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1. Enrich Your Vocabulary

i. Copy the past forms of the verbs from the story and write their
present forms.

ii. Find the contextual meanings of the underlined words in the story.

iii. Change word class of the following words and complete the table
below. The first one is done for you.

Noun Verb Adjective Adverb
live live live
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sad
seriously
private
happily
Intelligence
expensive

2. Read and Identify

Read the story again, and identify who the speaker is.

“The root cause of our problem is a black snake.”

“Hello dear friends! You two seem to be very sad. What’s the matter?”

“Drop them into the serpent’s hole.”

“He is after us.”
3. Read and Rearrange

Rearrange the following events as they occur in the story above.
a. A couple of doves had been living in a peepal tree for years.

b. The fox asked what their problem was.

c. The doves were upset because the snake had eaten their eggs
and chicks.

d. The snake never returned there.

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