Std05 I English
Std05 I English
Std05 I English
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FOREWORD
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1. Let us listen :
Speaking a language starts with listening, of course, listening
with understanding. To develop this skill, students need a lot of
listening sessions. You are their role model. Your oral reading with
correct pronunciation, stress, intonation and pause will help the
students to get this skill. Activities like listening to rhymes, songs
and stories and involving them in discussions will facilitate gaining
speaking skill.
2. Let us Speak :
Every student likes to speak English but enough opportunities
are not given to them. Here in this course book, many situations and
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The river started crying. “How can I?” the river lamented. “Just
have a look at me. Look at the waste water from the city drainage floating
on my back. I am stinking and I
feel sick. See how black I am
because of the industrial waste.
Even on my bank, one can see
how people dump the waste
products. People use my
waters to bathe, wash clothes
and bathe their animals. How
can I remain clean?”
God remained silent. He let the river wail for some time. Then He
turned and looked at the land. The land which was waiting for this signal
from God, immediately rose up like a mound and bowed before God.
“How are you dear land?” asked God, “Is it
all well with you?”
“No my God,” said the land, “In fact, I
was hoping to meet you and tell my
woes. In the beginning, you created me
to be fertile and fruitful. But the human
beings went away from your purpose and
showed no interest in my forests and
vegetation. Agricultural lands are turned into factories and industries;
estates and buildings. Under the lamented - express with sadness ENGLISH
name of modernization, these men stinking - bad disgusting smell
have filled my body with chemicals wail - cry
mound - a small hill
and explosives. Insecticides and woes - sad tales
fertilizers may give a better yield, but insecticides - chemicals used to kill
man forgets that they pollute me. My insects
fertilizers - medicines used for
entire body is polluted because of the
plant growth
mining and construction activities. mining - the process of digging
Help me God!” cried the land. minerals from the earth
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God remained silent. He took a deep breath and inhaled the cool
air that was blowing around Him. He started to cough. The wind which
was waiting in line to speak to God immediately took inhaled - breathe-in
the cue and started his speech. cue - signal
“Forgive me, my God. I know that I am the reason for your cough,
and I am sorry for that,” explained the wind, and continued. “The
inventions and discoveries of man
have multiplied. The automobiles
like buses, cars and bikes used by
man for transportation lets out
smoke which is poisonous and
injurious to health. Smoke
emanating from the factory
pollutes me. The poisonous gases
from the air-conditioners and
refrigerators add to the danger.
The rubbish dumps mount up like hills, attracting flies and various other
air-borne diseases. Pure oxygen has become a rarity. The day is not too
far, when man will have to carry oxygen packets just like water bottles, for
his very existence. I am helpless.”
God remained silent. He understood the
injurious - harmful, dangerous
emanating - coming from agony of the wind. He was about to
agony - pain leave the earth, when man arrived. He
gasping - to draw in the breath
was gasping for breath.
“Excuse me, are you God?” he questioned. God nodded. “I am
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“God, the planet earth has become worse. We cannot live here.
The temperature has increased. The air, water and land has become
dirty. There is water scarcity. Give us rain.” said the man.
“I know. I know. But whose fault is it? I created this planet
especially for you to live happily. It is a gift for you and for your children.
But you have spoilt it. How can you be so careless about life which is so
precious? If you can repent and try to set things right, you can live on. Or
else, the doomsday is not far-off” said scarcity - shortage, not enough
God in a grave tone and went back to his doomsday - day of destruction
heavenly abode. grave - serious
2. In what form did God appear to the river, land and wind?
3. Why was the river sad?
4. What was the complaint of the land to God?
5. How is man polluting the air?
CLASS ACTIVITY : Group presentation & chart work.
For the teacher: Divide the class into 3 groups - Land, water and air pollution. Let the
children find out and cut relevant pictures from old newspapers / magazines and stick them
on a chart. Let the group members suggest ways and means to reduce pollution and save
our environment.
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WORD PLAY
The past-tense of action words (verbs) found in the lesson are given here. Can you fill
in with the present-tense?
PAST-TENSE PRESENT-TENSE
(a) explained explain
(b) continued ……………………………
(c) remained ……………………………
(d) understood ……………………………
(e) announced ……………………………
(f) lamented ……………………………
(g) bowed ……………………………
(h) damaged ……………………………
FUN TIME
Draw lines in the same order as the characters appear in the story and end
where you started. What is the shape you have got?
GOD
LAND WIND
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At Home
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to his home.
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about it.
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Eg:
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Impersonal Nouns :
Ex: Thought, Laughter, Sleep ,
Swimming, Boyhood, Kindship.
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(B) Write suitable collective nouns for the nouns given under, choosing from
the box:
1. a of musicians
2. a of kittens
3. a of arrows
4. a of fish
5. a of singers
6. a of lions
7. a of robbers
8. a of elephants
9. a of ants
10. a of books
11. a of mountains
12. a of stars
13. a of players
14. a of currency notes
15. a of people
Number
Singular Plural
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5. Garden
6. Match
7. Tomato
8. Dish
9. Volcano
10. Potato
11. Woman
12. Child
13. Pony
14. Goose
15. Tooth
16. Mouse
17. Shelf
18. Ox
19. Sheep
20. Deer
Note : For words 1 to 5, you need to add only 's'; for words 6 to 10, you need to
add 'es' ; words 11 to 18 are irregular nouns – i.e. lot of changes happen in the plural
form. Words 19 and 20 are nouns that don't change in the plural form.
(III) Gender
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(IV) Possessives
Gopi's father works in London.
The peacock's feathers are lovely to look at.
We use an ( ' ) apostrophe's to show ownership or possession of a singular noun.
If the noun is in a plural form, then the apostrophe is used after the plural, noun.
Eg: The boys' washroom was dirty and unclean yesterday.
The children's day falls on 14th November.
(V) Verbs
God announced his departure.
He let the river wail for some time.
In the above sentences, the red words show some “action”. Such action words
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Fill in the blanks with suitable verbs from the box :
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(VII) Tenses
The teacher enters the class. (Simple Present tense)
The teacher entered the class. (Simple Past tense)
The teacher will enter the class. (Simple future tense)
In the above sentences, did you notice that the tense of a verb can tell us the time of an
action? Verbs can be changed from one tense to another.
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(A) Underline the verbs in the following sentences. Write their correct tense.
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Simple present tense talks about a habitual action, that usually happens.
The present continuous tense tells us about an action that is happening at the time
of speaking.
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Note :
2) Simple present tense is used with time adverbs such as; always, generally,
never, every and day month, week, year, Sunday : usually
3) Time adverbs with present continuous: now, at present (with surprise – words:
Look ! See !
4) Simple past : Time adverbs : ago, then, yesterday, last & Sunday, week, day
before yesterday.
5) Simple future tense : Time adverbs, tomorrow, day after tomorrow, next.
Enjoy Learning!!!
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‘I can, I did’
Student’s Activity Record
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