ENGLISH TEXT BOOK

CLASS-III (KEY)

THE ELEPHANT ARTIST

Phonics Fun
1. Add bl – or br – to complete the words below. Then read them aloud.
blend
black
blast
blind
bloom
blade
blur
bride
bridge
break
braces
broke
brick
bring
2. Please encourage students to use any 4 from the above list and use them in their
own sentences.
Understanding
1. Write T for true and F for false statements. Correct the false statements and write
in your note book.
a. F - Ruby was an Asian elephant that lived at the Phoenix Zoo.
b. T
c. F - One day her keepers saw her briskly scratching the dirt with a stick.
d. F - Ruby died from an infection when she was 25 years old.
e. T
2. Answer the following questions.
a. Ruby lived for most of her life at the Phoenix Zoo in the United States. She was
born in Thailand.
b. Ruby was about seven months old when she came to America.
c. The zoo staff got the idea when they saw Ruby briskly scratching the dirt with a
stick.
d. Ruby died from an infection.
Vocabulary
1. Match the names of the animals and insects to their movements.
a. snakes - slither
b. cats - steal
c. bees - flit
d. bears - lumber
e. beetles - crawl
2. With the help of a dictionary, find the meaning of the given movement words.
Make sentences to describe the actions represented in the given pictures.
leap
pounce
hop
dive
Practising Grammar
1. Fill in the blanks with appropriate possessive pronouns.
a. mine
b. yours
c. ours
d. hers
e. theirs
f. his
g. hers
h. yours
2. Write the correct possessive pronoun for each of the following sentences.
a. hers
b. his
c. theirs
d. mine
e. ours
f. his
g. theirs
h. yours
i. mine
j. theirs

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