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biting using teeth to cut into somethingcounting saying the numbers one after the other to get to a totalnodding letting your head fall forwards when tired and falling

asleep

One, two, three…

Zzzzzzzzzz

He is sitting

under a

banana tree.

It has big

leaves.

It is a hot day.

Anwar is in his garden.

Anwar is

counting

ants.

They are

climbing a

dead tree.

Anwar is nodding his head.

He is closing his eyes.

Is Anwar thinking?

No, he is not.

Is he counting

ants? No, he is not.

Is he sleeping?

Yes, he is!

Soon Anwar

is dreaming.

He is making

a present.

It is for his

mother.

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Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!

Ow! Ow! Ow!

chip chip

nip

nip

nip

creak

crick

Anwar is climbing the dead tree.

He is sitting on a branch.He is chopping it with an axe.

Anwar falls down. Anwar shouts.

Anwar wakes up. The ants are biting Anwar.

Now he is dancing and shouting and running.

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ExercisesA COMPREHENSION

1. Answer the following questions.

a. Where is Anwar?b. What is Anwar counting?c. Where are the ants?d. What sounds does Anwar make?e. What happens to Anwar?

2. Talk about the following with your teacher before answering.

a. Why does Anwar go to sleep?b. When do you go to sleep? c. What does Anwar dream about?

3. Read these sentences aloud. Copy them (in the correct order) into your notebook.

a. Anwar is closing his eyes.b. Anwar is counting ants.c. Anwar is in his garden.d. Anwar is dreaming.

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Have you ever made a present or a card for your mother? What was the present? And what did the card say?

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B WORKING WITH WORDS

1. Read the words aloud. Do you know what they mean?

garden under banana leaf looking

ant climbing dead counting nodding

closing eye thinking sleeping dream

present mother branch chopping axe

falls shouts wakes biting dance

2. Read the words again. Now write them in your notebook. Can you spell them all correctly?

C LEARNING ABOUT LANGUAGE

USING A OR AN

a basket an egg

Copy the words from Exercise B.1 into your notebook. Write a or an before the name of each thing.

Examples:

a present an axe

(Do not write ‘a’ or ‘an’ before the words that are not things.)

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D LISTENING AND SPEAKING

1. Work in pairs or in small groups. Ask a question about the pictures given below. Let your classmate(s) answer.

Example:

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What are these?

What do they do? Tell me about

them!

These are fireworks.

We let them off at a party.

They go bang! They are

noisy.

a. b. c.

d.

e.

f.

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2. Listen to the words and repeat them aloud. Say the vowel sounds carefully.

a bag hat rat

e leg bed red

i pit sit nib

o hot not log

u cup bus jug

3. Let a friend say the following words aloud. Listen carefully to each word, then write it in the correct list in Exercise D.2.

tap

tentop

pot zip

bun tin

pensun man

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1. Read the following words, then draw faces to show them.

happy sad angry me

2. Write a sentence about each picture.

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I have a cat, His name is Rish, His fur is white, And he likes fish.

He hunts and walks,About my house,He’s always out,To catch a mouse.

I play with him,And keep him clean;A smarter cat,You’ve never seen.

words to know

catch to take and hold something that is moving fur the soft thick hair that covers the body of animalshunts chases other animals for food smarter cleaner and tidier; more intelligent

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ExercisesA UNDERSTANDING THE POEM

1. Talk about the following with your teacher and then write the answers.

a. Is Rish male or female? (‘Male’ is the word for a boy or man. ‘Female’ is the word

for a girl or woman.) b. Does Rish have hair or fur? What is it like? c. What does Rish do in the house? d. What do you think Rish does outside the house? e. Is Rish clever? f. In your own words, say what Rish is like.

B WORKING WITH WORDS

1. Can you hunt like Rish? Find the words. They are all in the poem. The letters are jumbled.

a. tac b. ruf c. shif d. ushoe e. usome f. yalp g. shunt h. mane

C LEARNING ABOUT LANGUAGE

PREPOSITIONS

A preposition shows the position between one noun and another.

Example: The cat is on the table.

under on down up

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Look at the pictures and complete the sentences using the correct preposition given in the box on page 10.

a. Anwar is the log. b. Anwar is climbing the tree.

c. The leaf is falling . d. The ant is the leaf.

D LISTENING AND SPEAKING

Read the words aloud.

ch sh th th

chip ship thick this

chin shin thin that

chop shop with the

chap shot cloth these

Listen to the sounds of these words. Write as you listen.

