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b. Where did the children come from?
c. Did the listener know about the children at this point?

3. ‘You must not change back into gourds!’

a. Why did Shindo say this?

b. Did the children listen to Shindo?

c. How did the children help Shindo?

4. ‘What have I done? I didn’t mean what I said!’

a. What had Shindo said and why?

b. What happened to Kitete after she said that?

c. What lesson did Shindo learn?

C. Refl ect and answer.

1. Do you think Shindo was right in screaming at Kitete? Justify your answer.

2. Kitete changed back to a gourd after Shindo scolded him. What would you
have done if you were Kitete?

Vocabulary

Read the following sentence.
Sometimes when Shindo was unhappy about something else, she would scold Kitete.

By adding un- to the word happy, we formed the antonym of happy.

A prefix is a letter or a group of letters placed before a word to make a new word. It is
added before the root word.

By adding the prefixes un-, mis-, in-, etc. before certain words, we can make the antonyms
of those words.

prefix root word new word

mis- understand misunderstand
un- do undo

dis- respect disrespect
im- polite impolite

il- legible illegible
in- effective ineffective

ir- relevant irrelevant
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