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NCERT Solutions for class 4 English chapter 14 – The Scholars Mother Tongue
Back Exercise
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Question 1:
Who came to Akbar’s court?
Answer
A learned Pundit came to Akbar’s court.
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Question 2:
What did he claim to know?
Answer
He claimed to speak many languages fluently.
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Question 3:
How did he challenge everybody?
Answer
He challenged everybody to name his mother tongue.
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Question 1:
What is your mother tongue?
Answer
Disclaimer: The answer to this question may vary according to the mother tongue of the student.
My mother tongue is Hindi.
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Question 2:
Tell the class a joke in your mother tongue.
Answer
Disclaimer: The answer to this question may vary according to the mother tongue of the student.
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Question 3:
Do you know any other language? Do you know a joke in English? Tell your friends.
Answer
Disclaimer: This is a sample answer. Students are advised to write the answer based on their own experience and observation.
Yes, I do know Spanish. Yes I do know a joke.
- What is a teacher’s favourite nation?
Expla-nation
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Question 1:
Listen to your favourite advertisement on the radio or T.V. Repeat it with stress on the words. Act, draw and write the advertisement.
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Answer
Disclaimer: Students are advised to act, draw and write the answer based on their own experiences and observations.
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Question 1:
| ask | bask | mask | task |
| scholar | school | scan | skim |
We say − I learnt my lesson. (action word) But A learn-ed pundit came to the court. (describing word)
We pronounce it as learn-id to rhyme with
1. Tick (✔) the words which end with the sound id. Say each word aloud
| accepted | answered | irritated | failed | ||||
| completed | challenged | cried | surprised | ||||
| find | licked | celebrated | fried |
Answer
| ask | bask | mask | task |
| scholar | school | scan | skim |
Disclaimer: Students are advised to pracrtice this on their own.
| accepted |  | answered | irritated |  | failed | ||
| completed |  | challenged | cried | surprised | |||
| find | licked | celebrated |  | fried |
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Question 1:
Make a class dictionary with words from the story. Try to find suitable words for them in your mother tongue. Say these words aloud.
Then make sentences with those words in your class dictionary.
| Words in English | Sentences |
| Converse Tickle | _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ |
Answer
Disclaimer: The answer may vary according to the mother tongue of the student.
| 1) Converse | She conversed in German with the teacher. |
| 2) Tickle | She tickles his father’s back. |
| 3) Fluently | My grandfather can speak Sanskrit fluently. |
| 4) Difficulty | The level of difficuly is going to be high this time. |
| 5) Accepted | I accepted the truth. |
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Question 2:
Write all the words that show you are happy.
For example : Hurray, Ha! Ha! Add more
| ______________ | ______________ | ______________ |
Answer
| _Ha ha ha | Yipeeee | Yayyyyy |
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Question 3:
Tick (✔) the right answer.
(i) ‘I visited the court of Akbar’ means
| (a) | You always live there. | |
| (b) | You came there for a short time. | |
| (c) | You were born there. |
(ii) To imitate someone means to
| (a) | copy someone | |
| (b) | tease someone | |
| (c) | make someone angry |
Answer
(i) ‘I visited the court of Akbar’ means
| (a) | You always live there. | |
| (b) | You came there for a short time. |  |
| (c) | You were born there. |
(ii) To imitate someone means to
| (a) | copy someone |
| |
| (b) | tease someone | ||
| (c) | make someone angry |
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Question 4:
Look and fill in the columns. One has been done for you.
| quiet | quietly | sad | _______________ |
| fluent | _______________ | fierce | _______________ |
| angry | _______________ | gentle | _______________ |
Answer
| quiet | quietly | sad | sadly |
| fluent | fluently | fierce | fiercely |
| angry | angrily | gentle | gently |
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Question 5:
Match the words in Column ‘A’ with words in Column ‘B’.
| A | B |
| king | children |
| teacher | patients |
| doctor | courtiers |
| bus driver | clients |
| lawyer | passengers |
| mother | students |
Answer
| A | B |
| king | courtiers |
| teacher | students |
| doctor | patients |
| bus driver | passengers |
| lawyer | clients |
| mother | children |
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Question 6:
Play this game with a friend. Pick up what you want from any basket. Add a or an before it. Now say the sentences below, using these things –
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| Neena | : | Can I have _____________, please? |
| Rahul | : | Yes, here you are. |
| Jeevika | : | Can I have _____________, too. |
| Nikhil | : | No, sorry. You can’t have that. |
Make more sentences using words from the baskets. ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________
Answer
- 1) a rug 2) a pillow 3) a bed sheet 4) an alarm clock 5) a wall clock 6) a wrist watch 7) an apple 8) an orange 9) a banana 10) an ice-cream 11) a bow 12) an arrow 13) a ball 14) a bat 15) a doll 16) a waistcoat 17) a long coat 18) a raincoat 19) an umbrella
- 1) I cannot have that stale apple.
2) The bedsheet was not clean.
3) He broke the doll into pieces.
4) The waistcoat was too long for me.
5) My wrist watch is golden in colour.
Neena : Can I have an orange, please? Rahul : Yes, here you are. Jeevika : Can I have a banana, too. Nikhil : No, sorry. You can’t have that.
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Question 1:
1. How did Birbal find out about the Pundit’s mother tongue? 2. Act this out with your friends and make it into a class play.
Answer
1) One day Birbal went quietly to Pandit’s house and whispered something into his ear while he was asleep. The pundit got scared and started shouting out words in his mother tongue which turned out to be Telugu.
2) Disclaimer: This is a group activity to be done along with your friends in the classroom.
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Question 1:
Suppose you are going on a camping holiday. What are the four most important things you will carry with you? Choose from the tags attached to the hot air balloon.
_______________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________
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Answer
1) First Aid kit
2) Water Bottles
3) Food Packets
4) Money
5) Blanket
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Question 1:
India is a country of many languages. Let’s see if you know what the people of the states in this crossword puzzle speak. The clues are given below. The first letter of each answer has been filled in for you.
Across 1. This language is spoken in Orissa 2. It is spoken in Karnataka 4. The people of Assam speak this language 7. This language is used in Andhra Pradesh 8. You can hear this spoken in Maharashtra
Down 3. The people of Kerala speak this language
5. It is a major language of communication in our country
6. The language of the Goan people
7. This is spoken in Tamil Nadu
9. It is widely spoken in Uttar Pradesh and elsewhere .jpeg)
Answer
