Examples of synonyms: • angry – furious • friend – companion • huge – massive • run – dash 7) Circle the words that are synonyms for the words in bold. a) ridiculous: normal, silly, damp, comical, dull, funny b) solution: answer, ask, amaze, output, solvent, mixture c) precious: unvalued, ordinary, valuable, expensive, common, special d) important: irrelevant, significant, trivial, adjusted, essential, powerful I Feel 8) The poem gives the reader many beautiful images to visualise. Which ones do you like the most? Describe them in your own words. Ans. 9) In the poem, the poet mentions many things that the train passes by. Mention a few things that you have seen while seated in a moving train, car or bus. Ans. The World from a Railway Carriage 47 A Good Play
I Speak Divide your class into groups of four. Prepare a short skit of a journey by bus, train or aeroplane. Each member of the group performs different roles: passengers, vendors, conductors, air hostesses and so on. Try to create interesting characters with unique personalities. Use proper voice modulation when you are enacting a role. Ensure that everyone in the group has an equal role in your skit. Present it to your class and teacher. A simile is a poetic device that compares one thing to another by using ‘as’ or ‘like’. Similes help in creating an image in the reader’s mind. In the poem, the poet has used many similes to describe the train journey. For example, he compares the moving train to fairies and witches. In another sentence, the poet compares the passing by of hills and plains to the swift movement of raindrops. Divide your class into pairs. Along with your partner, complete the following similes and make sentences. Then, share the sentences with your class. • as black as ____________________________ • as cold as ____________________________ • as big as ____________________________ • as bright as ____________________________ • as clean as ____________________________ Listen and Say Aloud Word Rhyming word Word Rhyming word witches ditches scrambles brambles battle cattle load forever road by river eye 4488
Word Dictation 10) Listen to your teacher and write the words. c) f) a) b) i) d) e) g) h) Language Game Spot the differences We see lovely scenery when we travel by train. Look at the given pictures of the countryside and spot ten differences between them. Share the differences with your class. The World from a Railway Carriage 49 A Good Play
Listening Audio 11) Whose life is this poem about? Ans. 12) Where was the cupcake put to bake? Ans. 13) What was done to the cupcake with a silver knife? Ans. 14) What was the cupcake decorated with? Ans. 15) How did the cupcake die? Ans. Connect the Dots Maths Fun A train charges ` 160 per person for 40 km. How much will it charge per person for 80 km? 5500
Social Studies Fun Did you know that the Indian Railways has the fourth-largest network and is the seventh-largest employer in the world? It runs nearly 11,000 trains every day. Fun Fact: Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta on the Arakkonam–Renigunta section near Chennai is the station with the longest name. Ib, near Jharsuguda in Odisha, and Od, near Anand in Gujarat, both have the shortest names. A Note to Parent This poem is about travel by train. India has a lot of trains and a vast train route network. Some trains are faster and better than the others. The following link gives information about luxury tourist trains as well as high-speed tourist trains. Read this with your child and discuss all that they do not understand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxury_rail_in_India The World from a Railway Carriage 51 A Good Play
16Lesson Scientists and Inventors Who Changed the World Science and Technology Warm Up • C an you imagine your life without the telephone, television, computer and electricity? What would it be like? • What do you think made a few people invent such wonderful things? Let us read a passage about a few of the most famous scientists and inventors whose discoveries have changed our lives. I Read Nowadays, we live a life full of comfort. Technology and information are easily available whenever we need them. However, a lot of things that we take for granted were carefully thought out, discovered and invented by thinkers, scientists and discoverers of previous generations. One such person was Isaac Newton. It was the year 1665 when a young mathematician and physicist physicist named Isaac Newton was sitting in his living room, drinking a cup of tea. It was a beautiful day, warm and sunny. Isaac was relaxing in his chair and thinking about the forces of nature. As he sipped his tea, he saw an apple fall to the ground. This sight started a chain of thought in his mind. ‘What caused the apple to fall?’ He knew that 5522
