II CLASS - ENGLISH

CLASS II – TEACHING NOTES 2009 - 2010
ENGLISH - TERM – I

Ls. No. 1 Jump or Jiggle


New words: wiggle, jiggle, slide, glide, creep, leap, bounce, pounce, stalk.

Meanings:

1. hump – to take the whole body at once
2. wiggle – to twist
3. jiggle – to rock up and down
4. lope – to run
5. trot – to move faster than walking
6. slide – to move smoothly
7. glide – to move easily
8. creep – to move with the body close to the ground
9. leap – to jump
10. bounce – to move like a spring
11. pounce – to jump to catch something
12. stalk – to walk stiffly

Questions and answers:

1. What do the bugs do?
A. Bugs jiggle

2. What do the rabbits do?
A. Rabbits lope from one place to another.

3. What is the meaning of ‘glide’?
A. Glide means to move easily.

4. What do lions do?
A. Lions walk stiffly, slowly and quietly towards an animal or a person to kill them.

5. What do you do?
A. I walk or run from one place to another.


Grammar:

Nouns:
Noun is a name of a person; place, animal or thing.
All naming words are called Nouns. Eg: person – Ram, place – Abids, animal – lion, thing – pen.

Underline the nouns:
Komal went to zoo with her friends.
Raj and Sam are in the classroom.
Our school is situated at Abids.
Seema gave roses to the teacher.
Children are playing in the garden.

Give the plural forms of the following nouns (Naming words) (Refer Reader)

Singular Plural
frog frogs
caterpillar caterpillars
worm worms
bug bugs
rabbit rabbits
horse horses
snake snakes
sea gull seagulls
mouse mice
deer deer
kitten kittens
lion lions

Fill in the blanks: (Refer Reader)

1. Painters paint houses.
2. Poets write poems.
3. Singers sing songs.
4. Cobblers make shoes.
5. Cooks cook food.

Tense: Present Tense : We can explain children what they or we are doing right now is present tense. For Eg: I am teaching. The word ‘teaching’ is in present tense. You i.e., the children are listening, listening is present tense. And the exercises in the reader can be done.

Make Sentences:

1) jiggle – The bugs jiggle all around in the garden.
2) pounce – The cat pounced on the rat.
3) bounce – I love to bounce on the bouncing bed.
4) creep – Creepers creep on the ground.



II) List out the rhyming words from the poem.

1. jump – hump
2. wiggle – jiggle
3. slide – glide
4. bounce – pounce
5. creep – leap
6. stalk – walk


Ls. 2 – Two Friends

New words :

friends acted through deserts John
sniffed thought danger Samuel climbed
teasingly annoyingly attacked forest whisper
answered remained smelt replied


Meanings:
1. attacked – an act done to hurt or kill someone.
2. fled – ran away
3. remained – stayed back
4. sniffed – smelt
5. teasingly – annoyingly (a way to make fun of)
6. whisper – talk slowly without noise / talk slowly or softly
7. replied – answered in return
8. desert – leave

Questions and answers :

1. Where did John and Samuel go?
A. John and Samuel went through a forest.

2. What happened when they were walking through a forest?
A. A bear attacked them when they were walking through a forest.

3. What did Samuel do?
A. Samuel turned and fled. Then, he climbed a tree and sat there.

4. What did John do?
A. John laid down on the ground and acted as if he was dead.

5. What did the bear do?
A. The bear sniffed John’s face, thought he was dead and went away.

6. What did Samuel ask?
A. Samuel asked John what had the bear whispered in his ear.

7. What was John’s reply to Samuel?
A. John replied that the bear said, “Someone who deserts his friend in time of danger is not a friend at all.”

8. What moral did you learn from this story?
A. From this story, we learnt that we should never make friendship with the people who desert us when we are in danger.

Make Sentences:

1) fled – The thief fled with the gold.
2) attacked – The dog attacked the boy.
3) sniffed – The tiger sniffed at the meat.
4) friend - ___________ is my best friend.


GRAMMAR:

Verbs:
All the action words or doing words are called Verbs. Eg: eat, jump, write, run, etc.
Underline the verbs:
I saw a tiger.
Shyam wrote a letter.
Yash plays cricket.
Bugs jiggle.
Samuel sat on the tree.

Most of the verbs become past tense words when ‘ed’ is added to the present tense words as in the following list: complete the list by filling in the blanks:

walk – walked attack – attacked climb – climbed
remain – remained sniff – sniffed act – acted
desert – deserted turn - turned


Give the past tense of the following verbs:

sing – sang write – wrote tell – told
feel – felt stand – stood run – ran
is – was flee – fled has – had
fly – flew sit – sat swim – swam
think – thought smell – smelt say – said
tell – told read – read sniff – sniffed
climb – climbed remain – remained talk – talked
stand – stood drink – drank go – went
fall – fell

Underline the verbs (doing words)

1. The fox saw a bunch of grapes.
2. He jumped high.
3. The boy wandered through the forest.

Fill in the blanks with the past forms of the actions underlined. The first one is done for you.

