KSEEB 8th English King Sindbad and His Falcon Lesson Lesson Notes Summary Questions and Answers
Pre-reading task:
Read the following questions and answers:
Question 1.
Do you like pets?
Answer:
Yes, I like pets.
Question 2.
Name the pets that you have in your house.
Answer:
I have a, pup and some gold fish.
Question 3.
What are the facilities provided to these pets?
Answer:
They are provided with good food, shelter and medical care, whenever necessary. I have a kennel for the pup and a fish tank.
Question 4.
How do you take care of pets?
Answer:
They are nourished with good food, kept clean and taken to a vet for any medical need.
Question 5.
How do masters often punish pets that disobey them?
Answer:
They either beat them or starve them.
Textbook Questions and Answers
I. Comprehension:
A. Answer in two three sentences each:
Question 1.
Who was Sindbad? What was he fond of?
Answer:
Sindbad was a king. He was fond of racing and hunting.
Question 2.
What had the king brought up? What did he tie around its neck? Why?
Answer:
The king had brought up a falcon as his pet. The king tied a golden cup around its neck to provide water while hunting.
Question 3.
What did the falcon suggest to the king one day?
Answer:
One day the falcon suggested to the king that it was a suitable time for hunting.
Question 4.
How did the king threaten the hunting troop?
Answer:
The king threatened the hunting troop that he would kill the person who allowed the gazelle to escape.
Question 5.
Why does the falcon upset the cup with the ‘dripping liquid’?
Answer:
The falcon knew that the drops of liquid dripping from the leaves were snake venom. Therefore it upset the cup.
Question 6.
When did the falcon succumb to death?
Answer:
The falcon succumbed to death after king Sindbad had reached the camp.
Question 7.
What was the king’s reaction?
Answer:
The king repented for having killed his faithful falcon, which had saved his life. The king cried out aloud in bitter anguish.
B. Answer in three / four sentences each:
Question 1.
How did the king look after the falcon?
Answer:
The king had a falcon as his pet. It was always found on the king’s flst. lt never left the king even at night. In order to provide water while hunting, the king had tied a golden cup around it’s neck.
Question 2.
How did the gazelle escape?
Answer:
As the net kept closing in on the gazelle, it moved towards the king. She stood on her hind legs, lifted her forelegs up to the breast and suddenly jumped out over the head of the king and escaped.
Question 3.
How did the falcon help the king to kill the gazelle?
Answer:
The falcon flew high up and traced the fleeing gazelle. She swooped down on the gazelle and blinded her with her talons. The king immediately struck with his mace and killed the gazelle.
Question 4.
Why did the king take out the cup?
Answer:
As the falcon was thirsty, the king took out the golden cup that was tied around the falcon’s neck, to collect some water.
Question 5.
What activity of the falcon made the king become furious?
Answer:
Every time when the king placed the golden cup with the liquid that he had collected before the falcon, it overturned the cup. The falcon did it twice. Therefore the king became furious.
Question 6.
Why did the king cut off the wings of the falcon?
Answer:
When the falcon overturned the golden cup with the ‘liquid’ in it twice, the king was annoyed. The king then offered the liquid to his horse. The falcon overturned that also. This made the king so furious that he chopped off the wings of the falcon, as a punishment.
Question 7.
What did the falcon indicate to the king?
Answer:
The falcon indicated to the king to look up at the tree, by raising her head.
Question 8.
How did the king’s men trap the gazelle?
Answer:
The king’s men formed a circular shroud with a net. When a gazelle was trapped in it, they slowly lifted up the net from all the sides. Gradually they narrowed the net and the gazelle was trapped in it.
Question 9.
Why did the falcon upset the cup again and again?
Answer:
The falcon realised that the dripping liquid that was collected in the golden cup was not water but the venom of a poisonous viper that was on the tree. Therefore the falcon repeatedly upset the cup.
Question 10.
Why did the king repent?
Answer:
The king repented when he realised that he had chopped off the wings of his faithful falcon, which had saved his life. He also realised that he had lost his faithful companion forever because it was dead.
Question 11.
Why did the king call his pet unlucky and foolish thing?
