Meadows Book 3
Meadows Book 3
Meadows Book 3
Meadows
Main Course Book of
English Reader (Workbook Style)
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Contents...
Introductory Unit: Revision and Recall..................................5
1. About Snakes and Ladders........................................................8
2. Sportsmanship..............................................................................12
3. The Tale of the Wizard Khizr....................................................15
4. Goldilocks.......................................................................................18
5. The Owl and the Fish Hawk.....................................................21
6. Bhasmasur Praveen.................................................................... 24
7. Rick Comes to Stay.....................................................................27
8. Dirty Face.......................................................................................30
9. The Journey of a Toothbrush................................................. 33
10. Christopher Columbus.............................................................. 36
11. The Festivals of Kasheer ......................................................... 39
12. My Farmer Father........................................................................ 42
13. Motu Patlu.....................................................................................45
14. My Mummy is Strange!.............................................................48
Meadows– 3
INTRODUCTORY UNIT:
REVISION AND RECALL
Suggested Time: 4 to 5 periods
LESSON PLAN
Learning Objectives
After completion of the topics covered in this lesson, the students will be able to:
read and enjoy a poem.
refresh, learn and practise a few parts of speech in Grammar.
practise punctuation.
do self-assessment in Listening and Speaking.
write a self-description.
do a cross-curricular activity.
Teaching Aids
Show images of the first day in school on the digital board.
Whiteboard and marker/Blackboard and chalk
Meadows- Main Course Book of English Reader (Workbook Style)-3, Introductory Unit:
Revision And Recall
Art material
Introduction/Warm-up
The teacher is advised to recall the previous day’s topics in the first five minutes before He/She
begins to teach.
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Day 4: Pronouns and prepositions will be tackled today. The teacher will follow the same strategy
as before. This will be followed by punctuation practice. In Listening and speaking, the
students will assess their performance in grammar and reading.
Day 5: The students will use the given template or something similar for self-description in the
writing task and following the instructions given to them, make the figures.
Activity: The students will make friendship circles from colourful charts and write the names of
their classmates in each circle as instructed. These can be pinned on a display board.
Noun Check
1. Mr Verma is a doctor in a hospital.
2. We always travel by Air India.
3. Delhi is a beautiful city.
4. Chandigarh is the capital of Punjab and Haryana.
Adjective Check
1. I gave a new book to Hari about Sinbad.
2. We were given veg sandwiches and small bottles of orange juice in the break.
3. The Malhotras are going to shift to their old house.
4. He injured his left eye in a terrible accident.
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Verb Check
1. Present Continuous tense 2. Present Continuous tense 3. Past Continuous tense
4. Past Continuous tense 5. Present tense 6. Present tense
Preposition Check
1. b 2. c 3. a
Punctuation Check (!/·/?/’/,)
1. The girl’s father sat in a corner.
2. We are going to watch the movie ‘Avengers’ on Sunday.
3. When will Kartik come home?
4. Yay! Daddy is treating me to ice cream.
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Meadows– 3
LESSON PLAN
Learning Objectives
After completion of the topics covered in this lesson, the students will be able to:
read and understand the journey of the game snakes and ladders.
answer questions based on the narrative.
make word chains and refresh alphabetical order in Vocabulary.
recall and refresh common and proper nouns in Grammar.
complete Listening and Speaking tasks.
punctuate a paragraph.
write a guided composition.
do cross-curricular activities.
Teaching Aids
Show images of board games on the digital board.
Whiteboard and marker/Blackboard and chalk
Meadows- Main Course Book of English Reader (Workbook Style)-3, Lesson 1: About Snakes
and Ladders
Art material
Introduction/Warm-up
The students will do both the tasks given under Do and Learn as given at the start of the unit on
Page 13. They may need the teacher’s help in spelling.
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with ‘t’ so the next word will begin with the letter ‘t’ (for example tree), and the next one
with ‘e’, and so on. After this task, they will arrange the words in the grid in alphabetical
order. If time permits, the teacher will revise nouns with a few examples.
Day 4: The teacher will help the students recall proper and common nouns with suitable
examples. Thereafter, the class will complete the practise tasks given on page 19-20.
They may reinforce the concepts further using Step Ahead— A Book of Grammar and
Composition-3.
Day 5: The class will go through the Listening and Speaking tasks by saying a few words
about their favourite board game and later, listening to an audio to complete the given
paragraph. The teacher may have to either play the audio multiple times or read the text
aloud a few times for the task.
