ENG_G2_CB_FINAL

A communicative, integrated-skills course

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Series Editor
Fiona C. Holmes

Authors
Meigha Rawat
Swati Verma

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Preface

PruQuest English is a communicative course that has been designed keeping in mind the increasingly dynamic role of the
English language in today’s world. The course offers original stories and poems that are based on the themes listed in the
National Curriculum Framework, 2005. The stories and poems offer a diversity that celebrates the heterogeneity of a modern
classroom. These components cover a variety of topics – from situations that the learner may face in everyday life to issues
pertaining to social justice – that have been dealt with in a child-friendly manner.
The course is learner-centric and has been designed keeping in mind that not everyone learns in the same manner. The
mind retains only what it comprehends. Therefore, learning needs to and does engage different sensory modalities. Because
learning is a multi-sensorial experience and because every learner has a distinct way of learning, Multiple Intelligences forms
one of the basic principles of the course.
The acquisition of language takes place effectively in a context that is meaningful and conducive to apprehension. Therefore,
the components and also the examples in exercises contextualise language in natural settings so that the focus is on
communication. This leads to the acquisition of English much in the same way as the learner’s first language.
The course offers a graded grammar to the learners with the functional approach as its basis. The vocabulary sections of
the course have been designed to equip the learners with the functional knowledge of the language. Each chapter ends with
listening and speaking sections to help the learners and the teachers assess to what extent the skills covered in the chapter
have been acquired by the learner.
One retains what one has learnt only when one is doing something that engages one’s interest. Hence, as a distinctive feature
this series introduces two characters that have been created to appeal to children and to reflect their world. Learners join
Mike and Sammy in different settings that helps bring about spontaneity in the grasping and absorbing of language. The
course also makes sure that appropriate educative messages are consistently sent across to children to help in their overall
development as functioning, productive members of the society.
The learner as well as the educator has the opportunity to exploit the course on multiple levels:
• Multiple Intelligences: The course offers a variety in the components that have been formulated keeping in mind the

different modalities that the learners may use to acquire language.
• Higher-OrderThinking Skills (HOTS): The questions pertaining to higher-order thinking skills persuade the learners

to think beyond the text, which helps them learn how to discern and focus on the profundity beneath the superficial.
• L ife Skills: The questions pertaining to life skills enable and, more importantly, empower the learners to apply the

heuristic messages of the text to their own lives and the world around them.
• F ormative Assessment: The tasks of formative assessments help the teachers assess the learners’ in-process academic

progression. This helps the teacher identify the skills the learners have difficulty acquiring. Support can then be provided
to the learners, and instructional techniques can furthermore be accordingly modified.
• S ummative Assessment: The summative assessment gives the teacher an evaluative tool to gauge the learners’
academic achievement at the end of the designated instructional period.
• Assessment of Speaking and Listening (ASL): The primary objective of a language course is to equip learners
with a functional knowledge of the language. The assessment of the speaking and listening skills becomes especially
important in an ESL context. The ASL tasks in the chapters are complemented by additional ASL tasks, all of which act as
instruments for the teacher to analyse the language-learning abilities of the learners.
PruQuest English is a complete course that comprises the following major components for every grade:

• A coursebook
• A workbook for further practice and assessment
• A literature reader to further encourage the students to read and also to introduce them to different types of literature

in conjunction with coursebook
• Digital component
The digital component of the course adds a valuable dimension to the process of learning.
• S tudents’ CD: The student CD provides an interactive ebook; voiceover of the poems, songs, phonics and words in

the glossary; and further practice of the grammar and vocabulary topics in the form of animated exercises.
• Teachers’ CD: The teachers’ CD provides an ebook, a test generator and voiceovers of the poems, songs, phonics and

words in the glossary.

