The little trees first made him run fast fell from my hand and broke catches a worm were covered with flowers so I think the fourth one is correct because it is most suitable. The literal tree you can say the little tree were covered with flowers then is your the fear of dogs the fear of the dogs made him run fast because of the fear of dog he started running fast to show the fear of dogs made him run fast then

Next is my aunt and I my aunt and I learning to dance my aunt and I are learning to dance the next is the bottle of milk fell from my hand and broke then the early bird catches the worm so this is all about your subject and predicate so I hope you understood the concept well.

Next moving to the next one now so here they have given you about a dictionary now what is dictionary a dictionary is a very important tool using which you can find or you can search for the meaning of a word so what is the functions of dictionary what kind of task dictionary do for us first one is looking up for a meaning if you want to find the meaning of some word you can look at the dictionary then checking for the checking of the spelling of a word finding out other grammatical information about the word finding the part of speech means that particular word is a noun or adjective or a verb you can check that from dictionary also then what is the correct pronunciation of that particular word then reading about the examples of the use of that word in which sense we can use that word so all these things you can find from a dictionary and here in the below give an exercise they have given you a word spotted and how the word spotted is used in single sentence and two different meanings so let us read the sentence we spotted two spotted owls in The Veranda so the word is spotted but uh do at two times it is having two different meanings so how at this sentence first spotted the first spotted we spotted means to say uh we spotted means to say we noticed something we spotted two spotted out second spotted means to say those owls are having some kind of spots on their body some kinds of dots on their body so spotted one is used as adjective having a regular pattern of rounded dots on it and second as a verb means noticing something so in this way there are lot many words that are having two different meanings so they have given you an exercise and you have to solve this exercise now so let us try the first one is I found that she had left a mouse with its tail tucked through the netting first one is covered second is pushed in through a small space and third one is folded the address so second is the correct meaning of tucked means to say pushed in through a small space next one is by tapping on the tree trunk I had once pursuited an owl to show an inquiring phase at the entrance on to its hole so means tapping means to say making a little Sound by hitting something tapping means to say like you are tapping on a table so it means you are making little Sound by tapping your hand on that table so tapping means to say hitting lightly to make a sound so this is the answer of second one a option then moving to your next page now I had placed one on a branch of the mango tree and was stooping to pick up the other when I received a heavy blow on the back of the head so what is the meaning of blow blow means to say hit or strike something so at that in the story that all a mother owl strike on his head so the meaning of blow here is a hit or a strike the next one is the mother owl swooped down on grandfather but he was quite agile and ducked out of the wheel so uh when the mother attacked on grandfather he was quite agile means to say he moved quickly and ducked out of the way what is the meaning of tucked bent down suddenly to avoid something because the mother who was attacking on him and he wants to save save himself that is why he bent suddenly and avoided that mother owl so duct meaning meaning of duct means to say bent down suddenly towards something then last one is I saw that one of the owlets had called up her pillow till its head was snugged under her ear so what is the meaning of snugged means to say got into a warm and comfortable position so

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: engood morning dear students I hope you all are fine so I think that you have completed your first two chapters if not just complete those chapters first of all and then today we are going to start our third chapter that is owls and the family so this is a chapter very interesting story about a boy who is telling about the time when one owl came into their home so very interesting story how they took care of that owl you can say so this is a story about that so before starting our reading portion there is an activity given for you so what you have to do in this if you were given the option to have an unusual pet which animal would you choose so what they are asking from you if you have an uh you can say given an option to choose and pet for you an unusual pet normal uh other than normal pets like your dog cats except then those what kind of pet you want to keep at your home and then you have to collect about the information that we are we can keep at our home the pets that are legal to keep at home in our country there are some kind of pets that we can't keep at that at our homes so what kind of pets we can keep at our home legally so you have to write about those pets then now let us start reading our chapter moving to your next page now so the chapter starts as one winter morning my grandfather and I found a baby spotted owl by The Veranda step in our home in dharadur so what he's saying the boy is saying that on one winter morning he and his grandfather found a small owl baby owl in The Veranda steps of our home in dehradun their home is in dehradun and he found a little owl in the buranda means to say in the open area outside the house or you can say the porch of the house they found a owl over there so when grandfather picked it up and that a little out haste and clanked but it's built but then after a meal of raw meat and water settled down under my bed so what he said that uh when his grandfather picked up that that little owl at the start