Dorothy Meets the Scarecrow1

words to know

gazed to looked at something steadily, thinking about it or admiring itgrateful thankfulripe ready to eat or pickscarecrow a human-shaped figure, often made by stuffing straw into

clothes, that is used to scare away birds from crops

Dorothy walked along the road. It was made of yellow bricks. When she had gone some miles she needed to rest. She climbed to the

top of the fence beside the road and sat down. Her dog, Toto, was also tired. He lay down on the ground

by the fence. There was a large cornfield on the other side of the fence and in the

field there was a Scarecrow.

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Dorothy gazed at the Scarecrow. Its head was a small sack stuffed with straw. Its face was painted on the sack. It had an old, pointed blue hat on its head. On its body, it wore a blue suit of faded clothes which had also been stuffed with straw. On the feet, were some old boots. The Scarecrow was tied to a tall pole. It was there to scare the birds and stop them from eating the ripe corn.

While Dorothy was looking at the painted face of the Scarecrow, she was surprised to see one of the eyes slowly wink at her. She thought she must have imagined it. Then, the Scarecrow nodded its head to her in a friendly way. Dorothy climbed down from the fence and walked up to it. Toto ran around the pole and barked.

‘Good day,’ said the Scarecrow.

‘You didn’t just speak, did you?’ asked the girl in wonder.

‘Certainly,’ answered the Scarecrow. ‘How do you do?’

‘I’m pretty well, thank you,’ replied Dorothy politely. ‘How do you do?’

‘I’m bored,’ said the Scarecrow. ‘It is very dull being stuck up here night and day to scare away crows.’

‘Can’t you get down?’ asked Dorothy.

‘No. This pole is stuck up my back. Please help me get down.’

Dorothy reached up both arms and lifted the Scarecrow off the pole. He was quite light because he was only stuffed with straw. She set him down on the ground.

‘Thank you very much,’ said the Scarecrow. ‘I feel much better.’

Dorothy was so surprised to hear a straw man speak.

The Scarecrow stretched and yawned. ‘Who are you?’ asked the Scarecrow. ‘And where are you going?’

‘My name is Dorothy,’ said the girl, ‘and I am going to the Emerald City.

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I’m going to ask the Great Oz to send me back home to Kansas.’

‘Where is the Emerald City?’ said the Scarecrow. ‘And who is Oz?’

‘Why, don’t you know?’ she replied in surprise.

‘No, indeed. I don’t know anything. You see, I am stuffed with straw, so I have no brains at all,’ he answered sadly.

‘Oh,’ said Dorothy, ‘I’m sorry for you.’

‘Do you think,’ he asked, ‘if I go to the Emerald City with you, that Oz would give me some brains?’

‘I don’t know,’ she replied. ‘Come to the Emerald City with me and Toto. You can ask the Great Oz for a brain.’

‘What if he doesn’t give me one?’

‘You should try anyway,’ said Dorothy. ‘You have nothing to lose.’

‘That is true,’ said the Scarecrow. ‘You see, I don’t mind my legs and arms and body being stuffed because I cannot get hurt. If anyone treads on my toes or sticks a pin into me, it doesn’t matter because I can’t feel it.’

Dorothy listened carefully and nodded. She was amazed to see the Scarecrow walking and talking.

‘But I do not want people to call me a fool, and if my head stays stuffed with straw instead of with brains, as yours is, how am I ever to know anything?’

While ReadingHave you heard about the Great Oz? Does he send Dorothy back home to Kansas? Find out!

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‘I understand how you feel,’ said the little girl, who was truly sorry for him. ‘If you will come with me I’ll ask Oz to do all he can for you.’

‘Thank you,’ he answered gratefully.

Dorothy, Toto, and the Scarecrow walked to the fence. They climbed over it and started walking along the yellow brick road towards the Emerald City.

Toto sniffed around the straw man. He growled as if he suspected there might be a nest of rats in the straw. He was behaving in an unfriendly way because he did not know the Scarecrow.

‘Don’t mind Toto,’ said Dorothy to her new friend. ‘He never bites.’

‘Oh, I’m not afraid,’ replied the Scarecrow. ‘He can’t hurt the straw.’

