Cardiff International School Dhaka (CISD)
Lost Class Make Up Assignment
Class: 4
Subject: English Literature
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Date: 1 (Sunday)-6th (Friday) February 2015
Total Mark- 20
Instructions: All of your assignment must be done in A4 size paper. Mention your Name,
Class, Roll and Section clearly on the top sheet of your assignment.
Submission Deadline: Saturday 7th February 10.00 AM to the respective subject teacher.
The deadline is strict.
Name:.........................................................................................................................................................
Class: ................................Roll#........................Sec:..................Teacher: .............................................
Sunday-Saturday
01-05 February 2015
Lesson: Read about the poet Robert Louis Stevenson and write the substance of the poem.
Task: Read the information about the poet.
Worksheet/Exercise:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Author (1850–1894)
Birth Date: November 13, 1850
Death Date: December 3, 1894
Education: Edinburgh University, Edinburgh Academy
Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland
Place of Death: Vailima, Samoa
Full Name: Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson was a 19th century Scottish writer notable for such novels as Treasure Island,
Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Text Book/Reference Book: A Magic Place -5
Monday
Lesson: Lesson: Write the meaning of the following words:
Worksheet/Exercise:
1.hedge: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
2. ditch: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
3. cattle: …………………….…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
4. sight: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
5. wink: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
6. meadow: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
7. clamber: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
8. bramble: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
9. glimpse: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Tuesday:
Topic: From a Train Window
Lesson: Learn the given answers of the questions and write in the worksheet.
Worksheet/Exercise:
1. What is faster than fairies and witches?
Ans: The train is faster than fairies and witches.
2. Who wrote the poem ‘From a Train Window’?
Ans: Robert Louis Stevenson
3. What is charging like troops in a battle as mentioned in the poem?
Ans: The train
4. What are the things that the train is leaving behind?
Ans: Bridges, houses, hedges and ditches, green fields where horses and cattle are gazing, hills, plains, cart
etc.
5. Who clambers and scrambles all by himself?
Ans: A child
6. What is running away in the road?
Ans: The cart
Worksheet/Exercise:
1. What is faster than fairies and witches?
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2. Who wrote the poem ‘From a Train Window’?
Ans: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
3. What is charging like troops in a battle as mentioned in the poem?
Ans: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
4. What are the things that the train is leaving behind?
Ans:
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5. Who clambers and scrambles all by himself?
Ans: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
6. What is running away in the road?
Ans: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Wednesday
Lesson: Write the poem with the poet’s name (first eight lines).
From a Train Window
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Thursday
Lesson: Substance
Task: Learn the substance of the poem.
Worksheet/Exercise:
Substance of the poem:
In this poem, the poet shares his experience of a train journey with us. He presents natural
scenarios seen from the window of a railway carriage.
Poet sys that train runs more quickly than the fairies can fly or the witches can move.
When train advances forward it seems as the soldiers are attacking enemy in a battle field.
The train rushes on leaving bridges, houses, fences and ditches behind. It also leaves behind
the green fields where horses and cattle are grazing. Poet says that all the scenes of hill and
plain were being crossed by train as quick as one drop of rain follows another drop in a
storm. From the window of a compartment of train- building of stations were seemed as
painted pictures. The poet also sees a child climbing a steep ground by himself with
difficulty. Poet sees a homeless person who was looking at the train with amazement.
Friday
Lesson: Write the explanation of the given lines.
Worksheet/Exercise:
Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;
And charging along like troops in battle,
All through the meadows the horses and cattle;
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Saturday
Lesson: Let’s check how much you know about this person.
Task: Write the answers beside each questions.
Worksheet/Exercise:
1. Identify this person…………………………………………………………………...
2. What is his full name?..................................................................................................
3. He is known all over the world as an ………………………………………………….
4. He was born on ………………………………………………………………………..
5. Where did he born?........................................................................................................
6. Where did he die?...........................................................................................................
7. Write at least two book’s name written by him……………………………................
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