Be The Best
Q.1) Read the words / names given below put the big-sized / bigger once in the big circle and the smaller ones in the small circle.
[Muskie, tree, pine, lake, bass, bush, highway, scrub, roll, sun, star,trail ]
Big Circle words :-
Pine , sun , highway , lake , tree , muskie .
Big Circle words :-
Scrub , till , bush , bass , star , trail .
Q.2) from group of four. Read each stanza in the poem turn by turn.
Q.3) Find and write the pair of rhyming words from the poem.
Ans -
1) hill - rill
2) grass - bass
3) trail - fail
4) star - are
5) here - near
6) be - tree
7) make - lake
Q.4) complete the following with appropriate words / phrases from the poem.
1) If you can't be a pine, be a scrub.
2) If you can't be a tree, be a bush.
3) If you can't be a muskie , be a bass.
4) If you can't be a captain, be a crew .
5) If you can't be a highway, be a trail .
6) If you can't be a sun, be a star .
Q.5) Write wheather the following are true or false.
1) All must be the captain of the teams.
Ans - False
2) A bit of grass can make the highway happier.
Ans - True
3) We win or fail depending upon size or position.
Ans - False
4) A scrub is found at the top of the hill.
Ans - False
5) If your work is not important, don't do it.
Ans - False
2) Whatever job you have, do your best.
Ans - True
Q.6) Write an appreciation of the poem with the help of the points given below.
1) The title of the poem is Be the best
2) The poem is written by Douglas Malloch
3) The poem has four stanzas. Each stanza has four lines.
4) The line that rhyme in each stanza, are ABAB
5) The poet compared big things to small things
6) Be the best is a repeated expression in the poem.
7) The line - I shall always remember is Be the best
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