‘Toto, be nice!’ said Dorothy to her dog and bent down to pat him. Then she picked up her basket and they began walking again.

‘Do let me carry that basket for you. I shall not mind it, for I can’t get tired,’ said the Scarecrow. ‘I’ll tell you a secret,’ he continued, as he walked along. ‘There is only one thing in the world I am afraid of.’

‘What is that?’ asked Dorothy. ‘Is it the farmer who made you?’

‘No,’ answered the Scarecrow. ‘It’s a lighted match.’

(Adapted from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz )

About the AuthorL. Frank Baum (1856–1919) was an American author. Before he started writing books for children, Baum enjoyed acting and writing for the stage and then worked as a journalist and in business. The L. in his name stands for Lyman but Baum hated his name and liked to be known as Frank. His most well-known book is The Wizard of Oz. It was so popular that he wrote thirteen more books about Oz and, after his death, other writers continued the series.

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A COMPREHENSION

1. Answer the following questions.

a. What is the road made of? b. What is Dorothy’s pet called and what type of creature is he? c. Why is the Scarecrow in the field?d. What does Dorothy do to help the Scarecrow?e. What does the Scarecrow do to help Dorothy?f. What did the Scarecrow want to ask the Great Oz for?

These questions are more difficult. Discuss them first.

g. How do we know the Scarecrow is kind and polite? h. Can you explain why the Scarecrow is afraid of a lighted match?i. The Scarecrow says that he doesn’t have a brain. Is it possible

to walk and talk without a brain?

2. Answer the questions about these lines from the story.

‘I understand how you feel,’ said the little girl, who was truly sorry for him.a. Who is the little girl?b. To whom was the girl saying this?c. Why does she feel sorry for him?d. What happened next?

Exercises

Predict what happens next in the story. Share your ideas with your classmates.

Challenge

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3. Which of these sentences are true (T) or false (F)?

a. The Scarecrow never gets tired. b. The Scarecrow is frightened of the farmer. c. The Great Oz lives in the Diamond city. d. Dorothy has a dog called Coco. e. The Scarecrow is wearing a blue hat.

B WORKING WITH WORDS

1. Can you find these words in the story? The letters are not in the correct order.

a. FEDS TUF b. CROWS RACE c. LAME REDd. HOT ZER GATE e. COLD FINER f. GULLET FRAY

2. Which word in each list is not spelt correctly?

a. friendly, field, freedom, freshly, fryedb. escape, discover, inspect, escuse, accidentc. desided, dismayed, displayed, destroyed, desertedd. quickly, queue, quitely, queen, question

3. Try to find these words in the story.

a. This keeps an area closed off or protected. Usually made of wood.

b. Something worn on the head to keep one warm or to keep the sun off.

c. A thin piece of metal with a sharp point at one end and a round head at the other.

d. A container used for holding things—often made of interwoven strips of wire or cane.

e. These rodents look like large mice with long tails and pointed snouts.

f. The organ of the body in the skull. It controls movements, sensations, and thoughts.

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C LEARNING ABOUT LANGUAGE

In Book 2, you learnt about nouns, adjectives, and verbs. Do you remember what you learnt about nouns?

A noun is the name of something.

Example: The girl sat on the fence.

(The underlined words are nouns. They are things.)

1. Write these sentences in your notebook in the correct order.

a. The man took a note out from his pocket and gave it to him.

b. The taxi went off down the road.

c. A taxi arrived and the man got in.

d. He was sitting on a bench, waiting for a bus.

e. The driver asked him for some money.

f. The bus did not come.

g. The taxi arrived at the house.

2. Now underline all the nouns in the sentences that you just wrote down.

D LISTENING AND SPEAKING

In the story Dorothy says: ‘You didn’t just speak, did you?’ She makes a question by adding a question tag to a statement.

Example: ‘We have not got anything to lose, have we?’ ‘It’s not yours, is it?’

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1. Work in pairs and complete the following by matching the statements with the correct question tags.