1. Two friends walk. - Two friends walked.
2. The bear attacks them. – The bear attacked them.
3. They flee. – They fled.
4. Samuel climbs a tree. – Samuel climbed a tree.
5. John remains on the ground. – John remained on the ground.
6. The bear comes to John. – The bear came to John.
7. He sniffs John’s face. – He sniffed John’s face.
8. The bear whispers into John’s ear. – The bear whispered into John’s ear.

Complete these sentences taking help from the verbs given in the brackets. The first one is done for you.
1. John saw that Samuel climbed a tree.
2. Samuel saw that the bear went up to John.

3. Samuel saw that the bear whispered into John’s ears.
4. John knew that Samuel was not a good person.

Composition I:
My Best Friend:

My best friend is ______________.
We are studying in Class II.
We sit together in the class.
We enjoy reading, writing and playing games.
Our favourite colour is blue and we enjoy eating ice-cream.
I like my friend very much.


Ls. 3 – Upside Down

Poetry Written: (8 lines)

New Words: beetles, creatures, upside down, crawl, ceiling, practice, trouble, trying, floor.

Meanings:
1. funny – strange
2. creature – a living being
3. beetle – an insect
4. crawl – to move slowly with the body on or close to the ground
5. ceiling – the inner side of the roof of a room
6. trouble – problem

Questions and answers:

1. How do beetles walk?
A. Beetles walk upside down and flat too.

2. Do the beetles have trouble in walking on a ceiling or a wall?
A. No, the beetles do not have trouble in walking on a ceiling or a wall.

3. Can you stand on your head?
A. No, I cannot stand on my head.

GRAMMAR:

1. Write the Short forms of the following:
it is – it’s that is – that’s here is – here’s
can not – can’t will not – won’t shall not – shan’t
I will – I’ll you will – you’ll he will – he’ll
she will – she’ll they will – they’ll we will – we’ll

Make Sentences:
1) ceiling – Stars are painted on the ceiling of my bed room.
2) crawl – I can crawl like a baby.
3) trouble – We should not trouble others.
4) funny – Jokers have funny nose.

Structure Practice: (Note book)
Verb + ing = Present Continuous Tense. Eg: eat + ing = eating; play + ing = playing;
dance + ing = dancing

1) The beetle is walking upside down.
2) It’s crawling on the wall.
3) I am standing on my head.
4) Children are playing.
5) Sita is dancing.
6) Teacher is writing.
7) Ram is dancing.

Can – can’t – ability (Refer Pg. 14)
I can run fast. You can’t.

2. Write five sentences about what you can do and write three sentences on what you can’t do. Look at the following examples.
1. I can water the plants.
2. I can’t sweep the floor.
3. Sania can play tennis. Dhoni can’t.
4. Rama can sing. Mona can’t.
5. Yash can swim. Shiva can’t.


Ls. No. 4 – The Lion and the Bulls

New words:
dared, attack, courage, trusted, field, sprang, together, realise, harm, happiness.

Meanings:
1. dared – had courage
2. trusted – believed
3. sprang – fell upon
4. realise – understand
5. unity – the state of being together

Questions and answers:

1. How many bulls lived together?
A. Four bulls lived together.

2. Why were the animals afraid of four bulls?
A. The animals were afraid of four bulls because they would fight back and attack together.

3. What did the lion tell the first bull?
A. The lion told the first bull that his friends were eating more grass than him which was not right.

4. What happened to the first bull when he went alone?
A. When the first bull went alone the lion sprang upon him, killed and ate him.

5. What happened to the other bulls?
A. The lion killed the other bulls also.

6. What is the moral of this story?
A. The moral of the story is, “Unity is strength”.

GRAMMAR:

Preposition is a word which shows the position of a noun.
Eg: on, in, at, under, near, behind, etc.

Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions : (c/w)

1) Ashok sat on a chair.
2) She always plays with her dolls.
3) We sat under a big tree.
4) May comes after April.
5) The river flows under the bridge.
6) We can not live without air.
7) We walked along the bank of the river.
8) Go and stand near the door.
9) The postman knocks at the door.
10) There is a wall behind the school.


Make Sentences :

1) trust – We should never trust strangers.
2) dared – Ramu never dared to go near the swimming pool.
3) unity – We should always live in unity.

Class room ex. On pg. 19 and 20.

Fill in the blanks with suitable words from the box below.

1. The book is lying on the table.
2. The ball is under the desk.
3. She jumped over the fence.
4. The girl sat on the chair.
5. The girl is standing near the trees.

