_____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ ACTIVITY 8 Do and learn. Complete the following paragraph with the given words. wild animal powerful impressive four sharp long strong long fast neck bright meat the king large hair The lion is a _______________________ It is very _______________________ animal. It looks _______________________ It has _______________________ legs. It has _______________________claws and teeth. It has _______________________paws. Leading English Grammar, Grade 1 147
Leading English Grammar, Grade 1 It has a _______________________tail. It can run _______________________ It has a ___________________ head. Its neck is covered with _____________________ Its neck hair is called mane. Its eyes are very _______________________ It eats only _______________________The lion is called _______________________of the forest. ACTIVITY 9 Do and learn. Write a paragraph about the following lion. _____________________ _____________________ _____________________ _____________________ _____________________ _____________________ _____________________ _____________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ 148
ACTIVITY 10 Read and learn. Look, listen and say after your teacher. Tiger A tiger is a very strong animal. It looks like a large cat. It has a round head. Its body has stripes. A tiger has strong teeth. It has sharp claws . It has a long tail. A tiger is a very attractive animal. It is a dangerous animal also. It is very cruel animal. It eats only meat of animals. It hunts its prey at night. ACTIVITY 11 Do and learn. Read the above paragraph about the tiger and complete the following paragraph filling the gaps with the missing words. A tiger ______ a very ___________ animal. It looks like a large _______ . It has a __________ head. Its body has ____________. A tiger has ____________ teeth. It has ____________ claws . It has a ____________ tail. A tiger is a very ____________ animal. It is a ____________ animal also. It is very ____________ animal. It eats only ____________ of animals. It ____________ its prey at night. Leading English Grammar, Grade 1 149
Leading English Grammar, Grade 1 ACTIVITY 12 Do and learn. Answer the following questions and write a paragraph. Before writing it, discuss in pairs. My School What is your school’s name? My school’s name is ___________________________________ Where is it? It is at ______________________________________________ How many buildings has it? It has _______________________________________________ How many classrooms are there? There are ___________________________________________ Who is the principal of your school? The principal of my school is ______________________________ Who is your class teacher? My class teacher is ____________________________________ How many students are there in your class? There are ________________________________ in my class. How many boys are there in your class? There are _________________________________ in my class. How many girls are there in your class? There are _________________________________ in my class. Who is your best friend? My best friend is _____________________________________ 150
ACTIVITY 13 Do and learn. Now, rewrite about your school in your notebook. ACTIVITY 14 Read and learn. Look at the following paragraph. Cow What is a cow? What kind of animal is it by nature? How many ears does it have? How many legs does it have? What colour does it have? How many horns does it have? How many eyes does it have? How many tails does it have? What does it eat? What does it give? What do we make from its milk? Is a cow useful animal? Questions A A cow is a domestic animal. It is a gentle animal by nature. It has two ears. It has four legs. It has different colours. It has two horns. It has two eyes. It has a tail. It eats grass and straw. It gives milk. We make curd, ghee, cheese and sweets from its milk. Yes, a cow is a very useful animal. Answers B Leading English Grammar, Grade 1 151
Leading English Grammar, Grade 1 ACTIVITY 15 Do and learn. Act in pair. Ask, answer and write about a buffalo with the help of the following questions. Buffalo What is a buffalo? How many ears does it have? How many legs does it have? What colour does it have ? How many horns does it have? How many eyes does it have? How many tails does it have? What does it eat? What does it give? What do we make from its milk? Is a buffalo useful animal? Questions A _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ Answers B 152
ACTIVITY 16 Do and learn. Look at the picture of horse and write any ten sentences about it. ______________________________________________________________________________ . ______________________________________________________________________________ . ______________________________________________________________________________ . ______________________________________________________________________________ . ______________________________________________________________________________ . ______________________________________________________________________________ . ______________________________________________________________________________ . ______________________________________________________________________________ . ______________________________________________________________________________ . ______________________________________________________________________________ . Leading English Grammar, Grade 1 153
Leading English Grammar, Grade 1 ACTIVITY 17 Do and learn. What is happening in each picture? Write a sentence for each activity. __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ 154
