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Government of Tamil Nadu
REFRESHER COURSE MODULE
2021-2022
7
ENGLISH
Department of School Education
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Index
S.NO CONTENT Page No.
Fundamental Language Skills 1-15
Refresher Course Module
1 Sentences 16
2 Types of Sentences 19
3 Subject and Predicate 22
4 Reading-1 25
5 Nouns 28
6 Noun Phrase 30
7 Writing - 1 33
8 Adjectives 35
9 Adverbs 38
10 Speaking 41
11 Vocabulary 44
12 Articles 47
13 Reading - 2 50
14 Types of Sentences (Recall) 53
15 Conjunctions 56
16 Writing - 2 59
17 Tenses – Simple Present 62
18 Tenses – Present Progressive 65
19 Tenses – Simple Past 68
20 Tenses – Past Progressive 71
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Fundamental Language Skills
1 Picture Reading
Learning Outcome :
• Associating words with body parts and naming body parts seen in the pictures.
Teacher Activity:
• Teacher points out to some of the body parts.
• The teacher shows pictures of body parts to students and name them.
- Nose - Eye
- Ear
• Students point out to them and say the name of the body parts.
• Teacher repeats the name of the body parts.
• Students repeat after him/her.
(Note to the Teacher: Teacher can focus on the names of class room things too.)
Student Activity: Find and label it!
Teacher provides a set of flash cards of body parts to students and asks them to
label them.
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Assessment
Observe the pictures and read aloud
_______________ _______________ _______________
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2 Write Simple Words
Learning outcome:
• Writing simple words like fan, hen, etc.
Teacher activity:
• Teacher creates the missing letter picture cards.
• As the cards are shown, students name the pictures.
• Students write the missing letters.
A E B O N T
Student activity:
• Teacher prepares word cards and picture cards.
• Students are divided into two groups.
• One group has the pictures and another group has the words.
• Teacher says a word aloud.
• The students who have the picture and word will come to front of the class.
• Students write down the words in their notebooks.
Assessment
Observe the pictures and write their names.
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3 Self Introduction
Learning Outcomes:
• Talking about self/situations/pictures in English.
Teacher activity:
• Teacher introduces himself/herself.
I am Arun.
My father’s name is Ravi.
My mother’s name is Rani.
My brother’s name is Hari.
My sister’s name is Pavi.
• Students are encouraged to introduce themselves in the same manner.
Students activity:
• The teacher places some masks of birds and animals on a tray.
• The teacher divides the classroom into two groups.
• The teacher asks one group to take a mask and wear it.
• Now the other group describes the bird or animal.
• Each student says one line about the bird or animal.
Example:
I am an elephant.
I am black in colour.
I have four legs.
I have a long trunk.
Assessment
Look at the picture and answer the questions .
1. Who is Arun’s father? Rani
Ravi Arun
2. Who is Hari and Arun’s sister?
3. What is the name of Arun’s brother?
Hari Pavi
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4 Comprehension
Learning Outcomes :
• Responding to comprehension questions related to stories and poems, in home
language or English or sign language, orally and in writing (phrases/ short sentences)
Teacher Activity:
• The teacher reads out a short passage/story aloud twice.
• The students listen to the teacher.
• The teacher asks a few questions based on the passage /story and checks the
comprehension of the students.
Example: Kavya has a new bicycle. It is bright red and shiny. It was a gift from
her uncle. He hid it behind a bush to surprise her. When Kavya looked behind the
bush and saw the bicycle, she jumped in joy. It was just what she wanted. She gave her
uncle a big hug. She loves her new bicycle, and she loves her uncle.
1. What color is the bicycle?
2. Who gifted her the bicycle?
3. Where was it hidden?
Student Activity:
• Students are paired into two.
• One student introduces about himself/herself in a few sentences.
• The other students listens with attention.
• After introducing, the student who introduced asks questions.
• The student who listened will answer the questions.
• Similarly, students say about their hobbies or daily routine and ask questions related
on it. This way the comprehension of the students is checked.
Assessment
Read the passage and answer the questions.
My kite
My name is Daisy. I have 10 colorful kites. I am flying red kite. My kite is flying
higher than my brother’s kite. My father is teaching me how to fly a kite.
1. How many kites does Daisy have? ___________
2. Which colour kite is Daisy flying? ___________
3. Who is flying kites with Daisy? ___________
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5 Expressing Opinions and Asking
Questions
Learning outcomes:
• Expressing verbally her or his opinion and asks questions about the characters,
storyline, etc., in English or home language.
Teacher Activity:
• The teacher narrates a few moral stories and the students listen.
• For example, ‘The hare and the tortoise’, ‘The thirsty crow’, ‘The lion and the mouse’
and ‘The dove and the ant’.
• Teacher helps the children to identify the characters and sequence of the events in a
story by asking simple questions.
• The teacher also asks the opinion of the students about the characters in the story.
• For example, “Which character do you like the most? Why?”, “What is your opinion
about the ‘hare/tortoise/ant/ dove/lion/mouse etc.,.
Student Activity:
• The teacher narrates / reads out a story and the students listen.
• The students are divided into two groups.
• Students of group 1 ask questions based on the story and students of group 2 answer
and vice-versa.
Assessment
Observe the picture story and answer.
1. Who took a nap?
2. Who won the race?
3. Which animal should win the race in your opinion?
66 Naming words (Nouns), Pronouns,
Describing words- (Adjectives)
Learning outcome:
• Using nouns such as ‘boy’, ‘sun’ and prepositions like ‘in’, ‘on’, ‘under’, etc.
• Using pronouns related to gender like ‘his/her/, he/she, it’ and other pronouns like
‘this/that’, ‘here/there’ ‘these/those’ etc.
• Using simple adjectives related to size, shape, colour, weight, texture such as ‘big’,
‘small’, ‘round’, ‘pink’, ‘red’, ‘heavy’, ‘light’, ‘soft’ etc.
Teacher Activity -1
• The teacher uses the classroom objects to help students name them, and make them
understand.