the owl made a sound a loud sound but after they have given them some meal uh some food then that house uh settled down under the bed of the narrator that little boy so now in the next paragraph the boy is telling you about these kind of owls so what he's saying spotted Outlets are small birds spotted means to say the owls that are having spots or having dots on their body they are small birds a fully grown one is no larger than the trash and they have none of sisters appearance of large house so he is saying that that kind of owls have you can say small size they grow into a small bird only and they do not look like like evil appearance like that of you can say larger house so I had once found a pair of them in our mango tree and by tapping on the tree trunk hand pursuited one to show an inquiring phase at the entrance of its root so he's telling about uh about an earlier event once uh earlier also he found one of the owl in their mango tree in the garden and the outlet is not normally afraid of man nor is it strictly a night bird so he is saying that the outlets are not afraid of men they do not have any kind of fear from human beings and they do not they are not only as night birds only they are you can say they came out in daytime also but it prefers to stay at home during the day because it is sometimes attacked by other birds who consider all owls their enemies so why they stay at Homes at daytime because they have the fear to earn fear of fight against other and other birds because other birds consider the owl as their enemy so they uh they stay at home at daytime and come out at night time so the little Outlet was quite happy under my bed now he's saying that that little owlette was happy under his bed the following day we found a second baby owlette in the almost same spot on the veranda and on another day on next day he they found he and his grandfather found one more Outlet you can say and only then did we realize that where the rain water pipe emerged through the roof there was a rough sort of Nest from which the bird had fallen then they came to know that from where those birds are coming actually their nest was there on a rainwater pipe outside their house and they were coming or their nest was fallen from there and they were coming from there so we took the second young owl to join the first and fed them both so then they keep those hours together and then fed them or they had given some food to both of them when I went to bed uh they were on the window ledge just inside the mosquito netting and later in the night their mother found them there so what happened next when he goes to his when he went to his bed means to say at night time when that boy has went to his bed what he found they were sitting in the window ledge window which means to say uh you can say a small shelf near the window so he they the birds were sitting there and um at that time their mother came there the mother our mother mothers of those out came there from outside she crooned and gurgled for a long time and in the morning I found that she had left a mouse with its tail tucked through the netting so what he found at that time she started making some kind of soft humming sounds or soft happy sounds from her throat but on the next morning she came inside that you can see that place where those owls were laying so obviously she put no trust in me as a foster parent now what is the meaning of foster parent because at that time that boy was taking care of those owls so he was like taking care of those like the parents so foster parents means not actual not the real parents but though that parent who is taking care of those you can say babies so uh she was not she was not having any kind of Trust on that boy that he will took care of my babies also came she came there the young person and 10 days later so then the those young birds become grown and after 10 days grandfather and I took them into the garden to release them then the boy and his grandfather decided that we should release them now so I had placed one on a branch of mango tree and was stooping to pick up other when I received a heavy blow on the back of the head so what he did he placed one of the bird on the mango tree and then he was going to pick up another one and at that time what their mother do you can say blow a her you can say beak on the head of that boy a second or two later the mother house whooped down on grandfather but he was quite agile and ducked out of the weight then the both the both little bird and mother out attacked on grandfather also but grandfather was very uh agile human says means to say quickly moved out from there and saved himself from them then quickly I placed the second owl under the mango tree and he quickly placed that a second owl under the tree then from a safe distance we watched the mother fly down and lead her off stripping into the long grass at the edge of the garden then both the boy and his grandfather was watching that that the mother owl was taking her babies offsprings means her babies to a safe place means near the grass edges in the gardens she placed her babies there so we thought she would take her family away from our our house rather strange household but next morning I found the two outlets perched on the hair stand in The Veranda so firstly both the boy and his grandfather thought that now they will move out of their house but what they saw on the next morning both the you can say small Outlets were sitting on the handstand in The Veranda first means to say they were sitting on the top of that hats run in the porch of the house so they were very surprised that they haven't gone outside our house so I ran to tell grandfather and when we came back so actually the only boy noticed that and then he goes to his grandfather and called him and say that they came back we found the mother sitting on the bird bird Mark and a few meters away so they what they found that their mother was sitting as a test Shonen figure but what means is it is a little tough having water where bugs birds can take baths so she was sitting there their mother was sitting there she was evidently feeling sorry for her behavior the previous day because she greeted