Vocabulary :
V1. Fill in the blanks using suitable words from the words given in brackets:
One is done for you.
Mini ate a variety of food items and loved fruits and vegetables. (burgers / vegetables)
1. The earth was the _________________ place where adults and children enjoyed good life. (dirtiest/ healthiest)
2. One of the witches was _______________ about people being healthy. (powerful / furious )
3. There was a big _________________ that destroyed the forest. (thunder/ explosion)
4. The witches were _______________ in a small bottle. (trapped /gathered)
5. There was no ______________ to get rid of the witches. (mixture / vaccine)
6. When a person became healthy the witches had to leave the body riding on a __________________ (cough / sneeze)
1.healthiest
2. furious
3. explosion
4. trapped
5. vaccine
6. sneeze
V 2. Find fruits and vegetables from the word grid and shade them, using suitable colours. Compare your answers with those of your partner. One is done for you.
FRUITS VEGETABLES
1. Pumpkin 1. Brinjal
2. Lime 2. Tomato
3. Mango 3. Cabbage
4. Guave 4. Radish
5. Orange 5. Chilly
6. Pomogranate
7. Pineapple
8. Banana
C2. Discuss with your partner and answer the following questions:
1. What made people strong and healthy in olden days?Answers:- –In olden days the people ate varieties of food and loved fruits and vegetables. They exercised and enjoyed walking, running, playing etc., the earth was the healthiest place and the people were strong.
2. How would the potion change the people?
Answers:- The potion changed the people completely. The funny feeling started in their mouth. They refused to eat fruits, vegetables and good food. They wanted to eat pizza, burger and sat at home. They spent their time watching television, eating ice-cream and chips. They did not walk, run or exercise. They started feeling ill. All of them got the disease of wasting time.
3. Why were the witches not able to make the kind of magic potion they wanted to prepare?
Answers:- To prepare a magic potion, they should put their energy and utter some words. During the process, one of the witches made a mistake in uttering the words. So they were not able to make the kind of potion, they desired.
4. Describe the change in the boy’s attitude after he drank the potion.
Answers:- When the boy drank the potion, the germ like witches took advantage and they changed the boy’s likes and dislikes. The witches could not physically harm the people, so they changed their likes and dislikes.
5. What was Dr. Fitton-Healthy’s best remedy?
Answers:- Dr. Fitton – Healthy’s best remedy was to talke a little bit of effort and eat fruits and vegetables. Regular exercise will make them fit again.
C3. Discuss with the teacher and answer the following questions:
1. “The message the story gives is not only for children but also the grown- ups”. Do you agree?
Answers:- Yes. I will agree with the above statment. The message is for both adults and children.
Continuous eating of junk food like Pizza, burger, ice-cream, chips etc., the people loose their health. Instead if they eat good food, fruits, vegetables and do proper exercise regularly they become healthy.
2. With the help of paragraph four and five describe the illness and the cure.
Answers:- The people stopped going out of the house and were sitting or lying about. There was no activity for their mind and body. So they felt ill. They lost their interest in everything. These were the effects of the potion, they drank. The witches managed to turn the effect of the potion into the worst disease of wasting life.
After the research Dr. Fitton Healthy discovered the cause and cure of this disease. The people should eat good food, fruits, vegetables and do some exercises regularly. They should make a strong effort to live healthy, joyful and happy life, The germs like the witches will go off by one sneeze.
G1. Make sentences using the following words to form a meaningful paragraph. You can use the fifth paragraph for your reference.
1. discovered
2. found
3. prepared
4. cured
5. injected
Answers:- Madam Curie discovered Radium. She found it in the ore of Radium. She took more effort to prepare pure radium. The radium can cure many discases. But it is not used to inject directly.
G2. Match these opposite words:
Difficult X easy
1.Day X advantage
2.More X short
3. advantage x waste
4. long X darkness
5. sad X less
6. save X night
7. light X happy
Answers:- 1-night, 2-less, 3-disadvantage, 4-short, 5-happy, 6-waste, 7-darkness.
W1.Each one of us has a different work pattern. Discuss your daily schedule with your partner and write about it.
a) 6.00 AM: wake up, brush my teeth
b) 8.00 AM : Take bath and get ready for school
c) 9.30 AM : Morning prayer at school
d) 1.00 PM : Lunch
e) 5.00 PM : back to home, playing with friends
f) 8.30 PM: Dinner, Learning lessons.
g) 10.00 PM: Go to bed, wishing parents.