the following questions.
contribute to i. a brother and a sister
Let's Explore the text ii. No, she does not think.
Activity I iii. No, she does not work.
Resources, factory, manufacturing, metal, greenhouse iv. Yes, he likes.
Activity II v. London
Trees, releases, amount, use, carbon, dioxide vi. No, she does not.
Activity III Fun with Reading
Compost, absorb Story Time: A Search of a real princess
Poem Time Let's find the facts
Let's find the facts A. Complete the following sentences with infor-
i. to cypress street mation from the story.
ii. Lamppost i. a real princess.
iii. No, the speaker did not see any cypress tree ii. princess
there. iii. was princess or not
iv. A lot of cypress tree. iv. horrible to sleep in
v. Gem v. in the museum
Let's explore the text B. Some sentences given below are incorrect. Write
i. The speaker experienced that the cypress trees them correctly in your notebook.
had been cut down. i. correct
ii. Lamppost street. ii. correct
iii. just like a treeless neighbourhood. iii. The weather was bad with rain.
iv. They were confused that whether the girl
Fun with Vocabulary was the real princess.
Match the animals with the sounds they make. v. correct
Dragons -------------- - hiss vi. The prince married her.
Jackals --------------- - howl Let's explore the text
Rats ------------------- - squeak i. The prince travelled far and wide to find a real
Hippotamuses ------ - bellow princess.
Whales --------------- - sing ii. He saw a girl who claimed her was a real
Monkeys ------------- - chatter princess.
Dinosaurs ------------ - roar iii. She was completely wet in rain.
Flies ------------------- - buzz iv. The queen examined where she was the real
Fun with Grammar princess or not by making her a bed on peas.
Are, has, look, boils, brings, is, has, speak v. She said that the bed was hard to sleep in.
Fun with Creative Writing vi. Peas had been kept in the museum.
a. Correct the mistakes in the following sentences. vii. She means to tell that she could not sleep.
i. I live in Kathmandu. Poem Time
ii. I am going to describe my town. Let's find the facts
iii. My city has got a million inhabitants. A. Fill in the blanks correctly.
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i. tall my elder brother who has proficiency in English
ii. ice and mathematics as well.
iii. small After devoting myself to study from 7 A.M. to
iv. dreamming 9 A.M., I play games for sometime without having
B. Find on rhyming word....................... below. any rigid rules. After bathing in the well, I take my
Tall doll fall meal prepared by my mother at 9.45 A.M. and
Lie sky pie proceed to the school situated at a distance of
More anymore core only one furlong from my home.
Eyes ice price The classes begin at 10 A.M. usually. I go to
Small all tall school with my good friends and occupy the first
Dream scream trim bench. On the way to school I talk a great variety
Let's explore the text of topics with students coming from different parts
dream, taller, sister, delighted, stars, fright, dream of the town. I maintain punctuality in attending
Fun with Vocabulary classes. The first period begins with English
i. amphibian ii. ice taught by our Headmaster. I do have an aptitude
iii. water iv. swim for this subject. Our class begins after the prayer
v. temperature vi. creation class and after the National Anthem is sung.
vii. child viii. wheel All our subjects like Social Studies, Science,
ix. water x. forbid Mathematics, Sanskrit, etc. are covered within
the eight periods. We avail of the recess after the
Fun with Grammar third period.
i. started ii. will order In the classes we listen to the teachings of
iii. sent iv. will receive the teachers with rapt attention. The recess is
v. arrived vi. did not get allowed for an hour. In the recess hour I take the
vii. was not viii. goes Tiffin given by my mother in a Tiffin box. I play
ix. will you ring me soon? x. plays some outdoor games like foot ball or cricket for
Fun with Creative Writing energizing my spirits. In the recess time also I
A. Where are errors .............in the exercise book. talk of the topics taught in the classes with my
a. I clean my teeth. friends and come to class at 2 P.M.
b. I wake up at 6 in the morning. The recess breaks at 2 P.M. and thereafter
c. Then I have breakfast. we continue for four periods. The school breaks
d. After that I start to school. up at 4.30 P.M. in the afternoon and I get back
e. I arrive my home at 4. home. Having placed my books and notes in the
f. I do my homework. proper place I wash my hands and face. After
g. I watch TV. having a little Tiffin I proceed to the playground
B. Fill the gaps with the words from the box. for playing games of different kinds. I play
Past, have, go, at, watch, do, to, afternoon, hockey, kabadi, football, cricket and other games
comes, games, Saturdays. as it suits to me or to my friends. In the
C. Now write a short paragraph about your daily playground students of different classes meet
routine. together and make friends with one another.
As a student, I lead a life of honesty and I return home at 6 P.M. and prepare my
simplicity. By habit I get up early from bed and lessons after getting my dresses changed and
clean my parts of the body and brush my teeth after washing my hands, feet and face. I begin
with a brush. I take physical exercise to keep my my studies at about 6.30 P.M. and devote to the
body healthy and fit and if it becomes study of English and Science. As a matter of
advantageous for me, I take a walk of about one habit, I read for about two and half hours and
kilometer. take my supper at 9.30 P.M.
I get refreshed with the morning walk or a UNIT - 7
little exercise and then prepare myself for the Listening
study with utmost sincerity. It is against my A. Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks.
principle to put off today's work for tomorrow or to i. new house
have any private tutor. I accept the guidance of ii. garden
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iii. delighted iii. Robin should sing in the winter because it seems
iv. loves gardening long if it does not sing.
v. party iv. The poem is about the the beauty of nature.
Fun with Reading Let's Explore the text
Story Time i. The seasons I know are spring, summer, winter
Let's find the fact and autumn.
A. Give one word answer to the following questions. ii. I like spring season the best.
i. The king was greedy. iii. The bird sings with all his might.
ii. His pear tree produced four baskets of fruit. iv. Starting in early June, Summer is one of the
iii. The peasant kept his younger daughter in the shortest seasons. From an astronomical view, the
basket and covered her with a layer of fruits. equinoxes and solstices would be the middle of
iv. Violetta was a pretty, sweet and generous. the respective seasons, but a variable seasonal
vii. She gave loaves to the dogs. lag means that the meteorological start of the
viii. One of the servants discovered the girl in season, which is based on average temperature
the pantry. patterns, occurs several weeks later than the
Words in use start of the astronomical season. According to
Match the following meteorologists, summer extends for the whole
basketfuls ------------ - bull of baskets months of June, July, and August in the northern
Peasant -------------- - farmer hemisphere and the whole months of December,
pantry ----------------- - food store January, and February in the southern
loaves ----------------- - pieces of bread hemisphere. Under meteorological definitions, all
enchanted ----------- - charmed seasons are arbitrarily set to start at the
mastiffs --------------- - dogs beginning of a calendar month and end at the
courtesy -------------- - good manners end of a month. This meteorological definition of
Let's Explore the text summer also aligns with the commonly viewed
i. The peasant was worried that his field could not notion of summer as the season with the longest
produce enough fruit that he had to offer the king. (and warmest) days of the year (365 days), in
if he did not offered him four basketful of fruits he which daylight predominates.
would be severely punished. So he kept his Fun With Vocabulary
daughter in one of the baskets so that he could 1. a. break b. brake c. buy
cover her with a layer of some pear and cheat the d. bye e. by
king. 2. a. toad b. choose c. here
ii. Violetta was very pretty, sweet and beautiful. d. know e. sole f. tease
Everyone was jealous of her beauty. Moreover she g. right h. roll i. blue
became a friend of the king's son. People in the j. break k. close l. ate
castle spread bad rumors in the castle of the king
so that they could drive her away from there. Fun with Vocabulary
iii. Violetta got loaves, a broom, a little oil and some i. can he?
good advice from the the old man. They were all ii. will she?
useful for her because she gave the broom to the iii. are they?
three women who were sweeping tearing their hair. iv. did he
They helped her showing the way to witches' palace v. are we?
She gave loaves to hungry dogs then they let her vi. aren't we?
pass. Oil helped her to open the door. vii. can't he?
iv. This story best says that one should have strong viii won't she?
determination that is only the key to open the ix didn't they?
gate to prosperity against all odds. x doesn't she?
Poem Time: Robin xi didn't he?
xii did they?
Let's Find the facts
i. Robin bird sings is summer season.
Help the students write it using the example as a
ii. We get fruits in autumn season.
model.
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UNIT - 8 vi. What does she like?

Fun with Listening vii. Sun rises in the east? (Which)
1. 1, 3, 5, 10, 13, 16, 17 In which direction does the sun rise in?
Fun with Reading viii. Who is Katrina Kaif?
Story Time Fun with creative writing
Two friends a. talking, painting, is playing, is cooking.
Let's find the facts b. Students should be asked to look around and
a. i. F ii. T iii. F iv. F v. T explaining the events taking place at the time of
Words in use speaking. Make use of present continuous tense.
Encourage students to make sensible sentences Like: it is raining outside.
on their own. Two boys are running in the street.
Let's Explore the text The teacher is teaching.
i. Vikash threw himself flat on the ground because
bear was coming towards him and he had no way
UNIT – 9
to run away.
ii. Yes, he was because he threw himself flat on the Fun with Listening
ground. See the listening script Page – 168
iii. It means one should not trust those friends who
are opportunists. Fun with reading
iv. There can be 'Let me go away from here.' Story Time: The Little Golden Bird
Poem Time : I Found that out myself Let's find the facts
Lest's Find the Facts i. It was located surrounded by a magnificient
A. i. student ii. homework iii. interest iv. Good garden full of flowers and rare plants.
i. The speaker was told that the school was for ii. They used to spend their days by praying and
work. meditating.
ii. Yes, I did. iii. A young monk who had come from outside
iii. He found good friends. brought discord.
iv. Yes, I feel like the speaker does at school. iv. The young monk led and after them all and them
Let's Explore the text the rest followed one by one.
School is not only the place to read and get v. A golden bird.
homework. It is also the place to make new friends. Words in use
The children from different social setting and Match the following
background meet in a school. We can share our ideas Meditation ----------- - deep thought
and feeling with each other. I feel it like a small Monotonous --------- - boring
society. Moreover we can enjoy playing different Quarrel --------------- - fight
games. Similarly the friendly teachers teach us about Paradise ------------- - heaven
the virtues and the ways to overcome the obstacles. Dangling ------------- - hanging
Fun with Vocabulary Fluttered ------------- - flap quickly
Look for: She is looking for a good job. Clasp ----------------- - grip
Switch on: Ram, please switch on the light. Misery- -------------- -sadness
Fill in: She filled in the form. Let's explote the text
Try on: I tried on the the pant before I bought it. i. The description of beauty outside the temple by a
Throw away: She threw away my pen. young priest.
Believe in: We still believe in witch doctors. ii. It was full of light, entertainment, and pleasure.
Slouch off: A snake slouches off its skin. iii. It was full of hate, violence, and misery in reality.
iv. Buddha was the bird, and he had come to save
Fun with Grammar the happiness of the monks, his desciples.
i. Who is me? v. Buddha and his preachings.
ii. Why is the road wet? Poem Time : Lost and Found
iii. When does he get up? Let's find the facts
iv. What time do I drink coffee? A. Find the words from the poem that are similar in
v. Where does my mother live? meaning to the following.
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Sprang up -------------– bounced up Date: 14th August, 2012
Tried to find -----------– looked for Place: ......XYZ.......
Act of looking after --– searched Dear Pooja,
Tinkle ------------------– clink My anme is Peter. I am fifteen years old American guy. I
B. Tick the best answer from the following like going to school. I live in a big house with my
parents.If you are interested write to me about yourself.
alternatives.
See you.
i. a ball Your new penfriend,
ii. no hope of finding the ball Peter
iii. the speaker found the ball
Fun time
i. While he was bouncing it on the ground, he lost
Begin Begun Get Got Say Said
it.
Blow Blew Give Gave See Saw
ii. He looked for it everywhere.
Bring Brought Go Went Send Sent
iii. No, he was hopeless. When he said, "It was
Buy Bought Grow Grew Sing Sang
nowhere..."
Catch Caught Hear Heard Sit Sat
iv. Because the speaker had stamped on its tail.
Come Came Know Knew Sleep Slept
Do Did Make Made Swim Swam
Fun with Vocabulary
Draw Drew Meet Met Take Took
i. The marriage ceremony ended perfectly.
Drink Drank Read Read Throw Threw
ii. I broke her heart, when I denied to help her.
Eat Ate Run Ran Write Wrote
iii. Our English teacher catches our eyes in the
classroom.
iv. I have changed my mind regarding staying here UNIT – 10
in Jumla. Fun with listening (At the Shop)
v. He is an eggheaded person. i. True ii. False iii. False iv. True v. false
vi. She feels blueif she fails.
Fun with Reading
Fun with Grammar Story Time : Pinocchio
Complete the following table. Let’s find the fact
Statement Question Answer A. Complete the following sentences.
I eat breakfast Do you eat breakfast Yes, I i. puppet
at 7 a.m. at 7 a.m.? do. ii. dance
I listen to music. Do you listen to Yes, I iii. five copper coins
music? do. iv. go straight
He doesn't work Doesn't he work on No, he v. pricked the whale
on the computer. the computer? doesn't. vi. brave
We don't watch Do we watch TV Yes, we B. State whether the following sentences are true or
TV every night. every night? do. false.
I start work at 8 Do you start work Yes, I i. True ii. True iii. False
p.m. at 8 p.m.? do. iv. False v. False vi. False
It takes an hour Does it take an hour Yes, it Words in use
to walk home. to walk home? does. b. Match the following words with their correct
meaning.
Boasted --------------- - showed pride
Change the following sentences as given in the
Lame - ------------------ one who cannot walk
brackets.
Disguised -------------- - changed the appearance
1. Did I buy the book?
Resisted --------------- - opposed
2. He drives a car.
Snarled ----------------- – roared
3. Will she fly to Pokhara tomorrow?
Swallowed ------------- - ate completely
4. He called you yesterday.
Floating ----------------- - drifting
Pretty ------------------- - beautiful
Puppet ------------------- – dummy
Possible answer
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i. He was awood carver. Yes, I do. iv. whose v. which
ii. He could speak, walk, dance, think, and act.
iii. They made Pinocchio to dig and burry the sack of Fun Time
coins there. Across
iv. He went there to show his ability. He earned fine 2. Bees – BUZZ
copper coins there. 3. Horses – NEIGH
v. He built a big raft and pricked whale. As a result the 5. Ducks – QUACK
whale sniffed, then they came out of its stomach. 9. Goats, sheep – BLEAT
PoemTime : Let Me Live 10. Lions – ROAR
A. Find the words from the poem that rhyme with the Down
following. 1. Mice – SQUEAK
Seed – need Three – tree 4. hogs – GRUNT
Company – many Twigs – figs 6. Birds – CHIRP
Herds – shepherds Live – give 7. cats – MEOW
B. Answer the following questions. 8. dogs - BARK
i. The tree is the speaker.
ii. The tree is 23 years old now. UNIT – 11
iii. With its tiny figs. Fun with Listening
iv. Tiny twigs. A. Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks.
C. Find the words from the poem that mean the a. See the listening script Page – 168
following. b. Answer the following questions.
i. Very small – tiny ii. Requirement – need i. Kumar Kancha was born on 28th Mangsir,
iii. Flock – ship iv. Respire – breathe 2014.
Let's explore the text ii. Kancha had two sons.
A. Answer the following questions. iii. He died at the age of 53.
i. Mother nature
ii. Children, worm, animals, people etc. Fun with Reading
iii. It provides timber to build our house and Essay Time: Anuradha Koirala
fresh air to breathe. Before you begin
iv. Timber, firewood, shade, clean and fresh air, i. The logo is related to Maiti Nepal, a non-profit
etc. social organization.
Fun with Vocabulary ii. Maiti Nepal was founded by Anuradha Koirala in
Match the single word with their correct definitions. 1993.
Vegetarian - One who eats only vegetable-foods iii. It provides shelter, protection and rehabilitation to
Pessimist - One who looks on the dark side of things the rescued trafficked girls, and orphans.
Pedestrian - One who journeys on foot Let's find the facts
Refugee - One who takes refuge in a foreign country A. Write True or False against teh following
Beggar - One who goes from placer to place statements.
begging alms i. False ii. True
Hypocrite - One who pretends to be what he is not iii. True iv. True
Patriot - One who loves his country and serves it B. Give short answer to the following questions.
Martyr - One who dies for a noble cause i. Anuradha Koirala is an independent social
Zoophilist - A lover of animals worker.
Mimic - One who imitates others ii. It wsa established in 1993 by Anuradha
Koirala.
Fun with Grammar iii. More than 20 years.
After each sentence select the pronoun that best fits in iv. Teachers, journalists, and social workers.
the blank. v. Anti-Trafficking Day is observed on 5th of
i. who ii. which iii. that September every year.
iv. which v. who Words in use
Fill in the blanks using relative clause patterns. Independent -------- not dependent
i. which ii. which iii. whom Rescued ------------- saved
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Founded ------------- established vii. the most ably viii. more politely
Employ -------------- provide job or work
Domestic ------------ done at home Fun with Creative Writing
Voluntary ------------ free of cost
Counseling ---------- giving advice or guidance
Let's explore the text Hearty Congratulation
i. Yes, Anuradha very much admires and loves to
children. The lines, "Since her early age, Mast./Miss. ...ZYX...
Anuradha loved children. During her youth, she For Securing First position in the Final Exam
had spent more than twenty years in teaching 2012
children at various schools.'
ii. It has helped girls and women who have been XYX
exploited in various forms like domestic violence,
trafficking, and flesh trade. Fun time
iii. Maiti Nepal fights against the trafficking and Across
sexual exploitation of Nepalese girls and women 2. hard-working: LAZY
from all strata of society. 5. drunk : SOBER
iv. International Children's Award, Reebok Human 6. fat : THIN
Rights Award, German UNIFEM Prize 2007, 7. coward : BRAVE
Queen Sofia Silver Medal Award 2007, The Down
Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience 2006, and 1. shy : OUTGOING
lately, in recognition of her efforts, she was 2. smaller : LARGER
awarded the CNN Hero of the Year 2010. 3. modest: CONCEITED
v. To serve Nepali exploited women. 4. sharp : BLUNT
Poem Time: Anonymous
Let's find the facts UNIT – 12
i. to read funny poems Fun with Listening
ii. Poets See the listening script Page – 168
iii. Anonymous
i. An unknown poet who does not want to publish Story Time : Golden Touch
or reveal his/her name. About the text
ii. He likes the poems of anonymous poets the The story of King Midas is a myth about the tragedy of
most. avarice and narrates what happens when true
iii. Yes. happiness is not recognized. Midas was a man who
iv. Answer may vary according to individual wished that everything he touched would turn into
response of the learners. But, the teacher should gold. However, he had not thought that this wish was
encourage the students to develop the habit of not actually a blessing, but a curse. His greed invites
reading and appreciating poetry. us to think and realize the consequences that may
lead us to become slaves of our own desires. The
Fun with Vocabulary phrase “the Midas touch” comes from this myth and is
Cock - Cockerel River - Rivulet used to say that somebody has a good fortune.
Lass - Lassie Moth - Caterpillar Let's find the facts
Leaf - Leaflet Sack - Satchel 1. Write T for true and F for false against the
Lock - Locket Scythe - Sickle follwoing statements.
Part – Particle Stream - Streamlet i. False
Ring - Ringlet Tower - Turret ii. False
iii. True
Fun with Grammar iv. True
i. more efficiently ii. painfully v. True
iii. most joyfully iv. more carefully 2. Identify the speaker of the follwoing expressions
v. beautifully vi. greedily and write against to them.
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i. King Midas to the Fairy boy. vi. strawberries = straw + berries
ii. Fairy boy to King Midas.
iii. Fairy boy to King Midas. Fun with Grammar
iv. King Midas to the Fairy boy. i. (.) ii. (?)
v. Fairy boy to King Midas. iii. (!), (?) iv. (?)
Words in use v. (.) vi. (!)
poor – rich ugly – beautiful vii. (.) viii. (!), (.)
empty – full questioned – answered
heaviest – slightest sadness – joy
lately – early loved – hated
i. The King wished for more gold.
ii. beautiful, shone with wonderful light, winged and
divine.
iii. That anything he touched become gold.
iv. Because of the wish granted by the fairy boy.
v. When his only beloved daughter, Marigold,
turned to a golden statueby his touch.
vi. Greed results into misery.
Drama Time:
The Country and the City Mouse
a. steak and cake
b. fresh
c. busy streets
Words in use
a. took a small bite
b. with lean and thin body
c. to die
d. the garret
e. the journey
i. The country mouse invites the city mouse to
show how she lived in the country.
ii. Because the city mouse was very hungry and
thirsty.
iii. The city mouse feels pleased to have fresh air
but sad to see them having food surrounded by
insects and with all dirt.
iv. The plenty of delicious food items.
v. Having fancy food in fear ruined the country
mouse's city trip.
vi. Because she prefers having fresh food in her
garden than fancy food in fear.
Fun with Vocabulary

i. backyard = back + yard
ii. baseball = base + ball
iii. toothpaste = tooth + paste
iv. riverbanks = river + banks
v. subway = sub = way
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Spark English Reader – Book V Teachers Manual
UNIT - 1 line of the poem.