Day 6: The teacher will explain how a guided composition is written. Tell the students to write
short sentences. As the points in the help box are not given in chronological order, they
have to be arranged so. After this, the students will write their rough drafts based on
the writing task given to them on page 22.
Activity: The students will solve the crossword on cricket. It can be made a time-bound activity
for fun. Compliment the students for correct answers and spelling. Board games like Sudoku and
Scrabble can be shown on the digital board.
Reading Comprehension
A. 1. (iii) 2. (iii) 3. (i) 4. (i)
B. 1. F 2. T 3. T 4. T
C. 1. Snakes and Ladders is played by two-four players on a game board with numbered
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squares. Each player has different coloured tokens. Each ladder and snake connects two
board squares. A player throws the dice and moves his/her token from the bottom square
to the top square. He/She is helped by climbing ladders, but is stopped by ‘falling down’
the snakes. Each player tries to quickly climb the ladders and reach the top.
2. Playing the game of Mokshapat was a fight between good and evil. Reaching the last
square or the number 100 represented freedom from bad qualities.
3. Gyan Chauper, Ludo and Pachisi.
4. Board with numbered squares, coloured tokens and a dice.
5. (a) The top side of the ancient board was covered with images of gods and angels and
the rest of the board was covered with pictures of animals, flowers and common
people. There are no pictures on the boards except the snake and the ladders
(b) The ladders represented good qualities, such as kindness, faith, good manners, love,
respect, speaking the truth, etc. Now, ladders just take the token up the games.
(c) The snakes represented bad qualities, such as greed, anger, cruelty, and theft. There
are lesser snakes in the game now.
Vocabulary
B. 1. Chick 2. Chief 3. Child 4. Chilly
5. Chimpanzee 6. Daisy 7. Forest 8. Forgive
9. Fork 10. Form 11. Forward 12. Jasmine
13. Marigold 14. Pram 15. Pray 16. Prey
17. Pride 18. Prove 19. Rose 20. Say
21. See 22. Show 23. Skip 24. Smell
25. Tulip
Grammar
A. 1. farmer, plough 2. days, year, months 3. Stars, sky
4. Mt Everest, world 6. pilot, air
B. 1. The Pacific Ocean is the deepest ocean.
2. Rohit and Mohit are brothers. Both study in Adarsh Vidya Niketan in class 3.
3. December and January are the coldest months in India.
4. Akbar, the Mughal emperor, made many beautiful monuments.
5. New Delhi, one of the biggest cities in the country, is the capital of India.
6. I love to eat apples, bananas, grapes, and oranges in winter.
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Punctuation
It is Sunday today. I am going to visit my grandparents. They have many fruit trees. Their mango
trees have big juicy mangoes. My grandmother makes mango jam with the ripe mangoes. I like
to eat it on my toast. She will gift me a big jar of mango jam. I love my grandma’s mango jam.
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Meadows– 3
SPORTSMANSHIP
Suggested Time: 4 to 5 periods
LESSON PLAN
Learning Objectives
After completion of the topics covered in this lesson, the students will be able to:
read and enjoy a poem on sportsmanship.
answer questions based on the poem.
unscramble new words in Vocabulary.
learn about collective nouns and gender and number in nouns.
pronounce words with silent /l/.
write paragraphs.
do a cross-curricular activity.
Teaching Aids
Show images of winning and losing in sports on the digital board.
Whiteboard and marker/Blackboard and chalk
Meadows- Main Course Book of English Reader (Workbook Style)-3, Lesson 2: Sportsmanship
Introduction/Warm-up
Explain what sportsmanship is before reading the poem.
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26-27. Lastly, the class will pay attention to the pronunciation as well as the spelling of
the words with silent /l/.
Day 5: The teacher will explain the format and the writing style of paragraph writing with
suitable templates on the digital or regular board. After this, the students will write the
rough drafts based on the writing task given to them on page 27.
Activity: The students will find out about the games that their parents and grandparents used
to enjoy as children, but are now lost. The teacher may show them a few images of such games
that are still played in villages and small towns.
Reading Comprehension
A. 1. (i) 2. (ii) 3. (i)
B. 1. T 2. T 3. T 4. F 5. T
C. 1. ‘You’ is a member of the defeated team and ‘me’ is the member of the winning team.
2. The winners should say to the other team that it’s okay and that they might win some
other day.
