🌿 Nature Around Us — Complete Lesson Solutions
Based on the provided lesson “Nature Around Us,” here are the solutions to the questions and activities from all pages.
📖 Page 1: Introduction to “The Wind and the Leaves”
Answer the following questions:
- a) How do you feel?
Ans. I feel calm and peaceful, like the gentle movement of the air. - b) Where do you think the leaves go?
Ans. The leaves go over the hills and meadows, moving freely in the air. - c) Do you hear any sound?
Ans. Yes, a soft whistling or rustling sound as the wind blows through the trees. - d) Do you think the wind and the leaves are whispering to each other?
Ans.Yes, it seems like they are sharing secrets as they move together. - What might they have been whispering about?
Ans.They might be whispering about the changing seasons and their upcoming journey over the hills.
📘 Page 3: Meanings and Sentence Making
1. b) Meanings of the following words:
- i. meadow: A piece of grassland, especially one used for hay.
- ii. fluttering: Flapping wings or moving quickly and lightly.
- iii. cold: A low temperature.
- iv. loud: Producing a great deal of noise.
- v. summer: The warmest season of the year.
- vi. cricket: A jumping insect that makes a chirping sound.
1. c) Words similar in meaning from the poem:
- Breeze: Wind.
- Grasslands: Meadows.
- Wear: Put on.
- Leave: Go / Farewell.
1. d) Friendship Description:
The friendship between the wind and the leaves is full of love and harmony. They share a sense of fun as they dance over the fields together. There is deep trust when the leaves follow the wind’s loud call.
✍️ Page 4: Rhyme Scheme and Patterns
2. a) Rhyming words in pairs:
- Day — Play
- Gold — Cold
2. c) Rhyme scheme of the stanza:
- The sun is shining warm and bright, (A)
- Come and shelter beneath the tree. (B)
- The weary wind whirls soft and light, (A)
- While birds sing wild and free. (B)
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB
2. d) Fill in the blanks (AABB scheme):
The wind blows gently through the trees,
Flowers flutter, buzzing bees.
Leaves and wind twirl over hills,
Come one, come all, swirl with thrills.
✅ Page 5: Comprehension Check
3. a) Choose the correct answer:
- i) Which means ‘moving lightly and quickly’? (c) fluttering
- ii) What dress does the wind ask the leaves to put on? (b) dress of red and gold
- iii) How did the leaves respond to the loud call? (a) by fluttering down one by one
- iv) Who heard the wind’s loud call? (c) the leaves
3. b) Short Answers:
- i) The wind asks the leaves to come over the meadows and play.
- ii) Because summer is gone and the days are growing cold (autumn has arrived).
- iii) Fluttering, danced, flew, twirled.
- iv) They came fluttering down and started dancing over the brown fields.
- v) Summer is mentioned as passing, and Autumn/Winter is approaching.
- vi) “Summer is gone, and the days grow cold”.
🎭 Page 6: Literary Devices
4. a) Personification examples:
- “Come, little leaves,” said the wind one day.
- Singing the soft little songs they knew.
- “Cricket, good-by, we’ve been friends so long”.
4. b) Alliteration examples:
- Little leaves
- Weary wind whirls
🧩 Page 9: Crossword Puzzle
- Across:
- ENVIRONMENT (The natural world around us)
- Down:
2. SPECIES (Group of similar organisms)
3. HABITAT (The home of an organism)
4. ECOSYSTEM (Community of interacting organisms)
5. EXTINCT (Something that no longer exists)
6. EARTH (The third planet in the solar system)
🔤 Page 11: Soft ‘c’ vs. Hard ‘c’
- Box A (Hard ‘c’ as in ‘cat’): clever, coat, came, care, clay
- Box B (Soft ‘c’ as in ‘ice’): cinema, city, face, pace, experience
🧠 Page 14: Adverbs and Adverbials
17. c) Identify the type of adverb:
- i) regularly: Adverb of Frequency
- ii) constantly: Adverb of Frequency/Manner
- iii) before: Adverb of Time
- iv) quite: Adverb of Degree
- v) out: Adverb of Place
- vi) quickly: Adverb of Manner
18. b) Underline the adverbial phrases:
- i) at the break of dawn (Time)
- ii) under the old wooden table (Place)
- iii) in a very careful manner (Manner)
- iv) down the hill (Place) / as fast as we could (Manner)
- v) in the park (Place)
- vi) in the morning (Time)