English chapter 3_Gopi and the Magic Brush

🖌️ Gopi and the Magic Brush

Folk Tale | Class 8 English (Poorvi) – Mystery and Magic

✍️ Interactive Practice: Type your answer → Click "Check Answer" → If wrong, step-by-step solution appears.
✅ Complete answers based on NCERT Class 8 English.

📋 Let us discuss (Order of Events)

Correct order of events (1 to 10):

1. Gopi is told to gather food but instead sits drawing pictures in the sand. (3)
2. A man gives a magic brush to Gopi to paint only for the poor. (9)
3. Gopi paints a bowl of khichdi, which becomes real and amazes the villagers. (1)
4. Gopi uses the magic brush to paint useful items for the villagers. (7)
5. The Zamindar orders Gopi to paint treasures for him. (2)
6. The Zamindar throws Gopi into prison. (5)
7. Gopi paints a road and a horse to escape. (6)
8. Gopi returns to the village with the Zamindar and his men chasing her. (4)
9. Gopi paints a wide river, stopping the Zamindar and his men. (8)
10. Gopi scares the Zamindar away, and celebrates with the villagers. (10)

🎭 Tone & Rhyme Scheme

🖼️ Imagery and Repetition

🔍 Symbolism (Match the phrases)

💭 Let us think and reflect

📝 Answer the following questions

✏️ Multiple Meanings of 'Draw'

🔤 Crossword (Words from the poem)

Across:
2. gallop (fastest pace of a horse)
4. swift (happen fast)
7. whispers (speaks very softly)
10. snatch (take hold and remove quickly)
11. wealthy (rich)
12. seize (take hold suddenly and forcibly)

Down:
1. flees (runs away)
3. mighty (possessing great strength)
5. roars (deep loud shout in anger)
6. comply (act according to rules)
8. streamed (moved in continuous flow)
9. victory (win after overcoming an enemy)

😲 Interjections (Expressing emotions)

🌟 "Paint not for the wealthy ones, but only for the poor." — The Magic Brush 🌟
Based on NCERT Class 8 English (Poorvi) – Gopi and the Magic Brush