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Question
Which are the oldest trees in your area?
- Find out from your elders how old the trees are?
- Name animals who live on this tree.
- Have you ever seen any big tree that had fallen down? What did you think when you saw it?
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Solution
There is a huge Banyan tree at the bank of a pond in my native village.
- People say that it is more than 150 years old.
- Monkeys, squirrels, sparrows and crows live on that tree.
- Yes, I have seen a big tree that had fallen down at the bank of the river because of the flood. I was just amazed to see the huge, thick and long roots of that tree.
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