HEALTHY LIFE – UNIT – I
– Pedro Pablo Sacristan
ಸಹಕಾರ : ಕು. ರಂಜನಾ ಕೃಷ್ಣ ಭಂಡಾರಿ, (ಸಹಶಿಕ್ಷಕರು, GPT English), ಸ.ಹಿ.ಪ್ರಾ.ಶಾಲೆ, ಹುಲ್ಕುತ್ರಿ.
1. Many years ago, everyone was strong and healthy. They ate varieties of food and loved fruits and vegetables. They took daily exercises and enjoyed walking, running, playing and leaping about. The earth was the healthiest place you could imagine, and it was clear that both adults and children were full of joy and were in good moods.
2. All this made one of the witches furious. She suggested that all the witches should come together to prepare a potion. One who drinks it would lose the desire to live. So, that night all the witches gathered in the forest. They all needed to put all their energy to make the potion, which would have a powerful spell on people. During the collection of energy, one of the witches made a mistake in uttering the words. As a result, there was a big explosion. It was so big that it completely destroyed the forest.
3. As a result, it turned all the witches into tiny creatures like germs. They were trapped in liquid in a small bottle which was lying in a swamp. One day a little boy found this bottle. Thinking it contained a nice new drink, he swallowed it fully. The germ-like witches took advantage of this situation. Though they could not physically harm anyone, they learned to change the boy’s likes and dislikes. In a few days a funny feeling started in the boy’s mouth. He no longer wanted to eat vegetables, fruits and good food. All he wanted to do was to ask for pizza, burger and wait for them at home. He wasted his time waiting for food from hotels or restaurants and watching television, eating ice cream and chips.
4. No longer did he enjoy fruits and vegetables. He did not feel like walking, running and playing with his friends. Eventually, he stopped going out of the house and was sitting or lying about. He started feeling ill. Before long he had no desire to do anything. The evil potion had worked! And the worst thing of all was that the witches had learnt to jump from one person to another like virus. They managed to turn the effect of the potion into one of the worst diseases – the disease of wasting life.
5. It was a long while before, with the help of his microscope, Doctor Fitton-Healthy discovered that the little witches were causing this disease. There were no vaccines or cough
mixtures to get rid of them. The doctor found out that the witches could not tolerate joy and
good health. It turned out that the best cure was to make a strong effort to live a healthy,
joyful and happy life. When a person became healthy, the witches had to leave that body as
soon as they could, riding off on a sneeze!
6. From then on, the best remedy was neither pills nor injections, but just a little bit of effort to eat some fruits and vegetables, and to do some exercise. Whoever came to see Doctor Fitton-Healthy and took his advice, ended up totally well, being cured of the wasting life disease.
New Words :
Health – to stay fit both mentally and physically (ಆರೋಗ್ಯ)
leaping – jump
Imagine – visualize (ಕಲ್ಪಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳು)
uttering – pronounce, speak (ಉಚ್ಛಾರ)
Grammar :
The Noun : Number
Number : A word which indicates whether a noun is singular or plural is known as number.
Kinds of Numbers : A noun has two numbers :
1) The singular number : A noun which denotes one person or thing is known as singular number.
Example – tree, box, cow, book.
2) The plural number : A noun which denotes more than one person or thing is known as plural number.
Example – trees, boxes, cows, books.
How to form plurals ?
1) Adding ‘s’ to the singular.
Kite – Kites
Day – Days
State – States
Balloon – Balloons
2) Adding ‘es’ to the word ending with ch, s, ss, sh, x, o.
Batch – Batches
Bus – Buses
Class – Classes
Brush – Brushes
Fox – Foxes
Mango – Mangoes
3) Adding ‘ies’ to the nouns ending with ‘y’ and which have a consonant form.
Copy – Copies
Baby – Babies
City – Cities
Family – Families,
But ‘s’ is add to the singular, if the ‘y’ comes after a vowel.
Joy – Joys
Monkey – Monkeys
Key – Keys
Toy – Toys
4) Adding ‘ves’ to the nouns ending with ‘f’ or ‘fe’
Calf – Calves
Knife – Knives
Shelf – Shelves
Wolf – Wolves
5) Some nouns form their plural by vowel Change.
Man – Men
Woman – Women
Foot – Feet
Tooth – Teeth
Ox – Oxen
Mouse – Mice
Child – Children
6) Some nouns have the same form for singular and plural.
Deer – Deer
Sheep – Sheep
Opposite Words :
day X night
more X less
advantage X disadvantage
long X short
sad X happy
save X waste
light X dark