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Lesson-2

  A Feat on Feet

Class 5

Let’s find out:

What happened on May 29, 1953? Follow the given sequence and describe:

4a.m - Hillary and Norgay awake and got ready for their climb.

6.30a.m - Hillary and Norgay left the camp. 

11.30a.m - Hillary and Norgay reached at the summit of Mt. Everest.

11.45a.m - Hillary and Norgay coming down from the summit.

Find out the names of glaciers from the route-map of Hillary and Tenzing.

1 . East Rongbuk Glacier 

2. Kangshiling Glacier

3. Khumbu Glacier

Arrange the glaciers from north to south. 

1 . East Rongbuk Glacier

2. Khumbu Glacier

3. Kangshiling Glacier

Let’s answer the following question:

1 . Who was the leader of the British Everest expedition of 1953?

   Ans: Colonel john Hunt was the leader of the British Everest expedition of 1953.

2 . How many climbers were chosen for the expedition?

   Ans: Eleven climbers were chosen for the expedition.

3 . How many climbers got the chance to climb to the top?

   Ans: Only four climbers got the chance to climb to the top.

4 . Who were the members of the first team?

   Ans: Tom Bourdillon and Charles Evans were the members of the first team.  

Let’s complete the following sentences:

1. The oldest woman to climb Mt. Everest is Anna Czerwinska.
2. She climbed at the age of 50.
3. The youngest Indian to climb Mt. Everest is Arjun Vajpai.
4. He climbed on May 20, 2011.

(Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay, Colonel Hunt, Mt. Everest, China, boots, glacier, India, rope.)

Now classify the nouns and fill in the table.

Name of Person :   Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay, Colonel Hunt    

Name of Place :  India,  Mt. Everest, China        

Name of Things : boots, glacier, rope 

Let’s classify the following words into Common Nouns and proper Nouns:   

Pinky, Ravi, Soyuz T-11, Mother, Rakesh, Kalpana, Columbia, India, USA, Haryana, California, Barun, Osman, Space, book.

 Proper Noun : Pinky, columbia, Ravi, Space, India, USA, soyuz T-11,                                                                           Book, Haryana, Rakesh, California, Kalpana, Barun, Osman 

Common Noun :    Mother, space, book

Let’s Identify the words signifying masculine and feminine gender in the passage:                             

Once upon a time, there lived a powerful king. He had a beautiful garden. In it, there were flowers trees beside a lake. Bees came and sat on the flowers. Peacocks danced in the garden. A goose swam in the lake. Drones flew about in the garden. The queen loved the garden. In the evening, she sat there and watched the peahens picking at the grains. A gander glided on the water.

Write the Masculine gender with the corresponding Feminine Gender in the table.

Masculine Gender :   King, peacock, gander, drone 

Feminine Gender :  queen, peahen, 

Masculine Gender : peacock

Feminine Gender : peahen

Masculine Gender : gander

Feminine Gender : goose

Masculine Gender : drone 

Feminine Gender : bee

Write five sentences describing the route map of Tenzing and Hillary.

1. Hillary and Tenzing started their final climb at 6.30a.m.
2. They crossed Pokalda peak to reach Khumbu Glacier.
3. Then they came to Lho pass.
4. After that they crossed Western Cwm.
5. Finally they reached the summit of Mt. Everest at 11.30a.m