Activity- 01 on Unit-3.2 Where Have All the Birds Gone?

               3.2 Where Have All the Birds Gone?     

                                                                                                                                             -C.V.Sukumaran

                                                                     ACTIVITY -01

Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities.                         (12)                                                                                                          

A.1.  Complete :

  Complete the following table:                                                                                                        (2)

Birds	Time to visit	Place of shelter
Vishupakshi
Parrots

(Extract – It is April ----------------- to captivate me.) Page: 54, 55

A2.Findout                                                                                                                                          (2)                                                                                              

 Find out four changes that the writer notices in ‘this summer’.

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A3.  Interpretation :                                                                                                                         (2)                                 

' Vishupakshi  and  other birds are not seen in Kerala.' Explain.

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 A4.Vocabulary.                                                                                                                                  (2)                                                                     

   Match the adjectives in column A with their nouns in column B .

1.      Young and ripe		a)      legs
2.      strong		b)      sight
3.      hard		c)      stalks
4.      beautiful		d)     trunks

 A5. Personal Response:                                                                                                                   (2)                                                                                                                           

  Suggest some initiatives  to save birds.

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  A6. Grammar                                                                                                                                  (2) 

 Do as directed. 

   1) These little birds would land on the paddy.           (Rewrite it using ‘used to’)

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  2)  They would come to the fields.

                                         (Rewrite it using the Modal Auxiliary which expresses 'Probability' )

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