Chp-1.

3 Autobiography of a Great Indian Bustard

Do as directed:

1) Which is the heaviest flying bird in India? (Identify the kind of sentence)
a) Interrogative
b) Exclamatory
c) Assertive
d) Imperative
2) We birds lay eggs (identify the verb in the sentence)
a) Eggs
b) Birds
c) Lay
d) We
3) This pouch helps me to produce a resonating sound (Identify the figure of
speech)
a) Simile
b) Alliteration
c) Repetition
d) Metaphor
4) My wife – Mrs Bustard is smaller and slimmer (identify the kind of
adjective)
a) Adjective of Quality
b) Adjective of Quantity
c) Emphasizing Adjective
d) Possessive Adjective
5) We are afraid of hunters, (pick out the appropriate question tag)
a) Isn’t we?
b) Aren’t we?
c) Shall we?
d) Cant we?
6) I have got a long white neck (identify the pronoun)
a) Got
b) Long
c) I
d) Neck
7) I dance in joy (identify the preposition)
 a) Dance
b) In
c) Joy
d) I
8) We are afraid of hunters that kill us for fun (identify the pronoun)
a) Possessive pronoun
b) Emphatic pronoun
c) Interrogative pronoun
d) Relative pronoun
9) You can discuss this with your parents (identify the Subject)
a) You
b) Discuss
c) This
d) with
10) We are losing our homes (identify the type of pronoun)
a) Relative pronoun
b) Personal pronoun
c) Indefinite pronoun
d) Demonstrative pronoun
11) Come to see us at ___ sanctuary (add a suitable article)
a) A
b) An
c) And
d) The
12) I have more than 30 different names (identify the kind of adjective)
a) Proper adjective
b) Demonstrative adjective
c) Adjective of number
d) Emphasizing adjective
13) We all gather at our favourite grasslands where there are no people
to disturb us ( Identify the type of pronoun)
a) Relative pronoun
b) Distributive pronoun
c) Reflexive pronoun
d) Interrogative pronoun
14) You will only see us in pictures ( Identify the preposition)
a) Will
b) In
c) Us
d) You
 15) The chick learns many good habits from the mother (identify the
verb in the sentence)
a) Many
b) Habits
c) Learns
d) mother

Descriptive Questions:
1) What is your favourite bird? and why?
2) Write an essay on “The national bird of India- Peacock”
{-Title
-Introductory paragraph
-Body of the essay (Why is peacock the national bird of India)
-Concluding paragraph}

3) What should we do to protect the birds of India?

4) Write a letter to your favourite author expressing your thoughts
on their recent novel.
{-Senders address
                     -Date
                     -Receiver's address
                     -Subject
                     -Salutation
                     -Body
                     -Introduction 
                     -Main content
                     -Conclusion paragraph
                    -Thanking You
                    -Sender’s Name}

5) Write a dialogue writing between a teacher and a student

discussing about the school project.