Answers for Structure practice. (c/w)
A
1. Your friend is eating more than us.
2. My brother is sleeping more than you.
3. Your friend is studying more than her.
4. My brother is running more than us.
5. Your friend is swimming more than me.
B
1. Raju started doing the work.
2. Raju started going to school.
3. Raju started painting pictures.
4. Raju started singing songs.
5. Raju started making faces.

Pronouns:
Words used instead of nouns are called Pronouns. Eg: he, she, it, they, them etc.

Fill in the blanks:

1) Vijay is reading a book.
He is in class II.

2) Anu is dancing.
She is dancing well.

3) Hari and Prem are friends.
They play together.

Replace the noun with a suitable pronoun.

1) Juhi is dancing.
She is dancing.

2) Ram is reading a book.
He is reading a book.

3) Tom and Jerry are friends.
They are friends.

4) India is a big country.
It is a big country.


Ls. 5 – Greed Brings Sorrow


New Words:
sorrow, geese, laid, amount, greedy, grief, wept.
Meanings:
1. sell – to give something in return for money
2. goose – a water bird larger than a duck
3. golden – like gold in value or colour
4. lay – give
5. amount – a sum put together
6. greedy – wanting alot more

Question and answers:
1. Who lived in the hut?
A. An old man and his wife lived in the hut.

2. Who laid the golden eggs?
A. One of the geese laid the golden eggs.

3. Who sold the eggs?
A. The oldman sold the eggs.

4. What did the old man see?
A. The old man saw that one of the geese laid a golden egg.

5. What did he do with the golden eggs?
A. He sold the golden eggs and got plenty of money.

6. How did the oldman and his wife want to become rich?
A. The oldman and his wife wanted to cut the goose and take all the eggs at once and become
very rich.

7. What did they find inside the goose?
A. They found nothing inside the goose.

8. What is the moral of the story?
A. The moral of the story is that we should not be greedy as “Greed brings sorrow”.

Make Sentences:
1) greed – Greed brings sorrow.
2) sorrow – Gita’s family was in great sorrow , when she lost her father.
3) plenty – Priya has plenty of dolls.

GRAMMAR PRACTICE: (Pg. No. 24)

Adjectives: (Note book)
Describing words are called Adjectives. They describe a noun. Eg: A fat man, A big bat.

Fill in the blanks with suitable adjectives. (Describing words)

1. Golden egg.
2. Good people
3. Brave man
4. Small hut
5. Beautiful woman.
6. Nice story

Underline the adjectives in the following sentences:

1. The bulls were strong and safe.
2. They were good friends.
3. The lion was very brave.
4. The old man wanted to become rich.
5. The man was very happy.
6. An old man is sleeping.
7. A big hat is lying on the floor.
8. Hyderabad is a beautiful city.
9. Giraffe has a long neck.

Ls. 6 – Shoes (Poetry)

Poetry Written (full)

New Words:
pretty, prancing, skipping, buckled, beaded, protect, needed

Questions and Answers:
1. Which type of shoes do you want to buy?
A. I want to buy party shoes, walking shoes, dancing shoes and prancing shoes.

2. What are party shoes?
A. The shoes which look fancy which we wear for a party are called party shoes.


3. Why should you wear shoes at all?
A. We should wear shoes to protect our feet.

Make Sentences:

1) pretty – My mother is very pretty.
2) prancing – Children were prancing in the dance class.
3) skip – I can skip.
4) little – There was a little water in the pot. / I love little pussy.

Opposites: (page no. 25)
little x big
buy x sell
buckled x unbuckled
pretty x ugly
sharp x blunt


Describing words: (On Pg. No. 26 – to be done in the reader)


Little shoes pretty shoes
Walking shoes dancing shoes
Playing shoes skipping shoes
Prancing shoes buckled shoes
Beaded shoes needed shoes

Composition II:
My School:

The name of my school is Slate – The School.
It is at Abids.
It is a big building.
We have classes from Nursery to Tenth (X).
We have various activities like yoga, dance, music, library, out door games, karate etc.
I enjoy and love coming to my school.



Ls. 7 – The Shepherd boy and the wolf


New Words:
shepherd, struck, neighbouring, trick, really, believed, attacked, flock.


Meanings:
1. lie – which is not true
2. tease – give trouble
3. struck – occur, happen
4. trick – game
5. danger – fearful thing
6. punishment – penalty for doing wrong

Questions and Answers:
1. What did the shepherd boy enjoy?
A. The shepherd boy enjoyed telling lies and teasing people.

2. What did he cry out?
A. He cried out “Help! A wolf! A wolf!”

3. Who came running?
A. The villagers came running.

4. What did the boy do then?
A. When the villagers came running, the boy laughed.

5. What happened when the villagers came the second time?
A. When the villagers came for the second time, they became angry and went back.

