🤝 Lesson 7: Togetherness — Complete Solutions
This lesson focuses on the value of unity and friendship. Through a poem, informative texts, and a skit, it explores how people can support each other and achieve great things by working together.
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📘 Section 1: Textbook Activity Solutions
1. Comprehension Questions (A Friend)
a) Which flower is compared to a friend in the poem?
Answer: A friend is compared to a rose.
b) Which bird is mentioned as ‘beautiful and wise’ in the poem?
Answer: The owl is mentioned as beautiful and wise.
c) What does the poem say about a friend’s heart?
Answer: It says a friend’s heart goes strong until the end.
d) Why are friends important according to the poem?
Answer: Friends are essential because the world would be difficult to imagine or navigate without them.
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2. Rhyming Words
Wise: Flies / Dies
End: Friend
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3. True (T) or False (F)
a) The poet compares a friend to a rose. (T)
b) The gate mentioned in the poem is old. (F) (It is a brand-new gate)
c) The owl in the poem is described as strong. (F) (The owl is beautiful and wise; the heart is strong)
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4. Stanza Explanations
Stanza 3: Compares a friend to a heart that stays strong until the end.
Stanza 1: Compares a friend to a rose and a brand-new gate that keeps us safe.
Stanza 2: Describes a friend like an owl (wise and beautiful) and an invisible spirit.
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🧠 Section 2: Grammar & Vocabulary
5. Quantifiers (Determiners)
i) He has some books on this topic.
ii) Do you have any idea?
iii) We need some help.
iv) He has a lot of things to discuss.
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6. b) Similes
as sweet as → honey
as wise as → an owl
as cunning as → a fox
runs like → a cheetah
sparkle like → diamonds
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7. a) Synonyms for ‘Friend’
Words that mean the same as friend include: comrade, partner, companion, and mate.
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14. a) Homonyms
Words with the same spelling and pronunciation but different meanings:
Right: (1) Correct (2) A direction
Handle: (1) Part of a door (2) To take care of something
Captain: (1) A leader (2) A person in command of a ship
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🔤 Section 3: Literature & Language Sounds
13. Hard ‘g’ vs. Soft ‘g’
Hard ‘g’ (as in goat): group, begin, guiding, slogan, game, ignore
Soft ‘g’ (as in giraffe): stage, gemstone, magic, genuine, geometry, ginger, rage
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15. Direct and Indirect Speech
Direct: Mrinalini says, “Teamwork makes the dream work”.
Indirect: Mrinalini says that teamwork makes the dream work.
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16. Forms of Literature
Poem: Creative writing with rhythm and rhyme.
Prose: Normal writing like letters or articles.
Drama/Skit: A story acted out on stage. The text “Together We Shine” is a skit.
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🎧 Section 4: Listening Activity (Pankaj’s Story)
1. The classroom is rearranged for Pankaj, a new student who uses a wheelchair.
2. Aditi takes the lead in making the space more welcoming.
3. They widened the entrance and rearranged desks to create a clear path.
4. The highlighted theme is the value of working together to support one another.
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