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Leading English Grammar, Grade 1 The primary goal of Grammar Comprehension is to review the previously taught items through GRAMMAR READING COMPREHENSION. It is beautifully designed to teach grammar concept and test the knowledge of grammar concept. Through comprehension activities, it will assist the students in revising the entire taught lessons. The following suggestions are made in this regard: " Since the first-grade students are unable to read all of the texts on their own. So, read the texts aloud to them and ask them to follow you. This activity should be repeated at least twice or three times. " Explain and make them understand the new words, phrases, and sentences in simple English. " Ask them to read the lesson aloud and supervise their reading. Pay attention on each word and sentence so that the students understand them completely. " To improve comprehension, use the read-peer-share technique. " Before they begin the writing activities, ask them plenty of oral questions. " It will undoubtedly aid them in comprehending the lesson. " Apply these guidelines to all texts before giving them writing exercises. " Be creative and smart while teaching. TEACHING TIPS OBJECTIVES go through every grammar point that was taught from unit one to unit fifteen answer comprehension queries about these items respond to closed-ended questions and Wh. questions After the completion of this unit, students will be able to: Grammar Comprehension UNIT 16 156
Look, listen and say after your teacher. After reading it, do the activities that follow. Grammar Comprehension Set-1 English language has twenty –six letters. Letters are the symbols of sounds. The alphabet is a set of letters. Letters are written in a set. The meaning of a set is an order. Letters have their order. It is called the alphabet. There are two types of letters in the alphabet. They are vowel letters and consonant letters. There are five vowel letters. They are a, e, i, o and u. Other twenty-one letters are consonants. There are two forms of letters. They are capital letters and small letters. We make words from letters. We combine letters to make words. Words make sentences. We join different words to make a sentence. A word gives a meaning. But a sentence gives a full meaning. A sentence has a subject and a verb. Without a subject and a verb, we can’t make a sentence. A. Match Set-A with their meaning in Set-B. Vowels Consonants Alphabet Letters A sentence Set - A is a set of letters. gives a full meaning. are the symbols of sounds. are twenty-one letters. are five letters. Set - B Leading English Grammar, Grade 1 157
Leading English Grammar, Grade 1 A. Write True or False. a. There are twenty-one letters in the English alphabet. b. Words make letters. c. Letters make words. d. Words make sentences. e. There are capital and small letters. B. Read the passage and fill in the gaps. a. The _____________________________ is a set of letters. b. There are twenty –one _____________________________ letters. c. Letters A, E, I, O and U are_____________________________ d. There are capital and _____________________________ letters. e. We join _____________________________ to make words. C. Answer the following questions: a. How many letters are there in the English alphabet? _________________________________________________ b. What are letters? _________________________________________________ 158
c. What make words? _________________________________________________ d. What make a sentence? _________________________________________________ e. How many consonant letters are there? _________________________________________________ Grammar Comprehension Set-2 Look, listen and say after your teacher. After reading it , do the activities that follow: Some words come in place of nouns. Pronouns are called replacing words. These are he, she, it, I, we, you and they. These are called personal pronouns. Personal pronouns come in place of persons. Some pronouns show distance. The pronouns this, that, these and those point out the things where they are. This shows near and that shows far. These indicates near and those indicates far. Some words describe nouns. These are called adjectives. Adjectives are called describing words. Good, bad, tall, short, fat, thin, black, long, etc. are describing words. Do, does, write, go, play, jump, cry, etc. are doing words. These are called verbs. Verbs are most important words of the sentences. Leading English Grammar, Grade 1 159
Leading English Grammar, Grade 1 Match the words in Set-A with their meanings in Set-B. 1. Pronouns are 2. Personal pronouns 3. Adjectives 4. Happy, sad, good, 5. Doing words Set - A a. are love, help, play, walk. b. are adjectives. c. replacing words. d. are he, she, it, they. e. are describing words. Set - B B. Write True or False. a. Pronouns are replacing words. b. Nouns replace pronouns. c. He, she, it, we are personal pronouns. d. This shows near and that shows far. e. Do, write, run, talk, etc. are doing words. C. Answer the following questions: a. What are pronouns? _________________________________________________ b. Write any five personal pronouns? _________________________________________________ 160
c. Write any five doing words? _________________________________________________ d. What are adjectives? _________________________________________________ e. Write any five describing words. _________________________________________________ Grammar Comprehension Set-3 Look, listen and say after your teacher. After reading it , do the activities that follow: Prepositions come before nouns. They show relation between two nouns. In, on, at, under, above, over are locating prepositions. They show location. They sow where the things or persons are. Some prepositions show time such as in, at, and on. There are some words which join words and sentences. They are called connectives. And, but, because, or, etc. are connecting words. There are some words which are called adverbs. Adverbs show manner, place, time, cause in a sentence such as; she talks loudly. In this sentence, loudly shows manner. Now, then, after, before are time adverbs. Here, there, up, down, everywhere, etc. are place adverbs. A and an are articles. We use a before “a” single countable noun which starts with a consonant letter. We use “an” before a single countable noun which starts with a vowel letter. Leading English Grammar, Grade 1 161
