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Practice each question, then open the answer or worked solution.
What are the games or human activities which use trees, or in which trees also ‘participate’?
Answer: The games or human activities which use trees or in which trees also participate are the following:
(i) “Trees are to make no shade in winter.” What does this mean? (Contrast this line with the line immediately before it.)
(ii) “Trees are for apples to grow on, or pears.” Do you agree that one purpose of a tree is to have fruit on it? Or do you think this line is humorous?
Answer: (i) Trees provide shade during the scorching summer. During winter, trees shed their leaves as people enjoy the sun during winters. Hence, trees are to make no shade in winter.
(ii) Yes, I agree that one purpose of a tree is to provide fruits and eatables. Humans receive a lot of eatables from trees.
With the help of your partner, try to rewrite some lines in the poem or add new ones of your own, as in the following examples.
Trees are for birds to build nests in.
Trees are for people to sit under.
Now try to compose a similar poem about water, or air.
Answer: Air is for people to breathe in.
Air is for kites to fly high in the sky.
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