The Ungrateful Jeweller | Class 8 | Lesson 3 | Exercises Question Answer | MPBSE

“The Ungrateful Jeweller” is a lesson of Class 8 Textbook of MPBSE. Here all the Exercises Questions are done by teachers.

A) Match the columns

• Woodcutter → One who cuts wood
• Exhausted → Tired
• Ornaments → Jewellery
• Ungrateful → Thankless
• Release → To free

B) Write what we call them:

i) One who cuts wood → Woodcutter
ii) One who makes jewellery → Jeweller
iii) One who saves others → Saviour
iv) One who travels → Traveller
v) One who makes sculptures → Sculptor

C) Some adjectives are made by adding ‘full’ to nouns. Example: tact + full = tactful. (Note that in the derivative one ‘l’ is dropped.) In some cases the last letter has to be changed before ‘ful’ can be added. Now make adjectives of the following by adding ‘full’:

1. Thank → Thankful
2. Grace → Graceful
3. Peace → Peaceful
4. Meaning → Meaningful
5. Help → Helpful
6. Pain → Painful
7. Wonder → Wonderful
8. Power → Powerful
9. Hope → Hopeful

Comprehension

Answer the following questions:

i) When could the woodcutter not earn any money?
The woodcutter could not earn any money during the rainy season.

ii) Who were trapped in the well?
A monkey, a tiger, a snake, and a jeweller were trapped in the well.

iii) How did the tiger, the monkey, and the snake help the woodcutter?

• The monkey dropped sweet fruits for the woodcutter to eat.
• The tiger gifted him a set of gold ornaments.
• The snake bit the queen and instructed the woodcutter on how to save her, which helped him gain the king’s favor.

iv) Why was the woodcutter put in prison?
The jeweller falsely accused the woodcutter of stealing the lost ornaments of the princess, and he was put in prison.

v) Who among the four trapped in the well proved ungrateful to the woodcutter? How?
The jeweller proved ungrateful. He betrayed the woodcutter by taking the ornaments and falsely accusing him of theft to the king.

vi) What did the snake do to help the woodcutter?
The snake bit the queen and informed the woodcutter that the queen would recover only if he touched her forehead with his axe. This plan helped the woodcutter gain the king’s favor.

vii) What happened to the jeweller in the end?
In the end, the jeweller felt ashamed of his ungrateful behavior when the woodcutter was rewarded by the king and released from prison.

Let’s Learn

A) English has many specialities and peculiarities One of them is the use of articles with nouns. Article “a/an” is used before a singular noun but if the noun is definite or particular, ‘the’ is used before it. Similarly ‘the’ is also used before definite plural nouns. Article ‘the’ has other functions also.

1. Articles “a/an”:
   • These are used before singular nouns that are not specific or definite.
   • Examples:
     • “I saw a dog in the park.”
     • “She ate an apple for lunch.”
   • Use “a” before words starting with a consonant sound and “an” before words starting with a vowel sound.
2. Article “the”:
   • Used before definite or particular nouns, whether singular or plural.
   • Also used before definite plural nouns.
   • Examples:
     • “I saw the dog you were talking about.”
     • “She bought the apples we needed for the pie.”
3. Other Functions of “the”:
   • Used before unique nouns (e.g., the sun, the moon).
   • Used with superlatives (e.g., the best, the tallest).
   • Used before names of rivers, oceans, mountains, and monuments (e.g., the Nile, the Taj Mahal).

Given below is a story. The articles are missing in it. Use appropriate articles to fill in the blanks.

One day a cat climbed up a tree. Since it was sick, it could not climb down itself. It mewed and mewed. There lived an elephant at a nearby place. It was a good friend of the cat. It heard the cry of the cat. It ran fast to help the cat. Without climbing up the tree, the elephant caught the cat in his trunk and brought her down.

B) Mark the use of the following words in the lesson:

• a poor wood cutter
• great pleasure
• a long journey
• sweet fruit

The words poor, long, great, sweet are qualifying words. These woods are called adjectives.

• poor
• long
• great
• sweet
• poorer
• longer
• greater
• sweeter
• poorest
• longest
• greatest
• sweetest

The above are the degrees of the adjectives—the positive degree, the comparative degree and the superlative degree.

The comparative and superlative degrees of some adjectives are also made by adding ‘more’ and ‘most’:

beautiful – more beautiful – most beautiful
handsome – more handsome – most handsome

Now fill in the missing words:

Here is the completed table of degrees of comparison:

Missing words in the table

Let’s Talk

Make pairs in the class and talk about the Nobel Prize with the help of the clues given:

Student 1: What is the Nobel Prize?
Student 2: The Nobel Prize is the highest award in the world.

Student 1: For what fields is the Nobel Prize given?
Student 2: It is given for specialised work in the fields of Peace, Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Economics, and Medicine.

Student 1: Who awards the Nobel Prize?
Student 2: It is awarded by the Sweden Committee, the Bank of Sweden, and the Norwegian Parliament.

Student 1: Do you know anyone from India who won the Nobel Prize?
Student 2: Yes, Amartya Sen received the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Read the clues given above. Sit in pairs.

One of the two boys will ask a question on the clues and the other one will reply. Do it turn by turn.

First student: What is the highest award in the world?
Second student: The Nobel Prize is the highest award in the world.

Second student: Why is the Nobel Prize given?
First student: It is given for specialised work in fields like Peace, Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Economics, and Medicine.

First student: Whom is the Nobel Prize awarded by?
Second student: It is awarded by the Sweden Committee, the Bank of Sweden, and the Norwegian Parliament.

Second student: Who won the Nobel Prize in Economics?
First student: Amartya Sen won the Nobel Prize in Economics.