Class 5 English — Chapter 13: Gulliver's Travels

What you'll learn

• ▸Story Comprehension: Gulliver in the Land of Giants
• ▸Vocabulary and New Words
• ▸Figurative Language: Similes
• ▸Grammar: Past Tense Usage
• ▸Grammar: Degrees of Comparison
• ▸Inferential Reading
• ▸Literary Genre: Autobiography
• ▸Identifying Cause and Effect

Chapter Summary

--- PAGE 1 --- Gulliver's Travels When a person tells the story of his life in his own words it is called an autobiography. Gulliver, a sailor, was once caught in the land of Giants. This is how he describes his experience. On the 16th of June 1730 we discovered land. Our captain sent a dozen men with vessels for water, if any could be found. When we came to land we saw no river or spring nor any inhabitants. I went on to explore. The country was barren and rocky. I turned back to join the crew, only to see them getting into the boat and rowing for life to get to the ship. Before I could reach them I observed a huge creature walking after them in the sea as fast as he could. The water of the ocean reached only till his knees! However, the monster was unable to overtake the speeding boat. I turned back quickly and climbed up a steep hill with fields of barley on either side and the corn rising upto forty feet. There was a fence to pass from one field to the other. 112 III Reprint 2…

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Did you know?

• 💡 A blue whale's heart is as big as a small car and pumps ten tons of blood.
• 💡 The smallest mammal on Earth is the bumblebee bat, weighing less than a penny.
• 💡 If an ant were human-sized, it could lift two cars with ease.
• 💡 Some stars are so vast that our entire solar system could fit inside them.
• 💡 A single grain of sand looks like a huge boulder under a powerful microscope.

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