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Warm Up Reading / Recitation Skills
Arouses curiosity and Develops ability to read texts / recite poems
interest in learners
Warm Up
Look at the picture and discuss the questions.
• What does the picture Reading Skills
show?
• What are they Today is a holiday.
celebrating?
• What is the principal Anup and Neha are in the garden.
giving the child?
“Come, let us fly our kites,” Anup says.
• What are the children
doing? They get their kites.

Word Power Listening Skills

Highlights the new words and their meanings Develops skills of listening with comprehension
Word Power
Listening Skills
countryside: rural area (village) Majesty: used to address a king
field: farmland dig: to break up and move the ground Listen to the text carefully as your teacher reads it out. Then say
earth: soil kingdom: an area controlled by a king whether the following statements are true or false.
saplings: baby plant or queen 1. The parrot is green.
forefathers: grandfather, great grandfather planting: putting young plants in the 2. It is a rainy day.
etc. (ancestors) ground to grow
3. Polly is in the living room.
pleased: feeling happy or satisfied
4. Ben looks for her in the cupboard.
5. Ben goes into the garden.
Comprehension Skills
Develops skills of understanding
and interpreting texts Vocabulary
Comprehension Skills Develops vocabulary through practice exercises
A. Tick (3) the right answer.
1. Anu went for a walk one ______________.
Vocabulary
Friday evening Sunday evening Monday evening
2. The birds took the ______________ on the ground. A. Write the opposites of the words given.
seeds fruit leaves late – ______________ tomorrow – ______________
3. In a few days, the plant had two tiny ______________. sad – ______________ here – ______________
leaves roots shoots go – ______________ cry – ______________

Grammar Skills
Helps learners understand Pronunciation
structures and their uses
Develops skills of pronunciation
Grammar Skills based on the sounds of letters
A. Verbs - Past Forms
Verbs are action words.
Pronunciation
They have present and past forms.
Let’s learn more past forms. Read these words aloud.
wake – woke say – said make – made hear wear dear tear
wear – wore give – gave put – put
pear fear gear ear
tie – tied cut – cut blow – blew
take – took eat – ate look - looked