us with a soft wufu so what they what he was saying what the little boy is telling he's telling that she is feeling sorry for her previous day Behavior because on previous day she had attacked on that little boy and his grandfather but today she greeted both of them with soft woohoo sound so making his sound very soft she greeted both and the little boy and his grandfather now there's an unselfish mother for you said grandfather it is obvious she wants to keep us an eye on them they are probably getting too big for her to manage so what he's saying next to next his grandfather saying to the boy that now she she is trusting on you she is not uh attacking on you why because she is feeling that and if they will help me you can say taking care of babies it will be good so she is trusting the mother owl is trusting that boy and his grandfather now so the outlets became regular member of her household and were among the few pets that grandmother took a liking to so uh now the both the outlets and their mother become their their pets and their living there in their house so they are they become the regular member of their house and their grandmother was also liking them because she earlier she has objected to all snakes most monkeys and some crows we we would had all these pets from time to time but she took quite a fancy to owlets and frequently fed them spaghetti so what he's saying earlier they have you can say snakes and monkeys and crows also at their home both the boy and his grandfather but their grandmother was very uh you can say upset from those kind of pet but she was happy with these Outlets she was also liking these omelets and she's also feeding them with the spaghetti now what is the spaghetti uh it is you can say uh dish made up of wheat noodles like or something like you can say so like that she was feeding with that kind of dish to that small babies so they loved to sit and splash in a shallow dish provided by grandmother so their grandmother his grandmother provided them a shallow bowl or you can say which is filled with water and they love to sit on that bowl or Splash means to say take bath take bath or take jump into that boat so they enjoined it very uh they enjoyed it even more if cold water was poured on them over them from a jug while they were in the bath so when they were sitting in that bath if someone poured water on their head cold water they enjoy even more so they would get thoroughly wet and jump out and perch on the tower rack Shake themselves and return for a second Splash and sometimes Arthur so what he's saying that he keeps on doing and the birds keeps on doing the that yeah that you can say there Keeps On Doing bathing again and again in they go into that bowl get a splash and come out and sit outside then after some time then again and again they keep on repeating this kind of thing then during the day they dozed on the hat stand during the daytime what do they do toast means to say sleep sleep on the hat stand so after dark when the evening Falls they had a freedom they had the freedom of the house and their nightly occupation was catching beetles so at daytime they sleep but at night time they feel that they are free now and they fly outside the house and they do their work occupation means to say their normal work what kind of normal work catching the Beetles getting catching the small insects the kitchen quarters being a happy Hunting Ground so their kitchen quarter means to say there was a very grass and there are a lot of beetles so and they keep on hunting on those beetles at night time with their razors razors sharp eyes and Powerful beaks they were excellent pest destroyers so their eyes raise your sharp eyes means to say their eyesight is very good and they can uh you can say pick those beetles very fastly with their strong beaks and their pest destroyed means they destroy them completely from their Garden so looking back on those Childhood Days I carry in my mind a picture of grandmother in her rocking chair with the contented Outlets sprawled across her a partnered lap so once the boy is now remembering his childhood days what he's saying that and that there is a picture of her grandmother in his mind and those Outlets were sitting in the lab of her their grandmother once on entering a room while she was taking an afternoon lap I saw one of the outlets had crawled up her pillow till its head was snugged under her ear both grandmother and her Outlet were snoring so what he was saying he was telling you about an older incident actually so when he entered the room he saw that he her grandmother was sitting on a chair and taking nap means to say she was sleeping and the owlette was also sitting on the pillow on the shoulder as you can see from the figure also and he was also snugged his head near them ear snucked means to say getting into a comfortable position to get warm so they both were sleeping both grandmother and her OLED were snoring sleeping and snoring means to say they were in you can say deep sleep and producing some kind of sounds so this is uh the story this is all about your story which was written by your Ruskin Bond where you famous writer so next now let us try to solve our exercise given at the end of the story so firstly they have given you questions and then again there is a question and then again so ABC all these are questions and just try to solve these questions now let us start something else that is from your grammar portion that is your idioms are given so what are idioms actually to make your you can say writing beautiful and we can we use some kind of words that are called your idioms so first one is they have given you the example pratik begins to argue with the people at the drop of hat so what does it mean what is the meaning of at the drop of hat it means without any hesitation he start fighting or he start arguing so these kind of words are called your idioms and here we have given a few examples let us read one by one first one is all this while I thought it was you leaving to study uh leaving the study door open I was backing up the wrong tree next one is the woman should not have asked the police so many questions curiously kill the cat and