nothing could move from its place without some force What did Isaac Newton notice applied to it. ‘What was this force?’ he wondered. ? as he sipped his Isaac was an intelligent man with a questioning mind. tea? He thought very deeply about the matter and figured that there was a force deep within the Earth that made the objects stay on it. Isaac thus discovered the force of gravity. This was a very important discovery in the field of science. Let us now read about another scientist who is remembered the gravity world over. His name is Alfred Nobel. He was born in Sweden and grew up excelling in studies. He showed a deep interest in developing explosives and later invented dynamite. Again, this was a very important invention. It was extensively used in the mining and building of roads. Unfortunately, it was also misused and caused destruction and death. However, an incident changed Alfred’s life forever. dynamite His brother died, and newspapers wrongly printed the news as Alfred’s death, with the headlines saying that the ‘Merchant of Death’ had passed away. He was devastated at the thought that his invention was being devastated used to kill people. He decided to put his entire fortune into a trust that was used to fund international prizes for peace. These became the famous ‘Nobel’ prizes. Have you ever thought of how our lives would be without electricity? Let’s read about the great mind behind the invention of the electric fortune bulb. Thomas Alva Edison was possibly America’s greatest inventor. He invented nearly a thousand things and, most importantly, the light bulb. When Edison displayed his electrical bulb for the first time, one of the guests remarked that the idea was good, but he doubted whether anyone would want to light up their homes with such bulbs. How wrong he was! There is an interesting story surrounding Edison. Many people used to visit Edison’s office every day to meet him and take his advice. One day, a gentleman remarked that his office door was very heavy and difficult to push open. He advised Edison to replace the door with a lighter one. Edison answered that he had fixed a small pump to the door. It pumped a gallon of water into the overhead tank every time the door was pushed open. This was an extremely creative way of generating free power, wasn’t it? Another great inventor, Alexander Graham Bell, invented the telephone. Can you imagine what it would be like if there were no phones or mobile phones? The first words were spoken on the phone in the year 1876 by Alexander to his assistant Thomas Scientists and Inventors Who Changed the World 53 A Good Play
Watson: ‘Mr Watson, come here, I want ? What did to see you’. Sadly, Alexander’s wife was Alexander deaf and was never able to use the Graham Bell telephone. invent? These early scientists and inventors made very valuable discoveries and inventions. We are truly indebted to them. indebted New Words Word Meaning take for granted physicist gravity excelling dynamite devastated fortune indebted Literature Comprehension A) Direct questions and answers 1) What chain of thought started in Isaac Newton’s mind when he saw an apple fall to the ground? Ans. 5544
2) Which incident changed Alfred Nobel’s life forever? Ans. 3) Why was Thomas Edison’s office door heavy and difficult to open? Ans. B) Reference to context 4) ‘He was devastated at the thought that his invention was being used to kill people.’ a) Who does ‘he’ refer to in this line? Ans. b) Which invention is being referred to here? Ans. c) What did people call the person mentioned here? Ans. 5) ‘Mr Watson, come here, I want to see you’. a) Who said this and to whom? Ans. b) What did the speaker use to say these words? Ans. c) When did the speaker say this? Ans. Scientists and Inventors Who Changed the World 55 A Good Play
C) Answer the following 6) Fill in the blanks by choosing the appropriate words from the box. explosives gravity telephone inventor forces a) One day, Isaac Newton wondered about the _________________ of nature. b) Isaac Newton discovered the force of _________________. c) Albert was deeply interested in developing _________________. d) Thomas Alva Edison was another great _________________. e) Alexander Graham Bell invented the _________________ in 1876. P R Vocabulary Q Idioms Idioms are word combinations or phrases that mean something different from the literal meanings of the phrases. An idiom has two characteristics. First, we cannot understand the meaning of the idiom from the individual words. Second, both the grammar and the vocabulary of the idiom are fixed. If we change them, we lose the meaning of the idiom. Examples: Idiom Meaning draw a blank cannot remember have a change of heart change one’s mind be second to none be the best get your act together behave properly 7) Choose the correct meaning of the underlined idioms. [ ] a) W hen Sonia won the Best Student of the Year award, Megha was green with envy. A) fell sick B) painted her face green C) was jealous 5566
