CLASS V ENGLSIH WONDERFUL WASTE
- 1. Class : V Subject :English
- 2. What is this girl doing ?
- 3. What are these ? A basket and a piece of art made of waste paper
- 4. What are these ?
- 5. Do you know what are these things made of ? This door mat and hair band are made of waste pieces of cloth.
- 7. Let¡¯s read the story.
- 8. Once, the Maharaja of Travancore ordered a grand dinner in his palace.
- 9. The Maharaja of Travancore
- 10. Palace
- 11. Travancore is in the state of Kerala.
- 12. In the afternoon before the dinner, the Maharaja entered the kitchen to survey the dishes that had been prepared for the feast
- 13. ¡°What are you going to do with those vegetable scraps ?¡± he asked the cook, pointing to the basket of scraps near the cook.
- 14. The cook replied, ¡°They are waste. We will throw them away.¡±
- 15. ¡°You cannot waste all these bits and pieces of vegetables. Find a way to use them,¡± the Maharaja commanded sternly and walked away.
- 16. The cook was in a fix and kept staring at the vegetable scraps for some time.
- 17. Suddenly an idea flashed across his mind.
- 18. He took all the vegetable bits, washed them and cleaned them well.
- 19. Then he cut them into long strips.
- 20. He put them in a huge pot and placed it on the fire to cook.
- 21. Next he ground some fresh coconut, green chillies and garlic together. He added this paste and some salt to the cooking vegetables.
- 22. A tempting smell started coming from the pot.
- 23. Now he whipped some curd and added it to the curry. He also poured a few spoonfuls of coconut oil and decorated the dish with curry leaves.
- 24. Lo and behold ! The new dish was ready. The cook served this new dish to the guests that evening.
- 25. Everyone was eager to know the name of the new dish. The cook thought and thought. Then a name came to his mind.
- 27. Avial became famous all over Kerala and is now one of the dishes in a traditional Kerala feast. And imagine, it all came from a basket of waste.
- 28. Some wonderful things !
- 29. Some wonderful things !
- 30. Some wonderful things !
- 31. What do we learn from this story ?