iv. An ordinary teacher.
Fun with listening (The Travel Bug)
1. Write True or False. Fun with Grammar (Imperatives)
1. F 2. T 3. F 4. F 1. Ask to your brother.
5. T 6. T 7. T 8. T 2. Don’t use a pencil.
3. Hurry up.
Fun with Reading 4. Be quiet.
Story Time : Simple Simon 5. Make your beds.
a. Fill in the following gaps with appropriate 6. Don’t tell to dad about my accident.
information. 7. Please don’t smoke in the room.
i. three 8. Let’s help her mother in kitchen.
ii. Latin
iii. Law, politics & embroidery Fun with Vocabulary
iv. everything Fill in the blanks with the animal most commonly used
v. Horse for that simile.
b. Answer the following questions (1) bee (2) eel (3) bunny (4) owl
i. in the country (5) lark (6) mule (7) lamb (8) ok
ii. one had learnt the Latin dictionary by heart,
the other had learnt embroidery & the last Fun with creative writing (Greeting card)
one was simple and honest
iii. riding the Billy goat HAPPY BIJAYA DASHAMI
iv. a dead crow, an old clog & some mud I heartily extend my sincere greeting, best
v. to see the Princess’s suitor wishes of prosperity, progress and long life to
vi. Simple Simon you and all your family members
Words in use On the auspicious occasion of
Students answers may vary. Encourage your students HAPPY VIJAYA DASHAIN 20.....
to make their own sentences. Creative and original
sentences should be given credit. Sonny
Let’s explore the text Class - V
i. The suitor had to answer all the Princess’s ................................................... School
questions. ....................................., Nepal
ii. Because they considered him a fool, & he was
not clever enough & educated like them.
iii. He was simple, honest and answered all her Fun time : The Boatman
questions. Title: The Sinking Boat / The Wise Boatman
Poem Time: The First Day of School
UNIT - 2
a. Check the right answers.
Fun with Listening
i. a. happy
1. Answer the following questions.
ii. b. He walked himself.
1. Racial segregation is the separation, either
iii. a. lunchbox
by law or by action, of people of different
b. Write appropriate information in the boxes given
races in all manner of daily activities, such
below.
as education, housing, and the use of public
1. Bought a new lunchbox.
facilities. Thus, it is a form of institutional
2. Shined/shone his/her shoes.
racism.
3. Bought a new school bag.
2. A minister in a Church.
4. Bought a new pencil box.
3. Protest / Oppose / Struggle peacefully or
non-violently
i. No. The first line of the second stanza “But I don’t
4. No.
know my teacher”.
5. Third Monday of January every year.
ii. It’s his first day of school.
 Note for Correction (page – 16)
iii. He went to the school alone/by himself. The last
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What do you mean by ‘justice’? Fun with Vocabulary
 Note for Correction (page – 17) Note: Teacher must consider other alternative
Fun with Reading metaphors in the following cases.
Story Time: Before you begin i) slow: She is a snail.
1. Encourage your learners to give positive ii) smart: He is an Albert Einstein.
response. Birds keeping as pets can be fun as iii) fat: She is a blown up balloon.
well as opportunity to learn about them. iv) cunning: He is a fox.
a. Complete the following sentences v) beautiful: She is a rose / nature.
i. groove of lotus flowers vi) ugly: She is a witch / a bad painting.
ii. trap / catch vii) stubborn: He is a mule.
iii. mortals and immortals alike (humans and Gods) viii) strong: He is an ox.
iv. the birds Fun Time
v. court / palace Unscramble the following words to make compound
Words in use words and write in the space provided.
a. Original sentences expected from students. 1. basketball 2. wheelchair
b. Give short answer to the following questions. 3. cheerleader 4. newscast
i. in the Himalayas. 5. weekend 6. everybody
ii. Gods and humans 7. grandparent 8. wildlife
iii. a lake similar to Manasa 9. highway 10. twinpike
iv. Yes, he did. 11. homemade 12. homemade
v. He forgave the fowler. 13. household 14. afternoon
Poem Time: The White Window 15. everywhere
i) Match the following words with their meaning. UNIT – 3
Peep - peer Pretend - act Fun with Listening (The Weather’s Great!)
Stares - look intently Folk - people Write True or False
ii) Fill in the blanks correctly 1. T 2. T 3. F
i) window ii) peeped 4. F 5. T 6. T
iii) walk iv) pass by Fun with Reading
Let’s explore the text Journal Time
i) The poet in this poem thinks about the moon that 1. What is a journal?
is seen at night. He says that she slowly and A journal refers to a day to day record of what we
quietly peeps into his room through the window. see, hear, do, think and feel. Journal writing
He likes it but pretends as if he is in sound sleep. includes reflections and observations of the
She looks intently at him and moves towards writer. It often passes the surface details of life
other houses. She keenly observes everyone. and focuses instead upon how it reacts to
The poet wonders that the moon covers longer experience.
distance in all night, visits every house. However, Let’s find the facts
she does not make any sound. a) journal b) cupboard
ii) Answer the following questions. c) 10th of August d) Physical Education
a. That the moon secretly peeps at him through the e) Sanskrit
window of his room. Let’s explore the text
b. He fondly enjoys the moon’s (mischievous) i. at 8:00 am
activities pretending as if he’s asleep. ii. in cubby
c. quietly / tippy toes iii. Physical Education, full of fun
Fun with Grammar (Conditional sentences) iv. to prepare themselves for using real musical
Supply the correct forms of the verbs given in the instruments in 6th grade
brackets to complete these sentences. v. 30 mts.
1) will pass 2) would buy Poem Time : The Lamb
3) shines 4) will be About the poem
5) earns 6) would play The poem begins with the question, “Little Lamb,
7) would invite 8) studied who made thee?” The speaker, a child, asks the lamb
9) will slip 10) would prepare about its origins: how it came into being, how it
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acquired its particular manner of feeding, its “clothing” Fun Time (Going to)
of wool, and its “tender voice.” In the next stanza, the You are going to drive a car.
speaker attempts a riddling answer to his own You are going to wash your face.
question: the lamb was made by one who “calls You are going to drink a cup of tea.
himself a Lamb,” one who resembles in his gentleness You are going to a job interview.
both the child and the lamb. The lamb of course You are going to swim.
symbolizes Jesus. The poem ends with the child You are going to play the piano.
bestowing a blessing on the lamb. You are going to fall asleep.
Let’s find the facts You are going to run a race.
i. Jesus ii. delight iii. tender iv. Lamb You are going for a walk in the rain.
Let's explore the text You are going to cook a meal.
i. "The Lamb" is a poem by William Blake, You are going to a party.
published in Songs of Innocence in 1789. Like You are going to watch a DVD.
many of Blake's works, the poem is about You are going skiing.
Christianity. The speaker presents the world from You are going to ride a bike.
the innocent perspective of a child. You are going to send an email.
ii. young You are going to play tennis.
iii. feed – mead, delight – bright, voice – rejoice, You are going to phone a friend.
name – lamb, mild – child. You are going on holiday.
iv. ‘He’ & ‘Himself’ refers to the Jesus. You are going to dance.
You are going to take a photograph.
Fun with Grammar (Transformation) You are going to make a speech.
Change the following sentences as indicated in the
brackets. UNIT – 4
1) Is he a simple man?
2) Is man mortal? Fun with Listening (Asking about Restaurant)
3) You have seen a lion. Write True or False
4) Is Nepal a secular state? 1. F 2. T 3. T 4. F
5) Where does her parents work? 5. T 6. T 7. F 8. F
6) Your friend helped you at your studies.
7) Rautes are Nomads of Nepal. Fun with Reading
8) Do we speak English in school? Story Time : The Magic Pumpkin
Fun with vocabulary (Phrasal verbs)
Before you begin
1. for 2. for 3. up 4. after
Have you ever seen any the magical events?
5. forward to 6. down 7. off 8. Away
The story should begin as ....
It was a sunny Fall day. Rajiv Rajesh and his friend
Fun with Creative Writing (e-mail writing)
Ramila.....
Correct version:
Hi, a. in a school bus
My name is Susan. I’m fourteen and I live in b. shades of orange colour
Germany. My hobby is going to discos. c. because Ramila said that Rajesh’s pumpkin was
Sometimes I listen to the radio. In the summer, I ugly
go to bathing in a lake. I haven’t any brothers or d. it was about the magic pumpkin that talked to him
sisters. We take bus to school. I leave at 9 for 7 granted a wish for him
my school. My birthday is on Friday. I hope I will b. Keep the given sentences in order as they
get a new guitar this year/ birthday. happen in the story.
I’m looking forward to getting an e-mail from The correct order is ...
you. 1. It was a sunny day, crisp and blue and gold.
Yours, 2. She didn’t want to go on the trip.
Susan 3. Rajesh and Ramila sat in the front as it headed out.
4. Then the tractor stopped.
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5. The driver said the ones with stalks lasted longer. 1. In the picture, there are four people.
6. Time was up and Rajesh was still empty handed. 2. A couple is sitting at the table.
7. Ramila said it was ugly and they quarreled. 3. They are sitting on chairs.
Words in use 4. The drinks are on the table.
Enormous - very big 5. One woman is standing near/ in front of the
Tangle - knot, interweave table.
Grabbed - caught 6. Beside her is a man who is barbecuing.
Pricky - thorny Now complete these sentences supplying the correct
Sparkilng - shining prepositions according to the picture.
Let’s explore the text i. In ii. at iii. opposite
i. They were having fun. iv. under v. in vi. In
ii. because everyone except him had found their vii. at viii. under
pumpkin Fun with Vocabulary
iii. a new video game 1. Find the synonyms and antonyms for the
iv. As its title “The Magic Pumpkin” suggests it is a following from the list given below.
supernatural and magical story. The pumpkin  Note for Correction (page – 49)
grants Rajesh’s wish, makes Ramila’s father well, weak stout
and finally, it disappears in the gust of wind. Synonyms Antonyms
Poem Time: The Concrete Three 1. tiny – small 1. generous – greedy
About the poem 2. clever – intelligent 2. happy – sad
Wittgenstein here argues that language is just a 3. brave – courageous 3. energetic – tired
tool that we use to communicate and it has inherent 4. strong – stout 4. proud – friendly
contradictions, people have their own definitions of 5. hostile - aggressive 5. loving - hateful
words, which leads to arguments.
2. Choose the correct option to complete the
An interesting characteristic of the method
sentences.
Wittgenstein employs in this poem is the use of queer
1. quietly 2. old 3. poor 4. huge
statements such as: "What is the color of the number
5. dry 6. correct 7. clean 8. less
three?" This question is calculated to produce a sort of
"shock" effect on our thinking.
To understand his meaning, it is necessary that
we acquire a 'third eye,' and learn to look at things
She will always remain in my our hearts and memories.
from a new point of view. The fact is, we cannot make
sense out of such a question or its reply, and any HEARTFELT CONDOLENCE
effort to do so heightens our perplexity. The intellect is We express our deep sympathy and grief at the
useless in dealing with such a problem. Our trouble is unexpected and sudden / untimely demise of
that we think the problem must have an answer and Mr/Ms. XYZ
that our failure to discover the answer is due to an He / She was a helpful, hardworking and friendly
inadequate set of concepts. student of our school. His /Her honesty and
Let’s explore the text hardworking manner had made him/her popular
1. Meaning through the graphic arrangement of among all the teachers and students alike.
letters, words, or symbols on the page. We extend our deep sympathy and grief to his/her
2. Let your students discover their own way to bereaved family members and relatives and pray
express it. for heavenly peace of his/her departed soul.
3. Ludwig Wittgenstein He/She will always/forever remain in our hearts
4. Students’ answers may vary. Some students may and memories.
indicate simply one particular colour like red, All Grade – V Students
black, green, etc. While others may visualize the XYZ School, ZYZ, Nepal
number instead in their mind and say NO colour.
Fun with Grammar (Prepositions) Fun time
 Note for Correction (page – 48) 1. patient 2. cheerful 3. aggressive
Look at the picture and study the use of prepositions. 4. arrogant 5. generous 6. ambitious
(Here teachers must provide answer as examples) 7. reckless 8. modest
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UNIT - 5 9. round plastic

Fun with Listening (Let’s Take a Picture) 10. first two
1. honey 2. one week Fun with Creative Writing
3. refrigerator 4. developed Possible answer
5. by printing it 6. It is automatic one Dear Uncle,
7. Maria Many many thanks for your letter of congratulations
Fun with Reading on my awarding Student of the Year in my school. It
Story Time : The Story Without an End was not less due to encouragement and inspiration
Let’s find the facts given by you than by my own effort.
a. Write True or false My success is no less due to the good wishes and
i. F ii. F iii. T iv. T v. T prayers of you all who have always been interested
b. Answer the following questions. in my studies. You personally deserve further credit
i. to give his daughter and the crown for it because it was you who suggested me to strive
ii. beautiful for the better performance in my studies.
iii. for 3 days Rest is all fine. Please remember me to auntie
iv. the son of a poor workman Hema. With best wishes to you and everyone there.
v. through a small hole into the barn Yours affectionately,
vi. the young storyteller Pritam
i. he listened stories from morning until night UNIT - 6
ii. to satisfy the King’s thirst to hear never ending Fun with Listening (A Thief in the Night)
stories 1. sleeping
iii. So that his story would never end. 2. going out of the window
iv. Because several generations of ants fed on the 3. dark hair, medium size
rice that filled the King’s huge barn 4. a blue shirt
v. No. He pleaded the young story teller to quit/stop 5. a refrigerator
storytelling and take away his daughter & 6. food
kingdom instead. Fun with Reading
vi. The King’s character sketch: Essay Time : Environmental Pollution
– a story lover - injustice Let’s find the facts
- stubborn - cruel i. addition of harmful/ toxic substances into the
- a man of words - luxurious etc. environment
Poem Time : He Leaves the Nest ii. Migration (human) is the movement of people
Let’s find the facts from one place of the world to another. People
i. cock ii. construct way iii. crows migrate for various reasons like -
Let’s explore the text - Poor living conditions or poverty
We do not know who wrote this poem. ......... ... ... ... a - Search for better job opportunities
bird lover ... ... a bird leaving its nest ... ... ... stopping - Population growth
and strutting ... reveals that .....all its might ... lively - Economic development
and interesting. John brough, the translator The poet - Violence and internal conflict, etc.
has carefully looked at the metre, the rhyme, the iii. land, air, water, sound, visual, etc.
length of each line while translating it without iv. Noise pollution (or environmental noise) is
distorting meaning of the poem. displeasing human, animal or machine-created
Fun with Grammar (Adjectives) sound that disrupts the activity or balance of
1. young charming human or animal life.
2. long black v. Air pollution is the introduction of chemicals or
3. well-known French biological materials that cause harm or discomfort
4. beautiful green to humans or other living organisms, or cause
5. poor little damage to the natural environment or built
6. Wonderful Mexican environment, into the atmosphere.
7. modern Japanese Words in use
8. big new Creative answers expected from students.
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Let’s explore the text  3 pounds
i. By making people aware about the importance of 3. Canada generates about .......................
keeping environment clean, by disposing garbage A. one pound less than the US.
properly, using less numbers of vehicles, B. one pound more than the US.
discouraging opening factories and industries in C. the same amount of waste as the US.
residential areas, planting more trees, not felling  one pound more than the US.
trees, etc. 4. The Netherlands, the UK and Japan all generate
ii. By discouraging people to cut trees for firewood, about ...................
stop clearing forests for housing and other A. 3 pounds per person per day.
construction works, suggest using alternative B. 2 pounds per person per day.
fuels, etc. C. 4 pounds per person per day.
iii. Cities are densely populated, have more factories  3 pounds per person per day.
and industries, more vehicles ply on the road,
people throw heaps of garbage, etc. Poem Time : Junk Art
iv. Because they are the main causes of air Let’s find the facts
pollution. They emit harmful gases and produce 1. making art from junk 2. three
sound pollutions. 3. drum 4. Box
v. Some ways of reducing environmental pollution Let’s explore the text
are: Shift factories out of residential areas, i. Yes. It’s a creative form of expression
Reduce automobile use and emissions , Reduce ii. to make art
the use of toxic chemicals in and around your
home, Start a compost pile from useless food Fun with grammar (Adverb)
items, Put less load on your furnace and air 1. gracefully 2. easily 3. exactly
conditioner, Plant a tree, Start a garden, Buy 4. Honesty 5. badly 6. loudly
locally grown food, Eat less meat, Park your car, 7. well 8. rarely
walk on foot to your office or wok, Carry your own Fun with Vocabulary
bag when you go grocery shopping, Increase Encourage students to generate their own
your awareness of electricity use, Start sentences.
environment friendly clubs, etc.
 Note for Correction (page – 74) Fun with creative writing (Writing Reviews)
Students answers may vary.
Fun Time
Create environmental slogans for your school.
1. Good environment is good health.
2. Air pollution causes health hazards.
3. Save trees, save lives.
4. Save plants, save earth.
5. Go green.
Study the following chart and answer the questions 6. Less pollution is the best solution
that follow. 7. Put a stop to the drop
1. According to the chart which country creates the UNIT – 7
most waste per person? Fun with Listening (Shopping for Clothes)
A. Canada 1. Angie’s 2. Two
B. US 3. a small size 4. try on clothes
C. Japan. 5. Buy the sweater 6. an essay about English
 Canada Fun with Reading
2. Per person per day the US generates more than Story Time : The Naughty Boy
...................  Note for Correction (page – 82)
A. 3 pounds. Long long time ago, .... a dreadful storm arose
B. 4 pounds. without warning, and the rain streamed down
C. 2 pounds. from heaven; ...
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About the text Fun with Vocabulary
In Roman mythology, Cupid (Latin cupido, meaning 1. affectionate 2. aggressive
"desire") is the god of desire, affection and erotic love. 3. critical 4. Indecisive
He is often portrayed as the son of the goddess 5. vain 6. Outgoing
Venus, with a father rarely mentioned. His Greek 7. carefree 8. Hard-working
counterpart is Eros. 9. forgetful 10. Sensible
Cupid is one of the few ancient gods that is still a
popular part of modern society. Although he is not UNIT - 8
regarded in quite the same way that he was in Greek Fun with Listening (What do you like to do?)
and Roman times, he is widely accepted as a symbol 1. F 2. F
of love. Currently, in Western culture, Cupid is sort of 3. T 4. T
the commercial spokesperson for Valentine's day and 5. F 6. F
all things romantic, and Nepal is not an exception. Fun with Reading
Let’s find the facts Biography Time: Home, Sweet Home
A. Who said the following?
i. the old man
ii. Cupid i. Karma K.C is from Dang.
iii. the old man ii. Narayan Shrestha is a journalist of Nepali BBC
iv. the old man Service.
B. Answer the following questions iii. A BBC Programme, Sajha Sawal motivated
i. rainy Karma towards goat farming.
ii. sitting by the fire and roasting apples iv. Nepal imports Bheda and Bakhra from China and
iii. Cupid India.
iv. Shot his arrows iv. I prefer working in my own native land to going
Let’s explore the text overseas countries for employment.
i. It was rainy cold day, he was heating and Words in use
roasting apples Use the following words and phrases in
ii. cold and crying your own sentences.
iii. Various answers. Perhaps he should have been Instead of: It is good to work in our own country
more humble and not shot his arrow at the old instead of going abroad for employment.
man Far away: My neighborhood uncle has gone to a far
iv. Students’ answers may vary. away country for work.
Access: The students in Dolpa do not have easy
Poem Time : Sunning access to university education.
Let’s find the facts Flee: Many Nepalese people flee away for better job
a. on the porch opportunities.
b. a buzzing fly that disturbed his sleep Self-reliant: I want to be a self-reliant person in future.
c. scratched it Let's explore the text
d. chasing a rabbit i. Yes, I have watched the programme Shaja
e. It means ‘in compulsion’ or ‘slave to one’s habit’ Sawal. Mr. Narayan Shrestha brings this
Let’s explore the text programme to us in BBC Nepali Sewa. It is really
a. Lazy an informative programme for everyone
b. Lazy to rise and run, dreamt of chasing a rabbit irrespective of age and gender. This programme
c. The old lazy dog generally raises the current issues of the nation
d. because of his lazy habits and the world before the audience. I think the
e. instead of catching his prey, he dreamt of it programme intends to raise awareness among
the general public towards social, economic,
Fun with Grammar (Relatives) gender-based, cultural and political issues of the
1. Where 2. When 3. What nation. It also helps us understand public opinion
4. Who[m] 5. What 6. When about the issues concerned.
7. Who[m] 8. Where 9. When ii. According to Karma K.C, Goat farming is a
10. What suitable profession for Nepalese people. Even
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the small entrepreneurs can involve in this clear water glittering like skies at night. We must also
profession. Moreover, our topography too is find time to see the beautiful glance of a maiden and
suitable for it. We can use our barren land for admire the skill of her dancing feet. We should not
grazing our goats. Further, we can get grass for miss the beautiful smile playing at her face. In this
the goats from such land at low cost. Hence, it way, we can fill our lives with happiness.
can be a profitable occupation. The poet expresses his grief at the fact that
iii. Foreign employment simply refers to the act of modern rush of life has deprived us of many
going to foreign countries seeking employment commonplace pleasures. We run around after our
opportunities. The trend of going to other material pursuits, so crazily that we get no time to
countries for job is increasing day by day in spend in a relaxed manner. He warns us if our life
Nepal. Mostly, many Nepalese youngsters are remains full of worries and problems with no
fleeing to these countries every day. However, It opportunity to enjoy its simple pleasures, it will be very
is not a good trend. We cannot get an honourable miserable life.
job and salary going there, nor can we be with  Note for Correction (page – 97)
our family members. We have to give our time, And stare as long as sheep or caws cows.
mind and toil for the development of other Let’s find the facts
countries. We can do better staying in our own a. to observe the beauty of the nature
country rather than going there. For this, we must b. in grass
have honour of labour. Similarly, we can get a c. stars
good profit even from agricultural sector if we d. the dancing of the beautiful nature
start it from commercial point of view. Moreover, e. streams
it is rightly said that mother and motherland are Let’s explore the text
superior to heaven. We must not leave our a. Because our life has become too busy
nation. We must stay here and work for its b. He talks about all the beautiful things we get to
prosperity. see in the nature
iv. Karma K.C has set an example for the Nepali c. various answers
youths who seek job in abroad countries by d. worry rivulets - streams
teaching them a lesson that we should not beside under - beneath
wander for jobs to other countries. We have forest – woods
enough prospects of employment in our own enhance – enrich
country if we work prudently.
Poem Time : Leisure Fun with Grammar (Conjunctions)
About the poem 1. so 2. but 3. Unless
The poem "Leisure" has been composed by an 4. since 5. While 6. Although
American poet William Davies. He was a wandering 7. however 8. until 9. Although
poet and singer. He led a life of loneliness and his 10. while
poetry is marked with truth and simplicity in idea as
well as language. As the title of the poem suggests, it Fun with Vocabulary (Diminutives)
is about the availability of time for enjoying various Some birds and animals with their baby names
delights of life. These may range from the most are:
ordinary every day pleasure to the extraordinary Hare – leveret
events. The poet is lamenting over the rush and Horse - foal, colt (male), filly (female)
hurried manner in which we spend our lives. We Monkey – infant
deprive ourselves of the richness and diversity of life. Panda – cub
The poet believes that life must be enjoyed in a Pig - piglet, shoat, farrow
casual leisurely manner. He thinks that we should Rhinoceros – calf
spend our free time enjoying and appreciating the Skunk – kit
beauty of nature. We should find time to stand under Sheep - lamb, lambkin, cosset
the trees and look at beautiful objects of nature as Mouse - pup, pinkie, kitten
sheep and cows do. While passing through the woods, Hyena – cub
we must pause to see the squirrels busy in hiding their
nuts in the grass. We should also stop by streams of Fun with Creative Writing (Report Writing)
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They said 500 years 'in earth time'. About 20 mts. UNIT – 9
What did it sound they look like? Fun with Listening (The New Apartment)
1. Where did you see the spaceship? i. F ii. T iii. T iv. T
- In a field near the lighthouse. v. F vi. F vii. F viii. F
2. What shape was it?
- Almost circular, with a dome on top. Fun with Reading
3. What did it look like? Non Fiction Time : Butterflies
- A bit like a microwave.
Orphans are children who have lost their parents.
4. How big was it?
- About the size of a house.
i. special
5. How high was it?
ii. old man
- I'd say about 6 metres.
iii. The house parent iv. uneasy/angry
6. What was it made of?
v. freed, he felt sorry for the butterfly
- Some sort of shiny metal I think.
Words in use
7. How fast did it move?
Noun Verb Adjective
- One second it was there, the next it was gone.
Beauty, Chasing, Laid, Heavy,
8. What colour was it?
Orphanage, Picked, Burried, Large,
- A sort of silvery grey.
Ground, Left, pinned, Straight,
9. What did they look like?
- They had very long arms and small heads without Let’s explore the text
hair. i. The house parent catching butterflies
10. What sort of energy did it use? ii. ordinary / normal routine
- Electro-magnetic power, I think. iii. The house parent, for decorations
11. What was it like inside? iv. for letting a butterfly free
- A huge room full of flashing lights and v. So that they might live longer, or they might
instruments. escape from the cruel house parent
12. What was the temperature like inside?
- A lot cooler than I expected. Poem Time:
13. How did you feel when you first saw the aliens? I cannot remember my Mother
- Very afraid, but curious. Let's find facts
14. How tall were they? i. Already dead
- Much shorter than us. ii. Students can answer either yes or no but supply
15. How did they move? with convincing reasons
- They seemed to slide along the floor. iii. When he was still a baby
16. How did you communicate with them? iv. Nostalgia
- By computer. v. His bedroom window
17. How many of them were there? Lets explore the text
- Seven altogether. i. His mother singing lullaby, mother offering a
18. Where did they come from? prayers mother gaze etc.
- A planet near the centre of the Milky Way. ii. Nostalgia
19. How far away is that? iii. as
- About 25 light years.
20. How long were you on the ship? Fun with Grammar
- About 20 mts. i. a few ii. much
iii. amount iv. much
Fun Time v. a few vi. So many
a. In the cafeteria b. About two hours vii. a little
c. I agree with you d. I’ll play soccer Fun with Vocabulary (Word Formation)
e. I don’t think so f. About four days ago 1. a. uncomfortable
g. I was sleeping h. After school b. Comfortable
i. I sleep 7 hours j. Two times a week c. comfortably
k. By train 2. a. politics
b. Politically
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3. a. possibility happily. When they were back to their bed, they
b. Possible laughed a lot.
c. impossible
4. a. growing Fun with Reading
b. Growth Story Time : The Tale of Evan
Fun with Creative Writing a. Llanlavan
Complete the following letter supplying the correct b. farming, three pounds annually
form of the verbs given in the brackets. c. cake
Dear Mr and Mrs. Gautam, d. three merchants
I am writing (write) to thank you for coming to our e. So that other people won’t know his crime
wedding last month. I hope you enjoyed yourselves. f. wages of three years
Sheila and I have just returned (just / return) from our g. for his honesty, hard work, etc.
honeymoon in Pokhara and now we are looking Let’s explore the text
forward to (now / look forward to) starting our new life a. Never leave the old road for the sake of new one.
together. We just moved (just / move) into our new b. Third year
house and since our honeymoon we spent (spend) all c. The hostess and the Monk
our free time decorating. The house actually begins d. By returning the King’s purse.
(actually / begin) to feel like home now and we Poem time: The Little Elf-man
gradually settled (gradually / settle) in a routine. We Let’s find the facts
have (have) breakfast together in the morning, but i) F ii) T iii) F iv) F v) F
then we do not see (not / see) each other until late in Let’s explore the text
the evening when we get (get) home from work. I hope i. down the lily garden
both of you are (be) well since we last saw you. ii. Why he was so small/short & didn’t grow
iii. He slightly frowned or became puzzled
Love iv. Yes. As every creature is gifted with certain
Nirmal unique feature, he was perfect size for him.
Fun Time Fun with Grammar (Causatives)
For example: 1. My mom had the curtains changed.
Emails/Letters: Emails are faster than letter. 2. Thomas had the car washed.
Cats/Dogs: Dogs are more aggressive than cats. 3. Maria had the web site redesigned.
UNIT – 10 4. John had the cat brought to the ved.
Fun with Listening (Get the Phone) 5. Jane had the vase put on the table.
1. Darren 6. We had the dog fed.
2. In the bathroom 7. We had the money given to the homeless shelter.
3. Carol can’t come to the phone right now. 8. Thomas had his hair cut.
4. tomorrow night Fun with Vocabulary
5. I will bring a dessert 1. reader 2. constituent 3. patron
Fun with Speaking (Narrative) 4. subscriber 5. Student 6. customer
Possible answer... 7. patient
Ben and Kerry had had just arrived in their apartment Fun with Creative Writing (Paragraphs)
from work. In the main entrance they met a stranger. 1. Read each paragraph and choose the main idea.
They were astonished to see him coming out of the Paragraphs Main idea
main entrance of their flat. When Ben and Kerry I have a dog ... c. Boots is very smart.
opened their room, they found things in sixes and Yesterday was ... b. Joey had a great
sevens or in mess. At night when they were in sound birthday.
sleep, they heard a strange noise coming from behind Peter’s parents ... d. Peter’s parents made
the curtain. When they woke up, they saw a new rules so the new
mysterious shadow and were greatly frightened. When carpet stays clean.
they went over there and removed the curtain, they
were taken aback. There were two little kittens playing 2. Read the following text and write the main idea of
each paragraph after it.
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The Birthday Party  Mayor-leader of the city—his priority is collecting
Texts Main idea as much money as possible
Jennifer is ... Jennifer had a great  Student-A young playwright, living in poverty,
birthday. struggling to finish his play
Jennifer’s mom ... Jennifer’s mom served  Seamstress-A widow and mother of a young child
delicious foods.  Boy-The son of the seamstress, he is sick with a
The kids played ... The kids had great fun. terrible fever
There were a lot ... Jennifer blew candles & "The Happy Prince" is one of the finest fairy tales
opened her gifts. written by "Oscar wild". The story is full of such details
She got lots of .... Jennifer got many presents. that can happen in a fairy world only. The story is
about Prince, who led a life of comfort when alive. He
UNIT – 11 does not know anything about the harsh outside the
Fun with Listening (Valentine’s Day) palace. However, after his death his statue is erected
1. Venus, goddesses of love on a high column in the centre of the city. The statue
2. a bow and arrow is all covered with gold leaves, whereas blue
3. February 14 sapphires fixed in place of eyes and a red ruby is
4. Roses displaced in sword hilt. From that high place, the
5. Make cards for their friends Prince can watch the miseries of the poor. Hence, he
Fun with Reading is not happy anymore and weeps all the time.
One day, a Swallow happens to sit between his
Story Time : The Magic Swan
legs and by chance a tear fells on it. It tells the
Swallow the reason of his weeping. The Prince tells
Write True or False
him his entire story. After knowing the reason, the
a. F b. T
Swallow decides to help the Prince. The prince asks it
c. T d. F e. F
to give the ruby of his sword hilt to a poor woman,
whose child is suffering from fever. The Swallow does
a. shamefully, ill-treated
the same and the Prince is happy to see its result.
b. all his griefs, sorrows, troubles
Next morning the Prince gives the sapphire of his
c. to escape from the ill-treatment of his brothers
other eye to poor match selling girl. Now, the Swallow
and improve his fortune
realizing that the Prince has blinded himself for
d. They were lost in the admiration of the bird’s
suffering humanity decides to remain with him. It
beautiful plumage.
distributes all the gold leaves of his statue among the
e. a thousand gold crowns or a piece of land
poor. In winter, it cannot bear the cold and dies. Now,
f. by making many people fastened to the swan’s
the statue is in a bad condition, the mayor of the city
tails
orders to remold the statue into his own statue. When
g. by appointing her as the head house keeper of
the statue is melted, the lead heart does not melt.
the palace
Hence, it is thrown on the heap, where the dead body
Drama Time : The Happy Prince of the Swallow is already laying.
About the text The god was seeing this. Later the God asks his
A swallow meets the statue of the late "Happy Prince", angels to bring two most precious things of the city.
which houses the soul of the original prince, who in The angels take the broken heart and the dead
reality had never experienced true happiness. The Swallow. God really praises them for their right
statue inspires the swallow to selfless acts. choices.
Characters In the end, it can be said that love and sacrifice
 Happy Prince-Long ago, he was a joyful prince. are the saving forces.
Now he is a golden statue Let’s find the facts
 Swallow-A romantic young bird en route to Egypt a. Complete the following
for the winter The Prince sent his ruby to the poor sick boy and
 Match girl-An impoverished child of about seven, his mother.
struggling to make enough money to provide food The Prince sent one of his sapphire eyes to the
for her father and herself poor dramatist/writer.
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The Prince sent the other sapphire eye to a little 6. Two complaints were filed by Mrs. Richardson.
match girl. 7. The food is prepared by Maria.
The Prince sent the gold leaves of his body to the 8. They were seen by everyone.
poor people of his kingdom. 9. He was brought by the police.
b. Match the person in Column A with the 10. My wallet was stolen by that man.
appropriate speech in Column B.
Column A Column B Fun with Creative Writing
Poor Man 1 Oh... we have bread now!  Note for Correction (page – 149)
Poor Man 2 We can buy firewood! drats me = darts me
My children will not be cold Encourage students to create their own stories taking
Poor Woman 1 help of the given clues.
this winter!
My husband will have his UNIT - 12
Poor Woman 2
medicine! Fun with Listening (I Saw a Sheep A-Sailing)
Thank you God! This is a See the listening script at page – 169
Poor Woman 3
miracle!
C. Answer the following questions. Fun with Reading
i. On a tall column, at the heart of the city. Story Time : Hansel and Gretel
ii. golden leaves. About the text
iii. sapphires and gold respectively Hansel and Gretel’ is German folk tale, with
iv. rich, kind and generous analogues all over the world. The tale combines
v. to make the statue of the prince as an several important motifs: the wicked stepmother, the
honour abandoned children, the trail of crumbs or peas that
vi. to Egypt, under the Prince’s statue are eaten, the edible house, and the tricking of the
The golden heart of Happy Prince and the witch/ogre.
dead swallow Hansel and Gretel are the children of a poor
Let’s explore the text woodcutter. Fearing starvation, the woodcutter's wife
i) It was expensive, made of gold, with golden (variably called the children's mother or stepmother)
heart, sapphires eyes, ruby at the sword’s hilt, convinces him to lead the children into the forest and
etc. abandon them there. Hansel and Gretel hear her plan
ii. Yes. He was luxurious and rich. and gather white pebbles from the front garden to
iii. Because he never had to worry or experience leave them a trail home. After their return, their mother
suffering, and pain & never knew what tears clears all the pebbles from the front garden when she
were. learns the children used them to find their way back.
iv. The grief of his father She subsequently convinces the woodcutter to
v. Because the tears of the Happy Prince fell on abandon them again further in the forest so they
him. cannot find their way back; this time however, they
vi. The suffering, hunger, pain, disease, poverty of can only leave a trail of breadcrumbs. Unfortunately,
his people, etc. the various animals of the woods eat their trail of
vii. To help the old mother whose son was lying sick breadcrumbs, causing Hansel and Gretel to become
in the bed. lost.
viii. That the swallow had served a poor family, his Lost in the forest, they find a house made
act of good deed made him feel satisfied and of gingerbread and candies, with sugar windows.
happy. Unable to resist, they begin to eat it. The inhabitant of
ix. Due to hunger and cold. the house, an old woman, invites them in and
x. a) worthless prepares a feast for them. The table is covered with
Fun with Grammar (Voice) candy, nuts, pancakes and other sweets. The woman,
1. The kitchen is cleaned by David. however, is a witch who has built the house to entice
2. The bills are paid by my father. children to her, so that she can fatten and eat them.
3. The dogs are fed by Frank. She locks Hansel in a cage, and makes Gretel her
4. The women were served by the firefighters. servant. While she prepares to cook Hansel, she
5. The explanation was understood by all the orders Gretel to fetch candies and fats to force feed
students.
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Hansel. Unable to do anything, Gretel weeps bitterly Mother - Nose
and does as she is told. Aunt Sue - Dimple
In the cage, Hansel finds a thin bone from his Cousin - hair
meals. When the witch tells Hansel to stick out his 2. Baby - shabby, ruby, hobby
finger (so she can tell if he is fat enough to eat), he Simply - homely, prickly
deceives her by sticking out the bone instead. The Perky - hanky, lanky
woman has poor eye sight and is very old, and thus Hair - pair, fair
cannot see that Hansel's "finger" is actually a bone. Let’s explore the text
Days pass by, but the witch cannot perceive how fat  Note for Correction (page – 160)
Hansel is getting. She gets frustrated and decides to a. What parts of his her is the boy speaker referring
eat him anyway, "be he fat or lean". She tells Gretel to to?
climb into an oven to be sure it is ready to bake, but : The parts of the body the speaker is referring to in
Gretel guesses that the witch intends to bake her, and the above lines are her lips, toes, hair, nose,
tricks the witch into climbing into the oven, closing it cheek, eyes, etc.
behind her. Hansel is freed and the children take Does the speaker look like his her relatives or
jewels from the witch's house and set off for home with vice versa?
the help of a beautiful white dove. After reuniting with : She looks like her relatives.
their father and finding out that their stepmother has b. This means her blue eyes. Blink and blue
died, they all live happily ever after. suggest features of her eyes.
Let’s find the facts c. We sometimes have the same body features as
1. Tick the correct answer from the given the people we’re related to.
alternatives. Fun with Grammar (Too/Enough)
i. Bake them 1. The watch is too expensive to buy.
ii. Breadcrumbs 2. These sandals are too small for me.
iii. Their father 3. The film is too boring to watch.
2. Answer the following questions. 4. I was too tired to keep my eyes open.
a. The wicked/evil witch. 5. The coffee was too strong to drink it.
b. Their stepmother. 6. The boys aren't young enough to watch that film.
c. Because the breadcrumbs which they 7. Alex was too shocked to say a word.
dropped on their way had been eaten by 8. Sinan wasn't tall enough to be a basketball
birds, and they lost their way. player.
d. It was made of chocolate, biscuit, candy, 9. Carlos was too excited to get asleep.
and sugar. 10. That room is too hot to sit comfortably.
e. Gretel Fun with Vocabulary
Let’s explore the text Look at the word in brackets following each sentence.
a. He dropped little white pebbles on their way. Complete each sentence by writing the correct form of
b. Because the breadcrumbs which he had dropped the word in the gap.
on the way had been eaten by hungry birds; they 1. anxiously 2. The consumption
were edible unlike the pebbles he used first time. 3. irritating 4. behaviour
c. Holding out the chicken bone. 5. addiction 6. improvement
d. By pretending that she couldn’t find out whether 7. performance 8. marriage
the oven was hot enough. 9. basement 10. investigation
e. Students answers may vary. 11. unsafe 12. injury
f. As Gretel was a girl, the witch chose her to do all 13. comfortable 14. decision
the domestic chores, a feminine work, while she 15. sociable
locked Hansel to fatten him.
g. He is a good, loving father who is made
henpecked by his second wife.
Poem Time : Family Features
1. Uncle Joey - Toes
Grandma - Mouth
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Book - VI
Spark English Reader – Book VI Teachers Manual
UNIT - 1 lasts only as long as you are young.