6. What happened when the boy cried out the third time?
A. When the cried out for the third time, the wolf really attacked the sheep.

7. What did the wolf do?
A. The wolf killed the whole flock of sheep.

8. Why was the boy punished?
A. The boy was punished for telling lies.

Make sentences:
1) danger – My friend Rahul was in danger.
2) punishment – My sister got punishment for being naughty.
3) tease – We should not tease animals.

GRAMMAR PRACTICE: - Eg: (Pg. 30 & 31)
Fill in the blanks:
1. Please give me a piece of chalk.
2. Go and get me a loaf of bread from the bakery.
3. Can I have a slice of cake?
4. Shruti drank a glass of water
5. Father has lost a bunch of keys.
6. I want to buy a pair of shoes.

Structure Practice:
1. The girl worked hard.
2. The girl ran fast.
3. The girl sang softly.
4. The girl drove quickly.
5. The girl wrote neatly.

Fill in the blanks with a, an or the.
1) a boy 2) an egg 3) a trick
4) a wolf 5) a village 6) an apple


Comprehension – I:
My name is Ann. This is my very best silk skirt. When I wore it yesterday, I tore the pocket. This morning I trimmed the torn place with lace. You can’t tell where I tore it. The skirt is just as pretty as before.

1. Complete the sentences:
Ø Ann’s skirt is made of ___________.
Ø She tore the _________of her skirt.
Ø She trimmed the torn pocket with __________.
Ø Her skirt looks _________ even now.
2. What can you say about Ann’s skirt?
3. Write the verbs used in the passage.

Comprehension – II: (For this term it will be given accordingly in the class work book.)

Grammar:

Adverbs:

Words describing verbs or adjectives are called adverbs.

Eg: 1. The boy ran very fast.
(‘Fast’ is an adjective and ‘very’ is describing it.)

2. He spoke loudly.
(‘Spoke’ is a verb and ‘loudly’ is describing it.)


Write down the singular word and collective word given on page no. 30 in the class work:
Grammar Pgs. – 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 51 – 60 to be done.




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CLASS – II
ENGLISH - TERM – II

8. CROSSING THE ROAD (POEM)

Poetry Written: (full)

Meanings: (text book)

cross – go from one side to the other
watch – look at
traffic – walking people and moving vehicles
pass – go
smartly – cleverly

Questions and answers:

1) How is the road?
A. The road is busy.

2) What are coming fast?
A. The cars and buses are coming fast.

3) Where should we look?
A. We should look to our right and left.

4) How should we walk across the road?
A. We should walk smartly across the road.

Make sentences:

1. cross – We should cross the road at the zebra crossing only.
2. traffic – We should always follow the traffic rules.

Grammar Practice: (text book)

Fill in the blanks: with the expressions given below:

1. a road – a busy road
2. a bus – a big bus
3. a boy – a smart boy
4. a car – a new car
5. a cart – a bullock cart

Composition I:
The Cotton Cloth:
Cloth is made up of cotton.
Cotton is grown in the fields.
The seeds are removed from the cotton ball.
The cleaned cotton is then pressed.
It is sent to the cloth factory where it is made into thread.
The thread is then dyed.
The dyed thread is put into the machine.
The machines weave the thread into cloth.

Ls. 9 – Our Greatest Enemy

New words :
Pandu, Yudhishtira, Dronacharya, taught, practice, younger, eldest, enemy, qualities, patted.

Meanings :
1) eldest = older than the others
2) taught = gave training
3) prince = son of a king
4) repeat = say or do again
5) control = power or authority to direct
6) patted = touched
7) qualities = traits
8) practice = to do

Questions and answers :

1) How many sons did Pandu have?
A) King Pandu had five sons.

2) Who was the eldest?
A) Yudhishtira was the eldest.

3) Who was their guru?
A) Dronacharya was their guru.

4) What did the guru teach them?
A) The guru taught them how to fight and also how to be calm.

5) What was the lesson the guru taught them one day?
A) One day, the guru taught them the lesson not to get angry.

6) What did Drona ask his students?
A) Drona asked his students whether they have learnt the lesson.

7) What did they answer?
A) Except Yudhishtira everyone said, “Yes, master!”

8) What did Yudhishtira say?
A) Yudhishtira said, he had not learnt the lesson yet.

9) What should you do with good qualities?
A) We should put the good qualities into practice.

10) What is our greatest enemy?
A) Our anger is our greatest enemy.

Make Sentences :
1) enemy – Our anger is our greatest enemy.
2) practice – Practice makes man perfect.
3) patted – My mother patted me when I won the race.

