WorksheetsThe Acorn and the Pumpkin
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
Once there was a country bumpkin
Who observed a great big pumpkin
To a slender stem attached;
While upon an oak tree nourished,
Little acorns grew and flourished.
"Bah!" said he. "That's badly matched."
Choose The rhyming words
Bumpkin - Pumpkin , Attached - Matched, Nourished -Flourished
little -while
grew - oak
badly -once
Meaning of Bumpkin
had a hand
station
A foolish person
Meaning of Brittle
Something that breaks easily
hard but liable to break easily.
sweet made from nuts and set melted sugar.
overthrown
Meaning of fatigued
happy
very tried
sleep
lying
Meaning of had hand in something
be involved in doing something
rest
"If, despite my humble station,
I'd a hand in this Creation,
Pumpkins on the oaks would be;
And the acorn, light and little,
On this pumpkin stem so brittle
Would be placed by clever Me."
Chose the rhyming words
station- Creation
be-me
Little -Brittle
played -pumkin
oaks -acorn
Meaning of Sprawling
sleep
rest
lying
Station
a person s social rank or postion
adimt
very tried
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Who wrote the poem The Acorn and The Pumpkin
W.B Yeats.
Sylvia Plath.
Rudyard Kipling.
Jean de La Fontaine
