St. Mary’s Co-Ed School, Harda (M.P.
English (Class II)
Chapter-5: The Happy Field
Exercises
A. Answer these questions page no. 56
1. Why did the field look plain and dull in the beginning?
Ans. Because the field was flat and covered with green grass only.
2. How did the field grow a hump?
Ans. The field pushed and shoved till he grew a beautiful hump.
3. What did the cloud do to the hollow in the ground?
Ans. The cloud poured rain into the hollow.
4. What did the field do when it felt hot?
Ans. The field humped and became a hill.
5. Why did the field want rainbow?
Ans. Because the field loved it.
6. Who took the nectar from the flowers? What did they do with it?
Ans. A queen bee and her busy bees took nectar. They made sweet honey with it.
B. Complete these sentences with words from the text. Page no. 56
1. The flat field was covered in grass. The cow loved the grass.
2. When the flat field grew a hump, a hollow appeared.
3. Ducks and Geese came to live in the lake.
4. The river ran towards the lane.
5. The field squeezed flowers out of the grass.
6. The flowers had the colours of the rainbow.
GRAMMAR Page no. 57 and 58
A. Complete these sentences with the present continuous tense forms of the verbs in the box.
(Page 58)
buy Kick fly watch drink read
1. Mother is reading the newspaper.
2. Rahul is kicking the ball into the goal.
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3. The bird is flying in the sky.
4. Smita and Priya are watching their favorite show on television.
5. Zainab is drinking a glass of milk.
6. Grandfather and I are buying fruits from the market.
B. Rewrite these sentences with the present continuous tense forms of the verbs in colour.
(Page no. 58)
1. I walk to school.
I am walking to school.
2. Sam climbs the stairs.
Sam is climbing the stairs.
3. The tap drops.
The tap is dripping.
4. The ship sails on the sea.
The ship is sailing on the sea.
5. Father drinks hot tea.
Father is drinking hot tea.
6. Tony sings a song.
Tony is singing a song.
VOCABULARY page no. 59
A. Match the words in A and B to make compound words.
A B
1. break a. fast
2. news b. paper
3 time c. table
4 pop d. corn
5 Black e. board
6 bath f. room
7 hand g. bag
8 play h. ground
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B.Use the correct words from exercise A to complete these sentences
1. Tina and Arif played on the see saw and the slide in the playground.
2. Please get me a newspaper. I would like to read India Times.
3. What did you have for breakfast? I had milk , bread and jam.
4. The brown hand bag with the golden buckle belongs to Mother.
5. We have two classes before break – time according to the time table.
PUNCTUATION
Place exclamation Mark’s (!) Or full stop(.) at the end of these sentences.
1. Oh, I think I’m lost!
2. Maya is a helpful girl.
3. What an interesting play!
4. Look at the pretty butterfly!
5. Samik wants to play carrom.
6. What a lovely painting!
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