Question a: Match the taste with the fruits/vegetable. Answer: Based on the images provided in the textbook, here is the correct matching of the food items with their tastes:
- Salt: Salty
- Chilli: Spicy
- Sugarcane: Sweet
- Lemon: Sour / Tangy
- Bitter Gourd (Karela): Bitter (Note: Although “bitter” is missing from the list in the book, it is the correct taste for Karela!)
Question c: Discuss in pair. Enlist the advantages of healthy food and disadvantages of packaged food.
Answer:
| Advantages of healthy food | Disadvantages of packaged food |
| Gives us energy to play and study. | Contains too much artificial sugar, salt, or oil. |
| Protects our body from illnesses and diseases. | Can make us lazy and cause unhealthy weight gain. |
| Keeps our mind and body fit, active, and strong. | Can be harmful to our teeth and stomach. |
Question d: Read the grid carefully and encircle the names of the eatables mentioned in it. Answer: The eatables hidden inside the word grid are:
- CUSTARD (Found in the 1st row)
- PEAS (Found in the 2nd row)
- NUTS (Found in the 3rd row)
- RAISIN (Found in the 5th row)
Question e: Classify the words in the given columns.
(merely, run, hungry, bowl, tea, angry, hungrily, catch)
Answer:
| Adjectives | Nouns | Verbs | Adverbs |
| hungry | bowl | run | merely |
| angry | tea | catch | hungrily |
Question f: Complete the following message using the given words.
(protect, need, eat, illness, energy, healthy)
Answer:
Dear vegetables,
You are our need. You give us vitamins and energy. You protect us from illness. You keep us healthy. We must eat you to stay fit. Thank you for what you do for us.
Your fan,
Balbir
Question g: Read the following words. real – really ; greedy – greedily . Now, add the suffix ‘ly’ to the following words and rewrite.
Answer:
- slow ➞ slowly
- happy ➞ happily
- easy ➞ easily
- like ➞ likely
- week ➞ weekly
- quick ➞ quickly
Question h: Simple Present Tense. Read and understand. Answer: This is a grammar reading activity. It teaches us that the Simple Present Tense is used for daily routines, regular actions, habits, and universal truths (like “The Sun rises in the east”).
Question i: Read the given table, choose one word from each column and make meaningful sentences. Answer: Here are six meaningful sentences created from the table:
- I read books.
- You watch T.V.
- We eat mangoes.
- They play cricket.
- He cuts vegetables.
- She runs fast.
Question j: Underline the silent letters in the given words.
Answer: The silent letters have been bolded below:
- knight, knowledge, knot ………. (The letter ‘k’ is silent)
- psychology, pneumonia ………… (The letter ‘p’ is silent)
- limb, dumb, comb ……………..(The letter ‘b’ is silent)
- honest, hour, school ………..(The letter ‘h’ is silent)
Word Section
| इंग्रजी शब्द | उच्चार (Pronunciation) | मराठी अर्थ |
| Salty | सॉल्टी | खारट |
| Spicy | स्पायसी | मसालेदार, तिखट |
| Sweet | स्वीट | गोड |
| Sour | सावर / साऊर | आंबट |
| Tangy | टँगी | चटकदार, आंबट-गोड |
| Angry | अँग्री | रागावलेला, रागीट |
| Merely | मिअरली | केवळ, फक्त |
| Growled | ग्राउल्ड | गुरगुरला |
| Stubborn | स्टबर्न | हट्टी, दुराग्रही |
| Brought | ब्रॉट | आणले |
| Greedily | ग्रीडिली | हावरटपणे, लोभीपणाने |
| Piece | पीस | तुकडा |
| Squeezed | स्क्वीज्ड | पिळले, दाबून रस काढला |
| Cauliflower | कॉलिफ्लॉवर | फुलकोबी, फ्लॉवरची भाजी |
| Threw | थ्रू | फेकले |
| Lump | लंप | खडा, ढेकूळ, गोळा |
| Swallow | स्वॉलो | गिळणे |
| Scolding | स्कोल्डिंग | ओरडणे, खरडपट्टी काढणे |
| Grumpy | ग्रंपी | चिडचिडा |
| Hungrily | हंग्रिली | भुकेल्यासारखे, अतिशय भुकेने |
| Crept | क्रेप्ट | रांगत गेला, हळूच सरपटत गेला |
| Burnt | बर्न्ट | जळलेले, करपलेले |
| Refused | रिफ्युज्ड | नकार दिला |
| Empty | एम्प्टी | रिकामा, रिकामे |