she become suspect so means uh they were they have used some kind of words those have written in the bold letters these are you can say idioms different idioms they have given you and in the below table they have given you idiom on one side and meanings on the other side so uh you have to find the meanings of these idioms and try to solve these idioms so let us try to solve first one is your a fish out of water so what is the meaning of a fish out of water so its meaning means in any kind of uncomfortable situation so one is answer of one is G so first answer is G then is the loins sheer loins Shear means a big Shear a big portion largest portion so seconds answer is d then comes your third cat Cow cat caught your tongue so third is Cat part your tongue which means that having nothing to say having nothing to say I have nothing to say so this is the answer of third then raining cats and dogs raining cats and dogs means very heavy rain or you can say very fast train so last one that is your H then hold your horses fifth one is hold your horses means to say being patient then its meaning is being patient being patient then sixth one is let the cat out of the bag so answer of sixth is give away a secret reveal the secret then is Seven Something Fishy Something Fishy means to say something very odd or suspicious so first is the answer of seventh one then comes your last one barking up the wrong tree so barking up the wrong tree only one is left that is being incorrect about our situation so they have given you this exercise and just read the given ones that are given on this page and then remember these and now moving to your next page so in the next page what they have given you here they have introduced the concept of subject and predicate so what is subject and predicate actually each and every sentence have one sentence is having subject and predicate both so they have given you sentences below let us try to find out subject and predicates so the olips is olet is not normally afraid of man so the portion that is you can say highlighted or that is in bold letters the OLED this is the subject of this sentence and the rest of the sentence is called predicate so next in the next one grandfather and I took them into the garden to release them so what he's saying uh in this sentence this grandfather and I is the subject and the rest of the sentence is your predicate next is they love to sit and splash in a shallow dish provided by grandmother here they is the subject and rest of your sentence is predicate now how you will find that subject what is subject and what is predicate so uh the subject is that word that is telling you about or showing you about what and who is uh taking talking or what about what is talking in a sentence so for example your Outlet's grandfather and I they these are the uh you can say subject part of the sentences because they are answering what and who questions so the rest of the sentence is your predicate as I have already told you now on the below they have given you some sentences also so let us try to solve these sentences before solving the exercise there are four more you can say sentences let us read these sentences also so the subject tells us who and what the sentence is about subject tells you about what kind of thing is being talked in the sentence or who is uh doing their thing so that is told by the subject and rest of the thing is your predicate so the house is quite large what is quite large the house so the house is your subject and next is the dog ran around the field where the dog who ran the dog so the dog is the you can say subject so the questions like what and who uh the answer of those things is your subject then they have given you an exercise based on subjects and predicates and you have to match the correct and correct subjects with the predicates so let us try to solve these the first one is the little trees first is made him run fast fell from my hand and broke catches a worm were covered with flowers so I think the fourth one is correct because it is most suitable the literal tree you can say the little tree were covered with flowers then is your the fear of dogs the fear of the dogs made him run fast because of the fear of dog he started running fast to show the fear of dogs made him run fast then next is my aunt and I my aunt and I learning to dance my aunt and I are learning to dance the next is the bottle of milk fell from my hand and broke then the early bird catches the worm so this is all about your subject and predicate so I hope you understood understood the concept well next moving to the next one now so here they have given you about a dictionary now what is dictionary a dictionary is a very important tool using which you can find or you can search for the meaning of a word so what is the functions of dictionary what kind of task dictionary do for us first one is looking up for a meaning if you want to find the meaning of some word you can look at the dictionary then checking for the checking of the spelling of a word finding out other grammatical information about the word finding the part of speech means that particular word is a noun or adjective or a verb you can check that from dictionary also then what is the correct pronunciation of that particular word then reading about the examples of the use of that word in which sense we can use that word so all these things you can find from a dictionary and here in the below give an exercise they have given you a word spotted and how the word spotted is used in single sentence and two different meanings so let us read the sentence we spotted two spotted owls in The Veranda so the word is spotted but the uh do at two times it is having two different meanings so how at this sentence first spotted the first spotted we spotted means to say uh we spotted means to say we noticed something we spotted two spotted out second spotted means to say those owls are having some kind of spots on their body some kinds of dots on their body so spotted one is used as adjective having a regular pattern of rounded dots on it and second as a verb means noticing something so in this way there are lot many words that are having two