• The teacher asks the students to look around the classroom and name the objects.
• Then explains - “ Noun is the naming word , which we use to name the people,
place, birds, animals and things.
Teacher Activity-2:
▶▶ Teacher describes that pronoun is a word that substitutes for a noun or a noun
phrase.
▶▶ Teacher shows a chart of pronouns which illustrates different pronouns.
7▶▶ Teacher differentiates between Nouns and their Pronouns.
Teacher Activity: 3
• The teacher shows some pictures to the students.
• The students have to name the pictures.
• Then, the teacher asks them some questions based on the pictures
Example: Is the elephant big or small?
Is the fruit bag heavy or light?
• Different questions are asked using the pictures.
• The teacher highlights the ‘describing words’ such as ‘heavy’, ‘red’, ‘tall’, ‘short’, ‘light’,
‘round’ and explains about ‘Adjectives’.
Student Activity -1:
• Play the alphabet game using nouns.
• Teacher writes the letters in pieces of paper and puts them in a box.
• Ask students to take one paper at a time.
• For example, if the letter ‘D’ is picked, the student says the nouns starting with the
letter ‘D’.
Student activity : 2 Circle game
• Students have to bring objects that they have with them or from the classroom.
• They stand in a circle.
8• They are to describe about the object they have using any adjective, such as tall,
short, big, small, thick, round, sharp, red, thin, blue and so on.
Assessment
1. Circle the noun.
a) the small lion it of
b) where pineapple what are this
c) was were Mumbai long out
d) vaigai where an there this
2. Fill in the blanks.
i) She is a girl. _______(His/Her) name is Vimala.
ii) Raju is a boy. ________ (He /She)is my neighbour.
iii) He is a boy. ________ (His/Her) name is Kavin.
iv) Mala is a girl. ------------------ (He/she)is my relative.
v) She is Mala. ________ (His/Her) friend is Kamala.
3. Complete the sentences using suitable adjectives.
The is ....................
The is ...................
The is .....................
97 Action words and Tenses
Learning Outcome:
• Identifying kinds of nouns, adverbs; differentiating between simple past and
simple present verbs.
• Using meaningful grammatically correct sentences to describe and narrate
incidents; and for framing questions.
Teacher Activity:
The teacher explains the forms of verbs.
Example:
Present Past Past partici- Present partici-
ple ple
Go/ goes Went Gone Is going
The teacher explains Past, Present and Future continuous tenses adopting
situational approach and gives examples.
Example:
Past continuous tense Present continuous tense Future continuous tense
I was writing a letter at I am writing a letter now. I will be writing a letter by
5 o’clock yesterday. this time tomorrow.
Student Activity:
The class is divided into three teams. A member from the first team has to say
a sentence in past continuous tense. A member from the second team has to retell
the sentence in present continuous tense. A member from the third team has to say
the same sentence in future continuous tense.
Assessment:
Pick out the correct answer from the options provided.
1. Koushik __________________ bicycle yesterday. (was riding / were riding)
2. I __________________ in a bus by this time tomorrow.(will be travelling /a
m travelling)
3. I __________________ in the ground now.(am playing /was playing)
108 Vocabulary Development
Learning outcomes:
• Using vocabulary related to subjects like Mathematics, EVS, relevant to class III.
• Writing dictation of words/phrases/sentences
Activity- 1:
The teacher shows the chart which contains Kitchen related words with
pictures. Then he/she explains the meaning of the word with proper pronunciation
and asks the students to say the names of objects they have seen in their kitchen.
Activity- 2:
Students are divided into 2groups.Teacher encourages the students to make a
list of words for the given topics. Example: (i) School (ii) Family . The group which
completes the task with more words is rewarded.
Assessment:
1. Identify and circle the correct word for the given picture.
i) ii)
Ladle / strainer Ladle / strainer
2. If someone steals a valuable thing from you, where will you go and complain?
Hospital Police station Post office Library
3. Write any five words related to your school.
119 Simple Conversation
Learning Outcome:
• Responding appropriately to oral messages / telephonic communication.
Teacher Activity:
The teacher interacts with the students with simple day-to-day questions and
conversation.Then the teacher asks different questions seeking answers.
Eg. Good morning students !, What did you have for breakfast? / How many
idlis did you eat?
What is your favourite colour? / Who is your favourite actor? and so on.
Student Activity:
The teacher gives simple situations to students for telephonic conversation.
The students are given structures for simple conversation. They take turns and
practice telephonic conversation using the given structures.
Assessment:
1. Frame questions in the correct order.
i) a May tell I story?
ii) I song sing a can?
2.Write any five ‘Wh’ questions on your own.
3.Complete the telephonic conversation using the clue box.
Thankyou Bye Where How Hello Okay
David : _! This is David here.
Shiva : Hey David!_ are you?
David : I’m fine,.
Shiva : ___________________ are you going this weekend?
David : I’m going to visit the museum.
Shiva : Let’s go to gether.
David : See you.
1210 Responding to Instructions
Learning Outcome:
• Acting according to the instructions given in English.
Teacher Activity:
• The teacher gives some instructions to the students. The students act according
to the instructions. Example: All of you sit down,Write fast, Come to the black
board., Clap your hands and Form a queue.
• Then the teacher writes some of the everyday instructions on a piece of paper
and rolls it. All the lots are put into a box and kept on the teacher table. Now the
class is divided into two groups namely ‘A’ and ‘B’. Every student from each group
has to take a lot, after seeing the lot he/she has to act as per the instruction and
the opposite team has to identify and say the instruction.
Example: Keep Silence, Draw a circle, Put this piece of paper in the dust bin,
Go out and Raise your hands.
Student Activity
The class is divided into small groups. Each Group is given a Topic for writing
instructions.They discuss in groups and write instructions related to the topic.
Example:
1. Class room instructions
2. Covid – 19 safety measures
3. Personal Hygiene
Assessment:
1. Draw a flower with seven petals. Write a day of the week on each petal.
Colour each petal differently.
