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Warm Up
What do you understand from the pictures? Discuss in class.
Come here, Nina. What are I am planting When will it grow big?
you doing? a sapling.
It will grow big Oh I see! Now let’s sprinkle Okay.
in a few months. some water.
Reading Skills
One day, a king was riding on a horse around the countryside. Some of his men
were also with him. The king stopped at some places to find out how his people were
doing. Wherever he went, the people had something or the other to complain about.
“Is there not one happy person in my kingdom?” wondered the king.
The king rode on. He saw an old man in a field. It was summer and the sun was
shining brightly in the sky. The old man was digging the earth.
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