Incomplete statements Question tags

a. They have met you before, shall we?b. Let us see whether he is in, aren’t they?c. You are in the team, will you?d. They are very bright, aren’t you?e. It has been stolen, don’t you?f. Don’t tell anyone, haven’t they?g. I think this is a good idea,

(seek agreement) hasn’t it?

2. Your teacher will read some statements. Listen carefully, then add a question tag.

E COMPOSITION

What do Dorothy and the Scarecrow say to the Great Oz when they meet him?

Talk about how they could ask politely for what they want. Then write a short conversation.

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words to know

autumn the season before winter, when leaves fall from the trees

might strengthpraise appreciate; offer thanks (through worship)wintry cold, like the winter season

Robin sang sweetly When the days were bright: ‘Thanks, thanks for summer,’ He sang with all his might.

Robin sang sweetly, In the autumn days,

‘There are fruits for everyone; Let all give praise.’

In the cold and wintry weather, Still hear his song:

‘Somebody must sing,’ said Robin ‘Or winter will seem long.’

When the spring came back again, He sang, ‘I told you so!

Keep on singing through the winter It will always go.’

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Robin

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A UNDERSTANDING THE POEM

1. Answer the following questions.

a. What are the four seasons?b. When does Robin sing with all his might?c. What does Robin say about autumn?d. When can we still hear Robin’s song?e. What does Robin say in the spring?

These questions are more difficult. Discuss them first.

f. Do you think Robin is a happy bird? Why?g. Which of the following words best describe Robin? Say why. i. careful ii. clever iii. hopeful iv. sorrowful

2. Say which of the following is true (T) or false (F) about the poem.

a. Robin sang sweetly throughout the year. b. Robin sang with all his might in the winter. c. Robin says we should all give praise in the spring. d. Robin stopped singing in the cold winter. e. Summer comes immediately after autumn.

3. Answer the questions about these two lines taken from the poem.

In the cold and wintry weather,Still hear his song:

a. Who is singing?b. What does the word ‘still’ tell us about the singer?c. What reason does the singer give for singing during the winter?

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B WORKING WITH WORDS

1. Write opposites for these words. You will find a few of them in the poem.

a. never b. no one c. quickly d. likede. friend f. went g. come h. foolish

2. Match the following and use them in sentences of your own.

Example: as dry as a bone

A B

a. as dark gold b. as good nightc. as sweet

as a donkey

d. as hard-working honey

C LEARNING ABOUT LANGUAGE

1. Complete the following sentences in your own words.

a. Robin sang sweetly when

b. When autumn comes

c. I shall go when

d. When he returns

D LISTENING AND SPEAKING

1. Find rhyming words in the poem for the following.

neatly banks light haze

roots rolled dream few

leather bore leap fair

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2. Find a word and say it aloud to a classmate. Your classmate must find rhyming words for your word in ten seconds. Award five points for each correct word found. Then swap roles. After choosing five words each, add up your scores. You will find that it is easier to find rhyming words for some words and not for others.

E COMPOSITION

Which season do you like the best? Write about it and draw a picture.

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The Wooden Bowl2words to know

chisel a metal tool used to cut and shape woodclumsy lacking skill or grace; awkwardcomplain to say you are unhappy about somethingcouple two people who are marriedearned received money for work donefetch to go after and bring back something or somebodynod off to go to sleep

Once upon a time, in a small town in Germany, there lived a man called Kurt. He lived with his son, Manfred, and his daughter-in-Iaw,

Thekla. They all shared a little old house at the end of a quiet street in the middle of the town.

Manfred was a carpenter and spent all his time in a workshop next to the house. He had learnt carpentry from his father, who had been a famous carpenter in his days. Kurt had taught his son well, and the son earned a good living. He made furniture for the people of the town. And from time to time he did some carving.

The young couple, Manfred and Thekla, had a son called Wilhelm. The boy liked to sit in the workshop and watch his father. As he grew older,

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he helped his father by fetching and carrying things. He learnt to clean the tools and to take care of them. He learnt how to use a saw and a hammer and a chisel. And his grandfather taught him to carve wood into wonderful shapes.

The grandfather was very old now, and getting older every day! He was not very strong; his eyes were dim and he could not see well. Sometimes his hands shook; and sometimes he sat in a chair and nodded off.

