The Ant and the Cricket
I. Discuss with your partner the points raised in. the questions below and write down what you say:
1.What did the cricket do when the weather was good?
Answer:When the weather was good the cricket spent the time in singing
throughout the day. Instead, it should have preserved food for winter.
2.What was it unhappy about?
Answer:When winter came, the cricket’s cupboard was empty. It had nothing to
eat. It was unhappy about this.
3.Is that the reason why the poet calls, it
Answer:“silly young cricket?
4.The cricket did not know how to keep himself alive. How
did he express this feeling?
Answer:“Oh ! what will become of me?”
Readout aloud the words that say, “There was no food anywhere.”
Not a crumb to be found
Oh, the snow-covered ground.
Not a flower could he see.
Not a leaf on a tree.
5.The cricket did not have the courage to go to the ant
at first. When did he make bold to do this?
Answer:Starvation and famine made him bold to go to the ant in that rain and
cold weather.
6..Rewrite the long sentence in the second stanza as four
simple sentences. Use the active voice in your first sentence.
Answer:
1. There were no crumbs
2. The ground was snow-covered.
3. Not even a flower was seen
4. The were no leaves on the tree.
7.The cricket did not want to beg for food.
Answer:True
8.The ant was surprised at the cricket’s request
Answer:Not True
9.The cricket lied to the ant.
Answer:Not True
10.What advice was given by the ant? Could the cricket dance
in the cold winter?
Answer:The ant advised the cricket to dance away the winter. The cricket could
not dance in the winter.
11.What, do you think, the cricket did in the winter?
Answer:The cricket would have died of starvation and the biting cold in the
winter.
II . Writing.Who do the words “and some have two ” refer to? write in 6 to 8 sentences the moral the poem teaches us.
Some have four legs and some have two legs. These words refer to human beings The moral is that we should not be lazy and we should save money and food for our future. Never think of borrowing and always help ourselves.
III Read the following passage aloud to your partner. Tell him/her what words go in the blanks:
What do animals do when they are hungry? The carnivorous animals hunt for food. The herbivorous animals move from place to place in search of grass and plants. Ants store food for winter.
In stories, animals do many things to get their food. They grab, steal, beg, cheat, tell lies. In this poem, a cricket did not do any of these things. It did something unusual.
IV. Let us see what we like in this poem.
1.Was the ant
Answer:The ant is the cricket’s friend. It taught him a lesson.
2.Wordplay – The ant makes a joke on the cricket’s word
‘sang’.
Answer:“You sang, sir, you Say?”
“Go then,” says the ants “and dance the winter away.”
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