different meanings so they have given you an exercise and you have to solve this exercise now so let us try the first one is I found that she had left a mouse with its tail tucked through the netting first one is covered second is pushed in through a small space and third one is folded the address so second is the correct meaning of tucked means to say pushed in through a small space next one is by tapping on the tree trunk I had once pursuited an owl to show an inquiring phase at the entrance on to its hole so means tapping means to say making a little Sound by hitting something tapping means to say like you are tapping on a table so it means you are making little Sound by tapping your hand on that table so tapping means to say hitting lightly to make a sound so this is the answer of second one a option then moving to your next page now I had placed one on a branch of the mango tree and was stooping to pick up the other when I received a heavy blow on the back of the head so what is the meaning of blow blow means to say hit or strike something so at that in the story that all a mother owl strike on his head so the meaning of blow here is a hit or a strike the next one is the mother owl swooped down on grandfather but he was quite agile and ducked out of the wheel so uh when the mother attacked on grandfather he was quite agile means to say he moved quickly and ducked out of the way what is the meaning of tucked bent down suddenly to avoid something because the mother who was attacking on him and he wants to save save himself that is why he bent suddenly and avoided that mother owl so duct meaning meaning of duct means to say bent down suddenly towards something then last one is I saw that one of the owlets had called up her pillow till its head was snugged under her ear so what is the meaning of snugged means to say got into a warm and comfortable position so this is all about your word meanings then this is all about your chapter so just try to solve the exercise the question answers given in the exercise and write down all the questions on your notebook so thanks for listening have a nice daygood morning dear students I hope you all are fine so I think that you have completed your first two chapters if not just complete those chapters first of all and then today we are going to start our third chapter that is owls and the family so this is a chapter very interesting story about a boy who is telling about the time when one owl came into their home so very interesting story how they took care of that owl you can say so this is a story about that so before starting our reading portion there is an activity given for you so what you have to do in this if you were given the option to have an unusual pet which animal would you choose so what they are asking from you if you have an uh you can say given an option to choose and pet for you an unusual pet normal uh other than normal pets like your dog cats except then those what kind of pet you want to keep at your home and then you have to collect about the information that we are we can keep at our home the pets that are legal to keep at home in our country there are some kind of pets that we can't keep at that at our homes so what kind of pets we can keep at our home legally so you have to write about those pets then now let us start reading our chapter moving to your next page now so the chapter starts as one winter morning my grandfather and I found a baby spotted owl by The Veranda step in our home in dharadur so what he's saying the boy is saying that on one winter morning he and his grandfather found a small owl baby owl in The Veranda steps of our home in dehradun their home is in dehradun and he found a little owl in the buranda means to say in the open area outside the house or you can say the porch of the house they found a owl over there so when grandfather picked it up and that a little out haste and clanked but it's built but then after a meal of raw meat and water settled down under my bed so what he said that uh when his grandfather picked up that that little owl at the start the owl made a sound a loud sound but after they have given them some meal uh some food then that house uh settled down under the bed of the narrator that little boy so now in the next paragraph the boy is telling you about these kind of owls so what he's saying spotted Outlets are small birds spotted means to say the owls that are having spots or having dots on their body they are small birds a fully grown one is no larger than the trash and they have none of sisters appearance of large house so he is saying that that kind of owls have you can say small size they grow into a small bird only and they do not look like like evil appearance like that of you can say larger house so I had once found a pair of them in our mango tree and by tapping on the tree trunk hand pursuited one to show an inquiring phase at the entrance of its root so he's telling about uh about an earlier event once uh earlier also he found one of the owl in their mango tree in the garden and the outlet is not normally afraid of man nor is it strictly a night bird so he is saying that the outlets are not afraid of men they do not have any kind of fear from human beings and they do not they are not only as night birds only they are you can say they came out in daytime also but it prefers to stay at home during the day because it is sometimes attacked by other birds who consider all owls their enemies so why they stay at Homes at daytime because they have the fear to earn fear of fight against other and other birds because other birds consider the owl as their enemy so they uh they stay at home at daytime and come out at night time so the little Outlet was quite happy under my bed now he's saying that that little owlette was happy under his bed the following day we found a second baby owlette in the almost same spot on the veranda and on another day on next day he they found he and his grandfather found one more Outlet you can say and only then did we realize that where the rain water pipe emerged through the roof there was a rough sort of Nest from which the bird had fallen then they came to know that from where those birds are