Class 6 - L15 - A Nickel's Worth of Fun

15. A Nickel’s Worth of Fun

Word Meanings

Nickel (निकल) = अमेरिका और कनाडा में 5 सेंट (वहाँ का पैसा) का सिक्का

Present (प्रेजेंट) = उपहार

Breath (ब्रेथ) = साँस

Laugh (लाफ) = हँसना

Dime (डाइम) = अमेरिका और कनाडा में 10 सेंट ((वहाँ का पैसा) का सिक्का

Cost (कॉस्ट) = लागत, कीमत   

Sign (साइन) = संकेत

Marked down (मार्क्ड डाउन) = कम कीमत पर

Crushed (क्रश्ड) = मसला हुआ या दबा हुआ

Loaf (लोफ) = पाव-रोटी

Lake (लेक) = झील

Crowd (क्राउड) = भीड़ 

Reading Comprehension

Answer the following questions:

1. Who found a nickel?

Answer – Jerry found a nickel.

2. Who were Jerry and Bruce?

Answer – Jerry and Bruce were friends.

3. What did Jerry want to do for his little sister?

Answer – Jerry wanted to buy a birthday present for his little sister with the nickel that he found.

4. Why did his friend laugh at him?

Answer – His friend laughed at him because Jerry said that now he could buy a birthday present for his little sister with the nickel. Bruce told that a nickel was not worth much to buy a present.

5. Why couldn’t Jerry buy a gift for his sister from the toy store & the dime store?

Answer – Jerry couldn’t buy a gift for sister from the toy store and the dime store because everything cost more than a nickel.

6. What did he decide to buy for his sister on her birthday?

Answer – He decided to buy a crushed loaf of bread for his sister on her birthday.

7. Did his sister accept the gift?

Answer – Yes, his sister accepted the gift.

8. What did Sally do with the gift?

Answer – Sally took some bread and broke it into little bits. She began to throw them into the water to feed the ducks.

9. Pick out the sentence that shows that Jerry and his sister knew the ducks?

Answer – The sentence that shows that Jerry and his sister knew the ducks is “She could not remember ever before having so much bread to feed the ducks.”

10. Do you think Jerry was clever enough to buy a loaf as a gift? Why?

Answer – Yes, Jerry was clever enough to buy a loaf as a gift. With just a nickel he bought a special gift for her sister which she liked so much.

Vocabulary

1. Complete the following web with the names of some gifts that one may receive or give on a birthday.

2. Make a list of the things you want to buy from the shops given in the columns.

Toy shop	Fruit shop	Stationery shop
Car – Truck - Plane	Mango	Book
Doll – Doll House	Orange	Notebook
Bat-Ball Set	Grape	Pen-Pencil
Board Games	Apple	Geometry Box
Building Set	Banana	Colouring Set

3. Complete the following phrases by choosing suitable words from the box. You can use the words with more phrases than one.

butter, soap, sugar, cloth, paper, water, juice, ink, cake, ice, milk, biscuits , toffees, chalk, chocolate.

A sheet of paper.

A piece of paper, chalk, cloth, cake.

A drop of water, milk, juice.

A bar of soap, chocolate.

A tin of milk.

A cake of soap, cake.

A slice of bread, cake, butter.

A cube of sugar, ice.

A packet of biscuits, toffees, chocolates.

A lump of sugar, toffees.

A bottle of ink, water, milk, juice.

Grammar

Separate the words given in the box in the previous exercise into the following columns.

Things we can count	Things we can’t count
soap cloth paper cake biscuits toffees chalk chocolate	butter sugar water juice ink ice milk

Note: The things which we can count are called countable nouns. The things which we cannot count are called uncountable nouns.

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