Key Elements



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in PruQuest English
Multiple Intelligences

Naturalist Intelligence (‘Nature Smart’)
Musical Intelligence (‘Musical Smart’)
Logical–Mathematical Intelligence
(‘Number/Reasoning Smart’)
Existential Intelligence
Interpersonal Intelligence (‘People Smart’)
Kinaesthetic Intelligence (‘Body Smart’)
Linguistic Intelligence (‘Word Smart’)
Intra-personal Intelligence (‘Self Smart’)
Spatial Intelligence (‘Picture Smart’)

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Formative Assessment (FA) FA

Summative Assessment (SA)

Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) S
Life Skills (LS)
ASL  Assessment of Speaking and Listening (ASL)

Audio CD

in PruQuest English

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M Meet Sammy. She has a keen mind and is curious
M about the world. She is best friends with Mike.
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Relaxed and laidback, Mike is Sammy’s best M
friend.Together, they will take you on a journey I
through this series. K
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H This is Habo. Naughty yet sweet,
the cute panda will introduce you
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B to different sections and accompany
O you on your journey.

Detailed Contents

Unit and Chapter Reading Grammar Vocabulary Writing Speaking Listening Activity
Theme
An Hour of A story about Nouns - Irregular plurals Complete the Four-word Listen to the Make a list of
1. Sharing sharing common and dialogue using story passage and things in your
common and choose the house that are
Self, Family, Grandpa’s Toy A story about proper proper nouns Talk about the correct word made of wood
Home + Grandpa’s toys Diary entry games and its Listen about a
Friend Capitals in Irregular plurals spinning top and
Neighbourhood A poem about the proper nouns rules mark true or false
and Secret Santa importance of trees
What Is the Project 1: Leaf printing Present a Listen and mark
Community A story about radio show true or false
at Large News? helping others Possessive Compound Write about your Share a story Listen to a
Mr Sunday A story about pronouns words favourite festival with your class
2. the importance poem about the
of reading a Articles Compound What do you miss newspaper and fill
Holiday + Mass Comma words about your school
Media Large newspaper Similes during the summer in the blanks
A poem about the
holidays?
best day of the
week

Project 2: Making a scrapbook

3. The Tooth A story about the Present tense Suffix –ful and Write about fairies Spot the Listen to some
Fairy importance of Comparative –less Write things that difference facts about
Adventure and helping others you do in a park Convince your Manipur
Imagination + Finny Goes A picture story form of Prefixes with your friend mother to
to the Park about Finny first adjective take you for List the things
Sports visit to a park a picnic in the Finny thanks God

park for

Unit and Chapter Reading Grammar Vocabulary Writing Speaking Listening Activity
Theme
Space A poem about a Project 3: Make a collage Design your
4. Adventure space journey own spaceship
The Magician A story about the Past form Antonyms Rules for healthy Make a wish! How to be a good
Science and importance of Irregular verbs (revision) teeth listener?
Technology + and the brushing teeth
tortoise
Health
The Wright A story about Apostrophes Synonyms What do you want Share with the Unscramble the
Brothers world’s first and to be when you class what you words to answer
successful aeroplane grow up? would like to
Were Right contractions be when you each riddle

grow up.

I am a A poem about a Describe a
Butterfly beautiful butterfly butterfly

Project 4: Be a postman. Deliver a message.

Momotaro A story about unity Adverbs Homophones Where would you Talk about Homophones
How the is strength ending with –ly like to live if you what will Complete my
Deer got His Conjunctions did not live in a happen if you
Horns? cut a giant sentence
Winter – and, but house? peach.
(revision) Complete my
sentence
5. A story about the Conjunctions Homophones Making Sentences
deer’s horns – or (revision) using the
Country and
the World + Art Prepositions conjunction or
of place
and Culture

A poem about the Difference
winter season between
winter season
and summer
season

Project 5: Making your very own snowman

Unit Chapter Page No.

1 1 An Hour of Sharing 2

2 2 Grandpa’s Toy 10
3
4 Friend 16
5
Project 1 18

3 Secret Santa 22
4 What Is the News? 31
39
Mr Sunday 43
Project 2

5 The Tooth Fairy 46
6 Finny Goes to the Park 54
63
Space Adventure 65
Project 3

7 The Magician and the Tortoise 68
8 The Wright Brothers Were
76
Right 83
I Am a Butterfly 85
Project 4

9 Momotaro 88
10 How the Deer Got
97
His Horns 107
Winter 110
Project 5



1 An Hour of
Sharing

Here, Mike, have Twenty
some chocolate. minutes? What
do you mean by

that?

Thanks, We should
Sammy.That’s too share the
much. I only want chocolate in
twenty minutes minutes!

of it?

