Teaching Learning

Letter to a friend describing 'a rainy day'

ABC Colony,

Indore

22^nd January 2021

Dear Arun,

Hope you are doing well with your studies and we will surely see each other coming vacation. I wish to share my experience of rainy day.

It was time to go to school and the sky became cloudy, so I took an umbrella. While I was on the way, it began to rain heavily. My shoes were all soaked in water and the clothes were spoiled by the time I reached the school.

At school, the attendance was thin, may teachers could not come on time and the students were all drenches so our Principal declared it ‘a rainy day’.

As I reached home, the rain stopped and the weather had become very cool. Children came out of homes with their paper boats. It was an awesome day!

Yours

Anuj

Application seeking permission to play a kho-kho match

To,

The Headmaster,

ABC School,

Indore

Date- 15^th De. 2021

Subject – Permission to play a kho-kho match.

Dear Sir/Madam,

With due respect, I like to draw your kind attention that we, the students of class-5 want to play a kho-kho match during the annual sports event. Our sports coordinator has kindly given the consent to conduct the match.

Now we hope that you would be kind enough to grant us the permission to play a match of kho-kho.

Thank you,

Your most obedient students,

Students of Class-5

Unseen Passage - 6

Read the following story carefully:

Once a woman was standing in the balcony of her house. She was holding her baby in her arms.

As she was looking below, the baby slipped out of her hands. Down below there was a heavy traffic on the road. Buses, trucks, cars and scooters were passing by. The mother ran down for help. She cried but could not find her baby anywhere.

People on the road wondered, “Where did the baby go?” They asked her to report to the police.

A truck carrying cushions and pillows stopped near a shop. A baby’s cry came from the back of the truck. The baby was lying on the topmost cushion, sucking its thumb.

“Look, a baby here!,” shouted the truck driver. “How did he get in?”. everyone wondered. Soon the baby was handed over to the police. The police took the baby to its mother. The mother was over joyed and she thanked the police.

Who saved the baby’s life, the truck driver or the police? Surely, it was the unseen hand of God.

We should always have faith in God and His goodness.

Now answer the questions:

Q.1 Where was the woman standing?

Ans- ____________________________

Q.2 What made the people wonder?

Ans- ____________________________

Q.3 How was the baby saved?

Ans- ____________________________

Q.4 Who saved the baby’s life?

Ans- _____________________________

Q.5 Who guards us from dangers?

Ans- _____________________________

Fill in the blanks with suitable words, choosing from these given below

police, over joyed, slipped, topmost cushion

1. The baby ______________ out of the mother’s hand.

2. People asked the woman to report to the ______________.

3. The baby was lying on the ______________.

4. The mother was ______________ and she thanked the police.

Say whether the following statements are true or False:

1. Once a woman was sitting in the balcony of her home. [ ]

2. There was no traffic on the road. [ ]

3. The baby was lying on the topmost cushion and sucking its thumb. [ ]

4. The police took the baby to its father. [ ]

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Solutions-

Now answer the questions:

Q.1 Where was the woman standing?

Ans- Woman was standing in the balcony of her house.

Q.2 What made the people wonder?

Ans- The baby was nowhere. This made the people wonder.

Q.3 How was the baby saved?

Ans- The baby fell on the topmost cushion of a truck carrying cushions and pillows and thus saved.

Q.4 Who saved the baby’s life?

Ans- The unseen hand of God saved the baby’s life.

Q.5 Who guards us from dangers?

Ans- The God guards us from dangers.

Fill in the blanks with suitable words, choosing from these given below

police, over joyed, slipped, topmost cushion

1. The baby slipped out of the mother’s hand.

2. People asked the woman to report to the police.

3. The baby was lying on the topmost cushion.

4. The mother was over joyed and she thanked the police.

Say whether the following statements are true or False:

1. Once a woman was sitting in the balcony of her home. False

2. There was no traffic on the road. False

3. The baby was lying on the topmost cushion and sucking its thumb. True

4. The police took the baby to its father. False

A letter to a friend describing your close relationship with your grand-mother who is very old and often remains unwell

Write a letter to a friend describing your close relationship with your grand-mother who is very old and often remains unwell

H-43, Arera Colony,

Bhopal

11^th Oct, 2016

Dear Shilpa,

Hope you are enjoying the best of health. I am also enjoying good health but my grandmother is unwell these days. Doctor says that it is because of her old age. She has always been telling bed-time stories to me but now a days she prefers to hear stories from me. She eats little food and is unhappy about the number of pills she has to take every day. She need help in going to the nearby park for her daily walk. I wish her health to improve so that she need not to eat those pills and she can do her works independently.

Yours affectionately,

Anuradha

A letter describing your visit to the post office

You visited a nearby post office last Friday. Write a letter to your sister describing your visit to the post office. Also mention the purpose of visit.

120, Gauri Society,

Ashok Nagar,

Bhopal

1^st Jan. 2020

Dear Amrita,

Our English teacher Mrs. Sharma had organized a trip to the post office with an intent of bringing the real life, practical knowledge into the curriculum. We visited GPO. The postmaster explained us about the processing of posted letters. He also gave us insight about the wide variety of services offered at post offices. However, children’s favorite part of the visit was the stamp section where they were given information about the types of stamps.

Finally, it was the turn of the children to put all the things learnt to use. So, we purchased stamps and posted our cards. We also presented a Thank You card to the Post master for making this trip immensely educative.

Your loving sister,

Vanya

Unseen Passage-5

Read the following speech carefully:

Honourable teachers and dear friends, it is a sad day for me as well as for all of us today because we have to say goodbye to our senior friends of the school. It is a happy day as well since they will be promoted to the higher class and join the senior school. Though we will miss them very much but we will feel their presence because they have contributed in the development of the school. We have always seen them working in the garden, cleaning the classroom, decorating the building and participating in various activities. How can we forget them? I remember many of them to be helping us- the juniors in our studies also. They have really played the role well and now when they are departing from us I would like to thank them and wish a very bright future for them. Hope they will keep guiding us.

Thank you

Now answer the following questions:

Q.1 What was the function in which the above speech was delivered?