2. Write any two instructions for personal hygiene.
3. Write any two instructions for road safety.
1311 Framing Sentences
Learning Outcomes:
• Using meaningful grammatically correct sentences to describe and narrate
incidents; and for framing questions.
• Using nouns, verbs, adjectives and prepositions in speech and writing.
Teacher Activity: 1
The teacher shows a picture and writes a few sentences She encourages the
students to say a few sentences describing the picture.
Teacher Activity: 2
• The teacher displays a few pictures of action words like ‘dance’, ‘read’, ‘write’, ‘jump’,
sing’, swim’, etc
• Picks one picture (dance) and says, “I can dance.”
• Then points to a girl and says, “She can dance”; points to a boy and says, “He can
dance”. Then, the teacher asks a student, “What can you do?”
• Student picks a picture card and says a sentence in the similar pattern, “I can________”.
She/ he /you/we/they can_____”
• All students repeat this sentence pattern and frame simple sentences.
14Student Activity: 1
• The teacher displays pictures of various professionals like carpenter, farmer,
policeman, teacher and so on.
• The teacher picks one picture and gives a sample demonstration. For example, the
teacher says “I am Rani. My father is a farmer.”
• The teacher then questions a student from group A, “Who are you? What does your
father do?”
• Student answers “I am Sheela. My father is a driver” and questions another student
in group B.
• This goes on until all students are able to frame simple sentences.
Example:
The boys are playing.
A girl rides a bicycle.
Student Activity: 2
The teacher gives a few word strips to the children. They are asked to frame
simple sentences using word strips.
Example:
A am I doctor. – I am a doctor.
Assessment
1.Circle the Action verb in the given sentences.
1. The sharks swim in the ocean.
2.Complete the given sentences.
My name is ______________.I am Studying in ____________.
3. Compose any 3 simple sentences from the table.
He
can
She
I
i) __________________ ii) __________________ iii) ________________
4.Write two sentences about your school.
15Refresher Course Module
1 Sentences
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
▶▶ Writing grammatically correct sentences for a variety of situations, using noun,
pronoun, verb, adverb, determiners, etc.
Teacher Activity: 1
The teacher introduces ‘sentence’ to students. The teacher defines, A sentence is
a group of words that makes complete sense. Each sentence begins with a capital
letter and ends with a full stop, question mark, or an exclamation mark.
Ex: I love my country.
Where are you coming from?
Sit down.
What a beautiful insect the butterfly is!
The teacher writes the following on the blackboard and asks the students to
identify the sentences.
1. Paari loves English classes.
2. Kabilan wants to be good teacher.
3. Across the bridge
4. What are you eating?
5. A story as old as time.
Teacher Activity: 2
The teacher divides the class into two teams namely Team-A and Team-B. The
teacher writes scrambled sentences on the strips and shows them one by one to
the students. The students have to unscramble the words and make sentences.
The team which gives the correct answer quickly gets one point. The team which
gives more correct answers is the winner.
1. speaks well Kavin Telugu.
2. learning I love.
3. door opened She the.
4. Sorry am I.
5. a good is exercise swimming.
16Student Activity: 1
The teacher shows some picture cards with clue words to the students. By look-
ing at the pictures and clues, the students have to frame the sentence. Ex: The
girl goes to school by bicycle.
bicycle
girl goes
by the
school to
Student Activity: 2
The teacher reads the following to the students. The students have to find out
the complete sentence.
1 a. Shows improvement in his health.
b. The report shows improvement in his health.
2. a. Toys of all kinds are sold in the shop.
b. Toys of all kinds sold in the shop.
3. a. Students who want to succeed.
b. Students who want to succeed must do hard work.
4. a. After the rain stopped.
b. After the rain stopped I went out.
5. a. Doesn’t drink milk.
b. My puppy doesn’t drink milk.
Assessment:
1. Tick the correct sentence in the following:
i. a. Sometimes Ajay plays tennis on Sundays.
b. Ajay plays sometimes tennis on Sundays.
ii. a. That is my book. Give to me it.
b. That is my book. Give it to me.
iii. a. I did quickly my homework.
b. I did my homework quickly.
17iv. a. Never Kayal eats breakfast.
b. Kayal never eats breakfast.
v. a. He drew a picture for his mother.
b. He drew his for mother a picture.
2. Complete the sentences with correct words:
a. I _________________ (are/am) a team leader.
b. Nithila ____________________ (likes/like) dance very much.
c. Sheela ________________________ (have/has) a beautiful watch.
d. The earth ____________________ (has/is) a planet.
e. Cow __________________________ (give/gives) milk.
3. Look at the picture and write a suitable sentence for it:
a. __________________________________________
b. __________________________________________
c. __________________________________________
4. Match the following:
a. I - are planning well
b. She - am playing chess
c. You - doesn’t like chocolates
d. He - have two cars
e. They - is doing class work
5. Look at the picture, develop the hints given and write a story using meaningful
Sentences:
A beautiful princess – sit – lake – near castle – gold ring – fall – lake – the prin-
cess cry – sees – frog – jump – lake – find – gold ring – princess – happy and
kiss – frog – turn – handsome prince.
182 Types of Sentences
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
▶▶ Writing grammatically correct sentences for a variety of situations, using noun,
pronoun, verb, adverb, determiners, etc.
Teacher Activity: 1
The teacher introduces the kinds of sentences. They are Declarative, Interroga-
tive, Imperative and Exclamatory. Further she explains,
Declarative sentences are statements. They give us information and they nor-
mally end with a full stop (.). Ex: I like coffee.
An Interrogative sentence is one that asks a direct question and always ends in a
question mark. (?) Ex: Do you like coffee?
An Imperative sentence is used to convey command, order, advice and request.
It always
takes the second person (you) as a subject. But most of the time the subject
remains hidden. Ex: Bring me a glass of water.
An Exclamatory Sentence expresses strong emotion/surprise. And it always
ends with an exclamation mark (!) Ex: What an exciting game it was!
