Class-VIII Answer of "Tales of Childhood"

 

Tales of Childhood

ACTIVITY-1

(4 )   (6)  (3) (5) (2) (1)

 

ACTIVIYT-2

1. The narrator’s grandfather was a fairly prosperous merchant.
2.    Harold Dahl had lost an arm when he was fourteen.
3.  A shipbroker is a person who supplies a ship with everything it needs.
4.   In the country mansion beside the village of Radyr, there were many acres of farm and woodland and a number of cottages for the staff.

 

ACTIVITY-3

 

There were meadows, farm and woodland. The narrator could roam about the place.He could play with the chickens.Besides he could enjoy the woodland ride on the horseback.So he he was very happy there.

 

ACTIVITY-4

 

(a)    False      “In 1920, when I was still only three,my mother’s eldest child,my own sister,Astri died from appendicitis.”

(b)   True       “ Astri was far and away my father’s favourite.”

(c)    False      “ …..he himself went doen with pneumonia a month or so……..”

(d)   True      “ She sold the big house and moved to a similar one a few miles away in Liandaff.”

 

ACTIVITY-5

 

1. Astri was seven years old when she died.
2. Pneumonia was very dangerous disease because in those days there were no penicillin or any other magical antibiotic.
3. The narrator’s father gave up the fight against the disease because he was eager to join his beloved daughter,Astri in heaven.

 

ACTIVITY -6

 

 

i)                    Cause: One remembers so little about one’s childhood before the age of 7 or 8.

ii)                  Ii) Cause: The narrator’s companionship with Mrs Corfield or Miss Tucker is not as exciting as tricycling

iii)                Effect: the narrator can remember it vividly.

iv)                Effect: It was quite safe for the tiny children to go tricycling on the highway.

ACTIVITY-7

(a) The name of the narrator's first school wa Elmtree House.

(b) The narrator has a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of his shoelaces.

(c) The narrator really enjoyed his journeys to and from the school.he used to race with his eldest sister.Both of them went tricycling at a high speed.They would lean to one side at a corner and take it on two wheels on their way to school.

(d) The narrator did not have much stock of incidents in his memories of konfergarten.But the little he had was enough to show how joyful his childhood days were.