📗 Answer Key: The Loyal Mongoose — Textbook Exercises
Class 3 English Reader (Blossoms-3) | Unit 3
🗨️ Let us Interact — Activity 1
This is an oral activity based on the picture. Students answer freely from what they observe (animals seen, their own pet, favourite animal, etc.) — there is no single fixed answer.
🤔 Let us Think — Activity 2 (Answer the Questions)
1. What was the farmer's pet? — A mongoose.
2. Which animal entered the farmer's house? — A big snake.
3. How did the mongoose protect the baby? — It saw the snake crawling towards the cradle, attacked it, and killed it.
4. Who sent the mongoose out? — The farmer's wife (she drove it away with a stick).
5. How did the farmer's wife feel when she saw the baby alive? — She felt sorry for what she had done, realising the mongoose had actually saved the baby.
📚 Let us Learn — Activity 3 (Classify the animals)
| Domestic animals | Wild animals |
|---|---|
| cow (given) | lion (given) |
| dog | elephant |
| cat | giraffe |
| goat | tiger |
| horse | deer |
| rabbit | fox |
| sheep | crocodile |
| pig | |
| buffalo | |
| camel |
Fill in the blanks with 'domestic' or 'wild':
1. The cow is a domestic animal.
2. The snake is a wild animal.
3. The giraffe is a wild animal.
4. The dog is a domestic animal.
5. The cat is a domestic animal.
✏️ Grammar — Activity 4 (Match phrases with pictures)
- 1. a big tree → the tree image
- 2. green grass → the grass image
- 3. a round ball → the ball image
- 4. a small baby → the baby image
- 5. a red balloon → the balloon image
✏️ Activity 5 (Fill in the blanks with suitable adjectives)
1. This is a ___ puppy. → C) small
2. The leaf is ___ in colour. → A) green
3. The chess board is ___ in shape. → C) square
4. The elephant is ___ in size. → B) big
5. The bag is ___ in colour. → A) pink
✍️ Let us Write — Activity 6 (Add full stop or question mark)
1. Who is your teacher ?
2. I am a boy .
3. This is my book .
4. What is your father ?
5. Why are you crying ?
6. We are playing .
7. Is it true ?
8. Will you go to the market ?
9. She is reading .
10. Can you speak English ?
✏️ Activity 7 (Change into question form)
Eg. We will go to picnic. → Will we go to picnic?
1. She is a doctor. → Is she a doctor?
2. They are playing. → Are they playing?
3. I can dance. → Can I dance?
4. You are coming. → Are you coming?
5. He can run fast. → Can he run fast?
👂 Let us Listen and Respond — Activity 8 (True or False)
1. Leela remembered to bring her pencil to class. — False (she forgot it)
2. Leela wanted to draw a picture. — True
3. David gave Leela his pencil. — False (David didn't have one)
4. Rani refused to give Leela her pencil. — False (Rani gave it to her)
5. Leela thanked Rani for the pencil. — True
🗣️ Let us Speak / Let us Do / Let us Explore
These are oral role-play (Rabbit's Payasam conversation), craft (Animal Mask preparation), and pasting/collection activities. They do not have written answers — students perform, create, or paste as instructed.
🎯 Let us Practise — The Loyal Mongoose (Q1–Q23)
1. Which animal is a wild animal? → B) Tiger
2. Complete the analogy: Dog is to Home, as Lion is to Forest / Jungle.
3. Find the odd one out: Cow, Buffalo, Tiger, Goat. → Tiger — because Cow, Buffalo and Goat are domestic animals, while Tiger is a wild animal.
4. Sort into pet and wild: Wolf, Cat, Dog, Fox. →
Pet animals: Cat, Dog
Wild animals: Wolf, Fox
5. Sentences using mask materials:
• We use scissors to cut papers. (example)
• We use glue to stick papers together.
• We use crayons to colour the mask.
• We use string to tie the mask on our face.
6. "The ball is red." The word 'red' is an: → A) Adjective
7. Turn into a question: "I can eat ice cream." → Can I eat ice cream?
8. Adjective to describe the Sun: → The sun is bright / hot.
9. Four questions for a new friend:
1. What is your name?
2. Which class do you study in?
3. How old are you?
4. What is your hobby?
10. Describe favourite animal with four adjectives: → My favourite animal is the dog. It is big, strong, fast and furry.
11. Zoo animal seen in a cage, but NOT in a friend's house: → B) A Wolf
12. Was the farmer's wife right to hit the mongoose before checking inside? → B) No
13. What did the wife see on the mongoose's mouth that made her angry? → Blood stains on its mouth and teeth.
14. In "Rabbit's Payasam": The Rabbit asked the Fox to bring him sago, and the Fox replied that he was sorry, he had no sago.
15. Why did the farmer's wife cry at the end? → She realised the mongoose had actually saved her baby by killing the snake, and she had wrongly killed her loyal, innocent pet in anger.
16. Meaning of "loyal": being faithful and devoted to someone. The mongoose showed loyalty by staying with the baby and bravely fighting off the snake to protect it, even though it later lost its own life for this act of faithfulness.
17. Which is the polite request? → B) Can you give me sugar?
18. Sentence asking for a pencil politely: → Can you please give me a pencil?
19. First step for making a mask: → Choose an animal — lion, tiger, rabbit, panda, monkey, etc.
20. Imagine a pet elephant — name and sleeping place: → I would name my elephant "Gaju." It would sleep in a large shed built near my house.
21. Descriptive paragraph on "My Favourite Pet":
My favourite pet is my dog, Tommy. He is small, brown and very friendly. He eats rice, milk and biscuits every day. I love him because he plays with me, guards our house, and is always happy to see me when I come home from school.
22. Change "You like ice cream" into a question: → B) "Do you like ice cream?"
23. Correct polite form used by the Rabbit to ask for sugar: → C) "Can you give me some sugar?"
