Class 6 English Unit 5
(1) Answer the following questions:
(1) How are trees useful to us?
Answer: (i) Trees are most useful things in the world.
(ii) Trees give us fruit to eat and firewood to burs
(iii) Children play under the tree
(iv) From wood of tree furniture’s are made.
(v) And most important it gives us oxygen for breathing.
(2) How is starch prepared by trees?
Answer: (i) Trees breathe in the carbon dioxide from the air and give us oxygen.
(ii) Carbon dioxide break up into carbon and oxygen with the help of sun light.
(iii) And finally trees use the carbon to make starch and release oxygen into the air.
(3) What are annual rings of a tree?
Answer: Annual rings of a tree are used to indicate the age of the tree.
(4) Do you think trees are enemies to people? Why do people cut down trees?
Answer: (i) No, I do not think tree are enemies to people in fact it is a friend of people.
(ii) People cut down trees because to make furniture, to cook food and to make paper.
(5) What will happen if we do not stop felling of trees?
Answer: (i) If we do not stop felling of trees, then not a single living thing can survive on the earth.
(ii) And human being will face many problems like soil erosion and drought.
(6) How can we provide a better environment for the future generation?
Answer: By planting more tree we can provide a better environment for the future generation.
(7) What are the most useful things in the world?
Answer: Trees are the most useful things in the world.
(8) Which piece of information do you find the most interesting in the passage?
Answer: General Sherman live for hundreds or even thousands of year this is the most interesting piece in the passage.
(11) Read the following statements carefully and write True or False in the brackets. Correct the false statements.
(1) Green leaves can split carbon dioxide into carbon and oxygen.
Answer: False: Sunlight split carbon dioxide into carbon and oxygen.
(2) We get our food mainly from trees.
Answer: true.
(3) Trees help up get rain.
Answer: True.
(4) It is usually cooler under the shade of a tree than in the sun.
Answer: True.
(5) True are the shortest living things on the earth.
Answer:
(1) Match things in part A with their uses or meaning in part B.
| Part- A | Part -B | |
| (1) Oxygen | (c) | (a) Important part of our food produced by tree |
| (2) Carbon dioxide | (e) | (b) Juice or milk from a tree |
| (3) Starch | (a) | (c) Useful for human life |
| (4) Sap | (b) | (d) Water drops in the air |
| (5) Vapour | (d) | (e) Useful for trees |
Rewrite the following sentence as a single sentence. Use ‘if’ at the beginning of the sentence. The first two have been done for you.
(1) Work hard. You’ll get success.
Answer: If you work hard, you will get success.
(2) Do not tease the dog, it’ll bite you.
Answer: If you tease the dog, it will bite you.
(3) A child is being teased; I will try to help them.
Answer: If a child is being teased, I will try to help them.
(4) Study regularly. You will do well in the examination.
Answer: If you study regularly, you will do well in the examination.
(5) Give respect to others. They too will respect you.
Answer: If you give respect to others, they too will respect you.
(6) It does not rain. I will come to your house.
Answer: If it does not rain, I will come to your house.
(7) I feel sad, I express it to someone who cares,
Answer: If I feel sad, I express it to someone who cares.
(8) I feel unsafe, I’ll ask a trusted adult for help.
Answer: If I feel said, I will ask a trusted adult for help.
(9) I have a disturbing experience; I’ll discuss it with my family members.
Answer: If I have a disturbing experience, I will discuss it with my family members.
(10) Read regularly, you’ll get more knowledge.
Answer: If you read regularly, you will get more knowledge.
(11) Do you exercise prompty, you’ll not fail.
Answer: If you do your exercise prompty, you will not fail.
(12) Go to bed early, you’ll be healthy.
Answer: If you go to bed early, you will be healthy.
(II) Supply a condition/a possible result to the following.
| Condition | Result |
| If you do not water the plant,
If you keep your surrounding clean, If you study hard, If you quarrel with everybody, If you not maintain hygiene If you step on a snake |
Plant will die
You’ll be healthy You will pass with distance Everyone will hate You will be sick Snake will bite. |
(I) imagine that you are secretary of the Environment club of your school. Write a notice informing all the student to participate in the tree plantation week.
NOTICE
Narayan School, Delhi
Tree Plantation
Date:- 10-02-2021
I my glad to inform you that our Environment club going to organize a tree plantation week. Trees are most important things in the world. Without trees we cannot survive on Earth. We should a give a better environment to our future generation.
Planting more and more can save our environment. So, all the student kindly collect on our school ground on 2nd October and program me will continue to whole week.
Secretary of the
Environment Club
Answer: The following questions:
(1) What is the name of the periodical?
Answer: Terra Green is the name of the periodical.
(2) What does “TERI” stand for?
Answer: “TERI” stand for energy and Resource Institute.
(3) What is the annual subscription rate of magazine?
Answer: 400 Rs is the annual subscription rate of the magazine.
(5) What — will you get if you subscribe to the magazine for three years?
Answer: Free online access will we get if we subscribe to the magazine for three years.