Sri Kumaran Children’s Home-CBSE

2020-2021
(Grade IV)
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The Muddlehead Worksheet

I. Complete the summary of the poem ‘The Muddlehead’, by filling in the
blanks.
This humorous poem, ‘The Muddlehead,’ is about an extremely funny man who
gets very_______________. He often mixes things up funnily. He is so
______________that he gets mixed up while wearing clothes. He wears __________ on
his toes, and ties his tie around his _____________ in place of the ________. He
wears his coat _____________; and in place of his hat he often wears a ____________
on his head.
While eating, if he feels itchy, he scratches the ___________and applies _________ on
his head! And after a day’s work when he reaches home he places his
______________ on the bed and he himself stands in the ________. He often gets
mixed up with words too. For example instead of saying the words properly he
misplaces their letters in the following manner:
"Parding your beggon, Kister Monductor,
I stop you to beg your cramway tar
He asks for a _________________ at the café, and _________ of tea and ______ of
bread at the railway ticket office!
Once he buys a ticket and sits in a coach that is under ________ and after a few
hours, just wonders why he is still in the place where he had __________. The man
from Petushkee feels that he has not been treated well and is upset about it. His
forgetfulness amuses the people around and sometimes even scares them.

II Mark the rhyme scheme for the poem given below.

Itsy bitsy, the monkey,
Climbed up the coconut tree.
Down came a coconut
And hit him on his knee!
Out came a lion,
Shaking his mighty mane,
And Itsy bitsy, the monkey
Climbed up the tree again!

The Rhyme scheme of this poem is _____________

III Match the words in column A with their respective meanings in column B.
A B
1. unmistakably cruel or wild

2. savage form an opinion or decide

3. hostage noticeably or visibly
4. conspicuously clearly or undoubtedly
5. judge prisoner or captive

IV Identify the figure of speech in the sentences given below.

1. Silence your cell phones so that it does not beep during the movie.
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2. Those horses have heavy hooves.
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3. That’s the sound of someone sipping the soup while having supper.
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4. The frogs croaked loudly in the swamp.
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5. The tornado tossed the train like a trash can.
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6. My cat Beanie will keep purring until I pet it.
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7. Everybody in the circus trembled when they heard the mighty lion roar.
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8. My mother makes mouthwatering Mexican dishes.
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