Grade 5

English practice sheet 5

A.Unseen passage:

Washing machines clean clothing by forcing a water and detergent mixture through clothes. The
detegrent reacts with the dirt and loosens its grip. Thus, dirt and stains are separated from the clothes.
In olden days, people would beat wet clothes against a stone-slab to loosen the dirt. The mechanical
system includes the motor, transmission, clutch, inner and outer wash tubs, agitator, pumps, water valve
and a bell.

Questions

1. (i) The functioning of which appliance is told here ?

(ii) What is forced through clothes ?

2. (i) What are separated from the clothes ?

(ii) How did people loosen the dirt in olden days?

B.Write the rhyming words of the poem 'Don't be Afraid of the Dark'.

Example one…...done.