Q2 of 29 Page 45

How does the poet suggest that you identify the lion and the tiger? When can you do so, according to him?

The poet suggests that we can identify the Asian Lion by his enormous brownish-yellow colored body and loud sounds of roaring as he comes nearer. The Bengal Tiger can be identified by the black stripes on his yellow skin background who eats in one go as he comes near.


More from this chapter

All 29 →
1

Have you ever been alone or away from home during a thunderstorm? Narrate your experience in a paragraph.

 1

Does ‘dyin’ really rhyme with ‘lion’? Can you say it in such a way that it does?

 3

Do you think the word ‘lept’ and ‘lep’ in the third stanza are spelt correctly? Why does the poet spell them like this?

 4

Do you know what a ‘bearhug’ is? It’s a friendly and strong hug- such as bears thought to give, as they attack you! Again, hyenas are thought to laugh, and crocodiles to weep (‘crocodile’s tears’) as they swallow their victims. Are there similar expressions and popular ideas about wild animals in your own language(s)?