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de Easy-9, RCOMPANION Ma |, i“ ona long wooden rafter at Kitty, , achine stood Te Wright and Wilbur Wright had, , lina. Orvil I, | combustion ¢, , 1903: A two-winged m, Hawk dunes in North Caro :, made this craft. A small intern, , Is through long bic! a ‘, pesigted pal ve nd denly lifted and started flying in the air,, on, it surg, , Glossary: i, i i nings :, Match the words with their meaning:, a. aviation 1. compartment for the pilot of an aircraft., b. hanger 2. umbrella shaped apparatus used for descent, , form an aircraft., . Tunway a building in which aeroplanes are kept., . cockpit flight recorder., , revolving shaft with blades for driving a plane., , Ave’, , c, d, e. parachute, f., , . black box specially prepared surface for taking off and, , landing of aircraft., 8. propeller 7. the science or practice of flying aircraft., (Answers: a-7; b - 3; c-6; d-1; e-2; f - 4; g-5), C I. Answer the following questions:, , 1. Which book took the author into ‘A dream of flight? ?, Ans, The book ‘The Invention of th, , by Charles H. Gibbs Smith took the author into ‘A dream of, flight’., , - Where did the author find the book?, , Ans. The author found this book amidst a h, eap of |, volumes in an old book shop. P of leather found, , 3. What did the book explain?, Ans. The book ex, , aes’, , , , ngine turned a pair of —, bicycle chains. When turned , € Aeroplane 1799-1909? written
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Ans., , Ans., , Ans., , cil., , Ans., , , , Ans., , Ans,, , English-l, , . How was the bird man dressed to fly?, , The man had tied himself with bat like wings made from wood, and cloth, covered with birds’ feathers., , . What happened to the birdman when he jumped from, , the tower?, , The birdman flexed his shoulders and beating his arms fast,, jumped from the tower. Instead of flying in the sky as he perpen, he would, he tumbled down and crashed on the ground an, died., , - Who were the. first ariel passengers?, , A sheep, a hen and a duck were the first air passengers who, travelled in a hot air balloon in France in the year 1783 AD., , Answer the following questions :, , - Describe the balloon in which first ariel passengers flew., , A mammoth globular fabric with its bottom open and decorated, with colourful motifs was tied all around with thick ropes. Flames, leapt high from a huge pile of burning wood, sending hot air into, the sphere. Once it was filled. with hot air, the ropes were cut, off. The crowd at the. market square the town of Annonay in, France watched open mouthed as the spherical balloon started, , flying upwards and drifted across the sky witha sheep, a hen, and a duck as ‘its passengers., , The Wright brothers had invented a two, , Wright -winged machine, took it to Kitty Hawk Dunes in North Carolina for testing, Onville, , 187
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SUPER COMPANION Made Easy -9, , C3.1., , Ans., , ‘Ans., , Ans., , Ans., , - List out the persons from, attempts to fly?, , i i bottom wing. A small internal, ne in the middle over the om 1, 2 aationéaeie by his side turned a pair of two eae, wheels through long bicycle chains. Wilbur pt ee, rope holding the machine and it slugged forwar moving ‘, 12 miles per hour and suddenly the machine flew up an, continued its flight in the air., , ‘Man had at last derived a contraction with which he, , could Jaunch himself from a hill and glide down to the:, , ground.’, (a) Who had made this contraption?, , Sir. George Coyly had made this contraption., (b) How did it work?, , He had made a boat shaped contraption with wheels at, the bottom and having a big wing shaped like the wood of, a snake. Four triangular surfaces in the form of a cross, were at the back supported by a wooden frame. He took, the vehicle atop a hill and pushed it down, while rolling, , down, it gathered speed and started floating in the air ad, touched down on the other side of the valley., , the lesson who made brave, , In 1496 AD, many men had attempted to ft, them like birdmen but could not succeed. _, , In 1783 AD, three animals —, sent in a hot air balloon in Fr., In] 853 AD, Sir George Coyly built a contra;, for sometime before touching down, ', , In 1891 AD, Otto Lilienthal bui, , In 1903 AD, the Wright B, for a while., , y by tying wings on, , a sheep, a hen and a duck were, ance,, , ption which floated, , What does the lesson inspire you to do?, , The lesson inspires us Not to take failure into, , : account butkeep —_, on trying until we succeed. 2, , ve
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SUPER COMPANION Made Easy - 9, , , , v3. Complete the following table :, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , No. | Words Noun | Adjective |Verb Adverb, 1.]secure security secure secure securely, 4 — loose loose loose loosely, 3. | thank thanks thankful | thank thankfully, 4.|conversa- | conversa- | conserva - |converse- conversa, tion tion - tional tionally, 5.|move movement | moveable |move move, , , , , , , , , , , , Semantic mapping, , v4. What are all the words which come to your mind when, you think of the following words?, , 1. space (a) sky (b) stars (e) room, (c) planets (d) vast (e) workers, 2. factory (a) machines (b) production (e) homework/, games, (c) noise (d) smoke (e) turn over, 3. school (a) students (b) teachers (e) cpu, (c) classrooms (d) lessons (e) fish 4. business (a) transaction (b) money, (c) trade (d) work, 5. computer (a) key board (b) mouse, (c) screen (d) mother board, 6. river (a) water (b) flow, (c) flood (d) natural, V5. Suffixes, Suffix Meaning Example, , Your Example, -er/or A person, , player, teacher actor, helper, writer, “ful fullof helpful, needful joyful, careful,, . watchful, -logy subject of Study Psychology, Biology Sociology, Theology,, a Nephrology, ‘less without ‘fearless, endless meaningless, useless,, colourless ,, , -ly makes an adverb eagerly,, , normally boldly, neatly, loudly :, from an adjective :, , 190 j