ii. You are yet to discover a beauty greater
Religion and Mythology than that you have lost.
Poem: A Conversation with God iii. It will bring you peace and eternal happiness.
The poet ironically talks about the prayer that the iv. You can't call your body your own.
people make before God for the fulfillment of their v. Light the lamp within you, peace will come.
wishes. The poet suggests the devotees to think vi. Buddha had blessed her.
themselves being God before requesting God to listen vii. So, be my child. You May find peace.
to their prayer. All the devotees pray to the God by Words in use
standing in a queue with the flowers, incense sticks 7. Creative sentences expected from students.
and a coin for the fulfillment of their dreams and 8. Well known, disciple, disappointed, shunned,
wishes. We believe that the God is all powerful to prepared, applause, enemies, banished,
grant our wishes. However, the God does not. It is shunned, festering (two words are repeated)
easy to make a prayer but it is quite difficult to grant Explore the text
them. 9. As he was a Buddhist monk, he was not attracted
Find the facts by her physical and sensual beauty rather he was
1. The poet is talking to God in the poem. waiting to meet her in distress to help. That’s why
2. He wants to offer his faith to the God. he postponed going and meeting her.
3. The poet was hurt in the beginning because the 10. Dancing again was the price of that painting. It
god demanded either flower or coin instead of his was really costly because she had to do again
faith. the same job which was of no interest for her.
4. He was confused to hear the god being ready to 11. The enemies of the sculptor had killed her and
become his devotee. they had killed out of jealousy of him for getting
5. He wants to be devotee. the favor of Vasavadatta.
Explore the Text 12. Lighting the lamp within you brings eternal and
6. The poet is a theist. We come to know this true peace. Buddhist discourses state this.
through his deep devotion and worship to god. Make Connections
7. They carry baskets of flowers, coins and fruits 15. Let the students discuss in the class and write
with them. their opinion in this regard. Logical answers from them
8. I think the God wants to be the devotee of the are expected.
poet for the faith and dedication he has to the 16. Tell a mythical story to the student and let them
God. Yes of course, the God has heard the write it.
prayer of the poet. Grammar
9. He does not want to become the God because If I Exercise (Page No. 9)
become God there will be none to grant his 1. an 2. an 3. a 4. a 5. a, a 6. an 7. a 8. a, an 9. a 10.
wishes. an 11. a 12. an 13. an, an 14. a 15. a
10. God will respond as his good and faithful devotee. Exercise (Page No. 11)
the, a, the, a, a, a, a, the, a, the, the, an, a, a
Story: Upagupta :The Buddhist Monk
Find the facts Unit 2
1. She was well known for her beauty and dance. Man and Environment
2. Upagupta’s rejection to meet on her call Poem: The Song of the Whale
disappointed her. The poet thinks about the pointless killing of huge and
3. They complained to see her unhappy. magnificent animal whale. He says that human beings
4. She suggested visiting the exhibition of a young are killing them to fulfill their needs. According to him,
sculptor of Mathura in order to keep her to keep whales are killed to fulfill minimal human needs. His
her mind out of monk. expression with irony and sadness presents him
5. The given statement is spoken by Vasavadatta to strictly against the merciless killing of this animal.
young sculptor. The meaning of this statement is
fine art exists for ever but the physical beauty and Find the facts
its existence is transitory. 1. This poem is about the pointless killing of huge
6. The following sentences are written correctly. and magnificent animal, whale.
i. You are sorry for losing your beauty which 2. Yes it has also the feeling of pain and anger.
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3. This stanza ironic to reveal human being’s d. I would avoid my best to use plastics.
selfishness. Lipstick is for painted faces and f. If it were cheap.
polish is for shoes. g. It would be of only bamboo.
4. The poet is talking about the weeds and bushes 4. i. Yes ii. Yes iii. No
inside the sea. iv. Yes v. Yes
vi. Yes v ii. Yes viii. No
5. The poet feels sad to see the killing of whale. ix. Yes x. No
Keeling whale is meaningless in the sense that 5. Creative answers are expected.
the act of killing cannot gratify all human needs
and desires rather it simply becomes the murder Explore the text
of an innocent creature. 6. I would want to live in an eco-community now
Explore the text because the city I am living now is much polluted.
6. In the first stanza ‘mountain’ is metaphorical to 7. They will not get enough area for playing games.
the great problem. They will not be able to make house of their
7. The poet’s ability to hear the pain and grief of choice and interest. The like drawbacks they are
whale proves that he is compassionate to the likely to face.
suffering of whale. 8. Conservation of forest and the stoppage of the
8. This stanza has been repeated in the poem. This production of plastic products are the most
repetition reveals the greed and selfishness of important ‘green initiative’ for eco-builders at this
human beings. time in history because the production of plastic
9. The Ocean is being compared with forest or is the most destructive to nature.
wilderness in the seventh stanza. This sort of use 9. Give your own creative answer.
of figure of speech is called metaphor.
10. In this stanza, ‘dumb’ means lifeless or killed. Make Connection
11. Heaving mountain in the sea, 12. Show how wildlife, environment around us and our
Bird-high notes, keening, soaring: life are related. Let them give their own creative ideas.
At their edge a tiny drum. The given three lines 13. Causes of environmental pollution: over
have sensory details. The poet appeals our five population, unmanaged garbage, drainage,
senses of sense of sight, hearing, feeling, taste deforestation, excessive use of vehicles, etc.
and smelling. Ways to overcome them: public awareness,
management of garbage, legislation, plantation, use of
Essay: The Green Movement electric vehicles, etc.
Find the facts Consequences of pollution: spread of disease, other
1. Find words or phrases from the text which mean health hazards, loss of beauty of the place, etc.
the following. Grammar
a. Non toxic First Exercise (Page No. 24)
b. Pesticide my, your, their, her, our
c. Self sufficient Second Exercise (Page No. 24)
d. Unprecedented. his, mine, yours, theirs, ours
e. Utility meters. Unit: 3Childhood and Initiation
f. Ventilation Poem : The Statue
g. Biomass The poet describes his feeling looking at the statue of
2. Choose the correct answer from the given a great person of the past. He as a child does not
alternatives. know about the work of the great man. He is afraid to
a. Minimize approach the statue. He finds a hand pointing at him
b Reuse and is afraid to go near him. The statue is presented
c. Chop down as hard stony figure revealing silent message.
d. Minimize Find the facts
f. Donate 1. The statue is in the market place.
3. a. The nature will be polluted. 2. The ‘tongue’ in the tenth line refers to language.
b. It will be solar car. 3. His chair and clothes are made of stone.
c. I had given chance to choose my residential 4. Wearing stone clothes he sits by keeping one stone
area. hand on his knee and the other stone hand point.
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5. He does not dare to go near the statue because 10. The photographer in Richmond promised to give
the statue is constantly standing there by pointing him a sponge cake if he remained motionless. He
its finger constantly for many years. did not fulfill his promise.
Explore the text 11. First occasion: He was promised to give a sponge
6. The poet describes the physical features of the cake it remained motionless while photograph
statue as a bold and strong man standing in was being taken.
middle of the market without changing his clothes Second occasion: He was told that a young lion
in any weather and without moving its body. was sitting in the drawing room. But he found that
Wearing stone clothes he sits by keeping one it was an ordinary young man named Lyon.
stone hand on his knee and the other stone hand 12. Because they were not considered god for
point at the poet. Through this description the children but for the adults.
poet has feeling of respect to the statue. 13. Russel does not portray a very positive image of
7. The speaker does not know what great things the grown-ups because he thought that they would
man in the statue had done a great while ago. ignore the children’s emotional needs.
8. The speaker and the great man don’t belong to Make Connection
same country. We know this through the poet’s 16. Include the information like:
inability of understanding the language under the The children are interested to know new things.
statue of man. They have different whims to satisfy.
9. Most often it has been used as an adjective. This They can think and analyze anything quite well.
repetition refers to bold and strong determination They make investigation and exploration of the
of the man in statue. things they have seen or heard.
10. The statue of certain persons are erected for They are stubborn too.
respecting the great sacrifice and contributions Childhood is the age of learning.
made in different fields and nation. 17. We must honour the great personalities. Their
contribution to the nation, nationality and people
Story: Bertrand Russell must be praised. Making statue is a way of
Find the facts showing our respect to them. The statue erected
1. The baby weighed 8-3/4, is 21 inches long, very in a place helps the new generation know and
fat and very ugly with blue eyes far apart and not remember them. They won’t be forgotten in future
much of a chin. either. The statue can be the source of
2. Russel grew up in Pembroke with intense care of knowledge and inspiration to the people too.
his grandmother. Let the students write about the persons whose
3. Grandmother was the most important person in statues are kept in different places of Nepal along with
his childhood. the reason.
4. Russel’s grandmother lived a very simple life. Grammar
5. Russel was served with plain foods in his Exercise (Page No 33)
childhood so that he would be strong and a. moves
healthy. b. looks
6. Fruits were not given to the young Bertrand c. has
because orange as fruit was considered bad for d. has been working
children. He did not suffer from any vitamin e. hear
deficiency because he used to steal and eat f. have known
apples. g. have been studying
Explore the text h. am doing
7. His grandmother lived very simple life. She only i. went
ate plain food. She used to take breakfast on j. has been crying
time at eight. She never sat in a comfortable k. appears
chair until afternoon tea. Unit 4
8. He admired her traits like fearlessness, public
spirit and indifference to the opinion of the Love and Affection
majority. Poem: I Saw A Boy With Eager Eyes
9. Let the students think about the children of their The poem is about two different boys who are with
time and give creative ideas. their own troubles. They have lots of unfulfilled
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desires. They seem to be eager to get them fulfilled. Possession: We must keep our possessions safe.
However, they are isolated. They finally are forced to Reduce: The programmes to reduce poverty are must
wish they should never have willingness of the things. for Nepal.
Find the facts Immovable: I want an immovable chair at the attic.
1. Ans: Strange: I met a strange person yester day on the
a. espy way to my school.
b. cold meat Joy: We celebrate our festivals with great joy and
c. beholding enthusiasm.
d. dainty-dressed Instead of: I want trousers instead of shorts.
2. He wished to read as many books as he gets. Explore the text
3. The meat was in a tavern larder. 7. The opening paragraph of the story is about
4. Yes, he wants. money. The author tries to draw the attention
5. The second boy wishes he had not learnt to eat towards the amount of money collected by the
because he had no penny to buy food and meat poor with great hardships.
for eating. 8. Della looked unhappy because she had no
Explore the text money to buy a gift for her dearest person. The
6. In the first stanza, the poet sees a boy who repeated use of grey refers to the dullness and
wishes to read lots of books. gloomy circumstance in and around Della and
7. The stall-man does not let the first boy read the hoer house.
book because he always just reads the books 9. Della and Jim were very poor in term of material
without buying any book. wealth. They did not have much money.
8. The given extract means rich people are never However, they were very rich in their heart, love
thoughtful and serious about the sufferings of and kindness. They are ready to sacrifice their
poor people. The sufferers keep on suffering. valuable things fo their beloved ones.
9. The first boy suffers for not being able to read as 10. The end of the story is an example of situational
much as he wants and the second boy suffers for irony. Each character is faced with a
not getting anything to eat. It means the first boy circumstance that is the opposite of what they
is hungry for reading and second one is hungry expected. This irony adds a trademark O.
for food to eat. Henry’s twist to the end ort the story.
10. Give your own creative answer. 11. Yes, the couple’s love is believable because they
Story: The Gift of the Magi love each other by heart. They readily sacrifice
The Magi were wise men who invented the art of their valuable things for their beloved.
giving Christmas presents. Here the writer has related The story ends with a sad tone.
to us the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in 12. Love, care and devotion are the real gifts in the
a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the story.
greatest treasures of their house. The theme of love is Make Connections
shown through the selfless actions of both Della and 15. Include the following information.
Jim. Each, through a showing of love for the other, Meaning of poverty: state of being extremely poor,
sells their most valuable possessions in order to condition where people’s basic needs for food,
purchase Christmas gifts for their spouse. clothing, ands shelter are not being met.
Find the facts Is it a curse? : Poverty or richness is not nature or
1. Della had one dollar and eighty seven cents. god gifted. How economically sound the people and
2. Della wanted to buy a gift for her husband. the country are fully depends on how hardworking,
3. Her hair was so long that would reach her knees. virtuous, farsighted and skilled the people are and the
4. She bought the gift for her husband by selling her socio-economic policy the government adopts and
hair. how effectively they are implemented.
5. Jim was late to him because he was busy in Ways to combat: stability of government, political
buying gifts for his wife. system, public oriented national policy and effective
6. The main theme of the story is love and affection. implementation, resource mobilization, employment
Words in Use generation, promotion of honour of labour, etc.
Negotiate: The government will certainly negotiate 16. Include the following information:
with the rebelling groups for the sake of introducing Our festivals are our customs and traditions. They are
new constitution. our identities. We must enjoy them with great
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pump and enthusiasm. Our role is to protect and of humanity.
promote them. But we must always keep a 9. His name is Parkenstacker.
statement ‘cut your coat according to the size of 10. She does so because she is of the opinion that it
the cloth’ in mind while celebrating these is simply impossible to keep one's name out of
festivals. These days, people regard the festivals the papers. Or even one's portrait.
as the occasions of eating delicious food, Understanding the text
wearing expensive clothes and over-enjoying 11. She has disguised herself because she is tired of
forgetting our social-economic condition. Such materialistic men surrounding her, dancing like
trend leads us to poverty and backwardness. We little marionettes all cut from the same pattern.
must learn to get self-satisfaction with what we 12. The girl is tired of the materialistic world. I think
have. she is not rich.
Ways to reform this trend: awareness, ban on 13. According to him, the money must be a pretty
anti-social and evil practices like drinking too good thing.
much, gambling etc. in the festivals, punishment 14. As he has always been interested to study the culture
to those who practise extravagance during of wealthy people, he calls himself a connoisseur.
festivals, etc. 15. Do this by yourself.
17. Tell the meaning of the proverb ‘cut your coat 16. She should be a poor girl pretending to be rich.
according to the size of the cloth’ : spend
according to your income Drama: While the Auto Waits (Scene – II)
Let them think the consequences of spending After you read
more than income and write in their own ways. 1. Whim craze
Grammar Cashier clerk
First Exercise (Page No. 44) Scandal dishonor, disgrace
saw, were playing, was driving, fell, saw, had done, inclination liking, fondness
went, went, was mending, bought Besieged encircled, surrounded
Second Exercise (Page No. 44) Intemperance overindulgence, greed
1. was raining, came 2. commoner
2. happened, came, drove 3. not marrying a higher class man.
3. was 4. in a restaurant
4. broke, ran 5. Guests were asked to eat olives by putting green
5. looked, walking kid glove.
6. passed 6. He is fascinated to the rituals of the elite.
7. saw, stopped 7. She is interested in marrying with a man of lowly
8. did you buy, bought station who is a worker and not a drone.
9. was sitting, stung Understanding the text
10. went 8. (a) the social class to which the girl belongs to
Unit:5 (b) the customs and rituals of the girl's class
(c) that the upper class people are blind
Fantasy followers of their rituals
Drama: While the Auto Waits (Scene – I) 9. No, she does not think that the lower class
After you read people are familiar to the upper class customs.
1. reading a book Yes I agree with her.
2. cool and nice 10. They were Grand Duke of a German principality
3. because the light was dim for reading and an English Marquis,
4. No 11. The girl belongs to higher class and the man
5. About pretty lamps of hers belongs to lower class.
6. Some are going to supper and some to—er— 12. The man dreams of being rich and of elite class
other places. but on the other hand the girl intends to lead very
7. They appear fascinating to her because all of common life of commoners. So they are different
them are rushing about with their petty little in their dreams.
dreams and their common worries. Grammar
8. She comes here to sit because here, only, she Exercise (Page No 55)
can be near the great, common, throbbing heart a. will arrive
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b. will visit by them.
c. is going to rain Unit: 6
d. will have arrived
e. will visit Animals and Our Responsibilities
f. start Poem: The Owl and the Pussy-cat
g. will begin The Owl and the Pussycat features four
h. will pass anthropomorphic animals an owl, a cat, a pig and a
i. am going turkey- and tells the story of love between the title
j. am going to fall characters who marry in the land where the Bong-tree
Exercise ( Page No 56) grows. The owl and the pussycat set out to sea in the
1. will take pea green boat with honey and plenty of money
2. will wrapped in a five pound note. The owl serenades the
3. be doing pussycat while gazing ar the stars and strumming on a
4. will be completing small guitar. He describes her as beautiful. The
5. are going to involve pussycat responds by describing owl as an elegant
6. is going to be fowl and compliments him on his singing. She urges
7. will be taking they marry but they don’t have a ring. They sail away
8. will receive for a year and day to a land where Bong-trees grow
9. will probably praise and discover a pig with ring in his nose in a wood.
10. will have done They buy the ring for a shilling and are married the
11. will have tallied next day by a turkey. They dine on mince and quince
12. will surely be participating using a runcible spoon, then dance hand-in-hand on
13. are going to include the sand in the moonlight.
14. will enter Find the facts
15. will be 1. They went to the sea in a beautiful pea-green
16. is gong to decide boat.
17. will have trained 2. They took some honey, and plenty of money.
18. will win They wrapped up in a five pound note.
Drama: While the Auto Waits (Scene – III) 3. Owl said ‘O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,
After you read What a beautiful Pussy you are, you are, you
1. (i) because she had to attend a ball are.’
2. (ii) thrice this month 4. According to the pussy owl was elegant fowl,
3. (ii) Mr. Witherspoon having charmingly ability to sing.
4. According to the girl, her chauffeur is waiting. 5. They sailed to Turkey.
5. According to her, she is in bondage with her. It Explore the text
means he is supposed to be her life partner. 6. They began their journey in evening. We can say
6. Her name is Mary-Jane Parker. We know this this because they moved by looking at the stars
through the address of the waitress to her. in the sky.
7. He actually belonged to a restaurant. His name 7. They waited for a year and a day for letting the
was Henry. land for letting the Bong-tree grows.
8. The young man was boss of the CHAUFFEUR. 8. No there is no regular rhyme scheme in all
Its known through his treatment. stanzas of the poem.
Understanding the text 9. The pig made the marriage of owl and pussy-cat.
9. It is because she pretends to her maintaining her As they gave them the ring, it became possible.
own standard. 10. The poem without regular thyme and rhythm is
10. No, she was not. called nonsense verse. The examples of
11. According to the waitress, the girl is her friend nonsense verse in this poem are as following:
and she works in a restaurant. "Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
12. In the society pages. your ring?"
13. Yes, he should have been surprised at the end to Said the Piggy, "I will"
find out who the young girl was in reality. So they took it away, and were married next day.
Connecting the Scenes Story: My Early Home
14,15,16.Give your own subjective impressions made Find the facts
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1. I’ refers to Darkie in the autobiography. 5. doesn’t he?
2. Darkie lived on its mother’s milk when it was 6. will they?
young. 7. isn’t it?
3. Six young colts besides Darkie had not learnt 8. did I?
good manners. 9. don’t we?
4. Dick was a plowboy who sometimes came into 10. didn’t she?
the field to pluck blackberries from the hedge. Exercise (page No 71)
5. The monster fed good food to Darkie. Your father will come tomorrow, won’t he?
Words in use My toys are pretty, aren’t they?
rough, young, pleasant, attention, gallop, well off This is not your book, is it?
Explore the text It was a thrilling match, wasn’t it?
6. good, kind in behavior and speech, loving, caring, Our headmaster is strict, isn’t he?
did not like others troubling the colts You haven’t done the homework, have you?
7. run with six other colts and had a fun, gallop all Unit: 7
together round the field, other colts had a rather
rough play who used to frequently bite, kick and Nature and Adventure
gallop Poem: Rain in Summer
8. She did not like the games Darkie played with Find the facts
other colts. The games they played were rather 1. The main subject of the poem is the joy and fun
rough. She wanted that Darkie should be more given by the heavy rain in the hot summer.
civilized and well behaved. Darkie must keep 2. b. the sound made by the feet of running horses
himself from other young colts for the sake of his 3. The rain water comes forcefully with great
ancestral prestige. struggle out of the spout of the pipe.
9. The master did not like the boy, Dick teasing 4. ………with a muddy tide, like a river down the
colts. The master loved them a lot. Hence, he gutter roars ……….
caught Dick while teasing them and gave such a 5. rain –lane
box on the ear that made him roar with pain and Wide-tide
surprise. He asked him that it was bad of him to Roofs-hoofs
chase the colts. He paid the boy his money and Pours-roars
dismissed him. Explore the text
10. We were well off means they were very rich for 6. The rainfall is heavy. It makes people feel relief
they had got a lot of love and care. (Let the during scorching summer. It comes down heavily
students express their ideas to show how they clattering along the roofs and gushes out from
were loved and cared) the spout. It quickly flows out like a river and
Make Connection seems like a muddy tide.
13. Organize discussion in the class about animal 7. The rain described in the poem is heavy.
park. ………clatters along the roof like the tramp of
- protected area hoofs, ……….gushes and struggles out from the
- for protection of animals throat of ……………….., ………………swift and
- hunting banned wide, with muddy tide, ……………river down the
- breeding encouraged gutter roars …………….., etc. make us feel that
- We can go and see the animals in natural the rain is heavy.
perch. 8. We can see pouring with rain out of the window
14. Do you have any pet animal at home? Do you pane. The rain pours swift and wide. The flood
love it? What do you feed it? Also write some because of heavy rain seems like a muddy tide.
usefulness of the animal. Essay: Yeti
Students’ creative ideas are expected. Find the facts
Grammar 1. Ang’s uncle’s profession was to guide mountain
Exercise (page No 70) climbers.
1. can’t you? 2. He was left behind his group becauseAng slipped
2. won’t he? and rolled down the snowy mountainside.
3. doesn’t he? 3. The footprints led him to an icy cave.
4. does she? 4. The icy cave’s grunts and growls he heard. After
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that he stepped back in fright. 4. It refers to the very short moment of time.
5. Their light-colored hair helps Yeti to defend itself. 5. There is regular end rhyme in the poem:
6. They found clumps of rough white hairs and witches-ditches, battle- cattle are examples of
bones in the Himalayan caves. rhyming pair.
7. They discover savage snowmen in the mountains Explore the text
of Nepal, Tibet, China and Russia. 6. No, they are not running rather the poet feels so
8. Some researchers compare Yeti with Bigfoot. as he is running faster inside the train looking
Explore the text outside.
9. Ang had been actually following the footprints of 7. Troops are charging. Cattle fly as thick rain. Hills
Yeti. Through its groaning and the findings of fly like thick rain.
scientists we know this. 8. They look like flying thick rain.
10. I would try to act like snowman and convince if 9. A tramp stands and gazes;
you were Ang standing before the snowman. 10. As the poet feels to fly everything outside, we can
11. Do this based on your own knowledge and say that the train was really in high speed.
information. Biography: Parijat
12. Give your creative answer. Find the facts
Make Connection 1. Parijat was born in 1937 AD.
15. Tell students the important features of both 2. It is known as a place of tea gardens.
seasons and let them express which season they 3. Because her mother Amrita Moktan died early,
like most along with the reasons. she was raised by her father Dr. K.N. Waiba.
16. Encourage students to express their ideas as per 4. He was a psychologist.
the question. 5. a. language b. influential
Grammar c. 1954 d. Padma Kanya e. 26
Exercise (Page No 80) Explore the text
a. who 6. The birth place of Parijat, Darjeeling, was a major
b. that Centre of Nepali language, culture and literature
c. where during her growing up years which enabled her to
d. whose become a Nepali writer.
e. who 7. When she became paralyzed she was supported
f. that for much of her life by her sister.
g. which 8. She published three poetry collections: Akansha,
h. where ParijatKaKavita and BaisaluBartaman.
i. which/that 9. Her first short story was Maile Najanmayeko Choro.
j. whose 10. ‘The SirisKoFul’ is her the most famous book. She
Exercise (Page No 81) became MadanPuraskar winner for the novel.
………...…….who lives in Scotland.
………………that lives in Loch Ness. Make Connections
………………which keeps food cool. 13. Include the following information.
………………who plays music in a disco. - life easy and comfortable
………………that makes honey. - discovery of medicine
………………that is yellow and sour. - muscles power replaced by machineries
………………that tells the time. - able to conquer mountains and oceans
………………that carries people across the water. - flooded with information medias,
………………who works in a shop. transportation, etc.
………………that can open and lock doors. - employment opportunities
Unit: 8 - trade, tourism
- support to human civilization, etc.
Dreams and Realities 14. Include the following information.
Poem: The World from a Railway Carriage - They are our property.
Find the facts - They are our identity.
1. The speaker is talking about the journey in the train. - They did selfless service for our society,
2. Troops are charging along. nation and the whole world.
3. They can be seen in hill and the plain
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- They developed, protected our culture, climate is similar to some extent.
language and civilization and handed over to 11. Yes, I do agree.
us that we are proud of today. 12. Individual trekking is permitted to trek to Ringmo
- Our civilization has been possible because or Phoksundo Lake. The Trans- Himalayan
of them, etc. region of inner Dolpa is restricted to group
Grammar trekking only. A group trekking permit is needed
First Exercise (Page No 92) and can be arranged through any recognized
taller, more expensive, faster, more beautiful, fatter, trekking agency of Nepal.
happier, bigger, more delicious, better, colder 13. Visitors should be self sufficient in fuel supply
Second Exercise (Page No 92) (kerosene).
taller, tallest, older, easier, largest, more, better, The use of firewood is strictly prohibited.
worse, most intelligent, beautiful Flora and Fauna are fully protected and must not
Unit: 9 be disturbed.
Rubbish must be packed out, buried or disposed
Time and Leisure off in designated areas.
Poem: Downhill on a Bicycle 14. One can visit its website.
Find the facts Grammar
1. i. how he rode a bicycle Exercise (Page No 103)
2. No, he rather rides the bicycle with full of care. many, little, many, many, many, little, many, much,
3. She feels excited to find him flying like bird in the many, many, much
downhill when he is on the bicycle. Unit:10 Reading is Fun
4. She feels flying like bird and running in skating. My Dog Ate My Homework
5. The poet compares her bicycle with skating. Find the facts
Explore the text 1. his puppy
7. The given lines express his extreme delight while 2. mischievous
riding the bicycle: 3. swallowed
a golden moment, 4. in his bowl
In a world that is full of bliss? Explore the text
I float awhile in my airy boat; 5. The speaker calls his puppy mischievous
8. She is a careful rider. Her poised manner of because according to him the puppy ate his
riding proves this. homework.
9. Yes, of course. 6. The puppy took his homework and swallowed it.
10. The speaker is a young girl in this story. We 7. No, the speaker won’t be able to reach his school
come to know this through her fantasies and on time.
wishes she fostered while riding in his bicycle. 8. The speaker probably was lazy. He did not want
Brochure: SheyPhoksundo National Park to do his homework. Hence, he gave his copy to
Find the facts the dog.
1. Brochure 9. The speaker was more mischievous than the
2. It was declared as buffer zone in 1998. puppy.
3. Kanjiroba Mountain is 6,883 m high. Story: Under the Covers
4. ThashungGompa was built about 900 years ago Find the facts
to conserve wildlife. 1. bed times
5. They are: snow leopard, grey wolf, musk deer, 2. when she has done with reading
and blue sheep, goral, great Tibetan sheep etc. 3. She sleeps with the books.
6. It is a Buddhist religion founded in 9th century. 4. Reading in bed seems to run in families.
7. Ans: From my place through trekking, we can 5. i. The writer saw two small lights.
reach to this place. ii. The tow small lights were coming from the
8. a. False b. True c. False rooms of her son and mother.
d. False e. False iii. They were reading books under the covers. They
Explore the text were writer’s mother and son.
9. Yes, of course. The birds and animals found in 6. Yes, I find it convincing. Her mother and her son
the park are the most interesting for me. were habituated with bedtime reading and so was
10. Its very cold area. As I live in Hilly region, its the case of her too.
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7. She foresees herself reading when she babysits her Explore the text
grandchildren her sons will come home to find 6. The speaker fed the mouse with cheese.
mum snoozing contentedly beneath her thriller by 7. The fault referred here is the act of feeding the
P.D James. mouse with cheese.
Explore the Text 8. The speaker learnt that the mechanical tool
8. Instead of arranging the books in traditional ways mouse of the computer should not be fed with
as per their genre, she arranged them dividing cheese. It harms the function of whole computer.
her bedtime reading into books that put her to 9. Other words related to computer are computing,
sleep and those that keep her up. bytes, bits, hard drive, printer, CD, screen and
9. The writer managed her bedtime reading as that PC.
put her sleep or keep her up. It depends on how 10. The other problems besides those mentioned in
slender and interesting it is. Me too generally the first verse are hard drive clicking, printer
prefer reading interesting books at my bedtime. spitting ink, CD stuttering, screen turning blank
10. Ask the students visit school library and write and finally the whole computer going up in
down the story in short. smoke.
11. Yes, reading can be done at any convenient time. Essay: The Little Helpers of Tomorrow
Reading needs peace and calm surrounding so Find the facts
that we can understand it well. It requires our will 1. the smart computer
power and concentration. If we are free and can 2. It is stored in the computer’s memory.
concentrate on the volume we have in our hand, 3. smart computer devices attached to her home
we can read at any time of the day. 4. Yes, Katey lovers her little car. Her car won’t
Make Connection cross the speed limit because if it is going to
For question no 14 and 15, let the students express cross the speed limit, the speed automatically
their own ideas. slows down.
Grammar 5. Katey will pay for her travel fare with the help of
Exercise (page No 118) the chip that she wears in her body.
Neither am I. 6. The author compares the telecommunication
So am I. devices of last two decades with space shuttle.
So do I. 7.
So do we. - ‘That’ in the above line is referred to the works
So did we. like forgetting to turn off iron and bathtub.
So would I. - According to Katey, that cannot happen anymore
Neither did we. because she is going to help her.
Neither do I. Explore the text
Neither did I. 7. During the train journey, Katey finishes her office
Neither would I. work. She uses a keyboard installed at her seat
So could we. to punch her code and access her company’s
Neither could we. computer network. She also reads and answers
Unit 11 e-mails and make appointments while being in
the train. She also orders a birthday bouquet for
Computers in our Lives her mother.
Poem: My Mouse is Misbehaving 8. The future homes will be equipped with the
Find the facts following facilities.
1. misbehaving: computing - adjusting the ventilation and lightning.
Fritz: bits - regulating the temperature of each room.
2. i. naughty (similar) misbehaving ii. computing - making order of the things required.
iii. failing iv. worse - dishes to be washed and dried
3. The mouse has been misbehaving and the automatically.
keyboard has stopped working. - the contents of refrigerators to be checked,
4. The memory of the computer is falling. The etc.
speaker is responsible for that. 9. Katey will not have to face the problems like her
5. The speaker thinks that feeding cheese to the mother had to face in her time because the smart
mouse would be funny and a joke. computer will solve problems in Katey’s time.
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Some common problems Katey’s mother had to Life in the absence of computer in future
face are turning off iron and bathtub. - uncomfortable and difficult
10. If anything goes wrong in Katey’s smart house in - unable to handle machineries
her absence, the house itself alerts a service - dull and gloomy
technician to the fault it has diagnosed. Grammar
Moreover, Katey wherever she is can contact her First Exercise (Page No 129)
house by mobile phone and ask it questions or in front of, over, on, in, under, on, in, in front of
give orders. Second Exercise (Page No 129)
11. at, in, from, between, by, in front of
- The drivers don’t need to worry about keeping Third Exercise (page No 129)
safe distance from the car in front because a. at b. with
running into it is impossible. c. to d. at
- Running into is impossible according to the text. e. on, on f. at
- Autopilot is referred here. g. in h. on
Make Connection i. from j. with
14. In these days, computers have been the essential k. in
part of our life. They are widely used in schools, l. Please meet me on Monday.
colleges, business agencies, banks, Unit 12
administrative offices and so on. They make the
work easier and faster and also increase the Supernatural
accuracy of works done. Furthermore, we use the Poem: The Letter
computer as a means of communication and Find the facts
recreation. We can use computer as an audio- 1. Hand- land
visual device for language learning. Students can Read-dead
use computer to gather required information for Voice-choice
their studies. Similarly, businessmen keep the Page-sage
record of their business. It makes their work Dim-him
easy. 2. How strange it seemed!His living voice
15. It is said that use of computers has invited Was speaking from the page
unpleasant leisure and unemployment. Playing Those courteous phrases, tersely choice,
games on the computer badly wastes our time. Light-hearted, witty, sage.
Though it is essential object, it cannot be used 3.
everywhere. We need electricity to operate a (2) And even while I read
computer. Similarly, though we fully depend on it (4) The word that he was dead.
and store all data in it, we may lose all our data (3) The lightning flashed across the land
when the computer fails to work. The regular use (1) I held his letter in my hand
of computer harms our eyesight as well. 4. The remains of the poet’s friends
16. Include the following information. 5. ‘he was dead’
Human life before we had computers 6. The poet considers his living voice speaking from
- works done by muscles the page strange.
- works; slow and steady Explore the text
- difficult to gain information about the world 7. When the poet read the mane of the dead
- primitive way of life person, the lightning flashed across the land.
Life with computers 8. The speaker describes the dead man’s speech as
- manual power replaced courteous phrases, tersely choice, light-hearted
- works faster and witty.
- easy calculation and memory 9. I think the friend of the speaker sent the letter to
- easy to know about the world him. He is not alive.
Life; advanced and support to civilization 10. Dead person is the poet’s friend in the poem.
Future world 11. The dead man can still speak to him through
- Computers will be used in every sector. letter.
- People will be fully dependant on them. 12. I think the sad thing is the poet may not speak to
- Computer robots will do every works. his friend, though he can speak to the friend.
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Story: Tommy Says Goodbye 12. Monica was so restless until her husband safely
Find the facts returned home. She could not wash the clothes
1. Tommy was Monica’s son. He had been very because the washer did not work well. She could
creative in his bedtime prayers and asked the not vacuum for it was not working properly. She
Lord for blessings for his friends and members of could not work the whole day because she was
his extended family. full of tension.
2. The boy added “Goodbye, Grandpa” to his prayer 13. The children were screaming in real terror. She
after he said Amen. As the consequence of it, his saw the mail strewn all over the porch and the
mother got the news of the death of her father postman lying at her feet.
next morning. Discuss
3. Grandpa was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease 14.
and was 87 years old. Hence, his death did not March 20, 2014
shock others. However, Monica was shocked Dear Diary,
because she had briefly remembered Tommy’s I was so excited since this morning. I was planning to
strange goodbye greeting to him. go to see a fortune teller down town. I reached to him
4. After the death of Monica’s father, Aunt Clara was at 1 P.M. I waited an hour to get my chance to consult
the second victim. Monica talked with her him. I went and sat in front of him when I was called.
husband about the coincidence between He observed me keenly and consulted my horoscope.
Tommy’s prayer and their deaths. He told everything about my past. I was so excited
5. because everything he mentioned was right. I
a. Their relationship is husband and wife. wondered how he knew everything about me. He even
b. The woman’s fingers were shaking because of told me that I will be successful at my studies and I will
fear. ably do well in my business in future too. I came home
c. The cousin is referred to Walter in the line. and lay in my bed. ‘Business’ is good for you. It
6. Walter and Renee were going to a party at the occurred in my mind again and again. I did not share it
Millers’ for their Silver Wedding Anniversary. with anyone in the family.
7. When Monica heard ‘Goodbye, Daddy’ she was Reshma Thapa
full of fear. But she decided not to mention Make Connection
anything to her husband. 16.
8. Monica wanted her husband to stay at home
because he could be safer at home rather than HEARTFELT CONDOLENCE
going to the work.
Explore the text I express my profound sympathy and grief at the
9. It was the first coincidence between Tommy’s sudden and untimely demise of
farewell greeting and the old man’s death.
Hence, she did not mention it to anyone. Miss Radhika Pariyar
10. After the death of Aunt Clara, Tommy’s parents
didn’t talk about him or his prayers because they at the age of 16 years. She was friendly and co-
told each other that it was another coincidence. operative to everyonewhich made her popular
However, they had not been convinced among friends and teachers. I extend
themselves. ourheartfelt condolences to the grief-stricken
11. After hearing Tommy’s unusual greeting to his
family, their relatives and well-wishers and pray
father in his prayer, Bill took a number of
precautions while going to and returning back to the God Almighty that departed soul will restin
from his work. He drove as slowly as possible peace in heaven.
avoiding all busy intersections and taking quiet
side streets. He moved over for anybody who Jayanti Rana
wanted to pass; for once he did not mind being
late for work. At office too, he was so careful all 17. Let the students think about a strange of their
the time. He started for home when the traffic own and write it.
was thin. He went slowly and took the Grammar
roundabout way. Exercise (Page 141)
1. Could you open the door, please?
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2. Could you please ask Ramesh to call me? have between 5-7 members and 32 % have
3. Could you please tell me the way to the bus above 7 members in the family. 92% of the
station from here? Chepangs are engaged in agriculture and its
4. Can I try these trousers for me? related works or as agricultural laborers. Only 8%
5. Can I give you a lift? are having non-agricultural occupation.
Unit: 13 8. The main source of the livelihood of the
Chepangs is the forest and its produces.
Fact and Fiction 9. In the past they used to have a nomadic life but in
Poem: My Shadow recent years they have shown interest in
Find the facts cultivation also.
1. The shadow goes in and out with the speaker. 10. Some of them have land in the slops of steep
2. When the speaker jumps on the bed, his shadow ranges and hence the yields are only minimum
jumps before he does. and are sufficient only for six to seven months.
3. The funniest thing about the shadow is the way it Make connection
grows. 13. Involve the students in discussion. Let them know
4. No, the shadow does not know how the children the language the children speak at home,
ought to play. festivals they celebrate, religion they follow, the
5. The shadow was fast asleep in bed before the occupation of the parents, the type of family they
sun was up. live in. then ask them write include the
6. ‘Arrant’ in the poem means well-known. information they have got.
Explore the text Grammar
7. The speaker’s shadow is like him. It goes in and First Exercise (Page No 153)
out with him. It looks like him from the heels up to 1. are caused
the head. 2. is made
8. The shadow does not grow like children because 3. is damaged
the children grow gradually, but the shadow 4. is included
suddenly grows very taller and some time it turns 5. were invited
so small that gets lost in the heel of the person. 6. are shown
9. The shadow sticks close to the speaker and it Second Exercise (Page No 153)
looks like him. 1. When was the telephone invented?
10. children, shadow, funny, does not understand 2. How is the glass made?
Essay: The Chepangs of Nepal 3. When was Australia discovered?
Find the facts 4. What is the silver used for?
1. The Chepangs are one of the most deprived, 5. When was the television invented?
disadvantaged and backward indigenous ethnic Third Exercise (Page No 153)
communities of Nepal. 1. The room is cleaned everyday.
2. They live in districts of Makwanpur, Chitwan, 2. All flights were cancelled because of fog.
Gorkha and Dahading. 3. This road is not used very often.
3. To reach a Chepang village one has to walk five 4. I was accused of stealing money.
to eight hours from the High Ways. 5. How are languages learned?
4. Its Tibeto-Burman strains. 6. We were advised not to go out alone.
5. Ans: In the past, they used to have a nomadic *************
life.
Explore the text
6. Its etymological meaning is: ‘che’ means ‘dog’
and ‘pang’ means ‘arrows’.
7. There are only 52237 Chepangs in the entire
Nepal out of which 21233 live in Chitwan District
alone. The Chepangs make 0.23% of the total
population of Nepal. Around 45 % are below 15
years old, 48 % are of the age group of 16-59
and only 7% are 60 and above. 26% of the
Chepang families have up to 4 members, 42%
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Spark English Reader- Book VII Teachers Manual
UNIT - 1: Passion for Learning 6. He was furious at Abe.