b) I have second thoughts about going for the trek. [ ] A) have doubts [ ] B) have an opinion [ ] C) have another thought c) Sam lost his project file in the park. He had to start from scratch. A) at the end B) from the beginning C) yet to finish d) The population of many cities is increasing by leaps and bounds. A) slowly B) accidentally C) rapidly I Feel 8) Describe a scientific invention that is the most useful according to you. Ans. 9) Do you think that scientific inventions have disadvantages? If yes, what do you think they are? Ans. Scientists and Inventors Who Changed the World 57 A Good Play
I Speak Divide your class into two groups. One group speaks for the use of mobile phones, and the other group speaks against the use of mobile phones. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using mobile phones. The topic is as follows: ‘Are mobile phones a blessing or a curse?’ Your teacher will moderate the debate. Learn this poem and recite it with appropriate expressions in class. I Am a Scientist I am a scientist. What do I do? I study the nature of things, old and new. I take a close look at the things that I see And make guesses about all the ways they might be. When I find something neat, sometimes I will ponder, ‘Why does that thing behave like that, I wonder?’ I’ll come up with ideas – I’ll take a good guess, And I’ll call my guess a ‘hypothesis’. The next thing I’ll do is conduct a short test To see what answers my question best. When I find a result that explains the confusion I’ll call that answer my ‘conclusion’. Next, I’ll write down all the things I’ve uncovered Then share with the world those neat things I’ve discovered. And I’ll say to myself when my hard work is done, ‘Science is interesting, useful, and fun!’ (Source: http://mixminder.com/i-am-a-scientist-poem/) 5588
Listen and Say Aloud Words ending in -gy and -phy (stress on the third-from-last syllable) technology biology geology tautology photography geography biography autobiography Sentence Dictation 10) Listen to your teacher and write the sentences. a) b) c) d) e) Language Game Jumbled words Given below are a few scrambled names of a few scientific inventions that we use in everyday life. Unscramble these and find out what they are. Jumbled word Actual word Jumbled word Actual word POLTAP PETRRIN HONEP NOVE REMIX GRIDEF Scientists and Inventors Who Changed the World 59 A Good Play
Listening Audio 11) What is it that fills people with awe? [ ] a) a few natural and man-made structures on the Moon b) a few natural and man-made structures on the Earth c) only the man-made structures on the Moon d) only the natural structures on the Earth 12) Who compiled the list of the new Seven Wonders of the World? [ ] a) the United Nations b) the New Wonders Society c) the New Seven Wonders Foundation d) the Seven Wonders Foundation 13) Which is the only surviving wonder of the ancient world? [ ] a) the Great Wall of China b) Machu Pichu c) the Taj Mahal d) the Great Pyramids of Giza 14) Which of the following is a modern wonder that has been newly elected? [ ] a) Chichen Itza b) Qutub Minar c) Sydney Opera House d) Eiffel Tower 15) Which emperor ordered the Taj Mahal to be built? [ ] a) Humayun b) Akbar c) Aurangzeb d) Shah Jahan 6600
Connect the Dots Science Fun This lesson mostly talks about male scientists. However, many female scientists have made their marks in the world of science. Let us get to know a few of them. Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958) has made significant contributions to the understanding of molecular structure and the field of X-rays. Maria Mitchell (1818–1889) was the very first American woman to become a professional astronomer. She discovered a comet in 1847 that was named after her. Asima Chatterjee (1917–2006) was a noted organic chemist. She has also done considerable research on the medicinal properties of many Indian plants. She was the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Science from an Indian University. Social Studies Fun There were many interesting inventions in ancient India. Here are a few of them: Chess: This game originated in India 1,500 years ago. An Indian king ordered a scholar to design a chess game called ‘Chaturanga’ to help improve the intelligence of his people. Rulers: The first rulers were made during the Indus Valley Civilization. They were made of ivory. Flush toilets: The Indus Valley Civilization was the first to use toilets with flushes. The city had an advanced sewage system as well. A Note to Parent Help and encourage your child to understand rather than merely memorise scientific concepts. Ensure that you send your child to science camps so that they can engage with scientific concepts meaningfully. Scientists and Inventors Who Changed the World 61 A Good Play
