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The Jungle Book: Listening
The Jungle Book: Listening
Listening
Listen to your teacher read a description of the character from the story. Identify the character based on your understanding
and write the name in the space provided. Number the characters in sequence as they appear in the story.
Answer:
Speaking
Imagine you are Mowgli. Which animal would you befriend? What kind of adventure would you like in the forest? Make use
of the hints below to talk about it.
Hi, I’m Mowgli, The only human being living in the jungle.
I have been raised by a pack of wolves, in an Indian forest.
I go and hunt with my friends for food.
My close buddy is a bear.
His name is Baloo.
He / She guides and accompanies me wherever I go. He comes along with me while I play, hunt and search for food.
We enjoy loitering in the jungle by going hand in hand all the way.
The jungle where we live is cool and pleasant.
On the whole, I am lucky to stay here with my friends and well-wishers.
Reading
Read scene I of the play carefully and answer the questions below.
Question 1.
list the characters that appear in the scene. What human characteristics do they exhibit?
Answer:
The characters that appear in the scene are Tabaqui, (the Jackal), Mother Wolf and Father Wolf. The human characteristics
exhibited by these characters are :
Question 2.
The scene is set inside a thick forest and it is nearing dusk. Relate this time frame with the behaviour of the animals in the
forest.
Answer:
Father Wolf takes rest in the day time and gets ready for his hunt. Mother Wolf protects her cubs by dropping them into the
mouth of the cave. Tabaqui also hunts for food at that hour of the day. But he is spiteful and cunning.
Question 3.
Dkllhbaqui receive a warm welcome from the pack of wolves? How do you know?
Answer:
No. Tabaqui did not receive a warm welcome from the pack of wolves, as they were uncomfortable.
Question 4.
(a) a guard
(b) a friend
(c) a messenger
(d) an enemy
Answer:
(c) a messenger
Question 5.
Whom does Mother Wolf talk about? How does she describe him?
Answer:
Mother Wolf talked about Shere Khan. She said that Shere Khan’s mother called him Lungri (the Lame One), as he had been
lame in one foot from his birth. That is why he had only killed cattle. As the villagers of Waingunga were angry with him, he
had come to Seeonee Hills to make their villagers angry.
Question 6.
Answer:
Shere Khan is about to go on a hunt. The wolves did not panic on his arrival, and they were brave enough to confront him and
set him on fire.
Question 7.
Answer:
a. (iii)
b. (iv)
c. (i)
d. (ii)
Writing
Imagine a conversation among your friends about the four characters’ in the play Tabaqui, Shere Khan, Mother Wolf and
Father Wolf. Use the hints to write it.
Answer:
In scene one, Mother Wolf and Father Wolf enter. Father Wolf gets ready to hunt and Mother Wolf takes protective measures
by dropping the cubs into the mouth of the cave. Tabaqui, the Jackal enters from the downhill towards Father Wolf and asks
for a meal. It flatters the cubs of the Wolf and warns everyone about Shere Khan, who is going to hunt among those hills for
the next moon.
Father Wolf gets angry on hearing about Shere Khan and his hunt among the hills. But Mother Wolf speaks quietly and tells
all what she knows about Shere Khan. Tabaqui, who comes there as a messenger to inform about the hunt of Shere Khan, goes
away quietly.
Among the bushes, they see a man-cub-holding on a low branch. Mother Wolf gets excited to have him in their midst. She
thinks of rearing him along with her cubs, though Father Wolf was a bit hesitant. Shere Khan and Tabaqui come in search of
the baby. They see that the man-cub had gone into the mouth of the cave and asks Father Wolf to give the baby to them. But
Father Wolf sternly says that the man-cub belonged to them. When Shere Khan roars angrily at this, Mother Wolf springs
forward, facing Shere Khan bravely. She says that the man-cub is hers. He shall live to run and hunt with the pack. In the end,
he will hunt Shere Khan. So Shere Khan backs out growling that the man-cub will come to him one day.
Grammar
Let’s Recall
I. Read the situation given. Write the response of the subject in a sentence. Tick the correct box to identify the kind of
sentences.
Answer:
1. Madhu invites her close friends for her birthday celebration which falls on Sunday.
2. Her parents decorate the house with colourful balloons and attractive cartoon.
3. Her parents order a yummy, round and big cake.
4. Madhu wears a long, pink frock on her birthday.
5. She and her parents welcome their guests with a broad smile.
6. Madhu’s friends present her with a wonder full doll.
7. Madhu and her parents felt happ and enjoyed the day.
III. Frame as many sentences as possible from the substitution table given below.
Answer:
IV. Head the sentence, insert appropriate articles In the blanks and circle the noun phrase.
Question 1.
