LESSON – 2
SANDALWOOD TREES
I VOCABULARY
A. Add ‘un’ ‘in’ ‘dis’
‘il’ ‘im’ to form the opposites of the following words:
1. legal – illegal
2. comfort – uncomfort
3. curable – incurable
4. steady – unsteady
5. possible – impossible
B. Underline the two words which have the
same or nearly the same meaning:
1. buy,
receive, purchase, desire, reward
2. learn, remember
, memory, recollect, recite
3. clean, gather,
create, arrange, collect
4. easy, cheat, false,
confuse, incorrect
5. show, describe,
secret, reveal, order
C. Write the other
genders:
Follow the example: man _ woman
1. father – mother
2. uncle – aunt / aunty
3. sir – madam
4. headmaster – headmistress
5. husband – wife
II
COMPREHENSION
A.
Answer the following questions in a word, a phrase or a sentence each:
1) Where did Sunanda live?
Ans.:-Sunanda
lived near Karimunai village.
2) Who looked after Sunanda when she lost her parents?
Ans.:-
Raogaru the village school headmaster and his wife looked after Sunanda when
she lost her parents
3) Why are trees cut down by man?
Ans.:-
The trees are cut down by man for industrial development.
4) What did Sunanda hear in the forest at night?
Ans.:-
Sunanda heard people cutting the Sandalwood trees and men speaking to one
another in the forest at night.
5) Why did Sunanda have go to Ootacamund?
Ans.:-
Sunanda have go to the police headquarters at Ootacamd because
complain
the Sandalwood Rockets.
6) Where did Raogaru want to admit Sunanda?
Ans.:-
Raogaru wanted to admit Sunanda in the national school for the blind.
B.
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences each:
1) How did Sunanda lose her eyesight?
Ans.:-
One day there were terrible land slide in Sunanda’s village. Suddenly there was
an explosion and a stone hit her head. Thus she lost our eyesight.
2) What was happening in the forest?
Ans.:-
Some people were illegally cutting Sandalwood trees in the forest.
3) How was Sunanda rewarded by the police department?
Ans.:-
Sunanda helped police department unravel a sandalwood racket.So they rewarded Sunanda
by giving cash reward for her future life.
C.
Read the following extracts and answer the question that follow:
1)
“I am so different from the other
girls now.”
a) Who said this?
Ans.:-
Sunanda said this.
b) Why
is the speaker different?
Ans. Because
she is blind.
c)
When was this said?
Ans.:-
When Raogaru wanted to send her to school again,
2)
“he says no one can break a single
twing.”
a) Who
does ‘he’ refer to?
Ans.:-
The head constable Mudaliar,
b) To
whom was this said?
Ans…
To Raogaru.
c) Why
did ‘he’ say so?
Ans.
Sandalwood trees are well protected.
III LANGUAGE
A. Make nouns from the
words given below by adding –ness or
–ity, {for some words we need to add just
-ty-or-y }-
1. honest – honesty
2. equal – equality
3. active – activeness
4. weak – weakness
5. able –
ability
Fill in the blank with
the most appropriate words from the given below.
books, |
1. a fleet of ships
5. a collection of stamps
2. a library of books
6. a bunch of keys
3. a shower of rain 7. a pair of shoes
4. a team of players 8. a heap of stones
D. Choose the correct
word given in the bracket to complete each sentence:
1. Anand, can you see yourself
(yourself, himself) ?
2. Alice and her
(her, she) friend danced together
3. These
(these, this ) are teachers of our school
4. Which (who,
which ) of the girls is Amala?
5. That (they,
that) is your book
6. That car belongs to them
(them, they )
Who, whom, what, which, whose, when, where, |
E. Use suitable question
words and complete the following sentences:
1. When is your birthday ? How
old are you ?
2. Who
are you ?What do you want ?
3. Where is
your house?
4. Where are
you going? With whom are you going ?
5. Whose pen is this ?
