Second Activity on "Tales of Childhood" for class VIII WBBSE

Tales of Childhood

                                                            -Roald Dahl

" In 1920,when I was still only three.my mother's eldest child......................went to my first school. "

Write T for true and F for False:           Tales of Childhood

1. The author's father was careless about his disease.
2. Antibiotic helps to fight against disease.
3. The narrator's father died at the age of sixty.
4. The narrator had five brothers and sisters.
5. The narrator's mother lost her husband and daughter at a long gap.

Fill the gap with information from the text.  Tales of Childhood

1. Roald's eldest sister Astri died from...........
2. In those days there was no .................................to cure.
3. His mother faced two shocks in the gap of .............
4. After selling the big house they started to ...............................
5. The author went to school at ......................................................

Answer the following questions: Tales of Childhood

1. Who was Astri ?How was she died ?
2. What was the mental state of the author's father after Astri's death ?
3. How was the author's father died?
4. Why did Sofie sell the big house ?
5. Where did they go after the death of the narrator's father ?
6. When did Roald Dahl join school ?
7. Why was pneumonia a dangerous disease then ?

Textual Grammar Tales of Childhood

1. He was much overwhelmed_____grief. [use preposition]
2. Danger [Add suffix]
3. find out the opposite of "accepted"
4. He adored her beyond measure.[voice change]
5. She sold the big house.[voice]
6. They called it Cumberland Lodge.[voice]
7. My mother had lost a daughter and husband. [voice]

First Activity on "Tales of Childhood"           Relative Clause

First Activity on "Tales of Childhood"           Relative Clause

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