Exercise 1 see-saw hear-heard g. The dog came in the yard. The cat looked at
the dog.
a. Listen: The cat sees things and hears things.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) The cat sees things and • Did the cat see the dog? (Tap.) Yes.
hears things. Say the sentence about what the cat did.
(Tap.) The cat saw the dog.
• That sentence tells what happens now.
b. Here’s the sentence that tells about earlier • Yes, the cat heard the dog and saw the dog.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) The cat heard the dog
times: The cat saw things and heard things. and saw the dog.
• Listen again: The cat saw things and heard
Repeat steps f and g until firm.
things.
• Say saw. (Tap.) Saw. Exercise 2 material
• Say heard. (Tap.) Heard.
Repeat steps a and b until firm. a. (Call on a student.) How many kinds of fabric
are there? (Idea: More than 100.)
c. Yes, the cat saw things and heard things.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) The cat saw things and • Yes, there are more than 100 kinds of fabric.
heard things. Everybody, say the sentence. (Tap.) There are
more than 100 kinds of fabric.
• We don’t say: The cat seed and heered things.
We say: The cat saw and heard things. Repeat step a until firm.
• The cat saw and heard things. b. I’ll name things. Tell me the material each
Say the sentence. (Tap.) The cat saw and heard thing is made of.
things.
c. Blankets. What material? (Tap.) Fabric.
Repeat step c until firm. • Mirrors. What material? (Tap.) Glass.
• Pencils. What material? (Tap.) Wood.
d. The cat was in a yard. She heard a dog. • Some baseball bats. What material? (Tap.)
The dog was saying,“Woof woof.”
Wood.
• Did she hear the dog? (Tap.) Yes. • Bottles. What material? (Tap.) Glass.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) She heard the dog. • Socks. What material? (Tap.) Fabric.
Repeat steps b and c until firm.
Repeat step d until firm.
d. How many kinds of fabric are there? (Tap.)
e. She did not see the dog, but she heard the More than 100.
dog. Say the sentence. (Tap.) There are more than
100 kinds of fabric.
• Did she see the dog? (Tap.) No.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) She did not see the dog. Repeat step d until firm.
• Did she hear the dog? (Tap.) Yes. e. Are all baseball bats made of wood? (Tap.) No.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) She heard the dog. • Some baseball bats are made of wood.
Repeat step e until firm. Say the sentence. (Tap.) Some baseball bats are
f. The cat went under the house. made of wood.
• What did the cat do? (Tap.) Went under the Repeat step e until firm.
house.
Exercise 3 air movement d. The water in a river moves fast.
• Say: The water in a river. (Tap.) The water in
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a river.
a. (Point to picture A.) What kind of air • Say: The water in a river moves fast. (Tap.)
movement is this? (Tap.) A strong wind.
The water in a river moves fast.
• (Point to picture B.) What kind of air Repeat step d until firm.
movement is this? (Tap.) A breeze.
e. Does the water in a lake move fast? (Tap.) No.
• (Point to picture C.) What kind of air • Does the water in a river move fast? (Tap.) Yes.
movement is this? (Tap.) Still air.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) The water in a river
b. What do we call a wind that is not strong? moves fast.
(Tap.) A breeze. f. Is it easier to swim in a river or in a lake?
(Tap.) In a lake.
Repeat steps a and b until firm. • Are some people afraid to swim in rivers?
(Tap.) Yes.
Exercise 4 river Say the sentence. (Tap.) Some people are afraid
to swim in rivers.
4a Repeat steps e and f until firm.
a. Which animal is afraid? (Tap.) The cat. Exercise 5 noticed a strange animal
• What is the cat afraid of? (Tap.) The dog.
• Yes, the cat is afraid of the dog. a. You learned a new sentence: She noticed a
strange animal in the woods.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) The cat is afraid of the Say the sentence. (Tap.) She noticed a strange
dog. animal in the woods.
b. Is the dog afraid of the cat? (Tap.) No.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) The dog is not afraid of b. Did she know the animal was there? (Tap.) Yes.
the cat. • Yes, she noticed the animal.
