Class 5 English — Chapter 11: The Talkative Barber
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What you'll learn
- ▸Story Comprehension: Plot and Characters
- ▸Character Analysis
- ▸Vocabulary and New Words
- ▸Forming Antonyms with Prefixes
- ▸Using Conjunctions (Joining Words)
- ▸Reading for Detail and Inference
- ▸Writing: Describing a Process
- ▸Literary Context: The Arabian Nights
Chapter Summary
--- PAGE 1 --- The Talkative Barber _Long long ago a Sultan, whose name was_ _Shahriar, ruled over a large kingdom. His_ _queen was a good storyteller. Each night she_ _would tell a story to the king. She narrated_ _ancient Persian and Arabic folk stories. This is_ _one of the stories, from the Arabian Nights._ _Read this story about a man who cannot stop talking._ In the city of Cashgar, lived a barber who was a great talker. Once the Sultan called the barber to shave his head. The barber started talking non-stop instead of shaving him. The Sultan got angry. "When are you going to stop talking and begin to do your work?" The Barber replied, "You do me an injury by calling me a chatterer. For, everyone says I am very quiet. I have six brothers whom you might call chatterers. Their names are Bacbone (buk-bon), Bakbarea (buk-buria), Bakbac (buk-buk), Alcouz (ul-kooz), Alnaschee (ul-nashi) and Schacabac (sha- ka-bak). One is humpbacked, one is toothless, one is half blind, one …
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Did you know?
- 💡 The world record for non-stop talking is over 120 hours straight.
- 💡 Birds like mynahs and parrots can learn to perfectly imitate human speech.
- 💡 Ancient Roman barbers often doubled as dentists and even performed small operations.
- 💡 The first safety razor with a disposable blade was invented in the early 1900s.
- 💡 Humans typically speak around 150 words per minute during a normal conversation.
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