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Conversation Skills                                        Communication Skills
            Improves speaking skills through role play                  Helps learners speak and express
                                                                        themselves confidently
             Conversation Skills
           Practise this conversation with your partner.               Communication Skills
           Shopkeeper:  Good evening sir. How may I help you?         Think about a situation when you were brave.
           Customer:   I am looking for a pair of shoes.              Speak about it in class.
           Shopkeeper:  What size, sir?
           Customer:    Size 7.
                                                                         Creative Writing Skills
           Shopkeeper:   Please have a look in this section, sir.
                     These are the designs available.                   Develops ability to write simple and
           Customer:   I like these brown shoes. Let me try them on.    correct sentences in a guided manner
           Shopkeeper:  Here they are.
           Customer:   They fit me perfectly well. Please pack them.   Creative Writing Skills
           Shopkeeper:  Would you like a pair of socks too?
                                                                      Imagine you are illiterate.
           Customer:   Yes, please. In grey colour.
                                                                      What are the problems would you face? Write them down
           Shopkeeper:  Sure. Please make the payment at the counter, sir.  in your notebook.
             Classroom Interaction                                     Cross-Curriculum Connect
           Develops ability to discuss in groups                      Integrates English with other core subjects

            Classroom Interaction                                      Cross- Curriculum Connect

           What did you think of the Boy in the lesson? And how did you feel when   Trees are  a  vital component  of our environment  and  our
           the tree gave away everything it had? Discuss in class.    lives. They provide us with food, clean air, medicine, wood
                                                                      and many other things. Birds live on trees. Some animals
                                                                      also live in the shade of trees.
             Life Skills and Values

           Imparts life skills and human values in learners           Reading Comprehension Passages
                                                                      Develops reading skills
             Life Skills and Values                                           Reading Comprehension Passages
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            Having a strong body is not enough. We must have presence of
                                                                      Read the passages and answer the questions that follow.
            mind to face difficult situations. Our mind should be strong too.        1. The Village of Beads
                                                                        Mundali Village is popularly known as ‘Moti Gaon’ (village of beads). 80% of the people in
                                                                      this village are involved in bead related work. Women of this village make beautiful tassels,
                                                                      bracelets,  strings, earrings  and  wall hangings with  beads.  Farha  and  her  daughters  earn
             Assessment Paper                                         between `500 and `700 a day by working in this industry. Akash, a handicraft artist makes
                                                                      decorative  items from beads using lace and jute. He earns close to
                                                                      `1000 a day. He wants to set up his own manufacturing unit one day.
           Helps for periodic assessment and evaluation               But this business demands patience and practice with speed. Stringing
                                                                      tiny beads into thin nylon threads to make intricate designs cannot
                                                                      be done using machines. People of this village have picked up a good
                            Assessment Paper-1                        deal of expertise in bead work with their hard work. This business has
                                                                      brought  prosperity and employment to this village. As bead work
                                                                      comes under handicraft category, administration also provides the artisans a platform to
                                                                      exhibit their work and products. These exhibitions are attended by buyers and exporters.
                           (Based on Lessons 1-7)
                                                                      This helps the artisans to showcase their talent to the world.
            Marks: 50
            A.  Choose the right option.                (5 Marks)
               1. The villager could not read because he was _____________ .
                 a.    stupid   b.    illiterate c.    blind          Grammar Check
               2.  The boy cut off her branches to _____________ .    Helps in improving language
                 a.    build a house  b.    make a boat  c.    cook food
               3. Kalam became the _____________ of India.                         Grammar Check-1
                 a.    president   b.    prime minister  c.    home minister
               4. The people of the town built a _____________ .      Tick (3) the right answer.
                 a.    bridge   b.    temple  c.    castle            1.  I _____________ in Delhi since 2023.
               5. Vidyasagar wanted education for _____________ .       a.   am living   b.   have been living   c.   was living
                 a.    adults   b.    boys c.    girls                2.  I _____________ Renu yesterday.
            B.  Answer the following questions.        (10 Marks)       a.   met   b.   have met   c.   had met
               1. In the poem 'Leisure' what are the things the poet wants to stand and stare   3.  The window pane broke while the children _____________ cricket.
                at?                                                     a.   will be playing b.   are playing   c.   were playing
               2. What were the contritions of Vidyasagar?
               3. What did the two brothers do every night?           4.  Priya _____________ music classes every Sunday.
               4. What did the Maths teacher say during the assembly?   a.   is attending  b.   attends   c.   attended
               5. What did the shopkeeper say to the villager?        5.  When the teacher _____________ the class, the students were shouting.
                                                                        a.   entered   b.   enters   c.   is entering
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