Unit- 9_1
Sing a Song of People
New words
Subway – Underground passage for people to cross
Underneath – below
Elevators – Lift
Grumpy – ill- tempted
Answer these
questions:
Q. Which mode of transport do the people use to move around in
the city?
Ans- People use bus and taxies to move around in the city.
Q. What are the things that the people carry with them, while
moving around?
Ans- People carry hats and umbrellas with them, while moving around.
Q. Where all do you find these very busy people?
Ans- We find these very busy people on the side walk, bus,
subway, in tall buildings, stores, elevators and in crowd of city.
Q. Where have you seen crowds of people?
Ans- I have seen crowds of people in fair and traffic jam.
Q. Why do you think all these people are in a hurry?
Ans- I think that all these people are in a hurry to reach their
destination.
Language Use
Let’s write the
opposites of following words:
Word
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Opposite
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Slow
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Fast
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Up
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Down
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Back
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Front
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Tall
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Short
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Below
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Above
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Crowd
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Private
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Loud
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Quiet
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Go
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come
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Let’s Listen
Read and listen to
these two people with your partner and find out what are the things that the
village child and the city child like.
The Village Child
My home is a house
Near a wood
I’d live in a street
If I could!
I do wish someone
lived near.
There’s no one to play with
at all.
The trees are so high
And so tall:
And I should be lonely
For hours,
Were it not for the birds
And the flowers.
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The City Child
I live in a city
In a street;
It is crowded with traffic
And feet;
There are buses and motors
And trams.
I wish there were meadows
And lambs.
The houses all wait
In a row
There is smoke everywhere
That I go.
I don’t like the noises
I hear
I wish there were woods.
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Now, fill up the
blanks:
1- The village child’s home
is near a wood_( wood / shopping
mall)
2- The village child
is lonely for hours. (city / village)
3- The city child wishes to
have _meadows_ (traffic jam / meadows)
4- There is smoke
everywhere in the city. (smoke / flowers)
Let’s Talk
The people who live in cities often wish they could live in quiet
towns. Do you like the place you live in?
Tell your partner
two things you like and don’t like about the place you live in.
I live in a city…….
Two things that I like are
(1) Shopping malls
(2) Sports facilities
Two things that I don’t like are
(1) Traffic jam
(2) Pollution
Let’s Write
Did you observe that
in the poem, the last words in every second and fourth line rhyme with each
other? Make a list of such word.
Pairs of rhyming words
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Slow
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Go
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Bus
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Us
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Ground
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Round
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Doors
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Pours
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Below
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Go
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Crowd
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Loud
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Too
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You
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Go
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know
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Find out how many people are there in our country.
Do we have enough land for all people on the earth?
Is there enough food and water for all people?
Present population of our country is around 136 crores.
Yes, we have enough land for all the people on the earth.
Yes, we have enough food and water (if used wisely) to satisfy the
need of all people.
Project work-
Find out the following from ten families living in your
neighbourhood.
Count
the number of
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F1
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F2
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F3
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F4
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F5
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F6
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F7
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F8
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F9
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F10
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Total
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Children
below 5 years of age
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Children
from 5-14 age
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Grown up
children from 15-20
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Elders
from 21-50 years
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Old
people who are above 50 years
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Total
number of people in the family
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*F= Family
Q. How many members are educated in each family?
Q. From amongst ten families, how many are educated?
Now talk to your partner and write a report about your
neighbourhood.
Let’s Interview
Interview your teacher and get her response for the
following questions.
(i)
Why did you become a teacher?
(ii)
How do you come to school everyday?
(iii)
Do you have any pets?
(iv)
What kind of books do you like to
read?
(v)
What are your hobbies?
Now write a paragraph about your teacher with the
information you gathered.
My teacher says she became a teacher because she realized the importance
of good teachers in constructing the future of country. She comes to school
everyday by a two-wheeler. She has a pet dog at her home. She likes to read
biographies a lot. Travelling to different places of historical importance is
her hobby.
