V Class - English - I Term

Class V Term - I English

1. A Great Leaders

I. New Words:
1. anecdote
2. humble
3. achievers
4. honoured
5. receive
6. Padma Bhushan
7. literature
8. interview
9. security
10. refused
11. regretted
12. incident
13. Rashtrapati Bhavan
14. Gracious
15. behaviour
16. accepted
17. distribution
18. ceremony
19. admirer
20. annoyed
21. probably
22. commented

II. Meanings:
1. rose – rise to
2. anecdote – short entertaining story about a real incident or a person
3. humble – low opinion of your own importance.
4. receive – get
5. achievers – people who manage to do something by effort or skill.
6. Interview – formal face to face talk.
7. refused- not allow
8. regretted - felt sorry
9. touched – felt happy or emotional
10. gracious – kind, pleasant or polite.
11. admire – greatly approve of or respect.
12. rude- lack of manners
13. probably – may be

III. Antonyms / opposites:
1. great x small
2. humble x proud
3. achievers x losers
4. honoured x humiliated
5. refused x accepted
6. alone x together
7. annoyed x pleased
8. pulled x pushed
9. rude x polite
10. rose x fell

IV. plurals:
1. achiever - achievers
2. award - awards
3. leader - leaders
4. book - books
5. tree - trees
6. hero - heroes
7. tomato – tomatoes
8. piano - pianos
9. story – stories
10. valley - valleys

V. Frame Sentences :
1. anecdote
2. humble
3. interview
4. regret
5. annoyed
6. incident

VI. Punctuate the following sentences :
1. great achievers are honoured on every republic day
2. dr. apj abdul kalam invited shree. prabhakar to rashtrapati bhavan and regretted the incident

VII. Answer the following :
Q 1. How did Dr. Kalam calm down
a. Shree Vishnu Prabakar?
b. the admirer ?
A. When Dr. Kalam came to know about the ill treatment which Shree Vishnu Prabakar got at the function, he invited him to Rashtrapati. Bhawan and regretted the incident. This touched Sree Vishnu Prabakar and he accepted the award.

B. When the admirer expressed that the middle aged gentleman’s behaviour was rude, Dr. Kalam commented that it did not matter. He did not need a shawl, probably the gentleman needed it.

2. Casabianca
- Eelicia Dorothea Henan

I. New Words:
1. whence
2. battle
3. wreck
4. creature
5. heroic
6. chieftain
7. booming
8. despair
9. steward
10. unconscious
11. wreathing
12. fragments
13. fled
14. faint
15. brow
16. shroud
17. strewed

II. Meanings:
1. Whence - from where
2. Wreck – a ship that has been damaged at sea.
3. Heroic – having brave qualities
4. Fast the flames rolled – the fire spread quickly
5. Shroud – the ropes from the mast to the ships side
6. Wreathing fires – fire that surrounds
7. Strewed – covered
8. O’er – over
9. Faint – unconscious
10. fragments - a small part that has broken off or come from something larger.

III. Frame sentences:
unconscious
despair
heroic
fled
task

3. A Days Wait
I. New Words:
1. shivering
2. headache
3. miserable
4. capsules
5. instructions
6. influenza
7. pneumonia
8. pirates
9. prescribed
10. exactly
11. degrees
12. kilometre
13. relaxed
14. thermometer

II. Meanings:
1. purgative = food or drug that makes one go to toilet
2. epidemic = a situation in which a disease spreads fast
3. detached = not involved
4. light – headed - feeling faint
5. flushed – looking red because one is hot or ill.
6. Commenced- began
7. Slack- loose

III. Antonyms:
1. shut x open
2. ill x well
3. slowly x quickly
4. dressed x undressed
5. different x similar
6. interesting x uninteresting
7. natural x artificial
8. easy x difficult
9. commenced x concluded or stopped
10. die x live

IV. Plurals:
1. roof - roofs
2. mango – mangoes
3. knife - knives
4. wolf - wolves
5. valley – valleys
6. fox - foxes
7. toy – toys
8. city – cities
9. potato – potatoes
10. duty - duties
11. ox – oxen
12. child - children

V. Frame Sentences:
1. miserable :
2. commenced :
3. complain :
4. instruction :
5. shivering :

VI. Punctuate the following :
1. how do you feel schatz i asked him
2. i read aloud from howard pyles book of pirates but schatz was not following what i was reading

VII. Answer the following:
Q 1. What three medicines did the doctor give him?
A. The doctor gave a medicine to bring down the fever another one to overcome an acid condition and a purgative.

