Lesson 1
Nature Around Us
Activities
✨ 1. B) Give the meanings of the following words:
Answer:
- i. Meadow: A field of grass.
- ii. Fluttering: Moving quickly and lightly.
- iii. Cold: Not warm or hot.
- iv. Loud: A strong sound that is easy to hear.
- v. Summer: The hottest season of the year.
- vi. Cricket: A small jumping insect that makes a chirping sound.
Sentences with these words:-
i. Meadow: The green meadow is beautiful.
ii. Fluttering: The leaves are fluttering in the wind.
iii. Cold: I feel cold today.
iv. Loud: Do not make a loud noise.
v. Summer: I like the summer sun.
vi. Cricket: A cricket chirps at night.
✨ 1. C) Words with Similar Meaning:
Answer:
- Breeze: Wind
- Leave: Go
- Grasslands: Meadows
- Wear: Put on
✨ 1. D) Friendship Between the Wind and the Leaves:
Answer: The wind and the leaves are great friends who like to play. The wind speaks to the leaves kindly and invites them to the meadows.
✨ 2. A) Rhyming Words (Pairs):
Answer:
- Day and Play
- Gold and Cold
✨ 2. C) Rhyme Scheme:
Answer:
The sun is shining warm and bright, (A)
Come and shelter beneath the tree. (B)
The weary wind whirls soft and light, (A)
While birds sing wild and free. (B)
Rhyme Scheme: A B A B
✨ 2. D) Complete the Poem to match the AABB rhyme Scheme:
Answer:
The wind blows gently through the trees,
Flowers flutter, buzzing bees.
Leaves and wind twirl over hills,
Come one, come all swirl with thrills.
✨ 3. A) Choose the correct answer:
- i) Which one of the following means ‘moving lightly and quickly?
Answer: c) Fluttering - ii) What dress does the wind ask the leaves to put on?
Answer: b) Dress of red and gold - iii) How did the leaves respond to the loud call of the wind?
Answer: a) By fluttering down one by one - iv) Who heard the wind’s loud call?
Answer: c) The leaves
✨ 3. B) Answer the following questions:
- i) What does the wind ask the leaves to do?
Answer : The wind asks the leaves to come to the meadows and play.
Answer : Wind asks to play.
- ii) Why did the wind ask the leaves to wear dress of red and gold?
Answer : The wind asked the leaves to wear dress of red and gold because summer is over and the weather is getting cold.
Answer : Because summer is over.
- iii) Give the ‘movement words’ used for the leaves in the poem.
Answer: Fluttering, danced, and flew. - iv) What did the leaves do after hearing the ‘wind’s loud call’?
Answer : The leaves came down to the ground and danced over the fields after hearing the ‘wind’s loud call’.
Answer : They happily danced over the fields.
- v) What season is mentioned in the poem?
Answer: Summer season is mentioned in the poem.And the start of Autumn season is also mentioned.
Answer: Summer season.
- vi) Which line in the poem indicates the passing of summer?
Answer : “Summer is gone, and the days grow cold.”
✨ 4. A) Now, read the poem again and write down the lines where the activities of the wind and the leaves resemble human actions:
Answer:
- “Come, little leaves,” said the wind one day.
- “Come o’er the meadows with me, and play.”
- Singing the soft little songs they knew.
- “Cricket, good-by, we’ve been friends so long.”
✨ 4. B) You have already learnt about alliteration in your previous class. There are some alliterations in the poem “The Wind and the Leaves’. Find them and write below:
Answer:
- Little leaves
- soft little songs
5.Answer : Read by yourself.
6. Explanation of the Stanzas.
Answer :
2. In the second stanza, the leaves hear the wind calling them loudly. They immediately fall from the trees and move quickly through the air. They dance over the brown fields and fly around while singing the sweet little songs they know.
- In the third stanza, the leaves say goodbye to their friends, the cricket and the little stream (brook). They tell them that they have been friends for a long time. The leaves know that their friends will miss them and feel sad to see them go away for the winter.
7)a)b).Answer : Read by yourself.
8)Answer : Discuss by yourself.
9) Answer: Solve the puzzle by yourself. It is not important for exam.
10) Answer: Read by yourself.
11) Answer: Read by yourself.
✨ 12. Hard ‘C’ and Soft ‘C’ Sounds: Answer:
Box A :
Care, Clever, Cat, Came, Coat.
Box B :
Experience, Cinema, City, Ice, Pace, Face.
13) Answer: Say by yourself.
14. Write Alliterations from the poem ‘A Clever Cat in the City’
Answer :
- Clever cat came (The ‘c’ sound repeats)
- White hat upon her head (The ‘h’ sound repeats)
- Bake and spin (The ‘b’ and ‘s’ sounds repeat)
- Cookie tins all side by side (The ‘s’ sound repeats in “side by side”)
- Delish-cious delight (The ‘d’ sound repeats)
- Kind and quick (The ‘k’ sound repeats)
- World stand still (The ‘s’ sound repeats)
15) Answer: Read by yourself.
16)a) Answer: Read by yourself.
16)b) Answer:
16. B) Read the words in the box and sort them based on their vowel sounds. Write words that sound like ‘ice’ in the yellow flowers and words that sound like ‘aim’ in the pink flowers.
Answer:
🌼 Yellow Flowers
Bright
Light
Sigh
High
🌸 Pink Flowers
Age
Same
Gain
Game
17) a) Answer: Read by yourself.
17. b) Read the table and complete it by adding more examples of different types of adverbs.
Answer:
| Adverbs of Time | Adverbs of Place | Adverbs of Manner | Adverbs of Degree | Adverbs of Frequency |
| ago | down | truly | any | often |
| before | there | loudly | almost | once |
| now | everywhere | beautifully | fully | again |
| soon | here | slowly | very | always |
| today | up | quickly | quite | never |
| early | nearby | happily | too | rarely |
| yesterday | outside | softly | nearly | daily |
17. C) Read the sentences given below. Identify and write the type of adverb used in each sentence:
Answer:
- i) The boy practised his speech regularly. (Adverb of Frequency)
- ii) The phone kept ringing constantly. (Adverb of Frequency)
- iii) I have heard this story before. (Adverb of Time)
- iv) I was quite sure. (Adverb of Degree)
- v) The people have gone out. (Adverb of Place)
- vi) He responded quickly. (Adverb of Manner)
18) a) Answer: Read by yourself.
18. b) Read the following sentences and underline the adverbial phrases:
Answer:
- i) The flowers bloomed at the break of dawn.
- ii) The cat sat under the old wooden table.
- iii) She crossed the road in a very careful manner.
- iv) We ran down the hill as fast as we could.
- v) The children are playing in the park.
- vi) I will see you in the morning.