The teacher asks the students to find out the types of sentences given below.
1. How is your health?
2. Give me a cup of water please.
3. Are you writing?
4. Wow! The picture is beautiful!
5. I am busy.
Teacher Activity: 2
The teacher asks the students to unscramble the sentences and say their types.
1.What doing you are ?
2. Card report mom the your show to.
3. likes Cholan climbing.
4. Hot it how is!
19Student Activity: 1
The teacher says that they are going to build sentences. The teacher starts sen-
tence building by writing one word on the board. The teacher asks the students
to complete the sentence by adding one word each. After one sentence is com-
pleted, the next student should start the new sentence. The activity continues in
the same manner till all the students get the opportunity. Ex:
Teacher: Ramu
Student-1: Ramu and
Student-2: Ramu and his parents
Students-3: Ramu and his parents went
Students-4: Ramu and his parents went to Madurai
Students-5: Ramu and his parents went to Madurai last Friday.
Student Activity: 2
The teacher divides the class into two teams. The teacher gives name for each
group, namely Odd Number and Even Number. The teacher writes the follow-
ing sentences on the black board. When the teacher calls any odd number like
1, 3, 5, one of that group members will come and punctuate the sentences on the
blackboard. The same way the other group will get chance to give their answers.
1. what do you like to eat
2. the little kittens feel so soft and warm
3. how good the painting is
4. can you tell time
5. the teak tree gives us wood which is useful for us
Assessment:
1. Match the types of sentences in Column-A with their examples in column-B.
Column - A Column - B
Types of sentences Example
Interrogative Give me your book please.
Imperative Hurrah! We won the race!
Declarative Who took my pencil?
Exclamatory Aadhi likes to read magazines after school.
2. Identify and label the types of sentences in the following.
a. Keep off the grass. _______________________________
b. Have you lost your money? _____________________________
c. I am reading a Newspaper. _________________________________
d. What a tall building it is! ____________________________________
203. Fill in the boxes with suitable answers choosing from the sentence bank.
Do you like to play? I won the match.
Go to the class room. Don’t go out when it rains.
Can you help me? Alas! He met with an accident.
What a cute puppy! He can kick the ball.
Declarative Sentence
Interrogative Sentence
Imperative Sentence
Exclamatory Sentence
4. Look at the pictures and frame sentences:
a. - Declarative - _________________________
b. - Interrogative - ________________________
c. - Imperative - ______________________________
d. - Exclamatory - ____________________________
5. Frame sentences for the following:
a. Interrogative: ________________________________________________
b. Declarative: ________________________________________________
c. Imperative: ________________________________________________
d. Exclamatory: ________________________________________________
213 Subject and Predicate
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
▶▶ Writing grammatically correct sentences for a variety of situations, using noun,
pronoun, verb, adverb, determiners, etc.
Teacher Activity: 1
The teacher explains that Subject is what (or whom) the sentence is about. Ex:
Stars twinkle at night. In the above sentence, ‘Stars’ is the Subject. She further
explains that subject is the part of a sentence which names a person, thing or idea.
Then the teacher explains that Predicate is a part of a sentence, or a clause that
tells what the subject is doing or what the subject is. Ex: Stars twinkle at night. In
this sentence, ‘twinkle at night’ is the Predicate.
The teacher gives strips containing predicate to the students individually. The
teacher says the subject one by one. The student who has the predicate for that
subject will answer. The game continues till all the strips are over.
Ex:
Teacher: The sun Student: shines brightly
Teacher: The pretty girl Student: wears blue frock
Teacher: The dogs Student: were barking loudly
Teacher Activity: 2
The teacher reads the following predicate parts to students. The students have to
add suitable subject to them.
1. _________________________ swim in the ocean.
2. _________________________ eat pizza.
3. _________________________ dance together.
4. __________________________ runs so fast.
5. __________________________ likes me so much.
22Student Activity: 1
The teacher writes the following sentences on the black board. The teacher calls
the students one by one and asks them to circle the subject and underline the
predicate.
1. The children enjoyed the summer holidays.
2. All the students are polite.
3. The book is very interesting.
4. My grandma always tells stories.
5. Sharks live in water.
Student Activity: 2
The teacher divides the class into two teams. The teacher gives subject strips to
one team and predicate strips to other team. The subject team says the subject
and the predicate team will give the suitable predicate. If the team fails to give
correct answer, it will lose the points.
Ex:
a. Kadhir - eats ice cream
b. My sister - sings well
c. The little baby - sleeps in the cradle
d. I - like black forest cake
e. Black - is my favourite colour
Assessment:
1. Identify the underlined words. Write S – for Subject and P – for Predicate in the
space provided.
a. The soup tastes good. __________
b. They are watching Hollywood movie. _________
c. Parrots speak like human beings. _________
d. The lion lives in the forest. ______________
e. May is my favourite month. _____________
2. Complete the sentences by choosing the correct answer from the word bank.
blows in the wind , watered the plants,
A buzzing bee, A big spider, The plant
a. __________________ looked for nectar in the flower.
b. __________________ spun a web in the house.
c. The gardener _____________________________.
d. __________________ needs soil, water and sun light to grow.
e. The flag __________________________.
233. Look at the pictures and write suitable subjects.
a. ____________________________ is doing homework.
______________________ ploughs the field.
b.
________________________ is raining heavily now.
c.
d. ____________________________ is red in colour.
e. _________________________ left the station.
4. Write the suitable predicate for the following.
a. The eye doctor _______________________________________
b. My friend ___________________________________________.
c. The pilot ___________________________________________.
d. Sathya ____________________________________________.
e. My grandfather ____________________________________.
5. Write Subject and Predicate and make complete sentence in the columns given.
Subject Predicate Sentence
Ex: The boys are playing cricket The boys are playing cricket.