7. By serving three days in his farm without pay.
Poem: Homework! Oh, Homework!
8. It changed his life. He feveloped a strong will to
Homework, I Love You achieve his dreams.
Find the facts Explore the text
1. a. False b. Hates c. True d. True e. true 9. No.
2. Homework is a fun because it keeps him awake 10. No. I think Abe was more interested in reading
late night. than work.
3. In first poem, the speaker thinks that home-work 11. No. Because he was getting his favourite book
is burdensome and quite irritating. for his three day's unpaid work.
4. He wants more homework from the teacher. 12. Reading Washington's biography intensified his
5. disappear dream to become a successful person in life; in
Explore the text fact, the book played a positive role or did a
6. The speaker feels that the homework is quite magical work in his life.
entertaining and matter of fun in the second
poem.
Grammar: Definite and Zero Article
7. Yes. It is because he enjoys doing his
homework. A. Complete the following sentences supplying
8. Pick out the points from the poem that reveal that definite article, the wherever necessary.
the poet doesn’t like homework. (poem A) a. the b. x c. x d. the
(Corrected) e. x f. The g. x
Ans: The speaker thinks that homework is a h. The water in that jar is not drinkable.
troublesome thing that he despises. He would be i. x j. the k. the l. the
happy to see a bomb exploding homework. m. x n. The o. x p. the
These points reveal that the poet in the first q. x r. The
poem doesn't like homework. s. He went to the school to meet his friends.
9. The poet wants to drain off the homework in his t. the
wash basin, destroy it with an explosion because Listening: Spring
he hates it. See the tapescript.
10. Possible answer: Gossip, play/watch football,
play hide and seek, watch various insects, birds, UNIT - 2: Childhood
animals and plants in the forest, wath favourite Poem: My Parents Kept me from Children who
program on TV, visit market with their parents, go were Rough
to the river and watch fish, etc. are the things the "My Parents Kept Me From Children Who Were
students would like to do than doing homework. Rough" deals with class differences. The adult poet
11. I support the poet in the second poem. I like looks back at how it felt to be a child whose middle-
homework because it takes us to the world of class parents warned him to stay away from the
magic and imagination created by words. It "rough" working-class boys.
enables us to explore human ideas and The poem's narrator is ambivalent. Like his
experiences. They provide us mental exercise, parents, he is afraid of the rough boys, but he also
and help us become wiser and noble persons. feels a mixture of attraction, jealousy, and shame.
The poem begins, "My parents kept me from
Story: Abe's First Book children who were rough." It would have been more
Find the facts accurate to say that his parents 'tried' to keep him
1. Reading books. from children who were rough, because his parents
2. Abe's father. His father wanted Abe to learn the weren't fully successful in keeping their son and the
trade, i.e., to do the farm work. rough children apart.
3. He was a neighbor farmer. Abe was more fond of The rough children follow the narrator on the
reading than working. road, imitating his lisp. They pin him down - "their
4. Fifteen. knees tight on [his] arms" - or at least he feared that
5. A biographical story of of George Washington. It they would. There is a gap between his parents
was drenched/made wet by the rain. intentions and the reality of his life.
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The narrator envies the freedom of the rough 7. The speaker compares their words with stones.
boys, the way they can run in the street, climb cliffs, 8. The street children were wild and carefree. The
and strip by the country streams. The narrator must speaker was gentle and responsible. This was the
have been expected to act with middle-class propriety, difference between the boy and street children.
walking demurely down the street, never going outside 9. Their muscles like iron and their jerking hands
wearing torn clothing. and their knees are the words used to describe
To the narrator, the rough children are wild. He their strength in the poem.
compares them to tigers and dogs. Like animals, the 10. The boy wanted to forgive the street children for
children were free from having to abide by suffocating their misdeed to the poet because he felt that
middle-class conventions, and the narrator is jealous. they never went to school and their behaviours
The tone of the poem shifts in the last two lines: were not tamed.
"While I looked the other way, pretending to smile. / I 11. Answers may vary.
longed to forgive them, but they never smiled."
The narrator only pretends to smile. Conventional Story: The Fence
polite middle-class behavior often requires people to About the text
put on a phony smile. That may smooth over some On Saturday morning, Aunt Polly sends Tom out
social interactions, but it also can create distance. A to whitewash the fence. Jim passes by, and Tom tries
genuine smile brings people closer together. It is to get him to do some of the whitewashing in return for
infectious. We instinctively respond to a genuine smile a “white alley,” a kind of marble. Jim almost agrees,
with one of our own. A real smile can bridge gaps but Aunt Polly appears and chases him off, leaving
between people, creating communication between Tom alone with his labor.
people who speak different languages - or who come A little while later, Ben Rogers, another boy
from different classes. Tom’s age, walks by. Tom convinces Ben that
The rough boys, though, don't respond to the whitewashing a fence is great pleasure, and after
narrator's phony smile. The narrator is disappointed. some bargaining, Ben agrees to give Tom his apple in
But why did he "long to forgive them" in the first place? exchange for the privilege of working on the fence.
At first glance, the line about forgiveness seems Over the course of the day, every boy who passes
condescending - who is he to offer forgiveness to ends up staying to whitewash, and each one gives
them? But there are two things he might have wanted Tom something in exchange. By the time the fence
to forgive. The first is the way the rough boys treated has three coats, Tom has collected a hoard of
him personally, making fun of his lisp and pinning him miscellaneous treasures. Tom muses that all it takes
down. The second is for their side in the class to make someone want something is to make that
struggle, their "bark[ing]" at the narrator's world. thing hard to get.
Unless the narrator can offer more than a phony Corrected: Read the last part of the story as:
smile, though, his offer of forgiveness will not be So Tom sat down. He was holding Billy's kite.
accepted. Perhaps that is what Spender, as an adult And Billy started to paint the fence. Then Johnny
poet, now realizes as he looks back at an earlier time. Miller came came by. And in exchange of a toy
Find the facts soldier, Tom let him paint too…
1. Parents did not allow the boy to mix with street By the middle of the adternoon, the fence had
children who were rough and dirty. been painted twice. Tom had a knife, a cat and a long
2. They wore torn rags. piece of rope. He had a cake, twelve round stones
3. They teased the boy by copying his lisp behind and a metal door-handle. He was happy. He went to
him on the road. speak to Aunt Polly.
4. The speaker longed to forgive the street boys "Can I go swimming now, Aunt?" he asked.
and smiled at them but they never responded to "What! What about the fence? she said.
it. "It's all done, Aunt. And there is no more paint",
5. There are some similes used in the poem. Pick said Tom.
them out and write in your notebook. (Corrected) Aunt Polly was very surprised. "You are a good
Ans: Words like stones, their muscles like iron and boy, Tom," she said.
hedges like dogs are similes. Aunt Polly was so glad that she went to the
Explore the text kitchen, took the biggest piece of cake and gave it to
6. They were rough and strong. No they rather used Tom. (Page 17)
stone like uncivilized words.
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Find the facts Listening: Organic versus Non-Organic Food
1. (iv) He convinces them that the job is fun. Listen to the tape and do the following activities.
2. He has to paint the fence on Saturday morning. A. Supply the correct word from the text.
3. He thinks that his friends will make fun of him 1. debate 2. waste of money
when they see him whitewashing the fence. 3. tastier 4. expensive
5. consumer
4. He ends up tricking that whitewash is a fun, an B. Choose the correct answer.
art but not a work. 1. (c) 2. (b) 3. (c) 4. (a) 5. (d)
5. Find the words from the story that are similar in
meaning to the following. UNIT - 3: Humour
a. wall: fence b. amazed: surprised Poem: You are old, Father William
c. reckoned: thought d. whole: entire It's a humorous poem, about the many ways in which Father
e. began: started f. answered: replied William is unusual for a man of his age. The father complains
g. cord: rope h. happy: glad that he does not understand his own child. Though they have
Explore the text lived together for so many years now i.e. since the time of his
son's birth, the father knows nothing of him. The father tries to
6. He convinces them by showing work as fun. In build up a relationship with his son from the early years, in a
turn of letting his friends whitewash the fence, he manner when his son began to recognize people around, to
took different things from his friends like apple, crawl and to walk in a desperate attempt. The father wonders
kite etc. In this way he increases his wealth. whether he has destroyed the seed of his off-spring or sown it
7. By convincing them that whitewashing the fence where the land belongs to his heir and none is his. Both father
and son continue to speak like strangers now and there seem
is not a work but an art.
no signs of understanding between the two. In traditional belief,
8. Left for the student.. the son is created and born to the likings and designs of the
9. In this story, he not only made his friends work time.
for him but he also took their properties. It proves The father's greatest wish is for his son to be 'The Prodigal' son
that he was really a clever boy. who will very soon return to his father's house; the home which
10. I think this episode reveals that we don’t have to he always knew. This is definitely the better alternative rather
than to see his son move out into the world blindly on his own,
work, rather work becomes a game or a fun if we by himself and fall into trouble. The father is ready to forgive
are taught and made to enjoy the work. him at any cost as long as he is able to reshape him up from
11. The story teaches us that work can be fun when the long bounded sorrow to a new love. Both father and son all
we enjoy doing it. I don’t feel that they are taken over the world must learn to live on the same globe and on the
differently in the story. same land. The father finally admits that there are times that he
12. The following sentences are in correct arder. cannot understand himself or why his anger grows from grief?
However they have learnt to put out each other's empty hand
a. Aunt Polly ordered Tom to paint the fence and with each other's heart that is longing for something to
on a Saturday. forgive.
b. He was unhappy. Lewis Carrol takes generation gap as the theme. He brings this
c. He thought of a plan. theme for our focus sarcastically through the dialogue between
d. He pretended that painting the fence was a old man and young man who represent older generation and
younger generation.
great fun.
e. His friends begged him to allow them to
paint the fence. Find the facts
1. Father Williams
f. Tom didn't have to work. 2. (iv) dramatic
Grammar: Prepositions 3. (ii) contrast
Fill in the blanks correctly with ‘in’, ‘on’ or ‘at’. 4. (ii) humorous
a. at b. on c. on 5. A sage is person of profound wisdom. The speaker calls
him a sage because he is wise and learned.
d. in e. on f. at Explore the text
g. on i. at j. in 6. Exaggeration is a poetic technique used to think of or
k. at l. in m. at describe something as larger or greater than it really is; it
n. at o. at p. at is generally used to make fun of something.
q. at In the poem, "your hair has become very white/grown
most uncommonly fat/ your jaws are too weak", are
r. The trees here are really beautiful in the
examples of exaggeration.
spring. (Corrected) 7. This poem uses various poetry devices. One of them is
s. on t. in. repetition. In this poem, the youth always mentions that
father William is old. This is probably because the poet
wanted to show that the youth is very disturbed that father
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William could do many amazing things at an old age. Find the facts
Another poetry device is humor. You could see this, since
1. Rip Van Winkle was a simple, good natured man.
the poet is showing that Father William could do many
Everyone in the village liked him because he helped the
crazy things at an old age. Another poetic device is
men in their work and took messages for the women. The
hyperbole. This is shown, by the actions that Father
children also liked him becaue he told them interesting
William is doing. No matter what, it is impossible for an
stories and taught them to fly kites and shoot marbles.
old man to do all of Father William’s actions.
2. Wolf was Rip's favourite dog and was very fond of his
8. The young man demands answers to his four questions,
master.
while relentlessly emphasising Father William’s age.
3. Because she was strict and often punished them for their
Notice how much of the humour is based on the
mischiefs.
perception of incongruity. Not many old men would stand
4. To hunt squirrels.
on their heads ‘incessantly’ or enter houses with an
5. He was carrying a barrel of wine. Yes, Rip helped him by
athletic ‘back-somersault’.
carrying it.
Q. Why he constantly stands on his head?
6. He saw many changes: the wine, his dog have
Ans: When he was younger, he thought he might hurt his
disappeared, inlace of his gun there was an old rusty gun,
brain if he stood on his head, but now he knows he
etc.
has no brain so he does it repeatedly.
7. His daughter.
Q. Why he's still doing gymnastics?
Language in use
Ans: When he was young he used a cream that kept his
Left for the students.
arms and legs flexible and offers to sell his son a
Explore the text
couple of boxes of the cream.
8. No. All the old villagers have died or left.
Q. How he was able to finish all of the goose they ate
9. Answers may vary. Perhaps it had a magic spell on him
at dinner, including the tough parts which usually
only and not the others.
are not eaten.
10. The magic wine.
Ans: He had been a lawyer when he was younger and
11. They all wers surprised to see a man who didn't look like
that, far from being weak, his jaws were exercised
them.
by arguing all of his law cases twice- once for
practice with his wife, and before the court.
12. Answers may vary. Some students may find it amusing
9. Father Williams gets angry at the end because of the
while others may not.
foolish questions asked by his son.
10. Lewis Carrol takes generation gap as the theme. He
Grammar: Prepositions (Place: in/on/at)
brings this theme for our focus sarcastically through the
1. Complete the following sentences supplying correct
dialogue between old man and young man who represent
preposition.
older generation and younger generation. To bring the
a. at b. at c. at d. at e. at
theme in a vivid manner, he uses some devices.When we
f. an g. in h. on i. in j. on
study the poem we see the old man in our minds as a
k.on l. on m. in n. on
strong, healthy one and also the young one as a lethargic,
2. If the preposition is wrong, write the correct one in the
ill healthy person.So he uses visual images.
blank. If it´s correct, write ok.
So we realize that poet takes generation gap as the
a. in b. in c. in d. in e. 
theme and uses humor and satire, visual images,
f. at g. at h. at i. at j. on
dialogue pattern, questioning, and answering system,
k.on l. on
dramatic effects, regular rhyming pattern as well to bring
Creative Time: Narrating Past Events/Experiences
the theme in a vivid manner.
1. cigars 2. Boy 2. girl 4. him 5. weigh
11. The poem ‘You are old father William’ appears in Lewis
6. pounds 7. smoke 8. one 9. your 10. tired
Carroll’s book Alice’s adventures in Wonderland… The
Listening: Contortionist Arrested in Spain
poem is a parody in which the writer humorously describes
See the tapescript.
the generation gap between… In this poem, the
son is very age-obsessed… But according to the father his
age is not a matter at all. The father proves that even at his UNIT - 4: Supernatural
age, he is more robust and vivacious than his son. So he
gives a message to the son, ‘though you are disable or old Poem: Old Woman
or whatever you have to be mobile to survive in the world.’ Find the facts
By saying ‘One shilling a box',….what they had, and learned 1. Near the graveyard.
to save money. Balancing an eel in the 7th stanza 2. To hear the preacher/priest sing and pray.
represents… He has prepared his son with the basic 3. She saw a rotten corpse of a person with worms feeding
knowledge he needs,… Hence, he stops answering, and on it.
dismisses further queries … 4. She asked wether she would look like the rotten corpse
The father draws a parallel between this logic, and the eaten by worms. He replied that she was already dead.
two ways of going down the stairs – walking voluntarily 5. Because she was dead and looked like a ghost.
down them, or being pushed down painfully. 6. The worms crawled in, the worms crawled out,
Across his eyes, his ears and mouth.
Story: Rip Van Winkle
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Explore the text 4. pollinate 5. lack
7. She was lean and weak. B. Complete the following with correct answer from the text.
8. She already looks so, because she was dead. 1. CCD 2. food supply 3. Haagen Daaz
9. No. The last line. 4. spread the words 5. migration
10. It is about a ghost, her visit to the priest, her fall, and her
cry from the grave. UNIT - 5: Individuality and Freedom
Story: Haunted Poem: People
Haunted is a kid-friendly story about ghosts who love to party! Find the facts
It is about an old ramshackle town that is home to a mansion. 1. Correct the errors.
Then mansion is vacant, but every night you smell what you a) This poem is a message for population control.
would if someone was cooking bread, coming from the
mansion. One can also hear the sound of loud music as if b) The poet does not want be close to other
somebody is having a party in there. The townsfolk believed the people.
house belonged to a skilled baker that had passed years c) One should have privacy and secrecy.
before. 2. It does not mean the people going far away
Soon a man comes along and buys the house, not knowing that rather they keep on doing their own work in their
it is haunted! He complains to the mayor who dismisses his
own way without interfering to the poet.
grumble, however when he turns to a Pastor (Priest) in a
nearby town, he gets help. 3. It means poet wants privacy and individuality.
It is an amazing story mixed with humorous moments like when 4. The poet’s illusion is that there are still many
the ghosts are discovered in the home they are having a places in the world where one can enjoy life in
fabulous party, unlike the typical quiet ghosts that scare people complete privacy.
away. It isn’t frightening at all despite what it is based on. Explore the text
Find the facts
1. In the town of Blakeslee, Arkansas.
5. Complete the following summary of the poem
2. As if a wonderful party was going on. choosing the best answers from the box.
3. By making friendship with the ghosts. The poet expresses the world.’ growing concern
4. A wise man, traditional and conservative. of rapid population growth in the poem. The poet
5. The old house was filled with real smells and real does not want others come near because her
laughter. It was alive again and that, of course, was what privacy will get revealed. She says that we
it wanted all along.
Words in use should prudently maintain a certain distance
6. Abandoned between each other so that we can possibly can
7. It means: she recovered herself from nervous state. have individuality and gain independence.
However the poet falsely believes that the world
Explore the text has given enough space for many people.
8. Haunted by ghosts. It gave off wonderful smell of baking
6. Yes, he does but without sacrificing her privacy
bread.
9. A man from Little Rock. He was scared. and individuality.
10. He changed the atmosphere and made it lively. 7. The line is: ‘especially if I see their aloneness
11. They saw their husband drinking and enjoying in the alive in them.’
haunted house, unscared and free from fear. 8. The poet wants to see people living their own
lives but without sacrificing their privacy.
Correction:
Making Connections
15. Old woman’ and ‘Haunted’ are supernatural texts. What Speech: Equal Rights for Women
supernatural elements do you find in each of them? How Find the facts
do you think they are scary? 1. The speaker emphasizes on the rights and
equality of both woman and man.
Grammar: Question Tags.
Supply correct question tag to the following sentences. 2. Home maker means one whose role or
a. isn't he? b. doesn't she? c. aren't I? responsibility is confined within the four walls of
d. haven't you? e. will he? f. would you? the house.
g. will you? h. should I? i. hadn't she? 3. They should be united for the rights and freedom
j. hadn't they? k.aren't they? l. does she? of all women.
m. shall we? n. will you? o. don't you?
p. doesn't he? q. didn't they? r. didn't she?
4. Females are in minority according to the
speaker, including some ethnic and
Listening: The Disappearing Honeybee disadvantaged groups.
A. Supply the correct word from the text. 5. No.
1. falls apart 2. hive 3. depend on
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Words in use throughout Ted’s works” as we can observe in this
6. Left for students. poem. “Hughes’ poetics works are rooted in nature, in
Explore the text particular, the innocent savagery of animals”.
7. No, she cannot get the job of her qualification. Find the facts
Different tags are added for being women to her. 1. The poem is about the various sorrows human
Her potentiality is questioned and undermined. beings have to face in their lives.
8. There are various exploitations like physical, 2. The fifth stanza is about deforestation.
emotional, sexual, social, cultural and economic. 3. The first sorrow is the slow passing of the
9. Women are thought to be weak, unable and low autumn.
graded and second class citizens in our society. 4. When the lakes and ponds become dry it looks
10. The need to securing the equal rights, freedom ugly, it becomes the habitat of ugly creatures like
and equality of women to that of men is the beetle, catacombs, and dragonfly.
theme of this speech. 5. Brothers-feathers, hounds-pound, sorrow-
11. Answers may vary. window.
Explore the text
Tense (Present Simple and Present Continuous) 6. The seven sorrows are: slow passing of the
1) Decide which of the choices below would best autumn, hunter killing the pheasants, the slow
complete the article if inserted in the blanks. passing of evening, draught, felling trees, setting
Circle the appropriate words. of the sun, final death of man as he grows old.
1. spending 2. working 3. are 7. Loss of cultural heritage is one of the sorrows
4. have 5. eat 6. buy because it leave us without any guide, pride and
7. contain 8. increases 9. is purpose to seek in life.
10. responding 11. sell 12. profit 8. Answers may vary. The hunting of the wild
13. eat 14. become 15. does animals can be a source of food for the hunters
2. Put the verbs into the correct tense (simple and his dog.
present or present progressive). 9. Death as natural phenomena. In his old age, he still
a. are singing b. is flying c. am having longs to live (looking out of the window) but he has
d. is going e. is carrying f. is lived long (his years have been packed), now with
g. puts h. is playing i. write wrinkles in his face he will have to say final goodbye
j. am talking k. visits l. read
m. gets to his life.
10. Answers may vary. Perhaps the low pasing of
Listening: Interview with a bank robbery witness evenings, or autumn. One can always find
1. (a) 2. (a) 3. (a) something interesting to engage herself in.
4. (d) 5. (a) Story: Sudama
Sudama was Lord Krishna’s friend and devotee. He
belonged to a poor Brahmin family. As they grew up,
UNIT - 6: Myth and Fantasy Krishna got married to Rukmini and became the king
of Dwarika. On the other hand, Sudama married a
Poem: The Seven Sorrows
simple Brahmin girl and led a simple life leaving the
The poem is centered around the theme of nature worldly pleasures and by worshipping lord. But due to
together with death. The speaker begins showing us his austere living, he remained a poor man. Tired and
the nature and concludes with death. The poem can anguished by the poor living conditions, one-day
be divided in two parts. In the first part, the poet writes Sudama’s wife asked him to seek help from Lord
about nature, for example in the words like: “garden, Krishna. Sudama being an honest and self-made man
poppy, lily, pheasant”; and then the poet concludes felt ashamed to go ahead and ask his friend for help.
his poem with death. We can observe this in the last After being insisted by his wife, Sudama decided to go
stanza when Hughes says: “… And the seven sorrow/ ahead to meet Krishna.
Is the slow goodbye/ Of the face with its wrinkles that Find the facts
looks through the window/ As the year packs up/…”. 1. Myth is a long narrative about some fictitious
Here the author refers to the passing of time, the old event having some realistic base.
age and then death. In this poem death appears like 2. They were close friends.
something natural, everybody will pass it, and that it 3. She asked them to get some wood from the