• Are some people afraid of dogs? (Tap.) Yes.
Say the sentence about some people. (Tap.) Say the sentence. (Tap.) She noticed the animal.
Some people are afraid of dogs. Repeat steps a and b until firm.
Repeat steps a and b until firm.
c. Was that animal different from other animals?
4 b (Tap.) Yes.
c. This picture shows a river. • Yes, the animal was strange.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) The animal was strange.
• Say river. (Tap.) River.
Repeat step c until firm. d. Where was the animal? (Tap.) In the woods.
• Yes, the animal was in the woods.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) The animal was in the
woods.
• She noticed a strange animal in the woods.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) She noticed a strange
animal in the woods.
Repeat steps c and d until firm.
e. Next time, you’ll learn who she is and the
animal she saw.
Exercise 6 true-false f. Listen: A woman is going to her house.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) A woman is going to her
a. What’s the opposite of true? (Tap.) False. house.
• What’s the opposite of false? (Tap.) True.
• Is the woman watching TV? (Tap.) No.
Say the sentence about true. (Tap.) True is the • What is the woman doing? (Tap.) Going to her
opposite of false. house.
Repeat step a until firm. • The woman will be watching TV.
b. Listen: Motorcycles are bigger than trucks. Say the sentence. (Tap.) The woman will be
• Is that sentence true? (Tap.) No. watching TV.
• Is that sentence false? (Tap.) Yes. g. Ask me: When will the woman be watching
• Yes, that sentence is false. TV? (Tap.) When will the woman be watching TV?
The woman will be watching TV in 30 minutes.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) That sentence is false. • When will the woman be watching TV? (Tap.)
c. Listen: People eat bananas. In 30 minutes.
• Yes, the woman will be watching TV in 30
True or false? (Tap.) True. minutes.
• People eat rocks. Say the sentence. (Tap.) The woman will be
watching TV in 30 minutes.
True or false? (Tap.) False. Repeat steps f and g until firm.
d. A baby is older than a man.
Exercise 8 in line
True or false? (Tap.) False.
• A man is older than a baby.
True or false? (Tap.) True.
Repeat steps b through d until firm.
Exercise 7 will be ing a. (Call on three students to stand in line, all
facing left.) These students are standing in line.
a. Listen: The girl is standing.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) The girl is standing. • What’s the name of the first person in line?
(Tap.) [Students respond.]
b. She is not painting a house.
• She will be painting a house. • What’s the name of the second person in line?
• What will she be doing? (Tap.) Painting a house. (Tap.) [Students respond.]
• Yes, she will be painting a house.
• What’s the name of the third person in line?
Say the sentence. (Tap.) She will be painting a house. (Tap.) [Students respond.]
Repeat steps a and b until firm.
b. Listen: What’s the name of the person at
c. Listen: The boy is swimming. the beginning of the line? (Tap.) [Students
Say the sentence. (Tap.) The boy is swimming. respond.]
d. Is the boy reading? (Tap.) No. • Yes, [student’s name] is at the beginning of the
Say the sentence. (Tap.) The boy is not reading. line.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) [Student’s name] is at
• The boy will be reading. the beginning of the line.
• What will the boy be doing? (Tap.) Reading.
c. What’s the name of the person at the end of
Say the sentence. (Tap.) The boy will be reading. the line? (Tap.) [Students respond.]
e. Listen: The boy will be reading in one hour.
• Say, in one hour. (Tap.) In one hour. • Yes, [student’s name] is at the end of the line.
• Yes, the boy will be reading in one hour. Say the sentence. (Tap.) [Student’s name] is at
the end of the line.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) The boy will be reading
in one hour. Repeat steps a through c until firm.
Repeat steps c through e until firm.
d. Everybody in line, turn around and face the Exercise 10 plants: flower
opposite direction. ✓ 10
• Everybody, who is first in line now? (Tap.) a. (Point to pictures.) What are these things?
[Students respond.] (Tap.) Plants.
• Who is the third person in line? (Tap.) • Do plants grow? (Tap.) Yes.