coming actually their nest was there on a rainwater pipe outside their house and they were coming or their nest was fallen from there and they were coming from there so we took the second young owl to join the first and fed them both so then they keep those hours together and then fed them or they had given some food to both of them when I went to bed uh they were on the window ledge just inside the mosquito netting and later in the night their mother found them there so what happened next when he goes to his when he went to his bed means to say at night time when that boy has went to his bed what he found they were sitting in the window ledge window which means to say uh you can say a small shelf near the window so he they the birds were sitting there and um at that time their mother came there the mother our mother mothers of those out came there from outside she crooned and gurgled for a long time and in the morning I found that she had left a mouse with its tail tucked through the netting so what he found at that time she started making some kind of soft humming sounds or soft happy sounds from her throat but on the next morning she came inside that you can see that place where those owls were laying so obviously she put no trust in me as a foster parent now what is the meaning of foster parent because at that time that boy was taking care of those owls so he was like taking care of those like the parents so foster parents means not actual not the real parents but though that parent who is taking care of those you can say babies so uh she was not she was not having any kind of Trust on that boy that he will took care of my babies also came she came there the young person and 10 days later so then the those young birds become grown and after 10 days grandfather and I took them into the garden to release them then the boy and his grandfather decided that we should release them now so I had placed one on a branch of mango tree and was stooping to pick up other when I received a heavy blow on the back of the head so what he did he placed one of the bird on the mango tree and then he was going to pick up another one and at that time what their mother do you can say blow a her you can say beak on the head of that boy a second or two later the mother house whooped down on grandfather but he was quite agile and ducked out of the weight then the both the both little bird and mother out attacked on grandfather also but grandfather was very uh agile human says means to say quickly moved out from there and saved himself from them then quickly I placed the second owl under the mango tree and he quickly placed that a second owl under the tree then from a safe distance we watched the mother fly down and lead her off stripping into the long grass at the edge of the garden then both the boy and his grandfather was watching that that the mother owl was taking her babies offsprings means her babies to a safe place means near the grass edges in the gardens she placed her babies there so we thought she would take her family away from our our house rather strange household but next morning I found the two outlets perched on the hair stand in The Veranda so firstly both the boy and his grandfather thought that now they will move out of their house but what they saw on the next morning both the you can say small Outlets were sitting on the handstand in The Veranda first means to say they were sitting on the top of that hats run in the porch of the house so they were very surprised that they haven't gone outside our house so I ran to tell grandfather and when we came back so actually the only boy noticed that and then he goes to his grandfather and called him and say that they came back we found the mother sitting on the bird bird Mark and a few meters away so they what they found that their mother was sitting as a test Shonen figure but what means is it is a little tough having water where bugs birds can take baths so she was sitting there their mother was sitting there she was evidently feeling sorry for her behavior the previous day because she greeted us with a soft wufu so what they what he was saying what the little boy is telling he's telling that she is feeling sorry for her previous day Behavior because on previous day she had attacked on that little boy and his grandfather but today she greeted both of them with soft woohoo sound so making his sound very soft she greeted both and the little boy and his grandfather now there's an unselfish mother for you said grandfather it is obvious she wants to keep us an eye on them they are probably getting too big for her to manage so what he's saying next to next his grandfather saying to the boy that now she she is trusting on you she is not uh attacking on you why because she is feeling that and if they will help me you can say taking care of babies it will be good so she is trusting the mother owl is trusting that boy and his grandfather now so the outlets became regular member of her household and were among the few pets that grandmother took a liking to so uh now the both the outlets and their mother become their their pets and their living there in their house so they are they become the regular member of their house and their grandmother was also liking them because she earlier she has objected to all snakes most monkeys and some crows we we would had all these pets from time to time but she took quite a fancy to owlets and frequently fed them spaghetti so what he's saying earlier they have you can say snakes and monkeys and crows also at their home both the boy and his grandfather but their grandmother was very uh you can say upset from those kind of pet but she was happy with these Outlets she was also liking these omelets and she's also feeding them with the spaghetti now what is the spaghetti uh it is you can say uh dish made up of wheat noodles like or something like you can say so like that she was feeding with that kind of dish to that small babies so they loved to sit and splash in a shallow dish provided by grandmother so their grandmother his grandmother provided them a shallow bowl or you can say which is filled with water and they love to sit on that bowl or Splash means to