17Lesson Eureka! Eureka! Science and Technology Warm Up • Imagine that you are a scientist and you suddenly discover something. What would your first words be? • Have you heard the phrase ‘Eureka! Eureka!’? Do you know what it means and who said it? Let us read a story about the man who said ‘Eureka! Eureka!’ when he discovered something important. I Read Archimedes was a Greek scientist in ? What did the king the king’s court. He lived in Syracuse ask the goldsmith nearly 2000 years ago. The king of to make? the land wanted to wear a golden crown. He gave some gold to a goldsmith to make a suitable crown. scientist After a few days, the goldsmith brought the finished crown to the king. The crown was weighed. The weight of the crown was equal 6622
to the gold given to the goldsmith by the king. The king looked at the colour of the crown. He had a suspicion. The goldsmith could have stolen some from the gold handed over to him! The king wanted to find out the truth. The king said to Archimedes, ‘Find out how much gold has been stolen.’ But how was Archimedes to do that? Archimedes suspicion thought about the problem day and night! One day, brim Archimedes was about to take his bath. He was busy thinking about the problem and did not notice that the bathtub was already full to the brim. As he slid into the bathtub, a large quantity Archimedes of water flowed over the brim of What words did the bathtub. He noticed this and suddenly realised that he had the ? Archimedes shout answer to his problem. He jumped when he found out of the bathtub, shouting the solution to the ‘Eureka! Eureka!’ ‘Eureka’ in king’s problem? Greek means ‘I have found it’. Do you know that different metals of the same weight have different volumes? Objects, when put in water, displace water. The volume of the water displaced by the object is equal to the volume of the object. For example, an iron cube weighing a kilogram will displace some water. However, an aluminium cube of the same weight will displace more water than the iron cube. Archimedes knew all these theories. Using this knowledge, Archimedes worked out a plan to find out the purity of the gold in the crown. Archimedes took two bowls. He filled both the bowls with water to the brim. Then, he placed each bowl separately in the middle of a large vessel. He placed the crown in a bowl. Water overflowed and collected at the bottom of the outer vessel. Then, he took a cube of pure gold. This cube was equal in weight to the crown. He kept this gold cube in the middle of the second bowl. Again, water overflowed and got collected at the bottom of the outer bowl. Archimedes then measured the quantities of water in these two outer vessels. He found out the difference between the two quantities. The crown had displaced more water, while the gold cube displaced less. However, since both the crown and the gold cube were of the same weight, they should have displaced the same amount of water. Therefore, it became clear that the crown had other metals mixed in it. These metals took up more space in water than pure gold. Eureka! Eureka! 63 A Good Play
Archimedes reported these findings to the king. The king demanded the truth from the goldsmith, who then confessed. He had stolen some gold. He had in fact added other metals as a replacement. confessed Thus, due to Archimedes’ clever principle, the king could discover the truth. This principle became famous as the ‘Archimedes principle’ and is studied even today! New Words Word Meaning scientist suspicion brim volumes displace theories confessed principle I Speak Archimedes knew that he could get a solution to his problem. He kept trying until he was successful. Think of a time when you thought of doing something and kept trying till you were successful. Tell your success story to the class. Don’t take more than two minutes, and give your friends a chance to speak about their success stories as well! You may choose anything – concepts that you may have learnt in Mathematics, 6644