Grammar :

Degrees of comparison :
1. Positive 2. Comparative 3. Superlative

A. Study the following words used to compare two or more people or things:
great - greater - greatest
old - older - oldest
smart - smarter - smartest
long - longer - longest
short - shorter - shortest
big - bigger - biggest
good - better - best
bad - worse - worst

B. Complete the following table: (Text book)
dark - darker - darkest
tall - taller - tallest
deep - deeper - deepest
small - smaller - smallest

Comprehension Passage 1:
Haroon has a big cupboard full of toys. Some are new but most of them are old. He does not want to get rid of old toys.
The toy he likes the best is his clockwork train. The oldest toy is a teddy bear. His mother bought it for his first birthday.
Haroon also has a big crane and a tractor. They are new. The crane can lift the tractor right off the floor.

Questions and answers:

1) Which toy does Haroon like the best?
A. Haroon likes his clockwork train the best.

2) What did Haroon’s mother give him for his first birthday?
A. Haroon’s mother gave him a teddy bear for his first birthday.

3) What can the crane do?
A. The crane can lift the tractor right off the floor.

4) Write the names of two other toys.
A. Big crane and a tractor.

5) Where are real tractors used?
A. Real tractors are used in the farms/ fields.

Structure practice:

Have you learnt the lesson? – question.
1) Have you done the home work?
2) Have you finished the game?
3) Have you completed the picture?
4) Have you passed the test?
5) Have you seen the house?

Make questions with “Have you ………?” (text book)
1) Have you read the lesson?
2) Have you bought the books?
3) Have you come by bus?
4) Have you visited the zoo?
5) Have you visited the Taj Mahal?

· Note : Only grammar (text book) exercise should be made to write in the text book itself. Only new words and question and answers should be given in the notebook.


Ls. No. 11 – King Bruce and The Spider

New words:
Scotland, Robert Bruce, enemies, battle, mountain, fighting, hungry, wooden, spinning, attach, connect, prepared, troubles, watched, thread, forgot, climbed, weaving, started, wonderful, buckled, gathered, together, against, enemy.

Meanings: (notebook)
1) enemy –a person who hates, acts or speaks against
2) battle – a fight between two armies
3) weaving – knitting
4) gathered – collected
5) buckle – to fasten
6) trouble – problem

Question and Answers:
1) Who was Robert Bruce?
A) Robert Bruce was the King of Scotland.

2) Why did he leave his country?
A) He left his country because he lost the battle.

3) Where did he go?
A) He went to the mountains to save his life.

4) How was he then?
A) He was sad, tired and was very hungry.

5) Whom did he see in the hut?
A) He saw a small spider in the hut.

6) What was the spider doing?
A) The spider was spinning a long thread and it was trying to attach it to the logs.

7) How many times did the spider fail?
A) The spider failed six times.

8) What lesson did Bruce learn?
A) Bruce learnt a lesson that no matter how many times we fail, we should try again.

Opposites: (Reader)

1) enemy x friend
2) won x lost
3) leave x enter
4) sad x happy
5) cold x hot
6) small x big
7) down x up
8) long x short
9) forget x remember
10) stop x start
13)deep x shallow
16)far x near
11) take x give
14) empty x full
17) sharp x blunt
12) fail x pass
15) buy x sell
(Refer Reader Pg: 14 for the remaining opposites)
Grammar Practice: (Notebook)

Irregular Verbs:
Present Past Present Past
1. is was 9. has / have had
2. lose lost 10. leave left
3. feel felt 11. find found
4. think thought 12. see saw
5. break broke 13. get got
6. fall fell 14. weave wove
7. forget forgot 15. take took
8. teach taught 16. win won

Write down five more examples: (Note book)
1. drink drank
2. eat ate
3. fly flew
4. give gave
5. do did
6. buy bought
7. bring brought
(Refer Reader Pg: 15 for the remaining)

Make sentences:
1) attach – John is trying to attach the two boxes.
2) weave – Weaver weaves the cloth.
3) fight – We should not fight with one another.

Structure Practice:
A. has to / have to / had to – compulsion:
1. Bala has to go to school.
2. King Bruce had to leave the country.
3. The students have to go to school regularly.
4. The teacher had to explain the lesson again.
5. They had to close the school.

B. Fill in the blanks using has to, have to (Reader):
1. I have to complete my work.
2. The boy has to run fast to win the race.
3. They have to return their books.
4. Sunil has to go to the market.
5. We have to study well.


12. TRY AGAIN (POEM)

Poetry Written : (8 lines)

New words:
succeed, heed, prevail, twice, strive, disgrace, race, case, again, though

Meanings:
heed – pay attention to
succeed – win
disgrace – shame
prevail – to do again in order to succeed.

(Punctuate.) Put in capital letters, commas and full stops : (Note book)
1. he bought a hat and a book – He bought a hat and a book.
2. she went to the market – She went to the market.
3. ramu sita and hari went to the circus – Ramu, Sita and Hari went to the circus.
4. manjeet went to bhopal – Manjeet went to Bhopal.
5. he took bhim to the palace – He took Bhim to the palace.

