Lesson 14 | A little princess all questions answers | Reader 3 English

 

Lesson 14 | A little princess all questions answers

 

COMPREHENSION

 

A. Answer the following questions.

 

1. How did Sara travel to London? What did she do on her journey?

Answer: Sara travelled to London by ship. On her journey to London she was remembering the voyage she had just made from Bombay with her father. She was staring out of the window at the passing people with a queer old-fashioned thoughtfulness in her big eyes.

2. Where did Sara live before she arrived in London?

Answer: Sara lived in Bombay before she arrived in London.

3. Why do you think the 'day was as dark as the night' in London?

Answer: I think the 'day was as dark as the night'. Because it was a dark winter's day, the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night.

4. How old was Sara when she and her father arrived in London?

Answer: Sara was only seven years old when she and her father arrived in London.

5. Why did Sara have to leave India?

Answer: Sara had to leave India because the climate of India was very bad for children.

6. What did Sara ask her father when she was five years old?

Answer: 'Couldn't you go to that place with me, papa?' she had asked this question to her father when she was five year old.

7. Describe 'the place' that Sara was going to.

Answer: 'The place' Sara was going to was a big, dull, brick house, exactly like all the others in its row, but that on the front door there shone a brass plate on which was engraved in black LETTER:

 MISS MINCHIN 

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 B. Fill in the blanks.

1. Sara liked books more than playing with anything.

2. Her father knew that he would be lonely in his bungalow without Sara because she was great companion to him.

VOCABULARY

Make a new word form the words given below by choosing a suffix. You can use a suffix only once.

1. Fix - ed

2. Invent - er

3. Dust - y

4. Light - ing

5. Hope - less

6. General - ly 

 

LANGUAGE 

Complete the following sentences below by filling in the correct adverbs of manner, time or place.

1. I saw him standing behind the tree. 

2. Where did you go yesterday? 

3. I will see you soon. 

4. His dog barks loudly. 

5. My bedroom is upstairs. 

6. The doctor spoke gently to the child. 

 

PRONUNCIATION 

Homophones : Homophones are words that sounds like another word, but have different spellings and different meanings. In other words, they are pronounced in the same way.

Fill in the blanks with words that are pronounced in the same way as the words given below.

1. Bye - By

2. Be - Bee

3. Flour - Floor

4. Sun - Son

5. Tale -  Tail.

6. Hear - Here