Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world.
Do you know where the highest place in the world is?
It’s the top of Mount Everest , which stands between Tibet and Nepal, in Asia.
But how do we know that Everest is the tallest mountain in the world?
It is not an easy job to measure the height of a mountain.
Since a mountain rises up out of the land, we must measure the height of the land as well.
To do that we must go to where the land begins, that is, where the sea touches the shore.
When we measure a mountain in this way, we are measuring from sea level. All the land in the world is either above or below sea level.
The top of Mount Everest is 8848 meters above sea level.
(A) Vocabulary
Use the following words in sentences of your own , so as to bring out the meaning of the word.
Highest – having height, rising up, the one which has the most height (adjective)
Tallest – higher than the average, having the greatest height ( adjective )
Shore – land at the edge of a sea, river, lake or any other water body (noun)
Measure – to find the size or amount of anything (verb)
(B) Write the height of Mount Everest in words.
(C) A Poem
My Mouse Timmy
My mouse Timmy runs everywhere.
Here and there and under the chair.
My mom screams when she sees my mouse.
She always throws him out of the house.
He creeps behind the kitchen door.
And runs across the kitchen floor.
Then back inside and through the hall.
He runs up and down the bedroom wall.
In front of the dresser and on the bed.
He falls asleep next to my head.
Ouch!
(D) Prepositions.
A word the shows certain relations between two words
For example: My mouse is In the cheese. (In is a preposition)
My mouse is behind the cheese. (behind is a preposition)
In the poem above, please identify five words that are prepositions. Please make sentences with the 5 prepositions.
(E) Can you find 5 verbs in the above poem?
Please make sentences with them