Science has changed our life. Science is very useful to us. Science has helped us invent many useful things.All the electric and electronic machines, like fans, lights, desert coolers, air-conditioners, television, mixers, refrigerators, room- heaters and geysers, are the inventions of science.Science has helped us invent many medicines.These medicines cure our diseases.Trains, cars, buses, aeroplanes, […]

I went to the local bus-stand yesterday.I had gone there to see my aunt off. I saw many buses there. Some buses were coming; others were going.The bus stand was full of passengers.Some people were filling drinking water in their bottles. Some were having their food.The hawkers were selling food, clothes, eatables, cold drinks, water,

Bubbly was a brown grizzly bear.He loved honey.One day, Bubbly saw honeycombs on an oak tree and his mouth watered.The big, bad wolf always warned Bubbly in a scary tone, “Bees sting.”Bubbly sat under the tree and thought for a while.Banta, the monkey, jumped down, “Hey Bubbly, are you in deep thoughts?”Bubbly was sad and

Seven brothers lived together in a house.Six of them worked hard but the youngest was always lazy.His brothers were not at all pleased with him.They advised him many times to do some useful work, but he did not do anything.He just ate, slept, and wandered about.One day, the eldest brother was very angry with his

We have a housemaid.Her name is Kamla.She does most of the chores of our house.She also works in some other houses of our neighbourhood.She lives in a hut at some distance from our house.She comes early in the morning.She cleans our vessels and washes our clothes.She sweeps and mops the floor.She dusts the furniture.She sometimes

The tiger is a wild animal.It belongs to the cat family.It is our national animal.It lives in a forest.We can also see tigers in zoos.The tiger has a furcoat of golden colour.There are long, black stripes on its furcoat.It has two bright eyes.It has very sharp teeth.It hunts animals, like deer, buffaloes and zebras, for

Our Earth is made of land and water.More than half of the Earth is water.There is air around the Earth.We grow our food on land.We build houses on land.Trains and other vehicles move on land.Flat land is called a plain. Most people live and grow crops on the plains.At some places the land is high.We

A cobbler mends shoes.We buy new shoes from a shoe shop.After some time, the shoes get damaged.Then they need some mending.We go to a cobbler to get them mended.He mends our shoes carefully.He polishes them.He makes them look like new.The mended shoes can be used for some more time.He saves us a lot of money.He

We have a small kitchen garden in our house.We grow vegetables and fruits in our kitchen garden.Some of the fruits that we grow are guavas, pomegranates and papayas.I water these plants regularly.We grow vegetables according to the season.Some of the vegetables we grow in the kitchen garden are cauliflowers, cabbages, ladies’ fingers, brinjals, tomatoes and

E.S. Satajit has been giving discourses since he was a little boy.A child prodigy, he gave a ten-day 15 minute- session on ‘Alwargal Vaibhavam’ at Gugai in Salem when he was only four years old.A student of Standard V in Malaviya Nursery and Primary school in Azhwar Tirunagiri village, the birth-place of Nammazhwar, Satajit is

During the winter vacation, Mhonbeni had gone to stay with her grandmother at the latter’s village. As the vacations were coming to an end, her grandmother decided to take her for an outing to Anunga River. Once there, they caught some fish and cooked their meal. Before having the lunch, her grandmother went to wash

Anand and Anu walk to school.They follow the safety rules.They walk on the footpath.They walk on the right side of the road.They cross the road carefully.They wait for the traffic to stop. They wait at the zebra crossing.They look right, then left, then right again.Only when the road is clear, do they cross the road.Rohan

Hundreds of years ago, Man had to walk to go from one place to another.Later, he used animals to pull carriages and carts.Then cars and trains were invented.Today we have many means of transport.Here are some modern means of transport.When we have to travel a long distance, we use trains.Some buses too are used to

Water is essential to us.We cannot live without water.There is much water on Earth.The Earth is made up of three parts of water and one part of land.We have oceans, rivers, seas, lakes, ponds and wells.We also get water from rain.But we cannot drink the water of oceans and seas because it is salty.We use

Trees are big plants.They have hard and strong stems.A banyan tree is a big plant.Trees have many hard branches which grow close to the ground.Shurbs are small plants.Rose and cotton are shrubs.Herbs are very small plants. They have soft stems. Grass and mint are herbs.Climbers are plants with weak stems. They need support to stand