How I still don’t
do we do understand.

that?

It’s Let’s read
easy! about Vishu.
Then you’ll
2 understand.

Vishu and his family are getting ready for dinner. Vishu’s father sets the table.
His little sister, Vini, also helps. Vishu’s mother carries the food to the table.
His father sets the table.

‘What’s for dessert, Mum?’ Vishu asks his mother after dinner.

‘I’ve baked a pineapple cake,’ says Mum.

‘Yummy!’ Vini says. ‘I love pineapple cake!

‘May I have thirty minutes of cake?’ Vishu says with a big smile on his face.

‘Thirty minutes of cake?’ Vini asks. ‘What does that mean?’

‘Ms Paul is teaching us about time,’ says Vishu, still smiling. Vishu is in grade

two, and he has just learnt how to tell the time in school. Ms Paul is his maths

teacher. ‘She told us that the clock can be divided into two sections of thirty

minutes, just like a cake.’ dessert  (pronounced di-ZURT) a
sweet dish usually eaten after a meal

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‘Very good, son,’ says Vishu’s
mother, taking up a knife to cut
the cake.
‘So now may I have thirty
minutes of cake, please?’
Vishu asks.
His father looks at him.
‘How about you have only
ten minutes of cake and leave
some for the rest of us!’

Reading 1 FA

 

(1) What is Vishu’s family getting ready for?
(a) a picnic
(b) a drive
(c) dinner

(2) What are they having for dessert?
(a) pineapple cake
(b) apple pie
(c) chocolate muffins

(3) Who is helping Vishu’s father?
(4) Who has taught Vishu to tell the time?
(5) How much cake does Vishu ask for?

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Reading 2

(1) How many ‘minutes’ of the cake should everyone get?  S

(2) How would you share a cake amongst the members of your family? S

Grammar FA

 

Nouns – Common and Proper

You have read about nouns in Class 1. Nouns are naming words.

Look at this sentence.

Vishu likes cake.

The words Vishu and cake are nouns. A noun
is a naming word. Nouns name a person,
place, animal or thing, e.g. uncle (person),
school (place), cat (animal) and cake
(thing). These are common nouns.

Some nouns are special. A noun
that names a special person, place,
animal or thing is called a proper
noun. The word Vishu is a proper
noun. Proper nouns always begin
with a capital letter.

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Circle the proper nouns in the following sentences:
(1) He is going to Mumbai today.
(2) The monkey’s name is George.
(3) Tomorrow is Christmas.
(4) Delhi is the capital of India.
(5) My cats are called Simi and Simba.

Vocabulary FA

 
Irregular Plurals
You have read that we add s or es to a noun to make its plural.

Examples: one grape a bunch of grapes

one brush three brushes

Some nouns do not follow this rule. We need to add something other than s
or es to make their plurals. Such nouns are called irregular nouns.

When a noun ends in f or fe, we drop f or fe and add ves to form its plural.

Examples: one wolf three wolves
one knife three knives

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When a noun ends with a consonant + y, we drop the y and add ies to
form its plural.

Examples: one baby three babies

one lady three ladies

Exception: When a noun ends with a vowel + y, then we add s after y to
form its plural.

Example: one monkey ten monkeys

When a noun has oo in it, we replace oo with ee to form its plural.

Examples: one foot two feet

one tooth a set of teeth

We follow these rules to make irregular plurals. However, some words do
not follow these rules. For example, we add s to the word book to make its
plural books.

Write the plural form of the nouns below.

(1) elf        

(2) goose        

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(3) boy        
(4) story        
(5) wife        

Writing FA

 

Use the common and proper nouns from the box to complete the
dialogue below. Use the pictures to help you.

eggs    parrot    cat    fruit    Tini

Rashi Do you have a pet?  . Do you have a
Tarun Yes, I have a  .

pet too?

Rashi Yes, I have a

Tarun What’s its name?

Rashi Its name is  .
 . What
Tarun Mine likes to eat
does yours like?  .

Rashi Mine loves boiled

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Speaking FA ASL

  

Four-Word Story
Your teacher will use four words to start a story. Take turns to add
to the story. Each student should add only four words. Let’s see how
the story ends. Look at the example below.

