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Class 8 English
Dick Whittington and his
cat
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class 8 english chapter 1.2 dick Whittington answer
Dick whittington and his cat questions and answer
1.2 Dick Whittington and his Cat
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1. Discuss the following in groups and write the answers.
(a) Name the world famous personalities, who reached great heights from humble
circumstances.
(b) Guess the types of hardships they must have faced in their childhood and youth.
(i)
(iii)
(ii)
(iv)
(c) What strong qualities possessed by them, could have helped them achieve success
and fame, all over.
(i)
(iii)
(ii)
(iv)
(d) How do stories/biographies of such famous people help youngsters.
(i)
(iii)
(ii)
(iv)
2. Syllable: A syllable is a unit of pronunciation that has one vowel sound and may
or may not have consonant sounds before/after it.
Examples of words having: One syllable: a, I, see, at, on, man, with, thread
Two syllables: mother, seated, giraffe, parrot, active,
happy
Three syllables: happiness, wonderful, animal,
surprising, adventure, ignorance.
More than three syllables: consequently, encouragement,
responsibility, identifying, encyclopedia
Write down the names of any 5 of your classmates and write how many syllables
each name contains.
5
. (A) Arrange the following set of words in the alphabetical order in your notebook.
ship, small, successful, scoldings, stone, saving, someone, stood, streets, still,
screamed, sat, seemed, saint, share.
(B) Remove the Affixes (Prefix and Suffix) and write the Root-word.
(2) immediately
(4) mouser
(1) successful
(3) retrace
(5) unfriendly
(7) unkind
(9) luckily
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2. (A) Find from the story one word for the following.
(a) a small room just below a sloping roof..
(b) a very narrow passage between buildings
(c) the highest ranking officer in the Municipality of a city/town
(d) the highest ranking official who commands a ship.
(e) any animal that catches mice.
(f) a low constant sound made by cats
(2) put up with :
(6) fallen
(8) wooden
(10) belonging
(B) Make sentences of your own using the following expressions.
(1) overcome :
(3) bargain :
3. Rearrange the following events as they occur in the story. Put the correct number in
the boxes.
(a) Mr Fitzwarren provided shelter to Dick.
(b) A carter gave Dick a lift to London.
(c) A cat sailed to the African coast.
(d) The captain sold the cat for a very high amount of money.
(e) Dick left his village on foot, to go to London.
(f) Dick became rich, and later, the Mayor of London.
(g) Dick was homeless, helpless, cold and hungry.
(h) Dick bought a cat to get rid of the mice.
Dick became rich, and later, the Mayor of London.
(g) Dick was homeless, helpless, cold and hungry.
(h) Dick bought a cat to get rid of the mice.
(i) The rats and mice ate up all the dinner, laid for the king and queen.
4. Think and answer.
(a) What decision taken by Dick changed his fortune?
(b) What message does this story bring out for youngsters?
5. (A) Break the words below into syllables as shown in the first one.
(a) belonging: belong - ing
(f) morning.
(b) unfriendly:
(g) citizen :
(h) message:
(i) mayor :
(j) elected :
(c) anything
(d) difficulty :
(e) captain
(B) Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives.
Read the sentences.
(i) Yatin is strong.
(ii) Amit is stronger than Yatin.
(iii) Pravin is the strongest of all.
In sentence (i) the Adjective 'strong' is in its simple form. It is called
Positive Degree.
In sentence (ii) the Adjective 'stronger' refers to a higher degree, when
there is a comparison of two nouns. It is called Comparative Degree. (-er is
added to the basic Adjective)
In sentence (iii) the adjective 'strongest' refers to the highest degree of
comparison of one with more than two nouns. It is called Superlative
Degree. (-est is added to the basic Adjective)
Complete the table of degrees of comparison.
Comparative
10
Positive
(1) great
(2) famous
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7) little
(8)
(9) popular
easier=
worse
worthier
Superlative
poorest
laziest
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