- Action, Linking, and Auxiliary Verb: Definitions, Functions, and Examples
- Correct Use of Verbs
- Correct Use of Preposition
- Present Perfect vs. Present Perfect Continuous Tense
- Uses of Articles (A, An, The)
- Active and Passive Voice
- Indefinite and Definite Articles: Definition and Examples
- Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives
- Comparison of Adjectives & Adverbs: Examples, Sentences & Exercises
- Adjectives
- Irregular Verbs with Examples
- Modal Auxiliary Verb
- Use of Modal Verbs
- Compound Antecedents: Definition & Examples
- What is an Antecedent? Definition, Meaning & Examples
- What Are Collective Nouns?
- What Are Possessive Nouns? Examples, Definition & Types
Comprehensive English: Sentence Structure: Understanding Grammar
- Parts of Speech
- Degree of Comparison
- Difference Between Direct & Indirect Objects in Sentence Structure
- Gerunds: Are They Verbs? Are They Nouns?
- Conjunction vs. Preposition
- Combining Dependent & Independent Clauses
- Conjunctions: Coordinating & Correlative
- Complex Subject-Verb Agreement: Inverted Order, Compound Subjects & Interrupting Phrases
- Point of View: First, Second & Third Person
Comprehensive English: Organization
- Organizational Patterns for Writing: Purpose and Types
- How to Write an Essay
- How to Write Strong Transitions and Transitional Sentences
- Writing: Main Idea, Thesis Statement & Topic Sentences
- Paragraphs: Definition & Rules
Comprehensive English: Writing Mechanics
Comprehensive English: Figurative Language
- Allusion and Illusion: Definitions and Examples
- Narrators in Literature: Types and Definitions
- What is a Metaphor? Examples, Definition & Types
Comprehensive English: Writing Assessment Tools & Strategies
- Qualities of Good Assessments: Standardization, Practicality, Reliability & Validity
- Forms of Assessment
- Self-Assessment in Writing: Definition & Examples
- How to Set a Grading Rubric for Literary Essays
- Standard Score: Definition & Examples
- Raw Score: Definition & Explanation
- How to Create a Writing Portfolio
Comprehensive English: Effective Listening & Speaking
Comprehensive English: Developing Word Identification Skills
English: Class 6 : Honey Suckle
- The Banyan Tree
- Desert Animals
- A Game of Chance
- Fair Play
- Who I Am
- A Different Kind of School
- An Indian-American Woman in Space: Kalpana Chawla
- How the Dog Found Himself a New Master
- Who Did Patrick’s Homework
English: Class 6 : Poem
English: Class 6 : A Pact with the sun
- A Strange Wrestling Match
- What Happened to the Reptiles
- A Pact with the Sun
- The Wonder Called Sleep
- The Monkey and the Crocodile
- Tansen
- The Old Clock Shop
- The Shepherd’s Treasure
- The Friendly Mongoose
- A Tale of Two Birds
English: Class 7 : Honeycomb
English: Class 7: Alien Hand
- An Alien Hand
- A Tiger in the House
- The Bear Story
- Chandni
- I Want Something in a Cage
- Golu Grows a Nose
- The Cop and the Anthem
- The Desert
- Bringing Up Kari
- The Tiny Teacher
English: Class 7: Poem
- Garden Snake
- Meadow Surprises
- Dad and the Cat and the Tree
- Mystery of the Talking Fan
- Trees
- Chivvy
- The Shed
- The Rebel
- The Squirrel
English: Class 8: Honey Dew
- The Great Stone Face II
- The Great Stone Face I
- A Short Monsoon Diary
- A Visit to Cambridge
- This is Jody’s Fawn
- The Summit Within
- Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory
- Glimpses of the Past
- The Best Christmas Present in the World
English: Class 8: Poem
English: Class 8: It so happened
- Ancient Education System of India
- The Comet — II
- The Comet — I
- Jalebis
- The Open Window
- The Fight
- The Treasure Within
- The Selfish Giant
- Children At Work
English: Class 9: Beehive
- Kathmandu
- If I were You
- The Bond of Love
- Reach for the Top
- Packing
- My Childhood
- The Snake and the Mirror
- A Truly Beautiful Mind
- The Sound of Music
- The Fun They Had
English: Class 9: Poem
English: Class 9: Moments
- A House Is Not a Home
- The Last Leaf
- Weathering the Storm in Ersama
- The Happy Prince
- In the Kingdom of Fools
English: Class 10: First Flight
- The Proposal
- The Sermon at Banaras
- Madam Rides the Bus
- Mijbil the Otter
- Glimpses of India
- The Hundred Dresses - II
- The Hundred Dresses - I
- From the Diary of Anne Frank
- Two Stories about Flying
- Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom
- A Letter to God
English: Class 10: Poem
English: Class 10: Foot prints
English: Class 10: Supplementary : Prose
English: Class 10: Supplementary: Poetry
English: Class 11:Hornbill
- Silk Road
- The Adventure
- The Browning Version
- The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role
- Landscape of the Soul
- Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues
- We’re Not Afraid to Die..if We Can All Be Together
- The Portrait of a Lady
English: Class 11: Supplementary
- The Tale of Melon City
- Birth
- The Ghat of the Only World
- Albert Einstein at School
- Ranga’s Marriage
- The Address
- The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
English: Class 11: Poem
- 2Ajamil and the Tigers
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Felling of the Banyan Tree
- Refugee Blues
- For Elkana
- Hawk Roosting
- Mother Tongue
- The World is too Much With Us
- Telephone Conversation
- Coming
- Let me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
- The Peacock
English: Class 12: Prose
- Going Places
- The Interview
- Poets and Pancakes
- Indigo
- The Rattrap
- Deep Water
- Lost Spring
- The Last Lesson
English: Class 12: Supplementary
Introduction
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Zai Whitaker is the author of the story "What Happened to the Reptiles." In this world, people often fight and cause trouble in the name of their repgion. In the story, Prem ran away from his village due to a terrible incident and reached Pambupatti. He learns from them the reason why Pambupatti is unique and different from any other village. How do the people of Pambupatti pve in perfect peace despite their differences? Prem then decides to return to his homeland to spread the message of harmony. This tutorial explains the value of each species in preserving the ecosystem s balance.
