ST. THOMAS SCHOOL HALF YEARLY, SEPTEMBER (2018-19) ENGLISH WORKSHEET CLASS III Q1 Read the passage carefully and answer the questions given below: - Every Sunday Dalip and Mala get ten rupees each as pocket money. Mala puts her money into her piggy bank and loves rattling it. Dalip spends his pocket money the moment he gets it. Last week their mother gave them two shiny five -rupee coins each. Mala s coins were into her piggy bank. Dalip refused to put his coins into his empty piggy bank. Jumping with joy, he said, I ll buy a big bar of chocolate. On his way to the sweet shop the two five -rupee coins fell out of his hands, rolled along the pavement and disappeared down a small hole in the road. Kneeling, Dalip put his arm down the hole but could not find them anywhere. What s more he could not get his arm out! A number of people gathered around him. A lady rubbed his arm with butter and soap but his arm was firmly stuck. Someone sent for the fire brigade. Two firemen freed Dalip s arm using a special kind of grease. Dalip was not too upset about his experience. Why should he be? The lady who owned the sweet shop gave him a large box of chocolates! 1 a. How much pocket money did Dalip and Mala get? b. What did Mala do with her pocket money? c.where did Dalip s money fall? What did he do? d.how did the lady try to help Dalip? e.who helped Dalip to pull his arm out of the hole? How did they do so?
2. Give the past tense of: a. give b. go c. refuse d. disappear 3 Write the opposites of :- a. appear b. ordinary c. took 4. Pick out three proper nouns from the above story. Q.1 Read the comprehension carefully: One day a fox was feeling hungry. She was searching for food here and there. All of a sudden, she saw a bunch of ripe grapes on a branch of tree. Her mouth began to water after seeing the grapes. She thought that she could eat them and enjoy the delightful lunch. The fox jumped again and again to break the grapes hanging on the branch of a tree. Once she fell down on ground, due to which she got hurt, she felt ashamed and silently walked ahead. One rabbit was watching the entire game. He came before the fox and said, Aunt, are you going without eating the grapes? The fox replied, No, the grapes are sour, I shall fall sick if i eat them. The rabbit said, She was not able to get them, so she called them sour. 1. Choose the correct option- a. Fox was feeling b. Fox saw 1-sad 2- hungry 3-happy 1-ripe grapes 2-juicy mango 3-yellow banana c. The fox said 1-Grapes are tasty. 2-Grapes are bitter. 3-Grapes are sour Q2. Write any two conjunctions from the given paragraph. a b. Q5 Write the pronouns for the given nouns in the brackets: - a) Here is Rahul. I want to sit with (Rahul) b)this is my friend Mala. belongs to Haryana (Mala) Q6 Choose the correct preposition to fill in the blanks:- a) Parth jumps (over/above) the bush. b) Radha is swimming a river. (on/across)
Q7Choose the correct adjective from the bracket:- a) She did not do work. (entire/any) b) Sunday is the day of the week. (first/third) Q8 Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs:- a. Drishti to Mumbai yesterday (go) b. We cricket last evening (play) Q9 Fill in the blanks with a conjunction from the bracket:- (and, because) a) She is a good teacher good dancer. b) Nidhi went she was hungry. Q10 Fill in the blanks with a an or the :- Once some birds were flying in sky. old bird was leader of the flock. They saw lot of grain lying in the forests. Q11Circle the subject and underline the predicate in each sentence:- a. The children are playing with a ball in the park. b. She wrote a poem on a school. Q 12 Rewrite the sentences using an antonym of the underlined word:- a. The cruel woman beat the poor child. b. The dress is bright. Q13 Read and underline the words that are synonyms: - a. It was a gloomy day with a dark sky. b. Old machines give a noisy and loud hoot. Q14 Answer any three questions briefly :- 1)Did the mongoose sleep peacefully at the night?
_ 2) Where is the Centipede marching? 3) Where was the king with his advisor? 4) What does the poet wish to be? Q 15 Read these lines and answer the questions given below: - And down by my roots I d want a mouse with six little mouselings in her house a) Who is the speaker? b) Where does the speaker want the mouselings to live? Q 16 Answer the questions briefly? a) Is the title of the story The Selfish Tortoise a suitable one? _
b) How did the parrot punish tortoise? _