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E ACTIVITY

Talk about your pets. If you do not have a pet, which pet would you like? Why? How will you look after it? What will it eat? Where will it sleep?

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cry to shed tears because you are upset or hurtlost gone missing

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Rahila is crying. She has lost her golden bangle.

‘Don’t cry, Rahila,’ says Mum. ‘Go and play.’

Rahila goes outside. She sits under the wood-apple tree. It is next to the wall.

Rahila counts the leaves on the tree.

One, two, three, four …

One leaf is falling from the tree.

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Rahila stands up. The wind starts again. The leaf dances up and down—left and right. It turns and turns! It spins like a top. It climbs high above the roof!

‘What fun!’ says Rahila.

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It moves in front of her and behind her.

Soon, the leaf falls into a hole. It is at the side of a rosebush. Rahila picks up the leaf. She finds her golden bangle under it.

Rahila laughs. She takes the bangle and the lucky leaf to show Mum.

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ExercisesA COMPREHENSION

1. Answer the following questions.

a. What does Rahila lose?b. Where does Rahila sit?c. What does Rahila do?d. Where does the leaf fly?e. Where does the leaf fall?f. Why does Rahila laugh?

2. Look at the pictures in the lesson. Write answers to the following questions.

a. How many flowers are there on the rosebush? (Answer: There are on the rosebush.)

b. How many wood-apples are there on the grass?c. How many bangles does Rahila have?d. How many birds are on the branch?e. How many pots are near the wall in the picture on

page 13?

3. Fill in the blanks.

a. is crying.b. is falling from the tree.c. The wind .d. The leaf dances and down—

and right.e. Rahila up the leaf.

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Have you ever lost something precious? Where did you find it? Share your story with your classmates.

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B WORKING WITH WORDS

1. Learn the rhyme. Copy it into your notebook. Draw some pictures.

One, two, buckle my shoe;Three, four, knock at the door;Five, six, pick up sticks;Seven, eight, lay them straight;Nine, ten, a big fat hen.

C LEARNING ABOUT LANGUAGE

PREPOSITIONS Work in pairs. Make some questions about the pictures. Use the words in the box below.

in on under behind in front of at the side of

Example: How many are there ?

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D LISTENING AND SPEAKING

1. Listen to the sounds and repeat them aloud. Say the words.

cl sl ch dr

clap slam chip dropclip slap chimp dreamclass slow check dry

2. Look at the pictures. Now add these words to the lists above.

E ACTIVITY

1. Read these numbers aloud. Learn to write them.

eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen

sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty

2. Count the items in the boxes on page 18 and write the numbers in words. Colour the pictures.

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Here we go ’round the mulberry bush, The mulberry bush, The mulberry bush. Here we go ’round the mulberry bush, So early in the morning.

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bake to cook food, such as a cake, in an oven early before the usual timeiron to make clothes smoothsweep to clean something by moving dirt away with a brush or

a broom

The Mulberry Bush

These are the jobs we do all week, Do all week, Do all week. These are the jobs we do all week, So early every morning.

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A UNDERSTANDING THE POEM

1. Talk about the following with your teacher and then write the answers.

a. Who is speaking in the poem? b. What jobs do the children have? c. What do the children do on Tuesday? d. How many days are there in one week?

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Exercises

This is the way we wash our clothes, Wash our clothes, Wash our clothes. This is the way we wash our clothes, So early Monday morning.

This is the way we iron our clothes, Iron our clothes, Iron our clothes. This is the way we iron our clothes, So early Tuesday morning.

(Adapted)

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B WORKING WITH WORDS

This rhyme can be sung. Listen to the song. Learn it. Sing it with actions. Here is what happens on the other days of the week:

Wednesday: clean the floorThursday: make our food Friday: mend our clothes Saturday: bake the bread Sunday: sing and play

C LEARNING ABOUT LANGUAGE

Work in pairs. Talk about the pictures below.

Ask questions like this:

Who is this? What is he/she doing?

Give answers:

This is . He/she is .

You may use these words. They tell us what the children are doing.

wash brush go comb

look sleep read carry

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D LISTENING AND SPEAKING

Talk about what you do every week. What do you do at home? What do you do at school? What do you do at the weekend?

E ACTIVITY

DAYS OF THE WEEK

Write these days of the week in your notebook. Can you make a calendar for this month? Find a picture or draw one for your calendar. Try to draw pictures of something you do each day.

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6 13 20 277 14 21 28

1 8 15 22 292 9 16 23 303 10 17 244 11 18 255 12 19 26

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