Poem – 6. The duck and the kangaroo
Q1. Taking words that come at the end of lines, write five pairs of rhyming words. Read each pair aloud For example, pond – beyond
Ans: (a) Hop-stop
(b) Rocks-socks
(c) Back-quack
(d) Ready-Steady
(e) Duck-luck.
Q2. Complete the dialogue. Duck :
Dear Kangaroo! Why don’t you ____________________________ Kangaroo :
With pleasure, my dear Duck, though _____________________ Duck :
That won’t be a problem. I will ____________________________
Ans: (a) give me a ride on your back.
(b) I have a problem with your wet and cold feet.
(c) wear a pair of woolen socks and a cloak to keep out the cold.
Q3. The Kangaroo does not want to catch ‘rheumatism’. Spot this word in stanza 3 and say why it is spelt differently. Why is it in two parts? Why does the second part begin with a capital letter?
Ans: The word is “roo-matiz”. It is spelt differently to keep the rhymes o the poems. It is in two parts because this shows that the Kangaroo was a bit hesitant in the telling this problem to the duck secondly, he also wanted to emphasise his problem. The two word rhoo means cold and matiz means pains in the joints. If the two words are joined together they give name one o the diseases. Thus, The second word is written in capital to donate two different disease, one caused by cold and other by getting wet.
Q4. Do you find the poem humorous? Read aloud lines that make you laugh.
Ans: Yes, the poem is humorous. The lines are:
(i) And we’d go to the Dee, and the Jelly Bo Lee.
(ii)And I bought four pairs of worsted which fit my web-feat neatly.
(iii) And every day a cigar I’ll smoke, all to follow my own dear true love of a Kangaroo!
(iv) And they hopped the whole world three times round.
