Unit 12 Importance of Work
B Reading and Critical Thinking
1 Reading Comprehension
Answer the following questions:
I. Who was lazy?
Ans: The landlord’s son was very lazy.
ii. What did the father want from his son?
Ans: The father wanted his son to be hardworking and responsible.
iii. Who helped the boy rst time and why?
Ans: The boy’s mother helped him rst time because he was not used to do any kind of work, and he asked help from his mother by crying.
iv. How did the boy arrange the money the second time?
Ans: The boy got ten gold coins from his sister the second time.
v. What was the o er by the shopkeeper?
Ans: The shopkeeper o ered him twenty gold coins for carrying a bag to someone’s house.
Readthegivenelementsofafableand noticetheseelementsinthestorygiven below:
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Fable is a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or in animated objects as characters.
Character: Charactersarethepersonsorsometimesanimalswhotake partinastory.
Setting: Itisthetimeandplaceinwhichthestoryhappens.
Plot: Itisthesequenceofevents(beginning,middle,end)ina story. Con ict: Itisthestrugglebetweentwoforcesorthoughtsinastory.
Resolving: Itistheconclusionofthecon ictandhasamorallesson.
Readthestoryandseewhetheritcoversalltheelementsofthestory. Readthegivenstoryandfillintheblankswiththecorrectwordsgivenbelow.
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Once there was a farmer who was very _______ about his crop getting eaten by the birds. So he laid a for the birds. Next day he managed to catch a ______ of the birds. A crane also got trapped in the net. The crane pleaded to the farmer for his _______. The farmer retorted, “You have been found in the ________ of these birds who were eating my seeds so I will not ________ you.”
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Choose the correct answer.
1. The land Lord’s son was very______. (i) (ii) (iii) mischievous clever lazy (iv) intelligent
2. Where the father asked the son to throw the coin: (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) lake sea pond well
3. How much coins the sister gave him. (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) five coins ten coins fifteen coin twenty coins
4. The shopkeeper offered the lazy boy. (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) ten coins twenty coins thirty coins forty coins
C Language Focus
1 Vocabulary Building
Read the given words and their meanings.
Words Meanings Meanings Words entire lazy realize responsible receive
afraid obtain scared having all the parts slack, work-shy know or understand accountable/ in charge
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Regular and Irregular Verb Forms
Read the given regular forms of verbs.
Base Form
Read the given irregular forms of verbs.
Form
A verb can be regular or irregular. Regular verbs form their past and past participle forms by adding - ed at the end.
Participle
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Irregular verbs do not form their past and past participle forms by adding -ed to them.
Base Form eat Past Form go ate went do did Past Participle eaten gone done choose chose chosen
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Learning to Spell
Rearrange the jumbled letters to make words and learn their spelling.
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3 Grammar
Read the given hyphenated words. Hyphen (-)
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A is used to join two or more hyphen (-) words together. It is usually used with numbers and fractions.
Fractions one- third two- third forty-five eighty-two
Numbers
Write five words using hyphens with numbers and fractions in your notebook.
1. twenty-two 2. Seventy-nine 3. Two-fourth 4. One-fifth 5. Thirty-three
Present Continuous Tense
Sentence Structure:
Subject + is/am/are + base form of verb + ing + object.
For example:
i. I am reading a book.
ii. We are going to bazaar.
iii. She is taking food.
For Negative Sentences:
Note:
We use ’ with ’ only. ‘am ‘I We use ’ with he, she, ‘is it or with singular noun. We use ’ with we, they ‘are you or with plural noun.
Sentence Structure
Subject + is not/am not/are not + base form of verb + ing + object.
For example:
i. ii. I am not telling a lie. They are not going for shopping.
iii. He is not drinking milk.
For Questions ( Interrogative Sentences)
Sentence Structure: Is/Am/Are + subject + verb + ing + object?
For example:
i. ii. Are they catching fish? Is he making tea?
iii. Am I joining them?
Use the verbs in the box to complete the sentences in the present continuous tense.
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(i) You __________ the ball.
(ii) We __________ apples.
(iii) Baby __________ on the floor.
(iv) The candle __________.
(v) The bear __________ the tree.
(vi) They __________ for their turn.
(vii) He __________ on the leaves.
D Writing
1 Learning to Write
Write a story about your favourite animal and also note the elements of the story learnt previously from the reading section in your notebook.
Once a wolf saw a lamb drinking water from the same source down at some distance. The cunning wolf thought of a plan to fool the lamb and eat him. So he shouted down at the lamb, “How dare you to make the water dirty?” The poor lamb replied gently, “You must be mistaken sir. The water flows from you to me and not from me to you. So, I am not making the water dirty for you.”
The wolf began thinking cunningly of some other things to make an issue. “Do you remember, you used abusive words for me, just a year ago?” said the wolf. The lamb replied, “But sir I was not born a year ago.” The wolf said in a loud voice, “Then your father must have abused me a year ago.” The lamb replied. “I apologize on behalf of my father.” The wolf said, “You are arguing with me. I will teach you and your family a lesson.” Then the wolf jumped upon the poor lamb and killed it.
Moral: Don’t argue with the wicket person.
2 Creative Writing
Write the story of“Ant and Grasshopper.” in your note book.
In a garden, there lived an ant and a grasshopper who were very good friends. It was spring time and the grasshopper was having a lot of fun playing, singing and dancing in the sun but the ant was hardworking. It was collecting food grains and storing them in
its house. The grasshopper did not understand and made fun of it.
The grasshopper said, “Hey, Ant! why don’t you come outside and play with me?” The ant replied, “I cannot, I am storing food for the winter when there won’t be anything to eat.” The grasshopper only laughed at the ant and said, “Why are you worrying now? There is plenty of food”. When winter came, the grasshopper did not find a single grain to eat. It began to starve and feel very weak.
The grasshopper saw how the hardworking ant had plenty of food to eat and realised its mistake.
Moral: “Use your time wisely.”