Teacher I am going to…
Student 1 have lunch and do…
Student 2 my homework. Then I…
Student 3 shall go out and…
Student 4 play football with my…

Listening FA ASL  

   

Listen to the passage and choose the correct words.

There is a boy whose home/house
is in the jungle. He is friends with
many animals/people. One day,
a little/tiny mouse comes and
asks him for food. The boy looks
around/behind the house. He finds
some cheese/butter. He offers it
to the mouse. The mouse says,
‘Mice/Lice do not eat cheese! It/
Them is not good for us.’

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2 Grandpa’s
Toy

I am bored Why don’t
with my toys, you ask your
Sammy. What grandpa if he
has any toys
shall I do?
for you?

Grandpas They used to
don’t play when they were
with toys, younger. And they
Sammy! can teach us some
of the games they
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Vansh’s grandpa

taught him.

Vansh comes home. He looks for his mother,
but it is his grandfather who greets him.

‘Grandpa, where is Mum?’ Vansh asks.
‘Vansh, your mother is at her new job,’ Grandpa
replies. ‘Don’t you remember? I am going to take
care of you after school from now on.’
‘I just want to watch TV,’ Vansh says. He tries
not to show it, but he is sad. He misses his mother.
‘Would you like to play with me?’ Grandpa asks.
‘There are so many fun things we can do together.’
‘Like what?’ Vansh says.
‘I have an idea,’ Grandpa replies. ‘I have a
few old albums with me. They have some
photographs of me when I was your age. We
can look at them.’
Vansh and Grandpa start looking at the photographs. Vansh is still missing his
mother. Then, he notices something.
‘Grandpa, what is that?’ he asks.
‘That is a spinning top,’ Grandpa says. ‘I used to play with it. I still have one.’
Grandpa gives a spinning top to Vansh. ‘I’ll show you how to use it,’
he says smiling.
Grandpa and Vansh play with it for an hour.
‘You are really good at it,’ Grandpa says. ‘I could teach you
other games too.’
‘That would be great!’ Vansh replies. ‘Can you take
care of me every day after school, Grandpa?’

Grandpa winks. ‘I think I can!’ he says.

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Reading 1 FA

 

(1) What does Vansh say he wants to
do after coming home?
(a) sing and dance
(b) play hopscotch
(c) watch TV

(2) Who is there to take care of Vansh?
(a) his grandfather (b) his uncle
(c) his sister

(3) What do Vansh and Grandpa look at?
(4) What does Vansh notice in one of the pictures?
(5) How long do Grandpa and Vansh play together?

Reading 2

(1) How do you spend your time after

coming home from school? What

do you like to do? Tell the class

about it.

(2) Why do you think Vansh asked

if his grandfather could mind him
S
every day after school? 

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Grammar FA

 

Capitals

Capitals in Proper Nouns

Let’s recall what we know about capital letters.
•  A sentence always begins with a capital letter.

•  A proper noun always begins with a capital letter.

Names of people, names of places, days of the week and months of the year are
all proper nouns. They begin with a capital letter.

Read the proper nouns below. Underline the
ones written incorrectly.

(1) Thursday (2)  october
(3) January (4)  sunday
(5) wednesday

Writing FA

 

Circle the incorrect word in each sentence.Then write the sentence
correctly.

(1) I sat next to jaya.

(2) Ms das is our class teacher.

(3) My birthday is on 3 june.

(4) I wake up late on sunday.

(5) Our school starts in april.

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(6) We are going to bangalore in august.
(7) Tomorrow is tuesday.
(8) Pinky, rosie and I are friends.
(9) I am going to meet rahul on wednesday.
(10) Rahul’s father is called Sushil Singh.

Vocabulary FA

 
Irregular Plurals

As we learnt in the last chapter, nouns that end with f, fe or y and nouns that
have oo in them are called irregular nouns.
Now let’s recall how to make their plurals:

f/fe ves
y ies
oo ee

Look at the regular and irregular nouns below. Identify each one
correctly, and circle the correct choice.Then write its plural form.
Look at the last chapter for help.

