Meadow Surprises
I. Come, let us talk about this poem. Take turns with your partner to ask or answer these questions. Explain why you think your answer is correct Quote from the poem when necessary. Write down your answers.
1.Meadows hide secrets.
Answer:True.
2.The grass in this meadow has grown tall
Answer:True.
3.What does the poet mean by the words ”
velvet grass ”?
Answer:“Velvet grass” means the grass is so silky and soft so that poet advices
to walk slowly on that delicate soft grass as cozy as velvet.
4.What do butterflies do when they flutter
down and sit on flowers? Butterflies drink nectar from the
Answer:flowers and while doing so, it seems to use its mouthparts like a
drinking straw.
5.What is a buttercup?
Answer:Buttercup is a wild plant which bears yellow flowers.
6.Why did the rabbit hop?
Answer:The rabbit was sitting very still. When it was scared, it hopped to
escaped from the danger.
7.Imagine you are sitting by a brook. Write
two or three sentences about the sounds you hear.
Answer:By sitting by the side of the brook we can hear the sound of moving
water, the muttering sound of birds, rabbits in their nests, and burrows.
8.What are meadow houses?
Answer:Meadow houses are nothing but the burrows in the ground, a nest beneath
tall grasses, and the ant’s amazing mound.
9.What is a dandelion?
Answer:Dandelion is a weed with large bright yellow flowers followed by rounded
heads of seeds with downy tufts. These tufts when dry which can be easily
carried away by the wind.
10.How does a meadow tell its secrets?
(Stanza 6)
Answer:Medows have secrets and surprises to tell. If we want to discover these
surprises we have to look and hear, to find them.
For eg:
1. If you look underneath a stone you may be surprised to see a mushroom growing underneath.
2. If you listen in silence you may be surprised to hear a bird singing sweetly.
11.These are some “meadow surprises”, can you
add one more surprise?
Answer:Yes, If we keenly observe the grass in the Meadow we can see crickets,
grasshoppers, and millipede crawling along.
II. Read carefully the two paragraphs given below. Supply the words that are not given.
Last week was an eventful week. We went to
Safari Park last week. Riding through it, we saw a t i g e
r lazing in the z o o. We t h e n
went to a d e n. There, even as we were looking at it, a p
e a c o c k spread its feathers and d
a n c i n g.
My friend Neeta came back from Brookfield in the U.S. She said she actually w
a t c h e d a grizzly bear. So, we
had some exciting moments last week.But my most exciting moment was when I was
walking across a m e a d o w. The l a
n d was flat, but suddenly a rabbit hopped up as if from no w
h e r e. It looked like m a g i
c. I went near to ex p l o r e. The r
a b b i t had dug a b u r r
o w in the meadow and made a h o u s e
for himself and his family.
III Match the following:
|
A |
B |
|
1. Grass |
a. drinking straws--2 |
|
2. butterfly |
b. velvet--1 |
|
3. Rabbit |
c. explore--5 |
|
4. Dandelion |
d. parachute--4 |
|
5. Meadows houses |
e. scares--3 |
IV Answer the following :-
1.How does the poet describe Dandelion?
Answer:The poet says dandelions are fuzzy heads. Because some flowers have
dried. They were golden colored a few days ago. The Petals look like any
parachutes now. If we blow on a flower the petals will flutter away like open
Parachutes.
2.What does the poet ask to explore?
Answer:The poet asks to explore the wonderful things of nature, the meadow
houses, the burrows which are the houses of rabbits, nests of birds under the
tall grasses, the finest amazing ant’s mound. The poet asks to explore the
beauty and silent features of meadow.
3.Why we may scare a rabbit according to the
poet?
Answer:As we walk over the Meadow the sound of our footsteps may scare the
rabbit who is sitting still and you may not see him until he hops away.
VMultiple Choice Questions
1.Meadows hide ______ .
a) grasses
b) houses
c) mounds
d) surprises
Answer:d) surprises
2.Butterfly looks like ________ .
a) buttercup
b) wild plant
c) drinking straws
d) All
Answer:c) drinking straws
3.The Rabbit is scared because _________ .
a) runs away
b) hops way
c) jumps away
d) None
Answer:a) runs away
4.Poet asks us to ______ meadow houses.
a) destroy
b) visit often
c) explore
d) None
Answer:c) explore
5.Ant’s Hill is _______ .
a) small
b) beneath the grass
c) amazing
d) inside burrow.
Answer:c) amazing
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