Grade 1 English Comprehension

The Rhyme Game

Bella and Max sat on the grass. 

“Let’s play the rhyme game,” Bella said. 

“First, you say a word. 

Then, I’ll say a word that rhymes.”

Max nodded. 

“Truck,” he said. “Duck,” Bella rhymed.

“House,” Max said. “Mouse,” Bella rhymed.

“Dog,” Max said. “Frog,” Bella rhymed.

“Can I do the rhyming now?” Max asked. “Yes,” Bella said.

“Dress,” Max rhymed.

Bella laughed. “Wait. Yes wasn’t my word.

Here it is now.” “Cow,” Max rhymed.

“No,” Bella said, laughing harder.

“No, no, no.” “Go.” Max rhymed. “Go, go, go.”

Bella laughed so hard she rolled on the grass.

Max rolled next to her. Rhyming was fun!

Now tick the right answer and then frame the answer.

1. Where does this story take place?

a. on a sunny day                                           b. outside

c. at the beach                                               d. in the morning

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2. Whose idea was it to play the rhyme game? 

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3. What word did Bella rhyme with dog?

a. hog                                                                          b. fog

c. go                                                                            d. frog

4. In the end why did Bella keep laughing at Max' rhymes? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Write three sentences with rhyming words. Use a pair of rhymes in each. examples: A mouse is in my house. My dog chased a frog.

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Draw lines to match the words from the story with their meanings.

1. grass                                          small furry animal

2. nodded                                      large animal that gives milk

3. cat                                             moved head up and down

4. cow                                           green plants that make up a lawn 5. laugh                                         opposite of stop

6. go                                              Ha, ha, ha!

Grade 1 English Comprehension

The Early Bird Catches the Worm

Billy Billy Bud is a bird. He wakes up early to catch a worm.

Billy Bud is very hungry. Willy Wik is a worm. He moves around in the dirt.

 Willy Wik sees Billy Bud flying in the sky.

Billy Bud is looking for food. "I must hide," says Willy Wik.

Willy Wik moves to the grass. He still sees Billy Bud flying in the sky. "I am not safe here.

I must hide somewhere else." Willy Wik moves near a tree.

He hides in the shade. Billy Bud flies around the tree. "The shade does not hide me!" Willy Wik moves to the garden. He still sees Billy Bud flying in the sky. "I must find some place safe to hide," Willy Wik says.

Willy Wik looks around and disappears as Billy Bud swoops down. Billy Bud eats some bird seeds that he finds on the ground. Billy Bud did not see Willy Wik. Billy Bud flies away as Willy Wik pokes his head out of an apple that fell from the tree! Willy Wik smiles and says, "That was close!"

Tick the right option and then frame your answer.

 1. Why is Willy Wik afraid of Billy Bud?

a. Willy Wik thinks Billy Bud is going to eat his food.  

b. Willy Wik thinks Billy Bud is going to eat him.

c. Willy Wik and Billy Bud like to play.

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2. Put these sentences in order. Write 1, 2, and 3 on the lines.

_____ Willy Wik hides in the grass.

_____ Willy Wik hides in an apple.

_____ Billy Bud wakes up early.

3. What does Billy Bud eat in this story?

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 4. Which sentence is true?

a.Willy Wik can fly.                                                                   

b. Willy Wik is hungry.

c. Billy Bud does not eat Willy Wik.

 Now try this: On sheet of paper, make a list of seven places Willy Wik could hide from Billy Bud.

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For Grades 7, 8 & 9    

Read the following passage and answer the questions a, b, c, and d given below:

We have been brought up to fear insects. We regard them as unnecessary creatures that do more harm than good. Man continuously wages war on them, for they contaminate his food, carry diseases or devour his crops. They sting or bite without provocation, they fly uninvited into our rooms on summer nights, or beat against our lighted windows. We live in dread not only of unpleasant insects like spiders or wasps, but of quite harmless ones like moths. Reading about them increases our understanding without dispelling our fears. Knowing that the industrious ants live in a highly organized society does not prevent us from being filled with revulsion when we find hordes of them crawling over a carefully prepared picnic lunch.

