How the Dog Found Himself a New Master (Chapter-2)

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How the Dog Found Himself a New Master (Chapter-2) Assignments 1

Read these lines from the poem:

Then soars like a ship

With only a sail

The movement of the tailless kite is compared to a ship with a

sail. This is called a simile. Can you suggest what or who the

following actions may be compared to?

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How the Dog Found Himself a New Master (Chapter-2) Assignments 2

Working with Poem

1. List out the action words in the poem.
dive, dip, snaps, ——————, ——————, ———————, ——————, ——————
Find out the meanings of these words.

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How the Dog Found Himself a New Master (Chapter-2) Assignments 3

Find the opposites of these words in the text above.

(i) ancestor — — — — — — — — — —

(ii) wild t — m —

(iii) ancient — — — — — —

(iv) near d — — — — — t

(v) suddenly gr — — — — — — —

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How the Dog Found Himself a New Master (Chapter-2) Assignments 4

Find the opposites of these words in the text above.

(i) ancestor — — — — — — — — — —

(ii) wild t — m —

(iii) ancient — — — — — —

(iv) near d — — — — — t

(v) suddenly gr — — — — — — —

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How the Dog Found Himself a New Master (Chapter-2) Assignments 5

Wordsearch
• There are twelve words hidden in this table.
• Six can be found horizontally and the remaining six vertically.
• All of them are describing words like ‘good’, ‘happy’, etc.
• The first letters of the words are given below:

Horizontal: H R F F S G
Vertical: A W S F L Q

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How the Dog Found Himself a New Master (Chapter-2) Assignments 6

Make nouns from the words given below by adding –ness or –ity. (For some words we need to add just –ty, or –y.)

1. honest ———

2. kind ———

3. cruel ———

4. calm ————

5. sad ———

6. active ————

7. creative ————

8. sincere ————

9. cheerful ————

10. bitter ————

11. sensitive ——————————

12. great ———————————

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How the Dog Found Himself a New Master (Chapter-2) Assignments 7

Each word in the box given below indicates a large number of… For example,‘a herd of cows’ refers to many cows.
Complete each of the following phrases with a suitable word from the box.

school, fleet, brood, bundle, bunch, pack, flock, herd

1. a ——— of ships

2. a ——— of flowers

3. a ——— of chick

4. a —— of cattle

5. a —— of sticks

6. a ——–– of sheep

7. a —––— of fish

8. a ––—— of wolves

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How the Dog Found Himself a New Master (Chapter-2) Assignments 8

A summary of the story is given below. Fill in the blanks to complete it taking appropriate phrases from the box.

a dog	stronger than anyone else
the strongest of all	a wolf	the bear
afraid of man	his own master	a lion

This is the story of —–––––—, who used to be ————— . He decided to find a master —–––––––—— . First he found ————— , but the wolf was afraid of –––————–– . The dog thought that the bear was ———— . After some time the dog met —————— , who seemed the strongest. He stayed with the lion for a long time. One day he realised that the lion was ———— . To this day, the dog remains man’s best friend.

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