Science, Social Studies or English, any sport such as cricket, tennis or football or fine arts such as music, dance, painting or martial arts. Divide your class into groups of five. Your teacher will hand out slips of paper with different reactions such as ‘surprised’, ‘thrilled’, ‘fear’, ‘anger’ and ‘joy’ written on them. Then, each team has to think of a situation where they could be used. Enact the situations in the form of a play. Listen and Say Aloud eureka Greek Words philosopher scientist disperse displace Syracuse weight aluminium volume Word Dictation 1) Listen to your teacher and write the words. c) a) b) f) d) e) i) g) h) Language Game Who am I? Archimedes has been honoured through numerous postal stamps. Look at the one shown here. Now, paste a postal stamp of a famous world personality in the space given. Also, write a few lines about the person whom you have chosen without naming them. Test your classmates and see if they can guess the person’s name just by looking at the stamp and hearing about their achievements. Be as creative as you can! Eureka! Eureka! 65 A Good Play
Listening Audio 2) What was Marie Curie interested in from an early age? Ans. 3) In which field did Marie Curie conduct experiments? Ans. 6666
4) Whom did Marie Curie share her first Nobel Prize with? Ans. 5) What title was Marie Curie awarded? Ans. 6) Describe any two of Marie Curie’s achievements. Ans. Connect the Dots Science Fun You have learnt about a great scientist named Archimedes. Now, find out who the following scientists are. Also, match the pictures with the correct names. a) I discovered gravity with the help of a falling apple. __________________________________________________________ b) I invented the light bulb. _________________________________________________ c) I introduced zero into the modern numbering system. ______________________ Eureka! Eureka! 67 A Good Play
Social Studies Fun Archimedes was from Greece. Find out the countries that the following scientists were from. a) Albert Einstein b) Madam Marie Curie c) Charles Darwin d) Jagdish Chandra Bose Albert Einstein Madam Marie Charles Darwin J C Bose Curie A Note to Parent This story talks about a great scientist named Archimedes. There were many great scientists, physicians and mathematicians in ancient India as well. Follow the link below to read about a few great minds from ancient India with your child. www.scientistindia.com/history.htm 6688
18Lesson On the Grasshopper and Cricket Animals and Plants Warm Up • H ave you ever gone for long walks and observed nature? What do you like about the natural world? • Do you think plants and animals change along with the change of seasons? How? About the Poet John Keats (1795–1821) was an English romantic poet. He was one of the best-known poets of the Romantic era. A few of the most acclaimed works of Keats are ‘I Stood Tip-toe Upon a Little Hill’, ‘Sleep and Poetry’ and the sonnet ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’. Let us read a poem about the everlasting beauty of nature and seasons. I Read ? Whose poetry is never dead? The Poetry of Earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot Sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run A Good Play 69
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead; ? new-mown mead That is the Grasshopper’s – he takes the lead In summer luxury – he has never done What has With his delights; for when tired out with fun wrought silence? He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. The poetry of Earth is ceasing never: On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills The Cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever, And seems to one in drowsiness half lost, The Grasshopper’s among some grassy hills. – John Keats New Words Word Meaning faint new-mown mead luxury ceasing wrought shrills drowsiness 7700
Literature Comprehension A) Direct questions and answers 1) What do the birds do when they are faint with the hot Sun? Ans. 2) When does the cricket sing? Ans. 3) To whom does the cricket’s song seem like that of the grasshopper’s? Ans. B) Reference to context 4) ‘When all the birds are faint with the hot Sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;’ a) Whose voice will run from hedge to hedge? Ans. b) In which season will the voice be heard? Ans. c) When can the voice be heard? Ans. 5) ‘On a lone winter evening, when the frost H as wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills The Cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever,’ a) How is the weather in the given lines? Ans. b) What is it that shrills? Ans. On the Grasshopper and Cricket 71 A Good Play
