English 5aad Activities Page (3)

Grade 5 English

Units 2-4 Complete Learning Activities

📖 Reading Comprehension

Read the following passage carefully and then answer the questions below.

Mayow's School

Mayow is a student in standard five at Qoryoley Primary School in lower Shabelle region. His school consists of nine classrooms, an office for the head teacher, one room for the teachers, a library, a mosque, a hall, and one store-room. The school has also six toilets, two for male pupils, two for female pupils, one toilet for the female teachers and one toilet for the male teachers. In addition to that there are some computers and projectors. The school has a playground and garden which is used as a science centre. There is a tool for digging in the garden.

Mayow is an active, honest and hardworking student. After he takes his breakfast, he comes to school very early. He always gets high marks among his classmates. He respects his teachers and asks them questions very politely. He has a friend in his class called Barre whom he likes very much. Both of them go together in order to help each other. Mayow is also a generous boy who shares his properties with the other students.

He learns, plays and does homework with his classmates. All students like going for assembly. When they stand in neat rows, their uniform looks beautiful. They also like to listen the wise counsel of the headteacher and the teachers. After assembly, they go to classes where their teachers call out the attendance registers. Every day, they learn many lessons according to the time-table. They then sweep their classes and go home!

1. Who is Mayow?

2. What is the name of his friend?

3. What is the name of their school?

4. What do the students like going for?

📝 Vocabulary Practice

Fill in the blank spaces with the correct words from the word bank below.

active respects marks shares together assembly rows counsel uniform primary

1. Mayow is an ______ boy.

2. He ______ his teachers.

3. He always gets high ______.

4. Mayow ______ his properties with the other students.

5. The two students are always ______.

6. All the students like going for ______.

7. In the assembly they stand in neat ______.

8. In the assembly they listen to the wise ______ of the head teacher.

9. Their ______ looks beautiful when they stand in neat rows.

10. Mayow goes to Qoryoley ______ school.

📏 Use of "same ... as"

Example:

Osman is one and a half meters tall. Ali is also one and a half meters tall.

We can say: Osman is the same height as Ali.

Rewrite these sentences using "the same ... as" pattern.

1. The water tank is five meters high. The roof is also five meters high.

2. The dam is seven meters deep. The river is also seven meters deep.

3. The string is nine meters long. The rope is also nine meters long.

4. This cow weighs 700 kilograms. That bull also weighs 700 kilograms.

5. Warsame is ten years old. Mumin is also ten years old.

⚖️ More than / Less than

Grammar Rules:

More is used before both countable and uncountable nouns.

Less is used mainly before uncountable nouns.

Examples:

There are more books on the table than on the shelf.

There is more water in the tank than in the bucket.

I earn less money than Mr Geeddi.

Complete these sentences using "more" or "less".

1. There are ______ animals in a park than in a zoo.

less more

2. There are ______ trees in the forest than in the farm.

less more

3. There is ______ water in a pond than in the sea.

less more

4. There are ______ students in a classroom than in the whole school.

less more

5. There is ______ noise in the library than in the playground.

less more

✏️ Fill in the Blanks - Comparisons

Complete these sentences with "more" or "less".

1. A bicycle has ______ wheels than a car.

2. An elephant weighs ______ than a mouse.

3. There is ______ sugar in tea than in cake.

4. A library has ______ books than a single classroom.

5. There is ______ space in a small room than in a big hall.