NCERT Solutions Class 4 English Chapter 9 Pinocchho

1. What did the carpenter buy?

Ans.The carpenter bought a piece of wood.

2. What did he make out of it?

Ans.He made a speaking puppet out of it.

3. What did he call his puppet?

Ans.He called it “Pinocchio”.

4. What did Pinocchio say in the end?

Ans.In the end Pinocchio said, “I’m glad to be a real boy. I’ll never tell a lie again.”

5. How many words can you make from PINOCCHIO?

Ans.Pin, hop, chip, chin, chop, hip, cop, nip, hoop, on, no.

6. Make opposites with the words.

Ans.

Respect	Disrespect	Own	Disown
Able	Disable	Capable	Incapable
Efficient	Inefficient	Secure	Insecure

 

7. Making naming words by using ness, ity, ty at the end of the words given below.

Ans.

Public	Publicity	Stupid	Dtupidity
Forgive	Forgiveness	Blind	Blindness
Kind	Kindness	Cruel	Cruelty
Polite	Politeness	Swift	Swiftness
Moral	Morality	solid	Solidity

8. Which of the following would you expect a carpenter to use at work?

Bench, poker, plane, chisel, fork, spade, blotting paper, lawn-mower, telescope, pincers, jaw, scissors, hammer, map, nails, lathe, pencil, anvil

Ans.Bench, plate, chisel, spade, hammer, nails, pencil, lathe.

9. Now make sentences using some of the above words.

Ans.(i) People eat with knife and fork at statement.

(ii) The courtyard in my house is plane.

(iii) Scissors are used to cut paper hair and ribbon.

(iv) Telescope is used to see distant objects.

(v) I love to sit on a bench in the park.

10. Give another word from the story that means:

Ans.

Completed	Finished
Surprised	Amazed
Strange	Queer
Make up your mind	Decided

11. Add ‘er’ or ‘r’ to the doing words below to make new words.

Ans.

Stiff	Stiffer	Strange	Stranger
Fight	Fighter	Dance	Dancer
Juggle	Juggler	Ride	Rider
Speak	Speaker	Use	User
Write	Writer	Joke	Joker

12. Why did the animals think that the jackal was a king?

Ans.The animals thought that the jackal was a king because he was looking in blue colour, just like a king, as he proclaimed himself to be one.

13. How did the jackal become blue?

Ans.The jackal become blue because he jumped into a big tub of blue dye.

14. What did the animals do when they saw the blue jackal?

Ans.All the animals believed the blue jackal to be the king and bowed before him when they saw him.

15. Why did the dogs feel scared when they saw the jackal?

Ans.The dogs felt scared when they saw the jackal because he was looking frightening in the blue colour.

16. How did the animal know that the king was just a jackal?

Ans.One day, at the middle of the full moon night, all the jackals were howling. The blue jackal forgot that he was a king and began to howl. Due to this, other animals came to know that the king was just a jackal.

17. Say Aloud.

Ans.(i) laugh

(ii) fish

(iii) fan

(iv) few

(v) cough

(vi) dish

(vii) van

(viii) vies

(ix) rough

(x) wish

(xi) ran

(xii) dew