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Now let’s read a story.

Ms Joshi comes into the classroom.

‘Everyone, meet Nancy,’ she says. ‘Nancy
is a new student. Say hello to her.’

‘Hello, Nancy,’ the children say together.

‘Hello,’ Nancy replies.

Ms Joshi turns to Nancy and says, ‘Please
sit down. We shall start the class.’
Nancy sits next to Lata and puts her bag
under the desk. Ms Joshi begins the class.

After a while, the bell rings and it’s lunchtime.

‘Come on, let’s have lunch,’ Lata says
to Nancy.

‘All right,’ Nancy smiles and says.

Lata puts her lunch box on ‘What do you have?’ she asks Nancy.
the table. There is a parantha
and dahi in it. ‘I have a sandwich and bebinca,’ Nancy
answers.

‘Bebinca? What is that?’ Lata asks.

‘Try it,’ Nancy says.

Lata eats some of Nancy’s bebinca.
‘Wow! It tastes so good!’

‘Thank you,’ Nancy says. ‘It is
eaten in Goa. I’m from Goa.
So we get to eat a lot of it.’

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‘You’re so lucky!’ Lata says. ‘Hey!
Come and taste the bebinca,’ she
calls out to everyone.

‘Bebinca? What is bebinca?’ asks
Rahul.

‘It is a sweet dish from Goa,’ Nancy
tells him.

‘Could I also taste it?’ Sunny asks.

‘Sure, but leave some for me,’
Nancy laughs and says.

Nancy comes home from school.
‘How was your first day at school, Nancy? Did you make any friends?’ her
mother asks.

Nancy hugs her mother. ‘It was so good, Mum! Everyone loved your bebinca.
Now everyone is my friend because of the bebinca.’

Reading FA

  

(1) Who is sitting next to Nancy?

   (a) Lata (b) Sunny (c) Rahul

(2) What is the name of the teacher? (c) Ms Roy
in it.
(a) Ms Kumar (b) Ms Joshi

(3) Lata’s lunch has

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(4) Where is Nancy from?
(5) Does Nancy make friends at school?

Grammar FA

  

Prepositions

Read these sentences:
Nancy puts her bag under the desk.

Lata puts her lunch box on the table.

There is dahi in it.    

The words under, on and in tell us where the things are. They connect the nouns
with the other words in the sentence. Such words are called prepositions.
Look at this picture.

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Now underline the prepositions in the sentences below.
(1) The kitten is in the basket.
(2) The basket is under the table.
(3) A mouse is hiding behind the clock.
(4) There is milk in the dish.
(5) The book is on the table.

Vocabulary FA

  

Digraphs – ch, sh and wh

Read the word under each picture. Say the first sound in each word.

cheese
chimp chew

sheep
shoe shark

wheel
whale white

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The beginning sound in the first row of words is ch.
The beginning sound in the second row of words is sh.
The beginning sound in the third row of words is wh.

(1) Now fill in the blanks in the words below with the correct begin-
ning sounds. Say the words aloud first to understand the sound.

(a) _ _eat (b) _ _ips

(c) _ _ell (d) _ _ain

(e) _ _op (f ) _ _ip

(2) Now write two words each that begin with the ch, sh and wh
sounds.

Writing   FA  

Use the prepositions in, on and under to make sentences.Write two
sentences for each one in your exercise book.

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Listening FA ASL  

   

Listen to some information about the bebinca.Then mark the
following as true () or false ():

(1) Bebinca is a type of pudding.
(2) It tastes bitter.
(3) It has 16 layers.
(4) It is eaten in Orissa.
(5) It is made from maize.

Speaking FA ASL

  

What is your favourite food? Write five sentences about
it. T  hen read them aloud to the class. The sentences below
will help you.

My favourite food is tomato soup.
I eat it with bread.

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