JKBOSE Class 5 English Tulip Chapter 4 The Man Who Swallowed a Snake Solution
JKBOSE (Jammu Kashmir State Board Of School Education) Class 5 English Solution Chapter 4 The Man Who Swallowed a Snake all Exercise Question Answers. Students of JK Board Grade 5 Standard can download all Answer.
- Thinking about the Text
1.) What did the wise man see while riding?
Answer –While riding the wise man saw a man was asleep and he saw a snake sliding into the sleeping man’s mouth.
2.) What did the wise man do when he could not scare the snake away?
Answer –the wise man took his club and struck the sleeping man with several powerful blows. When he awakened from sleep, the wise man forcefully made himeat rotten apples.
3.) Why did the wise man chase the man?
Answer –The wise man chased the man And started showering him blows. When he was falling down the wise man started stuffing appleinto his mouth and make him eat them. The wise man was doing this because he wanted the man to vomit. Unknowingly the man had eaten a snake and the wise man wanted it to come out with vomit.
4.) Why did the man fall on the wise man’s feet?
Answer –The wanted to save the man from the snake so he kept showering blows, made him eat rotten apples, chased him till the night until he vomited the snake which he unknowingly eaten. But during this process without knowing the good intention of the wise man he kept cursing him. So after he got to know the reason the fell on the wise man’s feet.
5.) Do you think that the wise man proved to be intelligent enough to save the man’s life?
Answer –Yes, I think the voice when proved to be intelligent enough to save the man’s life. The reason of thinking this because bearing all the curses of the man he kept doing what was needed to make the man vomit. In that process not even once he revealed the true danger the man was in. If he said so the man could have died out of fright or he could have been so frightened that he couldn’t eat or vomit.
- Language Work
Find from the text words/phrases which mean the following:
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- To make a person or an animal frightened – Scare
- To flow quickly and in large amounts – Flow
- Completely filled – Stuffed
- A short period of time –Quick
- To empty the contents of the stomach through the mouth –Vomit
B.) Find the opposites of the following words from the text:
Foolish – Wise
Awake –Asleep
Mount –Dismount
Slowly – Quickly
Powerless – Powerful
Danger – Safe
Blessed – Cursed
Virtue –Vice
Stop – Start
Backward – Forward
Old – New
Remember –Forget
Difficult – Easy
Beautiful – Ugly
White – Black
Alive – Dead
- Grammar Work
A.) Look at the following sentence from the text:
Now complete the table given below. Consult a dictionary if necessary.
Present | Past | Past participle |
Be | Was/were | Been |
Beat | Beat | Beaten |
Bet | Bet | Bet |
Buy | Bought | Bought |
Learn | Learned | Learnt |
Spill | Spilled or spilt | Spilled/split |
Choose | Chose | Chosen |
Dig | Dug | Dug |
Find | Found | Found |
Forgive | Forgave | Forgiven |
Lay | Laid | Lain |
See | Saw | Seen |
Sink | Sank | Sunk |
Spring | Sprang | Sprung |
Sting | Stung | Stung |
Take | Took | Taken |
Pick out five action words from the story and write them in the spaces below:
Passed, shower, scare, cursed, chased
Now change the following sentences from direct into indirect speech:
- My friend said to me, “Will you help me in this matter?”
Indirect speech –My friend ask me that whether I would help him in that matter.
- He said to me, “What can I do for you?”
Indirect speech –He asked me that what he could do for me.
- I said to her, “Why is the child weeping?”
Indirect speech –I asked her that why the child was weeping.
- The wolf said to the lamb, “Why are you making the water muddy?”
Indirect speech – The wolf asked the lamb that why it was making the water muddy.
- She said to me, “How often do you take tea?”
Indirect speech – She asked me that how often I took tea.
- I said to her, “Is it snowing?”
Indirect speech – I asked her if it was snowing.
- I said to Mubashir, “Will you lend me your book?”