Answer:
The falcon had overturned the cup with the ‘liquid’ in it twice. It overturned it again when the liquid was offered to the horse. This action of the falcon so infuriated the tired and thirst king that he called his pet unlucky and foolish. This was because he knew that he would punish his pet severely for it’s actions.
Question 12.
How did the falcon save the king’s life?
Answer:
By overturning the cup which had the poison in it, the falcon saved the life of the king.
C. Answer the following questions in six / eight sentences each:
Question 1.
How did the king look after the pet falcon?
Answer:
The pet falcon of the king was taken care off well with a lot of love. The falcon was always found with the king. It was always found perched on the king’s fist. To provide it with water while hunting, the king had even a golden cup tied around it’s neck.
Question 2.
How did the king hunt the gazelle?
Answer:
One day the king’s faithful companion, the falcon, suggested a hunting expedition. King Sindbad set out with his falcon and the hunting troop. They set a trap in the forest, they made a circular shroud with a net. A gazelle was trapped in it, but it escaped when the net was narrowed.
He set out with his falcon to find.the gazelle. The falcon swooped on the fleeing gazelle and blinded it. The king then struck his mace on the gazelle and killed it. Thus with the help of the falcon, the king hunted and killed the gazelle.
Question 3.
What made the king cry aloud?
Answer:
The falcon repeatedly overturned the cup with the ‘liquid’ in it. This action of the falcon irritated the king so much that he chopped off it’s wings as a punishment. The bleeding falcon then drew the attention of the king to a viper on the tree from whose fangs the poison was dripping down the leaves.
The king was ashamed at his hasty action. He returned back to his camp. On reaching the camp, the falcon breathed it’s last and died. The king cried bitterly for having lost his most faithful companion.
Question 4.
How did the falcon prove himself a faithful companion of the king?
Answer:
The falcon was a constant and a close companion of the king. He was always with the king even during the night, it accompanied the king even during the hunting expedition. It even scanned the area to locate their prey if it had escaped.
Once, when the king unwittingly was about to feed the snake venom to the falcon and the horse, the falcon overturned the cup which contained the venom. The king who could not understand the action of the falcon was filled with rage. He chopped off the wings of the falcon as a punishment for spilling the liquid in the cup.
The wounded falcon drew the attention of the king to the viper on the tree, whose venom it was that he had collected. The king realised what the falcon was trying to convey. He was grateful to the falcon but regretted his action of cutting off it’s wings because of which, the falcon lost it’s life. These incidents show that the falcon was indeed a faithful companion of the king.
II. Activities:
Question 1.
Imagine you are king Sindbad who is in the forest and your pet falcon has upset the cup filled with dripping liquid… conclude the story with a different ending.
Answer:
The falcon would act strange and weird, fly up the tree, attack the viper and drop it down. King would then understand the meaning of the falcon’s behaviour, and would arrange for a feast in honour of the ‘ falcon which had saved their lives.
III. Your teacher will read an interesting story for you. Listen to it carefully and answer the following questions:
One day a young mother left her sleeping toddler on the floor and went out to fetch water in a pot, leaving her pet mongoose in charge of the baby.
When she returned a little later, she found the mongoose with it’s mouth full of blood lying near he doorstep. Presuming that the mongsose had killed the sleeping baby, in her anguish, she took the iron rod lying nearby, and killed the animal with it. Later, when she entered the room where she had left her baby asleep, she saw a venomous viper lying dead, next to the baby’s bed, its body in pieces strewn around. She gasped in horror as she took in the scene, realizing that her baby had been unharmed as the mongoose hud fought with the snake and had killed it. All her remorse and lament could not bring her pet mongoose back to life.
A. Who took care of the baby when the women went to fetch water?
Answer:
The mongoose took care of the baby when the woman went to fetch water.
B. Why was the mongoose’s mouth covered with blood?
Answer:
The mongoose had fought with a snake that had entered the house and killed it. Therefore it’s mouth was covered with blood.
C. What, made the woman kill the mongoose?
Answer:
On returning home, the woman saw the mongoose lying near the door steps with it’s mouth covered with blood. The woman thought that the mongoose had killed her .child. In her anguish, she killed the mongoose.
