INTERNATIONAL INDIAN SCHOOL , JEDDAH

III-V BLOCK
ACADEMIC SESSION -2020-21

CLASS: V
SUBJECT: ENGLISH
LESSON : 8 – My Journey in the Dark ( supplementary
reader)
Part -2
 My Journey in the Dark (must be written in notebook)
CONTENT WORDS WORD MEANINGS :
1. gnawing 1.gnawing-chewing continuously
2. locate
3. impossible
2. at random- without any fixed plan or method
4. at random
5. imagined
6. torture 3.torture- great pain and suffering
7. complain
8. realised 4.alive with- full of ; crowded with
9. hopelessly
10. permanently 5..full and square- directly and hard
11. refreshing
12. believed
6. dim- not clear
13. gradually
14. bumped
15. awakened 7. startled the breath out of me- surprised me
16. experimented extremely; shocked me
17. quench
18. astonished 8.quench – satisfy
19. confidence
20. procession 9.procession – number of people walking or moving
together , usually as part of a ceremony
Frame Sentences
1. astonished - The huge size of a salt water crocodile astonished
me .

2. torture- toothache is real torture .

3. gnawing- The beaver was gnawing a piece of wood .

4. quench- Fresh juices will quench your thirst on hot days .

5. Procession - The procession moved slowly down the street.

astonished procession gnaw

quench
Questions and Answers:
Q. 1 Why was the speaker throwing his shoes in the middle of the night?
ans ) 1. The speaker was trying to go to sleep, but the sound of a mouse gnawing
through the wood kept him awake. So he threw his shoes, one after the other, hoping to
stop the mouse.
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Q. 2 I promised myself that I would suffer all possible torture before I would disturb him a
third time.
a. Who is referred to as ‘ him’?
b. How did the speaker disturb him the first two times?

ans ) a. The speaker’s friend Harris is referred to as ‘him’.

ans ) b. The first time the speaker disturbed Harris was when he threw a shoe at the mouse
which was keeping him awake with its noise. The shoe struck the wall over Harris’s head
and fell down on him. After a while, the speaker threw the second shoe, again hoping to get
the mouse, but hitting a mirror instead. The sound woke up Harris again.
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 Q.3 I could not seem to find anything but furniture .
a. What was the speaker actually trying to find ? Why?
b . Why was the speaker surprised to find so much furniture in the room?
ans) a. The speaker was actually trying to find his sock so that he could wear it and go
out. As he could not go to sleep, he thought he would dress, go out to the streets and
ANSWER
spend the rest of KEYoutside.
the night
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ans) b. The speaker
PG NO:37was surprised to find so much furniture in the room because as
far as he could remember,
a) when he had gone to bed, there had not been a lot of
furniture in the room. But now, when he tried to find his sock in the dark, he kept
bumping into some or other piece of furniture, so that it seemed as if the room was
suddenly full of furniture.
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Q. 4 Why did the speaker take these decisions? Did these ideas work as he had hoped?
a. He decided to go out wearing only one sock.
b. He decided not to go out at all.
c. He decided to move on fours instead of walking .
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ans) a. The speaker decided to go out wearing only one sock as he could not find the
other sock. This idea did not work as he could not find the door and hence could not
go out. .
ans) b. The speaker decided not to go out after all because when he tried to find
the door in the dark, he knocked down an umbrella and a picture, which made a
. noise. He was afraid of waking up Harris again, so he decided to stop trying
lot of
to find the door. This idea also did not work as he could not go back to his bed in
the dark. .

ans) c. The speaker decided to move on all fours instead of walking as he thought he
could move faster and more confidently that way and not knock down things. However,
moving on all fours, he kept bumping against the furniture, so it did not help him very
much.
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Q. 5. How did the speaker’s journey in the dark end ?

ans) As the speaker moved on all fours, trying to go back to his bed, he knocked down a
candlestick, a lamp and a water jug with a lot of noise. This woke not only Harris but
also other people in the house, like the manager and other guests. They came into the
room with lights. The speaker found that he had reached Harris’s bed. He explained
what he had been doing. Then everyone left and started preparing for breakfast, as the
night was almost over.
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USING WORDS ( pg no: 64 )
Must be written in supplementary reader .

Write an antonym for each of these words from the text.

1. hopelessly x hopefully

2. permanently x temporarily

3. gradually x quickly

4. gently x roughly

5. carefully x carelessly