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Do you find the poem humorous? Read aloud lines that make you laugh.

Yes, the poem is humorous. Take for example:

“But quite at the end of my tail.”


“And every day a cigar I’ll smoke”.


Students should do by themselves.


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In This is Jody’s Fawn, Jody’s father uses a ‘home remedy’ for a snake bite. What should a person now do if he or she is bitten by a snake? Are all snakes poisonous?

With the help of your teacher and others, find out answers to such questions. Then write a short paragraph on – What to do if a snake chooses to bite you.

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Taking words that come at the end of lines, write five pairs of rhyming words. Read each pair aloud.

For example, pond – beyond

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Complete the dialogue.

Duck : Dear Kangaroo! Why don’t you ____________


Kangaroo : With pleasure, my dear Duck, though ____________


Duck : That won’t be a problem. I will ____________

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The Kangaroo does not want to catch ‘rheumatism. Spot this word in stanza 3 and say why it is spelt differently. Why is it in two parts? Why does the second part begin with a capital letter?