The City School, PAF Chapter, Junior Section

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1 The City School, PAF Chapter, Junior Section English Worksheet Year 5 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below. There once lived a merchant who wasted all his wealth. Because of this, so poor he became that the landlord ordered him to move out of the house. One night he lay down to sleep in a ruined fort, and in a dream a man appeared to him and said, "Your fortune lies in Cairo. Go and seek it there." Next morning he set out for Cairo. After many weeks and much hardship on the way, he arrived at that city. Night had fallen, as he could not afford to stay at an inn, he laid down to sleep at the doorway of a rich man's house. By coincidence, a band of robbers entered the house at midnight. Awakened by the noise, the owner raised the alarm. Presently the police chief and his men arrived. They found the merchant on the door and told him to follow them back to the police station: There they beat him with their sticks until he was half-dead. Then they threw him into prison. Five days later the police chief ordered his men to bring the stranger before him. "What has brought you to Cairo?" asked the chief. "A man appeared to me in a dream and told me to come to Cairo to seek my fortune. But the wealth I was promised proved to be the kick in the teeth, your men so generously gave me." When he heard this, the police chief burst out laughing. "Listen, you fool!" he cried. "l too have heard a voice in my sleep, not once but on three occasions. It said that in such-and-such a village you will find a fort with a courtyard of grey marble. At the far end of the garden is an old well. In it is a great sum of money. Go there and dig it up. But would I go? Of course not. Yet, you have come all the way to Cairo because an idle dream has encouraged you to do so." Then the police chief released him and told him to return to his own country. The merchant recognised at once that the fort just described was the place where he used to sleep. He set out quickly on his homeward journey. As soon as he reached the ruined fort he went to the well and uncovered a great treasure. Thus, the words of the dream were wondrously fulfilled, and the bankrupt merchant was made rich again. Q1: Answer the following questions: a. Why did the merchant sleep in a ruined fort? b. How can you say that Cairo was far from the merchant's village? Explain. c. How did the police punish the merchant? d. Do you think the merchant's explanation made the police chief angry? Why? e. What was in the well?

2 Q.2 Read the text carefully and circle the correct option for the following. a. The merchant was poor because: i. a thief had stolen his money. ii. he had spent too much. iii. he had lost his money. iv. he was not successful in his business. b. A merchant is: i. a rich man ii. a person who does business iii. a person who wastes money iv. a person who is a dreamer c. Finally, the merchant found the fortune: i. in Cairo ii. in a well iii. in an inn iv. in his own house d. 'Wondrously' means: i. wondering ii. Wandering iii. Wantonly iv. wonderfully e. Nowadays, we call an 'inn': i. a doorway ii. a house iii. a hotel iv. a coffee house Q3. Match the following words with their meanings and write answer in Column A. Words Meanings Column A 1. ruin A. happening at the same time landlord B. time at which a particular event takes place coincidence C. destroy occasion D. A person from whom one rents a house 4. Q4. Change the following sentences into Passive Voice. i. The owner raised the alarm. ii. The police chief ordered his men. Q5. Write the antonyms of following words from the passage. i. poor _ ii. appear Q6. Change the following words by adding suffixes '-ment' or '-ish.' i. move ii. fool

3 The City School, PAF Chapter, Junior Section English Worksheet Year 5 Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given below. 'What is more, there was a tremendous waterfall halfway along the river- a steep cliff over which the water curled and rolled in a solid sheet, and then went crashing down into a boiling churning whirlpool of froth and spray. Below the waterfall (and this was the most astonishing sight of all), a whole mass of enormous glass pipes were dangling down into the river from somewhere high up in the ceiling! They really were enormous, those pipes. There must have been a dozen of then-i at least, and they were sucking up the brownish muddy water from the river and carrying it away to goodness knows where. Then you'll know all about it. And oh, what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles. A whangdoodle would eat ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping. When I went out there, I found the little Oompa-Loompas living in tree houses. They had to live in tree houses to escape from the whangdoodles and the hornswogglers and the snozzwangers. And they were living on green caterpillars, and the caterpillars tasted revolting, and the Oompa-Loompas spent every moment of their days climbing through the treetops looking for other things to mash up with the caterpillars to make them taste better- red beetles, for instance, and eucalyptus leaves, and the bark of the bong-bong tree, all of them beastly, but not quite so beastly as the caterpillars.' Q1. Read the above-mentioned passage and fill in the blanks. a. There was a waterfall along the river. b. The glass pipes were dangling down into the river from somewhere high up in the! c. It was a thick jungle infested by the most dangerous in the world. d. To escape from the deadly beasts had to live in the tree houses. Q.2 Answer the following questions after reading the passage. a. Describe the waterfall. b. How many enormous pipes dangled down the river? What work was done by those pipes?

4 c. What colour was the river? d. Name the country that Oompa-Loompas belonged to. e. What are the three deadly beasts mentioned in the passage? f. How many Oompa-Loompas did whangdoodles eat in their breakfast? g. why did Oompa-Loompas live in the tree houses? What were they eating? h. name the three thigs Oompa-Loompas mashed up with caterpillars to make them taste better. Q3. Write a character sketch on Mr. Willy Wonka.

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