say take bath take bath or take jump into that boat so they enjoined it very uh they enjoyed it even more if cold water was poured on them over them from a jug while they were in the bath so when they were sitting in that bath if someone poured water on their head cold water they enjoy even more so they would get thoroughly wet and jump out and perch on the tower rack Shake themselves and return for a second Splash and sometimes Arthur so what he's saying that he keeps on doing and the birds keeps on doing the that yeah that you can say there Keeps On Doing bathing again and again in they go into that bowl get a splash and come out and sit outside then after some time then again and again they keep on repeating this kind of thing then during the day they dozed on the hat stand during the daytime what do they do toast means to say sleep sleep on the hat stand so after dark when the evening Falls they had a freedom they had the freedom of the house and their nightly occupation was catching beetles so at daytime they sleep but at night time they feel that they are free now and they fly outside the house and they do their work occupation means to say their normal work what kind of normal work catching the Beetles getting catching the small insects the kitchen quarters being a happy Hunting Ground so their kitchen quarter means to say there was a very grass and there are a lot of beetles so and they keep on hunting on those beetles at night time with their razors razors sharp eyes and Powerful beaks they were excellent pest destroyers so their eyes raise your sharp eyes means to say their eyesight is very good and they can uh you can say pick those beetles very fastly with their strong beaks and their pest destroyed means they destroy them completely from their Garden so looking back on those Childhood Days I carry in my mind a picture of grandmother in her rocking chair with the contented Outlets sprawled across her a partnered lap so once the boy is now remembering his childhood days what he's saying that and that there is a picture of her grandmother in his mind and those Outlets were sitting in the lab of her their grandmother once on entering a room while she was taking an afternoon lap I saw one of the outlets had crawled up her pillow till its head was snugged under her ear both grandmother and her Outlet were snoring so what he was saying he was telling you about an older incident actually so when he entered the room he saw that he her grandmother was sitting on a chair and taking nap means to say she was sleeping and the owlette was also sitting on the pillow on the shoulder as you can see from the figure also and he was also snugged his head near them ear snucked means to say getting into a comfortable position to get warm so they both were sleeping both grandmother and her OLED were snoring sleeping and snoring means to say they were in you can say deep sleep and producing some kind of sounds so this is uh the story this is all about your story which was written by your Ruskin Bond where you famous writer so next now let us try to solve our exercise given at the end of the story so firstly they have given you questions and then again there is a question and then again so ABC all these are questions and just try to solve these questions now let us start something else that is from your grammar portion that is your idioms are given so what are idioms actually to make your you can say writing beautiful and we can we use some kind of words that are called your idioms so first one is they have given you the example pratik begins to argue with the people at the drop of hat so what does it mean what is the meaning of at the drop of hat it means without any hesitation he start fighting or he start arguing so these kind of words are called your idioms and here we have given a few examples let us read one by one first one is all this while I thought it was you leaving to study uh leaving the study door open I was backing up the wrong tree next one is the woman should not have asked the police so many questions curiously kill the cat and she become suspect so means uh they were they have used some kind of words those have written in the bold letters these are you can say idioms different idioms they have given you and in the below table they have given you idiom on one side and meanings on the other side so uh you have to find the meanings of these idioms and try to solve these idioms so let us try to solve first one is your a fish out of water so what is the meaning of a fish out of water so its meaning means in any kind of uncomfortable situation so one is answer of one is G so first answer is G then is the loins sheer loins Shear means a big Shear a big portion largest portion so seconds answer is d then comes your third cat Cow cat caught your tongue so third is Cat part your tongue which means that having nothing to say having nothing to say I have nothing to say so this is the answer of third then raining cats and dogs raining cats and dogs means very heavy rain or you can say very fast train so last one that is your H then hold your horses fifth one is hold your horses means to say being patient then its meaning is being patient being patient then sixth one is let the cat out of the bag so answer of sixth is give away a secret reveal the secret then is Seven Something Fishy Something Fishy means to say something very odd or suspicious so first is the answer of seventh one then comes your last one barking up the wrong tree so barking up the wrong tree only one is left that is being incorrect about our situation so they have given you this exercise and just read the given ones that are given on this page and then remember these and now moving to your next page so in the next page what they have given you here they have introduced the concept of subject and predicate so what is subject and predicate actually each and every sentence have one sentence is having subject and predicate both so they have given you sentences below let us try to find out subject and predicates so the olips is olet is not normally afraid of man so the portion that is you can say highlighted or that is in bold letters the OLED this is the subject