1. Choose the right answer.
(i) Mr. Willy Wonka is (a) a crook, (b) an inventor, (c) a manager.
(ii) Wonka-Vite makes people (a) older, (b) younger.
(iii) Mr. Wonka wants to invent a new thing that will make people (a) younger, (b) older.
2. Can anyone's age be a minus number? What does ' minus 87’ mean?
Ans:- I think it is not possible to get into the minus age. ‘Minus 87’ means, one became 87 years back from his/her real age.
3. Mr. Wonka begins by asking himself two questions.
What are they?
(i) What is the oldest living thing in the world?
(ii) What lives longer than anything else?
WORKING WITH THE TEXT (page 102)
1. (i) What trees does Mr. Wonka mention? Which tree does he say lives the longest?
Ans:-Mr Wonka mentions oak, deodar, fir, etc. He says that the Bristlecone pine lives longer.
(ii) How long does this tree live? Where can you find it?
Ans:- This tree can live for 4000 years. We can find it on Wheeler Peak at Nevada in the USA.
2. How many of the oldest living things can you remember from Mr. Wonka's list? (Don't look back at the story!) Do you think all these things really exist, or are some of them purely imaginary?
Ans:- I remember the old things collected from a Russian farmer, a horse, a tortoise, a rat, and a flea. I think some of these things are imaginary.
3. Why does Mr. Wonka collect items from the oldest things?
Do you think this is the right way to begin his invention?
Ans:- Mr. Wonk collected items from the oldest things thinking that the medicines prepared from those things will make the user old. I don’t think this is the right way to begin his invention.
4. What happens to the volunteers who swallow four drops of the new invention? What is the name of the invention?
Ans:- The volunteers who swallow four drops of the new invention grow very old. His hair and his teeth turned very weak and prepared to fall. He gets wrinkles on his skin. A young man of twenty-five suddenly turns into a 75 years old man.
WORKING WITH LANGUAGE (page 103)
1. What do you call these insects in your language?
Cockroach -Tilchata
Mosquito - Machhar
Grasshopper - Tidda
Housefly - Makhhi
Dragonfly-Bhaunra
Ant- Chinti
2. Fill in the blanks in the recipe given below with words from the box.
shred, cooker, times, tomatoes, half, onion, oil
Easy PalaknDal
INGREDIENTS
One onion
One cup dal
Two thin green chilies
Half a teaspoon red chili powder
Eight small bunches of palak
Two tomatoes
Salt to taste
Wash and cut the vegetables; shred the palak. Put everything in the pressure cooker.
Let the cooker whistle three times, then switch it off. Fry a few cumin seeds
In oil and add to the palankndal
WRITING
1. (i) Make a list of the trees Mr. Wonka mentions. Where do these trees grow? Try to find out from an encyclopedia. Write a short paragraph about two or three of these trees.
Ans:-The trees are cedar, Bristlecone pine, Douglas fir, and oak. The cedar is available in India, Nepal, and other Asian countries. Bristlecone pine is found in rocky mountains, and North America is the right place for Douglas fir.
(ii) Name some large trees commonly found in your area. Find out something about them (How old are they? Who parted them? Do birds eat their fruits?), and write two or three sentences about each one of them.
Ans:- There is a great and large tree in my area and that is the Banyan tree. Even my grandfather does not know about the time of its initial growth. It may be more than one hundred and fifty years old. Birds come and sit in it and eat its fruits. The chirping of birds is heard always around the tree.
2. Find out something interesting about age, or growing old, and write a paragraph about it. Following are a few topics, suggested as examples.
The age profile of a country’s population—does it have more young people than old people or vice versa? What are the consequences of this?
How can we tell how old a tree, a horse, or rock is?
What is the ‘life expectancy of various living things, and various populations (how long can they reasonably expect to live)?
Ans:- Our motherland India is a vast country with a population of more than 125 crores. About 35% of the population is young and laborious. Consequently, India has a good opportunity to go ahead. Old people of the country are also very impressive in their thought and character.
We can tell how old a tree is, a horse is, rock is, by carbon 14 theory which is used by the scientist to find the age of an object.
Life expectancy of various living things depends on the symptoms of their bodies. Life expectancy of a man may be 100 years but a dog only 13 years due to their symptoms.
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