Textbook Solutions: Limericks | Class 3 English Alive PDF Download

1.

• limericks
• horribly
• brute
• buzz
• beard
• larks
• wren
• amazing
• steed
• purchased
• escaped 

2. 

• horribly- unpleasantly
• brute- something unpleasant or awkward
• larks- small, brown birds
• wren-a small brown songbird
• presence of mind –intelligence, cleverness
• steed-a horse that someone rides 

3.

B. Read the lines from the poem and answer the following questions.
1. 
(a).
Ans: They refer to the people around the old man in a tree or the people the old man knew.

(b).
Ans: The bee buzzes.

(c).
Ans: ‘He’ is the old man in the tree.

2. It is just as I feared !
(a).
Ans: The old man with a beard said this line.

(b).
Ans: He was afraid of the birds building their nests in his beard.

(c).
Ans: Yes, two owls, a hen, four larks and a wren built their nests in his beard.

4.

1. cake - bake, awake, brake
2. hen - pen , men, ten
3. speed- weed, indeed, read
4. thin - chin, win, tin 
5. tree- wee, pea, tea

B. 
Ans:

1. amazing: wonderful
2. built: constructed
3. horribly: terribly
4. mistake: error
5. replied: answered

C. Write the rhyming words for limericks 2 and 3 from chapter . Also add the rhyming scheme for each limerick. 
Ans: 

D. 
Ans:

1. I know a young fellow from a place called Vin;
2. His legs are long and he is astonishingly thin.
3. When he sat in the shade,
4. To drink a cold lemonade,
5. He slipped through the straw and fell in.