UNIT: 7

OUR ENVIRONMENT

GETTING STARTED

DON’T KILL US

Environment:

The surroundings in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.

Environment is everything around us. It can be living or non-living things.

We should keep it clean & safe.

In textbook page 106 & 107, the woodcutter is about to chop down the trees

with his axe.

Tree is asking for life by telling its usages. If trees would be cut down there

will be less shade, food, fresh air & the forest animals will lose their homes.

PRE-LISTENING

A WORLD WITHOUT TREES

There are approximately 3.04 trillion trees on Earth, covering 31% of

world’s land surface.

Around 15 billion trees are cut down each year.

So hypothetically speaking, it would take just over 200 years for the world’s

forests to completely disappear.

Now let’s imagine a world without trees, what would be the consequences

of a tree-free planet? Let’s start with perhaps the most obvious difference –

oxygen concentration.

The world would be full of hot air.

Human beings might die because of hot air.

Less oxygen would be there for human beings.

Animals would be sad because they might lose their shelter (homes).

PHONICS

THE ‘GR’ & ‘GL’ SOUNDS

‘Gr’ & ‘Gl’ are initial sounds of words.

Examples: glad, glamour, glow, grade, gross, growl etc.

Recite poem with proper intonation page 109.

Further examples:

Vocabulary:

Growl: to say something in an angry way

Grumble: to talk in an unhappy way

Grumpy: a person who often complains

Glum: sad

Glorious: delightful

Groan: to complain about something

Glutton: a person who eats too much

Write down story on the board & highlight ‘gr’ & ‘gl’ sounds.

PRE-READING

REDUCE, REUSE & RECYCLE

Reduce; reuse & recycle are separate but interconnected concepts. People save

things to reuse.

Vocabulary:

Recycle: to make something new from something that has been used before

Pulp: a soft, wet substance that is made by crushing something

De-inking: process of removing ink from paper

SPEAKING

MAKING A SPEECH

Tell the rules to students & take a presentation on speech written by them.

All speaking discussion is required.

The idea behind Mr. Freddy Wood speech on page: 114 is that he wants to

persuade people to recycle paper & informing the importance of trees.

We may run out trees if we do not try to recycle paper. Moreover, trees take

a long time to grow.

VOCABULARY

ANALOGIES

ANALOGY: A comparison of two things based on their being alike in some way.

Examples: Big Small, Tall Short etc

If lips are to smile, eyes are to………. (cry)

GRAMMAR

SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT

A singular subject must take a singular verb & a plural subject must take a plural

verb.

Examples:

Ali finds a toy car.

Ali & Arzu find a car.

PUNCTUATION

QUESTION MARK

The punctuation mark ‘?’ that is used after a direct question.

Page: 120

Vocabulary:

Scattering: going in various directions

Harm: hurt

WRITING:

DESIGN A POSTER

Posters are made to convey important messages. Design a poster to covey

important message.

Sample Poster: