Madhyamik English; Bliss; Lesson 5; Our Runaway Kite

                                         Our Runaway Kite
Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian writer best known for a series of novels beginning with 'Anne of Green Gables'.

This story is about a brother and a sister living on an isolated island with their father, who through a series of incidents, get reunited with their long-lost relatives. it is a touching tale that underlines the value of relationships.

                                                  Unit 1
                                   Comprehension Exercises

1. Choose the correct alternative to complete the following sentences:
a) The keeper of the Big Half Moon Lighthouse is
ii) Father

b) The family moved over to the mainland in

iv) winter

c) When asked about relations, Father looked

iii) sorrowful

2. Fill in the chart with information from the text.

a) Name of the island	Big Half Moon
b) age of Claude	Eleven years
c) the game played by Claude and the narrator	Pirate caves

3. State whether the following sentences are True or False. Provide sentences phrases / words in support of your answer.

i) True

S.S - “They said we must be lonesome over there, with no other children near us.”

ii) False

S.S - “Claude and I never quarreled”

iii) False

S.S - “Everybody on the mainland had relations”.

                                                 Unit - 2

                                  Comprehension Exercises

4. Choose the correct alternative to complete the following sentences:

a) In summer the Big Half Moon is always

i) lovely

b) Back on the island, Claude and the narrator made plenty of

iii) kites

c) the kite was patched with a

ii) letter

5. Complete the following sentences with information from the text:

i) A boy on the mainland showed Claude how to make kites.

ii) On the kite Claude pasted gold tinsel stars all over it and had written their names on it.

iii) Claude was standing with a bit of cord of the sailed away kite in his hand, looking foolish.

6. Fill in the chart with information from the text.

Statement	Reason
a) The narrator’s elbow went through the kite	When she was bringing the kite from the house, she tripped and fell over the rocks.
b) Claude and the narrator hurried to fix the kite.	They wanted to send the kite up before the wind had finished.
c) The kite soared.	The wind was glorious

                                                Unit - 3

                                     Comprehension Exercises

7. Choose the correct alternative to complete the following sentences:

a) A letter came for father after a

iv) month

b) Father left home after quarrelling with his

i) brother

c) Dick and Mimi discovered the kite on the top of a

ii) tree

8. Fill in the chart with information from the text.

a) Person who sent the letter	Aunt Esther
b) name of Aunt Esther’s mother	Philippa
c) total number of family members in the narrator’s family at present	Five

9. Answer the following questions:

a) What did father find when he went back home years afterwards?

Ans - Father found his brother had died and he could not find his sister years afterwards when he went back.

b) Where did Aunt Esther live?

Ans - Aunt Esther lived hundreds of miles inland.

c) Why did Aunt Esther turn pale?

Ans - When Aunt Esther found the kite patched with the same letter she had written to her brother earlier she turned pale with surprise.

10. Change the following sentences into questions, as directed:

a) Shankha lives in Alipurduar. (Information question using ‘ where’)

Ans - Where does Shankha live?

b) They have gone to a picnic. (Interrogative sentence using ‘have’)

Ans - Have they gone to a picnic?

c) I went to school yesterday. (Simple question using ‘did’)

Ans - Did I go to school yesterday?

d) Tia studies in class x (Information question using ‘which’)

Ans -In  which class does Tia read? 

11. Suppose your bicycle has a sudden tyre puncture on your way to school. You have taken the cycle to a repair shop. Write an imaginary dialogue (within 100 words) between the shopkeeper and you.

I : Hello Rajuda ! Good Morning.

Raju : Good Morning. How are you? How is your brother? He came to my shop the other day to repair a puncture.

I : I am fine and my brother too. Today I have got a tyre puncture.

Raju : oh really ! How did it happen?

I : I was going to school, suddenly I found that my cycle’s tyre got punctured. Please repair the puncture quickly or I will be late for the school.

Raju : ok. Just give me 5 minutes. I will repair that in time.

I : ok. How much do I have to pay?

Raju : 10 rupees.

I: ok. Please repair. I will pay that.

12. Write a story (within 100 words) using the given hints. Give a title to the story.

Crow sitting on a tree ---- piece of meat on its beak ----- fox passing under the tree --- wants the meat --- asks the crow to sing --- crow keeps under its feet and sings ----- fooled, fox leaves.

                                       Fox Gets Fooled

One day in a forest, there was a crow sitting on a branch of a tree beside the river.  The crow had collected a piece of meat in its beak from somewhere. It got tired so it was resting for a moment on the tree. Meanwhile, a fox was passing under the tree. He saw the crow sitting on the branch. Seeing the piece of meat in the crow’s beak, a tricky idea came to his mind. The fox thought that he was very clever and could fool the crow. So, he said to the crow that it had a very beautiful voice and requested the crow to sing a song for him. But the crow was cleverer that the fox. It understood the trick of the fox at once. The crow kept the meat under its feet and began to sing. The fox got fooled and left the place with a broken heart.