(1) loaf regular/irregular

(2) tomato regular/irregular

(3) city regular/irregular

(4) life regular/irregular

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(5) mine regular/irregular
(6) tooth regular/irregular
(7) case regular/irregular
(8) lesson regular/irregular
(9) foot regular/irregular
(10) enemy regular/irregular

Listening FA ASL  

   

Listen to the passage carefully.Then mark each sentence true ()
and false ().

(1) The spinning top is a very old toy.

(2) It is found in many countries.

(3) It used to be made of plastic, but now
it is made of wood.

(4) It is spun without any help.

(5) It keeps on spinning and never stops.

Speaking FA ASL

  
Have you been taught a game by your grandfather or your
grandmother or even by your parents? Tell the class about it.
Explain its rules and how it is played.

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Friend

You give me shade
From the hot summer sun.
Under your shadow
I have so much fun.

Your fruit is so sweet
And your spirit so kind.
Even when picked
Not in the least do you mind.

The birds are also thankful
That they have a place to rest.
In your tall branches
They make their snug nest.

Even though you are big mighty  very big and strong
And we are so small,
You, O mighty tree,
Are a true friend to us all.

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Reading 1 FA

 

(1) Where does the boy have fun?
(2) Who has a kind spirit?
(3) Who is thankful and why?
(4) Where do birds make their nests?
(5) Who is a true friend to all?

Reading 2 S

What does the tree give us? Who else does the tree help? 

Activity

Do you know that wood is
one of the most common and
useful products that we get
from trees? It is used to make
many things. Make a list of all
those things in your house
that are made of wood or
have wood in them. Ask your
parents to help you.

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Project

Leaf Printing
Have you ever drawn and coloured a leaf ? What did you use? You might have
used a pencil, crayons, sketch pens, or water colours. What if you could draw
and colour the leaf without using any of these? Let’s learn how.
What you need: a fresh green leaf, white paper napkins, a plastic mallet


Steps:
(1) Take a paper napkin and fold it in half.
(2) Place the leaf between the two folds. Make sure you use a fresh green leaf,

not an old brown one.

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(3) Pound the napkin with the plastic mallet for a short time.

(4) Soon you will see a green colour on the napkin. Open the napkin up and
remove the leaf. You will see the print of the leaf on the napkin. If the leaf is
stuck to the napkin, leave it there for a while. The leaf will dry out and then
come off.

Your leaf print is ready!

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3 Secret
Santa

Mike, do you know What’s a Secret Let me tell
we are playing the Santa? you the story of
Secret Santa game Princess Lian. You’ll
see how she becomes
this year? a Secret Santa.

It is a beautiful morning. The sun is shining. The birds sing loudly, and bees
buzz from flower to flower. Princess Lian is very busy. She is trying to decide
what to wear on Christmas Eve. ‘Which dress looks best?’ Lian asks her
friend Kim who is helping her.

Oh, I don’t want What
to wear pink in about this
the evening! Show
me something else, one?

Kim.

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Christmas songs are playing on the radio. Princess Lian and Kim sing along.
Then the radio presenter says, ‘There are many poor kids who don’t have
good clothes to wear this Christmas.’

Princess Lian is sad when she hears this. She listens carefully to the radio
presenter.

You can help
these poor kids. Would you
like to be their Secret Santa?
You can give them your old
clothes. Let me play a nice

song for you now.

Princess Lian decides to help the poor children. Princess Lian,
the radio presenter
I want to will tell us how to
help the poor kids,
find them.
Kim. I will give
them my old
clothes. How can I
find these kids?

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OK, Kim. I’ll wait for I know you all enjoyed that
the song to finish. I song. Come to Green Street
love listening to songs where we will be helping poor
people this evening. We will
on the radio. give them clothes and food. You
can also bring your old toys.

So do I.The
radio is great.
We learn so
many new things

from it.

‘Great!’ Princess Lian says to Kim. ‘Now I know where I can take all my old
clothes and toys!’

Kim helps Princess Lian pack all the old clothes that she wants to donate. She
picks up her yellow dress, a pink T-shirt, a few blue shirts and a red skirt.

Princess Lian also packs some toys. Then she asks her mother for permission
to go to Green Street. Her mother is delighted.

Mom, I want to Well done, Lian.
be a Secret Santa. I We should always
want to give the poor try to help others.
kids my old clothes It is a good thing
and toys as a gift.
to do.

