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Listen and Learn • Communication Skills

• Listening to a story for specific details
A. Your teacher will read the story given in the listening text. Listen to it carefully and
then circle the suitable words to complete the sentences.

1. Once, an Arab magician/horse trader came to Krishnadevaraya’s court.

2. He showed an Arab horse/camel and wanted to sell more horses to the minister/

king.

3. The king liked the horse and told him to get more camels/horses.

4. The horse trader asked for an advance of hundred/five thousand coins.

5. After taking the advance, he disappeared. After two weeks, Tenali Raman was
preparing a list/note of the biggest traders/fools in the kingdom.

6. The king’s/minister’s name was on top of the list.

7. The trader/Tenali Raman said that no one would give a stranger an advance of
five thousand/hundred gold coins.

8. The king asked if the trader came with the camels/horses, what would Tenali
Raman do?

9. The king/Tenali Raman said that he would add the horse trader’s name at the top

of the list.

Converse and Connect • Communication Skills
• Creativity
• Collaboration
• Speaking about characters in the story
A. Read the following conversation.

Minu, did you like the story, Yes, I did. Which character did you Tenali Raman,
‘Wisdom of Tenali Raman’? like the most in the story? of course.

Why?

Let’s discuss the Sure.
other characters Well, because of his
as well. wit and humour.

Carry on a similar conversation with your partner about other important characters

in the story—Chatur Pandit, King Krishnadevaraya.

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