Vocabulary
shipderlea- leadership pectres- respect nginwni- winning
drahrkwo- hardwork meatrkwo- teamwork shipnamsrtspo- sportsmanship
ingsol- losing ticeracp- practice
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Grammar
Collective Nouns
1. The team celebrated the win with ice cream.
2. The band enjoys performing for their fans.
3. The flock flies back to their nest in the evening.
4. The class hopes that there will be no homework tonight.
5. The army needs more supplies.
6. The audience watching the show are clapping for the actors.
Nouns: Gender
1. hero 2. mare 3. woman 4. lioness 5. tiger
6. god 7. madam 8. cow 9. lady 10. actress
Nouns: Number
1. mangoes 2. branches 3. geese 4. fairies
5. cities 6. children 7. women 8. wives
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Meadows– 3
LESSON PLAN
Learning Objectives
After completion of the topics covered in this lesson, the students will be able to:
read and understand a folktale on forgiveness and mercy.
answer questions based on the story.
match –ed words with their meanings in Vocabulary.
learn about the simple present and simple past tense in Grammar.
practise punctuation
write descriptions of people.
do a cross-curricular activity.
Teaching Aids
Show images shown in task B in Do and Learn on the digital board.
Whiteboard and marker/Blackboard and chalk
Meadows- Main Course Book of English Reader (Workbook Style)-3, Lesson 3: The Tale of the
Wizard Khizr
Introduction/Warm-up
As given at the start of the unit, the students will do tasks A and B. Task A may require the
teacher’s intervention but task B should be handled independently by the students.
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Day 4:
The teacher may use Step Ahead— A Book of Grammar and Composition-3 for
consolidation of the tenses before proceeding to the punctuation task. The teacher
may invite the students at random to the board for punctuating the sentences. More
sentences may be added to accommodate more students.
Day 5: The class will be taught how to write a paragraph using the hints given in the help box.
The teacher may show a few templates on the digital setup for explaining its structure
and the writing style. As instructed, the students will also use the given image for their
reference.
Activity: The students will read a story about Birbal or any other witty character and retell it in
class. The best performances can be commended.
Reading Comprehension
A. 1. (i) 2. (iii) 3. (iii)
B. 1. T 2. T 3. T 4. F 5. T
C. 1. The King of Persia was sad and upset. His kingdom had been parched for too long. Enemies
were at the borders and bandits attacked the travellers. That’s why the King wished for a
visit from the Wizard Khizr.
2. The poor man promised the King that he will bring Wizard Khizr to him.
3. The poor man paid back all his creditors and gave his wife the balance for the family.
4. The old man was the Wizard Khizr. The Wizard revealed himself when unknowingly the
King asked him to clear the confusion.
5. The old man advised that two of the King’s vizier were stupid and the remaining third
vizier was wise.
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Vocabulary
1. (v) 2. (viii) 3. (vi) 4. (iii)
5. (i) 6. (iv) 7. (ii) 8. (vii)
Grammar
Simple present tense:
1. studies 2. play 3. help 4. likes
5. land 6. begins 7. is
Simple past present tense:
1. ran 2. liked 3. slipped 4. set
5. threw 6. cooked 7. went
Punctuation
1. How many books has Ruskin Bond written?
2. Reena, Amrit, Venu, Gopal and Suniti are absent today.
3. I have my tuition on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
4. Shreya, where are you going?
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Meadows– 3
GOLDILOCKS
Suggested Time: 4 to 5 periods
LESSON PLAN
Learning Objectives
After completion of the topics covered in this lesson, the students will be able to:
read and enjoy a classic tale in the form of a poem.
answer questions based on the poem.
learn about homophones in Vocabulary.
learn and practise simple future and construction ‘going to’.
pronounce words with silent /b/.
write an application.
do a cross-curricular activity.
Teaching Aids
Show images of Goldilocks and the three bears on the digital board.
Whiteboard and marker/Blackboard and chalk
Meadows- Main Course Book of English Reader (Workbook Style)-3, Lesson 4: Goldilocks
Art material
Introduction/Warm-up
As given at the start of the chapter, the teacher will read and explain the introduction to the poem.
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‘going to.’ Thereafter, the class will complete the practise tasks given on page 40.
They may reinforce the concepts further using Step Ahead— A Book of Grammar and
Composition-3 either today or the next day.