always will exist. “Animals appear frequently
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forest. UNIT -7: Imagination
4. Storm began and they got lost in the jungle. Poem: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
5. Sudama was very poor and his life was difficult to
This simple poem, one of the loveliest and most
run.
famous in the Wordsworth canon, revisits the familiar
6. Sudama was requested to go to Krishna to get some
subjects of nature and memory, this time with a
economical support so that their life would improve.
particularly (simple) spare, musical eloquence. The
7. Yes, of course.
plot is extremely simple, depicting the poet’s
Explore the text
wandering and his discovery of a field of daffodils by a
8. Once, Sandipani's wife asks Sudama and
lake, the memory of which pleases him and comforts
Krishna to get some wood from the forest. While
him when he is lonely, bored, or restless. The
they are collecting the wood, a storm comes and
characterization of the sudden occurrence of a
they get lost. Sudama is scared. Krishna holds
memory—the daffodils “flash upon the inward eye /
his arms and assures his safety. When the storm
Which is the bliss of solitude”—is psychologically
is over, they find their way to the hermitage.
acute, but the poem’s main brilliance lies in the
Sudama is relieved. Sandipani blesses them with
reverse personification of its early stanzas. The
a long life and happiness.
speaker is metaphorically compared to a natural
9. Krishna was childhood friend of Sudama who
object, a cloud—“I wandered lonely as a cloud / That
became king of Dwarika and he was really
floats on high...”, and the daffodils are continually
helpful.
personified as human beings, dancing and “tossing
10. Sudama was going to meet his friend rather than
their heads” in “a crowd, a host.” This technique
king, the took with him Krishna's favorite food.
implies an inherent unity between man and nature,
Yes, his gift was good.
making it one of Wordsworth’s most basic and
11. Krishna is greatly pleased to see his old friend.
effective methods for instilling in the reader the feeling
He treats him royally and with much love.
the poet so often describes himself as experiencing.
Overwhelmed by all this Sudama forgets to ask
Find the facts
what he actually came for. But the Lord realises
1. Find the words similar in meaning to the following
what His friend needs, and the Lord's consort
definitions:
Rukmini, incarnation of Lakshmi, gifts him with
lively and full of energy - sprightly
his desires. On his return, Sudama finds a
a feeling of great delight - glee
palatial mansion instead of his old hut. He also
often - oft
finds his family dressed in extremely nice garb
shine - flash
and waiting for him. He lives an austere life after
2. The poet saw the golden deffodils.
that, always thankful to the Lord.
3. They were beside the lake, beneath the trees.
12. Because he wanted to enjoy the transcendental
4. The poet was over joyed to see them.
or spiritual happiness against the material one.
5. They were flying with breeze.
Grammar: Tense (Present Perfect / Past Simple)
Explore the text
Fill in the blanks with Simple Past or Present Perfect
6. It was like the stars that shine and twinkle at
Tenses.
night. The poet felt happy to see that.
1. have known, 2. Have /seen,
7. When he came back to his room and lied on his
3. saw/haven't seen, 4. checked/drove off,
sofa/seat.
5. has never seen/have heard, 6. called/arrived,
8. Complete the following summary of the poem.
7. was late/ has warned, 8. have done/took, The speaker says that, wandering like a cloud
9. has received, 10. have been/got floating above hills and valleys, he encountered a
field of daffodils beside a lake. The dancing,
Creative Time: Help Wanted fluttering flowers stretched endlessly along the
1. Science teacher, 2. Registered nurse, shore, and though the waves of the lake danced
3. IT specialist, 4. Over 100,000, beside the flowers, the daffodils outdid the water
5. Retail, 6. Restaurant manager, in glee. The speaker says that a poet could not
7. Finance Manager, 8. Daily, help but be happy in such a joyful company of
flowers. He says that he and stared, but did not
Listening: Family Relationships realize what wealth the scene would bring him.
See the tapescript. For now, whenever he feels vacant or pensive,
the memory flashes upon .that inward eye / that
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is the bliss of solitude, and his heart fills with beggar.
pleasure, and dances with the daffodils. 4. To use lash and spear on him.
Story: In the Land of the Little People 5. The king orders to bind him and gag him.
Find the facts 6. Despite the beggar’s tongue had been cut he
1. It was shipwrecked; he swam across and cried if he had grown another.
reached the land. 7. Treason means death penalty in his kingdom.
2. Because his body was tied to the ground. Understanding the text
3. They were frightened by Gulliver's strength. Six 8. King’s all orders were obeyed promptly because
inches. the beggar was slain by one of the soldiers.
4. Because he mad a sign. 9. The wants to see everyone independent and
5. He brought his fingers of his right hand to his living by their own sweat and toil.
mouth. Food and wine. 10. He was foolish, unkind and irrational who trusted his
6. In the capital. servant when he said that the beggar's tongue has
7. He learnt that he was a burden to the Lilliputs grow up again.
because he ate a lot. 11. i. Hunger cannot be avoided since you have
Explore the text stomach.
8. They were shooting arrows. He caught them all, ii. Kings never suffer; they are always perfect
and put them in his pocket. and rich.
9. Possible answer: There might have been war, 12. Answers may vary. Possible answer: A magician,
hostility or he may have been imprisoned or a god's messanger, etc.
killed. 13. Answers may vary. Possible answer: The king
10. They made a long carriage of twenty two wheels, may, next time, order his soldiers to cut his head.
carried by nine hundred strong men, pulled by Grammar: Tense
fifteen hundred of the king's horses along the A. Complete the following with will or be going to.
road to the capital. 1. will 2. will 3. am going
11. Because he was so big/huge. Possibly, yes. 4. will 5. will 6. am going to
12. No. He had to show them the little cows and 7. will 8. will 9. will
sheep he had brought with him. 10. am gong
13. Very small. B. Complete the following sentences using be going
Grammar: Past Habit; Used to to with the verbs given.
A. Complete the sentences with these words. 1. is going to sell 2. are going to spend
a. use to b. used to c. used to 3. am going to move 4. is going to build
d. use to e. used to f. use to 5. are going to learn 6. am not going to tell
g. used to h. didn't use to i. use to 7. is not going to ring 8. are not going to invite
j. didn't use to k. used to l. used to
m. didn't use to n. didn't use to o. used to 9. is not going to work 10. are not going to lend
p. didn't use to The Beggar and the King
Creative time: Map Reading Scene – II
Use the map and legend on this page to answer the After you read
following questions. 1. The beggar was actually shouting for bread.
1. Cedar City 2. As any of king’s punishment was unable to chase
Correction: the beggar away, the king himself decided to see
2. Is Fly By Drive north or south of Lake Road? the beggar.
North 3. Possible answer.
3. Over 100,000 4. South i) I have already commanded you.
5. North to South 6. Cedar City ii) Are you not hearing what I said you?
7. Interstate 17 8. 25,000-100,000 iii) Are you the king?
9. Cedar City, 10. Interstate 12 iv) What do you mean by you could not
11. State and Interstate Highway understand?
UNIT - 8: Voice of the Voiceless 4. Take help of the book
Drama: The Beggar and the King Understanding the text
Scene-I 5. Answers will vary. Because he seems irritated or
After you read annoyed by the beggar's crying.
1. The story takes place in chamber of the palace. 6. The beggar actually might be the god to teach
2. He was crying for bread as he was hungry. the lesson of justice, benovelance, patience and
3. The king was annoyed to hear the voice of the love to the king.
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7. The servant considers the king a foolish man The trees’ thick foliage serves as shade and shelter
because he is willing to see the beggar. for birds and other creatures. During summer time,
8. No, the beggar doesn't know the king. ‘Are you birds rest on the “trees’ hair” which symbolizes the
the king?’ by beggar reveals this. trees’ branches.
The Beggar and the King During winter, snow falls thus covering the trees
Scene – III especially its trunk. Being sturdy, trees withstand the
After you read cold. When the rain comes, trees grow better and
1. If he touches his forehead to the floor, as king has healthier. Their leaves are not only becoming greener
commanded he will go from the palace a free man. but also shinier. The tree “intimately lives with rain”
2. The beggar did not care rather commanded in because rain nourishes it and makes it luxuriant.
turn to the king. A person can never make a tree because he/she is
not God. Only God has the power to create a perfect
3. King’s removal of his crown from his forehead will
make the beggar no longer obliged to beg the king. natural form like a tree. “Fools” was the term used by
4. King’s removal of his crown from his forehead the Alfred Joyce Kilmer to describe poets just like him,
who loves to write poems as lovely as a tree. In as
will stop the beggar annoying the king.
5. The King commanded to imprison him but they much that, it comes from a person’s product of his
did not obey the command of the king. creations and imaginations.
Correction: Read the poem's second couplet as:
6. It was because they were afraid of hearing the
warning and confidence in the beggar. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Words in use Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
Find the facts
7. Tick the correct answer.
a) clay b) misery 1. nature
c) impudence d) talk 2. personified
Understanding the text 3. a tree
8. Because he thought that the beggar was making 4. It uses its leafy arms by lifting/raising them up.
wise humor. 5. Only fools, not wise and noble people.
9. He warned that if he refused, then he would wish Explore the text
he had never had any crown at all. 6. See the summary above.
10. The king was not so afraid because he was still 7. A tree endures many ups and downs in its life.
commanding his servant and guards to imprison Natural as well as manmade factors may entail
him. problems in their lives.
11. He was just a king than a wise king. The way he 8. He thinks God has created the tree which is so
treated and behaved with the beggar reveals beautiful that it takes our hearts away. We fall its
victim. Such a beautiful creation can never be
this.
Listening: Titanic imitated by man.
Take help of the tapescript. 9. God creates only beautiful things while poet
creates foolish poems.
UNIT - 9: Nature and Adventure 10. See-tree, prest-breast, day-pray, wear-hair, lain-
Poem: Trees rain, me-tree.
The poem presents Kilmer's strong religious faith and Novel: The Old Sea-Dog
dedication to the natural beauty of the world. A tree Find the facts
gets its water for nourishment on the ground for 1. Because Squire Trelawney, Dr Livesey and the
survival. “A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed” other gentlemen have asked Jim Hawkins to
represents the roots clinging on to the ground while it write everything he knows about the tory.
drinks the “earth’s sweet flowing” which represents 2. Because he came there for hiding from the other
water that nourishes the life of the tree. In connection pirates including the one-legged sea man.
with this, just like us, humans, we get our sustenance 4. Because Dr. Livesay could never stay quiet.
from the earth’s abundance and resources. These 5. Admiral Benbow
give us the strength of life for it nourishes plants and 6. Yes, they were old friends.
other beings. As such, it is also referred to as the 7. He had a stroke.
Mother Earth. 8. All statemenmts are true.
A tree grows upward and thus seems to be reaching Explore the text
to God. People from all walks of life though of different 9. Because he looke fearful and scaring. He also
races, cultures, colors or beliefs, are reaching to God, knew the captain was a pirate.
praising, worshipping, praying and thanking Him for 10. The 'I' is Jim. He is talking about his father's
the bountiful blessings He gave to us.
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funeral. His family. would protect him against all harms.
11. The correct order is: 2,1,5,3,4,6. 4. He found great chests and golden jars filled with
Grammar: Use of Too/Enough jewels, and trees sagging under the weight of fruit
A. Fill in the blanks correctly using too or enough. made of diamonds, pearls and opals in the cave.
too: a, e, f, g, i 5. The genie of the ring helped Aladdin to escape
enough: b, c, d, h, j from the cave.
B. Complete with too or enough and the adjective in 6. They lived in a magnificent palace.
brackets 7. The very cunning and wicked magician.
a. too short b. enough rich c. too far 8. The genie helped Aladdin to find the princess.
d. too young e. too tight f. fast enough 9. At the end, the magician was banished from the
g. good enough h. too crowdwd i. too expensive kingdom.
j. big enough Words in use
Creative Writing: Writing Diary 10. Find words from the story that are similar in
Correction: meaning to the following words.
After their fight I came to know that they worked roaming, splendid, agile, home, spout
together and were good friends in the past. 11. Fill in the blanks with the suitable prepositions.
a. out b. to c. in, in d. out e. into
Listening: Eyeglasses for you. Explore the text
Take help of the tapescript. 12. The old lamp and the ring made them rich and
UNIT - 10: Conflict and Violence prosperous.
Poem: Ballad of Birmingham 13. She was daughter of King Sultan. The property
they had make the king to offer his daughter’s
Find the facts
1. Choose the correct answer from the given hand to his mother.
alternatives. 14. She exchanged because she was unaware about
the secrecy hidden behind the old lamp.
a) mother b) centre of the city
c) child d) freedom 15. They celebrated their arrival as great festivities
e) shoes that lasted for several days.
Grammar: Model Auxiliaries
2. Ballad is a long narrative either about the love or
death or war etc. and also having dramatic Can't: 1, 5, 8, 10, 12, 14
technique. This is a ballad because it is about Must: 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15
Listening: What a busy day!
death of an innocent child in a blast and it has
used the technique of narration and drama. Take help of the tapescript.
3. The child wanted to go to the town in order to Unit- 11: Hope and Survival
participate in freedom march. Poem: Song of the Engine
4. To the church because it was considered a safe Find the facts
place. 1. b. the railway line
5. The other children. 2. b. pull
6. When she heard the explosion. 3. c. it doesn’t have to pull
Explore the text 4. b. I know I would, I know I would
7. The words dogs are fierce and wild, clubs and 5. b. Where there is a will, there is a way.
hoses, guns and jails aren't good for a little child." 6. It sings the song: "I think I can, I think I can,"
reveal that the demonstrators were suppressed 7. It sings the song song: "I thought I could, I
severely. thought I could,"
8. She did not want her child to go to demonstration 8. While going down the hill.
because it was suppressed severely and her 9. Hill-will, song-along,
child was not young enough to go there. 10. The places where train moves as described in
9. It was killed in the bomb explosion. The mother the poem are going up the hill and going down
identified through the shoes of her child. the hill.
10. Answers may vary. 11. Take help of the poem.
Story: Aladdin and the Magic Lamp Explore the text
Find the facts 12. As it requires no pulling, the train goes downhill
1. Aladdin’s father was Mustafa, the tailor. easily.
2. The stranger was a young magician, who was 13. Going up require will and determination, but
slim and agile. going down is boring and sluggish both to life
3. He was asked to put a magic lamp because it and engine that has been captured in the poem.
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14. Yes, the title is suitable to the poem because the are not hurt by falling objects.
engine really sings according the road it runs  Do not rush towards the doors or staircase.
through. Going up is full of vigor but going down They may be broken or jammed.
is boring and sluggish both to life and engine that 15. The first thing is to check yourself to see whether you
has been captured in the poem. are injured. Then check on your family members to
15. Answers may vary. see whether any of them have been hurt.
16. Answers may vary. 16. I would suggest that they should:
Essay: Coping with an Earthquake  If open space is available nearby, go there.
Find the facts  Keep away from tall chimneys, buildings,
1. Earthquake balconies and other projections.
2. Japan  Do not run through streets; hoardings or
3. National Society for Earthquake Technology lamps may fall on you.
4. In 1934 Grammar: Determiners (Much/Many/Little/Few)
5. Around 40,000 people might die Complete the following sentences with little, few,
6. 11th most earthquake-prone country in the world. many or much.
7. Himalayas were formed over 60 million years Little: 2, 7, 10,
ago as result of a major quake due to merging Few: 1, 6, 8,
of the Eurasian and Indo-Australian plates. Many: 3, 5, 9, 11, 13,
8. The earthquake will damage emergency services Much: 4, 12,
by spread of fire and disease. As a result victims Listening: Love of reading
will be unable to get service from hospitals. Take help of the tapescript.
9. The other services such as fire stations and UNIT - 12: Our Life and Culture
disruption of electricity and water supply will be
affected by the future earthquake. Poem: In the Farmyard
Explore the text Find the facts
10. We can minimize the potential risk of earthquake 1. a farmer
damages by following the given measures: 2. unwillingly
When an earthquake strikes, you need to drop 3. on the straw
down to the floor or ground, seek cover under 4. dissatisfied
something solid, and hold on until the shaking 5. does not belong
ends. If you are indoors, stay away from windows Explore the text
if possible until the earthquake stops. In a 6. The speaker is rotating in an axis with two oxen
situation where you are outside when the in order to separate paddy from straw.
earthquake hits, find a spot that is away from 7. They are rotating around the axis to separate
buildings, power lines or trees to take shelter. paddy from straw.
11. Predicting earthquake is reliable and effective to 8. The speaker is not working willingly. The two last
some extent. stanzas reveal this.
12. They are: 9. The speaker feels that his identity and toil is also
 First aid kit just like that oxen, animals.
 Canned food and an opener 10. Those who occupy large area of land and exploit
others to work for them on their land are feudals.
 Bottled water (a minimum of three gallons
11. The land is never for him rather it is just for
per person)
drenching his sweat.
 Flashlight and extra batteries
12. The speaker is not satisfied in the poem.
 Battery-powered radio
Essay: Rautes: Nomads of Nepal
 Sleeping bags and extra clothing
Find the facts
 Fire extinguisher
1. They are a nomadic ethnic group of Nepal.
13. It is because they can break and explode.
2. Raute language belongs to Tibeto-Burman
14. I will do the following things if I am caught indoor
language family.
at the time of an earthquake:
3. If anything bad happened to any of them they
 Keep calm. wander from one place to another.
 Stay away from glass windows, doors, 4. They live by hunting and gathering wild forest
almirahs, mirrors etc. tubers, fruits, and greens on a regular basis.
 Stay away from falling plaster, bricks or stones. 5. They live on trading handmade wooden bowls
 Get under a table or a sturdy cot so that you and boxes to local farmers.
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Words in use 5. To help, assist, guide in his learning.
6. Answers may vary. Explore the text
Explore the text 6. It helps in learning better and leaves lasting
7. As people of different caste, culture and religion impression.
live together in peace and harmony by respecting 7. Very important because it helps for child's
and accepting each other’s norms and values, physical fitness.
Nepal is a multi-ethnic country. 8. Line 10.
8. They live in the Karnali and Makahali regions of 9. By positively encouraging and guiding during
western Nepal. No, they do not live civilized life difficulties.
as we live because they live the life of nomad. 10. Answers will vary. Helping when the child is in
9. Deforestation, I think, is the main problem that has difficulty.
brought complication in the nomadic life of them. Letter : Lincoln's Letter to His Son's
10. The ‘Mukhia’ refers to leader or king in their Teacher
community. His role is to lead and guide them by Find the facts
making them obedient to him.
1. Supply the correct answer.
11. Rautes live a nomadic life, they still hunt and (a) letter.
gather food, little affected by modern lifestyles, (b) a school teacher.
etc.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
12. Read the extract and answer the following questions. (d) a shapeless clay
a. ‘They’ refers to Rautes. (e) not mentioned in the text
b. They do not use modern tools.
2. In the line 'Teach him to scoff at cynics and to
c. They use the traditional instruments like beware of too much sweetness.":
long and short handled axes, large and (i) a verb (ii) cynics (iii) son
small adzes etc. 3. No. Cheating in exam is not fair act. To fail is far
d. See (c) above. worthy than cheating.
Grammar: Reported Speech (Questions/ Imperatives) 4. He advises his son to sell his service to those
1. He asked her what she wanted. who are in distress and oppressed.
2. He inquired about her father. Explore the text
3. He inquired if she was going home with him. 5. Enjoy winning, envy, if you can, quiet laughter,
4. He asked when he intended to pay him. honorable to fail, to cheat, tough with tough,
5. He asked us why we all were sitting about there shame in tears etc. also describe human folly
doing nothing. and nature.
6. The prince asked if he really came from India. 6. He really loves his son. In the very beginning he
7. The judge finally asked if he had anything to say
states ‘on my dearly son who is just a shapeless
on behalf of the prisoner. clay that…….’ reveal this.
8. Ramesh asked which way had she gone. 7. For him reading is important. The wonder of books
9. The swami ordered the villagers to bring him a
lies on eternal mystery of birds in the sky, bees in
glass of milk. the sun, and flowers on the green hillside.
10. The teacher asked the boys to sit down. Grammar: Connectives (In Spite of, Despite and
11. The mother ordered the children to run away.
Although)
12. The king asked the hatter to take off his hat. Complete the following sentences correctly using
13. The teacher asked him not to read so fast. ‘although’, ‘even though’, ‘in spite of’ or ‘despite.
14. He requested me to wait until he came.
a. Although b. despite
15. He ordered his servants to hurry up and not to c. Despite d. enen topugh
waste time. e. in spite of f. Even though
Listening: Driver's License
g. Inspite of h. even though
Take help of the tapescript. i. Although j. despite
UNIT - 13: Education k. Even though l. Despite
Poem: A Loving Parent m. Even though
Find the facts n. I went to hospital even though I was feeling very
1. The poem is addressed to the child's teacher. well. (Corrected)
2. His child. o. eventhough p. despite
3. All about what he has learnd and done at school. q. ispite r. although
4. No. He should also give ample opportunity to s. in spite of t. is spite of
develop the child's creativity.
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Listening: A Healthy Lifestyle Explore the text
Take help of the tapescript. 9. He was moved by the prayers of Shakuntal's
UNIT - 14: Responsibility friends.
Poem: The Bully Asleep
10. By showing the ring.
11. i. 'He' refers to Dushyant.
Corrected:
ii. He failed to recognize her.
What sort of ‘bully’ is Bill Craddock? It’s not easy to tell
III. Because it wasn't her mistake.
from the poem alone but we need to establish that he is a
12. Because she was the most beautiful of all.
bully and that there are reasons – not excuses – why the
13. For recovering/delivering the lost ring.
boys (Jimmy and Roger) want to take their revenge
whilst he sleeps.
Find the facts Grammar
1. He slept in the class. Voice Change (Active Voice and
2. They made him a bully. No. Passive Voice)
3. That Bill is asleep in the class. Let him sleep and do Change the voice of the following sentences.
not disturb. 1. A letter is written by him.
4. To keep writing. 2. The spider was killed.
5. Jimmy. 3. They took all the necessary precautions.
6. Rubbish. 4. Maize is shown in the rainy season.
7. (a) the third and the fourth verse 5. Do you write a letter.
(b) test if Bill is awake 6. A canal was being dug.
(c) hasn't got a bed time 7. The job will be finished by the end of this week.
(d) most 8. Has the job been finished?
(e) Miss Andrews to notice them 9. He was informed of his mother's death.
(f) in this way 10. Has the door been opened.
(g) glares at them 11. We set the table.
(h) To stop bullying, we need to understand it. 12. A lot of money is paid.
Explore the text 13. Does he draw a picture?
8. No. 14. Blue shoes were worn by them.
9. She is caring. 15. You aren't helped by them.
10. Answers may vary. He was still asleep when they 16. The book isn't opened by him.
sticked and poured down ink on him. Listening: An Invitation
11. Answers may vary. Yes. Take help of the tapescript.
12. She can't be a good teacher.
Story : Shakuntala
Correction:
Menuka, a beautiful dancer in the court of Lord Indra,
and Sage Vishwamitra had a baby girl.
Find the facts