c) What does the sound do? Ans. C) Answer the following 6) Match the lines in Column A with those in Column B. Column A Column B a) When all the birds are faint A) when the frost has b) The poetry of Earth wrought a silence c) On a lone winter evening, B) in warmth increasing ever C) with hot Sun d) The cricket’s song, D) among some grassy hills e) The grasshopper’s E) is never dead P R Vocabulary Q Commonly confused words There are a few words in the English language that can be easily confused to carry the same meaning as another similar word. However, using one of the words in place of the other may lead to a mistake. Let us look at a few examples of commonly confused words. Examples: ‘for’ and ‘since’ • ‘For’ shows duration or a period of time. I lived in Goa for three years. • ‘Since’ indicates a point in time when something began. I have lived in Goa since 2015. ‘few’ and ‘a few’ + ‘little’ and ‘a little’ • ‘Few’ and ‘little’ indicate that there is ‘not as much as may be expected or wanted’. 7722
‘Few’ is used with plural countable nouns, whereas ‘little’ is used with uncountable nouns. Few states in India are as beautiful as Meghalaya. I have little choice in this matter. • ‘A few’ and ‘a little’ suggest that there is a small number of a thing available. ‘A few’ is used with plural countable nouns, whereas ‘a little’ is used with uncountable nouns. I have a few friends in Jaipur. I will have tea and a little rice every morning. 7) Fill in the blanks with the correct words from the brackets. a) We know _____________ about his life. Most of it is a mystery. (a few/little) b) I have not had milk _____________ this morning. (for/since) c) I have _____________ fruits left in the fruit basket. I don’t need to buy more. (a few/few) d) Ronny has been waiting at the bus stop _____________ three hours. (for/since) I Feel 8) W hat do you think is the theme or message of this poem? What do the cricket and the grasshopper represent? Ans. 9) What do you think the line ‘The Poetry of Earth is never dead’ means? Ans. On the Grasshopper and Cricket 73 A Good Play
I Speak Read a part of another famous poem by John Keats. To Autumn Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells. Divide the class into groups of five. Make a chart and compare the different seasons of the year. Mention points like the clothes, food and the differences in the natural world in different seasons. Listen and Say Aloud Word Rhyming word Word Rhyming word Sun run, done, fun mead lead, read never frost lost shrills ever – hills – 7744
Sentence Dictation 10) Listen to your teacher and write the sentences. a) b) c) d) e) Language Game Inversion The Cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever, And seems to one in drowsiness half lost, Read the lines of the poem given above. The words in bold do not make logical sense because they are not put together in regular sentences. They do not follow the rules of grammar. However, arranging words in this fashion enhances the musicality of the poem. This reversal of the normal order of words for effect is called inversion. Examples: • ‘My pleasant things in ashes lie’ instead of ‘My pleasant things lie in ashes’ • ‘In fell the fox’ instead of ‘The fox fell in’ • ‘Tender is the night’ instead of ‘The night is tender’ • ‘Down fell Bhiku Bhai!’ instead of ‘Bhiku Bhai fell down’ Here are a few inverted lines. Get into pairs and rearrange the words so that they are phrased correctly. The pair that finishes first wins. a) To take over the world is his real plan. Ans. On the Grasshopper and Cricket 75 A Good Play
b) Such wonderful players are they that no one can beat them. Ans. c) Down came the rain and washed the spider out. Ans. d) In front of the desk stands a student. Ans. e) Not until a frog develops lungs does it leave the water. Ans. Listening Audio 11) What was the name of the boy who did not like ice cream? [ ] a) Roger b) Logan c) Lalit d) Steve 12) Why did the boy dislike ice cream? [ ] a) He did not like the taste. b) He thought it would make him sick. c) He thought it was too cold. d) His mother told him to dislike it. 13) Who was the ice cream connoisseur? [ ] a) Top Top b) Dad Dad c) Maw Maw d) Pop Pop 14) What did the boy have a tiny bite of? [ ] a) homemade strawberry cream b) homemade bread c) homemade vanilla cream d) homemade cake 7766
15) What did the poem teach you? [ ] b) to never try new things a) to eat a lot of ice cream d) to try new things more than once c) to never eat ice cream Connect the Dots Science Fun grasshopper cricket Read on to know how grasshoppers and crickets are different from each other. • Crickets have longer antennae than grasshoppers. • M ost crickets come out at dusk, whereas grasshoppers prefer to be out and about during the day. • C rickets sense sound with ‘ears’ that are on their front legs. For grasshoppers, these are at the base of their abdomens. • Crickets ‘sing’ by rubbing their wings together, while grasshoppers ‘sing’ by rubbing their long hind legs against their wings. Social Studies Fun The ancestors of the modern-day grasshoppers evolved well over 200 million years ago. This was when the first reptiles appeared on Earth. This means that they existed long before dinosaurs! Most ancient grasshoppers are preserved as fossils. a fossil of a grasshopper A Note to Parent This poem speaks about the beauty of nature regardless of whether it is summer or winter. Take nature walks with your child and discuss the beauty of all the natural things around us. Also, make your child aware of the need to conserve natural beauty. On the Grasshopper and Cricket 77 A Good Play
