Class: 4th
Name:_______________ Section:_______
Subject: English
Islamic Alta Vista High School
Read the story “Trapped in the castle” (Story#16) from Oxford Reading Circle and solve the given
exercises.
a) Unscramble the jumbled letters.
i. ensde ______________
ii. lgniwoh
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iv. netso ______________
v. tearsh
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iii. abcmreh______________
b) Fill in the gaps using the words from the story.
1) Jorindal was turned into a __________.
2)
She disappeared into the ___________
3)
The owl stared at ___________ and___________.
4)
Jorindal looked at the ___________stone walls.
5)
___________who came into the castle were changed into birds.
c) Tell whether the following statements are true or false.
1) Pretty maidens changed into owls.
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T/F
2)
The old woman hung up the cages in a chamber.
T/F
3)
An old woman appeared out of the cage.
T/F
4)
By day the fairy flew about as a sparrow.
T/F
5)
A lot of people entered the wood and lots of still saw the castle.
T/F
Make sentences using the given words.
1) heels
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2) corridors
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3) shepherd
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4)
hopelessly
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5) swooped
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d) Read the story carefully and answer the questions.
1) What happened with Jorinda and Jorindal?
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2) What happened with young maiden?
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3) Where was the castle?
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4) How many cages were there in the castle?
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Class: 4th
Name:_______________ Section:_______
 Write comparative and superlative degrees of the given adjectives.
Positive
Comparative
Subject: English
Superlative
soft
happy
big
enormous
hungry
 Provide rhyming words of the following.
1) sent
_____________
_____________
2) fell
_____________
_____________
3) night
_____________
_____________
4) fate
_____________
_____________
5) doom
_____________
_____________
 Provide tag questions.
1) The old woman cackled, __________?
2) She would sit by a roaring long fire, __________?
3) The youth could not move, __________?
4) She entered the courtyard, __________?
5) There was an old castle, __________?
 Match the given words with their synonyms.
Words
Synonyms
bored
beautiful
firmly
Started
perhaps
Lesser
began
Tired
fewer
may be
pretty
Strictly
 Change the verbs in brackets into simple past tense.
1) The old woman (cackle) _____________and turning on her heels she(bark) _____________.
2) She (disappear) _____________into the forest.
3) The old woman(carry )_____________ the caged bird into the castle and (return)
_____________after a short while.
4) What else(can) _____________he do?
5) What(will) _____________you have done in his place?
Class: 4th
Name:_______________ Section:_______
 Write grammatical status of the given words.
Words
Grammatical
status
Words
caged
immediately
firmly
darkness
began
castle
hungry
weep
Subject: English
Grammatical
status
 Write words in full form which are written in contracted form.
1) It’s already quite dark in the forest.
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2) I’m sorry if I’ve offended you.
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3) We’ll leave this place immediately.
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4) You’ll never see her again.
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 Make sentences with the help of these verbs using reflexive pronouns in simple past tense.
1) She/carry
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2) They/look
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3) We/enter
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4) The maidens/come
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5) She/sing
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 Select any 10 material noun from the story and write on your notebook.
 Fill the gaps using a suitable pronoun.
1) A tear trickled down _________check.
2) _________fell to _________knees and begged to the old woman.
3) _________was already quite dark in the forest.
4) _________names were Jorinda and Jorindal.
5) _________climbed the steps and found _________in courtyard.
6) _________darted towards the cage .
7) _________could neither speak to Jorinda nor weep for _________.
Class: 4th
Name:_______________ Section:_______
 Change the Masculine into Feminine.
Masculine
Feminine
Masculine
boy
hunter
pea cock
tiger
Subject: English
Feminine
milk man
 Provide antonyms of the following.
Words
Antonyms
Words
hot
sad
old
good
large
few
Antonyms
enter
 Change the Singular into plural and plural into singular.
Singular
Plural
ox
woman
bodies
brach
battles
bush
 Punctuate the following sentences.
1) oh sorrow sorrow sorrow
2) the ting dove sang form the willow tree
3) leave now you will never see her again
4) jorindal was free
5) jorindal staring in amazement was too shocked to speak
6) he could neither speak to jorinda nor weep for her
 Identify the character. Who said this-------1) You will never see her again ____________.
2) Please free Jorinda and bring her to me____________.
3) She sang a song in a soft melodious voice____________.
4) Read the story carefully and select any five adverbs from the story and write the kinds of
adverb also.
Class: 4th
Name:_______________ Section:_______
Subject: English
Tenses
 Convert the given verbs into Present participle and make sentences using the given verbs.
1) Cackle
_________________
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2) fall
_________________
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3) leave
_________________
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4) enter
_________________
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5) return
_________________
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 Rectification:
Rectify the sentences
1) The fairy did not became an old woman.
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2) The owl raise its large head and cry.
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3) It fly round the courtyard.
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4) I will leave this place.
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 Do as directed.
1) The old woman appeared .
(Negative)
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2) They climbed the steps.
(Interrogative)
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3) The darkness did not encircle the castle.
(Affirmative)
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4) The sun began to set.
(Intro-negative)
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Class: 4th
Name:_______________ Section:_______
Subject: English
 Conversion:
Convert the following sentences into simple present tense.
1) The fairy became a cat.
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2) Pretty maidens hung up in a chamber.
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3) She looked at the enormous stone walls.
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4) Few people entered the wood.
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Comprehension
Once there was an old castle in a very dense wood, an old fairy with magical powers lived there. She
was fairy. Fairy could change herself into owl, cat and old woman. Nobody could come back after
entering the castle and changed into stone. A young pair was lost and entered the castle. Fairy changed
the boy into a stone and girl into a nightingale and never freed the girl but let the boy escaped and told
him never to come back again.
 Answer the following questions:
1) How fairy changed herself into an owl or cat?
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2) What happened to the youth who entered into the castle?
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3) Where was young pair going and what happened to them?
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4) Did fairy free up the young pair?
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5) What could be another end of the story according to you?
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 Dictionary:
 Consult the dictionary and write the meanings.
1. swoop
2. prowl
3. maiden
4. perck
6. mourned 7. shaft 8. nightingale 9. hobbled
Writing Skills
 Write something about the fairy in your own words.
5. enormous
10. trickled