Worksheet 8th / 1st part Lower English state board

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Worksheet 

 8th / 1st part

Lower English 

state board


 Q. 1 Read the following stanza from the textbook.


If you can't be a highway then just be a trail,

If you can't be the sun be a star;

It isn't by size that you win or you fail—

Be the best of whatever you are!


Answer the following questions based on the above stanza.

According to the stanza, what should you do if you can't be ' a highway'?

What is the overall message of the stanza about doing tasks or being something?

Write two rhyming words from the stanza.


Long, long ago, there lived a kind, gentle and courteous man called Androcles. But he had a very cruel master. In those days, kings, nobles, and other wealthy men used poor people as their slaves. Androcles was a slave. The slaves were forced to work for their masters. They had to do what their masters told them. They had no freedom, no rights. Even when they were unhappy with their master, they could not leave him. They were bound by law to obey their master, however wicked he might be. 

1. a)What was the name of the kind and gentle man in the story?
    b)Were slaves in the story free to leave their masters?
2. How was the life of slaves?
3. Write the opposites of the following words from the passage.
    1. Kind x -------- 2. slave x --------
4. Do as directed.
    a)Androcles was a slave. ( Make a Yes/No question)
    b)There lived a kind, gentle and courteous man called Androcles. ( Name one proper noun and three      adjectives from the sentence.)

5. Would you like to be in Androcles's place? why?

Passage 2:

One day, as he was wandering in the forest, he suddenly came face to face with a lion. His first reaction was to turn and flee. But then he saw that the lion had not moved on seeing him. It neither growled nor roared. In fact, it looked at him piteously as if it was in great pain. Androcles paused. Then he moved very cautiously towards the lion, step by step. The lion moaned and whimpered. ‘‘Please help me,’’ its eyes seemed to say. When Androcles drew near, the lion lowered its head and began to lick its paw. Then Androcles saw that the lion’s paw was wounded, sore and swollen. On a closer look, Androcles noticed that a big thorn had pierced one of the lion’s toes. ‘So this is the cause of the lion’s distress,’ thought Androcles. Summoning up all the courage, Androcles stretched his hand slowly towards the injured paw. He was afraid that the lion would attack him if he touched its swollen paw. But the lion seemed to understand his good intention.

    1. Whom did Androcles meet in the forest?
    2. What was Androcles' first reaction?
  2. What were the lion's reactions?
  3. Write four words showing the lion's sound.
  4. Write two auxiliary verbs and two action verbs from the passage.
  5. What would you have done if you were in Androcles' place?
Do as directed.
  1. Ram is my classmate.------ is my friend also. ( Fill in the blank with a pronoun)
  2. Shweta, Rohan, Madan, Parth, Yug, Anup, Aarti, Ashish. ( Write in the alphabetical order.)
  3. He was wandering in the forest. ( Make a yes/no question.)
  4. There was a big thorn in the lion's paw. ( Write the adjective from the sentence.)
  5. The lion moaned and whimpered. (Identify the tense.)





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