[Students respond.] Say the sentence. (Tap.) Plants grow.
e. Who is at the beginning of the line? (Tap.) • Do plants move from one place to another
[Students respond.] place? (Tap.) No.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) [Student’s name] is at
the beginning of the line. b. Are all parts of the plant above ground? (Tap.)
No.
• Who is at the end of the line? (Tap.) [Students
respond.] • What’s the name of the parts that are
Say the sentence. (Tap.) [Student’s name] is at underground? (Tap.) Roots.
the end of the line.
Repeat steps a and b until firm.
Repeat steps d and e until firm.
c. (Point to tree.) What is this plant? (Tap.)
Exercise 9 buy-bought sell-sold A tree.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) This plant is a tree.
a. You learned a sentence about buying and
selling furniture. • (Point to bush.) Is this plant a vine? (Tap.) No.
Say the sentence about what they do. (Tap.) • What is this plant? (Tap.) A bush.
They buy and sell furniture. • (Point to vine.) What is this plant? (Tap.)
Repeat step a until firm. A vine.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) This plant is a vine.
b. Here’s the sentence about what they did: Repeat step c until firm.
• They bought and sold furniture.
d. Do bushes have a trunk? (Tap.) No.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) They bought and sold • (Call on a student.) What do bushes have in
furniture.
• Say the sentence about what they do. (Tap.) place of a trunk? (Idea: Branches.)
They buy and sell furniture. • Yes, a bush has branches that grow out of the
• Say the sentence about what they did. (Tap.)
They bought and sold furniture. ground.
Repeat step b until firm. Say the sentence. (Tap.) A bush has branches
that grow out of the ground.
e. Does a vine have branches that grow out of
the ground? (Tap.) No.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) A vine does not have
branches that grow out of the ground.
Repeat steps d and e until firm.
f. (Point to flowers.) These are flowers.
• Say louer. (Tap.) Louer.
• Say flower. (Tap.) Flower.
Repeat step f until firm.
g. (Point to red blossom.) Listen: The part of a c. What season of the year was it? (Tap.) Fall.
flower that is red or yellow or blue is called • What color was the sky? (Tap.) Blue.
the flower. • How did the air feel? (Tap.) Cool.
• What felt warm? (Tap.) The sun.
• What color is this flower? (Tap.) Red. Repeat step c until firm.
h. (Touch yellow flower.) What is the color of
d. Most of the sky was blue, but we could see
this flower? (Tap.) Yellow. white clouds in the sky.
• Remember: These plants are flowers.
• Was most of the sky cloudy or blue? (Tap.)
Say the sentence. (Tap.) These plants are Blue.
flowers.
Repeat steps g and h until firm. • What color were the clouds? (Tap.) White.
• Yes, we could see white clouds in the sky.
i. (Point to tree.) What is this plant? (Tap.)
A tree. Say the sentence. (Tap.) We could see white
clouds in the sky.
• (Point to bush.) What is this plant? (Tap.) Repeat step d until firm.
A bush.
e. But most of the sky was deep blue.
• (Point to vine.) What is this plant? (Tap.) • What kind of blue? (Tap.) Deep.
A vine.
Deep blue is very dark blue.
• (Point to flowers.) What are these plants? • Most of the sky was deep blue.
(Tap.) Flowers.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) Most of the sky was
• (Point to blossom.) What is this part of the deep blue.
plant? (Tap.) The flower. Repeat step e until firm.
Repeat step i until firm. f. We took off our coats and walked along the
shore of a lake.
Exercise 11 wonderful day at the shore
• Listen again: We took off our coats and
a. Listen: It was a day in early fall. walked along the shore of a lake.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) It was a day in early Say the sentence. (Tap.) We took off our coats
fall. and walked along the shore of a lake.
• What season was it? (Tap.) Fall. • Where did we walk? (Tap.) Along the shore of
• The sky was blue and the air was cool. a lake.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) The sky was blue and g. Then we sat on the ground.
the air was cool. Say the sentence. (Tap.) Then we sat on the
b. But the sun was warm. ground.