1. Shakuntala was the daughter of Menuka and Sage
Vishwamitra. They didn't want her.
2. She grew up in Kanva's cottage amidst beautiful
nature.
3. King of Hastinapur. A golden ring. He promised to
take her to Hastinapur.
4. Because she insulted him. The curse was that her
beloved husband would forget her.
5. When she was about to give birth to her son.
6. Because of the curse, Dushyant couldn't recognize
her.
7. The golden ring that Dushyant had given to
Shakuntala. The name of the king was inscribed on
it.
8. Bharat. Who his parents were.
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Spark English Reader- Book VIII Teachers Manual
UNIT – 1: Culture and Mythology Explore the text

7. When Icarus splashed into the sea the peasants in
Poem: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus the neighborhood were busy with their farm works.
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" touches upon Nobody seemed to be bothered by his death.
the Greek myth of the tragedy of Icarus. As we know, 8. It suggests the 'plunge' or the fall of Icarus into
Daedalus and his son Icarus were imprisoned by Minos the sea.
in the Island of Crete. Icarus, son of Daedalus, took 9. Both the Brughel's painting and Williams's poem
flight from imprisonment wearing the fragile wings his is based on the theme of 'man being indifferent to
father had made for him. Heedless of his father's the pains and suffering of other man.' All people,
warning to keep a middle course over the sea and avoid farmers, sailors etc. reacted coldly to Icarus's
closeness with the sun, the soaring boy delightedly flew death. Isn't this a common human trait!
too close to the burning sun, which melted his wings so 10. Because the poem is based on the landscape
that Icarus plunged to the sea and died. portrayed in the Brughel's painting which shows
The death of Icarus, the poet tells us "According Icarus falling into the blue sea, and the peasants
to Brueghel," took place in spring when the year was busy in their work.
emerging in all its pageantry. The irony of the death of 11. Williams's poem is a portrait in words about how
Icarus, who has always been an emblem for the poet's modern people have become selfish and
upward flight that ends in tragedy, is that his death indifferent to others pains. Modern people are so
goes unnoticed in the spring--a mere splash in the busy that they have no time for family and human
sea. The fear of all poets--that their passing will go relationship. This shows how man's concern has
"quite unnoticed"--is an old and pervasive theme. That shifted from society to himself.
Williams reiterates the theme is significant in the life of Story : Savitri
a poet who always felt the world had never fully
The story of the princess Savitri is one of the best-known
recognized his accomplishments.
and best-loved tales of the Hindus. It appears within The
William Carlos Williams' "Landscape with the Fall Mahabharata, the Hindus' greatest epic, which is much
of Icarus" focuses on the beauty of nature in spite of like an Old Testament to the Hindus. In the story, the
catastrophe. princess Savitri must use all her wit and will to save her
Find the facts husband from the god of death.
1. Peter Brueghel (1568-1625) was a Renaissance Find the facts
painter and print maker known for his landscapes 1. The king was childless so he offered prayers to
and peasants scenes. Brughel's 'The Landscape the fire god. Yes, it was fulfilled. He was gifted
with the Fall of Icarus' is oil an oil painting on with the divine child Savitri.
canvas (17.5 x 112 cm) painted in 1558. 2. Although Savitri was as beautiful and bright as
2. No. goddess no men dared to marry her.
3. At farming. 3. Narad muni is a divine sage from the Vaisnava
4. That people are indifferent to the sufferings of tradition. He plays a prominent role in a number of
others the mythological texts especially in the Bhagavata
5. Brughel Gita myth and in the Ramayan. He is the author of
6. Daedalus was a legendary Athenian, the father of Pancharatra, a standard text for Vaisnava's priests
Icarus, who formed the labyrinth on Crete. He which contains the technical and philosophical
was imprisoned in the island by King Minos and meanings of the temple Deity worship.
escaped using wings of wax and feathers by He reveals that Satyavan would die within a year.
which he and his son flew from Crete across the 4. When Satyavan resurrected from death Savitri
Greek Islands. When Daedalus flew from Crete, was filled with sadness as well as happiness.
Icarus flew with him but the sun melted the wax in Words in use
the Icarus' wings and he fell into the sea. Those 5. (i) surrender (ii) Savitri
waters of the Aegean where he fell were called 6. Devotion, Determination
thereafter the Icarian Sea. 7. virtue
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8. She resolved to marry with Satyavan because he UNIT- 2 : Gender and Class
was the wisest and virtuous man on Earth.
9. Their love can be described as sacred and truthful. Poem: Richard Cory
10. Because it was the law of the nature. A person who In “Richard Cory,” the focus is not on “why” the
dies once cannot be brought back to life again. suicide did what he did; it is on the mystery itself.
11. To bring back her beloved husband to life again. Certainly, the people who admired Cory because of all
This shows her strong determination and selfless he possessed personally and financially did not expect
love for her husband. such an act. To them he seemed to have everything
12. The wishes were: to restore her father-in-law's worth living for, while they struggled to put food on the
kingdom and his sight, birth of many children to table.
her father, and her husband's life. The main thrust of this poem suggests the
Grammar : Articles differences between the wealthy and the less-well-off.
A. Insert a, an, the where necessary. The speaker of the poem belongs to the latter class,
1. the 2. A, an 3. The and the poem clearly draws distinctions between “us”
4. x 5. x 6. The and “him” (Richard Cory). In the second line, “We
7. the 8. a, the 9. The people on the pavement” suggests a lower class: we
10. x looked up to him as well as merely staring at him as
B. Complete the following sentences supplying “looked at him” indicates.
correct articles wherever necessary. The speaker of this poem is careful to make sure
a. the b. a c. the his listeners understand that Richard Cory was just a
d. the e. the f. a really nice guy. He did not look down on the common
g. an h. the i. a folk; he did not behave arrogantly; he spoke to people
j. x k. a l. a the way the speaker would expect him to, “he was
m. x n. the always human when he talked.” Cory seemed very
C. Savitri was a virtuous lady according to the Hindu friendly, affable, happy, just like the common working-
mythology. Though she was a princess brought class stiffs only better looking and richer.
up at comfort and luxury, she chose a life in the Even though Cory was “quietly arrayed,” not
hermitage. Her devotion and prayer succeeded to arrogant or haughty, and even though he chatted like
regain the life of the husband Satyavan. Her a regular guy, still he made people a little nervous
father-in-law also regained his state. when he addressed them, and he looked like gold as
Listening: A Trick he passed by.
A. Complete the missing words in the following We must remember that the speaker is a little
phrases. obsessed with Richard Cory’s behavior and
(a) play a trick (b) waking them up appearance, so while the speaker wants us to realize
(c) came over (d) crept into that Cory was a nice man who would chat with the
(e) morning scene (f) went back common folk, still his manner and appearance had an
B. The correct order is: effect on people. We can certainly take from this poem
(a) It was late night and everyone in the house the old adage that appearances are deceiving.
was fast asleep.
(b) The children entered into their parents' Find the facts
bedroom to play a trick on them. 1. He looks very descent, civilized, good mannered,
(c) One brother drew the sun while the other well dressed, affluent, slim, cheerful and happy.
advanced the time on the alarm clock. 2. He fluttered pulses when he said, Good morning.
(d) When the alarm rang the parents jumped 3. He belongs to upper rich class while the people
out of their bed. belong to poor lower class.
(e) Father went to brush his teeth and mother to
4. He acts very gently and politely.
wake the children up.
(f) The children got scolding for playing trick on 5. Looking at his life, people envied and felt jealous
them. 6. They reveal that Cory committed suicide because
(g) The parents never left their bedroom open. he wasn't a happy man from within.
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Explore the text he suggests she wears flowers, however, realizing
7. They thought him to be very prosperous, that she is not pleased he later suggests she asks her
successful, lucky and happy man. wealthy friend. She visits her friend and chooses a
8. Various answers. diamond necklace from her collection. Her friend
happily lends it to her, they embrace, and she leaves.
9. The positive characteristics were his physical
She arrives at the ball and is the center of attention,
appearance, manner of dress, gentle speech, even catching the eye of the Minister.
and the ability to speak directly to people while
She spends the night dancing and thoroughly
maintaining his power to impress them.
enjoys herself, while her husband sits waiting. They
10. They were mostly downtrodden and lower class leave at around four o'clock, and take a carriage
people who struggled hard to make their both home. While undressing, she cries out at the
ends meet. realization that the necklace is gone. Her husband
11. The poem does not answer this question. But, of goes outside and searches for the necklace, and finds
course, the reader may freely speculate. nothing. He then checks with the police station, cab
Perhaps, because he has everything, he has company, and even presents a reward at the
newspaper, yet he still does not find the necklace.
nothing to do and feels useless. Or could it be
that he lacks the one thing that others in the town Her husband suggests that she tells her friend
have: a caring family? Maybe he is in bad health that the necklace is being repaired. After a week they
both gave up looking and instead decide to replace
or has suffered a financial reversal. Ask students
the necklace. They find a jeweler with a replacement
to contribute their view. and negotiates to pay thirty six thousand francs. They
12. The given/above lines come from Robinson's took three days to gather the money, her husband
"Richard Cory". The speakers (the people) reveal taking out a series of loans. He eventually returns and
their pathetic and plightful living condition. Here, gets the necklace.
the working class people look up at Richard Cory She returns the necklace to Madame Forestier
who represents the rich upper class, and who seems displeased with the late return, but doesn't
indirectly compare themselves with Cory. They examine the piece. Mathilde and her husband then
do not seem content with their life. work for the next ten years paying off the loans. They
get rid of the house help, Mathilde now having to take
Story : The Diamond Necklace care of the responsibilities of the household. Her
Mathilde is a young woman from a humble husband even gets another job as a copier. All the
background, who spends her time yearning for a life years labor turns Mathilde old and no longer beautiful.
characterized by riches and material goods. She is She comes across Madame Forestier in the park
displeased with her status, and with her marriage to a and decides to tell her the truth about the necklace.
lowly clerk who works with the Ministry of Education. She tells her everything from the night she lost the
Though from a modest background she is very pretty, necklace, to the misery she has faced as a result.
her beauty being enough to put her at the same status Madame Forestier then reveals that the necklace was
as a much wealthier woman. only valued about five hundred francs.
She has a friend who is wealthier than her,
Madame Forestier, but who she struggles to keep in Characters
contact with due to resentment of her own situation. Mathilde Loisel: The protagonist of the story.
Her husband receives an invitation to an exclusive Mathilde has been blessed with physical beauty but
event at the Ministry, and gives it to Mathilde, not with the affluent lifestyle she yearns for, and she
expecting her to be excited. Instead she rejects the feels deeply discontented with her lot in life. When she
invitation, and cries at her lack of new clothing and prepares to attend a fancy party, she borrows a
jewels for the event. Her husband being supportive, diamond necklace from her friend Madame Forestier,
asks Mathilde the cost of a new dress, and she gives then loses the necklace and must work for ten years to
him a cost that is the same sum he had saved for a pay off a replacement. Her one night of radiance cost
new gun to go shooting with friends. her and Monsieur Loisel any chance for future
He gives her his savings, and she later reveals happiness.
that though she has a dress she needs jewels. At first
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Monsieur Loisel: Mathilde’s husband. Monsieur moneylenders. He had to pay high rate of
Loisel is content with the small pleasures of his life but interest. He also had to work overtime on meagre
does his best to appease Mathilde’s demands and (very little) payment.
assuage her complaints. He loves Mathilde immensely 9. Matilda and her husband suffered for ten years in
but does not truly understand her, and he seems to repaying the money borrowed for purchasing the
underestimate the depth of her unhappiness. When original diamond necklace. They sent away the
Mathilde loses the necklace, Monsieur Loisel sacrifices maid and rented smaller rooms. She did all the
his own future to help her repay the debt. He pays dearly household works. Loisel worked overtime.
for something he had never wanted in the first place. 10. Matilda and her husband had to struggle and
Madame Forestier: Mathilde’s wealthy friend. suffer for ten years to buy a necklace of thirty-six
Madame Forestier treats Mathilde kindly, but Mathilde thousand francs in place of Mrs. Forestier’s fake
is bitterly jealous of Madame Forestier’s wealth, and necklace of five hundred francs. Both did menial
the kindness pains her. Madame Forestier lends jobs. Matilda repented for her mistakes.
Mathilde the necklace for the party and does not 11. At first she failed to recognize Mme Loisel. But
inspect it when Mathilde returns it. She is horrified to only when she told her name Mme Forestier
realize that Mathilde has wasted her life trying to pay recognized her.
for a replacement necklace, when the original 12. When the necklace was returned, Mme Forestier
necklace had actually been worth nothing. reacted very normally.
Find the facts Grammar: Prepositions

