Unit 2 Ch 14 A Lesson for All — English STD 5 — Question

Get about 10 friends from your class. Distribute the sheets prepared by you to the 10 chosen friends. The sheet given is to get information about the person, such as their likes, dislikes, worries, fear …..and so on. Let them fill the sheets. Collect the sheets and find out similarity in likes and dislikes, fears, etc. You might find that many of your friends have the same likes, dislikes, fear, etc. Few may vary. On the basis of the information, make a report without any personal remarks. Read it out in the class. Make the report humorous so that everyone enjoys and no one is hurt. Let us see how best you can do it.

Make a painting or a collage to show the different things described in the poem.

Note that we say ‘its appetite’, ‘its manners’ and not “it’s appetite’ or ‘it’s manners’.
It’s means ‘It is’ and its means ‘belonging to it.

Complete the web with words related to nature other than those which are given in the poem.

Read the words. Write the words that combine to make each of them.

1. stepmother
2. footprint
3. snowwhite
4. springtime
5. gentle-hearted
6. anywhere

Look at the photographs on textbook pages 60-61 carefully and imagine the following:

• The colours, shape, size, actions, etc. of what you see in the picture.
• The sound/sounds you may hear at the scene of the photograph.
• How the different things, birds, animals, etc. in the picture feel to the touch.
• The smell / smells you may smell at the scene of the picture.
• The taste of what you see in the pictures.

Find out how the following games are played.
Table Tennis

Match The Following:

1. strange	a. unreal
2. exhausted	b. odd
3. imaginary	c. the ability to face danger
4. brave	d. tired
	e. excited

Think about what you do and what you must learn to do when you speak. Make a list of such ‘Do’s and Don’ts’ for yourself.