Lesson -15
A Secret

1.   Where do birds live?
2.   Where do they lay their eggs?
3.   Do you remember any poem on birds?

We have a secret, just we three,
The robin and I, and the sweet cherry tree.
The bird told the tree, and the tree told me, And nobody knows it but just we three.
But of course the robin knows it best,
Because she built the ....... I shan't tell the rest.
And laid the four little ........ something in it,
I am afraid I shall tell it every minute.
But if the tree and the robin don't peep,
I will try my best the secret to keep
Though I know when the little birds fly out, Then the whole secret will be out.

EXERCISES

Listen and Repeat

three 
best  
peep 
laid
tree   
rest   
keep 
afraid
free   
chest 
beep 
grade

Word Power

1.    Fill in the blank spaces using the rhyming words given below :

wrong     tree    weep

(i)   We are three under the sweet cherry tree.
(ii)   When I sing a song, I am never wrong.
(ii)   When I sleep I never weep.

2.   'g' has two different sounds: t as in ‘page’ and x as in ‘pig’. Classify the words given below accordingly.
giraffe, bridge, cage, gem, leg, gun, gate, giant, glass, gypsy, age, go, bag, grass, message, twig
Ans. -                                     
giraffe
glass
cage
gun
giant
go
age
grass
bridge
leg
gem
gate
gypsy
bag
message
twing

Comprehension
Answer the following questions:
Q.1.   Who is the speaker in the poem?
Ans. – The boy (the poet)  is the speaker in the poem.

Q.2.   Who told the secret to the boy?
Ans. – The tree told the secret to the boy.

Q.3.   In the second stanza the poet says, “And laid the four little..... something in it?” What does the poet mean by ‘four little’?
Ans. – Here ‘four little…’ mean four little eggs.

Q.4.   Who told the secret to the tree?
Ans. – The bird told the secret to the tree.

Q.5.   When will the secret be out?
Ans. – When the little birds fly out then the whole secret will be out.

Q.6.   What is the secret?
Ans. – The bird ‘robin’ built the nest on the tree and she laid four little eggs in it. This is the secret.  

Q.7.   The poet says, “Just we three.” The first one is a bird, the second one is the poet himself, Who is the third one?
Ans. – The third one is the sweet cherry tree.

Let's Read

Read the poem carefully:

The leaves said, “It's spring,
And here are we,
Opening and stretching
On every tree.”
The leaves said, " It's summer
Each bird has a nest,
We make the shadow
Where they can rest
The leaves said, “It’s autumn,
Aren’t we all gay?”
Scarlet and golden
And russet were they.
The leaves said, “It’s winter,
Weary are we.”
So they lay down and slept
Under the tree.

Now Answer the following questions:

 (i)   What did the leaves say in the spring?
Ans. –The leaves said that in spring season they opened and stretched on very tree.

(ii)   In which season do birds make nests in the trees?
Ans. – In summer season, the birds make nests in the trees.

(iii)   What did the leaves say in the autumn?
Ans. – The leaves said in the autumn that they were not in gay. They were scarlet, golden and russet.

(iv)   What happened to the leaves in the winter?
Ans. – In the winter the leaves fell down under the tree.

(v)   Give an appropriate title to the poem.
Ans. – ‘The various moods of the leaves’ is the suitable title to describe it in at least five to six sentences.


Let's Write

Look at the picture given with the poem "A secret" carefully and describe it in at least five to six sentences.
Ans. –
(1)  The boy is under the tree
(2)  He is watching the bird
(3)  The bird is silently sit in the forks of the tree
(4)  The tree is full of green leaves.
(5)  The tree, bird and the boy are good friend.

Let's do it

Find out a poem on birds or trees and write it in your notebook. Visit your library for this purpose.
Students do themselves.