Kendriya vidyalaya - Dharmapuri
Question bank – English Class - 3
READING
Read the following passage. Answer the following questions in one word or one
sentence.
Q1. There are a great million fish in the seas, but story is about just
one of them, and a very small one at that. Now this little fish had everything in the
seas to make him contented, but he was not happy. You will laugh when I tellyou why
he was not. He was unhappy because he was so very small.” It is very hard to be such
a little mite of a fish! He would say, over and over again.” If I wereonly larger, how
much happier I could be. And he said it so many times that I think he believed it.One
day he was swimming along with the rest of his school.
1.What do you mean by “Contented”?
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2. Why was the little fish unhappy?
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3.If I were only __________ (large), how much _______(happy) I could be.
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4. “One day he was swimming along with the rest of his school”. What do you mean
by SCHOOL?
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5.Pick out the describing words and write it below.
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6. Write the rhyming words for
i) Mite _________________ ii) such ___________________
7.Write the past form of the words given below:
i) Believe ______________ ii) Tell ____________________
8. Find out and write any two naming words (noun) from the passage:
i) __________________ ii) ____________________
9. Write two new words from the given word “Everything”
i) _________________ ii) ___________________
10.Write the name of the story
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Q2. Sonu loved the little butterfly. It was so pretty. It had brown spots on its yellow
wings. But it looked sad in Sonu’s hand. Sonu wanted it to be happy. “Go,” said
Sonu, “fly away!”.
He let the butterfly go. It sat on the red rose. It flew to the peach tree and then
sailed on a lotus leaf. It flew merrily from flower to flower.
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i) Who loved the little butterfly?
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ii) Who was so pretty?
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iii) Which colour spots did the butterfly have?
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iv) Who was having yellow colour wings?
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v) Who looked sad in Sonu’s hand?
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vi) Which flower mentioned in the passage?
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vii) What is the name of the tree in the passage?
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viii) Butterfly sailed on _____________________________________
ix) What is the past tense of the word Play _____________________
x) Write the opposite of the word happy x _____________________
Q3. Father : Salim, why are you wearing sherwani to school today?
Salim : We are doing a play on Chacha Nehru,today. Today is 14th November and we
are going to stage a play on Chacha Nehru. Nehru was fond of children. so, we
celebrate this day as children’s day. We call him as Chacha.
Ahmed : I am going to play the role of Gandhi. Gandhi was called ‘Bapu’. The father
of Nation.
i) Who is going to play the role of Nehru?
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ii) Who is going to play the role of Gandhi?
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iii) Who is wearing Sherwani?
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iv) Who are going to stage a play?
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v) Where they are playing a stage?
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vi) Whose birthday is going to be celebrated?
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vii) On which day we celebrate Chacha’s birthday?
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viii) Who is known as Chacha?
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ix) Who was fond of children?
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x) Who is known as father of Nation?
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WRITING
Very short answer :-
1) Why was the child in the poem happy ?
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2) Name the two birds in the poem ?
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3) Who helped the old man to pull up the enormous turnip?
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4) Where did the child find the sea shell?
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5) What does the child want to do ?
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6) Why was the little fish unhappy?
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7) Where does the balloon man stand?
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8) Why was Nina worried?
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9) What do birds think of people?
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10) What things does a seed need to grow ?
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GRAMMAR
Do as directed .
1) Write the plurals for
Tomato ___________
Onion ____________
Apple ____________
2) Write the past tense
Pick ____________
Help ____________
Wish ___________
Bark _____________
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3) Fill in the blanks with the right word from the box.
Flowers , Cards, Water , Cows
A glass of _____________________
A bunch of ____________________
A herd of ____________________
A deck of _____________________
4) Pick out the verbs ( action word)
a) Sam is kicking the ball.
b) He went to the temple.
5) Choose the odd one out :-
Peacock , Lizard , Crow , Woodpecker
Turnip, Tomato, Parrot, Radish
Rose , Lily , Sunflower, Cauliflower
6) Write the rhyming word
Hand _________
Grow _________
Look _________
Bold __________
7) Fill in the blanks using ‘ly’
The new dress is _______ ( love)
We should eat ____________ (slow)
8) Circle the describing word :-
a) A black board.
b) She is very pretty.
c) A blue dress.
9) Fill in the blanks with article
I saw ____ aeroplane flying in the sky (an , the)
10) Punctuate the following :-
a) I have a pencil an eraser and a ruler in my box
b) mumbai is the capital of maharashtra
11) Frame the sentence using a word
a) Soft ______________________________
b) Nest ______________________________
c) Purple _____________________________
12) They _____ listening to the song( are , is)
13) Add ‘ing’ to the following word
Sing ________
Ring ________
Cook ________
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14) Draw the picture for the following
The ball is under the table
The book is on the table
15) Combine the words to make a meaningful new word :
( Post, class,box, brush, room,Tooth)
CREATIVE WRITING
a) Look at the picture and write five sentences about it.
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b) . Write five sentence about your school .
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c. Look at the picture and write 10 words :-
VOCABULARY
1) Group the words under the given headings: (apple, lion, tiger, mango)
i) Fruits : _____________ ________________
ii) Flowers : _____________ ________________
iii) Animals : ______________ ________________
2) Mention two vegetables that can be eaten raw.
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Write the names of two flowers:
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3) Write the correct meaning :-
1. Upset - _________ 2. Shining - _____________ 3 . Joy - _____________
4). Write the opposites of the following.
Pull x _____________
Sit x ______________
Found x ____________
Right x _____________
5). Find out the birds from the word grid: ( 2 marks)
C R O W T
A D F H D
S W A N F
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SPELLI N G
1) Re-arrange the following word to make a meaningful word.
a) Crat __________________
b) Ulbe _________________
c) Cuhln ________________
2) Make two words from one word
a. Inside ______________ ________________
b. Sunlight ______________ ________________
c. Goodmorning ______________ ________________
d. Everywhere _______________ _______________
3). Encircle the correct spelling:
a) suqare aquaer square
b) wriggled riggled wreggled
c) Contended contented contonted
4). Write the Missing lettets :-
a) B ___ n ___ h
b) P __ e t ___
c) G __ o ___
d) B __ r ___
e) N __ s __
5) Write any one new word from your own. ____________
HAND WRITING
Once a bird asked a Bee,’ you work so hard, to get honey and people steal that from
you, don’t you feel sad?’ Bee replied, ‘ no, because they can never steal my art of
makinghoney!’ Keep your attitude positive.Be like little “BEE’ small size but big at
heart!
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