Q1.
Listen to your teacher read out the following passage and choose the correct option. — A Day without Water
Answer
How this task works: your teacher reads the passage aloud while you listen. Your ears do the work, not your eyes. Then you answer the five questions.
Here is the passage that is printed on pages 74 and 75, so you can check yourself afterwards.
A Day without Water
One hot summer morning, Suma woke up and went to brush her teeth. But when she turned on the tap, no water came out! She was surprised. Her mother said, “There’s no water in the tank. The whole area has no water today.”
Suma quickly realised how difficult it was to live without water. She couldn’t brush her teeth, wash her face, or take a bath. In the kitchen, there was no water to cook food or clean the dishes. At school, the toilets were closed, very little drinking water was available, and the children were told to bring water bottles from home.
Suma saw that people in her neighbourhood were upset. Some ran to the nearby shop to buy water bottles, while others waited near a water tanker that came from another place. Everyone looked worried.
That evening, the water was finally restored. Suma felt very happy and promised herself that she would never waste water again. She decided to tell her friends how precious water is.
Suma’s school also announced a Water Conservation Week. They planned activities like poster-making, planting trees, and even a water-saving competition. Suma and her friends made posters with slogans like ‘Save Every Drop’ and ‘No Water, No Life.’
After this experience, Suma understood how important water tanks and water-saving habits are. She asked her parents to set up a rainwater harvesting system at home. Her parents agreed happily.
One hot summer morning, Suma woke up and went to brush her teeth. But when she turned on the tap, no water came out! She was surprised. Her mother said, “There’s no water in the tank. The whole area has no water today.”
Suma quickly realised how difficult it was to live without water. She couldn’t brush her teeth, wash her face, or take a bath. In the kitchen, there was no water to cook food or clean the dishes. At school, the toilets were closed, very little drinking water was available, and the children were told to bring water bottles from home.
Suma saw that people in her neighbourhood were upset. Some ran to the nearby shop to buy water bottles, while others waited near a water tanker that came from another place. Everyone looked worried.
That evening, the water was finally restored. Suma felt very happy and promised herself that she would never waste water again. She decided to tell her friends how precious water is.
Suma’s school also announced a Water Conservation Week. They planned activities like poster-making, planting trees, and even a water-saving competition. Suma and her friends made posters with slogans like ‘Save Every Drop’ and ‘No Water, No Life.’
After this experience, Suma understood how important water tanks and water-saving habits are. She asked her parents to set up a rainwater harvesting system at home. Her parents agreed happily.
How to listen well — four things to do:
- Before the teacher begins, read the five questions once. Then you know what to listen for.
- While listening, keep your pencil down and just listen. Look at the teacher, not at the page.
- Catch the order of events. This passage moves through one day: morning at home → the day at school → the neighbourhood → evening → afterwards.
- Listen for the words that carry the answer — surprised, bottles, tanker, promised, poster-making, rainwater harvesting.
Two words from the passage: restored means brought back — the water started coming again. Rainwater harvesting means catching the rain that falls on the roof and storing it instead of letting it run away.
What the passage is really saying: Suma only learns how precious water is on the day she has none. Nobody thinks about the tank on the roof until the tap runs dry. That is the whole lesson of this unit, told as one girl’s day.