Leading English Grammar, Grade 1 A. Match the words in Set-A with their possible meanings in Set-B. Prepositions On, in, at, under, above And, but, because, or A and an Article 'a' Set - A is used before a word which starts with a consonant letter. are articles. are used before nouns. are conjunctions. are locating prepositions. Set - B B. Fill in the gaps with the words from the text. a. Prepositions show ____________________ between two nouns. b. Prepositions come _______________________________ nouns. c. In, on, at, under, above are_______________________________ d. Words and sentences are joined by___________________________ e. 'A' and 'an' are called _______________________________ 162
B. Write True or False. a. Prepositions come after nouns. b. In, on, at are articles. c. A is used before a single noun. d. And, but,or and because are conjunctions. e. Now, then, today are time adverbs. C. Answer the following questions: a. What are prepositions? _________________________________________________ b. What are connectives? _________________________________________________ c. What are articles? _________________________________________________ d. When do we use article {a} _________________________________________________ e. When do we use article {an}? _________________________________________________ Leading English Grammar, Grade 1 163
Leading English Grammar, Grade 1 GRAMMAR GLOSSARY TEST UNIT 17 Test - 1 Identifying Naming Words Look,listen and say the following words after your teacher. Read the words again and circle the naming words. cook pencil on inside laptop leaf sweep head walk beautiful star moon we slowly love there bag teeth naughty eraser into doll hit river wash Test - 2 Identifying Special Names Look, listen and say after your teacher. Read the words again and circle the special names. bird animal India river soil Suntali kite Pokhara Nepal book forest Pasang Anuska racks rice Katrina Kathmandu letters Lila crocodile monkey Bablu Bible Kapil Seti 164
Test - 3 Identifying Common Nouns Look, listen and say after your teacher. Read the words again and circle the common nouns. tigers Tokyo apple dress capital Eric eager nail spoon Spain box Lahan bamboo woman Waseem paper colour Lakhan hand feet knife Nepal China chalk mobile Test - 4 Identifying Pronouns Look, listen and say after your teacher. Read the words again and circle the pronouns. Reshma he Bisal she that lost like I there gold you those Binod papa up teacher birds we fish cows they these boards door down Leading English Grammar, Grade 1 165
Leading English Grammar, Grade 1 Test - 5 Identifying Adjectives Look, listen and say after your teacher. Read the words again and circle the adjectives( the describing words). their new bag is here we have got old frock you look smart and pretty five but many red doll hot cold good careless boy Test - 6 Identifying Prepositions Look, listen and say after your teacher. Read the words again and circle the prepositions. kindly kind on practice perform from in hate into to blue red but and so shot over under towards because short by with towel touch 166
Test - 7 Identifying Conjunctions Look, listen and say after your teacher. Read the words again and circle the conjunctions. inside and here sit write but come touch because we he so it life between among or there help to shout loudly we they walk Test - 8 Identifying Singular and Plural Nouns Circle the singular nouns. spoon spoons mango mangoes students Boys boy girl girls Student teachers Teacher birds bird fans copy copies bats bat fan pens pen head heads rat Leading English Grammar, Grade 1 167
Leading English Grammar, Grade 1 Test - 9 Identifying Gender Write M for male (boy group) and F for female (girl group) in the box. dog M hen brother mother witch cock sister father cow man girl prince F bull woman boy princess peacock peahen madam horse Test - 10 Identifying Adverbs Look, listen and say after your teacher. Read the words again and circle the adverbs. beautiful beautifully walking hardly now then recite running today merrily touch lovely slowly eat come happily happy there tomorrow sad sadly sweetly sweet orally lightly 168
Test - 11 Similar Words Match the words in Set-A with their similar meanings in Set-B. good dark distant bad near close morning evening sweet sad far happy well Set - A pleasant sunset unhappy sunrise fine naughty shut close healthy dim glad Set - B Leading English Grammar, Grade 1 169
Leading English Grammar, Grade 1 Test - 12 Match the following words in Set-A with their similar meanings in Set-B. love receive hate sleep save give take clean wake go present speak Set - A rouse fresh obtain get offer protect dislike like to be tell nap walk Set - B 170
` Test - 13 Opposite Words Match the words in Set-A with their opposite meanings in Set-B. good this small today long active day morning present here white these Set - A past evening night black lazy short big bad that those tomorrow there Set - B Leading English Grammar, Grade 1 171
Leading English Grammar, Grade 1 ` Test - 14 Match the words in Set-A with their opposite meanings in Set-B. tall close kind cold wise dark light sweet smooth near happy up Set - A rough bitter bright sad heavy cruel stupid short open down far hot Set - B Good Luck 172