Activities

1. Let’s find out how much we have understood:

(a) What is a Hobby?

Ans: Activities which give us fun and joy are hobby.

(b) What do hobbies gives us?

Ans: Hobbies give us joy and relaxation.

(c) What is philately? What difficulty would you face if you take up philately?

Ans: Philately is the hobby of collecting and studying postage stamps.

(d) What is Irfan’s Hobby? What does he like to do?

Ans: Irfan’s hobby is painting. He likes to sit and paint landscapes. 

(e) Name a few indoor and outdoor hobbies?

Ans: Indoor hobbies are: Reading books, Painting, Stamp collecting etc.

Outdoor hobbies are: Gardening, Cycling, Playing football etc.

(f) What is a kitchen garden?

Ans: A kitchen garden is a small garden near a house where people grow vegetables, fruits, and herbs for daily use.

(g) “Every morning I water the plants and clean the beds”. – What does ‘beds’ mean here?

Ans: Here beds mean  garden beds or flower beds—the areas of soil where plants, vegetables, or flowers are grown.

2. A synonym is a word that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word. Example: happy- Joyful.

From the box below, choose words which are synonyms of the given words and write each synonym next to the word in the blanks below.

Pleasure     free time   Lovely    begin Energetic  grow  happiness sporty Pretty   spare time     launch     evolve

Ans: a) joy- happiness.

b) beautiful- lovely, pretty.

c) active- energetic.

d) leisure- free time.

e) start- begin, launch.

f) develop- grow.

3. Look at the pictures of objects given below. Each object is related to an activity. Write the name of the object and related activity in the s provided. One has been done for you.

Guitar: Singing

Bat: Cricket

Bicycle: Bicycling

Book: Reader

Pen: Writer

Boat: Boating

4. Let’s play a game. Sit in groups according to your hobbies. Discuss in your group why you like this hobby and how you pursue it.

The teacher will make the students sit in groups- and ask the participants of each group to speak in turns. One participant will start with one sentence about his or her hobby and the next participant will continue the presentation.

5. Parveen’s hobby is baking. Fill in the blanks in the paragraph below with words that rhyme with bake, such as shake.

Juri said to Parveen, “Please tell me how to bake a_____”Parveen replied, “Preheat the oven to 350° F and gather all the ingredients you need to_____a cake______2 cups of  flour, 4 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup butter or oil, I teaspoonful baking powder and vanilla essence. You will need a cake pan and a sieve too. Put the flour and baking powder into the sieve______ the sieve to remove lumps, if any. Cream the butter and sugar. Add a few drops of vanilla essence______the mixture is light and creamy. Beat in the eggs and______them one at a time. Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture little by little. Don’t forget to grease the_______pan and dust it with flour. then _______ the smooth mixture and pour it into the pan. Place the mixture in the oven till your _______ turns golden brown.”

Ans- Juri said to Parveen, “Please tell me how to bake a cake.” Parveen replied, “Preheat the oven to 350° F and gather all the ingredients you need to make a cake — 2 cups of flour, 4 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup butter or oil, 1 teaspoonful baking powder and vanilla essence. You will need a cake pan and a sieve too. Put the flour and baking powder into the sieve, shake the sieve to remove lumps, if any. Cream the butter and sugar. Add a few drops of vanilla essence till the mixture is light and creamy. Beat in the eggs and break them one at a time. Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture little by little. Don’t forget to grease the cake pan and dust it with flour. then take the smooth mixture and pour it into the pan. Place the mixture in the oven till your cake turns golden brown.”

6. Roktim’s hobby is travelling. He loves visiting places. He always prepares his itinerary before travelling. He leaves his itinerary with his mother. His mother knows where he is by looking at his itinerary. Read his itinerary.

Personal Travel :

Destination :   Majuli, Assam

Duration of stay :   2 days

Date of departure : 10 November 

Date of arrival : 12 November

Place of stay : Maiheng Lodge, Kamalabari Tiniali

What to do : Visit satras, enjoying Raas Utsav, visit local markets