Q 2. Why is the third medicine necessary?
A. The third medicine was prescribed to overcome an acid condition, as the germs of influenza can only exist in acid condition.

Q 3. What does “…….he was not following which I was reading?
mean?
A. The given sentence means that Schatz was not paying attention to what was going on around him.

Q 4. What seemed strange to the father?
A. It was natural for anyone to go to sleep after being in bed for a long time. But, Schatz didn’t sleep. So, it seemed strange to his father.

Q 5. What did Schatz think would ‘bother’ his father?
A. Schatz thought that he would die soon, so, he thought that if he dies, it would ‘bother’ his father.



4. Saving the Gir Lions
I. New words:
1. declaration
2. sanctuary
3. lease
4. quarries
5. destroy
6. relocated
7. scarce
8. necessary
9. valour
10. gradual

II. Meaning:
1. sanctuary = place of safety
2. shrunk = to become small in size
3. habitat = natural home
4. pose a threat = create a situation that causes harm or danger.
5. Relocate = move to a different place.
6. valour= bravery
7. chase = to run after
8. nap = a short sleep

III. Antonyms:
1. enter x exit
2. friendly x unfriendly
3. systematically x unsystematically
4. friend x enemy
5. scarce x plenty
6. gradual x rapid
7. always x never
8. strength x weakness
9. smaller x bigger
10. lower x higher
11. newer x older

IV Frame sentences :
1. peered :
2. wander :
3. responsible :
4. relocate :
5. chase : .

V. Punctuate the following :
1. animals need to live shelter food water exactly like us but we need clothes too
2. gir is the single largest tract of forest in the saurashtra region of gujarat

VI. Answer the following:
Q 1. What are the three reasons why the growing number of
townships destroyed the natural home of the lions? A.
A. The three reasons for the growing number of townships, destroying the natural home of the lions are
1. Lack of shetter for lions as people cut down trees to build houses, roads, markets etc.
2. Presence of too many people restricts the lions to move freely.
3. The animals they feed on have disappeared.

Q 2. When did the lions stop hunting domesticated animals?
A. After the year 1965, there was a gradual increase in the number of wild animals like – chital, sambar, Nilgai and chinkara in the Gir region. So the lions stopped hunting domesticated animals as they had a lot of wild animals to feed on. .


5. I found out the myself

I. Rhyming words:
1. fun = done
2. heed = read

II. Meanings:
1. heed = obey

III. Answer the following:
Q 1. When does the poet feel happy?
A. The poet feels happy when all his assignments are done

Q 2. Where does the poet find magic?
A. The poet finds the magic in the books he read.

Q 3. What would make people think that the poet was scared?
A. If the poet was not bold or if he doesn’t fight back, the people would think that he was scared.


Grammar
PARTS OF SPEECH

A sentence may have the following parts:
1. Noun: The name of a person, place or an animal is known as a Noun.
Eg: Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of India.
Titanic was a gigantic ship which sank in the Atlantic Ocean.

2. Pronoun: The word which is used in place of a noun is said to be a
Pronoun.
Eg: Jimmy gets up early in the morning. He is a good boy.
Sheetal sings well. She is a good singer.

3. Verb: A verb tells us about the action of a subject or upon an object. It
also expresses:
1. What the state of the subject is. Eg: Harsha is a good boy.
2. What is possessed by the subject. Eg: Meena has a nice dress.

4. Adjective: A word which defines a Noun or Pronoun is called an
Adjective.
Eg: Anita is an intelligent girl.
Rinku dances well.

5. Adverbs: An adverb is a word which defines a verb, an adjective or
another adverb.
Eg: A panther runs very fast.
Ritu writes slowly.

6. Preposition: A Preposition indicates the relationship of a Noun or
Pronoun with the remaining part of the sentence.
Eg: The frog jumped into the well.
He kept the keys on the table.

7. Conjunction: A Conjunction is a word which joins two words, phrases or
clauses.
Eg: Now or never.
The sun rose and the land became bright.

8. Interjection: It is a word which is used to express a sudden emotion. The
emotions may be of joy, sorrow, surprise, contempt.
Eg: Alas! The poor man died.
Hurrah1 it is a holiday today.

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