In the evenings, when they all sat down to dinner at the table, Manfred and Thekla used to get angry with the old grandfather. He was slow and clumsy. Sometimes he broke a glass, sometimes he dropped a spoon, and sometimes he spilt soup on his clothes. He was an old man, after all.

One day, during the evening meal, the old man dropped his plate on the floor. Crash! It smashed into a hundred tiny pieces, and the food fell all over the place.

Thekla and Manfred began to clean up the floor. But how angry they were!

After that accident they bought him a cheap wooden bowl from the market, and gave him his dinner in that. They made the old man sit by himself in the corner of the room to eat his food. The old man

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was sad. He kept quiet and did not complain.

One evening, not long afterwards, Thekla and Manfred had finished work for the day and were preparing the evening meal. When the meal was ready they called for Wilhelm. They looked in his room, but he was not there.

‘Where could that boy be?’ asked Thekla.

Manfred had no idea. He asked the old man if he had seen Wilhelm, but the old man shook his head.

Thekla and Manfred became a little worried. They looked out on the street, but Wilhelm was not there. Then they saw a light on in the workshop. They went to look.

They stepped into the workshop and found their son sitting on the floor. He was cutting a small block of wood, and working as hard as he could.

‘Ah! There you are!’ said Thekla.

‘What are you making, son?’ asked Manfred.

Wilhelm put down the block of wood and the chisel. He looked up at his parents.

‘I am making a wooden bowl for you to eat from when you are old,’ replied the boy.

The parents looked at each other. Their eyes filled with tears.

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ExercisesA COMPREHENSION

1. Answer the following questions.

a. Where did the family live? b. What did Manfred do for a living?c. Who was Thekla?d. Why did Kurt’s hands shake? e. Why was Wilhelm making a

wooden bowl?

These questions are more difficult. Discuss them first.

f. How did Thekla and Manfred treat the old man? g. Whose eyes filled with tears? Why?

2. Answer the questions about these lines from the story.

They looked in his room, but he was not there.‘Where could that boy be?’

a. Who looked in the room?b. Who asked the question?c. Whom were they looking for and why?d. Where was the missing person found?

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Does the story teach us any lessons? What are they?

Challenge

‘Come, dinner is ready,’ said Thekla softly. And she put her arms around her son and the three of them went back to the house.

After this, Thekla and Manfred always asked the old grandfather to sit with them at table.

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B WORKING WITH WORDS

1. Match the following.

A Ba. In the evenings, in a little old house.b. They bought him didn’t complain.c. They all lived a cheap wooden bowl.d. The son earned was making a bowl.e. The old man they sat down to dinner.f. The little boy a good living.

2. Find words in the story for the following.

a. a person who makes things out of woodb. to cut wood or stone into shapesc. the father of one’s mother or fatherd. a room where someone does a job

(like carpentry)e. the wife of one’s son

C LEARNING ABOUT LANGUAGE

VERBS

Do you remember what you learnt about verbs?

A verb is a doing word.

Example: Naila screamed when she saw the snake.

What did Naila do?

She saw the snake. She screamed.

‘saw’ and ‘screamed’ are verbs. These words tell us what Naila did.

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1. Underline the verbs in the following:

Naila sat beside the road. She read her book and waited for the bus. A boy came past on his bicycle. The wheel of the bicycle hit a stone. The bike fell over. The boy went flying through the air and landed in front of Naila.‘Catch a bus next time,’ said Naila. The boy smiled and rubbed his knees.

2. Choose a verb from the box to complete the following. Use the correct form of the verb, and use each verb only once.

play drink watch catch rest

a. They for an hour every afternoon. b. Jason and Mary with their friends in the

garden now.c. Sara a whole glass of milk before going to

bed last night.d. She television every evening.e. Amin a cold last week but is better now.

D LISTENING AND SPEAKING

1. Read this list of words aloud. Be careful how you say the words.

a. cheap / sheep / chip / shipb. there / they arec. steer / staird. ear / year / early / yearlye. far / for / fair / fear

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2. Choose a word and say it aloud to your friend. Can he/she spell the word correctly?

