Pinocchio | class 4 | English | NCERT Solutions

Vocabulary

Word Practice

Words	Write three times
Pinocchio	……………..	……………..	……………..
queer	……………..	……………..	……………..
plane	……………..	……………..	……………..
strange	……………..	……………..	……………..
puppet	……………..	……………..	……………..
snatch	……………..	……………..	……………..
wig	……………..	……………..	……………..
stiff	……………..	……………..	……………..
rude	……………..	……………..	……………..

 

Word Meanings

Words	Meaning
Pinocchio	Name of a toy
queer	rough
plane	a tool to make a surface smooth
strange	unknown
puppet	doll or toy
snatch	take forcefully
wig	hairy cap
stiff	difficult to bend
rude	naughty or impolite

Textbook Question and Answer

Reading is Fun

1. What did the carpenter buy?

Answer:

The carpenter bought a queer piece of wood.

2. What did he make out of it?

Answer:

He made a puppet out of it.

3. What did he call his puppet?

Answer:

He called his puppet Pinocchio.

4. What did Pinocchio say in the end?

Answer:

Pinocchio said in the end that he was glad to be a real boy and he would never lie again.

Let’s Talk

1. Have you ever seen a puppet?

Answer:

Yes, I have seen a puppet.

Word building

Word Fun

How many words can you make from PINOCCHIO?

Answer:

PINOCCHIO
PIN	HOP	ON
CHIN	IN	PINCH
INCH	HIP	NO
CHIP	CHOP	PICNIC
NIP	COIN	ICONIC

Let’s Write

1. Make opposites with the words-

Dis _            in _

Answer

respect	disrespect	own	disown
able	disable	capable	incapable
efficient	inefficient	secure	insecure

2. Make naming words by adding ness, ity, ty at the end of the words given below. One has been done for you.

Answer

public	publicity	stupid	stupidity
forgive	forgiveness	blind	blindness
kind	kindness	cruel	cruelty
polite	politeness	swift	swiftness
moral	morality	solid	solidity

3. Which of the following would you expect a carpenter to use at work?

bench, poker, plane, chisel, fork, spade, blotting paper, lawn-mower, telescope, pincers, jaw, scissors, hammer, map, nails, lathe, pencil, anvil.

Answer

bench	plane
chisel	jaw
hammer	nails
pencil	pincers

 

4. Now make sentences using some of the above words.

Answer

bench	A bench is used to sit and rest.
chisel	Chisel is made of iron.
hammer	Hammer is used to fix nails.
pencil	Pencil is used to draw pictures.
plane	A plane makes a rough surface smooth.
jaw	A jaw is a necessary tool for all mechanics.
nails	Nails are used to fix objects.
pincers	Pincers are used to hold or remove nails.

5. Give another word from the story that means

Answer

completed	finished
surprised	amazed
strange	queer
make up your mind	decide

6. Add ‘-er’ or ‘-r’ to the doing words below to make new words.

Answer

stiff	stiffer	strange	stranger
fight	fighter	dance	dancer
juggle	juggler	ride	rider
speak	speaker	use	user
write	writer	joke	joker

Comprehension passage

Once a cunning jackal jumped into a big tub of blue dye. “I am your king,” he said. All the animals, big and small believed him and bowed before him. The clever jackal smiled. Now he was the most powerful animal in the forest. He was proud to be a king.

Once, the jackal woke up in the middle of the night. The jackals in the forest were howling at the full moon in the sky. The blue jackal forgot he was a king. He, too, began to howl.

“Hu…aah! Hu…aah!” he cried.

The animals ran out to see. “He is not a king. He is just a jackal!” they shouted. They rushed to attack him.

“Stop, stop! I am sorry I tricked you. Please do not kill me!” said the blue jackal.

The animals forgave him, but only after giving the jackal a good beating.

-        A Panchatantra tale

Reading is fun

1. Why did the animals think that the jackal was a king?

Answer

The jackal was in blue colour so the animals thought that the jackal was a king.

2. How did the jackal become blue?

Answer

The jackal jumped into a big tub of blue dye and became blue.

3. What did the animals do when they saw the blue jackal?

Answer

The animals believed him as their king and bowed before him when they saw the blue jackal.

4. Why did the dogs feel scared when they saw the jackal

Answer

The dogs had never seen a blue jackal so they felt scared.

5. How did the animals know that the king was just a jackal?

Answer

The other animals came to know that the king was just a jackal by listening to his howling like other jackals.