244 Reading - 1
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
▶▶ Reading a variety of texts in English / Braille and identifies main ideas, characters,
sequence of ideas and events and relates with his/her personal experiences
▶▶ Reading to seek information from notice board, newspaper, Internet, tables,
charts, diagrams and maps etc.
▶▶ Using synonyms, antonyms appropriately, deduces word meanings from clues in
context while reading a variety of texts
▶▶ Refering to dictionary to check meaning and spelling, and to suggested websites
for information.
Teacher Activity: 1
The teacher explains, A guide word is a word printed at the top of a page indicating
the first or last word entry on that page in the dictionary. Then the teacher divides
the class into five teams. The teacher gives a dictionary to each team. Then the
teacher says the page numbers one by one. The groups should find out the guide
word in the page quickly. The group which finds out the correct guide words for
all the page numbers said by the teacher is the winner.
Teacher Activity: 2
The teacher makes a list of five categories using the newspaper such as technology
terms, countries, names of sports, vegetable prices etc. The teacher asks the
students to read the newspaper for information related to each category and write
a question based on the information they find.
Student Activity: 1
The teacher writes the following story on the board. The teacher asks the students
to read the story and replace the underlined words with the synonyms from the
word bank.
Cheerfully, bounced, name, extremely, raced, quickly, grin, puppy,
devoured, huge, extraordinary, neighbourhood
25Ajay woke up with a big smile. That day was a very special day. He was going
to get a new dog from the local animal shelter. Ajay jumped out of bed and ran
downstairs. His mother and father were waiting for Ajay at the hall. ‘Get ready
fast. We need to leave the house by 9’0 clock.’ The Mother said. ‘I can’t wait’
Ajay said happily. He brushed his teeth, got dressed and ate his breakfast. Ajay
wondered, ‘What should I call my puppy?’ Ajay went to the animal shelter along
with his parents and bought the puppy.
Student Activity: 2
The teacher gives newspaper to the students individually. The teacher asks
the students to look at the jobs that are advertised in the careers section of the
newspaper. The teacher asks the students to choose a job that they would like to
apply for. Then asks them to describe what skill they need for the job.
Assessment:
1. Read the following pie chart and answer the questions given below:
Time Use of Working Parents
Other (2.5 hours)
Caring for family members
Sleeping
(1.2 hours)
(7.6 hours)
Eating and drinking
(1.1 hours)
Household activities
(1.0 hours)
Leisure and sports
(2.6 hours)
working
Total = 24.0 hours (7.6 hours)
a. What is the chart about?
i. Employed people with children
ii. Employed people without children
iii. Unemployed people with children
iv. None of the above
b. Which activity do these people spend the least time doing?
i. caring for family members
ii. eating and drinking
iii. household activities
iv. None of the above
26c. Which activity do these people spend the most time doing?
i. Eating and drinking
ii. Leisure and sports
iii. Working
iv. None of the above
d. Which statement is true?
i. People spend less time working than eating, drinking, and sleeping
combined.
ii. People spend more time working than eating, drinking, and sleeping
combined.
iii. People spend as much time working as eating, drinking, and sleeping
combined.
iv. None of the above
2. Read the passage and answer the following:
Praha’s grandpa lives on a farm. His grandpa has a big garden, and many animals.
When Praha was little, he was afraid of the chickens. When he helped his grandpa
feed the chickens, the chickens chased him, crying, “Cluck, cluck, cluck!” But his
grandpa showed him how to get the chickens away with his hand, saying, “Shoo
chicks, shoo chicks!” Praha still doesn’t like the chickens much, but he isn’t afraid
of them now. He feels that he has grown up.
a. Sequence the story by writing numbers in the column given:
Praha used to be afraid of the chickens on his grandpa’s farm.
Praha’s grandpa lives on a farm with a big garden and lots of ani-
mals.
Praha’s grandpa helped by showing him how to get the chickens
away by waving his hand at them.
He feels that he has grown up.
Praha still doesn’t like the chickens but he isn’t afraid of them now
b. Circle the correct answer:
i. What is this whole story mostly about?
Praha and the
Grandpa’s garden Praha’s favorite animal
chickens
ii. W
hich of these is a small piece of information from the story that makes the
story more interesting?
Praha drew a pic- Praha helped to pick The chickens cried
ture of the farm. the vegetables. “Cluck, cluck, cluck!
275 Nouns
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
▶▶ Writing grammatically correct sentences for a variety of situations, using noun,
pronoun, verb, adverb, determiners, etc.
Teacher Activity: 1
The teacher explains that Noun is a naming word. It tells the names of person,
place, animal, thing, idea or quality.
Ex: School, Chennai, Geetha, Dog, Table, Honesty
The teacher makes the students play alphabet game to understand nouns. The
teacher gives each student one alphabet. The students have to say nouns begin
with that alphabet. The student who says more number of nouns is the winner.
Teacher Activity: 2
The teacher makes the students stand in a circle. The teacher passes a ball to the
students one by one and asks them to say the name of any country in five seconds.
When the student responds correctly, he/she passes the ball to the next student.
The activity continues in the same manner till all the students get chance. The
student who repeats the country name will be out of the game.
Student Activity: 1
The teacher divides the students into two groups. She says the particular page
number in the text book and asks them to list out the nouns given in the page.
She sets 5 minutes to complete the task. The group which gives more number of
nouns is the winner.
Student Activity: 2
The teacher asks the students to take out sheets of papers. The teacher instructs
them to write down all the nouns they see at their home. The teacher gives one
point for each noun. If a student has written the noun which is not repeated by
others, he/she will get five points for that noun.
28Assessment:
1. Underline the nouns in the following sentences:
a. The kitten looks so sweet.
b. Kanimozhi looks so beautiful.
c. She is living in India.
d. I am studying for my Maths exam.
e. Vidhun likes eating briyani.
