Unit 6: Hiawatha and The Scholar’s Mother Tongue

Q1Written answer

Make a class dictionary with words from the story. Try to find suitable words for them in your mother tongue. Say these words aloud.

Then make sentences with those words in your class dictionary.

Words in English	Sentences
Converse Tickle

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Words in English	Sentences
Converse	She conversed fluently in her mother tongue.
Tickle	I tickled my brother to make him laugh.
Truth	Everyone should speak the truth.
Accepted	I accepted my friend’s request.
Challenged	I challenged my friend to solve the problem.
Difficulty	I faced a lot of difficulty in solving a maths problem.
Fluently	I can speak fluently in English.

Q2Written answer

Write all the words that show you are happy.

For example: Hurray, Ha! Ha!

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Yahoo! hip, hip, hurray!, yayyyy..

Q3Written answer

Tick (✓) the right answer.

(i) ‘I visited the court of Akbar’ means

(a) You always live there. ⬜

(b) You came there for a short time. ☑️

(c) You were born there. ⬜

(ii) To imitate someone means to

(a) copy someone. ☑️

(b) tease someone. ⬜

(c) make someone angry. ⬜

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Q4Written answer

Look and fill in the columns. One has been done for you.

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quiet quietly sad sadly

fluent fluently fierce fiercely

angry angrily gentle gently

Q5Written answer

Match the words in Column ‘A’ with words in Column ‘B’

A	B
king	children
teacher	patients
doctor	courtiers
bus driver	clients
lawyer	passengers
mother	students

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A	B
king	courtiers
teacher	students
doctor	patients
bus driver	passengers
lawyer	clients
mother	children

Q6Written answer

Play this game with a friend. Pick up what you want from any basket.

Add a or an before it.

Now say the sentences below, using these things –

NCERT Solutions for Class 4 English Unit 6 The Scholars Mother Tongue - Image 1

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• a rug, a pillow, a bedsheet

• an alarm clock, a wall clock, a wrist watch

• an apple, an orange, a banana, an ice-cream

• a bow, an arrow, a ball, a bat, a doll

• a waistcoat, a long coat, a raincoat, an umbrella

Neena : Can I have an orange, please?

Rahul : Yes, here you are.

Jeevika : Can I have a banana, too.

Nikhil : No, sorry. You can’t have that.

Make more sentences using words from the baskets.

Can you please clean the bedsheet?

Where did you buy this wall clock?

Which flavour ice-cream do you like?

Can you give me a bat?

Would you like a banana?

Can I have a wrist watch, please?

Can I have a long coat, please?

Would you please give me a doll?

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