CBSE NCERT CLASS 3 ENGLISH UNIT-3 THE ENORMOUS TURNIP (PROSE) NOTES & QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

CBSE NCERT CLASS 3 ENGLISH UNIT-3 THE ENORMOUS TURNIP (PROSE) NOTES & QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Unit -3 The Enormous Turnip (Prose)

Reading is Fun (Pg-28)

1. What did the old man plant?

The old man planted some turnip seeds.

2. Why was it difficult for the old man to pull up the turnip?

It was difficult for the old man to pull out the turnip because it was enormous.

3. Who helped him to pull up the enormous turnip?

An old woman, a boy and a girl helped him to pull up the enormous turnip.

4. Who ate the enormous turnip?

The old man, the old woman, the boy and the girl ate the enormous turnip.

TalkTime (Pg-28)

i) . Name and draw four vegetables that have to be pulled out from the earth. Now name them in your own language.

1. Potato - Aloo

2. Turnip - shalgam

3. Carrot - Gajar

4. Radish - Mooli

ii). A Game of opposites

The entire class can be divided into two groups where one group says one word and the second group says the opposite word.

Group -I Group- II

1. Pull - Push

2. Black - White

3. True - False

4. Right - left/ wrong

5. Far - Near

6. Good - Bad

7. Dark - light

8. Up - Down

9. Old -            young

Let’s Write (Pg-31)

1. How do you like to eat these vegetables - raw or cooked? Say why.

Vegetables Raw Cooked

1. Carrot ✓

2. Turnip     ✓

3. Potato ✓

4. Onion         ✓

5. Beans     ✓

I like to eat Raw Carrot and Onion as they are rich sources of Vitamin D and Vitamin C respectively and they can be eaten raw.

I like to eat cooked potatoes, Beans and turnips as I cannot eat them raw, cooked food is also easy to digest.

ii. Name four vegetables you ate last week. Write their names here.

1. Cauliflower, 2. Spinach, 3. Cabbage, 4. Beans, 5. Brinjal, 6. Peas.

iii. Complete  these columns :

One Many

1.carrot carrots

2. Turnip Turnips

3. Onion Onions

4. Potato Potatoes

5. Tomato Tomatoes

Vocabulary (Pg-32)

One word in each of the following sets is different from the others ‘Circle the odd one out.

i. turnip, potato, tomato, sunflower, carrot, Brinjal

ii. Cow, horse, goat, fox, kangaroo, melon 

iii. Banyan, neem, peepal, mango, snake, apple

iv. rose, lily, sunflower, lotus, cauliflower

v. peacock, parrot, lizard, crow, woodpecker