Class IV English The Scholar’s Mother Tongue

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Class 4 English
Chapter 6 - The Scholar’s Mother Tongue

Answer the provided questions:

1. Who entered Akbar's court?
2. What was it he asserted to know?
3. How did he push everyone's limits?
4. What is your native language?

Long answer questions:

1. What language was the scholar's mother tongue?
2. How did Birbal learn the mother tongue of the pundit?
3. What information did the scholar provide the king?
4. What lesson does the narrative teach us?
5. When the truth was revealed, how did the Pandit respond?

Read the following sentences and insert the appropriate words:

1. The pundit was a master of several ______, according to me.
2. He urged everyone present at the hearing to identify his ______.
3. After everyone else failed, _____ accepted the task.
4. Without saying a word, Birbal discreetly entered the pundit's
chamber at _____.
5. He tickled the Pundit's ear with the _____.

Write "T" for truth and "F" for false.

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1. An uneducated pundit entered the court.

2. The Pundit challenged everyone to respond to his mathematical
questions.
3. Birbal agreed to the challenge.
4. Telugu was Pundit's native speech.
5. Birbal served as a court official for Shahjahan.

Match the words in column ‘A’ with words with column ‘B’.

Column A Column B

i. King a.Students

Image:king Image: students

ii. Teacher b.patients

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Image:teacher Image:patients

iii. Doctor c. Passengers

Image:doctor

Image:Passengers

iv. Bus driver d. Children

Image:Bus driver

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Image: children

v. Mother f. Courtiers

Image: mother
Image: courtiers

Answers:
Answer the provided questions:
1. To Akbar's court came a learned Pundit.

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2. He claimed to be fluent in several languages. He spoke in them with ease.

3. He asked each person to identify his mother tongue.
4. Hindi.

Long answer questions:

1. The scholar's mother tongue was Telugu, Birbal claimed the following
day when he went to court.
2. When the Pundit was sound sleeping, Birbal softly entered his room. He
whispered something into Pundit’s ear while tickling it with a feather.
The Pundit abruptly awoke from his nap and began ranting in his native
tongue. Birbal learned the mother tongue of the Pundit in this manner.
3. Akbar's court once welcomed a knowledgeable scholar (pandit). He
claimed to be fluent in numerous languages to the king and court
officials.
4. When Birbal tickled the Pundit's ear with a feather while whispering into
it, Pandit woke up in a panic and yelled in his own tongue. Birbal learned
his mother tongue in this way. By following Birbal's lead, one can
become wise and effective in life.
5. The Pundit was surprised to learn that Birbal understood that Telugu was
his mother tongue and revealed it to the court the following day. He
accepted the truth.

Read the following sentences and insert the appropriate words:

1. The pundit was a master of several languages, according to me.
2. He urged everyone present at the hearing to identify his mother tongue.
3. After everyone else failed, Birbal accepted the task.
4. Without saying a word, Birbal discreetly entered the pundit's chamber at
night.
5. He tickled the Pundit's ear with the feather.

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Write "T" for truth and "F" for false.

1. False
2. False
3. True
4. True
5. False

Match the words in column ‘A’ with words with column ‘B’.
i. King - Courtiers
ii. Teacher- Students
iii. Doctor- Patients
iv. Bus driver - Passengers
v. Mother - Children

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