Answer:
Question 2.
Answer:
Question 3.
Answer:
Answer:
Question 5.
Answer:
Question 6.
Answer:
Sinduja : Hi! Venkat. Hope you received the message about our school’s sports day.
Venkat : Hmmm ..! Yes… I was the first one to enrol my name in the events.
Sinduja : So, tell me for how many events have you enrolled?
Venkat : As I am tall, I have given my name for long jump and running events.
Sinduja : Thank you so much Venkat. Wish you the same. Let’s rock.
Project
Read the story given below and follow the instructions to convert it into a play.
Answer:
Characters :
Scene – I
Narrator : A little girl named Goldilocks went for a walk in the forest. On her way, she came upon a house. She knocked at the
door, but no one answered. So she walked right in. She found three bowls of porridge in the kitchen.
Goldilocks : I’m very hungry. Let me taste this porridge from the first bowl.
Narrator : She ate it all up happily. She was feeling a little tired. So she walked into the living room where she saw three
chairs. She sat in the first chair to rest her feet.
Narrator : But just as she settled down into the chair to rest, it broke into pieces.
Scene – II
Narrator : Goldilocks was very tired by this time. So she went upstairs to the bedroom.She tried all the beds and as the two
beds were hard, she choose the smaller bed, which was soft. She laid down on it and at last, she fell asleep. As she was
sleeping, the three bears, who lived in that house, came home.
Baby bear : Someone’s been Sitting in my chair and they’ve broken it all to pieces.
Narrator : They decided to look around some more and when they got upstairs to the
Narrator : Just then Goldilocks woke up and saw the three bears. She screamed.
She jumped up and ran out of the room. She ran down the stairs, opened the door and ran away into the forest. And she never
returned to the home of the three bears.
Additional Questions
I. Select The Suitable Synonyms.
Question 1.
tumbling
(a) rolling
(b) screaming
Answer:
Question 2.
spiteful
(a) hateful
(b) smiling
(c) sorrowful
Answer:
(a) hatefull
Question 3.
mean
(a) kind
(b) clever
(c) unkind
Answer:
(c) unkinds
Question 4.
Scour
(a) Clean
(b) destroy
(c) burn
Answer:
(c) clean
Question 5.
bucks
(a) leopards
(b) deer
(c) Wolves
Answer:
(b) deer
Question 6.
bewilders
(a) frightens
(b) wakes
(c) confuses
Answer:
(c) confuses
Question 7.
mangy
(a) shabby
(b) weak
(c) tired
Answer:
(a) shabby
Question 8.
howl
(a) shout
(c) sound
Answer:
Question 9.
bound
(a) leap
(b) walk
(c) stride
Answer:
(a) leap
Question 10.
fostering
(a) neglecting
(c) destroying
Answer:
Question 1.
rest
(a) leisure
(b) sleep
(c) work
Answer:
(c) work
Question 2.
noble
(a) ignoble
(b) gentle
(c) dignified
Answer:
(a) ignoble
Question 3.
dry
(a) wet
(b) warm
(c) arid
Answer:
(a) wet
Question 4.
near
(a) far
(b) close to
(c) next to
Answer:
(a) far
Question 5.
nothing
(a) anything
(b) something
Answer:
(b) something
Question 6.
grateful
(a) thankful
(b) ungrateful
(c) thoughtful
Answer:
(b) ungreateful
Question 7.
fool
(a) wise
(b) idiot
Answer:
(a) wise
Question 8.
never
(a) always
Answer:
(a) always
Question 9.
weakest
(a) poorest
(b) cheapest
(c) strongest
Answer:
(c) strongest
Question 10.
louder
(a) stronger
(b) softer
(c) heavier
Answer:
(b) softer
Question 11.
laughed
(a) giggled
(b) smiled
(c) cried
Answer:
(d) cried
Question 12.
bold
(a) brave
(b) bright
(c) timid
Answer:
(c) timid
Question 13.
warm
(a) sunny
(b) cold
(c) pleasant
Answer:
(b) cold
Question 14.
narrow
(a) cramped
(b) broad
(c) tight
Answer:
(b) broad
Question 15.
gravely
(a) seriously
(b) badly
(c) cheerfully
Answer:
(c) cheerfully
Question 1.
(b) Seeonee
(c) Jungle
(d) Forest
Answer:
(b) Seeonee
Question 2.
Shere Khan was the tiger, who lived near the Waingunga river ________ miles away.
(a) ten
(b) thirty
(c) twenty
(d) five
Answer:
(c) twenty
Question 3.