Structure Practice: (text book)
1. If he comes (comes / came) late he will lose.
2. If she finishes (finished / finishes) her work, she will go.
3. If you study (study / studying) well, you will get a good rank.
4. If you go (went / go) to a forest, you can see a lion.
5. If I see (see / saw) a snake, I’ll kill it.

Comprehension Passage 2:

Mona has a brand new bicycle. Uncle Kumar gave it to her as a present on her seventh birthday.
The bicycle is painted in bright orange. Behind the seat is a black plastic saddlebag and there is a large, shiny bell on the handlebar.
Every evening Mona rides her bicycle down the lane behind her house. She goes to meet her father on his way to home from work.

Questions and answers:
1) Who gave Mona the present?
A. Uncle Kumar gave Mona the present.

2) Where is the shiny bell?
A. The large shiny bell is on the handlebar.

3) Whom does Mona go out to meet every evening?
A. Mona goes out to meet her father every evening.

4) Match the nouns in column A with suitable adjectives from column B :

A B

Cycle Shiny
Bell Orange
5) Complete the following using number words :
A. A bicycle has two pedals, two wheels, one bell, one back seat.

Composition II:

The Policeman:

Everyone knows a police man by his uniform.
He carries a baton..
The police man maintains law, order and controls traffic.
He is the friend of the people who love peace.
Without him our life will not be safe.


Ls. 13 Silvertop Fairies

New words:
Ella, Peter, valley, silvertop, fairies, pillows, pinewoods, pastures, stream, basket, mopped, wrinkles, princess, vanished, sparkling.

Meanings: (note book)
1. peak – a pointed top of a mountain
2. strawberry – sweet red fruit
3. vanished – disappeared
4. stared – look fixedly
5. mopped – cleaned
6. pasture – land covered with grass
7. woods – forest


Questions and answers:

1. Who were Ella and Peter?
A. Ella and Peter were the children of a poor wood cutter.

2. What did they see from their house?
A. They saw the shining peak of the Silvertop mountain from their house.

3. What did the Silvertop fairies do?
A. The Silvertop fairies left coins under the pillows of sleeping children.

4. Why did Ella and Peter go to the woods?
A. Ella and Peter went to pick up wild strawberries from the woods.

5. What did the old woman want?
A. The old woman wanted summer snow.

6. Where did they find the summer snow?
A. They found the summer snow on the Silvertop mountain.

7. What did they fill the basket with?
A. They filled the basket with snow.

8. What happened when snow was mopped on the old woman’s face?
A. When the snow was mopped on the old woman’s face, her wrinkles smoothed away and she turned into a beautiful fairy.

9. What did they find in the basket?
A. They found sparkling mass of silver coins in the basket.

10. Did you like the story?
A. Yes, I liked the story.

Make Sentences :
1) vanished – The angel vanished within a wink.
2) snowballs – In America, my mother and I made snowballs and played with them./ I love playing with the snowballs in the Snow World.
3) wrinkles – My grand parents have wrinkles on their face.

Rhyming words: (note book)
1. weak – seek
2. sick – lick
3. till – kill
4. free – tree
5. pass – grass

Grammar Practice:
Insert the apostrophe correctly ’s (Text book)

1. The woman’s face 7. The child’s toy
2. The squirrel’s tail 8. Gita’s pencil
3. Ramu’s book 9. The boy’s coat
4. The teacher’s pen 10. The father’s boots
5. The girl’s frock 11. Sita’s doll
6. The mother’s shawl 12. The fairy’s trick

Structure Practice:

A. Cool down – Phrasal Verbs
Note the use of the underlined expressions :

1. I want some water to cool down the heat.
2. The children set off to climb the mountain.
3. The wrinkles smoothed away immediately.
4. They stared at the fairy.

B. Watch how still is used.
1. He is still waiting.
2. They are still sleeping.
3. The peak is still shining.
4. The woman was still waiting.
5. You are six years old; still you are making noise.




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CLASS – II
ENGLISH - TERM – III

Ls. No. 15 The Good Samaritan

New words :
Samaritan, robbers, priest, applied, carried, inn, neighbour wonderful.

Meanings :
1) pounce – jump upon, fall
2) tore – made into pieces
3) wound – bruise , an injury
4) inn – a small hotel
5) neighbour – person who lives next door

Questions and answers:

1) Who was hurt by the robbers?
A) A man was hurt by the robbers.

2) Why was the third man called a good Samaritan?
A) The third man was called a good Samaritan because he was the man who helped the injured person.

3) How did the third man help the injured man?
A) The third man applied medicine to the injured man, gently carried him to an inn and paid some money to the inn keeper and asked him to take care of the injured person.

4) What is the moral of the story?
A) The moral of the story is that we should help one another and be good neighbours.

