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Let’s Begin
FOR SAMPLE ONLY
A. Look at the picture
and guess the
answers to these
questions:

1. Where is the old man
going?
2. What is the girl doing?
3. How old is the girl?

B. Do you like flowers?
When you see some
beautiful flowers,

what would you do? Pick it up or tender with care?

Let’s Read

A New Flower

- Ruskin Bond
It was the first day of Spring (according to the Hindu calendar), but here
in the Himalayas, it still seemed mid-winter. A cold wind hummed and
whistled through the pines, while dark rain clouds were swept along by

the west wind only to be thrust back by the east wind.

I was climbing the steep road to my cottage at the top of the hill when I
was overtaken by nine-year-old Usha hurrying back from school. She had
tied a scarf round her head to keep her hair from blowing. Dark hair and
eyes, and pink cheeks, were all accentuated by the patches of snow still
lying on the hillside.

‘’Look,’’ she said, pointing. ‘’A new flower!’’

It was a single, butter-yellow blossom, and it stood out like a bright star

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