1. Choose the correct answer and complete the A. Fill in the blanks with convenient prepositions.
sentence: 1. to 2. to 3. from
a) clerk
4. at 5. on 6. in
b) she has no fancy clothes or jewels to wear
c) 400 francs 7. at 8. in 9. in/to
d) Jeanne B. Fill in the blanks.
e) a diamond necklace 1. with 2. for 3. in
f) 40,000 francs
g) 10 years 4. to 5. of 6. for
h) 500 7. with 8. with 9. From
2. One evening Matilda’s husband brought an 10. with
invitation card to attend the dinner party at
Listening: A Special Christmas Present
residence of the Minister of Public Instruction. He
A. Listen to the story and complete the following
was so elated because it would be a great
summary of the text.
occasion for them.
David saves up his pocket money to buy a
3. She wasn't delighted, instead she looked more
Christmas present for his mother. After three
serious because she had not good clothes and
months, he takes $20.00 out of his bank account
ornaments to wear in the party.
and goes to the mall. He buys a beautiful brooch
4. To buy a hunting gun.
for his mother. He wraps it in Christmas paper
5. Because they had no personal car and didn't
and places it under the Christmas tree. But when
want any party guests to see them going by taxi.
his mother opens the gift, she screams, because
6. They search the lost necklace everywhere. Mr.
she sees a spider .
Loisel spent the whole night at the party place
B. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives.
looking for it.
(a) a Christmas present
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(b) $20.00
7. Matilda was intoxicated with pleasure. She
danced with great enthusiasm. She appeared to (c) a brooch
be the prettiest lady. All asked her name. Her (d) because she thinks she sees a real spider
dream was fulfilled. The missing of diamond (e) spiders are his favourite pet
necklace spoiled the pleasure. (f) under the Christmas tree
8. Loisel had to pay thirty six thousand francs for the
new necklace. He had with him only eighteen
thousand. He had to borrow the rest. He went to
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4. It means the speaker had to fulfill several
UNIT - 3 : Life and Responsibility obligations before he dies.
5. Narrative
Poem : Stopping by Woods on a Snowy 6. Strange
Evening 7. Yes, in the village.
The poet seems more fascinated by the dark Explore the text
woods and trees than the social obligations. The poem 8. It is cold and snowy.
offers a perfect quiet and solitude woods, that exists 9. To indicate if they had stopped in the wrong place.
side by side with the realization that there is also 10. He says that he knows the owner of the woods.
another world, a world of people and social They may be from the same village or they may
obligations. Both worlds have claims on the poet. He even be neighbours.
stops by woods on this "darkest evening of the year"
11. Complete the following text choosing words from
to watch them "fill up with snow," and lingers so long
that his "little horse" shakes his harness bells "to ask if the box.
there is some mistake." The poet is put in mind of the On the surface, this poem is simplicity
"promises" he has to keep, of the miles he still must itself. The speaker stops by some woods on a
travel. We are not told, however, that the call of social snowy evening. He or she takes in the lovely
responsibility proves stronger than the attraction of the scene in near-silence, is tempted to stay longer,
woods, which are "lovely" as well as "dark and deep"; but acknowledges the pull of obligations and the
the poet and his horse have not moved on at the considerable distance yet to be traveled before
poem's end. The dichotomy of the poet's obligations he or she can rest for the night. It is about
both to the woods and to a world of "promises"--the sacrifices, responsibilities and the poet’s love
latter filtering like a barely heard echo through the towards the nature.
almost hypnotic state induced by the woods and falling
snow-is what gives this poem its singular interest. The Story : Three Questions
artfulness of the poem consists in the way the two The Three Questions is a short story by Russian
worlds are established and balanced. The poet is author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1885 as part of
aware that the woods by which he is stopping belong the collection What Men Live By, and other tales. The
to someone in the village; they are owned by the world story takes the form of a parable, and it concerns a
of men. But at the same time they are his, the poet's king that wants to find the answers to what he
woods, too, by virtue of what they mean to him in considers the three most important questions in life.
terms of emotion and private signification.
The thought came to a certain king that he would
The poet is fascinated and lulled by the empty never fail if he knew three things. These three things
wastes of white and black. The repetition of "sleep" in were
the final two lines suggests that he may succumb to
the influences that are at work. There is no reason to - What is the best time to do each thing?
suppose that these influences are benignant. It is, - Who are the most important people to work with?
after all, "the darkest evening of the year," and the
- What is the most important thing to do at all
poet is alone "between the woods and frozen lake."
His one bond with the security and warmth of the times?
"outer" world, the "little horse" who wants to be about Many educated men attempted to answer the
his errand, is an unsure one. The ascription of "lovely" king's questions, but they all came up with different
to this scene of desolate woods, effacing snow, and answers. The king decided that he needed to ask a
black night complicates rather than alleviates the wise hermit in a nearby village. The hermit would only
mood when we consider how pervasive are the see common folk, however, so the king disguised
connotations of dangerous isolation and menacing death. himself as a peasant and left his guards behind to see
Find the facts the hermit. The hermit was digging flower beds when
1. Because the beauty of the woods enchanted him. the king arrived. The king asked his questions, but the
hermit went on digging rather laboriously. The king
2. The last stanza.
offered to dig for him for a while. After digging for
3. No. some time, the king again asked his questions. Before
the hermit could answer, a man emerged from the
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woods. He was bleeding from a terrible stomach 10. won't you? 11. have we? 12. don't you?
wound. The king tended to him, and they stayed the 13. isn't it? 14. Will you? 15. is it?
night in the hermit's hut. By the next day the wounded 16. do you? 17. could you? 18. aren't you?
man was doing better, but was incredulous at the help
19. do you? 20. will you? 21. can you?
he had received. The man confessed that he knew
who the king was, and that the king had executed his 22. will it? 23. will he? 24. isn't she?
brother and seized his property. He had come to kill 25. isn't he? 26. isn't it? 27. aren't I?
the king, but the guards wounded him in the stomach. Listening (At a Party)
The man pledged allegiance to the king, and he went A. Tick the correct statements and correct the wrong
on his way. The king asked the hermit again for his ones.
answers, and the hermit responded that he had just
 The people talking in the party are Peter and
had his questions answered.
Jane. (√)
- The most important time is now. The present is  Peter is from Amsterdam while Jane is from
the only time over which we have power. London. (Corrected)
- The most important person is whoever you are  Peter is a Dutch and Jane is a Spanish. (√)
with.  Both Amsterdam and Spain are beautiful
- The most important thing is to do good to the places. (Corrected)
person you are with. B. Complete the missing words or phrases in the
Find the facts following dialogue.
1. He made an announcement that whoever could See correct answer from tape script at the end of
answer the three questions would receive a great this book.
reward.
2. Follow the schedule and do the thing accordingly.
3. No. UNIT - 4 : Science and Technology
4. Because nobody gave satisfactory answer to his Poem: Television
questions.
The poet talks about the importance of books in
5. Yes.
the lives of the children and most importantly, how this
Words in use
passion for books has been substituted with the
6. clever, foresighted, wise, enthusiastic,
addiction for television.
sympathetic, concerned, etc.
7. Various answers. The poet makes the television set like an evil
Explore the text which hinders the growth of brains for the children and
8. He was the emperor's enemy. He was running to hampers their creativity. Next, the poet highlights the
save his life from the emperor's guards. vitality of books which are, however, ignored because
9. His answers were the most important: i) time is of this television.
now or the present, ii) person is the one we are The author, at the end, requests the parents to
with at the present, and iii) work is to serve the do away with the television sets from their homes and
person you are with at present. instead place a nice book shelf at its place and fill it
10. Going to seek the answers of his three questions with good books. This will aid the children build their
from the hermit gave him the opportunity to knowledge, creativity and at the end, will make them
reunite and make friendship with his enemy. successful. No matter, now, the children might rebel at
11. The emperor is a man of great wisdom and this change and even argues and fights with the
enthusiasm. He is more concerned about gaining parents to throw away their favorite television, but at
higher knowledge regarding his duties and the end, they will be benefitting out of it. And a day will
responsibilities towards his subjects. come, when they will acknowledge and thank the
12. a) where b) who c) which d) whom / who parents for doing so.
Find the facts
Grammar: Tag-questions
1. The poem is about the growing trends of watching
A. Supply the correct for the following.
TV and its adverse effects on school children.
1. didn't we? 2. did they? 3. are you?
2. Monster, idiot, etc.
4. is it? 5. will they? 6. do you?
3. The speaker expresses his concerns about the
7. won't it? 8. don't you? 9. could I? growing trend of watching Television by school
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children and how it negatively moulds the young 10. Their exposure to books would benefit more than
mind of the kids who spend hours in front of it, we could imagine. Books are the treasures of
and how it deprives children from experiencing varied source of knowledge and information.
the beautiful world and pleasures of life, and Reading adventurous stories and fairy tales not
opines that it is an idiotic invention and urges not only entertains them but also provides them real
to install this monster at all. life experiences about the richness of the natural
4. Probably yes. Because watching TV has more and human world.
harms and benefits. 11. The given lines best sum up the central theme of
5. Because taking care of children is really the poem that children should never, never be
troublesome and annoying. TV engages the allowed to watch television. Parents should not
children so that parents needn't have to be encourage them by installing TVs at their homes.
worried about them. They should, instead, persuade their children to
6. By reading beautiful stories, playing games, read books. TV, according to the speaker, is a
visiting interesting places, etc. real idiotic tool.
7. i) away from T. V set Story: The Fun They Had
Explore the text
The Fun They Had by Isaac Asimov is a fantastic
8. Watching television is bad for children
story about life in the future written by one of the
Some people might say that it has a greatest masters of science fiction. The story is about
negative effect on children if they watch TV. By Tommy who finds a book and together with Margie,
contrast, I totally disagree with the statement that they compare and contrast their present school with
watching TV is bad for children. There are school from the past.
several reasons for this. There is a way of getting The story depicts a world where going to school
a great education by watching TV. means sitting in a room by yourself and learning from
First of all, children can learn a lot of things a mechanical teacher that is adjusted to fit your mind.
by watching TV rather than learning negative That is the vision of the future that the author
things. There are many great programs in TV imagines.
show, (such as) on science and international The story is set in the future. The main character
topics. Since my childhood days, I had always is an eleven year old girl named Margie, who hates
watched science TV shows, especially on space. attending school with her mechanical teacher.
It was easiest to learn what I want by watching Margie’s world changes when her friend Tommy, who
TV. Moreover, my friends always watch is a couple of years older, shows her an old book that
international programs, which show different he found in his attic. It is not a ‘telebook’ with moving
countries’ kids how to speak one word in their words on the screen, but a real book with paper pages
own languages. As a result he can say “good and words that stand still. The book is about what
morning” in seven different languages. Watching schools were like hundreds and hundreds of years
TV enables us to learn a lot of things. On the ago. Margie learns from Tommy’s book that teachers
other hand, there are many TV shows which have were real people and that children learned the same
a negative effect on children to watching TV. things together with other children of their own age.
However, parents are able to manipulate a TV
show by modern technology. Consequently, kids Find the facts
are unable to watch the TV shows that have a 1. She wrote about the outdated printed book that
bad effect on them. she found at the attic of her house.
For these and several other reasons, I totally 2. No.
disagree that watching TV has a bad effect on 3. Its yellow and crinkly pages with the words that
children because it is educational and provides were fixed. The pages were not moving as in the
us with new information that books don't provide. telebooks.
9. According to the poet, in the absence of TVs, the 4. At her own house. No.
children would become more creative, physically 5. History and geography.
sound and active, social, and happier. 6. i) a programmed computer
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ii) a machine driven examiner 12. How does Tommy ride his bike?
iii) an online book which can be browsed using 13. What does Thalia have before going to school?
internet 14. Who/Whom do I give a birthday present?
Words in use 15. What does Mario celebrate in September?
7. Find the words from the text that mean the same as: 16. What do the students listen to?
i) crinkly ii) attic iii) special 17. Which T-shirt do I like?
iv) slot v) county inspector 18. How many brothers does Julia have?
Explore the text 19. What do the little boys play?
8. They had mechanical teachers. 20. Why does Sammy close the window?
9. i) With the help of computer.
ii) With the help of teachers. Listening (London)
iii) Various answers. A. Tick the correct options.
10. Possible answer: I would tell her about all the fun 1. 4 centuries
and pleasures in going to school and studying in 2. United Kingdom
group in the class, playing together, and sharing 3. it's very dry
of happiness and sorrows of life. 4. publishing
11. Their differences are given below: B. Now answer the following questions.
School Teacher Mechanical Teacher a. London has been the largest city in Europe
A person A machine for four centuries.
Teaches to group Teaches individual b. Dry, cloudy and rainy.
Flexible Rigid c. It rains every other day.
Less informed More informed d. printing, publishing.
Provides feedback with Provides only scores
necessary instructions
UNIT - 5 :
Psychological treatment Not concerned
to students Nepalese Culture and Perspectives
12. She hated school because after reading the book
Poem: Lunatic
she learnt about the joys and fun that students
had in the past. Unlike the present (Margie's) In this autobiographical poem, the poet stands at
schools she could study with her friends and her the centre of modern society wearing the mask of
teacher would help her in her studies. Besides, lunatic speaker and attacks the corrupted world.
Similarly, he explores the corruption, evils, ugliness,
she could get opportunity to experience the value
injustices, prejudices and discriminations that are
of friends and family. prevalent in the our society. The corrupt lives an
Grammar (Transformations) enjoyable life having no sense of humanity, and
A. Change the following sentences into Wh-questions. judges everything from monetary point of view. The
1. What do they study every Tuesday speaker presents the view of the world from a lunatic's
eyes. In the lunatic's world, everything is seen
morning?
positively but in the world of sane people, everything is
2. How does Romi go to school? viewed negatively. While sane people always think
3. Where does the teacher explain the lesson? and never feel, but insane people always feel but do
4. Who does his homework carefully? not think. Sane people are like prose writers but
5. How often does my daughter wash her hair? insane people like poets.
6. What does John love eating? Find the facts
7. Who/Whom does Fenny invite to come to 1. readers
her birthday party? 2. that he is insane
8. How does Olga sing a song? 3. flowers
9. When does Shanti get up? 4. (i) stones as flowers
10. Why doesn't Harry go to school? (ii) rise up like mute maniacs, like flowers
11. Who cooks rice in the kitchen? (iii) I talk to them the way they talk to me.
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5. No. The poet's higher level of understanding to the writer's mental disturbance and his emotional
the world. empathy to the poor buffalo.
Explore the text 10. Students are expected to give their own arguments.
6. The then so called sane and educated class. Grammar: Tense
7. Yes, of course. It is so because he has Exercise 1: Choose the correct verb form from those
understood the level of so called hypocrisy of the in brackets.
then society. The line implies that 'they' are in fact 1. saw, 2. were playing, 3. was driving, 4. fell,
the true idiot or insane, not ordinary and innocent 5. had seen, 6. has been working, 7. had done,
people like him. 8. went, 9. went, 10. was mending. 11. bought,
8. Anti-metaphorical language of irony 12. broke, 13. haven't seen, 14. finished,
9. The speaker addresses his readers as friends to 15. was moving, 16. had already started,
assume him as if he is really a lunatic, the fact, 17. had been walking, 18. had seen
though, may not be so. Exercise 2: Choose the correct or more suitable forms
of the verbs to fill in the blanks.
Essay: What I Saw that Day 1. will arrive, 2. comes, 3. is about to, 4. am visiting,
In this essay, the author creates a dramatic 5. is going to rain, 6. will visit, 7. start, 8. am going,
scene of leading a buffalo to an altar for sacrifice, 9. am going to fall, 10. is going to make
which is a popular Hindu custom. The poor and Exercise 3: Choose the correct or more suitable forms
innocent creatures fall victim of human madness and of the verbs to fill in the blanks.
fanaticism towards religion. 1. will be sitting, 2. will have arrived, 3. will be driving,
The author seems to criticize the tradition of 4. will have taken over, 5. will be seeing, 6. will be
animal sacrifice by humans on any grounds, be it passing, 7. will have read, 8. will have worked,
religious or any other celebrations.
Find the facts Listening (Hot Evening)
1. The weather described in the text is extremely hot. A. Listen to the tape answer the following questions.
2. The speaker is a student. 1. a drink 2. the power was out
3. He opposes animal sacrifice. 3. eight 4. Jeremy
4. Let students spot and correct the mistakes by 5. vanilla
themselves. B. Consult tape script at the end of this book.
5. Give short answer to the following questions.
a. five UNIT - 6: Expectations and Reality
b. setting fire
c. The male buffalo is going to be sacrificed. Poem: New Year
d. Because he could not kill the animal at his The poem celebrates the hardships and difficult
first attempt. life conditions of the Chepang people who struggle
e. pieces of meat instead of he-buffalo. everyday just to fulfill their dreams of having two
Explore the text meals a day.
6. foggy, misty and hazy. The weather suggests the Every new year promises them to bring changes
tragic fate and nearing death of the buffalo. The in their lives, but the promises are never fulfilled. They
writer regrets for human's brutal act to innocent look up to the urban and towns where people enjoy
animals. It is really saddening. facilities of roads, electricity and water, education,
7. Cruel because he was killing the innocent animal health, etc. Each new year has something better to
to make his Goddess Devi happy. It is just for offers them, to make them happy and contended. But
the people in this community have to welcome new
gratifying human interests.
year so that they may survive for another year just to
8. He was a theist because he believed that his
suffer.
failure to kill the buffalo at one strike would make
the goddess angry. The poem draws the attention of the government
towards the pathetic condition of the lower class
9. The sacrifice of the innocent creature terribly
people, especially the illiterate, backward and
frightened him and he began sweating. It reflects
disadvantaged communities of Nepal.
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Find the facts their employees, unable to bring back the dead bodies
1. Find the words in the poem as indicated in the of workers, etc.
Find the facts
brackets:
1. Prem has written to Ritu from Saudi Arab.
Correction:
2. Husband and wife
i. disappointment (opposite): happiness:
3. His life is full of pain and suffering. He is sad.
ii. fate (similar): fortune
4. Fresh Himalayan breeze and the sweet melody of
iii. shorts (similar): sans
Danphe
iv. held (similar): seized
5. Because he is unable to send the money to pay
2. Find the correct word(s) from the poem and
debt back to the sahu.
complete the following.
6. Students' answers may vary.
i. New year
Explore the text
ii. Kanda (a Chepang village in Chitwan)
7. For all those Nepali brothers and sisters who are
iii. a bag full of dreams
working in gulf countries being for from their
3. (iii) The lives of Chepang people is still
miserable. native land and family members.
4. (iv) None of the above 8. Pathetic and poverty stricken economical condition
5. A saint taught their kids to consult calendar for is presented.
when the new year is coming. 9. Prem suggests Shyam to give up the idea of
Explore the text going abroad, instead he can start a business
6. Since they first settled in Kanda. No. with the money that would have to spend for
7. Changes like education, electricity, water supply, going abroad.
healthcare, etc. 10. Possible answers.
8. The Chepangs of Kanda live amidst hardships - Economic condition or poverty
and difficult life conditions. They lack basic - Unemployment problems
amenities of lives like water, electricity, - Better education, etc.
education, health care, etc. 11. Make students follow the given letter as model for
9. The speaker requests the New Year to come with writing the letter to this question.
a big bag full of dreams for their loving kids. Grammar: Direct and Indirect Speech
Letter : A Letter from Gulf A. Change the following in to indirect speech.
1. He reminded me that he had often told me
The letter points towards a very bleak and not to play with fire.
gloomy condition of Nepali migrant workers. Many
2. The teacher remarked that they all had done
Nepali migrant workers meet tragic deaths or face
many difficulties abroad, and not least their family very badly.
members back home. Poor economic condition or 3. They wrote that it was time they thought
poverty, unemployment, etc. are a few reasons that about settling that matter.
force our brothers and sisters to leave their homeland. 4. The teacher said, "If you come before school
In the lure of earning huge remittance from tomorrow, I will explain it." (Corrected)
abroad, the Nepalese who go abroad have to face The teacher said if they came before school
numerous problems. Many migrant workers who the next day, he would explain it.
return Nepal from abroad tell a very pathetic and 5. She wrote that she was waiting and
gloomy stories which they had encountered or watching and longing for her son's return.
undergone in their lives abroad. Majority of these 6. The prince asked the girl if she came from
workers tell the same story of how they had to suffer, China.
work under harsh conditions, live in limited space, 7. The poor man exclaimed whether none of
often cheated by their employees and travel agencies
them would help him.
at home, do not get annual leaves, lack of life
insurance, very unfriendly labor laws, ill-treatment by 8. The little Rakshas asked which way she
had gone.
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9. Aladdin asked the magician what he had 7. Yes.
done to deserve so severe a blow. 8. To a bird reserve.
10. I asked her whether she did not know the 9. One future day he'll have to book and pay for the
way home. ticket in advance, pay for parking his car, stand
B. Change the following in to indirect speech. for long time in a queue, in order to watch and
1. He said to Rama, "Come with me." hear a bird's song.
2. Rama replied, "I cannot do so."
3. He said to his father, “When will the next Speech: The Green Club
letter come?” Find the facts
4. Father said, "There may not be another this 1. The above text is an example of a (ii) speech.
year." 2. The word anniversary in the text means (ii) the
5. Ram said to me, "What happened to Hari?" date when the Green Club was formed
6. I said to him, "I have not seen him for
3. The Green Club was established in 2058.
months."
7. The master said, "We will attend carefully to 4. The documentary was about Wildlife in Western
what you are saying." Terai. It was screened in February.
8. I wrote, "I will visit you tomorrow." 5. He is a Secretary.
9. He observed, "I have never liked doing this." Explore the text
10. I said to them, "Keep quiet." 6. The club has organized - talks by environmentalists,
Listening: (The Spanish Village) screening of films, environmental awareness
A. Complete the sentences: 1-b; 2-c; 3-a; 4-b; 5-a programs, field trips, etc.
B. Put these sentences in the right order: 7. Need to preserve endangered animal species,
The right order is: d; a; b; f; c; e. one-horn rhino.
C. Answer the questions. 8. (i) One-horned rhino.
1. They exam and clear their boats. (ii) Dr. Harka Gurung.
2. …...at 6 o’clock (iii) Dwindling.
3. ...…on the beach
9. Dirty and polluted.
4. Because they always got to eat fresh fish
(not the dead ones). 10. Positive response
Grammar: Voice
UNIT - 7: Nature and Environment A. Change the following sentences so that the verbs
will be in the passive voice.
Poem: One Day 1. You and him were seen by me.
Find the facts 2. My name was asked.
1. He wandered by the woods, fields and rivers. 3. Their admission was refused.
2. He went to a bird reserve. 4. The baby was bought a doll.
3. We'll have to pay for the tickets and stay in a long OR, A doll was bought to the baby.
queue. 5. He was found guilty of murder.
4. Humans will destroy all the forest, vegetation and 6. Milk is often turned sour by a thunderstorm.
wildlife. B. Change the following sentences so that the verbs
5. Read the following extract of the poem and will be in the active voice.
answer the questions. 1. His father praised him.
i. The word 'book' in the above lines is: a verb 2. George Stephenson built the first railway.
ii. The sense perceptions the words 'watch' 3. The noise frightened the horse.
and 'hear' evoke to are: hearing and sight 4. Latif spoke no words.
Explore the text 5. The boy's work pleased the teacher.
6. Yes, the speaker is a nature lover. He seems 6. His friends took him to the hospital.
concerned about the deteriorating state of nature 7. An earthquake destroyed the town.
and wild animals at present. He is fond of visiting 8. People lined the road.
the reserves and zoos. C. In the following sentences change the voice.
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1. Balu was elected captain. 7. Put these sentences in a logical order according
2. He was opening the box. to the story.
3. His words must be listened. Ans: (iii) c,b,d,a
4. Shall those happy days be ever forgotten. Explore the text
5. Who broke this jug. 8. Find the right explanation
6. He was accused of various offences. (i) the young lady was a wife of the owner of
7. Grapes cannot be gathered from thistles. the house
8. Someone has cut the telegraph wires. (ii) not to leave his fingerprints
Listening: The Cat and the Mouse 1 & 2 (iii) there were his fingerprints everywhere in
the room
Play the cassette or read the tape script at your
9. Horace Denby was a skilled and successful lock
students' pace and make them listen carefully to the
story, and let them choose the correct word and maker. He minded his business, earned a good
complete the text. reputation and lived peacefully. He was not
completely honest because he used to rob a safe
UNIT - 8: Love and Deception every year to get more money to buy rare and
expensive books.
Poem: Declaration of Intent
10. When Horace was inside the house, a lady came
Find the facts
there. Horace thought that she was the lady of
1. for eternity
the house. In fact she was also a thief like him.
2. for eight months
She tricked him and took away all the jewels.
3. No.
Poor Horace had to go to prison as he forgot to
4. She left him.
wear his gloves.
Explore the text
11. It means that even the thieves have their codes of
5. How they matched or fitted for one another.
conduct. They do not cheat one another. They
6. That they would spend their life together.
divide their booty honestly. The lady in red lacked
7. The speaker's lover thought that he knew her
the honor of thieves. She not only betrayed Horace
very well and that he would understand why she
by not dividing the jewels but also sent him to the
had to leave her.
prison.
Story: Never Trust a Lady 12. Horace Danby was a good and respectable but not
Horace Danby collects rare books, and finances completely honest. By profession he was a lock
his hobby by safe-breaking. One day he is surprised in maker. He used to rob a safe every year to buy
mid-burglary by the lady of the house, but she seems rare and expensive books. His latest target was
prepared to let him go in return for a small favour. the safe at Shot Over Grange. He made thorough
Find the facts preparation for his venture. He collected
1. To the movies information about the family, servant, entry points
2. Denby was worried not to leave any fingerprints. and electric paths. But he had hard luck this time.
3. He promised not to rob again. His hay fever made him sneeze. It attracted a
4. The young woman said that she had forgotten young lady downstairs who was also a burglar.
the safe key. She was confident, commanding and had a good
5. He hated prison because of the food, the lack of convincing tactics. She pretended to be the
exercise and the ugly worn-out books in the mistress of the house. She tricked Horace into
prison library. submitting to her will. She first made him open the
6. Complete the sentences according to the story. safe without wearing gloves and then reported
(i) he couldn’t afford rare books against him to the police. Horace was arrested.
(ii) giving his cigarette lighter to the woman After that he became angry at the mention of the
phrase ‘the honor among thieves’ because the
(iii) one hour
young lady broke the ethics among the thieves.
(iv) a woman of sixty
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Grammar: Gerund and Infinitive he views as family more than any others, he ultimately
A. Choose the correct gerund or infinitive from the dies alone. Moreover, he dies without ever fulfilling his
parenthesis at the end of the sentence. contract to ditch the meadow and clear the upper
a. riding b. inviting c. to fight pasture. For all his attempts to fulfill his duty, achieve
d. crying e. to tie f. to bake satisfaction through hard work, and find a sense of
family, Silas’ efforts are unsuccessful. Even the way in
g. complaining h. concentrating
which his death is introduced expresses its bleak
i. to join j. to pick up isolation: Warren merely declares, “Dead.”
B. Choose the correct form of to infinitive or gerund
of the words given in brackets. The drama also creates a clear dichotomy between
