– guarantee, promise A. Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following lines and answer the questions given below. . A silly young cricket accustomed to sing Through the warm, sunny months of gay summer and spring.
a) What was the routine of the cricket? b) Name the seasons mentioned here. . Began to complain when he found that, at home, His cupboard was empty, and winter was come .
a) Who does 'he' refer to? b) Why was his cupboard empty? . Not a crumb to be found On the snow-covered ground; a) What couldn’t he find on the ground?
b) Why was the ground covered with snow? About the Poet ‘ Aesop’s fables ’ is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and a story teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between and B.C.E. These fables became popular when they emerged in print. Several stories are attributed to Aesop even today.
The process of inclusion is continuous and new stories are being added. Collections of Aesop’s fables were among the earliest books to be printed in many languages. Cricket is a brown or black insect related to the grasshopper but with shorter legs. It is a small insect that produces short, loud sounds by rubbing its wings together.
10th - - . At last by starvation and famine made bold , All dripping with wet, and all trembling with cold, a) What made the cricket bold? b) Why did the cricket drip and tremble? .
Away he set off to a miserly ant, To keep if, to keep him alive, he would grant Him shelter from rain, And a mouthful of grain. a) Whom did the cricket want to meet? Why? b) What would keep him alive?
. But we ants never borrow; we ants never lend. a) Why do you think ants neither borrow nor lend? b) Who says these lines to whom?
. ‘‘ Not I! My heart was so light That I sang day and night, For all nature looked