Indirects peech –I asked Mubashir that if he would lend me his book.
- The teacher said to the student, “Have you solved the question?”
Indirect speech – The teacher asked the student if he had solved the question.
- They said to me, “Did you watch TV last night?”
Indirect speech – They asked me if I had watched TV last night.
- I said to her, “Do you really belong to Kashmir?”
Indirect speech – I asked her that if she really belonged to Kashmir.
Now Change the following into direct speech:
- The teacher asked the newcomer what his name was.
Direct speech –The teacher said to the newcomer, “What is your name?”
- My friend asked me if I was feeling well.
Direct speech –My friend said to me, “Are you feeling well?”
- I asked her when she would go to Mumbai.
Direct speech – I said to her, “When will you go to Mumbai?”
- He asked me if he could use my computer.
Direct speech –He said to me, “Can I use your computer?”
- I enquired of him what the house had cost him.
Direct speech –I said to him, “ What the house had cost to you?”
- The teacher asked the students if they had revised the lesson.
Direct speech –The teacher said to the students, “Have you revised the lesson?”
- He asked his brother if he wanted to become a doctor.
Direct speech –He said to his brother, “Do you want to become a doctor?”
- I asked my friend if he would accompany me to the market.
Direct speech –I said to my friend, “Will you accompany me to the market?”
You Are Old, Father William
- Reading Is Fun
1.) What did the young man say to Father William?
Answer – The young man said to father William that he is quite old yet stands on his head. He also asked him if it was right for him to do so at this age.
2.) What was Father William’s reply?
Answer –Father William replied that in his youth, he feared that standing on his head might injure his brain but he was doing this again and again because now he was sure that he didn’t have one.
3.) What was the funny thing Father William did in his old age?
Answer –The funny thing Father William did in his old age was standing on his head.
4.) How did Father William keep his limbs flexible in his youth?
Answer – In youth Father William used to rub a ointment, which cost one shilling for a box, on his limbs. According to him it kept his limbs flexible.
5.) What advice did the young man give to Father William?
Answer –The young man advised Father William thathe should not stand on his head as he can injure himself. He also said that he was getting old and fatty. So he should avoid such things.
6.) The poem is full of humourous expressions like – ‘And yet you incessantly stand on your head.’ Write down the other humorous expressions/lines from the poem.
Answer –
Other humorous expressions/lines from the poem are,
- “Allow me to sell you a couple?”
- “your jaws are too weak for anything tougher than suet”
- “argued each case with my wife”
- “Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak”
- “What made you so awfully clever?”
- Language Work
1.) ‘Downstairs’ is a compound word used in the last line of the poem which is made up of ‘down’ + ‘stairs’ = ‘downstairs’. Now consult a dictionary and find at least ten more words which end or start with ‘stair’ or ‘stairs’. Before consulting the dictionary, you may do this exercise in the class with your friends.
Answer –
- Stairwell
- Upstairs
- Backstairs
- Stariless
- Stairway
- Stairfoot
- Stairsteps
- Stairhead
- Stairfoot
- Staircase
2.) In the first four lines of the poem, the last four words, i.e., ‘said’ and ‘head’ and ‘white’ and ‘right’ rhyme with each other alternately (that is they end in similar sounds). Now find the other rhyming words used in the poem.
Answer –
Son – None
Brain – Again
Fat – That
Locks – Box
Supple – Couple
Weak – Beak
Law – Jaw
Wife – Life
Suppose – Nose
Ever – Clever
Airs – Downstairs
Let’s Write
Write a short paragraph on Father William.
Answer – Father William is a funny old man. In his old age he rules some funny things whose doesn’t suit his age. His son questionedhis actions and told him not to do so because he was getting old and fatty day by day. But he didn’t listen to son. He feels he had no brain in his head so he stand on his head. He does summersault because he used a ointment in his limbs. He balances an eel on his nose and even eats a goose with its bone and beak.
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