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Princess Lian then goes to Green Street with Kim. She gives the clothes and
toys to the poor children.

The children are very happy. They thank Princess Lian. Princess Lian gives
them a hug and wishes them a Merry Christmas.

Their smile is Yes, Princess.
my Christmas gift, It made this
Kim.The radio is Christmas special
my Secret Santa. for everyone.

Reading 1 FA

 

(1) Fill in the blanks with the words in the box below.

Secret Santa Christmas friend pink toys

(a) Princess Lian is choosing her dress for Eve.

(b) Her Kim is helping her.

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(c) Princess Lian does not want to wear a dress.

(d) She becomes a for poor children.

(e) She gives clothes and to them.

(2) Mark each sentence true () or false ().

(a) Princess Lian and her friend Kim are watching television.
(b) Princess Lian hears about the poor children on the radio.
(c) Princess Lian wants to keep all her old clothes and toys.
(d) Princess Lian’s mother gives her permission to donate clothes to poor

children.
(e) The poor children are not happy to get Princess Lian’s toys.

(3) Answer the following questions:
(a) Who helps Princess Lian choose a dress?
(b) What items does Princess Lian donate to the poor children?
(c) What does Princess Lian do when she meets the children?
(d) What gift does Princess Lian get from the children?

Reading 2

(1) Have you ever given your old clothes or toys to someone? How did you feel

after doing that? 

(2) Get into pairs. With your partner, talk about helping others.  S

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Vocabulary FA

 
Compound Words
Look at these words:
star + fish = starfish
pop + corn = popcorn
We join two words to make a compound word.

Match the words in column A to the words in Column B to make
compound words. Use these words to fill in the blanks below. Copy
the example.

A B
rain cakes
water ball
pan bow
sun pack
foot melon
back light

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(1) Aman plays football with his friends every day.

(2) When there is after rain, we see a in the
sky.

(3) My mother makes very tasty .

(4) is my favourite fruit.

(5) Rita picked up her and left for school.

Grammar FA

 

Possessive Pronouns
If it belongs to me, it is mine.

If it belongs to you, it is yours.

If it belongs to the king, it is his.

If it belongs to the queen, it is hers.

If it belongs to the king and queen, it is theirs.

If it belongs to my friends and I, it is ours.

Words like mine, yours, his, hers, ours and theirs are used when we talk about
something which belongs to a particular person.

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Fill in the blanks with the correct possessive pronouns. Choose from
the words below.
his hers mine ours theirs yours

(1) Choose any dress. The choice is  .

(2) Their father buys books for them. These books are  .

(3) She bakes cookies. These cookies are  .

(4) We book this table every evening. This table is  .

(5) He buys this toy. This toy is  .

(6) I own these cards. These cards are  .

Listening FA ASL  

   

Listen to the text. Mark each sentence true () or false ().
(1) Ali is enjoying his holidays.
(2) Sherry is the name of Ali’s dog.

(3) The dog likes milk and bread.

(4) Sherry is a little blue cat.

(5) Perry and Sherry are good friends.

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Writing   FA

Imagine you are a radio presenter. Write five sentences about your
favourite festival.

Hello, friends!

I am your radio presenter  . You can call me RJ  .

Today I will tell you about my favourite festival. .
.
It is called  . .
.
.

We all love celebrating festivals.

Speaking FA ASL

  
Present the radio show you prepared in the writing section to your
class. Don’t forget to sing your favourite song.

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4 What Is the
News?

Mike, what Newspapers
are you are not for
reading?
kids.

I’m reading Newspapers are
a newspaper, Sammy. for everyone.You are just like Antonio.
Let me tell you how Antonio started
Do you read the
newspaper? reading newspapers.

It is the summer holidays. Antonio sleeps till 11 o’clock every morning. His
mother calls him.

Mom: Antonio, wake up now! You shouldn’t sleep so much. You’ll waste your
summer holidays like this!

Antonio: Mom, just five more minutes!

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Mom is upset. She talks to Dad about Antonio.
Mom: Antonio sleeps so much. He is wasting his holidays!
Dad: I know! I have an idea that might help change his sleeping habits.
Mom: Really? What’s the idea?
Dad: We’ll make him read a newspaper.
Mom: Reading the newspaper is a great habit. But how will that change Antonio’s
sleeping pattern?
Dad: Let’s just wait and see.
Next morning Antonio is in the garden with Dad. He is playing around. His Dad
is reading the newspaper.