Glossary S. No Word Meaning 1 beamed (v.) smiled widely 2 betel nut (n.) a seed of the betel palm 3 blur (n.) an unclear scene 4 brambles (n.) thorny bushes 5 brim (n.) the top of a vessel 6 ceasing (v.) stopping to happen 7 charging (v.) rushing forward in attack 8 chugged (v.) made the sound of an engine 9 circumstance (n.) situation; condition 10 coach (n.) a railway carriage; compartment 11 compartment (n.) a small space 12 confessed (v.) revealed the truth 13 crease (n.) the line where the batsman stands 14 criss-crossed (v.) went from one side to another 15 dashboard (n.) the part of a vehicle that has the important controls 16 devastated (adj.) shocked and upset by something 17 disgusting (adj.) extremely unlikeable 18 displace (v.) move something out of its place 19 displeased (adj.) annoyed or upset long and narrow holes that are dug alongside 20 ditches (n.) a road or field to hold or move water a feeling of sleepiness 21 drowsiness (n.) a wide, sticky tape used to repair things or hold them tightly together 22 duct tape (n.) belonging to the Netherlands a powerful explosive or bomb 23 Dutch (adj.) the same sound got repeated 24 dynamite (n.) the process of choosing someone to form a 25 echoed (v.) government or become a leader by voting for them ashamed 26 election (n.) asked doing something very well 27 embarrassed (adj.) 28 enquired (v.) 29 excelling (v.)
S. No Word Meaning 30 explore (v.) travel to learn more 31 faint (adj.) weak and dizzy 32 fortune (n.) wealth 33 gravity (n.) the force that attracts objects to the earth's surface 34 gurgling (adj.) making a bubbling sound 35 harsh (adj.) tough; hard electrical gadgets worn on the head to listen to 36 headphones (n.) sounds or music bushes that are planted as borders to fields or gardens 37 hedges (n.) owing something to someone 38 indebted (adj.) a house where people can eat and rent a room to sleep 39 inn (n.) very detailed strongly interested 40 intricate (adj.) moving slowly and heavily 41 keen (adj.) a situation of great comfort and wealth 42 lumping (v.) impressive 43 luxury (n.) royal 44 magnificent (adj.) in a royal manner 45 majestic (adj.) meadow (old English) 46 majestically (adv.) grassy fields 47 mead (n.) a building where grain is turned into flour 48 meadows (n.) boring 49 mill (n.) someone who finds the route and guides a spaceship 50 monotonous (adj.) freshly cut 51 navigator (n.) taking small bites 52 new-mown (adj.) a game played with a heavy ball and nine vertical 53 nibbling (v.) columns called pins often (old English) 54 ninepins (n.) died people who exchange letters as a hobby but 55 oft (adv.) usually have not met 56 passed away (phr. v.) a person who studies the laws of physics an area of play 57 pen pals (n.) worked steadily a standard belief 58 physicist (n.) the back part of something 59 pitch (n.) 60 plied (v.) 61 principle (n.) 62 rear end (n.)
S. No Word Meaning 63 rocket ship (n.) a space vehicle that flies into space 64 rusted (v.) get covered in rust, which is a reddish coating formed on iron and steel 65 scientist (n.) one who studies science 66 scrambles (v.) struggles to climb 67 shrills (v.) makes a loud, high-pitched sound 68 shuddered (v.) shivered with fear or disgust 69 slender (adj.) slim; thin 70 slurping (v.) drinking or eating noisily 71 space suits (n.) special outfits worn by astronauts in space 72 spectacular (adj.) beautiful and grand 73 sprang a surprise (phr.) surprised someone 74 summer break (n.) summer holidays in school 75 suspicion (n.) doubt 76 take for granted (v.) fail to respect or appreciate 77 tattered (adj.) torn and in poor condition 78 theories (n.) ideas 79 tramp (n.) a poor, homeless person 80 troops (v.) groups of soldiers 81 umpires (n.) game officials 82 unorthodox (adj.) unusual 83 volumes (n.) the amounts of space occupied by objects 84 wander (v.) go from one place to another 85 witches (n.) women who casts spells 86 wrought (v.) formed 87 yikes (int.) an expression of surprise n. Key v. noun adj. verb adv. prn. adjective phr. adverb phr. v. pronoun idm. phrase int. phrasal verb idiom interjection
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