2. Write 5 nouns starting with the following Letters:
a. S - __________, __________, ___________, _________, ________
b. E - __________, __________, ___________, _________, ________
c. P - __________, __________, ___________, _________, ________
c.D - __________, __________, ___________, _________, ________
3. Circle the nouns in the box and complete the sentences with suitable nouns:
Table, aero plane, walk, water, run, chairs, piano, flowers, lightning,
coins, cat, river, park, sit, want, boy, see, teacher, eat
a. The book was lying on the___________.
b. We cannot live without _____________.
c. Ram plays ______________.
d. My friends gave me some _______________.
e. ___________ is my pet.
4. Fill in the columns with suitable nouns. Write three nouns for each column:
Name of the places
Name of the animals
Name of the persons
Name of the things
Name of the quality
5. Write any noun for the following pronoun:
a. He - ______________________
b. She - _____________________
c. It - _______________________
d. They - ____________________
296 Noun Phrase
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
▶▶ Writing grammatically correct sentences for a variety of situations, using noun,
pronoun, verb, adverb, determiners, etc.
Teacher Activity: 1
The teacher explains that a word or group of words contains a noun and its
modifiers (articles, adjectives, possessive noun etc) and functions as subject,
object or prepositional object in a sentence.
Ex:
I want a cute puppy for my birthday.
At the zoo, I saw a striped zebra. The teacher writes a list of nouns on the board
and draw pictures nearby each word. The teacher asks the students to write
modifier before each word.
Ex: Rose – a beautiful red rose
Teacher Activity: 2
The teacher divides the class into two teams. Each team should describe some
things using at least three words. The other team should find out the name of the
thing. The team which gets more points is the winner.
30Ex: Team – A: ‘A long thin glass rod’
Team – B: ‘Tube light’
Student Activity: 1
The teacher draws the following pictures on the black board and writes 10 to 15
words in a box. The teacher asks each student to describe the picture by using 2
or three words from the box.
red, tiger, tall, boy, look, round, big, black, hot, brown, window, bed,
ball, cat, tall, chilli, house
Student Activity: 2
The teacher gives each student two nouns. The teacher asks them to change the
nouns into noun phrases and say them in front of the class. Ex: Tiger –ferocious
tiger, frock – beautiful frock
Assessment:
1. Underline the noun phrase in the following:
a. My book of maps is in this shelf.
b. It was a very old joke.
c. The green and red balloons look nice.
d. He gave me a neatly packed gift box.
e. Did you enjoy reading this wonderful book?
2. Rearrange the given words and form noun phrase :
a. candy / cotton / a /fluffy
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b. trees / branches / with / long
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313. Fill in the blanks with suitable words to form Noun Phrases :
a. We looked at the _______________ sun.
b. I jumped into the _______________ pool.
c. My _______________ cat is fun to play.
d. The _______________man gave me a doll.
e. The ______________ storekeeper is very generous.
4. Fill in the blanks with suitable words.
(nearby, sitting in the gallery, in colourful jerseys, posted around the field, in
general, kept for the winners)
Boys of our school love to play football ____________. So we arranged a football
match in the field ____________. The players entered the field ____________.
The children ____________ encouraged the players. The trophy ____________
was given away after the match.
5. Describe the bird ‘Peacock’ using suitable noun phrase.
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327 Writing -1
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
▶▶ Writing words / phrases / simple sentences and short paragraphs as dictated by
the teacher.
▶▶ Using meaningful sentences to describe / narrate factual / imaginary situations
in speech and writing.
▶▶ Drafting, revising and writing short paragraphs based on verbal, print and visual
clues.
▶▶ Writing coherently with focus on appropriate beginning, middle and end in
English / Braille.
▶▶ Writing messages, invitations, short paragraphs and letters (formal and informal)
and with a sense of audience.
Teacher Activity: 1
The teacher starts writing a story on a chart hanging on the blackboard. The
teacher writes first a few lines of the story. The teacher calls the students one by
one and asks them to continue the story. Each student writes one or two sentences.
The students then continue the story from where the previous student left it. The
game continues until all the students write and complete the story.
Teacher Activity: 2
The teacher divides the class into two groups. The teacher draws a picture on
the black board. The teacher asks the students to look at the picture and make
sentences describing the scenes in the picture. The team which gives more correct
sentences will be the winner. Ex:
33Student Activity: 1
The teacher writes the following details on the board. The students have to create
their own invitation cards using the details given by the teacher. After creating the
invitation the students come one by one and show the cards.
Name:
Date of the Birthday:
Age turns into:
Venue:
Time:
Phone No:
Student Activity: 2
The teacher writes a set of words on the board. The teacher asks the students to
come to the board one by one and arrange the words in the order in which they
are in dictionary. An example is done.
Teacher: Advance, Adverb, Admiral, Advocate, Advise, Address, Advice,
Add, Adult, Adopt
Student: Add, Address, Admiral, Adopt, Adult, Advance, Adverb, Advice,
Advise, Advocate,
Assessment:
1. Rearrange the following words/phrases to form meaningful sentences and write
the sentences in sequential order:
a. terrific/conditions/cities/they/in/live/in
b. come to cities/in/people/so/of work/search
c. poverty/the village people/from/most/suffer/of
d. in rural areas/is/employment opportunities/there/of/lack
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Edit the paragraph for spelling mistakes and punctuation and rewrite it.
Whales are normally gentel Many whales exbit strong family ties The young ones
remain with their parents for up to fiftin years or more. How wonderful it is
2. Read the following conversation carefully. Convert the conversation into a
meaningful paragraph.
Visitor: Excuse me, Can you help me in locating the book, ‘War and Peace’?
Librarian: Sure. Go to the sixth row and the book is on the third shelf.
Visitor: Thank you very much.
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348 Adjectives
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
▶▶ Writing grammatically correct sentences for a variety of situations, using noun,
pronoun, verb, adverb, determiners, etc.
Teacher Activity: 1
The teacher defines, an adjective is a word that describes or qualifies noun or
pronoun in a sentence. It gives additional information about what the noun or
the pronoun refers to. Further she expl ains, it usually comes right before the
noun that it modifies. It normally indicates quality, size, shape and feelings etc.
In the following sentences, tall and green are adjectives.
