3.1 why? question answers
3.1 Why? Chit Chat
WARMING UP
CHIT-CHAT
(1) Why do we ask questions?
Ans: We ask questions to get information and knowledge. sometimes we don't.
(2) Do we get answers to all questions?
Ans: Most of the times we get answers to our questions but
(3) How are questions useful in our life?
Ans: Questions help us to think and improve our knowledge.
(4) Do we think critically, without questions?
Ans: No, we don't.
(5) Which five 'Wh words are used to frame questions?
Ans: Why, What, When, Where, Which, Who, How, Whose, Whom.
(1) Many WHY? questions of your childhood must have been answered by now. Yet you may want to know the 'WHY' of many facts. Write down 5 such questions based on reason/cause. One is done for you.
For example: Why do penguins live only in Polar region?
- Why does a rainbow appear?
- Why does the stars shine?
- Why does it hail?
- Why we are so smart?
- Why the desert is so hot?
(2) Insert the proper question words to complete the questions to get the expected answer given in the bracket.
(How / When / Where What Who Whose / Which / Why)
(1) What is the capital of Maharashtra ?
(Mumbai)
(2) Where is your school located?
(On S.B. Road)
(3) When is your examination going to begin?
(Next Monday)
(4) How does the old man walk?
(Slowly)
(5) Which colour is your favourite?
(Blue)
(6) Who teaches you English?
(Mrs Ashwini Patil)
(7) Why are you late to school?
(My bicycle got punctured on my way to school.)
(8) Whose pen have you borrowed?
(Aman's pen)
3.1 Why? English Workshop
English Workshop
1. Read the poem, discuss and complete the following blanks with proper action words. (Verb)
- wood - swim
- sun - sinks
- rain - falls
- marbles - sink
- flowers - die
- ice - melt
- stars - shine
- winds - blow
- ocean - ebbs and flows.
- bees - sting
- fish - have gills/respirate/swim
2. Discuss in pairs and write the rhyming pairs of words from the poem.
(1) why-by
(2) sink - drink
(3) sky - die
(4) nose-flows
(5) fly-sky
(6) stone-bone
(7) flies - rise
(8) try-why
3. Why this, Why that, Why then, Why now, Why not, Why by-and-by? In these two lines the word 'why' is repeated, so it is a Figure of Speech called Repetition.
Repetition: It is a Figure of Speech in which one or more words are repeated in the same sentence. Example: Son, son it gives me a great joy.
Now, find out the lines from the poem which show Repetition.
Ans: (1) He wants to know why wood should swim, Why lead and marbles sink;
(2) Why stars should shine and winds should blow, And why we eat and drink.
(3) Why sinks the sun behind the hills, And why the flowers die.
(4) Why pop-guns should go pop and why The ocean ebbs and flows.
(5)He wants to know why fish have gills, And why boys cannot fly;
(6) Why bees should sting and why the yeast Should make the dough to rise.
4. Complete the web diagram.




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