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1. Enrich your Vocabulary
The meanings of some of the words in the poem are given below. Find
the words and fill in the crossword puzzle.

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4
3

5

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Down
1. Showing the want for something very much (7)

2. A common fresh water fish (5)
3. Dared (8)

4. Conceal (4)
Across

5. Having little experience of the world (8)
6. Unfortunate (7)

2. Read and Answer
Read the poem again, and answer these questions.

a. What does the baby fish want the mother fish to do?
b. Why does the baby fish want to get the worm?

c. Does the mother fish get the worm for her young one? Why ? Why not?
d. Why was the young trout foolish?

e. What lesson does the poem teach us?

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