Lesson 2

🤡 The Adventurous Clown

—Enid Blyton

Let's start:

Enid Mary Blyton (1897–1968) is one of the most popular British children's authors of all times. Her works include series of novels in which children have their own adventures with minimal adult help. The most popular among these are The Famous five, based on four children and their dog, and The Secret Seven, a society of seven children who solve various mysteries. This text is an edited version of her short story The Adventurous Clown.

Let's share:

🗣️ Discuss with your partner and tell the class:

✅ Do you enjoy playing with toys?
✅ What are the different kinds of toys that you would like to have?
✅ Where do you normally see a clown?

Let's read:

There was once a toy clown called Tuffy. He lived in a toy shop with many other toys. Tuffy longed to be a hero. He wanted to do something noble so that all the toys would cry out that he was a hero. He thought his little corner on the toy shelf was dull.

"Why do you grumble so much?" asked Timothy, the puppy dog. "Be happy with us, Tuffy. Why do you want to go off and have adventures?"

🤡 Tuffy's Grand Adventure! 🏇

"Adventures are always exciting. I want to do something that would make all the toys take notice of me. It's so dull up here on our shelf," replied Tuffy.

At night, the clown climbed down from his shelf to look for adventures. 🌟 That night there was to be a grand race between two wooden horses and carts driven by wooden farmers. The race was just starting as Tuffy climbed down. One cart came racing by. The farmer riding it stood up and shouted!

"Goodness! An adventure already! A runaway horse!" thought Tuffy. "Now is my chance to be a hero." 💪

The horse and the cart came round again and Tuffy jumped at the reins. He held on to them and dragged the horse to one side. The cart turned over and the farmer fell down. Tuffy stood by, helping him up, feeling very proud that he had stopped the horse.

But the farmer was terribly angry. 😠

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📚 Word Nest:

grumble: > complain in a bad-tempered way
adventures: > unusual, exciting or dangerous experiences

Let's do: 🚀

Activity 1: Rearrange the sentences!

Rearrange the following sentences in the correct order and put the numbers in the given boxes. One is done for you:

Tuffy jumped at the reins. (3)
The toy clown wanted to be a hero. (1)
The farmer was terribly angry. (6)
There was a grand race between two wooden horses and carts driven by wooden farmers. (4)
He found the little corner of the toy shelf to be dull. (2)
The cart turned over. (5)

Activity 2: Fill in the Blanks! 💡

Fill in the blanks with words given in the Help Box. There is one extra word:

Tuffy, the toy clown lived in a toyshop. He wished to do something noble.

His friend, Timothy, felt that the clown always grumbled.

But Tuffy thought that the adventures were always exciting.

Help Box: `exciting`, `grumbled`, `noble`, `toyshop`, `dull` (extra word)

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💡 Activity 3

🤔 Answer the following question:

"Adventures are always exciting"—Why do you think Tuffy said so?

📖 Let's continue:

"What do you mean by spoiling my race like that?" he shouted. "Now the other horse and cart will win! You silly, little clown!"

Tuffy was upset. "You don't understand I'm a hero!" He ran out and sat down in a toy farm wiping his tears. Suddenly Tuffy noticed a doll's house in a corner of the shop. He saw smoke coming out of one of the windows. "Fire! Fire!" shouted Tuffy. "Another adventure! I'll put it out at once." 🚒

💡 Activity 5

❓ Answer the following questions:

What did Tuffy do when he got upset?
How did the toy clown put out the fire?
Why was the sailor doll angry?
What real adventure did Tuffy find at last?

📖 Let's continue:

He caught hold of a little net and dipped it into the water. He brought the little doll out. But she slipped out and fell on to the table banging her head.

She began to cry. Up came a policeman doll and said fiercely, "What are you doing, catching the doll and making her bump her head like that?"

"I was saving her from drowning!" said Tuffy.

"I was having such a lovely swim!" sobbed the little doll. "I swim with the goldfish every night. But that clown caught me in a nasty net and spoilt my fun. He isn't a hero at all!"

The policeman locked Tuffy in a room in the police station. Suddenly he heard a noise outside the window of the room. "Tuffy, Tuffy!" barked a little voice. "It is I, Timothy. Here is the key to the door."

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Tinkle! 🔑 The key fell to the floor and the clown quickly unlocked the door. Timothy and he ran off together and climbed up to the shelf.

"Thank you. You're the hero!" he said. "I didn't stop to think. But you saw I was in real trouble and you saved me." The toy dog blushed.

