Comprehension check… (Page 27)
Say whether the following are true or false.
1. Ignesious lost his wife, two children,
his father-in- law, and his brother-in-law in the tsunami.
2. Sanjeev made it to safety after the
tsunami.
3. Meghna was saved by a relief helicopter.
4. Almas’s father realised that a tsunami
was going to hit the island.
5. Her mother and aunts were washed away
with the tree that they were holding on to.
Ans: 1. True 2. False 3. False 4. True 5. True
Comprehension check… (Page 28)
1. Why did Tilly’s family come to Thaliand?
Ans:
Tilly’s family came to Thailand to celebrate
Christmas.
2. What were the warning sign that both
Tilly and her mother saw?
Ans: Both Tilly and her
mother saw
that the sea slowly rose, and started to foam bubble and whirlpools.
3. Do you think Tilly’s mother was alarmed by them?
Ans: No, Tilly’s mother was not alarmed by them.
4.
Where had Tilly seen the sea behaving in the same strange fashion?
Ans: Tilly had seen the sea behaving in the
same strange fashion in a video in her geography class.
5.
Where did the Smith family and the others on the beach go to escape from the
tsunami?
Ans: They took refuge on the third floor
of a hotel.
6. How do you think her geography teacher
felt when he heard about what Tilly had done in Phuket?
Ans: Tilly’s geography teacher must have felt
proud of her.
Comprehension check… (Page 30)
1. In the tsunami 150,000 people died. How
many animals died?
Ans: Not many animals died.
2. How many people and animals died in Yala
National Park?
Ans: Sixty visitors and only two water buffaloes
died at the Yala National Park.
3. What do people say about the elephants of Yala
National Park?
Ans: They had seen three elephants running
away from the beach about an hour before the tsunami hit.
4. What did the dogs in Galle
do?
Ans: The dogs in Galle refused to go out for their
daily run on the beach.
Working with Language…
1. Go through Part- I carefully,
and make a list of a many words as you can find that indicate movement of
different kinds. (There is one word that occurs repeatedly — count how many
times!) Put them into three categories.
|
fast movement |
slow movement |
neither slow nor
fast |
Can you explain why there are many
words in one column and not in the others?
ans:
|
Fast movement |
Slow movement |
Neither slow nor
fast |
|
Earthquake |
Floating |
Walking |
|
Rushed |
Recede |
|
|
Tremors |
||
|
Swept |
||
|
Ran |
||
|
Fell |
||
|
Climb |
||
The ‘fast movement’ column has
many more words as compared to the other two columns. This is because the story
is about tsunami, which is a fast movement of waters. Due to tsunami, all the
immediate actions are fast, such as running, climbing and sweeping away of
people by water.
2. Fill in the blanks in the sentences
below (the verbs given in brackets will give you a clue).
(i) The earth trembled, but not
many people felt the ____________. (tremble)
(ii) When the zoo was flooded, there
was a lot of ________and many animals escaped into the countryside. (confuse)
(iii) We heard with _________that the
lion had been recaptured. (relieve)
(iv) The zookeeper was stuck in a
tree and his _______ was filmed by the TV crew. (rescue)
(v) There was much ____________in the
village when the snake charmer came visiting. (excite)
Ans: (i) The earth trembled, but not many people felt
the trembling.
(ii) When the zoo was flooded,
there was a lot of confusion and many animals escaped into the
countryside.
(iii) We heard with relief that
the lion had been recaptured.
(iv) The zookeeper was stuck in
a tree and his rescue was filmed by the TV crew.
(v) There was much excitement in
the village when the snake charmer came visiting.
3. Say whether the following sentences are in the Active or the
Passive voice. Write A or P after each sentence as shown in the first sentence.
(i) Someone stole my bicycle. ____A____
(ii) The tyres were deflated by the
traffic police. _________
(iii) I found it last night in a
ditch near my house. __________
(iv) It had been thrown there.
__________
(v) My father gave it to the
mechanic. ______________
(vi) The mechanic repaired
it for me. ______________
Ans: (i) Someone
stole my bicycle. A
(ii) The tyres were deflated by
the traffic police. P
(iii) I found it last night in a
ditch near my house. A
(iv) It had been thrown
there. P
(v) My father gave it to the
mechanic. A
(vi) The mechanic repaired it
for me. A
Poem 2 The Geography Lesson
Working with
the poem…
1. Find three or four
phrases in stanzas one and two which are likely to occur in a geography lesson.
Ans: Some phrases that
are likely to occur in a Geography lesson are:
(i) six inches to the mile
(ii) ten thousand feet
(iii) the rivers ran
(iv) the valleys were populated
2. Seen from the window
of an aeroplane, the city appears
(i) as haphazard as on
ground.
(ii) as neat as a map.
(iii) as developed as
necessary.
Mark the right answer.
Ans: (i) as haphazard as
on ground.
3. Which of the
following statements are examples of “the logic of geography”?
(i) There are cities
where there are rivers.
(ii) Cities appear as
they are not from six miles above the ground.
(iii) It is easy to
understand why valleys are populated.
(iv) It is difficult to
understand why humans hate and kill one another.
(v) The earth is round,
and it has more sea than land.
Ans: Statements (i),
(iii), and (v) are examples of “the logic of geography”.
4. Mention two things
that are
(i) clear from
the height.
(ii) not clear
from the height.
Ans: (i) From the height, it was clear why the country
had cities where the rivers ran.
(ii) From the height, it was not clear why
men had to build walls across cities.