Page 2 - The Adventures of Toto- Module

 He found the Tonga-driver, and sold Toto back to him for Rs. 3.

2-Listening- Watch this video to see an inspiring story of an

unconventional zoo keeper Prakash Amte a man who gave shelter to

orphan animals. Write a diary entry about your thoughts on this video in

your CW notebook after the lesson is over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TjAwHdGN7o

3-Reading:Read the story from your text book silently for understanding:

4-Vocabulary Activity: Select 10 new words from the text and find out
the meaning from the dictionary. Write the words in your CW notebook
alongwith an antonym and synonym for each of the words.

5- Lesson and Explanation

Grandfather bought Toto from a tonga-driver for the sum of five rupees.

The tonga-driver used to keep the little red monkey tied to a feeding-

trough, and the monkey looked so out of place there that Grandfather

decided he would add the little fellow to his private zoo.

Feeding-trough: a large container for feeding animals
Tonga: horse cart

The writer’s grandfather purchased a monkey named Toto from a tonga
driver by paying five rupees to him. The tonga driver had tied the little
red - coloured monkey to a feeding trough, so that he could not run
away. When the writer’s grandfather saw the monkey, he had a desire to
add him to the collection of animals which he had in his zoo at home.

Toto was a pretty monkey. His bright eyes sparkled with mischief

beneath deep-set eyebrows, and his teeth, which were a pearly white,

were very often displayed in a smile that frightened the life out of elderly

Anglo- lndian ladies. But his hands looked dried-up as though they had

been pickled in the sun for many years. Yet his fingers were quick and

wicked; and his tail, while adding to his good looks (Grandfather