"Oh! How peaceful it is up here. I'll never want to leave this shelf again." 😌

And, until he was sold, he never did!

📚 Word Nest:

fiercely : angrily
sobbed : cried with loud gasps
blushed : became red-faced through shyness

Let's do: 📝

Activity 6

Fill in the chart with information from the text:

Cause	Effect
(a)	The little doll began to cry.
(b) The little doll complained to the policeman about Tuffy.
(c) Timothy dropped the key to the floor of the room.
(d)	Tuffy decided never to leave the toy shelf again.

Activity 7

Answer the following questions in complete sentences:

Why did Tuffy put the little net in the water? 💧
What made the little doll think that Tuffy was not a hero? 🤔
How was Tuffy released from the police station? 🚨
Why did Timothy blush? 😊

Let's learn: 💡

Read the following sentences carefully:

Poor Tuffy was shaken like a rat.
What do you mean by spoiling my race like that?
I am a hero.

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In the above sentences, the coloured words help to form tenses, questions and to explain the sense of the sentences. These words are called auxiliary verbs. 💡

Note that the auxiliary verb be takes the forms of am, is, are, was and were.

Let's do: 📝

Activity 8

Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the given verbs in the brackets:

(a) ______________ your work now. (do)
(b) The door ______________ opened. (be)
(c) Usually, Pulak ______________ his work well. (do)
(d) I ______________ working. (be)

Activity 9

Make meaningful sentences of your own with the following words:

fiercely : ________________________________________
bump : ________________________________________
drowning : ________________________________________
nasty : ________________________________________

Let's talk: 🗣️

Do you think Tuffy is really a hero? Discuss with your partner.

Let's do: 📝

🚣‍♀️ Activity 10 (a)

Write a paragraph in about sixty words on 'A boat journey' using the following hints:

moonlit night
four friends
boat on a wide river
rippling of the water
dark forest on either side
thrill of the journey

🧸 Activity 10 (b)

Suppose you spent a night with Tuffy in the toy shop. Write a short paragraph in about sixty words describing your experience.

Let's work together:🤝

Take a pair of old socks.
Stuff them with cotton wool.
Take a sheet of coloured paper. Fold it to make a clown's cap. Put the cap on one sock. Imagine the puppet to be Tuffy.
Take a long piece of paper to make a tail. Fix it to the other sock. Imagine the other puppet to be Timothy.
Now start an imaginary conversation between Tuffy and Timothy.

Academy

BLOSSOMS

Lesson 2 🤡 The Adventurous Clown

Lesson 2

🤡 The Adventurous Clown

Let's start:

Let's share:

Let's read:

🤡 Tuffy's Grand Adventure! 🏇

📚 Word Nest:

Let's do: 🚀

Activity 1: Rearrange the sentences!

Activity 2: Fill in the Blanks! 💡

Help Box: `exciting`, `grumbled`, `noble`, `toyshop`, `dull` (extra word)

💡 Activity 3

🤔 Answer the following question:

📖 Let's continue:

💡 Activity 5

❓ Answer the following questions:

📖 Let's continue:

📚 Word Nest:

Let's do: 📝

Activity 6

Activity 7

Let's learn: 💡

Let's do: 📝

Activity 8

Activity 9

Let's talk: 🗣️

Let's do: 📝

🚣‍♀️ Activity 10 (a)

🧸 Activity 10 (b)

Let's work together:🤝

Academy

BLOSSOMS

Lesson 2 🤡 The Adventurous Clown

Lesson 2

🤡 The Adventurous Clown

Let's start:

Let's share:

Let's read:

🤡 Tuffy's Grand Adventure! 🏇

📚 Word Nest:

Let's do: 🚀

Activity 1: Rearrange the sentences!

Activity 2: Fill in the Blanks! 💡

Help Box: exciting, grumbled, noble, toyshop, dull (extra word)

💡 Activity 3

🤔 Answer the following question:

📖 Let's continue:

💡 Activity 5

❓ Answer the following questions:

📖 Let's continue:

📚 Word Nest:

Let's do: 📝

Activity 6

Activity 7

Let's learn: 💡

Let's do: 📝

Activity 8

Activity 9

Let's talk: 🗣️

Let's do: 📝

🚣‍♀️ Activity 10 (a)

🧸 Activity 10 (b)

Let's work together:🤝

Help Box: `exciting`, `grumbled`, `noble`, `toyshop`, `dull` (extra word)