• How did the sun feel? (Tap.) Warm.
• Listen: The sun felt warm. • We took off our shoes and put our feet in the
We don’t say: The sun feeled warm. water.
• We say: The sun felt warm. Say the sentence. (Tap.) We took off our shoes
Say the sentence. (Tap.) The sun felt warm. and put our feet in the water.
• Yes, the air felt cool, but the sun felt warm.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) The air felt cool, but the h. The water was warm.
sun felt warm. Say the sentence. (Tap.) The water was warm.
Repeat steps a and b until firm.
• How did the water feel? (Tap.) Warm.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) The water felt warm.
i. We smiled. Then she said to me,“What a
wonderful day.”
• What did she say? (Tap.) What a wonderful day.
Repeat steps f through i until firm.
Exercise 12 rabbit fox deer bear g. How many of these animals eat meat? (Tap.)
Two.
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• Do bears eat meat? (Tap.) Yes.
a. Everybody, name these animals: (Point to Say the sentence. (Tap.) Bears eat meat.
each animal as students say:) Rabbit, fox, deer,
bear. • Do deers eat meat? (Tap.) No.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) Deers do not eat meat.
b. Would a rabbit run from a fox? (Tap.) Yes.
Say the sentence about a rabbit. (Tap.) A rabbit Repeat step g until firm.
would run from a fox.
h. Do deers sleep in barns? (Tap.) No.
• Are rabbits afraid of foxes? (Tap.) Yes. Say the sentence. (Tap.) Deers do not sleep in barns.
Say the sentence about rabbits. (Tap.) Rabbits
are afraid of foxes. • Do deers sleep in the woods? (Tap.) Yes.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) Deers sleep in the woods.
c. Would a rabbit run from a bear? (Tap.) Yes.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) A rabbit would run from i. (Point to animals.) Do these animals sleep in
a bear. barns or in the woods? (Tap.) In the woods.
Say the sentence about these animals.
• Would a bear run from a rabbit? (Tap.) No. (Tap.) These animals sleep in the woods.
Say the sentence about a bear. (Tap.) A bear
would not run from a rabbit. Repeat steps h and i until firm.
Repeat steps a through c until firm. Exercise 13 stand-stood sit-sat
d. Would a bear run from a fox? (Tap.) No. a. You are going to say a new sentence that tells
Say the sentence. (Tap.) A bear would not run about an earlier time.
from a fox.
b. Here’s a sentence that tells about now:
• Would a fox like to eat a rabbit? (Tap.) Yes. • Sandeep stands up, then he sits down.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) A fox would like to eat
a rabbit. Say the sentence about Sandeep. (Tap.)
Sandeep stands up, then he sits down.
• Would a fox run from a bear? (Tap.) Yes. • Here’s a sentence that tells about an earlier
Say the sentence. (Tap.) A fox would run from time: Sandeep stood up, then he sat down.
a bear. Repeat steps a and b until firm.
Repeat step d until firm. c. Say stood. (Tap.) Stood.
• Say sat. (Tap.) Sat.
e. Would a deer run from a bear? (Tap.) Yes. Repeat step c until firm.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) A deer would run from
a bear. d. Say: Sandeep stood up. (Tap.) Sandeep stood up.
• We don’t say: Sandeep standed up.
• Would a bear run from a deer? (Tap.) No. • We say: Sandeep stood up.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) A bear would not run • What do we say? (Tap.) Sandeep stood up.
from a deer.
Yes,Sandeep stood up, then he sat down.
f. Are some animals afraid of bears? (Tap.) Yes. e. We don’t say: He sitted down.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) Some animals are afraid • We say: He sat down.
of bears.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) He sat down.
• Are some people afraid of bears? (Tap.) Yes. f. Listen: Sandeep stood up, then he sat down.
Say the sentence. (Tap.) Some people are afraid
of bears. Say the sentence. (Tap.) Sandeep stood up,
then he sat down.
Repeat steps e and f until firm. Repeat steps d through f until firm.