1. Answer the following questions:
(a) What interesting things was Uncle Tom making?
Answer: Uncle Tom was making little baskets out of cherry-stones, drawing funny faces on nut-shells, and making whistles out of small pieces of stick.
(b) What surprised Eva very much?
Answer: Eva was surprised when Uncle Tom said he did not know where he was going after being sold at the slave market.
(c) Why did she say she would ask her father to buy Uncle Tom?
Answer: Eva said she would ask her father to buy Uncle Tom because she wanted him to have good times with them.
(d) How did the accident happen to Eva?
Answer: Eva accidentally slipped over the side of the boat and fell into the water.
(e) How was she rescued?
Answer: Uncle Tom, who was a good swimmer, quickly jumped into the water and rescued Eva.
(f) How did Evaโs father show his thanks to Uncle Tom?
Answer: Evaโs father showed his thanks by buying Uncle Tom from the slave merchant and making him his most trusted servant and coachman.
2. Word Practice
(a) Use each of the following words and phrases in sentences of your own:
1. on board โ The passengers were safely on board before the ship departed.
2. dive and drowned โ The boy tried to dive into the river, but he nearly drowned because he couldn’t swim.
3. coachman โ The coachman waited patiently for his passengers to return.
4. in danger of โ The hiker was in danger of falling off the cliff.
5. with a jerk โ He pulled the rope with a jerk to secure the tent.
(b) Rewrite the sentences in the present tense:
Eva sat,Tom spoke, Eva stood, Eva said. The verbs in these sentences are all in the past tense. Put each of them into the present tense, as though the actions are going on at this moment.
1. Eva sits.
2. Tom speaks.
3. Eva stands.
4. Eva says.
(c) Write these sentences in full. What do we call the sign which tells us that letters have been left out?
Answer: The sign is called an apostrophe (‘).
1. I do not know, Iโm sure.
2. Youโll read the story.
(d) Fill in the blanks with words from the story:
1. I slipped into the tank. When I came out, my clothes wereย dripped with water.
2. I chased the thief and caught him. I had him in my strong grasp.
3. My servant looks after my house when I am away. I leave the house to him because he is splendid.
4. The fisherman in the boatย hauled up their nets which were full of fish.
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