The Cherry Tree

VOCABULARY DRILLING

cherry - a small soft round fruit with shiny red or black skin and a large seed inside

Activity/Game (Oak and Deodar)

Bring some of the image ( cut out picture) of trees which are worshiped.

Remember the name of various trees worshipped in the name of God and Goddesses. Memory test will be conducted in the classroom tomorrow.

Activity/Game (maize and rice and barley)

Remember the various food crops for  a memory test tomorrow ( game of memory test)

terraced - (of a slope or the side of a hill) having a series of flat areas of ground like steps cut into it

a terraced garden

a terraced hillside

promptly - adv. - without delay

She deals with all the correspondence promptly and efficiently.

charcoal - a black substance made by burning wood slowly in an oven with little air. Charcoal is used as a fuel or for drawing.

beans - a seed from a coffee plant, or some other plants

cocoa/coffee beans

Siberia - find it in school Atlas at home and present in the class

twig - a small, very thin branch that grows out of a larger branch on a bush or tree

fetch - to go to where somebody/something is and bring them/it back

The inhabitants have to walk a mile to fetch water.

ii. to be sold for a particular price/sell for

The painting is expected to fetch $10 000 at auction.

now and then - idiom - from time to time; occasionally

ferns - a plant with large attractive leaves and no flowers that grows in wet areas or is grown in a pot. There are many types of fern.

dripped - (+ adv./prep.) (of liquid) to fall in small drops

She was hot and sweat dripped into her eyes.

Water was dripping down the walls.

curling up - to form or make something form into a curly shape

The paper started to shrivel and curl up in the heat.


  • PART - II

  • blossom - enlarge imagea flower or a mass of flowers, especially on a fruit tree or bush

    cherry/orange/apple blossom

    The trees are in blossom.

    She loved the spring, when the blossom was out.

    stride - to walk with long steps in a particular direction

    creep across - to move slowly, quietly and carefully, because you do not want to be seen or heard

    I crept up the stairs, trying not to wake my parents.

    I heard someone creeping around the house.