No matter how much we like honey, or how much we have read of the uncanny sense of direction which bees possess, we have a horror of being stung. Most of our fears are unreasonable, but they are difficult to erase. At the same time, however, insects are strangely fascinating. We enjoy reading about them, especially when we find that like the Praying Mantis, they lead perfectly horrible lives. We enjoy staring at them, entrance as they go about their business, unaware -we hope – of our presence. Who has not stood in awe at the sight of a spider pouncing on a fly, or a column of ants triumphantly carrying home an enormous dead beetle?

Last summer, I spent many days in the garden watching thousands of ants crawling up the trunk of my prized peach tree. The tree has grown against a warm wall on a sheltered side of the house. I am specially proud of it, not only because it has survived several severe winters, but because it occasionally produces luscious peaches. During the summer I noticed that the leaves of the tree had begun to wither. Clusters of tiny insects called Aphids were to be found on the underside of the leaves. They were visited by a large column of ants which obtained a sort of honey from them. I immediately embarked on an experiment which, even though it failed to get rid of the ants, kept me fascinated for twenty four hours. I bound the base of the tree with sticky tape, making it impossible for the ants to reach the Aphids. The tape was so sticky that they did not dare to cross it. For a long time, I watched them scurrying around the base of the tree in bewilderment. I even went out at midnight with a torch and noted with satisfaction and surprise that the ants were still swarming around the sticky tape without being able to do anything about it. I got up early next morning to find the ants were climbing up the wall of the house and then on to the leaves of the tree. I realized sadly that I had been completely defeated by their ingenuity. The ants had been quick to find an answer to my thoroughly unscientific methods.

(a)    Three words or phrases are given below. Give the meaning of each word as used in the passage. One word answer or short phrases will be accepted.                                           [3]

                i.          Dispelling

               ii.          Pouncing

              iii.          Ingenuity

(b)   Answer the following questions briefly in your own words.                                                                                                                                        [10]

          i.    What is our attitude towards insects?

         ii.    Why does man try to exterminate insects?

        iii.    Why does the writer say that knowing about insects does not make man      change his attitude towards insects?

        iv.    What was the reason that the leaves of the tree were beginning to wither in summer?

        v.    What did the writer do to prevent the ants from reaching the Aphids? Was it successful?

(c)    Describe in not more than 60 words  a summary of the above passage describing       the behaviour that we show towards insects.           [10]

(d)   Give an apt title to your summary and justify the choice of the title.                                                                                                                                         [2]

Letter Writing for Grade 6,7,8,9 & 10

You are Shailendra living at H.N. 390 Sector 14, Gurgaon. Write a letter to your friend living at M-13 Greater Kailash, New Delhi, describing your return journey from your ancestral village and the fantastic memories of village life that you still cherish.

LINEAR EQUATION PROBLEMS FOR VYOM 

1. If you subtract 1 2 from a number and multiply the result by 1 2 , you get 1 8 . What is the number?

2. The perimeter of a rectangular swimming pool is 154 m. Its length is 2 m more than twice its breadth. What are the length and the breadth of the pool?

3. The base of an isosceles triangle is 4 cm 3 . The perimeter of the triangle is 2 4 cm 15 . What is the length of either of the remaining equal sides?

 4. Sum of two numbers is 95. If one exceeds the other by 15, find the numbers.

5. Two numbers are in the ratio 5:3. If they differ by 18, what are the numbers?

6. Three consecutive integers add up to 51. What are these integers?

 7. The sum of three consecutive multiples of 8 is 888. Find the multiples.

8. Three consecutive integers are such that when they are taken in increasing order and multiplied by 2, 3 and 4 respectively, they add up to 74. Find these numbers.

9. The ages of Rahul and Haroon are in the ratio 5:7. Four years later the sum of their ages will be 56 years. What are their present ages?

10. The number of boys and girls in a class are in the ratio 7:5. The number of boys is 8 more than the number of girls. What is the total class strength?

11. Baichung’s father is 26 years younger than Baichung’s grandfather and 29 years older than Baichung. The sum of the ages of all the three is 135 years. What is the age of each one of them?

12. Fifteen years from now Ravi’s age will be four times his present age. What is Ravi’s present age?

 13. A rational number is such that when you multiply it by 5 2 and add 2 3 to the product, you get 7 12 − . What is the number?

