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Read the lines from the poem and answer the following questions;

Pull your socks up

Stand up straight

Say thank you

Don't interrupt

No one thinks you're funny

Take your elbows off the table

Can't you make your own

mind up about anything ?

Questions:

(a) Who is the poet of the above lines?

(b) What is the poem full of?

(c) What is the best way for a child to stand up?

(d) What is the opposite of 'funny'?

OR

Read the lines and answer the following questions:

"Ah!" he said, "poor old man starved himself. Slow starvation, the doctor called it! You see he went to work in such a way! Would keep the shop on; wouldn't have a soul touch his boots except himself. When he got an order, it took him such a time. People won't wait. He lost everybody. And there he'd sit, going on and on. I will say that for him?not a man in London made a better boot. But look at the competition! He never advertised! Would have the best leather too, and do it all himself. Well, there it is. What could you expect with his ideas?" "But Starvation!"

Questions:

(a) Who does "poor old man" refer to?

(b) What did he die of?

(c) What made his condition miserable?

(d) Find the word from the above passage that means opposite of 'Well fed'.

Answer:

(a) The poet of the above lines is Michael Rosen

(b) The poem is full of instructions for children.

(c) The best way for a child to stand up is straight.

(d) Boring

OR

(a) Toor old man' refers to Mr. Gessler, the German shoe-maker.

(b) He died of starvation.

(c) He used to work for long hours with empty stomach/this made his condition miserable.

(d) 'Starved'.