CG Board Class 9 English Unit 3 Awareness about Health (Reading B) The Dentist And The Crocodile are given below for Hindi Medium students.
CG Board Class 9 English Unit 3 Awareness about Health (Reading B) The Dentist And The Crocodile
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Comprehension-
Answer the following questions.
Q.1. Pick out the words that express the dentist’s fear of the crocodile.
Ans:- words that express the dentist’s fear of the crocodile are quivered, quaked and shook,fearsome sight, weeping, despair.
Q.2. How is the dentist’s fear of the crocodile expressed?
Ans:- The dentist feared when the crocodile came.He stood two yards away from him. He Quivered and quaked in fear. He checked him in weeping.
Q.3. What steps does the dentist take to examine the crocodile’s teeth?
Ans:- Firsty he examined the teeth from far and then he chose the longest probe he had to search out the decay. Then he wrung his hands and examined his teeth.
Q.4. Why did the crocodile tell the dentist to do the back ones properly?
Ans:- By asking the dentist to put his head deep down inside his great big mouth, the crocodile told the dentist to do the back ones properly.
Q.5. Why was the crocodile grinning?
Ans:- The crocodile was grinning because he was a cunning one and he wanted the dentist to put his head deep down inside his big mouth.
Q.6. Pick out the phrases that describe Crocky’s physical appearance?
Ans:- He opened wide his massive jaws with at least three hundred pointed teeth.
Q.7. Which line shows that the crocodile was playing a trick?
Ans:– She cried, “Oh, Croc, you naughty boy, you’re playing tricks again!”
Q.8. What is the most comic sight in the poem?
Ans:- The most comic sight in the poem is when the dentist misunderstood that the crocodile might hurt him but actually does not.
Q.9.Pick out the lines which describe the dentist in the most pitiable condition.
Ans:– The dentist’s face was turning white and he quivered and quaked and shook. The poor old dentist wrung his hand and wept in despair.
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Vocabulary-
The dentist ‘quivered, quaked and shook.’ These three verbs describe how scared the dentist was. Look up a dictionary and see how each one of these words describe a different state.
Here are some more words :
scare, dread, horror, terror, unease, nightmare, cold feet
Look them up in a dictionary and see how each one of them is used. Use them in your own sentences
Ans:- Scary :- It was scary the way they bonded with each other.
Dread :- He was stricken with the dread of disease and died.
Horror :- That little horror baly was around.
Terror :- There he introduced terror in it’s most terrible form.
Unease :- People unease about defence policy.
Neighbour :- Buying herbs can be a nightmare if you don’t know about If.
Cold feet :- The wedding is tomorrow and you are getting told feet.