(a) three
(b) five
(c) four
(d) two
Answer:
(d) two
Question 4.
(a) horses
(b) cattle
(c) leopards
(d) elephants
Answer:
(b) cattle
Question 5.
Are there not enough ________ and Man and on our ground too!
(a) beetles
(b) spiders
(c) butterflies
(d) bucks
Answer:
(a) beetles
Question 6.
(c) Tabaqui
Answer:
Question 7.
The fool had no more sense than to jump at a campfire and burned his ________
(a) legs
(b) hands
(c) feet
(d) face
Answer:
(c) feet
Question 8.
(b) food
(c) calls
(d) compliments
Answer:
(a) orders
Question 9.
(a) kennel
(b) yard
(c) place
(d) habitat
Answer:
(b) yard
Question 10.
(a) parents
(b) head
(c) pack
(d) wolves
Answer:
(c) pack
Question 1.
Answer:
Question 2.
Answer:
Question 3.
Answer:
Question 4.
Answer:
Tabaqui was a Jackal, the only friend of Shere Khan and also messenger to him.
Question 5.
Answer:
It lived near the Waingunga River, twenty miles away from Seeonee Hills.
Question 6.
Answer:
Question 7.
Answer:
She called him so because he had been lame in one foot from his birth.
Question 8.
Answer:
The Valley was below the Seeonee Hills, and it ran down a little river.
Question 9.
Answer:
Question 10.
Answer:
The baby was pushing his way between the cubs to get close to the warm hide.
Question 1.
Answer:
As soon as Father Wolf wakes up, he releases and spreads out his paws one after the other to make himself ready for the hunt.
Question 2.
Answer:
Mother Wolf dropped her four tumbling and squealing cubs into the mouth of the cave, where they all live.
Question 3.
What does the Jackal say about the young ones of the wolf?
Answer:
It praised them saying that they are beautiful, noble and young, with large eyes.
Question 4.
Answer:
Shere Khan had shifted his hunting grounds to Seeonee Hills for the next moon.
Question 5.
Answer:
The law of the jungle, forbids Shere Khan to change his quarters without due warning. ‘
Question 6.
Answer:
The whine of Shere Khan had changed to a sort of humming purr that seemed to come from every quarter of the compass. ‘
Question 7.
How did the noise of Shere Khan affect the wood cutters and gypsies?
Answer:
The noise of Shere Khan bewildered the wood cutters and gypsies, sleeping in the open and makes them run sometimes into
the very mouth of the tiger.
Question 8.
Answer:
The man-cub was a naked baby, who could just walk and looked soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf’s
cave at night.
Question 9.
Answer:
Mother Wolf shook herself clear of the cubs and sprang forward. Her eyes were , like the two green moons in the darkness.
She faced the blazing eyes of Shere Khan bravely.
Question 10.
What was the name given to the man cub? What does it mean?
Answer:
Mother Wolf named the man-cub as ‘Mowgli’. It means the little frog.
Question 1.
Answer:
The Jungle Book was written by Rudyard Kipling. The book has attracted audiences of all ages for its plot structure and
characters. Children especially enjoy this story, as it deals with the early childhood of a boy in the midest of wild animals in
the forest. It has many episodes such as the acceptance of Mowgli by the pack of wolves, the friendship between Bagheera,
the black panther and Mowgli. Bagheera serves as a friend, protector and mentor to the man-cub. It has also episodes of
Mowgli’s adventurous trips in the jungle with Baloo, the bear and the fight between Mowgli and the monkey’s gang. Mowgli
was forced to leave the jungle. But after sometime, he decides to return to the jungle and lives there.
Question 2.
Answer:
The law of the Jungle, which never orders anything without a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man, except when he is killing
to show his children how to kill and then he must hunt outside the hunting grounds of his pack or tribe. The real reason for
this is that Man-killing means, sooner or later, the arrival of men on elephants with guns and rockets and torches. Then
everybody in the jungle suffers. The reasons the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most
defenceless of all living things.
Grammar – Additional
Kinds of Sentences
The sentence is the basic unit of grammar. It must begin with a capital letter and usually end with a full stop. It must make
complete sense. It must have a subject and a finite verb. It is of four types.
1. Declarative Sentences
2. Interrogative Sentences
These are questions. They begin with words like who, v^tich, what, why, how, where, when etc. We put a question mark at the
end.
3. Exclamatory Sentences
4. Imperative Sentences
Noun Phrase
Noun phrase is a noun or any words in the sentence that modify it. Words that can modify nouns include articles, adjectives,
participles and possessive pronouns. A noun phrase can be a single word (just the noun) or more than one word.
