What is the snake trying to escape from?

Find the adverbs in the passage below. (You’ve read about adverbs in Unit 1.)

(i) Complete the following sentences, using a suitable adverb ending in –ly.

(a) Rana does her homework____________.

(b) It rains______________ in Mumbai in June.

(c) He does his work ____________.

(d) The dog serves his master_____________.

(ii) Choose the most suitable adverbs or adverbial phrases and complete the following sentences.

(a) We should ____________________ get down from a moving train. (never, sometimes, often)

(b) I was _______________ in need of support after my poor performance. (badly, occasionally, sometimes)

(c) Rita met with an accident. The doctor examined her_________________. (suddenly, seriously, immediately)

Take down the following scrambled version of a story, that your teacher will dictate to you, with appropriate punctuation marks. Then, read the scrambled story carefully and try to rewrite it rearranging the incidents.

A grasshopper, who was very hungry, saw her and said, “When did you get the corn? I am dying of hunger.” She wanted to dry them. It was a cold winter’s day, and an ant was bringing out some grains of corn from her home. She had gathered the corn in summer.
“I was singing all day,” answered the grasshopper.
“If you sang all summer,” said the ant, “you can dance all winter.”
“What were you doing?” asked the ant again.
The grasshopper replied, “I was too busy.”
“I collected it in summer,” said the ant. “What were you doing in summer? Why did you not store some corn?”

Is it a harmful snake? What is its colour?

The poet finds the snake beautiful. Find the words he uses to convey its beauty.