 14. Lakshmi is a cashier in a bank. She has currency notes of denominations Rs 100, Rs 50 and Rs 10, respectively. The ratio of the number of these notes is 2:3:5. The total cash with Lakshmi is Rs 4,00,000. How many notes of each denomination does she have?

15. I have a total of Rs 300 in coins of denomination Re 1, Rs 2 and Rs 5. The number of Rs 2 coins is 3 times the number of Rs 5 coins. The total number of coins is 160. How many coins of each denomination are with me?

16. The organisers of an essay competition decide that a winner in the competition gets a prize of Rs 100 and a participant who does not win gets a prize of Rs 25. The total prize money distributed is Rs 3,000. Find the number of winners, if the total number of participants is 63.

Some more challenges...

1. Amina thinks of a number and subtracts 5 2 from it. She multiplies the result by 8. The result now obtained is 3 times the same number she thought of. What is the number?

2. A positive number is 5 times another number. If 21 is added to both the numbers, then one of the new numbers becomes twice the other new number. What are the numbers?

3. Sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 9. When we interchange the digits, it is found that the resulting new number is greater than the original number by 27. What is the two-digit number?

4. One of the two digits of a two digit number is three times the other digit. If you interchange the digits of this two-digit number and add the resulting number to the original number, you get 88. What is the original number?

5. Shobo’s mother’s present age is six times Shobo’s present age. Shobo’s age five years from now will be one third of his mother’s present age. What are their present ages?

6. There is a narrow rectangular plot, reserved for a school, in Mahuli village. The length and breadth of the plot are in the ratio 11:4.At the rate Rs100 per metre it will cost the village panchayat Rs 75000 to fence the plot. What are the dimensions of the plot?

7. Hasan buys two kinds of cloth materials for school uniforms, shirt material that costs him Rs 50 per metre and trouser material that costs him Rs 90 per metre. For every 2 meters of the trouser material he buys 3 metres of the shirt material. He sells the materials at 12% and 10% profit respectively. His total sale is Rs 36,660. How much trouser material did he buy?

8. Half of a herd of deer are grazing in the field and three fourths of the remaining are playing nearby. The rest 9 are drinking water from the pond. Find the number of deer in the herd.

9. A grandfather is ten times older than his granddaughter. He is also 54 years older than her. Find their present ages.

10. Aman’s age is three times his son’s age. Ten years ago he was five times his son’s age. Find their present ages.

SIMPLE EQUATION  for NIKUNJ and OM to be submitted 

2.1. Set up equations and solve them to find the unknown numbers in the following cases:

(a) Add 4 to eight times a number; you get 60.

(b) One fifth of a number minus 4 gives 3.

(c) If I take three fourths of a number and count up 3 more, I get 21.

 (d) When I subtracted 11 from twice a number, the result was 15.

(e) Munna subtracts thrice the number of notebooks he has from 50, he finds the result to be 8.

 (f) Ibenhal thinks of a number. If she adds 19 to it and divides the sum by 5, she will get 8.

(g) Anwar thinks of a number. If he takes away 7 from 5 2 of the number, the result is 11

 2 . 2. Solve the following:

(a) The teacher tells the class that the highest marks obtained by a student in her class is twice the lowest marks plus 7. The highest score is 87. What is the lowest score?

(b) In an isosceles triangle, the base angles are equal. The vertex angle is 40°. What are the base angles of the triangle? (Remember, the sum of three angles of a triangle is 180°).

(c) Smita’s mother is 34 years old. Two years from now mother’s age will be 4 times Smita’s present age. What is Smita’s present age?

(d) Sachin scored twice as many runs as Rahul. Together, their runs fell two short of a double century. How many runs did each one score?

3. Solve the following:

 (i) Irfan says that he has 7 marbles more than five times the marbles Parmit has. Irfan has 37 marbles. How many marbles does Parmit have?

(ii) Laxmi's father is 49 years old. He is 4 years older than three times Laxmi's age. What is Laxmi's age?

(iii) Maya, Madhura and Mohsina are friends studying in the same class. In a class test in geography, Maya got 16 out of 25. Madhura got 20. Their average score was 19. How much did Mohsina score?

(iv) People of Sundargram planted a total of 102 trees in the village garden. Some of the trees were fruit trees. The number of non-fruit trees were two more than three times the number of fruit trees. What was the number of fruit trees planted?