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Let’s Write

Do you know the camel is called the ‘Ship of the Desert’? Why is it called so? Find out and

write a few lines on it.

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Vocabulary

Words with same meanings (Synonyms)

Read the given sentences and replace each highlighted word with another word from
the lesson having the same meaning.

1. John did no work, he was lazy all the time. ____________________

2. Nothing grows in the desert except thorny trees. ____________________
3. There was a meeting of teachers on Teachers’ Day. ____________________

4. When the little boy fell down, he began to scream loudly. ____________________

5. The pony galloped down the mountain. ____________________

6. I cannot ride a horse unless it has a seat for a rider on its back. ____________________

Let’s Learn Grammar

I. Animal’s Gender

The feminine gender and the masculine gender of many animals are the same. For
example, camel, crocodile, giraffe, kangaroo, etc. However, in the case of many
animals and birds, the females and males are known by different names. For example,
a male ‘sheep’ is known as ‘ram’ and the female is known as ‘ewe’ and the masculine
for ‘goose’ is ‘gander’.

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