Ex: The tall giraffe is eating green leaves in the zoo.
The green butterfly sits on the red rose.
Further she explains the types of Adjectives. They are
Qualitative Adjective – describes the Ex: I have a wooden chair in my
quality of a noun. room.
Quantitative Adjective – indicates a Ex: The forest has 2500 animals.
number or quantity. It can be either He spent all his money for his
cardinal or ordinal number. sister’s studies.
Demonstrative Adjective – modifies a
noun or pronoun by emphasizing its Ex: This car is mine.
importance. Ex: This, that, these, those
Distributive Adjectives are used with
singular nouns. Ex: Each, every, neither, Ex: Drink water after each meal.
either
Possessive Adjective – indicates the
possession of the noun. Ex: my, our, your, Ex: My cycle was stolen yesterday.
his, their, her, and its
Interrogative Adjective - modifies a noun Ex: Whose book is this?
by asking a question. Ex: What, Which,
Whose Which pen do you like more?
35The teacher starts the game by standing at the front of the classroom describing his/
her quality. Ex: I am Anbarasi. I am sincere and dedicated. Now the teacher calls the
students one by one to the front and asks them to describe their qualities to the class.
Teacher Activity: 2
The teacher shows the cards one by one and asks the students individually to
describe their day using adjectives. Ex: Describe what you played. - I have
played my favourite game cricket.
Describe what you had for lunch.
Tell us about your English class.
Student Activity: 1
The teacher divides the class into pairs. Then the teacher asks the students to
describe each other focusing on their positive aspects. The student has
to describe his/her pair with minimum three adjectives. Ex: He is my friend
Krishnan. He is clever. He is helpful to the poor.
Student Activity: 2
The teacher gives each student an advertisement. The teacher ask students to
collect adjectives from the advertisement. Then ask students to describe any
person/object using those adjectives. Minimum two adjectives can be used. An
example is done.
Adjectives: Whole, Nutritious, Natural, fruit, crunchy.
I like chickpeas very much. It is very nutritious to us. It is crunchy to eat.
Assessment:
Find out the adjectives from the following sentences:
a. I have bought enough sugar.
i. have ii. enough iii. Sugar
b. The way is long and the wind is cold.
i. way ii. long iii. wind
36c. Arun won the first prize.
i. won ii. first iii. prize
d. The flight suffered heavy damage.
i. heavy ii. flight iii. damage
e. a small leak can sink a great ship.
i. leak ii. sink iii. great
2. Read the story, identify and underline the adjectives in it.
Once upon a time, there was a crow. It had two pieces of fresh meat. A hungry
fox came there. Its mouth watered when it saw the meat. Fox thought of a plan
to get it. It praised that the crow’s voice was melodious. Fox asked him to sing a
song. When the crow opened its mouth to sing, the piece of meat fell down. The
fox ate it and went away.
3. Match the following sentences with the kinds of adjectives, pick out the adjectives
from the sentences and write in the space given:
a. Mumbai is a big city. - Demonstrative - ____________
b. Kumar ate some rice. - Qualitative - ____________
c. Each student has to
attend the class. - Interrogative - ____________
d. These grapes are sour. - Quantitative - ____________
e. Which way shall I go? - Distributive - ____________
4. Fill in the blanks with suitable adjectives:
a. __________________ mangoes look yellow.
b. I have ________________ eyes.
c. Do you live with ______________ parents?
d. ________________ sister is she?
e. My mother is a ______________ lady.
5. Make sentences using the following adjectives:
a. Which - ________________________________________
b. Tall - ________________________________________
c. My - ________________________________________
d. This - ________________________________________
e. Many - ________________________________________
379 Adverbs
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
▶▶ Writing grammatically correct sentences for a variety of situations, using noun,
pronoun, verb, adverb, determiners, etc.
Teacher Activity: 1
The teacher says Adverb is one of the parts of speech. An Adverb is a word or set
of words that modifies verb. Ex: I love my children very much. There are many
types of Adverbs. They are,
Adverbs of Time – adds
Ex: I will go there tomorrow.
information of ‘when’ to a verb
Adverbs of Place – adds
Ex: You may sit there.
information of ‘where’ to a verb
Adverbs of Manner – adds
Ex: Raji sings well.
information of ‘how’ to a verb
Adverbs of Frequency – adds
Ex: I have gone to Delhi once.
information of ‘how often’ to a verb
Adverbs of Degree – adds
Ex: Joseph is extremely
information of ‘how much’ or ‘to
talented.
what degree or extent’ to a verb
The teacher divides the class into three teams. The teacher prepares word cards
for Subjects, Verbs and Adverbs and gives to each teams. The teacher gives names
to the teams namely A, B, and C. Now ‘A’ team picks out the subject cards one
by one. ‘B’ team picks out the suitable verb card. And ‘C’ team picks out the
suitable adverb for it. The teacher says the sentence. The game continues until all
the cards are over.
Teacher Activity: 2
The teacher reads the following passage once and asks students to note down the
adverbs. The students listen to the teacher carefully and write down the adverbs.
After listening to the passage, the students have to read the adverbs from their
38notes. The student who says all the adverbs used in the passage is the winner.
Yesterday I helped my mother to cook dinner. We carefully cut the vegetables
and slowly put them into the boiling water in the pot. Then I eagerly waited
for my next job, which was sprinkling spices into the soup gently. But I
accidentally poured too much cumin. I told my mistakes to my mom quietly.
And she told me sweetly, as a child, she made the same mistake.
Student Activity: 1
The teacher draws two columns on the board. The teacher reads the following list
of words. The students come one by one to the board and write the words in the
suitable column.
[angry, naturally, happily, good, quickly, large, painful, safe, gently, carefully,
kind, honestly]
Adjectives Adverbs
Student Activity: 2
The teacher reads the following story to the students. The teacher asks the students
to complete the story choosing the adverbs from the word bank.
tightly, swiftly, fiercely, curiously, violently suddenly
I was walking through the forest ________________. The wind was blowing
____________. The trees were shaking ______________________. I got chilled
and pulled my jacket________________ around me. _______________ I heard
a scream behind me. All I could see were shadows _____________ I left the
forest with fear.
