Name: ________________ Date: ___________ Class: _________________ A. Read the sentences carefully. Write each word from the sentence, in the correct column, in the table on different Parts of Speech given below. 1. Mom, dad and I are going shopping for a new car. 2. The thief stole the money because he wanted to buy a motorbike. 3. Jaya washed her hands before she ate her lunch. 4. The dog crawled under the bush. 5. I put hot water in the empty bucket. 6. The frightened kitten hid under the table. 7. We swam across the deep lake and reached the shore. Nouns Adjectives Verbs Prepositions Pronouns Conjunctions B. Rewrite the following sentences after punctuating them. 1. next saturday maya and aamna are going to Chandigarh ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 2. abeer has a cat called cuddles and a dog called woofer ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 3. my brother’s name is agastya have you met him ___________________________________________________________________ 4. my favourite pets are dogs cats hamsters and goldfish ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 5. look out there is a black spider under your desk ___________________________________________________________________ 6. do you know rouvin went to pune for his sister’s piano recital ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ English Comprehension Name: _______________________ Date: ________________ Class: _______________________ Read the excerpt from the story ‘Call It Courage’ written by Armstrong Sperry to answer the questions that follow. It was the sea that Mafatu feared. He was surrounded by it ever since he was born. The thunder of it filled his ears; the crash of it upon the reef, the mutter of it at sunset, the threat and fury of its storms- on every hand, wherever he turned-the sea. He could not remember when the fear of sea had first taken hold of him. Perhaps it was during the great hurricane which had swept Hikueru when he was a child of three. Even now, twelve years later, Mafatu could remember that terrible morning. His mother had taken him out to the barrier reef to search for sea urchins in the reef pools. There were other canoes scattered at wide intervals along the reef. Late afternoon the other fishermen began to turn back. They shouted warnings to Mafatu’s mother. It was the season of hurricane and the people of Hikueru were nervous and ill at ease, charged, it seemed, with an almost animal awareness of impending storm. But when at last Mafatu’s mother turned back towards the shore, a swift current had set in around the shoulder of the reef-passage, a meeting of tides that swept like a millrace out into the open sea. It seized the frail craft in its swift race. Despite all the woman’s skill, the canoe was carried on the crest of the churning tide, through the reef-passage, into the outer ocean. Mafatu would never forget the sound of his mother’s despairing cry. He didn’t know then what it meant, but he felt that something was terribly wrong, and he set up a loud wailing. Night closed down upon them, swift as a frigate’s wing, darkening the known world. The wind of the open ocean rushed in at them, screaming. The woman sprang forward to seize her child as the canoe capsized. The little boy gasped when the cold water struck him. He clung to his mother’s neck. Moana, the Sea God, was reaching up for them, seeking to draw them down to his dark heart….. Off the tip of Hikueru, the uninhabited islet of Tekoto lay shrouded in darkness. It was scarcely more than a ledge of coral, almost awash. The swift current bore directly down upon the islet. Dawn found the woman still clinging to the purau pole and the little boy with his arms locked about his mother’s neck. The grim light revealed sharks circling, circling………. Little Mafatu buried his head against his mother’s cold neck. He was filled with terror. He even forgot the thirst that burned his throat. But the palms of Tekoto beckoned with their promise of life, and the woman fought on. When at last they were cast up on the pinnacle of coral, Mafatu’s mother crawled ashore with scarcely enough strength left to pull her child beyond reach of the sea’s hungry fingers. The little boy was too weak even to cry. At hand lay a cracked coconut, the woman managed to press the cool, sustaining meat to her child’s lips before she died. Q1. What did Mafatu fear and why? ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ Q2. Why had Mafatu’s mother taken him to the barrier reef? ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ Q3. What natural calamity struck the town of Hikueru and who warned Mafatu’s mother about it? ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ Q4. What did Mafatu’s mother do when she finally crawled ashore the islet of Tekoto? ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ Q5. Read the passage thoroughly to complete the following statements. a. Mafatu’s mother was a __________________________________________________________ b. Mafatu started wailing as he felt __________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ c. Little Mafatu gasped when _______________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ d. Mafatu was filled with terror when he saw __________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ e. The Sea God was known as ______________________________________________________ Q6. Give another word from the passage which means the same as the phrases given below. A. spread all over- _________________________ B. crying loudly - __________________________ C. not lived in - ____________________________ D. showed - _______________________________ E. a small island - __________________________ Q7. Use the words/ phrases given below to make meaningful sentences. 1. filled with terror- _______________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ 2. terribly wrong- ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ 3. scarcely- ______________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ 4. too weak even to cry- ___________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ 5. sprang forward- ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ Date ____________ Name _________________ English Class 5 Spelling and Grammar I. Choose an appropriate word from the word list to complete these sentences. vegetate awesome fascinating devastate persuasion nausea falter auction trauma congratulate 1. The view downstream and directly below the bridge was just ________________________. 2. An ________________ is a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder. 3. People with active minds don’t like to ___________________because they are constantly thinking of ways to challenge themselves. 4. The diversity of our country and our culture is most ________________ to the tourists from around the world. 5. Hurricanes or tornadoes have the potential to ___________________ an entire city. 6. Rahul was a skilled salesman and his gentle art of ___________________ could convince anyone to buy a car. 7. Some of the symptoms of gastroenteritis are ________________, cramps, low grade fever etc. 8. Even the best cook can ____________________ and the easiest recipe may turn out to be a disaster. 9. The survivors of the holocaust could not get over the _________________ of living in a concentration camp. 10. Roger Federer was generous enough to ____________________ his opponent. II. Think of three more words with the ambiguous vowel sound ‘au’ and write them the space below. ____________________ __________________ ___________________ III. Think of three more words with the ambiguous vowel sound ‘al’ and write them the space below. ____________________ __________________ ___________________ VI. The word ‘decide’ can be extended to make decided, decision or decisive. Extend the following words to make more words. elevate ___________________ contribute ___________________ decorate ___________________ demonstrate ___________________ V. Correct the following sentences where necessary. 1. Please try to gather as many informations as possible about the place. ____________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 2. Everybody should carry their own luggages. __________________________________________________________________ 3. I bought a new furniture for my new house. 4. Children should not eat a lot of fruits because they contain a lot of vitamins. ____________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ VI. Circle the synonym for each word written in capital letters. 1. SINGLE unique double binary 2. STICKY easy adhesive non-adhesive 3. REVEAL conceal disclose close 4. POPULAR uncommon favourite common humility pride 5. MODESTY respect VII. Do as directed 1. Odds and ends (Write a sentence using the twin word) __________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ 2. She danced as gracefully as a swan. (Underline the simile) 3. Becloud, bedim, clear, daze (Underline the odd one out) 4. Write the opposite of ‘excited’ ___________________ 5. The shopkeeper will ______________ a high price for this _____________. (Fill in the correct homophone – coat/quote) 6. Maya is the ________________________________ girl in the class. (Fill in the correct degree of the adjective – industrious)
