DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL ROHINI

SUBJECT: ENGLISH
CLASS-V
SESSION-:2021-22

POEM: TURN OFF THE TV

SYNOPSIS:
‘Turn off the TV ’ by Bruce Lansky is a humorous poem in which the poet describes his
parents’ reaction when they catch him watching television secretly. The father gets quite
mad at the poet and asks him to turn it off. The mother is upset and asks him to study
instead. The father also warns the poet that if he didn’t turn off the TV , he would hang it
from a tree. To which, the poet mockingly says that the father would never do so as he
watched it more than him.

VOCABULARY ENRICHMENT

Difficult Words:

S.N WORDS MEANING

o
1. yells shout in a loud, sharp way
2. buddy a close friend
3. sneak down come down secretly, trying to avoid being seen
4. doubt feel uncertain about
 5. munching eat (something) steadily and often audibly
6. pretzels crisp biscuits baked in the form of a knot or
stick and flavoured with salt.
7. got the nerve had the courage to do something that would
upset others.

WRITTEN WORK

HOME TASK

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS BRIEFLY :

Q1. Why does the poet feel that his father would never hang the TV from the tree ?

Q2. Why does the room look like a zoo while the poet’s father watches TV ?