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I. Look at the picture.
What are the different people doing in the picture?
UNIT - 2
THE LITTLE RED HENTHE LITTLE RED HEN
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II.A. Look at the picture and answer the questions.
What time of the day is it?
What are the animals doing?
B. Now listen to your teacher and answer the followingquestions.
1. How did the hen help her friends?
2. Name the birds and animals who are lazy in the story.
3. Can the hen do something to make them work?
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One day the little red hen found a grain of wheat.
“Who will plant this grain of wheat?” she asked.
“Not I,” quacked the duck.
“Not I,” grunted the pig.
“Not I,” purred the cat.
The little red hen
III. Read the story.
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“Who’ll help me cut the stalk
of wheat?” asked the hen.
Pig grunted, “Not I.”
“Not I,” purred the cat.
“Not I,” quacked the duck.
So the little red hen cut the stalk and
took out all the grains of wheat.
So, the little red hen
planted the grain. It
soon grew into a
plant. It was full of
wheat.
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“Who’ll take the wheat to the mill?” asked the hen.
“Not I,” Pig grunted. “Not I,” purred the cat.
“Not I,” quacked the duck.
So the little red hen took the wheat to the mill. The miller
ground it into flour.
What lesson, do you think, the hen will teach them?
The hen made bread with the wheat flour. She called the duck,
the pig and the cat. She wanted to teach them a lesson.
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“Who’s going to eat the bread?” asked the hen.
“I will,” grunted the pig.“I will,” quacked the duck.
“I will,” purred the cat.
“No, you will not. I planted the grain. I cut the grain. I got it
ground. I made the bread. So, I’ll eat all the bread,” said the
little red hen. And she started eating.
“We’re sorry. We’ll not be lazy from today. Please give us
also something to eat,” said the pig, the duck and the cat.
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A. Answer the following questions.
1. Who was not lazy?
2. What did the little red hen do with the grain?
3. Where did the little red hen take the wheat?
4. Do you think the little red hen finally shared the bread
with her friends?
B. Write the following sentences in the order in which
they appear in the story.
The little red hen cut the wheat.
The little red hen ate the bread.
The miller ground the wheat into flour.
The little red hen took the wheat to the mill.
The little red hen planted the grain.
The little red hen found a grain of wheat.
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C. One day the little red hen found a grain of wheat. She
planted it and it soon grew into a plant.
Now you think of some seeds which grow into a plant.
Write their names in the leaves shown below.
You may add more leaves if you want.
One is done for you.
mango
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D. Colour the picture and describe it.
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E (a). The little red hen made some sweet bread from the
wheat flour. Now talk about various things that
you can make with wheat.
For example you can say,
We can make upma.
1. …………………………………………………
2. …………………………………………………
3. …………………………………………………
4. …………………………………………………
(b). Share with your friends the steps that you take to
make a chapati with wheat. Then write them. Onestep is given here.
Take a cup of wheat flour. ______________________
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F. Read the following sentences.
The little red hen said,
“Who will plant this grain of wheat?”
“Who will help me cut the wheat?”
“Who is going to eat the bread?”
Now, put inverted commas, capital letter or full stops,
wherever necessary, in the following passage.
Chinmay said to his friend will you come to my house His
friend replied I will not come now Chinmay asked when will
you come then His friend said I will come tomorrow Then
Chinmay said it’s OK
When we want to write exactly what a speaker has said,
we keep it in inverted commas (“…”). The words of the
speaker begin with a capital letter and end with either a
full stop (.), a question mark (?) or a sign of exclamation
(!).
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IV.A. Listen and recite the poem.
Good morning Mrs. Hen
“Good morning, Mrs. Hen!
How many chickens have you got?”
“Madam, I have got ten.
Four of them are yellow.
Four of them are brown.
Two of them are speckled red,
The nicest in the town.”
B. Add lines
Good morning, _________________________
How many _______________ have you got?
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_____________________________________The nicest in the town.
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B. Tell your friends in your group how
you got the sapling from the seed.You
may begin as shown below.
I took an earthen pot.
Now, write what you have told the group....................................................
My plant
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A. The following steps will help you to plant a seed.
1. Take an earthen pot.
Fill it with mud and manure.
2. Put a marigold seed in the mud.
3. Keep the pot in sun light.
4. Water the seed every day.
5. The seed grows into a sapling.
V. Project work: My plant.
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VI. Story time. The Lazy Rabbit
One day it was cloudy. The lazy
rabbit was sleeping in the burrow.
Once three rabbits lived in a burrow in a forest.
One of them was very lazy.
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The other two rabbits went out. They found some carrots.
Then the two rabbits came back to the burrow eating carrots. The
lazy rabbit was hungry but it did not have anything to eat.