Class 5- KAAFAL PAKO

Kaafal Pako

EX A1.

Q1.

A1.Nandi was a little mountain girl. She was sad because her father was going to be away for a long time and it was time for the ripe kaafal berries to be plucked.

Q2.

A2.Nandi's father was going to the Big market. There wasn't much left in the house to eat. So he had to buy all that they needed.

Q3.

A3. Nandi was changed into a little black bird with shining wings.

Q4.

A4.It is a famous tale in the mountains that when the kaafal berries begin to ripen ,a little black bird called Kaafal Pako flies over the hills and valleys,telling everybody that the kaafal berries are ripened and ready to fall.






 

EX A2.

1.

a) I refers to Nandi.

b)She had turned into a little         black bird with shining wings.

c)It was time to pluck the kaafal berries as they had ripened. They would begin to fall and the naughty boys would eat them all.

2.

a)Nandi's father said this line.

b)He had promised his daughter to return on the third day and then they would pluck the kaafal berries.

c)He heard a little black bird sing that the kaafal berries had ripened and it was time to pluck them. The voice of the black bird was so much like Nandi's.