Pull your socks up Stand up straight Say thank you Don’t interrupt No one thinks you’re funny Take your elbows off the table Can’t you make your own mind up about anything? Questions: (1) What is the child asked to do with his socks? (2) ‘No one thinks you’re funny’. Is the child really not funny? Explain. (3) What do the last two lines suggest ?

(1) The child is asked to pull up his socks. (2) It is not the fact that the child is not funny, but the strictness of an adult does not let the child to have his own way. (3) The last two lines –Can’t you make your own mind up about anything suggest that the rules and regulations imposed by elders are so suffocating that they do not give any opportunity to children to think s anything on their own. The constant and nagging instructions kill the initiative and originality of the child.

Pull your socks up Stand up straight Say thank you Don’t interrup…

He liked to tease and play,
And if we ran around his tree,
He went the other way.
Questions:
(1) Teasing is the poet’s way of with the squirrel.
(2) Choose a befitting adjective to describe the nature of squirrel.
A. playful B. scornful C. introvert D. jealous
(3) Who went the other way?
A. the poet B. the squirrel C. the onlooker D. the gardener

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Explore the meadow houses, The burrows in the ground, A nest bencath tall grasses, The ant's amazing mound. Oh! Meadows have surprises And many things to tell; You may discover these yourself, If you look and listen well.
Questions :
(1) What does the poet refer to 'meadow houses' ?
(2) What is amazing about the mounds of the ants ?
(3) Which all surprises must the poet be talking about in these star

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He wore a question mark for tail,
An overcoat of gray,
He sat up straight to eat a nut.
Questions:
(1) What is referred to as a ’question mark’ ?
(2) What is compared to the gray overcoat ?
(3) Who is sitting on the ground and ‘ what is it doing?

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There’s a dusty old window around at the side
With three cracked panes of glass,
I often think there’s someone staring 5 at me
Each time that I pass,
I’ll peep through that window one day.
Questions:
(1) Why is the window dusty ?
(2) Who according to poet’s brother stares at the poet?
(3) Does the poet get scared at the thought of peeping through the window?

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He got out the ladder
From the garden shed.
It slipped. He landed
In the flower bed.
“Never mind," said Dad,
Brushing the dirt
off his hair and his face
And his trousers and his shirt.
Questions :
(1) Did father lose all his hope of bringing the cat down?
(2) "Never mind." Why did father say so?
(3) What happened after the poet's father fell alter the poet's father fell off the ladder ?

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Once there was a talking fan -
Electrical his chatter.
I couldn't quite hear what he said
And I hope it doesn't matter
Because one day somebody oiled
His little whirling motor
And all the mystery was spoiled
He ran as still as water.
Questions :
(1) Explain 'Electrical chatter'.
(2) Why does the poet say, “I hope it doesn't matter"?
(3) How was the fan's mystery spoiled ?
(4) What is the running of the fan compared to in the end ?

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So when he wiggles in the grass
I'll stand aside and watch him pass,
And tell myself, “There's no mistake,
It's just a harmless garden snake !"
Questions :
(1) Why is the word 'wiggle' used for moving of the snake ?
(2) What does the poet do on seeing the snake ?
(3) How the poet is convinced that the snake is harmless?

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“My brother tells lies to keep the shed for his den.
There isn’t anyone staring or making strange noises.
And the spider has been gone from his web
Since I don’t know when.
I’ll go into that shed one day soon, But not just yet……..”
Questions:
(1) ’There isn’t anyone staring or making strange noises.And the spider has been gone from his web.’ What do these lines suggest?
(2) Why does the speaker say that ’’there isn’t anyone staring or making strange noises ?”
(3) What does this passage say about the speaker?

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Trees are for the wind to blow through.
Trees are to hide behind in ‘Hide and Seek’.
Trees are to have tea parties under.
Trees are for kites to get caught in.
Trees are to make cool shade in summer.
Trees are to make no shade in winter.
Questions:
(1) How does a tree prove to be beneficial during summer?
(2) Comment on the tone of the speaker when he says, “Trees are to make no shade in winter.”
(3) Who have tea parties under the ? shade of the trees?

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Sit up
Say please
Less noise
Shut the door behind you
Don’t drag your feet
Haven’t you got a hankie ?
Take your hands out of
your pockets
Pull your socks up
Stand up straight.
Questions:
(1) Why is the child asked to stand straight ?
(2) What does walking by ‘dragging feet’ suggest ?
(3) To whom are these instructions being addressed ?

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