D. Why did the women shed tears?
Answer:
When the woman entered the room, she saw her child alive and pieces of a venomous viper lying near her baby’s bed .she understood that the mongoose had blood on it’s mouth because it had fought with the snake. Overcome with remorse at her hasty action of killing the mongoose, she shed tears.
E. What do you learn from this story?
Answer:
‘Think before you act’ is the message of
the lesson. We should always think deeply over a problem, understand all it’s consequences and then take a decision.
IV. Read the following stories and make a note of the moral:
a. The two adamant goats (Moral: better bend than break) – Class activity.
b. The ant and the dove (Moral: one good turn deserves another) – Class activity.
Question 4.
Given below are five proverbs and match them with their meanings:
| 1. Haste makes waste. | a. One should excel in one’s trade rather than dabbling in too many. |
| 2. A jack of all trades and master of none. | b. One is judged according to the friends he has. |
| 3. A poor workman blames his tools. | c. One must understand the importance of saving money. |
| 4. A penny saved is a penny earned. | d. A person is trying to do everything. |
| 5. A person is known by the company he keeps. | e. An incapable person blames others for his failures. |
| f. If you rush when you are doing something, you will make a mistake. |
Answer:
- – f,
- – a,
- – e,
- – c,
- – b
Question 5.
Narrate to your friends one incident that happened in the past. What lesson did you learn from the incident?
Answer:
Students’activity.
Additional Questions with Answers
Multiple Choice Questions :
Question 1.
King Sindbad ties a golden cup around – the neck of his falcon because
(a) he could easily identify his pet from the rest.
(b) It was placed around it’s neck as an ornament to show that it was a royal falcon.
(c) It would prevent the falcon from attacking the king.
(d) The king could use it while hunting, to provide water.
Answer:
(d) The king could use it while hunting, to provide water.
Question 2.
When the gazelle escaped, all of them in the hunting troop were murmuring because
(a) they were tired of hunting.
(b) the king had threatened to kill the person who ever allowed the gazelle to escape.
(c) they saw a wild elephant before them and were frightened.
(d) None of the above.
Answer:
(b) the king had threatened to kill the person who ever allowed the gazelle to escape.
Question 3.
The king cried aloud because
(a) the king was wounded in the battle.
(b) the king lost both his arms.
(c) his faithful falcon died.
(d) he was captured by his enemies.
Answer:
(c) his faithful falcon died.
King Sindbad and His Falcon Lesson Summary in English
This lesson conveys the message that hasty decisions can lead to misery and sorrow.
King Sindbad had a pet falcon which was his constant and faithful companion. It was always found perched on the fist of the king. It never left the king even at night. The king had tied a golden cup around its neck so that it could be used to fill water and qi encKher thirst while hunting.
The king was fond of racing and hunting. Once, on tu ad ….. r die falcon, the king went on a hunting expedition along with his hunting troop. They set a trap in the forest by making a circular shroud with a net. Shortly, a gazelle was trapped in it. The excited king announced that whoever allowed the animal to escape would be killed. The men carefully narrowed the trap till the gazelle moved towards the king.
But the gazelle escaped jumping over the king’s head. The men reminded the king about the punishment that he had announced. Therefore the king went in search of the animal. The faithful falcon glided through the air and spotted the fleeing animal. It swooped down and blinded the gazelle. The king immediately killed it with a mace and put it on his horse after skinning it.
As the king and the horse were thirsty, the king looked about for some water. Suddenly he saw water dripping from the leaves of a tree. The falcon was also thirsty. Therefore the king removed the golden cup and filled it with the liquid. When he offered the cup to the falcon, it overturned the cup.
The king filled the cup again and offered it once again to the falcon but the falcon did the same. The king wondered about the strange behaviour of the falcon. He then filled the cup again and offered the liquid to the horse. The falcon overturned the cup again. The king was filled with anger. He took out his sword and chopped off the falcon’s wings. The falcon by lifting up it’s head, drew the attention of the king to the tree.
The king found a viper on the tree and the liquid that was dripping from the leaves was actually the venom of the snake. The king regretted his action. He went back to the camp. As soon as the king reached the camp, the falcon which was suffering in pain, died. The king, filled with anguish cried out aloud for the loss of the falcon, but no tears would bring back his faithful falcon again.