Day 4: The students will pronounce the words given in the pronunciation task with silent /b/
and pay attention to their spellings. After this, the teacher will introduce the format of a
leave application. A few specimens may be shown on the digital setup for an explanation.
Day 5: The students will quickly refresh what was taught yesterday and take up the writing task
given on page 41 using the help box. The teacher will commend their work or help them
correct their mistakes as the case may be.
Activity: The students will draw and colour the picture of Goldilocks and the three bears on a
drawing sheet.
Reading Comprehension
A. 1. (ii) 2. (i) 3. (i)
B. 1. T 2. T 3. F 4. T 5. F
Vocabulary
1. stairs 2. stare 3. whole 4. hole 5. their 6. there
Grammar
Simple Future Tense
1. shall 2. will 3. will 4. shall 5. Will 6. will
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Use of ‘Going To’
1. is going to 2. are going to 3. is going to 4. am going to
5. are going to 6. is going to
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Meadows– 3
LESSON PLAN
Learning Objectives
After completion of the topics covered in this lesson, the students will be able to:
read and understand a mythological folktale on greed.
answer questions based on the story.
correctly identify antonyms in Vocabulary.
learn and practise present and past continuous tenses.
practise apostrophe s (‘s) in Punctuation.
take dictation in Listening and Speaking.
write from imagination.
do a cross-curricular activity.
Teaching Aids
Show images of owls and fish hawks on the digital board.
Whiteboard and marker/Blackboard and chalk
Meadows- Main Course Book of English Reader (Workbook Style)-3, Lesson 5: The Owl and
the Fish Hawk
Introduction/Warm-up
As given at the start of the unit on page 42, the students will identify the Gods to whom the
animals shown in the pictures belong.
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Day 3: The students will correctly identify antonyms of the given words from the given options.
They may be asked to make sentences with these words as an optional task. Next,
the teacher will help the students to refresh present and past continuous tenses, their
structures and usage with suitable examples. Thereafter, the class will complete the
practise task given on page 48. They may reinforce the concepts further using Step
Ahead— A Book of Grammar and Composition-3.
Day 4: The class will take dictation in the Listening task and share what they regularly complain
about at home in the speaking task. The students will refresh the usage of the apostrophe
(‘s) and complete the practise exercise given on page 49. The teacher may supplement
the task if He/She wishes so.
Day 5: The students will be shown a few specimens of personal journal entries to understand
how they are written. Following this, they can either discuss what to write with their
desk partner or the teacher may moderate a class discussion to reach some common
points. The students will then use them to write their first drafts of the writing task.
Reading Comprehension
A. 1. (i) 2. (ii) 3. (ii)
B. 1. F 2. T 3. F 4. T 5. T
C. 1. The Owl-man took the girl away because the girl’s father who was a magician hoped the
Owl-man would take her away.
2. No, the Owl-man and the girl were not happy together as the girl kept crying, complaining
and shouting.
3. Owl-man’s wife had escaped and was hiding in her parent’s house. The mother of the girl
would not allow Owl-man to meet the girl hence he damaged the roof in anger.
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4. The father cursed his own daughter because she was never happy and always kept
complaining for things she didn’t have.
5. The Owl-man was changed into owl by the magician and was cursed to dwell the forest
alone with few friends and living on frogs, toads and field mice.
Vocabulary
1. (b) 2. (a) 3. (a) 4. (b) 5. (a)
Grammar
1. is playing 2. are drawing 3. were shifting 4. is writing
5. is rushing 6. are studying 7. were wearing 8. am thinking
Punctuation
1. Girls’ college
2. Charu’s essay
3. Goat’s horns
4. Ruskin Bond’s stories
5. Owl-man’s wife’s parents’ house
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Meadows– 3
BHASMASUR PRAVEEN
Suggested Time: 4 to 5 periods
LESSON PLAN
Learning Objectives
After completion of the topics covered in this lesson, the students will be able to:
read and enjoy a poem based on mythology.
answer questions related to the poem.
pick out rhyming words in Vocabulary.
learn and practise kinds of sentences in Grammar.
pronounce words with the silent sound /h/.
write about a personal experience.
do a cross-curricular activity.
Teaching Aids
Show images of a few Indian comics on the digital board.
