Class-4 English (Marigold), Unit - 8_2 The Giving Tree / NCERT / CBSE Syllabus

Unit - 8-2
The Giving Tree

New words
Swing – to move to and fro
Delicious - delightful
pluck- to pull off
trip – A journey
sail – travel on water
stump – the lower end of a tree
recognized – identified as something

Answer these questions
(Reading is fun)

Q. How did the boy enjoy the company of the tree?
Ans- The boy enjoyed the company of the tree by climbing up the trunk, swinging from branches, eating apples and sleeping under it.


Q. How did the tree help the boy earn money?
Ans- The tree helped the boy earn money by letting him pluck its apples and sell them in the market.


Q. What did the boy make with the branches of the tree?
Ans- The boy made a house with the branches of the tree.

Q. What did the boy make with the trunk of the tree?
Ans- The boy made a boat with the trunk of the tree.

Q. How was the stump of the tree useful?
Ans- The stump of the tree was useful for sitting and resting on.

Word building
Make new words and complete the sentences.

1.       The children love to sing loudly. (loud)

2.       Read your lesson silently. (silent)

3.       Throw the ball slowly. (slow)

4.       The tree gave its fruit to the boy happily. (happy)

5.       Do your work neatly. (neat)

Fill in the blanks with the correct word.

My mother went to the market and bought a kilogram of apples (apple / apples), a dozen  bananas (banana / bananas) and a dozen oranges (orange / oranges).

I love oranges. So I ate an orange (orange / oranges). Brother wanted a banana (banana / bananas) sister asked for an apple (apple / apples). A tree has one trunk (trunk / trunks) but many branches (branch / branches). A branch (branch / branches) has a number of leaves (leaf / leaves) and flowers (flower / flowers).

Let's write

Write the sentences in the correct order. Also, choose the right word from the box and add it before each sentence. Remember to put a comma after it, for example, Finally,........

  [First        then after        that                 finally]

( 1) It gave him its branches to make a house.
( 2) It ask him to sit on the stump.
( 3) It gave him its trunk to make a boat.
( 4) The tree gave its happens to the boy.

Answer
(1) First, the tree gave its happens to the boy.
(2) Then, it gave its branches to make a house.
(3) After that, it gave him its trunk to make a boat.
(4) Finally, it asked him to sit on the stump.

Work in a group and decide the things that you can do to help your grandparents or any other old person. Now, write five of these things that you will do.

Finding the glasses.

Getting fruits from the market.

Taking them to temple.

Soaking their chapatti in dal.
Accompany them during hospital visit.

Let's act
You are reading and talking about trees. You are thinking about trees too.
Can you make the shape of a tree with your body?
Let's see your branches.
Let's see a full tree with fruits and leaves.
Enact only a trunk.
Enact a tree with only a stump left.
Communicate the idea in this play.

Use your body to- stretch, bend, jump, twist, hop, climb.

Read carefully and fill up the blanks choosing the right word.

Chintha Chettu

Chinta Chettu is a Tamarind tree.
This famous Tamarind tree is in Gwalior.
It grows over Tansen's tomb.
Tansen was a great singer.
People live in Gwalior say:
“Eat the leaves of this Tamarind tree
And you'll also sing like Tansen!”

Choose the right words.
Chintha Chettu is a Tamarind tree (tree, leaf)
This famous tree is in Gwalior (guntur, gwalior)
Tansen was a famous singer( singer, dancer)
The Tamarind tree over Tansen tomb (house, tomb)
“eat the leaves of the Tamarind tree, and you'll also sing like Tansen (tansen, akbar)

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