CBSE Class 8 English Jenny Worksheet

CBSE Class 8 English Worksheet - Jenny - Practice worksheets for CBSE students. Prepared by teachers of the best CBSE schools in India.

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT 2 CLASS:VIII ENGLISH

ASSIGNMENT NO.1

TOPIC : JENNY

1)What did Jenny’s husband do for a living?

2) Find synonyms for the following words from the lesson:

  a) poverty

  b)survivec

  c)livelihood

2)How can you say that Jenny’s family lived in poverty?

3)Why is a fisherman’s life very hard?

4)What did Jenny do the whole day?

5) REFERENCE TO CONTEXT:-

   a) “How sound she sleeps that it requires too much to wake her.”

         i)Who said the above words and to whom?

         ii)Whom does ‘she’ refer to?

         iii)Why was ‘she’ not waking up?

   b) “I wish they were grown up.”

         i)Who is the speaker?

         ii)What does ‘they’ refer to?

         iii)Why does the speaker wish that her children were grown up?

   c) “It’s not my fault. It’s God’s doing.”

        i)Who said the above words and to whom?

        ii)What is ‘it’ in the above line?

        iii)Name the story from which the above line has been taken?

   d) “I will survive by drinking water.”

       i)Who is the speaker?

       ii)Why does the speaker say the above words?