of this sentence and the rest of the sentence is called predicate so next in the next one grandfather and I took them into the garden to release them so what he's saying uh in this sentence this grandfather and I is the subject and the rest of the sentence is your predicate next is they love to sit and splash in a shallow dish provided by grandmother here they is the subject and rest of your sentence is predicate now how you will find that subject what is subject and what is predicate so uh the subject is that word that is telling you about or showing you about what and who is uh taking talking or what about what is talking in a sentence so for example your Outlet's grandfather and I they these are the uh you can say subject part of the sentences because they are answering what and who questions so the rest of the sentence is your predicate as I have already told you now on the below they have given you some sentences also so let us try to solve these sentences before solving the exercise there are four more you can say sentences let us read these sentences also so the subject tells us who and what the sentence is about subject tells you about what kind of thing is being talked in the sentence or who is uh doing their thing so that is told by the subject and rest of the thing is your predicate so the house is quite large what is quite large the house so the house is your subject and next is the dog ran around the field where the dog who ran the dog so the dog is the you can say subject so the questions like what and who uh the answer of those things is your subject then they have given you an exercise based on subjects and predicates and you have to match the correct and correct subjects with the predicates so let us try to solve these the first one is the little trees first is made him run fast fell from my hand and broke catches a worm were covered with flowers so I think the fourth one is correct because it is most suitable the literal tree you can say the little tree were covered with flowers then is your the fear of dogs the fear of the dogs made him run fast because of the fear of dog he started running fast to show the fear of dogs made him run fast then next is my aunt and I my aunt and I learning to dance my aunt and I are learning to dance the next is the bottle of milk fell from my hand and broke then the early bird catches the worm so this is all about your subject and predicate so I hope you understood understood the concept well next moving to the next one now so here they have given you about a dictionary now what is dictionary a dictionary is a very important tool using which you can find or you can search for the meaning of a word so what is the functions of dictionary what kind of task dictionary do for us first one is looking up for a meaning if you want to find the meaning of some word you can look at the dictionary then checking for the checking of the spelling of a word finding out other grammatical information about the word finding the part of speech means that particular word is a noun or adjective or a verb you can check that from dictionary also then what is the correct pronunciation of that particular word then reading about the examples of the use of that word in which sense we can use that word so all these things you can find from a dictionary and here in the below give an exercise they have given you a word spotted and how the word spotted is used in single sentence and two different meanings so let us read the sentence we spotted two spotted owls in The Veranda so the word is spotted but the uh do at two times it is having two different meanings so how at this sentence first spotted the first spotted we spotted means to say uh we spotted means to say we noticed something we spotted two spotted out second spotted means to say those owls are having some kind of spots on their body some kinds of dots on their body so spotted one is used as adjective having a regular pattern of rounded dots on it and second as a verb means noticing something so in this way there are lot many words that are having two different meanings so they have given you an exercise and you have to solve this exercise now so let us try the first one is I found that she had left a mouse with its tail tucked through the netting first one is covered second is pushed in through a small space and third one is folded the address so second is the correct meaning of tucked means to say pushed in through a small space next one is by tapping on the tree trunk I had once pursuited an owl to show an inquiring phase at the entrance on to its hole so means tapping means to say making a little Sound by hitting something tapping means to say like you are tapping on a table so it means you are making little Sound by tapping your hand on that table so tapping means to say hitting lightly to make a sound so this is the answer of second one a option then moving to your next page now I had placed one on a branch of the mango tree and was stooping to pick up the other when I received a heavy blow on the back of the head so what is the meaning of blow blow means to say hit or strike something so at that in the story that all a mother owl strike on his head so the meaning of blow here is a hit or a strike the next one is the mother owl swooped down on grandfather but he was quite agile and ducked out of the wheel so uh when the mother attacked on grandfather he was quite agile means to say he moved quickly and ducked out of the way what is the meaning of tucked bent down suddenly to avoid something because the mother who was attacking on him and he wants to save save himself that is why he bent suddenly and avoided that mother owl so duct meaning meaning of duct means to say bent down suddenly towards something then last one is I saw that one of the owlets had called up her pillow till its head was snugged under her ear so what is the meaning of snugged means to say got into a warm and comfortable position so this is all about your word meanings then this is all about your chapter so just try to solve the exercise the question answers given in the exercise and write down all the questions on your notebook so thanks for listening have a nice day\n"