MAHATMA GLOBAL GATEWAY

Cambridge Assessment International Education – (CAIE) – IN186

English
Stage 3 - Sec:____ Roll No. __
Name: _________________________ Worksheet No. 2 / 2023 - 2024
Date: __________ Resource Person: Mrs. G

UNIT-1
STORY WRITING WITH ROALD DAHL
1.1 – Looking at settings

Directions: The front cover of the story is given.

Mark the title, author, illustrator,
characters and illustration.

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Directions: Following are the front covers of few
story books. Can you write their titles?

1.

2.

3.

4.

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Directions: Read the extract and answer the
following questions .

1. What is the title of the story?

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 2. Who was living in the house?

3. Did Miss Honey has all the comforts in the

3. In the given extract which is given more

importance - settings or characters?

4. How was the oak tree described in the

extract?

5. Pick and write the two words used in

the extract to describe the cottage.

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Directions: Write the names of things, persons
and places from the extract. Use the help box for
the vocabulary words.

Things Persons Places

Miss Honey, cottage, doll, house,

Matilda, bricks, roof, chimney, windows,
sheet, newspaper, upstairs, path, nettles,
grass, tree, building, world, Roald Dahl.

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Directions: Read the sentences. Underline the
adjectives in the sentences.

1. Matilda saw a narrow dirt-path.

2. Cottage was so small.

3. Cottage looked like a doll’s house.
4. The bricks were old, crumbly and pale
red.
5. It had a slate roof and one small chimney.
6. The paths were filled with nettles, thorns
and long brown grass.
7. An enormous Oak tree overshadowed the
cottage.
6. Its massive branches seemed like
embracing tiny building.
9. The house had two little windows.
10. Miss Honey lives in this tiny cottage.

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8. Add the details of illustrations in the plain
house based on the given the description
from the above adjective activity.

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Directions: Use the given vocabulary to describe
the house.

house abode dwelling ideal luxurious

beautiful floor decor bricks
as colourful as chimney glorify bushes
garden vast door window