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Read the story-
The Fairy Tulips - An English Folk-tale
Once upon a time there was a good old woman who lived in a little house. She had in her garden a bed of beautiful striped tulips.
One night she was woken up by the sounds of sweet singing and of babies laughing. She looked out of the window. The sounds seemed to come from the tulip bed, but she could see nothing.
The next morning she walked among her flowers, but there were no signs of any one having been there the night before.
On the following night she was again wakened by sweet singing and babies laughing. She rose and stole softly through her garden. The moon was shining brightly on the tulip bed, and the flowers were swaying to and fro. The old woman looked closely and she saw, standing by each tulip, a little Fairy mother who was crooning and rocking the flower like a cradle, while in each tulip cup lay a little Fairy baby laughing and playing.
The good old woman quietly walked back to her house, and from that time on she never picked a tulip, nor did she allow her neighbors to touch the flowers.
The tulips grew daily brighter in color and larger in size, and they gave out a delicious perfume like that of roses. They began to bloom all the year round. And every night the little Fairy mothers caressed their babies and rocked them to sleep in the flower cups.
The day came when the good old woman died, and the tulip bed was torn up by folks who did not know about the Fairies, and parsley was planted there instead of the flowers. But the parsley withered, and so did all the other plants in the garden, and from that time nothing would grow there.
But the good old woman's grave grew beautiful, for the Fairies sang above it, and kept it green - while on the grave and all around it there sprang up tulips, daffodils, and violets, and other lovely flowers of spring.
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1. Which flowers grew in the old woman’s garden?

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2. Which sound awakened the old woman and who making it?

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3. What lay in each tulip cup?

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4. What happened to the garden once the old lady died?

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5. Which flowers sprang up on the old lady’s grave?

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6. Suggest an alternate title for the story.

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1. Arrange the words in alphabetical order
monkey, zebra, horse, giraffe, goat, hare

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1. Change the verb into past tense form:
a.The good old woman lives in a little house.

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b. She walks along the flower bed.

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d. She gives water to the plants daily.

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f. The Fairy baby sleeps in the tulip cup.

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Fill in the blanks with possessive pronouns:
1. The garden belongs to the old woman. It is ________,

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2. That is Peter and Thomas’s car. It is ________.

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3. This is my wardrobe. It is ____________.

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Fill in the blanks with possessive nouns:
1. This is _________ jacket. (Sarah)

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2.Those are __________ notebooks. (students)

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3. This is _________ bike.(Chris)

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Fill in the blanks with suitable words:
1. We are not _______ to read _________ in the library. (aloud, allowed)

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2. Hey Jack! _____ the ship sailing in the _________.(sea, see).

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3.He carried the box full of ________ for recycling on his _______. (waist, waste)