NCERT Solutions for Class 4 English - Pinocchio

Reading is Fun

1. What did the carpenter buy?
Ans: The carpenter bought a strange piece of wood.

2. What did he make out of it?
Ans: The carpenter made a puppet boy out of it.

3. What did he call his puppet?
Ans: He called his puppet Pinocchio.

4. What did Pinocchio say in the end?
Ans: In the end, Pinocchio said, “I’m glad to be a real boy. I’ll never lie again.

Let’s Talk

1. Have you ever seen a puppet?
Ans: Yes, I have seen a puppet.

2. Tell the story of Pinocchio with actions.
Ans: Do it yourself.

Word Building

Word Fun

How many words can you make from PINOCCHIO? Fill them in the empty boxes.

Ans: 

Let’s Write

1. Make opposites with the words-
dis__in__

Ans:

• respect- disrespect                
• own- disown
• able- disable                     
• capable- incapable
• efficient- inefficient                  
• secure- insecure

2. Make naming words by adding ness, ity, ty at the end of the words given below. One has been done for you.
Ans:

• public- publicity                        
• stupid- stupidity
• forgive- forgiveness                   
• blind- blindness
• kind- kindness                       
• cruel- cruelty
• polite- politeness                     
• swift- swiftness
• moral- morality                        
• solid- solidity

3. Which of the following would you expect a carpenter to use at work?
bench, poker, plane, chisel, fork, spade, blotting paper, lawn-mower, telescope, pincers, jaw, scissors, hammer, map, nails, lathe, pencil, anvil.
Ans: Plane, nails, pencil, spade, bench, hammer.

4. Now make sentences using some of the above words.
Ans: 

• Spade – A gardener uses a spade in the garden.

• Pencil – The carpenter uses a pencil for markings.

• Chisel – Chip out the plaster with a steel chisel.

• Hammer – The carpenter uses his hammer to hit the nails into the wall.

• Nails – Nails are made up of metal.

• Anvil – The blacksmith shaped a horseshoe on his anvil.

5. Give another word from the story that means
Ans:

• completed: finished
• surprised:  amazed
• strange:  queer
• make up your mind: decided

6. Add ‘-er’ or ‘-r’ to the doing words below to make new words.
Ans:

• stiff- stiffer                          
• strange- stranger
• fight- fighter                        
• dance- dancer
• juggle- juggler                       
• ride- rider
• speak- speaker                     
• use- user
• write- writer                         
• joke- joker

Comprehension Passage

Once a cunning jackal jumped into a big tub of blue dye. “I am your king”, he said. All the animals, big and small, believed him and bowed before him. The clever jackal smiled. Now he was the most powerful animal in the forest. He was proud to be a king. Once, the jackal woke up in the middle of the night. The jackals in the forest were howling at the full moon in the sky. The blue jackal forgot he was a king. He, too, began to howl. “Hu…aah! Hu…aah! he cried. The animals ran out to see. “He is not a king. He is just a jackal!” they shouted. They rushed to attack him. “Stop, stop! I am sorry I tricked you. Please do not kill me!” said the blue jackal. The animals forgave him, but only after giving the jackal a good beating.

– A Panchtantra tale

Reading is Fun

1. Why did the animals think that the jackal was a king?
Ans: The animals thought that the jackal was a king because he appeared in blue colour.

2. How did the jackal become blue?
Ans: The jackal jumped into a big tub of blue dye and became blue.

3. What did the animals do when they saw the blue jackal?
Ans: When the animals saw the blue jackal, they thought that he was their king and bowed before him.

4. Why did the dogs feel scared when they saw the jackal?
Ans: The dogs felt scared when they saw the jackal because the dogs thought the jackal was the most powerful animal in the forest.

5. How did the animals know that the king was just a jackal?
Ans: Once the jackal woke up in the middle of the night hearing other jackals howling in the forest. The blue jackal forgot he was a king and began to howl loudly along with the other jackals. All the animals ran out to see and found out that the king was actually a jackal who was howling. In this way they came to know that the king was just a jackal.

Say aloud

laugh       fish       fan         few

Cough     dish      van        view

rough      wish      run        dew