Grade 3- Podar International School, Gandhinagar

a.Describe the poet’s doll. The poet’s doll had beautiful curly hair and red and white cheeks. The poet regarded her doll as the prettiest doll in the world. b. How did the poet lose the doll? (b) The poet lost her doll when she was playing in the heath one day. c. How do you know that the poet was sad when the doll was lost? (c) The poet was very sad when she lost her doll in the heath. She searched very hard for her but she could not find her. She cried for more than a week. d.How different did the doll look when she was found? (d) The poet found her doll in the heath. But she no longer looked the same. Her paint was all washed off. She had lost an arm because the cows had trodden on it. Her hair was no longer curly. e.Why does the poet still find the doll, ‘the prettiest doll in the world’? (e) Despite the doll looking vastly different after being found again, the poet still believes that her doll is the prettiest doll in the world. For old time’s sake, the poet finds h

Q/A 1. Where does the balloon man stand? A. The balloon man stands at the market square. 2.Why are the balloons seen even from far away? A. The  balloons are seen even from far away because they are very colourful and shiny in bright colours like red, blue, purple and green. 3. What does the poet hope will happen some day? A. The poet hope that someday the balloon man would let the balloons go. Then the poet would stand and see them sailing high in the sky.

Q/A 1.Why were the two salesmen not able to make enough money? AThe two salesmen were not able to make enough money because they were selling similar items in the same village.  2.After the two salesmen agreed to divide the village, what was their daily work routine? A.The two salesmen decided to go to the different part of the village every morning. They would go from one house to the other in search of good customers. Later they would exchange areas to earn extra money. 3. Why did the first salesman not sell anything to the the old on the first day?  The first salesman did not sell anything to the old lady on the first day because he thought he would return the next day and would exchange the golden plate for something which would cost less than the bracelet. 4.The second salesman did not deceive the grandmother. Why? A.The second salesman did not deceive the grandmother because he was honest.  5. Why did the second salesman keep only the eight coins and the weighing s

a) Why has Mother Teresa's work been recognized and praised througghout the world? A.Mother Teresa took on the very big task of helping the poor, homeless, hungry and sick people without any money or supplies. She was guided by her strong faith in God. She founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata to help the poor. Thus, she worked selflessly to help the poor. So her work was recognized and praised throughout the world b)  Describe the uniform of the nuns belonging to the order of the Missionaries of Charity A.Mother Teresa dressed very simply and wore cheap, white, cotton saris, with three blue stripes along the edge. Soon, this became the uniform of the nuns belonging to the order of the Missionaries of Charity.

Q/A a) What does 'someone ' do? A.Someone came knocking at the speaker’s door. b) How did the speaker respond to the knocking? A.The speaker opened the door, listened , opened the door and looked to left and right but did not see anyone. c) Which part of the day is referred to in the poem? A.The part of the day referred to in the poem is night time. d)What was the beetle doing? A. The beetle was tapping on the wall. e) What kind of sound did the owl make? A.The owl was screeching. f) What was the cricket doing? A.The cricket was whistling.

Q/A a. Why was the astrologer angry? A.When the astrologer heard that the groom’s family had decided the wedding date without paying him a fee to consult the position of stars and planets, he was very angry. b) How did the Bride's Father react to groom's family not turning up for the marriage? A. Feeling insulted, the bride’s father announced that he would find an honourable, hard-working man from the village itself and marry his daughter to him. c) Why do you think the bride's father was justified in marrying his daughter to another man? A.The bride’s father was justified in marrying his daughter to another man because for the groom’s family the stars and planets were more important than the bride who was waiting to get married to the groom. d) What did the wise man of the village explain to the groom? Write it in your own words. A.Good fortune is not in stars and plane, it is in our work. Stars cannot harm us but our blind faith in them and the fear abou

a) Who was Socrates? Socrates was a Greek philosopher who was known for his wisdom. b) Who approached him one day? Why? One day an acquaintance approached him to tell him something that he had just heard about one of Socrates’ friends. c)  What was Socrates' reply to him?  Socrates said that before he heard the news about his friend he wanted to make sure that it passed the triple filter test. d) What were the three filters? The three filters were – the truth test, the goodness test, the test of usefulness. e) What did you learn from this lesson? This lesson teaches us not to gossip or talk ill of others.