Madhu’s Wish Class 3 NCERT English Chapter 9 Question Answer

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Read the following lines.

Madhu loved food. He always wanted to eat different kinds of food and snacks. He was never tired of eating. Every day, at noon, he would sit under a banyan tree and eat his lunch.

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Question 1. Directions Answer the following questions based on the extract given above.

1. What did Madhu love?
Answer: Madhu loved food

2. What did he always want to eat?
Answer: Madhu always wanted to eat different kinds of food and snacks

3. Where did he eat at noon?
Answer: Madhu ate under the banyan tree at noon

Question 2. Tick (✓) the correct option.

1. Who sat with Madhu under the banyan tree?

1. His father
2. An old man
3. An old women
4. His mother

Answer: 2. An old man ✓

2. What was Madhu feeling for the old man?

1. Sadness
2. Worries
3. Sorry
4. Regret

Answer: 3. Sorry ✓

3. What food did Madhu not ask for?

1. Burger
2. Fruits
3. Kachori
4. Laddoos

Answer: 1. Burger ✓

4. What did the tree offer in place of water?

1. Juice
2. Sherbet
3. Badam Milk
4. Both 2 and 3

Answer: 4. Both 2 and 3 ✓

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Question 3. State (T) for the correct statement and (F) for the incorrect statement.

1. Madhu did not like eating. False
2. Madhu did not share his food with the old man. False
3. The old man gave Madhu one wish to make from the tree. True
4. The tree did not grant Madhu’s wish. False

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Question 4. Read the incomplete sentences. Discuss with your friends and complete them.

1. Madhu shared his food with the old man because
Answer: Madhu wished for different types of food and nothing else.

2. Madhu was happy because
Answer: The old man gave Madhu a wish because he was kind to the old man.

3. After eating fruits, Madhu asked for savories because
Answer: Madhu wished for food like laddoo, colorful fruits, savory snacks, sherbet, kheer, and badam milk.

 4. Madhu asked for water because
Answer: Madhu finally realized the importance of water. He said that no other drink can replace water.

Question 5. Write the answers to the following questions in the space given below.

1. What was Madhu’s wish?
Answer:  Madhu wished for different types of food and nothing else.

2. Why did the old man give Madhu a wish?
Answer:  The old man gave Madhu a wish because he was kind to the old man

3. What are the foods that Madhu wished for?
Answer:  Madhu wished for food like laddoo, colorful fruits, savory snacks, sherbet, kheer, and badam milk

4. Why did Madhu wish for water instead of all the other food?
Answer:  Madhu finally realized the importance of water. He said that no other drink can replace water.

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Question 6. Madhu ate a lot of things. Can you divide it into sweets, fruits, and salty snack

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Question 7. Madhu’s story contains many new words. Open up a dictionary and match
the words given in Column ‘A’ with their meanings in Column ‘B’.

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Question 8. Pick the odd one out

1. Apple, Banana, Potato, Chikoo
Answer: Potato Exp. All the others are fruits.

2. Tree, Grass, Sky, Flower
Answer: Skyy Exp. All the others are plants

Madhu learns about kindness

3. Samosa, Matri, Kachori, Kheer
Answer: Kheer Exp. All the others are salty snacks

4. Water, Jalebi, Badam Milk, Sherbet
Answer: Jalebi Exp. All the others are sweet drinks.

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Read the given lines from Madhu’s story.

Madhu felt sorry for him and shared his food with him. The old man was so happy that as he was leaving, he said, “My child, you have been so kind. In return, you can wish for anything from this tree and it will be granted.” Madhu felt very happy.

In these lines, the words, ‘kind’, ‘old’, and ‘happy’ are used to describe the man and Madhu. Such words are called describing words.

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Question 9. Choose a word from the box to describe the person

1. Tall
2. Smart
3. Intelligent
4. Cute
5. Careless

1. Ram’s height is 6 feet. he is __________
Answer: Tall

2. Shreya always comes first in her grade. She is__________
Answer: Intelligent 

3. Kavita has a newborn baby. She is__________
Answer: Cute

4. Arya keeps losing his things. He is__________
Answer: Careless

5. Trisha always does her work on time. She is__________
Answer: Smart

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NCERT Solutions For Class 3 English Madhu Learns About Kindness

Question Do you know we can join two sentences together using some words?

For example

Aman has a pen.

Aman has a pencil.

These sentences can be written as – Aman has a pen and a pencil.

We joined this sentence using the word ‘and’.

Now, look at these sentences.

Prajval has a pen.

Prajval does not have an eraser.

These sentences can be written as -Prajval has a pen but not an eraser.

We joined this sentence Using the word ‘but’.

Question 10. Let us try to join some other sentences using ‘and and ‘but’.

1. I like going to school. My favorite subject is English.
Answer: I like going to school and my favorite subject is English.

2. Rita is a lawyer. Manu is a doctor.
Answer: Rita is a lawyer but Manu is a doctor

3. I am a sportsperson. I like playing tennis.
Answer: I am a sportsperson and I like playing tennis

4. There is a temple near my house. It is very beautiful.
Answer: There is a temple near my house and it is very beautiful

5. Manvi has a bottle. It does not have any water
Answer: Manvi has a bottle but it does not have any water

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Question 11. Notice that the first letter of each word has the same letter

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Write down similar words as shown above using the letter ‘B’

Question 12. Now, write a story on how you decided to use the table mat. Your story will have the following beginning.

Answer: