Story: Our Runaway Kite

Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery 

WBBSE Class 10 : Lesson  5



Our Runaway Kite by Lucy Maud Montgomery

 

 

Unit 1

Comprehension exercises

 

1.        Choose the correct alternative to complete the following sentences:

(a) The keeper of the Big Half Moon Lighthouse is

Ans: (ii) Father

(b) The family moved over to the mainland in

Ans: (iv) winter

(c) When asked about relations, Father looked

Ans: (iii) sorrowful

 

2.        Fill in the chart with information from the text:

(a) name of the island: Big Half Moon

(b) age of Claude: Twelve years

(c) the game played by Claude and the narrator: Pirate caves

 

3.        State whether the following statements are True or False. Provide sentences/ phrases/words in support of your answer:

(i) People felt that Claude and the narrator were lonesome in the island.

Ans: True

SS: “They said we must be so lonesome over there, with no other children near us.”


(ii) Claude and the narrator quarrelled.

Ans: False

SS: “Claude and I never quarrelled.”


(iii) Nobody on the mainland had relations.

Ans: False

SS: “Everybody on the mainland had relations.”

 

Unit 2

Comprehension exercises

4.        Choose the correct alternative to complete the following sentences:

(a) In summer the Big Half Moon is always

Ans: (i) lovely 

(b) Back on the island, Claude and the narrator made plenty of

Ans: (iii) kites

(c) The kite was patched with a

Ans: (ii) letter

 

5.        Complete the following sentences with Information from the text:

(i) A boy on the mainland showed Claude how to make kites.


(ii) On the kite Claude and the narrator pasted gold tinsel stars all over it and had written their names full on it – Claude Leete and Philippa Leeta, Big Half Moon lighthouse.


(iii) Claude was standing with a bit of cord in his hand, looking foolish.

 

6.        Fill in the chart with information from the text:

Statement Reason

(a) The narrator's elbow went through the kite.

Reason: The narrator tripped and fell over the rocks.

(b) Claude and the narrator hurried to fix the kite.

Reason: Claude and the narrator wanted to send the kite up before the wind fell.

(c) The kite soared.

Reason: The wind was glorious.

Unit 3

Comprehension exercises

7.        Choose the correct alternative to complete the following sentences:

(a) A letter came for father after a

Ans: (i) day   (ii) week        (iii) fortnight                        (iv) month

(b) Father left home after quarrelling with his

Ans: (i) brother       (ii) sister        (iii) aunt        (iv) uncle

(c) Dick and Mimi discovered the kite on the top of a

Ans: (i) roof  (ii) tree        (iii) lighthouse         (iv) light post

 

8.        Fill in the chart with information from the text:

(a) person who sent the letter

Ans: Aunt Esther

(b) name of Aunt Esther’s mother

Ans: Philippa

(c) total number of family members in the narrator’s family at present

Ans: Six

 

9.        Answer the following questions:

(a) What did Father find when he went back home years afterward?

Ans: When father went back home years afterward he found his brother had died and he couldn’t find his sister.


(b) Where did Aunt Esther live?

Ans: Aunt Esther lived hundreds of miles inland.


(c) Why did Aunt Esther turn pale?

Ans: Aunt Esther turned pale because after seeing the letter, she recognized that it was the same letter that she had once written to her brother.

 

Grammar in use

 

10.      Change the following sentences into questions, as directed:

(a) Shankha lives in Alipurduar. (Information question using ’where’)

Ans: Where does Shankha live?

(b) They have gone to a picnic. (Interrogative sentence using 'where’)

Ans: Where have they gone?

(c) I went to school yesterday. (Simple question using ’did')

Ans: Did you go to school yesterday?

(d) Tia studies in class X. (Information question using 'which')

Ans: Which class does Tia study in?

 

Writing activities

 

11.      Suppose your bicycle has a sudden tyre puncture on your way to school. You have taken the cycle to a repair shop. Write an imaginary dialogue (within 100 words) between the shopkeeper and you.

Ans:


Me: Excuse me uncle!

Shopkeeper: Yes, tell me what happened?

Me: Please see the tyre of the back wheel of my cycle. I’m going to school and the tyre has been punctured suddenly.

Shopkeeper: Okay my son, bring it to me.  

Me: Yes of course. Please repair it as soon as possible. As I’m on my way to school I don’t want to be late.

Shopkeeper: Yes, I can understand, let me check it first.

Me: Yes please and tell me how much I’ve to pay for it.

Shopkeeper: I’ve checked it. Just give me five minutes, I’ll fix the puncture. You’ll not be late for your school. I’ll charge 15 rupees for it.

Me: Thank you uncle take your time and repair it perfectly, I’ll pay the money.

Shopkeeper: Please sit on the bench.

 

 

12.      Write a story (within 100 words) using the given hints. Give a title to the story.

crow sitting on a tree piece of meat in its beak fox passing under the tree wants the meat asks the crow to sing crow keeps meat under its feet and sings fooled, fox leaves

Ans:

 

The Clever Crow

            One day a crow managed to get a piece of meat form a village meat shop. It then flew to a nearby tree. Holding the piece of meat in its beak the crow sat on a branch of the tree. The crow was about to eat the meat just then a fox was passing under the tree. The fox saw the meat and wanted take the meat. The fox made an idea, it asked the crow to sing a song. The crow was clever enough. It kept the meat under its feet and started singing. The fox got fooled and left the place. The crow started to eat the meat happily.