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Fairy tale charac-ter have certain associations. Put ‘A’ against
things and peo-ple associated with ALIBABA. ‘B’ against ALLADIN And
‘C’ against SINBAD.
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→ Pinocchio was a wooden boy puppet.
→ His nose grew whenever he told a lie.
→ If our nose grew every time we lied, I wonder how long our
noses would have been!
KNOW WITH ...
→ The real name of the fairy tale character Sleeping Beauty is
Prin-cess Aurora.
→ The handsome prince who res-cued her from the evil spell is
Prince Phillip.
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FAIRY TALE THEATRE
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These are the names of some places associated with characters
from books.
DOWN
1. Alice visited this
imaginary place.
2. This place is best
known as the
home of Batman.
(2 words)
3. This place was
created by R K
Narayan. Swami
lives here.
4. This fictional city
is the home of Su-
perman.
ACROSS
5. This place is asso-
ciated with Harry
Potter.
6. Noddy is a little
woden boy who
lives here.
SOLVE THE CROSSWORD
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KNOW WITH ...
→ In literature, we often come across words like ‘fiction’ and
‘non-fiction’.
→ ‘Fiction’ refers to literature that talks about imaginary
people and things, not real ones.
→ ‘Non fiction’ is about real people and things, not imaginary
ones.
GROW WITH ...
→ All through our lives we are mem-bers of various groups like
family, religion and school.
→ All the members of these groups are Important and so all
should be treated with respect.
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MEET ME AT HOME!
SHEET 2
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A collective noun is a word used to define a group of objects,
where ‘objects’ can be people, animals and things. Match column A
with column B.
1. Litter
2. Fleet
3. Gaggle
4. School
5. Flock
6. Sheaf
7. Bevy
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KNOW WITH ...
→ The lion is the only big cat that lives and hunts in a group.
A group of lions is called a ‘pride’.
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UNITED WE STAND
SHEET 3
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GROW WITH ...
→ A set of words that a person knows or uses is called his/her
vocabulary. → A good way to improve your vocabulary is to look up
the dictionary when-
ever you come across a new word. → A good vocabulary helps you
to express yourself clearly and understand the
language better.
A dictionary is a storehouse of information. It gives a list of
the words of a language in alphabetical order and explains what
they mean. Alphabetical order means the correct order of the
letters of the alphabet e.g. A,B,C,D,E... Ina an English
dictionary, which of these words will appear earlier?
1. Tuesday or Friday 2. January or February 3. Winter or Spring
4. Egg or Chicken 5. Phantom or Tintin 6. Holi or Diwali 7.
Independence day or Republic Day 8. Television or Mobile 9. Lunch
or Dinner 10. Grandfather or Father
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LOOKING UP A DICTIONARY
SHEET 4
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GROW WITH ...
→ There’s nothing wrong with watching a little television every
day,
→ But we must be careful. Too much TV has been proved to reduce
ones ability to memorize.
KNOW WITH ...
→ An ‘author’ is a person who writes books. The words ‘author’
is often used instead of ‘writer’.
1. Oliver Twist by CHARLES —————
2. Gitanjali by RABINDRANATH —————
3. Alice’s Adventures in Won-derland by LEWIS ————
4. MAHABHARATA by VED ————-
5. Gulliver’s Travels by JONATHAN ————
6. Discovery of India by JAWAHARLAL ————-
7. The Jungle Book by RUDYARD —————
Fill in the blanks with the surname of the author.
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BOOKSHELF
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GROW WITH ...
→ The back cover often carries a short summary of the book. → It
helps in deciding whether one wants to buy the book or not.
1. Just like humans, books, too, have body parts. These are some
of the parts of the book.
2. A TABLE OF CONTENTS is a list of the parts of a book or
document or-ganized in the order in which the parts appear.
3. A FOREWORD is a short piece of writing often found at the
beginning of a book, written by someone other than the author of
the book.
4. A PREFACE is an introduction to a book written by the author
of the book.
5. A GLOSSARY is a list of terms related to a particular text
explaining their meanings.
6. An INDEX is a list of words and topics that are referred to
in a book usu-ally arranged at the end of a book in alphabetical
order.
Here’s a quick quiz! 1. What is the little of this
book? ————————————————————————
2. Who is the author of this book? ————————————————————————
3. Look at the contents page and see how many major chapters the
book is divided into? ————————————————————————-
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INTO A BOOK
SHEET 6
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GROW WITH ...
→ The famous proverb ‘All that glit-ters is not gold’ is
actually a line
from William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.
→ Write down any two proverbs that you know of.
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KNOW WITH ...
→ During the time of Shakespeare, only men would act in plays.
So all the female roles were also played by men.
SOME OF HIS WORKS:-
i. The Tempest ii. The Comedy of Errors iii. Much Ado About
Nothing iv. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
v. The Merchant of Venice vi. As You Like It vii.Taming of the
Shrew viii.All’s Well That Ends Well ix. Twelfth Night, or What You
Will
x. Romeo and Juliet xi. Julius Caesar xii. Macbeth xiii.Hamlet
xiv.Troilus and Cressida xv. King Lear xvi.Othello xvii.Antonym and
Cleopatra
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
SHEET 7
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These are lines from the fairy tale Cinderella. Sadly, they are
all jumbled. Put them in order so that they make sense. Write the
sentence nember in the white circles on the left. (A) Cinderella is
a poor but beautiful girl. (B) Her stepsisters make her work all
day. (C) One day they receive an invitation to go to a ball.
(D) Suddenly her fairy godmother appears and dresses her in
beautiful clothes and gives her a carriage that will take her to
the ball.
(E) While leaving the ball, Cinderella leaves a slip-per
behind.
(F) The Prince of the land sends a messenger with the slipper,
announcing that he will marry the lady who owns the slipper.
(G) At last Cinderella is married to the Prince. (H) She lives
with her stepmother and stepsisters. (I) Cinderella is not allowed
to go there and so she weeps in sorrow.
(J) She warns Cinderella that she must be back by midnight.
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KNOW WITH ...
→ Cinderella got her name from the cin-ders beside which she sat
all day. Cinders are pieces of partly burnt coal or wood.
GROW WITH ...
→ Suggest three different names for the story.
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PUTTING THE STORY RIGHT
SHEET 8
NAME ______________________________________ DATE
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MALL
IDENTITY
POST OFFICE
It is a building or set of buildings that has various types of
stores, with inter-connecting walkways enabling visitors to easily
walk from store to store.
It is a card with your name, date of birth, photo-graph, etc. on
it that proves who you are.
It is a place where you can buy stamps, send letters, packages,
etc.
RENT
It is the amount of money that you regularly pay so that you can
use something owned by someone else temporarily.
PIN
It is the short form for Postal Index Number or Pin-code. It is
a number given to every post office by the Indian Postal Service.
It usually consists of 6 digitd. The PIN was introduced on 15
August 1972.
PCO
It stands for Public Call Office. It is apublic place from where
telephone calls are made.
APARTMENT
It means a set of rooms for living in, usually on one floor of a
building.
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WORDS WE HEAR
SHEET 9
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