Dad: Antonio, do you know, there’s a funfair in the city?
Antonio: A funfair! No, Dad, I didn’t know that. Where’s it on? I want to go to it.
Dad: You can read about it. It’s there in the newspaper.
Antonio: Newspapers are not for kids.

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Dad: No, Antonio Newspapers are for everyone. Newspapers tell us what is
happening around us. We learn new things from them.

Antonio: Can the newspaper tell me more about the fair?
Dad: Yes, it will tell you everything about the fair.
Antonio: All right. I’ll read the newspaper and find out more about the fair.

Antonio starts to read the
newspaper. He reads about
the fair. Then he reads the
comics section. After that, he
reads different news stories
about the city.

When Antonio goes back
to school after the summer
holidays, he tells his friends
about the things he has read.
One by one, everyone in
Antonio’s class starts to read
the newspaper.

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Reading 1 FA

 

(1) Why is Antonio’s Mom upset?

(2) What is Dad reading?

(a) a book (b) a comic (c) a newspaper

(3) Dad tells Antonio about a in the city.

(4) What kind of things does a newspaper tell us?

Reading 2 S

Do you think newspapers are not for children? Discuss with your class. 

Vocabulary FA

 
Compound Words

Write the compound word that can be formed by joining each set of
words below.The first one has been done as an example.

butterfly

butter fly

snow man

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jelly fish
letter box

rain coat

Grammar   FA

Articles
Read the sentences below aloud.
There is a boy, who plays with a toy.
He has a hen, who lays an egg.
He has an aunt, who waters a plant.

We use an with words beginning with a vowel sound, that is, the sound made
by the letters a, e, i, o, u. For other words we use a.

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Examples:

an honest girl a boy

an egg a pig

Fill in the blanks with ‘a’ or ‘an’.

(1) We keep apple in basket.

(2) We put book on shelf.

(3) We call doctor when we are ill.

(4) We eat egg in the morning.

(5) orange grows on tree.

Comma
Read the sentences below.

Dad gives Ajay a pen, a ball and a hat.
Tia buys a dress, a skirt and a shirt for her sister.
Here we use a comma to separate the things that Dad gives to Ajay. We use a
comma to separate the things that Tia buys for her sister.

When there are more than two items in a list we use a comma to separate
them.

Read each sentence. Add a comma to separate each item in the list.
(1) There are spoons forks and knives on the table.
(2) We have eggs toast and milk for breakfast.
(3) Mother buys clothes toys and books for us.

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(4) Blue black red and green are my favourite colours.
(5) I have books notebooks and pencils in my bag.
(6) I like to eat cakes pastries and cookies.

Listening FA ASL  

   

Listen to the poem and fill in the blanks with the correct words.

Newspaper, Newspaper! What do you do?

Tell us please, why we you?

Hello! Dear kids, I am Newspaper,

I tell you all about the new .

I tell you what happened and
.

Pick me up and read me is what I say.

Oh, dear Newspaper! now we say,

We will read you .

Speaking FA ASL

  

We hear stories from our grandparents, parents and friends.We all
love stories. Share a story that you love with your class.

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Writing FA

 

Write five things you miss about your school during the summer
holidays.

I miss having lunch with my friends.  
 
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Mr Sunday

Like a cat waiting for a rat,
We long for Mr Sunday.
The best day of the week,
As good as any birthday.

When at last he comes,
We smile with sheer delight.
Enjoying every moment,
From morning until night.

When Mr Sunday comes,
we clap, we run, we jump.
Our happiness rising
like a camel’s great big hump.

As fast as any cheetah,
Each Sunday rushes by.
Then slowly, like a tortoise,
To our classes, we sigh!

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Reading FA Sunday

 
(1) Complete the passage using the words in the box below.

classes jump cheetah night

Children think the best day of the week is  . They love every

moment of the day, from morning until  . On Sundays, they clap

and run and  . But Sundays rush past as fast as a  .

Then back to their the children must go.

(2) What do you think Mr Sunday looks like? Draw a picture in the box below.

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