3. Do you have grandparents? Where do they live? What did they do to earn their living? Do they still work? Think about your grandparents for a few minutes. Then tell the others in your class a few interesting things about them.

E COMPOSITION

Have you ever made anything?

What did you make? How did you make it? Why did you make it? Who did you make it for?

Draw a picture and write about it.

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Exercises

By the garden shed, my sister and I Were playing a game and I was a spy.

I had a mission while she guarded base; I had to get gold from a secret place.

(The gold was two apples on the big tree, But in our game they were real gold to me.)

A giant beast was asleep, in the way; If I woke him up I’d be sure to pay.

The beast was ferocious, quite mad and bad (But really the beast was my snoozing dad).

I crept past the bushes twisted like wire, And round the low wall glowing warm like fire.

words to know

base the starting place or goal in gamesbeady small, round, and gleamingcaptured got hold of something or someone, by forcedefeat having been beaten in a battle or contestferocious savagely fierce; violent; wildlair a place where a wild animal livesmission an important task that someone is sent somewhere to domunched ate something loudlysnoozing napping; resting

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I did not notice the beast’s beady eye Opening slowly (my dad could be sly).

I reached out my hand and captured the gold! I was almost back when a hand took hold; It grabbed at my shirt and made me yell.

My sister looked up and she screamed as well:

‘Ah! The monster! The beast has got you now!’ I had to escape, I didn’t know how. My sister flew in and started a fight:

We both fought the beast with all of our might. Soon he was weak and he fell to his knees

(Our dad could act well and he liked to please).

We escaped to our safe place by the shed: The beast was defeated and hung his head.

He returned to settle in his dark lair (Actually, just the old garden chair).

We spies had won, the mission complete We munched on our apples, oh what a treat!

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A UNDERSTANDING THE POEM

1. Answer the following questions.

a. What game is the children playing?b. What is ‘the mission’?c. Who is the ‘giant beast’?d. What does the child compare the bushes and the wall to?e. What is the safe place or base?f. What is the ‘dark lair’?g. What do the children do to celebrate their ‘win’?

These questions are more difficult. Discuss them first.

h. Who do you think says, ‘Ah, the monster, the beast has got you now!’? Could anyone else have said it?

i. Write two short accounts describing: • What happens in the children’s imaginative game. • What really happens.

2. Answer the questions about these lines from the poem.

I did not notice the beast’s beady eyeOpening slowly (my dad could be sly).

a. Who does not notice the beast?b. Who is the beast?c. How does the poet show us what is really happening?d. What happens next?

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B WORKING WITH WORDS

1. Find rhyming words in the poem for the following.

a. old b. head c. grew d. easte. pie f. call g. losing h. dreamed

2. Match the words that have similar meanings.

A B

grabbed fightsnoozed actpretend beatendefeated dozedbattle captured

3. Match the following.

A B

a. as green snow

b. as white a daisy

c. as proud as a needle

d. as sharp grass

e. as old a peacock

f. as fresh the hills

C LEARNING ABOUT LANGUAGE

VERBS 1. Find at least ten verbs in the poem. Use them in sentences of

your own.

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ADJECTIVESDo you remember what you learnt about adjectives?

Adjectives tell us something about a noun.

Example: The golden apple hung from the branch. ‘Golden’ tells us about the apple. It is an adjective.

2. Underline the adjectives in these lines from the poem.

a. The mad beast was asleep.b. I crept past the twisted bushes.c. Happily, we munched on the big, tasty apples.

3. Add suitable adjectives to the following, using the letters given.

a. an e mango b. a c kitten c. an a actress d. a b laddere. a t salesman f. an u duckling

D LISTENING AND SPEAKING

1. Listen to the sentences being read aloud. Underline the correct word from the pair given.

a. The vest / west is more expensive than the socks.b. The man said that this dress would suit / shoot him.c. There is a fly sitting on his pack / back.d. He sold some chips / ships to the captain.e. We brought / broth them from the city yesterday.

E COMPOSITION

Talk about the games that you like to play. Write a paragraph about a game you like to play. It can be any type of game: imaginary play, a team game, a board game, or a computer game.

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