Class 4: English Chapter 20 solutions. Complete Class 4 English Chapter 20 Notes.
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NCERT Solutions for 4th Class English: Chapter 20-Pinocchio
NCERT 4th English Chapter 20, class 4 English Chapter 20 solutions
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.He 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.Pinocchio said in the end that he was glad to be a real boy. He would never lie again.
Let’s Talk
1.Have you ever seen 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.
PINOCCHIO
Ans. PINOCCHIO
PIN HOP CHIN
NO INCH
HIP NIP
CHOP ON CHIP
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 lathe
chisel pencil
hammer anvil
nails spade
4. Now make sentences using some of the above words.
Ans.
• Plane – The carpenter used his plane on the wood to make it smooth.
• Chisel – He chiselled some marble.
• Hammer – The carpenter lost his hammer.
• Nails – I hit some nails with the hammer on the wall.
• Lathe – The carpenter’s new lathe was stolen.
• Pencil – I have bought an HB-pencil.
• Anvil –
• Spade – He is working in the garden with a spade.
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 wag’ 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?
2. How did the jackal become blue?
3. What did the animals do when they saw the blue jackal?
4. Why did the dogs feel scared when they saw the jackal?
5. How did the animals know that the king was just a jackal?
Ans.
1. The animals thought that the jackal was a king because he dyed himself in blue colour.
2. The jackal jumped into a big tub of blue dye and became blue.
3. When the animals saw the blue jackal, they thought that he was their king and bowed before him.
4. The dogs felt scared when they saw the jackal because he (jackal) was looking fearful in blue colour.
5. Once the jackal got up in the middle of the night hearing other jackals’ howl in the forests. He forget he was a king and began to howl loudly. All the animals ran out to see and found that it was the jackal who was howling. In this way they came to know that the king was just a jackal.
NCERT 4th English Chapter 20, class 4 English Chapter 20 solutions
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NCERT Solutions for 4th Class English: Chapter 20-Pinocchio
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Chapterwise NCERT Solutions for Class 4 English :
- Unit 1
- Chapter 1 Wake Up!
- Chapter 2 Neha’s Alarm Clock
- Unit 2
- Chapter 3 Noses
- Chapter 4 The Little Fir Tree
- Unit 3
- Chapter 5 Run!
- Chapter 6 Nasruddin’s Aim
- Unit 4
- Chapter 7 Why?
- Chapter 8 Alice in Wonderland
- Unit 5
- Chapter 9 Don’t be Afraid of the Dark
- Chapter 10 Helen Keller
- Unit 6
- Chapter 11 The Donkey I Had A Little Pony
- Chapter 12 The Milkman’s Cow
- Unit 7
- Chapter 13 Hiawatha
- Chapter 14 The Scholar’s Mother Tongue
- Unit 8
- Chapter 15 A Watering Rhyme
- Chapter 16 The Giving Tree
- Unit 9
- Chapter 17 Books
- Chapter 18 Going to Buy a Book
- Unit 10
- Chapter 19 The Naughty Boy
- Chapter 20 Pinocchio
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