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Q1. What were the preparations in the in the palace for?
- There were preparations because the Travancore’s maharaja ordered a grand dinner in the palace.
Q2. Why did the Maharaja go into the kitchen in the afternoon?
- The maharaja went into the kitchen to check if the dishes were nicely prepared for the grand feast.
Q3. What had the cook planned to do with the vegetable scraps?
- The waste vegetable scraps should be thrown this was planned by the cook.
Q4. Ingredients are the things that are used to make a dish. Circle the ingredients of avial in the box below.
- Answers are underlined.
| chillies, groundnut, wood, vegetable scraps, coconut, roasted peanuts, curd, pot, garlic, broken bangles, basket curry leaves |
Q5. State whether the following are True or False.
(i) The king had ordered a dinner in the palace. __________
(ii) No one had heard of or tasted avial before. ____________
(iii) The cook had planned to make another dish using the vegetable scraps. ____________
Answers:-
- True
- True
- false
Q 1. A recipe is a list of directions to prepare a dish. The following sentences are not in order for preparing avial. Number them in the correct order.
Answers:- correct order is given below.
- 3 Grind some coconut, green chillies and garlic.
- 2 Cut the vegetables scraps into long strips.
- 1 Wash and clean the mix of vegetable bits.
- 6 Decorate with curry leaves.
- 4 Whip some curd and mix it in.
- 5 Pour some coconut oil on top.
- 7 Avail is ready.
Q2. Given in the box are some things that children do after they reach home from school. Choose five things that you do when you reach home from school. Write them in order.
| pack school bag put away school bag have lunch read a story book chat with mummy about school sleep for a while wash up do the home work watch TV go to play change out of school uniform |
First, I put away school bag.
Then, I change out of uniform.
Next, I have lunch,
After that, I chat with mummy about school sleep for a while.
Finally, I do the homework.
LET’S TALK.
The Maharaja was a wise man and ordered the cook to use the vegetable scraps instead of throwing them away.
- Name some of the things which are thrown away at home or in school.
- Sit in groups of four and think of interesting ways in which they can be made useful.
- Put up your findings on the class board.
Answer:-
- In- home:- vegetable waste, wrapper or cover of some product, newspaper, leftover foods.
- In school:- paper, used pen or refill, cardboard boxes, waste of pencils.
Some of the ways they can be used:-
- Can be used as natural fertilizers.
- Can be used for decorations or making decorative things.
- Leftover food can be given to street animals.
WORD BUILDING.
Q1. Pair work
Some words have more than one meaning.
For example, point –
Meanings:-
- noun- a dot in print or writing, full stop, decimal, the number you score in a game.
- Verb- to show or call attention to something.
Look up the following words in the dictionary. They may have more than one meaning. List these meanings.
Ground
- Noun- area of land, a particular surface, floor,
- Verb- to fix something strongly.
Survey
- Noun- examination, study, review, overview, estimation.
- Verb- to observe, to look around, to view something.
Scrap
- Noun-snip, off cut, particle, piece.
- Verb- to throw away, to throw out, to remove, to clear out
Sternly
- Adjective– serious, strict , severely
- verb- behaving strictly.
Tempting
- Noun-desire, interesting
- Verb- to invite.
WONDERFUL WASTE Unit 1 Chapter 2
| pound | pounded | pounding | x | x |
| try | tried | trying | x | x |
| large | x | x | larger | largest |
| New | x | x | newer | newest |
| tasty | tasted | tasting | tastier | tastiest |
| wise | x | x | wiser | wisest |
| stare | stared | staring | x | x |
| clean | cleaned | cleaning | cleaner | cleanest |
Q2. Make new words by adding/dropping a few letters from the root word. Some are done for you.
| -ed | -ing | -er | -est |
Do any of these words use all of four endings.-
- yes tasty clean (blanks are filled with bold colour)
FIND OUT
Q1 Name food that is made in your home.
(i) for a feast/festival.
- Kheer, sweets, several vegetables.
(ii) when you are unwell.
- Khichdi, boiled rice, daliya, vegetables
(iii) everyday.
- Rice, green vegetables, pulse, chapatti, pickles
Q2 Avial is a dish made in Kerala.
Do you have a similar dish in your state made from a mix of many vegetables?
• What is it called? _______________
• Note down the ingredients used to make it.
• Write down the recipe.
• Present attractively and display on the class board. You can draw and stick pictures too.
- Do it yourself.