### Page 13: "The Raven and the Fox"
#### Activities before reading:
1. **Frogs croak, but did you know that ravens also croak?**
- **Yes, ravens croak.**
2. **Which animal is shown to be cunning in stories? Circle the correct answer.**
- (b) fox
### Page 14: Let us discuss
1. **Fill in the blanks by choosing the correct option.**
(a) Stanza 1
- (i) Mr Raven is a **bird**. (bird/frog)
- (ii) The name of the fox is **Reynard**. (Raven/Reynard)
- (iii) Mr Raven had **a piece of food** in his beak. (a piece of food/a bunch of leaves)
(b) Stanza 2
- (i) The Fox calls the Raven a **good-looking** bird. (foolish/good-looking)
- (ii) The Fox asks the Raven to **sing**. (dance/sing)
- (iii) The Raven and the Fox live in the **woods**. (trees/woods)
(c) Stanza 3
- (i) The Raven **forgot** that he croaked. (remembered/forgot)
- (ii) The Raven opened its beak to **sing**. (eat/sing)
- (iii) The **food** fell down. (food/Raven)
(d) Stanza 4
- (i) The Fox **laughed** at the Raven. (laughed/looked)
- (ii) It is not **wise** to be too proud of oneself. (wise/unwise)
- (iii) The Raven learnt a **lesson**. (lesson/teaching)
### Page 15: Let us do these activities
1. **Match the words in Column A with their meanings in Column B.**
- 1. perched - (d) sat on a branch
- 2. morsel - (a) a small piece of food
- 3. seek - (e) to look for something
- 4. pride - (c) feeling that you are better than others
- 5. eyed - (b) looked with interest at something
- 6. limb - (g) branch of a tree
- 7. woods - (f) a smaller area of forest with similar kinds of trees
2. **Think and reflect.**
**Number the pictures in the order they happen in the poem.**
- [Insert picture numbers in the correct sequence based on the poem’s events.]
### Page 16: Let us learn
1. **Write the rhyming words from the poem. One has been done for you.**
Stanza 1
- (a) limb - him
- (b) beak - seek
Stanza 2
- (a) word - bird
- (b) sing - king
Stanza 3
- (a) joke - croak
- (b) pride - eyed
Stanza 4
- (a) know - glow
- (b) unwise - surprise
2. **Study the underlined words in the poem and find another example of alliteration in Stanza 2.**
- **Sir Raven** (same /r/ sound in "Sir" and "Raven")
3. **Choose the correct opposites from the box and complete the table.**
- Words: wise, happy, humility, flew, remembered, notice, dim, cried, silly
- Opposites:
- perched - flew
- forgot - remembered
- foolish - wise
- pride - humility
- laughed - cried
- ignore - notice
- glow - dim
4. **Use any four words from the table to make sentences of your own.**
- Sample Sentences:
- The bird **flew** away from the tree.
- She **remembered** to bring her homework.
- His **humility** made him very popular.
- The light **dimmed** as the sun set.
### Page 17: Let us listen
1. **Mark the statements as True or False.**
- (a) The crow was unhappy that he lost his food. **True**
- (b) The crow thought that his lovely feathers made him smart. **False**
- (c) The crow wanted to tell his friends not to be proud. **True**
### Page 18: Let us speak
1. **Narrate the poem in the form of a story with a different ending.**
- Sample Story:
"This is a story about a clever fox named Reynard and Mr. Raven. One day, Mr. Raven was perched upon a limb with a piece of food in his beak. Reynard the Fox looked up and admired Mr. Raven's feathers, flattering him to make him sing. When Mr. Raven opened his beak, the food fell, and Reynard caught it. However, instead of eating it, Reynard said, 'This time, I won’t take your food. I only wanted to teach you a lesson about pride.' Mr. Raven, grateful and wiser, thanked Reynard and promised to be more cautious."
### Page 19: Let us write
1. **Write the story in the form of a conversation.**
- Sample Conversation:
Reynard: "Good morning, Mr. Raven! You seem to be awake so early!"
(Mr. Raven just nods his head)
Reynard: "Oh, Mr. Raven, you look so handsome today with your shiny feathers!"
(Mr. Raven preens proudly)
Reynard: "If only you could sing, all the birds in the woods would call you King!"
(Mr. Raven opens his beak to sing, and the food falls down)
Reynard: "Ha-ha! Now you know, my friend, it's unwise to be too proud!"
### Let us explore
1. **Make stick puppets and enact the poem. Use the puppets while narrating the story.**
- **Instructions for making stick puppets:**
- Draw and cut out shapes of the raven and the fox on paper.
- Color the shapes and attach them to sticks.
- Use these puppets to act out the story, changing voices for each character.
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