Make sentences:
1) robbers – A gang of robbers attacked the shop.
2) priest – Priest preaches us good things.
3) afraid – I am afraid of lions.

Grammar Practice: (Reader)
1) How did you go to school?
I went to school by car.

2) Why is he crying?
He is crying because he got a beating.

3) Which colour bicycle do you want?
I want a blue bicycle.

4) What did the teacher tell?
The teacher told us to keep quiet.

5) Where did he fall?
He fell down on the ground.

Composition I:
The Tiger:

The tiger is a wild animal and lives in the forest.
It belongs to cat family.
It has black stripes on its body.
It can jump to great heights.
Its paws have pads.
So, it makes no sound when it walks or runs.
Now we have a few tigers, so we should let these cats live peacefully in the forests.

Ls. No. 16 Two Lion Cubs

Poetry Written:(8 lines)

New words :
heavy, paws, mane, roar, terrible, scare, plenty, sweetened, awfully

Meanings:
1) paws – the foot of an animal
2) mane – long hair found around the face and neck of a lion.
3) terrible – fearful
4) scare – fear
5) plenty – much
6) sweetened – made sweet
7) awfully – very

Questions and answers:
1) Who is speaking here?
A) Two cubs are speaking here.

2) Who is their daddy?
A) Lion at the zoo is their daddy.

3) What gives people a scare?
A) The Lion’s roar gives people a terrible scare.

4) What does the daddy eat?
A) Daddy eats the best kind of meat.

5) What is the food of the cubs?
A) The food of the cubs is sweetened milk.

Grammar practice: (Reader)
A. Put a circle around the word which means the same as the word in the box.
1) plenty – much good new
2) terrible - bad sick fearful
3) scare - nice fear clean
4) awfully - freely terribly very

B. Read think and write : (Note book) the names of young ones / babies.
1. hen chick
2. dog puppy
3. horse foal
4. duck duckling
5. pig piglet
6. cat kitten
7. sheep lamb
8. goat kid
9. cow calf
10. deer fawn



Ls. No. 17 The lost Ring

New words:
scrubbed, vanished, noticed, fallen, quickly, waded, suddenly, plenty, plump, brought, hugged, screamed, lucky.

Meanings:
1) scrub – to rub hard with a soap and water
2) wade – walk through water
3) river bank – land along a river
4) plump – fat
5) hug – hold closely to oneself
6) scream – shout loudly
7) plenty – a lot of
8) search – to look for something carefully

Questions and answers:

1) How did Jaya lose her ring?
A) Jaya lost her ring while she was scrubbing the clothes in the river.

2) What did Sandeep plan to do?
A) Sandeep planned to go in his boat, catch plenty of fish, sell them in the market and buy his mother a new ring.

3) What did Sandeep do with the fish he caught?
A) Sandeep sold the fish at the market. He filled his pocket with coins and brought one plump fish for their dinner.

4) Where did Jaya find her ring?
A) Jaya found the ring inside the fish.

Make Sentences:

1) waded – The little girl waded in the river to get her ring.
2) plump – I saw a plump goat in the market.
3) scrub – We should scrub our hands and wash them before and after eating.

Grammar Practice: (Reader)

Fill in the blanks with given words:

1) Ramu screamed when he saw a snake in the classroom.
2) The maid scrubbed the floor and cleaned the room well.
3) I looked into my note-book carefully to see if I had made a mistake.
4) The little boy waded into the river to get his ball.
5) The Sadhu lived alone on the mountain.


Ls No. 18 Tit for Tat

New words:
cunning, stork, cousin, prepared, licking, mouth-watering, pretended, punctually, excellent, poured, watched, helplessly, delicious

Meanings:
cunning – sly, clever
punctual – in time
to prepare – to make
delicious – tasty
innocent – harmless, good



Questions and answers:

1) Why couldn’t the stork have the soup the fox made?
A) The stork could not have the soup which the fox made because the fox served the soup in a flat dish.

2) The stork also made soup. What did she pour it into?
A) The stork poured the soup into a long jug.

3) Could the fox taste the soup prepared by the stork? Why not?
A) No, the fox could not taste the soup prepared by the stork, as he could not put his wide mouth into the jug.


Make sentences:
1) pretended – Ram pretended as if he is sick.
2) delicious – My mother cooks delicious food.
3) cunning – The fox is a cunning animal.

Activity:
Make as many words as you can from the word “delicious soup”.
A) cold, ice, lid, lied, used, sip, so, up, cup, side, dice, lice, lies, us, less, loose, lose, pool, cool, old.

Composition – II:
A day out at the Zoo:

In ________________, ___________, my school friends and I had been to Zoological Park for an educational trip.
We saw different kinds of animals and birds.
Our teachers explained about their eating and living habits and also about their life span.
We had a joyful train ride and a mind tickling quiz.
It was great to see and learn about birds and animals.

