MAK LABS — Std 5 English Chapter 28 All about Money

1Write a short note on 'money'.

Money is something we all need to buy things and to pay people who work for us. Today, money is used in the form of coins and paper notes, which are printed by the government. Before coins and notes were invented, people used a system called 'barter', where they exchanged goods like grain or cattle for other things they needed. Later, they used stones, shells, salt, and precious metals like gold and silver. Paper money was first used in China around 1000 years ago. Since people work hard to earn it, we must handle notes carefully and spend money wisely.

2Look at the diagram on page 68. It is called a tree diagram because it has 'branches'. Now read the following and draw a tree diagram to show this information.

This is a diagram-drawing activity. You can draw it in your notebook. Here is how the information about living things is structured in the form of a tree diagram:

Things in our surroundings
- Non-living things
- Living things
  - Plants
    - Flowering plants
    - Non-flowering plants
  - Animals
    - Oviparous animals (lay eggs)
    - Viviparous animals (give birth to young ones)

3Make meaningful sentences from the following table. Now try joining the sentences in the two columns using (1) and, (2) because.

Meaningful sentences joined using 'but':

She was tired but she finished her homework.
She wanted to buy a car but she had no money.
He was angry but he did not fight.
He did not know the answer but he did not copy his friend's answer.
They did not have money but they lived happily.
He did not read the book but he knew the story.

Meaningful sentences joined using 'and':

She was tired and she wanted to sleep.
He was angry and he started to shout.

Meaningful sentences joined using 'because':

She wanted to buy a car because she had to travel far every day.
He did not read the book because he did not have the time.

4Ask your parents or other grown ups to show you some used notes. Observe them carefully. Have they been used properly? Write your observations.

This is a personal observation activity. Check the notes and write what you see.

I observed a used ten-rupee note and a hundred-rupee note shown by my father. The hundred-rupee note was in good condition; it was crisp, clean, and folded neatly. However, the ten-rupee note had not been used properly. It was very crumpled, the edges were slightly torn, and someone had scribbled a phone number on it with a blue pen. We should handle paper money with more care.

5Write an autobiography of a hundred-rupee note. (8-10 lines.)

Autobiography of a Hundred-Rupee Note

I am a crisp, new hundred-rupee note. I was born in a large printing press controlled by the government. My colour is a beautiful light purple, and I have the picture of Mahatma Gandhi printed proudly on my face. After I was printed, I was packed with my brothers and sent to a big bank. From there, an ATM handed me over to a young man. He placed me carefully in a dark leather wallet. The next day, he gave me to a shopkeeper to buy a toy for his daughter. Since then, I have travelled from hands to hands, pockets to purses, resting briefly in cash registers. I have helped many people buy food, books, and gifts. Sometimes people fold me too tightly or crumple me, which hurts a little, but I am proud that I am valuable and help the world go round.

28. All about Money