Worksheet – Unit 8 & Unit 9
Class 4 | Subject: English (Marigold) | NCERT
Unit 8: A Watering Rhyme & The Giving Tree
Unit 9: Books & Going to Buy a Book
Section A: Comprehension
1. Answer the following questions:
(a) From "A Watering Rhyme," when is the best time to water the plants?
(b) What message do we learn from "The Giving Tree"?
(c) In the poem "Books," what does the poet say about books?
(d) In "Going to Buy a Book," where did the children go to buy books?
(e) How did the bookseller help the children in selecting books?
2. Fill in the blanks with words from the lessons:
_(a) The best time to water plants is ___________.
(b) The tree in the story "The Giving Tree" was very ___________.
(c) The poet calls books our ___________ in the poem "Books."
(d) The children wanted to buy books of their own ___________.
(e) The bookseller showed them books of different _________.
Section B: Grammar
3. Identify and underline the nouns in the given sentences:
(a) The tree gave apples to the boy.
(b) The children visited a bookstore.
(c) Books are our best friends.
(d) Watering the plants is important for their growth.
(e) The boy sat under the tree for rest.
4. Fill in the blanks with correct prepositions (in, on, under, near, behind):
(a) The book is kept __________ the table.
(b) The tree stood __________ the river.
(c) The boy sat __________ the tree’s shade.
(d) The bookshop is __________ the park.
(e) The books were arranged __________ the shelf.
5. Change the following into past tense:
(a) The boy climbs the tree.
(b) The children go to the bookstore.
(c) The bookseller shows them books.
(d) The boy takes the apples.
(e) The tree gives its branches.
Section C: Spelling
6. Circle the correctly spelled words:
(a) friend / freind / frend
(b) knolage / knowledge / knoladge
(c) watering / wattering / wataring
(d) bookshop / booksop / bokshop
(e) greedy / greddy / greadee
7. Rearrange the jumbled letters to form correct words:
(a) oesttrbko ()
(b) etarw ()
(c) arenchidl ()
(d) rreegivn ()
(e) gdrreey (________)
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Answer Key
(To be used by the teacher or for self-checking)
Section A: Comprehension
1. (a) In the morning or evening.
(b) The importance of giving and selflessness.
(c) Books are our best friends and always give knowledge.
(d) To a bookshop.
(e) By showing different types of books.
2. (a) morning or evening
(b) generous
(c) best friends
(d) choice
(e) kinds
Section B: Grammar
3. Nouns: (tree, apples, boy, children, bookstore, books, plants, growth, shade, rest)
4. (a) on
(b) near
(c) under
(d) near
(e) on
5. (a) The boy climbed the tree.
(b) The children went to the bookstore.
(c) The bookseller showed them books.
(d) The boy took the apples.
(e) The tree gave its branches.
Section C: Spelling
6. (a) friend
(b) knowledge
(c) watering
(d) bookshop
(e) greedy
7. (a) bookstore
(b) water
(c) children
(d) forgiving
(e) greedy
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