Whiteboard and marker/Blackboard and chalk
Meadows- Main Course Book of English Reader (Workbook Style)-3, Lesson 6: Bhasmasur Praveen
Introduction/Warm-up
Introduce the poem as given at the start of the chapter and tell the mythological tale on which
it is based. It will help in understanding the poem.
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Day 4: The students will say aloud the given words with silent /h/ and pay good attention to
the spelling. Thereafter, they will learn to write a personal experience or a first-person
account. For this, the teacher will use a few specimens that she may show on the
digital setup and explain them at length. The students will write the first drafts of their
experiences and show them to the teacher for evaluation.
Day 5: The final drafts of the writing task will be written today. The teacher will invite a few
students to read and share their first-person accounts with their classmates.
Activity 1: The children may browse the internet to learn more about Indian comics, Manga from
Japan, Tintin from Belgium, and Marvel comics from America, etc. They can also visit the school
library to access these resources.
Activity 2: The students can be asked to bring a comic from home if they have one. The other
students can exchange and read them for both fun and knowledge.
Reading Comprehension
A. 1. (ii) 2. (i) 3. (ii)
B. 1. a thousand boars 2. head, ashes
3. Mohini 4. Mohini’s dance steps
C. 1. Bhasmasur’s wish was to turn his enemy to ashes upon touching their heads.
2. Bhasmasur burnt himself to ashes, while trying to match Mohini’s step and touching his head.
Vocabulary
1. cunning 2. name 3. head 4. dame 5. ashes 6. above
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Grammar
1. S 2. S 3. Q 4. Q
5. C 6. Q 7. Ex 8. R
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Meadows– 3
LESSON PLAN
Learning Objectives
After completion of the topics covered in this lesson, the students will be able to:
read and understand a classic story on magic.
answer questions based on the story.
match words with their synonyms in Vocabulary.
learn and practise pronouns and helping verbs in Grammar.
punctuate sentences.
practise Listening and Speaking.
write from imagination.
do a cross-curricular activity.
Teaching Aids
Show images of the Enchanted Wood on the digital board.
Whiteboard and marker/Blackboard and chalk
Meadows- Main Course Book of English Reader (Workbook Style)-3, Lesson 7: Rick Comes
to Stay
Art material
Introduction/Warm-up
As given at the start of the unit, help the children find out more about young writers. Encourage
them to retell their favourite stories.
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teacher can ask them to refer to dictionaries instead of supplying the answers herself.
They will also pay attention to the formation of antonyms as shown on page 64. Next,
the teacher will introduce pronouns and tell the class that they replace nouns (using
suitable examples). The students will complete the practice task on page 64 and practise
some more in Step Ahead— A Book of Grammar and Composition-3.
Day 4: Since the students already know about helping verbs, the teacher can refresh them
quickly through appropriate examples. Thereafter, the class will do the exercise given
on page 65 and, for consolidation of the concept, they can take up more exercises in
Step Ahead— A Book of Grammar and Composition-3. Later, the class will go through
Listening and Speaking tasks by sharing their personal experiences with their cousins.
Day 5: For punctuation practice, the students will take up the task on page 65 and rewrite the
correctly punctuated sentences. The teacher will encourage the students to verbally
express their ideas for written communication skills before they start writing. The
students will note down their wishes in the writing task under the supervision of their
teacher who may guide them with the correct expressions.
Activity: The students will draw and colour the peculiar land with magical creatures of their
choice in the clouds and write the name of this land on the board in the picture.
Reading Comprehension
A. 1. (ii) 2. (iii) 3. (ii)
B. 1. (iii) 2. (iv) 3. (vi) 4. (v) 5. (i) 6. (ii)
C. 1. Rick was coming to stay for quite a long time because his mother was ill and couldn’t look
after him.
2. The children put up a bed for their cousin in Jo’s room and made room in his cupboard
for Rick’s things.
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3. The children had been to the Rocking Land, the Birthday Land, the Land of Take-What-
You-Want and the Land of the Snowman.
4. The children were fond of the Slippery-Slip because it was a slide that went right down
the inside of the tree from the top to the bottom. Moon-Face lent people cushions to slide
down on.
5. Mother promised that if the children did their jobs properly, then she would give them the
whole day holiday the next day.
