Fair’s Fair Notes

Fair’s Fair was written by Narinder Dhami. She is a British children’s author.Dhami's father was is an
Indian and her mother is English. She grew up in a multi-cultural environment, with Asian Indian and
western cultures both major influences in her life, and was educated at Wolverhampton Girls' HighSchool
and Birmingham University, where she graduated in English in 1980. She has written many award
winning children's story books.Her work are mostly children's books for pre-teens on other subjects and
now increasingly for older teens too. Her characters reflect the British urban ethnic mix. Some of her
famous books are Bang, Bang You're Dead! 

SYNOPSIS
 
It is a short story about three best friends Lee, Raj and Sam who want to go to the fair.They are
neighbours who live next door to each other. Raj and Sam have money for the fair while Lee doesn’t have
any. Raj and Sam decide to help Lee to get some money by doing some chores for their parents.

First, they wash Sam’s father’s car. Instead of washing the car,they start playing with water and
make a mess. This angers Sam’s father and they don’t get any money from him.Next, they take Mrs
Green’s dog Micky for a walk at the park. Mrs Green gives Lee a pound. But, earlier Micky caused a
little girl’s ball at the park to become flat. Lee gives his one pound to the girl so that she could buy a new
ball.

Lee is fed up because he doesn’t have money for the fair. Lee, Raj and Sam discuss what other
jobs to do. They see a woman walking by carrying a big bag of heavy shopping. Her purse falls out from
the bag. She doesn’t notice. Lee picks up the purse and finds a lot of money inside. He decides to return it
to the woman. The woman is happy and gives Lee five pounds. Lee is happy now that he can go to the
fair with his best friends Raj and Sam.
Values
1. Working together
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Lee, Raj and Sam worked together to find some money.
2. Thoughtful
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Sam gave some ideas on how to find money for Lee.
3. Kindhearted
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Lee gave his one pound to the little girl so that she could buy a new ball.
4. Honest
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Lee gave back the purse to the lady.
 5. Thankful
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The woman was thankful for getting her purse back and gave Lee five pounds as a reward.

Lee
1. Friendly2. Helpful3. Cheerful4. Hardworking5.
2. Raj :Caring1. Friendly2. Cheerful3. Kindhearted4. Honest5. Hardworking6.
Caring7. Easily gets fed up
3. Sam : 1. Friendly2. Cheerful3. Resourceful4. Honest5. Hardworking6. Caring7. Help
 
 
Exercise 1

 Write the correct answer in the blanks.

1.What are the names of Lee’s best friends?

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2. What has come to town?
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3. Who is taking them to the fair?
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4. Why Lee couldn’t go to the fair?
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5.How did Lee feel when he couldn’t go to the fair?
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6. How did Lee’s friends feel when he told that he couldn’t go to the fair?
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7. What did they decide to do to help Lee go to the fair?
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8.Name three types of jobs in the story…
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9. Where do they live?
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10. What did they plan to do at the fair?
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