Warming Up!

Q1) Discuss and answer.

1. Are there any situations when you get afraid?
Ans: Yes, I get afraid of snakes and lizards.

2. How would you react if you had to travel alone?
Ans: If I had to travel alone, I would be a little nervous but excited as well.

3. How would you react if you had to stay alone at home?
Ans: I would feel a little lonely and would wish my parents were there with me.

4. What would you do if you were lost in a new city?
Ans: If I was lost in a new city, I would try to ask the local police to help me.

Q2) Complete the following table.

1.
Idiom: bird’s eye view
Meanings: view from somewhere high
Your own sentences: We got a bird’s eye view of the city from the mountain top.

2.
Idiom: as free as a bird
Meanings: If he/she if carefree
Your own sentences: After finishing her exam, she will be as free as a bird.

3.
Idiom: eagle’s eye
Meanings: His ability to observe something closely.
Your own sentences: My mother has an eagle’s eye when it comes to my habits.

4.
Idiom: spread ones wings
Meanings: to try to work on things independently
Your own sentences: He did not take the help of his peers because he wanted to spread his wings.

Find more such idioms using the following key words.

Fly: To let something fly

Name of animals: the elephant in the room

Colours: Out of the blue



From the Chapter Pages

1) What did the young seagull feel?

Ans: The young seagull felt afraid to fly as he thought his wings would never support him.

2) Guess the meaning of:

Muster up courage: To try and be courageous and not afraid.

Ascending the sky: To fly high or going up in the sky.

3) Why did the young seagull feel hot?

Ans: The young seagull felt hot because the sun was now ascending the sky, blazing on his ledge and he had not eaten since the previous nightfall.

4) What were the young seagull’s parents doing?

Ans: The young seagull’s father was preening the feathers on his white back and his mother was looking at him from the plateau.

5) Guess the meaning of:

Soar: Go up

Maddened by hunger: Being extremely hungry

Seized: Detained or stopped.

6) What were the young seagull’s brothers and sister doing?

Ans: The young seagull’s two brothers and sister were lying on the plateau dozing with their heads sunk into their necks.

7) What did he forget?

Ans: He forgot that he had not always been able to fly.



English Workshop

1. State whether the following statements are true or false.

a) The young seagull was not confident about the ability of his wings.
True

b) The young seagull’s parents guided and improved his siblings in the art of flying.
True

c) When the young seagull pretended to be falling asleep, his parents noticed him.
False

d) Flying across the young seagull, the mother dropped a piece of fish into his beak.
False.

2. Complete the following statements.

a) The seagull is afraid to fly because he felt certain that his wings would never support him and the great expanse of sea was such a long way down.

b) Young birds are afraid to make their first flight because they have never flown before and are not sure if their wings will support them.

c) Human beings find it difficult to face great challenges because they are often afraid and nervous about the unknown.

3. Read the following words carefully and make meaningful sentences of your own and write in your notebook.

Plaintively – The child looked at his mother plaintively.

Monstrous – There was a monstrous storm on the island.

Beckon – She beckoned the children to follow her.

Curveting – The crow kept curveting around the house.

Whet – The birds whet their beak against the rock.

Soar – The plane quickly soared in the sky.

4. Read the following words carefully and fill in the blanks by choosing appropriate word given in brackets.

(afraid, plunged, appeared, shrilly, skimmed, devoured, cowardice)

a) Arun is full of cowardice.

b) The violin played very shrilly and merrily.

c) Ravi said, “Are you really afraid of the dark?”

d) The whole village plunged into darkness.

e) The lions devoured their prey, hungrily.

f) He skimmed through the report.

g) One by one, the stars appeared in the sky.

5. Read about the space mission of Sunita Williams. Imagine you are going to interview her. Frame 10 to 12 interview relevant questions regarding –

1) Her early life, training.
2) Education
3) Her actual flight into space
4) Future plans
5) Her message to viewers.

Interview questions:

1) From where are you from and did you always want to be an astronaut?

2) What kind of training did you go through to become an astronaut?

3) Was there any special training required for the space mission?

4) What are your educational qualifications?

5) How do you think your education helped you in your space mission?

6) What was the experience like when you lifted off to go to space?

7) How did you feel when you were in space for the first time?

8) Are you planning on going for more space missions in the future?

9) What do you plan to do now that you are back in Earth?

10) What advise would you give youngsters who want to become an astronaut?

6. Describe in your notebook the challenges you faced while learning to ride a bicycle/swimming or any skill. Take hints from the web to complete your write-up.

Learning Bicycle –> Challenges –> Confidence, Risk, Daring, Fear.

Answer:

While learning to ride a bicycle, the biggest challenge that I faced was of confidence. Initially, I was afraid that I would fall and was not confident enough to ride the bicycle properly. I had a lot of difficulty balancing the cycle and kept falling on one side. I was nervous about trying again and again and felt riding the bicycle was quite risky. However, I tried to dare myself to ride the bicycle and never give up. Although I felt a lot of fear inside me, I challenged myself and overcame my fears to finally ride the bicycle on my own.

7. Project.

a) Collect the career options related to flying. Find out the institutes where training of your options is given.

Find out detailed information about the fees, duration of training and future prospects of it.

Career Options:

1) Pilot
2) Airforce
3) Cargo airline pilot
4) Pilot trainer
5) Rescue operations.

Students need to find out the other details on their own.

b) Collect or draw different pictures of birds from your surroundings and write about them. Make a chart with some information about each.

Students need to do this on their own.



Language Study

1. Give the Homophones of the following.

a) Blue – Blew
b) Bear – Bare
c) Beet – Beat
d) To – Two
e) Son – Sun

2. Find from the lesson the Homophones of the following.

A) Pick the Homophones from the text.

1) see – sea
2) wood – would
3) there – their
4) scene – seen
5) won – one
6) eye – I
7) peace – piece
8) threw – through
9) hence – hens
10) knot – not

B) Explain how the underlined Homographs differ in meaning.

1a. He saw his two brothers.
1b. The woodcutter cut the weaked branch with his sharp saw.

Ans: 1a. Saw means ‘to see’. 1b. Saw means ‘something sharp used to cut objects’.

2a. The bird injured his wings.
2b. He lives in the ‘c’ wing of the building.

Ans: 2a. Wings means ‘part of a bird that helps in flying’. 2b. Wing means ‘part or section of a building’.

3a. The aeroplane will land at 9.00 pm sharp.
3b. He owns 10 acre of land.

Ans. 3a. Land means ‘to bring the aeroplane down on the ground’. 3b. Land means ‘a part of the ground’.

4a. The head of the institution was on leave.
4b. He bend his head down with chin.

Ans. 4a. Head means ‘leader or principal of a school or institution’. 4b. Head means ‘part of the body’.

3. Read the following sentences carefully, underline the verbs and find out the tenses in the sentences.

a) The sun was now ascending the sky. – Past Continuous

b) Still they took no notice of him. – Simple Past

c) She is standing on a little high hump on the plateau. – Present Continuous

d) He leaned out eagerly. – Simple Past

e) He just felt dizzy. – Simple Past