I. Read the situation given, write the response of the subject in a sentence.
II. Arrange the jumbled words into a sentence and pick out adjectives.
III. Read the sentence, insert appropriate articles in the blanks and circle the noun phrases.
Question 1.
Answer:
Question 2.
Answer:
Question 3.
Answer:
Question 4.
Answer:
Question 5.
Answer:
Question 6.
Answer:
Question 7.
Answer:
Question 8.
Answer:
Question 9.
Question 10.
Answer:
Ravi : Oh no! I would like to buy a new one. But I’ll find out, if anyone wants the old one.
Textual Activities
Warm Up
Look at the pictures given below and talk about their habitat (living place, food, family, etc, )
Answer:
Every living organism has- a habitat. Habitats vary greatly from organism to organism, because all living things have different
needs for survival. A human being needs a beautiful house to live in. He needs good healthy food and a loving family around
him. Most people prefer to live in cities.
Animals like Tigers, Lions and Monkeys live in the forests or jungles. They are happy to be in their habitat instead of being
caught and kept in zoos. Lions live generally in western India and African Savannah, where the forest is not so dense. These
grasslands invite a lot of herbivores to come there and be hunted by the lions. Gorillas thrive in the tropical and sub-tropical
forests that run along the equatorial belt. Abundant and green vegetation is the main characteristic of the gorilla habitat.
Gorillas form a family of 15-20 consisting of adults and kids and live peacefully.
Summary
Section I
The Jungle book was written by Rudyard Kipling. Children enjoy this story, as it deals with the early childhood of a boy in the
midst of wild animals in the forest. The characters in this story are Father Wolf, Mother Wolf, Tabaqui (the Jackal), Shere
Khan (the Tiger), Man’s Cub (Mowgli), Wolf’s Cubs and the Narrator.
The scene opens in the Seeonee Hills. It was seven o’clock in the evening. There were no stars in the sky. It was utter
darkness in the forest. Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest and got ready for the hunt. Mother Wolf dropped her four
tumbling cubs into the mouth of the cave, where they all live. Father Wolf moved down to spring downhill, where he meets
Tabaqui, the jackal. He informed the Father Wolf and the Mother Wolf that Shere Khan had shifted his hunting grounds.
So he had told Tabaqui that he will hunt among those hills for the next moon. Shere Khan was the Tiger, who lived near the
Waingunga river, twenty miles away from the Seeonee Hills. Father Wolf got angry and told that he had no right to come there
and change his quarters with due warning. Mother Wolf told them that since Shere Khan had been lame in one foot right from
his birth, his mother called him Lungri (the Lamd One). The villagers of the Waingunga were angry with him and he had
come there to make their villagers angry. She said that they must run away by setting fire on Shere Khan. Hearing this, the
Jackal moved away saying that they can hear Shere Khan below in the forest.
Section II
Father Wolf listened to the dry, angry whine of a tiger, who has caught nothing. Father Wolf called Shere Khan a fool to begin
a night’s work with that noise. Mother Wolf told him that Shere Khan intends to hunt a man and not any other animal. The
whine of the Shere Khan had changed to a sort of humming purr that seemed to come from every quarter of the compass. It
was the noise that frightened everyone in the jungle.
Section III
The law of the jungle never orders anything without a reason, forbids every beast to eat man, except when he is killing to
show his children how to kill and then he must hunt outside the hunting grounds of his pack or tribe. The purr grew louder
and there was an untigerish howl from Shere Khan. He howled because he had burnt his feet, as he accidently jumped into a
woodcutter’s campfire. The bushes rustled a little in the forest and so Father Wolf was ready for his leap. When he saw a
Man’s cub, he stopped to leap at him. This naked baby looked up into Father’s Wolf’s face and laughed.
The baby pushed his way between the cubs to get close to the warm hide. Mother Wolf was happy to have the man’s cub with
them. Shere Khan came to the entrance and asked for the baby. The mouth of the cave was too narrow for a tiger to go into it.
The Mother Wolf came forward facing Shere Khan bravely. She said that the Man’s cub belonged to her. He would live with
them and in the end would hunt Shere Khan. Father Wolf looked amazed at the courage of Mother Wolf. Shere Khan backed
out of the cave growling and insisting that the man club belonged to him.
Section IV
Mother Wolf threw herself down panting among the cubs, and when Father Wolf asks her whether she wanted to keep the
Man-cub, she said that she would keep him with her cubs. Shere Khan would have killed him, if she had let him out. She
named him as ‘Mowgli’ the little Frog and told him that he had to hunt Shere Khan, as he had hunted him.