Comprehension Passage – I:
There was a dog called Blackie. He loved bones. One day he got a bone and ran to the riverbank. He wanted to chew it. He looked into the water and saw another dog with a bone there. He wanted the other dog’s bone. So, he barked. As soon as he opened his mouth, the bone fell into the water. There was a crow sitting on a tree and watching this. He laughed and said, ‘Mr. Blackie, you are barking at your own reflection.’

Question and Answers:

1) What is the name of the dog?
A) The name of the dog is Blackie.

2) What did he get one day?
A) One day he got a bone.

3) He ran to the river bank to chew the bone. (True / False)
A) True

4) Who laughed at Blackie?
A) The crow sitting on the tree laughed at Blackie.

5) Give the opposite of “laughed”.
A) laughed x cried

Ls. No. 19 A day out with Mother

New words:
shopping, lend, teddy bear, completing, reached, centre, entered, birthday, selected, stationery, restaurant, themselves, enjoyed

Meanings:
busy – working hard
to lend - to give
enter – to go in
stationery – writing material such as paper, pens, pads etc.

Questions and answers:
1) What did Ravi want?
A) Ravi wanted a foot ball.

2) What did Mira want?
A) Mira wanted a teddy bear.

3) How did their father go to office?
A) Their father went to office by bus.

4) Which shop did they go to first?
A) They went to a toy shop first.

5) Where did they go before returning home?
A) They went to a restaurant before returning home.

Make sentences:
1) lend – Sheela wanted Ravi to lend his toy to her.
2) selected – I have selected a good story book for reading.
3) shopping –My mother I and went for shopping.

Opposites: (Note book)
happy x sad / unhappy
buy x sell
complete x incomplete
safe x unsafe
fast x slow
enter x exit
asked x replied



Plurals: (Note book)
bat - bats
thief - thieves
baby - babies
shop - shops
knife – knives
lady - ladies
box - boxes
bench - benches
ox - oxen
bus - buses
bush - bushes
child - children
car - cars
wolf - wolves
foot - feet
toy - toys
leaf - leaves
tooth - teeth


Structure practice: (Reader)
1) Mira and Ravi shopping to wanted go for.
Mira and Ravi wanted to go for shopping.

2) holiday it for was mother a.
It was a holiday for mother.

3) went bus by office to Father.
Father went to office by bus.

Comprehension Passage – II:
A sea turtle uses its broad feet and toes for swimming. It cannot fold its neck in S-shape but a pond turtle can. Its nostrils are near the top of its head so that it doesn’t have to put its head out of water to breathe. It does not have any teeth, but it has a beak to catch and hold its food. The turtle has no ears either. They can slow him under water.

Question and Answers:
1) What does the sea turtle do with its broad feet and toes?
A) A sea turtle uses its broad feet and toes for swimming.

2) Which turtle can fold its neck in S-shape?
A) A pond turtle can fold its neck in S-shape.

3) How does the nostrils of the sea turtle help?
A) The nostrils of the sea turtle help in breathing.

4) Does the turtle uses its teeth or a beak to catch the food?
A) The turtle uses its beak to catch the food.

5) How does the turtle breathe?
A) The turtle breathes through its nostrils.

Ls. No. 20 Do not Fight – Be polite


New words :
quarrel, polite, bridge, narrow, stream, struggling, balance, stared, courteously, carefully, crossed, carried, pleasant

Meanings:
polite – having or showing good manners and respect for others.
quarrel – fight
foolish – not clever
courteously – politely, telling softly
pleasant – pleasing

Questions and answers:

1) How was the bridge?
A) The bridge was very narrow.

2) What happened to the first two goats?
A) The first two goats fought with each other, lost their balance and fell into the river.

3) How did the other two goats cross the bridge?
A) The other two goats crossed the bridge wisely, carefully and were polite to one another.

4) What is the moral of the story?
A) The moral of the story is that we should never quarrel and be polite to one another.

Make Sentences:
1) quarrel – We should not quarrel with each other.
2) pleasant – The weather is pleasant in the morning.
3) bridge – We should cross the bridge carefully.

Opposite: (Note book)
win x lose foolish x wise narrow x wide
safe x unsafe / dangerous pleasant x unpleasant defeat x victory good x bad

Tick whether the following statements are true or false: (Reader)
1) The brown and black goats met in the corner of a bridge. (False)
2) The bridge was not narrow. (False)
3) The two white goats were wise. (True)

Structure practice: (Reader pg. No. 22)
(not only …………. but also)
1) He went to his friend’s house. He went to the park.
He not only went to his friend’s house but also to the park.

2) She bought an ice-cream. She also bought chocolates.
She not only bought an ice-cream but also chocolates.

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