4th English Term 3 Unit 1 The Mistaken Plate Story Questions Answers

The Mistaken Plate (Story): Questions with Answers
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Chapter: 4th English : Term 3 Unit 1 : The Best Policy

The Mistaken Plate (Story): Questions with Answers

A. Choose the correct answer.

1. The merchants sold things made of _____________.
(i) gold
(ii) silver
(iii) brass
Answer: (iii) brass
2. The grandmother had kept the plate in memory of her ________.
(i) son
(ii) husband
(iii) daughter
Answer: (ii) husband
3. In real the plate was made of ________.
(i) gold
(ii) silver
(iii) brass
Answer: (i) gold
4. The merchant paid __________ to the boatman.
(i) ten rupees
(ii) eight rupees
(iii) three gold coins
Answer: (ii) eight rupees
5. Secondly the greedy merchant was ready to offer ___________.
(i) ten rupees
(ii) twenty rupees
(iii) horse
Answer: (i) ten rupees

B. Whose words are these? Name the character.

1. “Utensils made of brass and tin for sale!”
Answer: the greedy merchant.
2. “I am not rich enough to buy this plate. This is a gold plate.”
Answer: The second merchant.
3. “We do not have money to buy anything.”
Answer: Grandmother.

C. Answer the following questions.

1. Who lived in the old house?
A little girl and her grandmother lived in the old house.
2. Why did the greedy merchant get angry?
The greedy merchant wanted to cheat the old woman. So he got angry.
3. Name the things that good merchant offered for the plate
For the plate the good merchant gave all his money, his donkey, his cart and his wares.
4. What will you do if you have a gold plate?
I will keep it safe with me because a gold plate is very precious.

LET US READ ALOUD

Read the passage and colour one bag each time you read.

There lived a poor but an honest farmer in a village. He supported himself, his wife and seven children using his small piece of land.

One day while he was walking in his field, he found a bag of gold.

He took it home and showed it to his wife. His wife told him to keep some of the gold. He told his wife that honesty is the best policy. He tried to find the person who lost it.

At last, he found that the owner of the bag and gave it back. The rich man took the bag and thanked him.

Bag of Gold

Read the above passage carefully and answer for the following questions.

1. What did the farmer find in the field?
(a) a bag full of gold
(b) a bag full of money
Answer: (a) a bag full of gold
2. What is the main idea of the story?
(a) farmer
(b) honesty
Answer: (b) honesty

LET US WRITE

Miss Meena has asked the class to write a story as a project. Let us see what the children in her class are doing.

Ravi : Hi! How are you?
Glory: I am good. And you?
Ravi : I am fine. Is your project ready?
Glory: Yes, it is. What about yours?
Ravi : I have not done it yet. Can you give me some ideas for it?

The above structure of talking is called a dialogue. In today’s class we will learn to write dialogues.

  • Step 1: Look at the question and understand the topic.
  • Step 2: Read the dialogues and understand what they are talking.
  • Step 3: Think what you will say if you were talking.
  • Step 4: Write it.

What will Glory say? Do you think you can help Glory by giving some ideas to Ravi?

Glory: You can write a story about the fox and the grapes.
Ravi: Great idea! Thank you!
Glory: Welcome Ravi.

Can we try to complete another dialogue now?

Rathi is visiting a shop to buy a pen. Let us try and complete the dialogues between her and the shopkeeper.

Rathi : Hi Akka!
Shopkeeper : Hi! How can I help?
Rathi : I need a pen.
Shopkeeper : Sure. Which colour?
Rathi : Give a blue pen.
Shopkeeper : Do you need a ten rupee pen or a five rupee pen?
Rathi : Give me the five rupee pen.
Shopkeeper : Do you want anything else?
Rathi : No, nothing else.
Shopkeeper : Thank you. Goodbye.
Rathi : Thanks bye.

I Can Do

A. Choose the word with same meaning.

1. Foot hills –
(a) mountain
(b) small hills
(c) low hill at bass
Answer: (c) low hill at bass
2. Kingdom - ________.
(a) country
(b) field
(c) land
Answer: (a) country

B. Tick (✔) the correct one.

Tick the correct option

C. Name the animal and sound it makes.

Animal Sound Exercise

D. Match the rhyming words.

Try to match them yourself before looking at the answer!
Problem:
  • say - fall
  • go - day
  • all – grow
Answer:
say - day
go - grow
all – fall

E. Fill in the blanks with a, an and the.

Articles Exercise
The Himalayas ; The Vaigai ; An old man ; The Sun

Learning Outcome

Now I can...
Learning Outcomes Tree
  • understand the prose and supplementary
  • identify and use the sounds of creatures in sentence
  • use the articles a,an and the
  • listen and respond to the audio
  • clarify my doubts in class
  • read a passage and understand the main idea
  • complete a dialogue by writing
  • recite the poem and identify the rhyming words

Note to the teacher: Ask children to colour the balloon when they achieve the learning outcome.