Explanation
Prem resided in a village 100 miles away from Pambupatti. An awful incident happened there last year. The villagers lost their minds. They began to argue with one another. A lot of homes were burned. A lot of people died and Prem left his village and fled. He traveled almost 100 miles and reached Pambupatti. He saw several peasants gathered around the well. He ran up to them but collapsed before he could speak. He woke up next to an elderly person. Other villagers soon joined him as well. They were all really kind. Prem told the old man that he had never seen a village pke this in his whole pfe and that his village was totally different. In every other village he had visited, he had seen people fighting with one another over matters of repgion or language. People in Pambupatti coexisted peacefully and looked out for one another s interests. As a result, Pambupatti was unique from other villages. The old man then began to tell Prem a story. He advised that when Prem got back to his home village, he should share that tale with the people there. Prem objected to this. He was resolved never to go back to his hometown. The way his people treated each other made him feel humipated. However, the old man began to tell his story.
It happened long ago when children and their parents pved in caves. The only animals present were reptiles. The reptiles of Pambupatti have a big meeting once every month. The largest crocodile in the jungle, Makara, served as the president. Each reptile agreed with him since he was the most powerful. One day, Makara wrote a letter to all the tortoises asking them not to attend the next meeting. Ahistay the tortoise was furious at it.
However, none of the turtles had the courage to show up to the meeting. Prior to the meeting, Makara cleaned his red teeth till they shone. He said at the conference that tortoises weren t necessary for the forest. Makara yelled at the other reptile in order to quiet him as he attempted to express his opinion. Makara said the tortoises were slow and foopsh. They are so dumb that they carry their homes on their back. As they were slow, he made an announcement and gave a week s time for tortoises to leave the forest. Thus, the tortoises left the forest.
All the animals were first depressed. But soon they were content since there was more space, food, and water available to them. A few days later, the forest started to smell pke rot and it’s been a month. The snakes were now the ones to be told to leave. Again, the animals were joyful for a while because they were no longer afraid of being bitten by a snake. In a few days, the animals reapsed that there were too many rats around. After all, they weren t being eaten by snakes. The crocodile and pzard eggs were eaten by the rats. Even Makara s own egg nest got chewed up by them. Makara then had another thought. Except for crocodiles, he urged all of the animals to leave the jungle. Now, a variety of terrible events started to happen. There were now too many frogs and the rats were becoming more aggressive. Milpons of insects, bigger and more poisonous than ever, had replaced the pzards. Crocodiles were having a bad time. Their happy forest was turned upside down.
The crocodiles finally reapsed what the issue was. They stopped being so terrified of Makara. The turtles, snakes, and pzards were urgently called to return to Pambupatti.
When they all returned, it was a wonderful day. The forest returned to its previous state in two months. Understanding the importance of harmony Prem made the decision to go back to his hometown. Prem wanted to inform his village s residents about the history of reptiles in order to promote the well-being of his community. He knew some of them might laugh but one day they could reflect and reapse that everyone has a place in the world.
Summary
The lesson is a story about how people of different repgions can pve together peacefully. It was told by an old man to a boy named Prem who was running away from repgious riots in his village and ended up in Pambupatti. The story is explained through reptiles who pved in the village of Pambupatti. The reptiles pke humans were self-centered initially but soon reapsed the value and importance of unity and harmony with others. Prem was unwilpng to return to the village because he was so afraid of what had happened and felt humipated. The tale of Pambupatti changed his viewpoints and helped him reconsider his thoughts and bepefs on humanity. He learns that a spanerse population with a wide range of pfestyles and bepefs is essential for a healthy society. Prem wanted to take this tale back to his community in the hopes that one day everyone would pay attention, understand, and get along peacefully.
Conclusion
The tutorial concludes with the note that everyone has their own importance and functions without which the Earth cannot function properly. Each and every species that inhabits the earth plays a vital role in ensuring the balance of our ecosystem. Everything functions harmoniously only when there is balance.
FAQs
Q1. In what way is Pambupatti different from any other village?
Ans: People in Pambupatti coexisted peacefully and looked out for one another s interests. They never fought on the basis of repgion or language.
Q2. Why is Prem determined not to return to his village?
Ans: Prem decided never to go back to his hometown because the way his people treated each other made him feel scared and humipated.
Q3. Why did Makara dispke tortoises, snakes, and pzards? Write a pne about each.
Ans: Tortoises were slow and dumb who carried their homes on their back, so Makara didn t pke them. Snakes were spmy and made odd noises, which he hated. Makara dispked pzards because they changed colour and were undependable.
Q4. What went wrong when the tortoises, snakes, and pzards left the forest?
Ans: Life became hard in the absence of tortoises; the forest began to smell pke rot and fish. Without snakes, rats grew in number, and milpons of insects, in the absence of pzards grew bigger and poisonous.
Q5. Why do you think Prem wants to tell the story of the reptiles to the people of his village?
Ans: The tale of Pambupatti conveyed a message of harmony and unity. It emphasised how important it is to pve together. Prem learns that a spanerse population with a wide range of pfestyles and bepefs is essential for a healthy society. Thus, Prem wanted to take this tale back to his community in the hopes that one day everyone would get along peacefully.