Assessment:
1. Identify the adverbs in the following:
a. Remember the nicest thing someone has ever done for us.
b. My dad permits me to climb trees, but not too high.
c. The smart students passed the test easily.
d. The price of electricity became outrageously high during the summer.
e. My grandpa greeted us warmly when we arrived.
392. Form adverbs from adjectives:
a. Ready -
b. Fast -
c. Energetic -
d. Happy -
e. Sad -
3. Fill in the blanks with suitable adverbs:
a. It is raining ____________________ (heavy)
b. She ________________ swallowed a coin. (accident)
c. These animals migrate ______________in search of food. (annual)
d. I ________________want to remember the incident. (never)
e. Sheela left the school ______________ (early)
4. Add suitable adverb to complete each sentence:
a. Vidhya ate the chocolates _____________________ (how)
b. We are going to the restaurant ________________________ (when)
c. Our friends asked us to sit ___________________ (where)
d. I go to museum _________________________ (how often)
e. We got our test results ____________. (when)
5. Frame sentences using the following adverbs:
a. Violently: __________________________________________________
b. Often: ___________________________________________________
c. Daily: _____________________________________________________
d. Sometimes _________________________________________________
e. Beautifully: ________________________________________________
4010 Speaking
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
▶▶ Participating in activities in English like role play, group discussion, debate, etc.
▶▶ Responding to oral messages, telephonic communication in English and
communicates them in English or home language.
▶▶ Responding to a variety of questions on familiar and unfamiliar texts verbally
and in writing.
▶▶ Using meaningful sentences to describe / narrate factual / imaginary situations
in speech and writing.
Teacher Activity: 1
The teacher gives each student a newspaper and asks them to read the newspaper.
After reading, they have to say what they find as the most interesting news. The
students can also speak about whether they have experienced the same situation
in their life.
Teacher Activity: 2
The teacher forms three or four groups and gives a different picture to each group.
The students discuss the picture with their group. The spokesperson for each
group describes the picture to the whole class.
Ex:
41The National flag of India is in tricolor. It has saffron at the top, white in the
middle and the dark green at the bottom in equal proportion. In the centre, there
is a navy blue wheel which has 24 spokes. The flag is the symbol of unity and
freedom.
Student Activity: 1
The teacher reads out a telephone conversation one line at a time. After each
line, the students have to guess and tell what the person will say next. The teacher
reads out the next line for them to check and continues in the same way till the
end of the conversation. The teacher gives points depending on how close they
get to what is said each time.
An Example is done.
Ramesh: Good Morning. I’d like to talk to Mr. Suresh Please.
Sanjay: Good Morning. I am sorry but Mr. Suresh is not here at the moment.
Would you like to leave him a message?
Ramesh: Yes please. Tell him that Mr. Ramesh needs to contact him.
Sanjay: Sure, I will tell him. Does he have your phone number?
Ramesh: Yes. He has it. Thank You.
Sanjay: You are welcome. Something else?
Ramesh: No that’s all. Good bye.
Sanjay: Good bye Mr. Ramesh.
Student Activity: 2
The teacher divides the class into four or five teams. The teacher says a story
to the students. The teacher asks them to list out the characters in the story.
Then the teacher asks them to write down the names (characters) similar to the
characters in the story. Then each team has to retell the story using the characters
they created.
An Example is done.
The teacher tells the following story.
There was once a milkmaid named Kannamma. She milked her cow and
carried the two pails of milk. She fetched on a stick and set out to sell the
milk at the market. As she was walking to the market, she began to daydream
about what she would do from the money she gets for the milk. She thought
of buying a hen and selling its eggs and she planned on becoming wealthy.
She dreamt of buying a cake, a basket of strawberries, a fancy dress, and even
42a new house with the money she would make selling the eggs and the milk!
In her excitement, she forgot about the pails she was carrying and began to
skip. Suddenly, she realised that the milk was spilling down and when she
checked her pails, they were empty.
The students retell the story using the characters they created.
Assessment:
1. This passage is about elephants in circus. Read the passage and speak about
elephant that you have seen somewhere.
Once upon a time in a circus, there were five elephants that performed circus
tricks. They were kept tied up with weak rope that they could’ve easily escaped,
but did not. One day, a man visiting the circus asked the ringmaster: “Why haven’t
these elephants broken the rope and run away?” The ringmaster replied: “From
when they were young, the elephants were made to believe that they were not
strong enough to break the ropes and escape.” It was because of this belief that
they did not even try to break the ropes now.
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2. Speak about your favourite food. (Minimum five sentences)
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4311 Vocabulary
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
▶▶ Reciting and shares poems, songs, jokes, riddles, tongue twisters, etc.
▶▶ Using synonyms, antonyms appropriately deduces word meanings from clues in
context while reading a variety of texts
▶▶ Referring to dictionary to check meaning and spelling, and to suggested websites
for information
Teacher Activity: 1
The teacher explains, vocabulary is a set of words used in English. Then the teacher
divides the class into two teams. The teacher says a word to the students. The teacher
asks the students to form words from the letters in the given word. The team which
forms more number of words wins the game. An example is done.
Activist – attics, static, visit, acts, cats, vast, visa, sat
Teacher Activity: 2
The teacher divides the class into two teams and conducts quiz. The teacher
asks the following questions and the students answer the quiz. The teacher gives
options for the answers. The team which gives more correct answers wins the
game.
1. A young sheep is called __________________________
a ram b. a lamb c. a ewe
2. A tigress is a _______________ tiger.
male b. female c. young
3. The collective noun for fish is __________________
a swarm b. a pod c. a school
4. What does a tadpole turn into as it grows?
a frog b. a larva c. a dolphin
5. Which word is used for a male elephant and a male whale?
a. bull b. boar c. buck
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