Mary and Warren, between Mary’s compassionate
a. I am keen on (work) in the computer
willingness to help Silas and Warren’s feelings of
industry. (Corrected) a. working resentment over the broken contract. Mary follows the
b. to see c. reading d. to learn model of Christian forgiveness that expects her to help
e. helping f. to talk g. laughing Silas because he needs it, not because he deserves it.
h. coming i. reading j. living Warren, on the other hand, does not believe that they
owe anything to Silas and feels that they are not
Listening: Message bound to help him.
a. & b. See the listening script and do the activities.
It is interesting to note that, of the two, only Mary
actually sees Silas over the course of the poem. She
UNIT - 9: Man and Destiny finds him huddled against the barn and instantly
Drama: The Death of the Hired Man recognizes the extent of his illness. As a result, she is
automatically more willing to be compassionate toward
A farm wife, Mary, pleads with her husband, him. Having not seen Silas in his current state, Warren
Warren, to take back a former farmhand who has takes the more rational view of the situation. Had Warren
always disappointed him. The farmhand, Silas, is very found Silas first, his treatment of the former farmhand
ill, and Mary is convinced that he has returned to the would no doubt have been more compassionate.
farm to die. Warren has not seen Silas in his ill state
and, still angry over the contract that Silas broke when
Scene - I
them in the past, does not want to have Silas on his
property. Mary’s compassionate urging eventually Find the facts
convinces him, but when Warren goes to get Silas, he 1. Husband and wife
is already dead. 2. Sitting musing in the room
This drama which is an adaptation from Frost's 3. A servant
poem contains many of the stereotypical characteristics 4. Silas. To live and work with them.
of Frost’s poetry, particularly the rural environment, the 5. He is old.
everyday struggle of the farm couple over their 6. No. Warren never liked him because he was so
relationship to the farmhand, and the colloquial dialogue. old and useless for farm work.
In the drama, Frost outlines the traditions of duty 7. At their home by the stove.
and hard work that he explores in many of his other 8. Winter. He has no place to live in.
works. Silas returns to the farm so that he can fulfill his
Explore the text
broken contract to Warren and die honorably, having
9. The characters are:
fulfilled his duty to the family and to the community.
Silas’ return to the farm also signals the importance of MARY: She is Warren's wife.
the work that he performed on the farm as a way to WARREN: He is Mary's husband.
give his life meaning and satisfaction. Silas does not SILAS: He is a servant in Warren and Mary's
have any children or close family to provide a sense of family who works in their farm.
fulfillment in his last hours; only the sense of duty and 10. It is evening. Mary is sitting outside her home and
the satisfaction of hard work can provide him with her husband has gone for shopping. She is
comfort. thinking about the moon. She hears footsteps of
Ironically, even after Silas’ attempt to die in the her husband's arrival, who is carrying groceries.
companionship of Mary and Warren, the people whom
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When the play begins, Silas has already returned 2. To his brother's house. His brother did not accept
though he had said he would never return again. him.
Mary seemed hopeful that Silas will return soon. 3. 15 miles away from there. He works in a bank.
And now she wants her husband to accept Silas. 4. Because Silas was lying dead. They felt sad.
11. Warren is furious when he hears that Silas has 5. Silas' accomplishment was stacking the hay
come back. He bluntly tells his wife that Silas perfectly, without stepping on it or anything.
can't stay with them.
12. Yes, they will. Silas has asked for pay so that he Explore the text
can buy some tobaccos. Besides, he has left his 6. Because of the pride of being rich and able. He
masters several times before. was proud, selfish and arrogant.
7. No. Students can give their own argument.
Scene – II 8. Pathetic condition of Silas. She is sympathetic lady.
Find the facts 9. Yes, a house is composed of members but a home
1. No. is composed of hearts. This means that a home isn't
2. He seemed weak and wary and difficult to be necessarily a house. Home is more emotional than
recognized. No, because of change in his looks. a description of real estate. A home always has a
3. Yes, she was. She took him into the house, gave place for you, where you live with your family. In
him tea and smoke, etc. home we feel something that belongs to us. A home
4. to ditch the meadow. is always special for you. There is nothing in the
5. Harold is a servant boy who worked for them four world as sweet as home. A home is a happy home,
years ago. He is now teaching in a college. because there lives someone who always loves and
6 Silas. She means that he will die. respects us, shares our pains and joys, etc.
Explore the text In the play, Silas is not a relative of either Mary or
7. No. He did not exhibit drunken behavior. Warren but he seems to have won the hearts of
8. Silas and Harold. both of them through his hard work and
9. He was a good worker. selflessness. They consider him as a part of their
10. Yes. family and so does Silas. Several times he leaves
11. Theory without practice or experience is Warren and Mary but only to return back, because
incomplete. Though Silas wasn't educated, he he considers it his home and not house.
was a skilled farm worker. 10. Misunderstanding can occur due to various reasons,
Grammar: Subject-Verb Agreement between parents, children, parents-children, friends,
Fill in the blanks with suitable verbs choosing relatives, neighbors, teachers-students, boss-
from the brackets. workers, etc. Family misunderstanding may lead to
1. study 2. are severe consequences, often leading to divorce,
3. Look! The deer ……. (is/are/were) grazing. family break-up, mental tension, etc. When a
(Corrected) : is husband lacks trust over his wife or parents over
4. are 5. is 6. have their children, the healthy family can torn apart
7. is 8. seems 9. is leading every member to experience psychological
10. is 11. don't 12. has problems.
13. are 14. is going 15. yourself
16. are 17. wins 18. has UNIT – 10 : Family and Kinship
19. is 20. has
Poem: My Sister's Birthday
Scene – III Find the facts
1. It is the speaker's sister's birthday.
Find the facts
 Note for correction: Read the question as:
1. Yes. He is old and useless person to work as the
2. Why are the speaker and his sister so happy in
servant. the poem?
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Ans: Because it is a special occasion for both of them 14. That it can travel in time.
as it is the poet's sister's birthday. 15. Students' answers may vary.
3. They played, baked cake, read stories, danced 16. Study the following extracts from the text and
and sang songs, etc. answer the questions given.
4. Both of them are young or children. a. Because the speaker expresses his surprise
5. They celebrated the birthday very happily and in the sentence.
cheerfully. b. Because it is said by mum and is in direct
6. The last lines of the poem read: speech.
I'm so glad we can do it again, c. Different punctuation marks used in the
As it's my birthday very soon! story are: Full stop (.), Question Mark (?),
(i) They can celebrate again the poet's birthday
Exclamation mark (!), Inverted comma (" "),
which is coming soon.
Comma (,), Apostrophe ('), etc.
(ii) Because it's his birthday soon.
Explore the text Grammar: Syllables
7. I happily take part in the birthday celebration and 1. fos/sil (2) 2. bones (1)
wish their longevity and prosperity. I provide them 3. tri/cer/a/tops (4) 4. giant (1)
with gifts and good wishes. 5. steg/o/sau/rus (4) 6. car/ni/vore (3)
8. Can have multiple answers. 7. prey (1) 8. claws (1)
9. Encourage students to express their own experience. 9. rap/tor (2) 10. liz/ard (2)
10. Various answers may be acceptable. 11. her/bi/vore (3) 12. tail (1)
13. eggs (1) 14. ex/tinct (2)
Story : Two Birthdays 15. spi/no/saur/us (4) 16 pre/da/tor (3)
Find the facts (Source: http://www.syllablecount.com)
1. When he woke up he found a new scooter, and a
Listening (A Visit to a Zoo)
football.
 Note for correction: Read the listening script as:
2. There were two similar toy cars and two similar
Amy: I just went to the zoo this weekend, Marni.
footballs.
Marni: Really?
3. A book about racing car. Amy: What, you don’t like the zoo?
4. He chose the one which was slightly crumpled Marni: Ugh.
and had a stain on the sleeve. Amy: Don’t you like exotic animals and getting to see
5. The guests had little food. things you ordinarily wouldn’t get to see,
6. Will said this statement. because they usually only exist in the wild?
Indirect: Will said that car had secret powers. If Marni: I appreciate exotic animals in natural habitats.
he (Sam) turned the steering wheel to the right, it The zoo, it just seems so cruel. I mean you’re
would be his birthday again and he'd get to just there on display. And I just don’t know, I
celebrate for another day. He had always want to see them in their natural habitat in the
dreamed of doing that. wild, not domesticated in captivity.
Words in use Amy: OK, but I think at the zoo, for one thing, you
7. Thrice can have a much more personal experience
8. Identical with the animals. And also there are some
9. Compound word animals who wouldn’t survive if, you know, if
Explore the text their species wasn’t kept alive in zoos. I mean,
10. Because the guests didn't finish their foods. animals that have been hunted or poached.
11. Various answers. The zoo is the only way to keep them going.
12. Because the boy realized that it's not so fun Marni: Well, you know, I know that some zoos do do a
celebrating the same day twice! good job. I just, I feel like I’ve been to the zoo
13. 'He' refers to Sam. Because it was his birthday. The too many times where they’re not kept up well,
word 'greeted' in the above line means 'Wished'. and the animals are just depressed and they’re
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exhibiting behaviors that are not natural to them. out country which gave birth to us and made us
It just can be really depressing. So I know it’s a into this position.
good opportunity for some people to go and see 7. Unpatriotic and self centered persons die twice
animals that they wouldn’t normally get to see, because they die and are easily forgotten by the
and I believe that it’s educational, so I like that people. They don't have value of life as well as
aspect. But ultimately, it’s hard for me not to find death. Patriotism is the greatest virtue. One dies
them depressing. when he forgets the country. Simply, although
Amy: I understand. one is living physically, he is supposed to have
A. Listen to the tape and answer the following died while forgetting the nation.
questions. 8. Complete the following paragraph supplying the
1. sad right words from the given box.
2. in the wild 1. love 2. conscience 3. strand
3. They let you have a personal experience 4. minstrel 5.delight 6.boundless
with the animals. 7. wretched
4. wouldn't survive 9. Yes. (Can have varied answers.)
5. depressing Story: A Mother's Heart
Find the facts
UNIT – 11: Love and Patriotism 1. centre of the forest
Poem: Patriotism 2. mother
3. disaster
This poem, like many of Sir Walter Scott's
poems, reflects a deep love of the Scottish land and 4. loving
the way that so many battles were fought in defense of 5. heavy rain, thunder and lightning
the liberty of Scotland. The title of the poem of course 6. by keeping protected surrounding from all sides
focuses directly on the theme of patriotism and the Words in use
intense love of one's land and country. 7. Students are required to make their own
8. a) a terrible disaster- para- 2
Find the facts b) children after mother's death- para- 7
1. Wealth c) a loving mother - para- 1
2. Those who do not love their country will not be d) death of mother- para- 6
honored. e) sympathy to children- para- 5
3. They will die physically and also be forgotten. Explore the text
4. focused on, concerned with 9. four; mother and three daughters
5. Loved his homeland. 10. Mother said. To encourage and sympathize the
Explore the text children.
6. The main theme of this poem is one's love 11. Yes. Varied arguments from children.
towards nation. The poet says that a man must 12. Yes, by keeping her at the center.
be patriotic toward his native land otherwise he 13. Love, loyalty and kindness.
will die twice once even he is living and once 14. Students are required to give their arguments.
physically. At the time of his dead no one will be 15. i. The Mother Birch's great canopy of
with him. He will be helpless, and this man will
branches protected her daughters from wind
have no feelings at all. The poet has truly given a
good sense of patriotism that if a man is not and rain, and from the burning sun, too,
patriotic towards his nation his all pelf and his during the hot summer.
power are useless. He is like a dog at the streets ii. The little birches trembled in fear.
with no feelings at all. At last the main core of this iii. Pouring rain and howling wind tried to fell
poem is that one should always be patriotic the Mother Birch, but she stood firm.
towards his nation and he should never forget iv. My old trunk will grow covered with moss and
where he comes from even he reaches at a great grass, but my heart will never stop beating.
height. Actually we must all be patriotic towards
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Grammar: Conditional Sentences achieve/attain in future. Then let them compare
A. Rewrite the following sentences choosing the theirs with the speaker's dream in the poem.
correct answer from in the brackets. 11. Let the students freely associate the ideas
a. will be b. had communicated in other poems with this poem's.
c. would d. would 12. No. We need to find a non-violent and peaceful
e. had studied f. fails means to make our dreams happen.
g. will h. were 13. Various answers.
i. would study j. were 14. Read the following extract and answer the
k. had l. had passed
following questions.
m. would have passed n. got
o. comes a. To shatter/end/destroy the discrimination
that arise from racial difference.
Listening: Strawberries b. Into a brightness or a thousand lights of sun.
1. interested c. destroy
2. looked up a pot in the gardening book d. i. smash – shatter, break
3. changing how often he watered them ii. shadow – darkness, night
4. Ben entered a plant-growing contest at school,
learned all about growing strawberry plants, and Story - The Story of an Hour
won first place with his strawberry jar entry. Due to Mrs Mallard's heart condition, Josephine
5. entertain readers with an informative story her sister, is cautious in informing her of husband's
6. If he won, he would give her the prize. death in a train crash, as confirmed by his friend
7. Recipes Richards. Mrs. Mallard reacts by immediately crying,
after which she withdraws to a room, and
contemplates what his death now means for her.
UNIT-12: Freedom and Social Barriers There she sits before an open window, observing the
Poem: As I Grew Older happenings outside, and is soon overcome with an
unidentifiable emotion, which she later reluctantly
Find the facts
realizes is happiness. Mrs. Mallard reasons that
1. wall of racial (colour) discrimination though Mr. Mallard had been a loving husband, one
2. saw the wall and touched the sky which she would surely mourn, she is also eager for a
3. Break through the wall new life marked by freedom and independence from
4. Images are: marriage. Josephine assumes that Mrs. Mallard,
A sun –– power distraught over the news, intends to harm herself. Mrs.
Sky –– high ambition Mallard assures her that she is fine, and walks with
Shadow –– to keep in domination her sister to meet Richards, still downstairs. It is then
Wall –– discrimination Mr. Mallard, who is very much alive and had no
5. The poet is pursuing his dream who is freedom knowledge the accident took place, opens the door.
Mrs. Mallard dies of shock which the doctors mistakenly
lover and creative man.
blames on her being overjoyed at his return.
6. Yes.
7. The speaker is a victim of racism prevalent in his Characters
culture/society. So he feels sorry for being unable Louise Mallard - A woman whose husband is
to rise up in his status or personality. Such a reportedly killed in a train accident. When Louise
practice, the speaker opines, needs to be hears the news, she is secretly happy because she is
uprooted from every human society. now free. She is filled with a new lust for life, and
8. No, it is the shadow of discrimination. although she usually loved her husband, she
cherishes her newfound independence even more.
Explore the text
She has a heart attack when her husband, alive after
9. In my society, there exists several wall created by
all, comes home.
caste, gender and economic discrimination.
10. The teacher should let the students openly discuss Brently Mallard - Louise’s husband, supposedly killed
about their dreams and expectations they hope to in a train accident. Although Louise remembers
Brently as a kind and loving man, merely being
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married to him also made him an oppressive factor in Yes, it ends the way I had expected because
her life. Brently arrives home unaware that there had unexpected sign of suffering after feeling of
been a train accident. release from any long term problem cause the
Josephine - Louise’s sister. Josephine informs Louise same result as happened in the story.
about Brently’s death.
Grammar : Causatives
Richards - Brently’s friend. Richards learns about the Complete the following sentences with correct
train accident and Brently’s death at the newspaper causative verbs.
office, and he is there when Josephine tells the news
1. wash 2. decorated 3. write
to Louise.
Find the facts 4. to clean 5. cashed 6. shortened
1. She is Ms. Mallard's sister. The news about her 7. redo 8. to go 9. filled
(Ms. Mallard) husband. 10. to lend
2. Her life was just like a bird in a cage/jail. Listening: Renting Apartments
3. It was just running as in male dominated society. 1. a search for a new apartment
Yes, as a male chauvinist he might have 2. It's located some distance from school.
mistreated her. 3. no more than $200
4. Newspaper office 4. an apartment with furniture already in it
5. No, as she was still young and beautiful. Children 5. He is going to visit an apartment building near his
are also not mentioned. place.
6. She wept at once, with sudden, wild
abandonment. She was happy from inside.
UNIT – 13 : Supernatural
Words in use
7. Find the words from the text that are opposite in Poem: Midnight Wood
meaning to the following: Find the facts
i. revealed ii. delicious 1. Deep in the woods, at midnight, what we can see
iii. glance iv. tumultuously are mist, moonlight, stars, clouds, and hunch-
v. trivial vi. tumultuously backed shadows flitting from tree to tree.
vii. clear viii. quick 2. In the woods at midnight, the only thing we can hear
ix. descended x. joy is a light wind blowing, and the fronds, ferns, and
Explore the text grass rustling in the wind and as you brush past them.
8. Their married life was not going smooth. Mrs 3. In the woods there is a river. The river hides many
Mallard's expectations after marrying Mr Mallard things we can't see, such as otters, water-rats, old
were not seem to be fulfilled. Her reaction and tin cans, bones of fish, and bones of a man.
long term response at the death of her husband 4. In the woods, in the dead of night, lone owl
justifies her unhappiness. babies call the passerby.
9. Mrs. Mallard was psychologically tormented due 5. (i) the noise that creates fear
to her failed married life. And she was eagerly (ii) objects having shape like lumps sticking out
waiting every time for complete freedom. Sudden Explore the text
news about death of her husband liberates her 6. a warning
and obviously makes her to utter the line. 7. dies
10. Open window stands for her will to view the outside 8. to create the atmosphere of horror and death
world freely and openly. Drifting the patches of cloud
9. Various answers
away also signifies the days of darkness and
10. a b c c b
suffering removing away from her life.
11. In fact she had died of sadness caused by the 11. First stanza: Deep in the woods, at midnight,
arrival of her husband. But probably male doctor what we can see are mist, moonlight, stars,
ironically states she died of joy. clouds, and hunch-backed shadows flitting from
12. Possible answer. tree to tree.
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Second stanza: In the woods at midnight, the coming from the window, it was the most
only thing we can hear is a light wind blowing, beautiful music he had ever heard in the world.
and the fronds, ferns, and grass rustling in the 5. The Giant quietly went towards the little boy and
wind and as you brush past them. taking up in his hands, picked him up and put him
Third stanza: In the woods there is a river. The into the tree.
river hides many things we can't see, such as Explore the text
otters, water-rats, old tin cans, bones of fish, and 6. One day the Giant was surprised to see the
bones of a man. children sitting on the tree branches of his
Fourth Stanza: In the woods, in the dead of night, garden. The trees hail blossoms. They waved
lone owl babies call. What they cry sounds like a their branches children’s head. The birds were
warning - whether you choose the wood or the singing, flowers were moving here and there with
river, whoever comes in these woods are lost joy. It was a beautiful sight. The Giant realised
forever, and may die. that he had been very selfish he knew why the
spring would not come to his garden. He would
Story : The Selfish Giant also knock down the wall.
This is the story of a giant who returns to his 7. The Giant saw a little boy standing in farthest
home after many years to discover that children have corner of the garden. He was wandering about
been using his garden to play in. This upsets the giant, and crying bitterly. There was still winter in that
who erects a wall to keep the children out. The cold corner because there was no boy sitting on the
winter refuses to give in to the brilliance of spring branch of that tree. When the Giant helped the
without the children.
little boy in climbing up the tree, it became full of
One day, the giant notices sunshine coming in blossoms at once.
through his window. He discovers that children have 8. One day the Giant saw that the children had
crawled through a hole in the wall, entered the garden entered his garden by making a hole in his walls.
and climbed into the trees, making them blossom. In
They were sitting on the free branches. The little
the farthest corner of the garden, the giant notices one
boy was weeping. The Giant too him gently, he
little boy who is crying because he cannot climb up
put him up into the tree. The tree broke at once
into a tree. The giant helps the boy up and discovers
that his life is much more pleasant this way. The into blossom. The birds flew up around the
children once again enjoy the garden and springtime garden. The boy kissed him. This was the first
fills the giant’s yard. The story ends with the passing meeting between the Giant and the little boy.
of the elderly giant, who lies under a tree in his garden 9. In the second meeting the Giant saw the little
covered with blossoms. boy. He had kissed the Giant in his first meeting.
Find the facts He went to close to him. Suddenly, the Giant got
1. The Giant is called selfish, because he did not angry to see the little boy’s palms and feet
allow children to play in the garden. He built a wounded. He said that he would kill the person
high walls around the garden. He also put up who had wounded you. But the little boy replied
notice board with a warning on it. that his wounds were of love. He at once fell on
his feet, the child smiled.
2. There was still winter in the Giant’s garden. The
10. The sentence 'The Giant lay dead, all covered
trees and flowers didn’t blossom. No birds sang
with white blossoms' indicates the Giant had
in it. It had snow, frost, North wind and hail, snow
been blessed with paradise after his death. The
covered up the grass. Winter suggests there was
Giant is no longer selfish and cruel. That’s why
no happiness in the garden.
he is covered with white blossoms. White colour
3. The Giant felt very sad, he was surprise to see is a symbol of saintliness (peace).
this condition of his lovely garden. Neither flowers
11. The Giant’s heart melted. He decided to break
nor birds could be seen there. down the wall of his garden. He really felt very
4. A little linnet sat singing outside the Giant’s sorry for his selfish act.
window. Hail stopped dancing and North Wind
stopped making noise. The Giant felt sweet scent
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12. The story is based on the Biblical myth. The Find the facts
marks of nails on the little child’s hands and feet 1. That the world can be destroyed with 'fire'
remind us of the incident of Jesus Christ’s (desire) as well as 'ice' (hatred). Both.
Crucifixion. Jesus Christ was hanged to death. 2. Probably greed, jealousy, revenge, etc.
He was tortured. Nails were fixed by the Jews on 3. Desire and Hatred.
his palms and feet against a wall. It is here the 4. That it too can destroy this world.
Giant met Christ in the guise of a child. Explore the text
The reason is that Jesus wanted to teach Giant 5. Fire i.e. desire to harm others or do something
the lesson of love towards the children. As the wrong or destructive.
Giant became kind to the children at the end and 6. The rhyme scheme of the following lines is given
was blessed, god would take him to his paradise. below:
13. Answers may vary. But if it had to perish twice, (A)
I think I know enough of hate (B)
Grammar: Stress
To say that for destruction ice (A)
Stress on first syllable: alone, annoy, attack, Is also great (B)
Stress on second syllable: cartoon, climate, And would suffice. (A)
complains, couple, crazy, Egypt, employ, exam, 7. Side / favour
females, final, habit, mirror, police, rarely, repair, 8. Yes, Frost is right. When one is unable to control
report, revise, useful, witness her desire, it can lead to destruction and disaster.
Listening (Karin's knee Surgery) 9. The poet has tried to bring the difference
See the tapescript. between the fire and the ice, which represent two
different kinds of people. According to the poet,
the world can perish by fire and also by ice. Thus
UNIT-14 Humanity and Indifference
it can perish twice-one by fire and then by ice.
Poem : Fire and Ice The poet feels that the ice of hatred is as
powerful as the fire of desire to bring complete
The speaker brings us into the middle of an
argument between people who think the world will come end of this world.
to a fiery end and people who think the world will freeze. Essay : Fingerprints
He could be talking about the literal end of the world, Find the facts
but he's also talking about the power that human beings 1. a, 2. d 3. c 4. b 5.c 6. c 7. c
have to harm or "destroy" one another.
The speaker's experience with romantic desire Explore the text
has taught him that passionate or "hot" emotions like 8. To adopt a child, to get some jobs, to get certain
love and lust would probably have the power to turn licenses, to identify themselves.
the earth into a big fireball. But he has also 9. See Q.No. 8 above.
experienced the other extreme, and he knows that 10. The fingerprints help FBI to crack down the
colder emotions like hate have great destructive whereabouts of criminals in short time.
power. Love gets all the publicity, but hate is the silent
killer. It may not have the same grandeur as the Grammar: Intonation
fireball ending, but it'll do the trick. Read the following sentences aloud and say whether
they have rising tone or falling tone.
"Fire and Ice" is a lyric poem of nine lines
centering on destructive emotions. The central theme 1. I live in Kathmandu.
of "Fire and Ice" is that human emotions are 2. Do you know /her?
destructive when allowed to run wild. They can 3. Is it your /pen?
destroy a person morally; they can destroy him
mentally and physically. Not frequently, unbridled 4. Where does your father work?
emotions—such as those of an Adolf Hitler—can 5. The children are playing in the street.
destroy entire countries and even threaten to destroy
civilization itself. 6. What do you like to take in breakfast?
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7. My brother is working in the field. Their frustration with the paper world/books gets
revitalized by the excitement and joy they derive
8. They are doing their homework. from their contemplation onto outside environment.
7. Yes, the speaker's thought is divided in and out
9. Ramu does not like eating sandwich. of the classroom. The world outside the
classroom attracts the speaker.
Listening: Advertisement 8. See Q.No. 3 & 6 above.
See the listening script. 9. Left for students.
Grammar: Revision
UNIT-15 Adventure A. Rewrite the following sentences choosing the
Poem: From the Classroom Window best alternative given in the brackets.
Find the facts i. an ii. on iii. won't they
1. Tick the correct sentences: (Corrected)
iv. was v. heard vi. are promised
i. √, ii. X iii. X iv. X
vii. although viii. not to spend ix. runs
2. i. the sense of sight: dark firs, sunlight, fix my
x. work xi. when xii. to open
eyes, resinous, blue sky, printed,
B. Choose the correct word from the brackets to
ii. the sense of hearing: shimmering,
complete the passage below.
iii. the sense of touch: warm, together, our
Everyone is very careless ...with... money.
thoughts have met,
One occasionally ...hears... that small pet dogs or
iv. the sense of movement: start, rise, out there,
even small children have eaten bank notes.
turns, far, stirs, etc.
Goats are supposed to be particularly fond
3. The word 'start' conveys 'movement, action,'
of them. In this respect, banks are a great
while the word 'sigh' means 'to emit a long, deep
blessing because we no longer have to hide
audible breath expressing sadness, tiredness,
money in places where it can easily be destroyed
etc.' Both the teacher and the speaker are
or stolen. However, accidents still happen-as I
attracted by the dark fir trees far away in the hills.
The intensity of their contemplation seems equal, found to my cost recently. I gave my
it is where their thoughts meet together. Their housekeeper an old pair of trousers to wash and
tiredness with the books gets revitalized by the went into the study to read. As I was reading,
excitement and joy they derive from their I suddenly remembered that there was a five
contemplation onto outside environment. pound note in the back pocket. I dropped my
4. Dash indicates added emphasis, an interruption, book and rushed into the bathroom where I might
or an abrupt change of thought. Note how dashes have left it.
subtly change the tone of the lines with dashes. C. Choose the correct alternatives to complete the
In the poem, dashes has been used to add following sentences.
parenthetical statements or comments in much 1. curvy 2. wet 3. mean
the same way as we would use brackets. 4. noisy 5. filthy 6. dry
5. Personification: The sunlight touches that far hill. 7. empty
Our two thoughts have met. Listening: Birbal the wise
Alliteration: sometimes-stirs-sunlight, start-sigh, See the listening script.
she-so, birds-bees, birds-bees, etc.
Explore the text
6. The teacher and the speaker are attracted by the
outside environment. The natural world with blue
sky and dark fir trees far away in the hills arouse
their feelings of hunger to embrace the natural
against the artificial world/experiences described in
the books. The intensity of their contemplation
seems equal, it is where their thoughts become one.
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1. Spark English-Teachers Manual Book I 2

Revised Edition, 2017

Shubharambha Publication Pvt. Ltd.

Spark English –Teachers Manual

UNIT-1 2. Take help of the poem.

UNIT - 1 Kathmandu. She was called Daisy. She had a

UNIT - 1 Underline the predicates in the following sentences.

Fun with listening Fun with Vocabulary

UNIT – 1 at archery. Finally, he proved that one is not great

Poem Time : Some One

UNIT - 8 vi. What does she like?

Fun with Vocabulary

UNIT - 1 line of the poem.

UNIT - 5 9. round plastic

UNIT - 1 lasts only as long as you are young.

UNIT - 1: Passion for Learning 6. He was furious at Abe.

Find the facts

UNIT – 1: Culture and Mythology Explore the text

Find the facts Grammar: Prepositions

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