Vocabulary
1. frightened 2. impatiently 3. see 4. annoyed
5. mad 6. aged 7. courageous 8. magical
Grammar
Pronouns
1. It 2. them 3. me 4. you, it 5. hers
Helping Verbs
1. are 2. is 3. am 4. were 5. were, was
6. has, have 7. has, have
Punctuation
1. Yikes! There are mountains of garbage and flies all around.
2. Does Seema Khandelwal live in Nagpur?
3. Sunday is the best day of the week.
4. Jimmy, why don’t you go to school?
5. Oh my god! It is such a hot day!
6. What kind of stories do you like?
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Meadows– 3
DIRTY FACE
Suggested Time: 4 to 5 periods
LESSON PLAN
Learning Objectives
After completion of the topics covered in this lesson, the students will be able to:
read and enjoy a poem on childhood.
answer questions based on the poem.
identify sound words in Vocabulary.
learn about and practise articles in Grammar.
pronounce words with silent /k/.
write a picture composition.
do a cross-curricular activity.
Teaching Aids
Show fun images of dirty children on the digital board.
Whiteboard and marker/Blackboard and chalk
Meadows- Main Course Book of English Reader (Workbook Style)-3, Lesson 8: Dirty Face
Art material
Introduction/Warm-up
As given at the start of the chapter, introduce the poet and his works for children. Also, give a
brief outline of the poem.
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examples and follow it up with the practice task on page 70. For further reinforcement
of articles, the teacher may use Step Ahead— A Book of Grammar and Composition-3.
Day 4: In the pronunciation task, words with silent /k/ will be practised and the children will also
pay attention to their spelling. Next, the teacher will show a picture on the digital setup
and ask questions to explain how an image is described to write a picture composition.
The students may try describing the picture given on page 71 verbally before they start
the writing task.
Day 5: After a quick revision of how a picture composition is done, the students will write their
own compositions as instructed on page 71. The teacher can guide them whenever
necessary.
Activity: The students can browse the web to know more about how animals keep themselves
clean through dust bathing and splashing water on their bodies. They will collect pictures of
animals that enjoy a dust bath and paste them in their notebooks, scrapbooks, or drawing sheets.
Reading Comprehension
A. 1. (i) 2. (ii) 3. (ii)
B. 1. T 2. T 3. F 4. F 5. T
C. 1. It seems as if the child spends most of his/her time in the dirt while playing.
2. Yes, the child seems to enjoy herself/himself because of the positive tone the poet has
used and at the end of the poem, where it says, “having more fun than you’ve had in
years”.
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Vocabulary
1. Tick-tock of a clock
2. Pitter-patter of the rain
3. Whoosh of the wind
4. Bang of a door
5. Tinkle of a bell
6. Knock at the door
7. Splash into the water
8. Whir of a car
Grammar
1. a, The 2. an, a 3. a 4. the, an 5. an, an
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9
Meadows– 3
THE JOURNEY OF A
TOOTHBRUSH
Suggested Time: 4 to 5 periods
LESSON PLAN
Learning Objectives
After completion of the topics covered in this lesson, the students will be able to:
read and understand an article on the journey of a toothbrush.
answer questions based on the article.
identify the words behind numbers.
learn about adjectives and their degrees in Grammar.
punctuate sentences.
write correct spellings in Listening and Speaking.
do a cross-curricular activity.
write correct sequence of steps.
Teaching Aids
Show images of how toothbrushes have evolved over time on the digital board.
Whiteboard and marker/Blackboard and chalk
Meadows- Main Course Book of English Reader (Workbook Style)-3, Lesson 9: The Journey
of a Toothbrush
Art material
Introduction/Warm-up
The teacher will explain the difference between inventions and discoveries using a few examples.
Let the students complete the task in Do and Learn with their desk partners and share the
answers with their classmates. The teacher will correct the mistakes, if any.
Reading Comprehension
A. 1. Earlier, humans used feathers, twigs, and chew sticks to clean their teeth.
2. In China, hog hair was used on a wooden handle for brushing teeth.
3. Dr George Collis invented a toothbrush with curved bristles.
4. Neem twigs, or datun, and miswak were used as chew sticks in India.
5. The modern toothbrush came into the market in 1938.
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B. 1. teeth 2. twice 3. Stiff, neck 4. between 5. invented
C. 1. In ancient times, humans used feathers, twigs, and chew sticks to keep their teeth clean.
They also used toothpicks to remove food from their teeth.
2. In 1978, Dr George Collis invented a toothbrush with curved bristles and the first electric
toothbrush was invented in Switzerland in 1954.
3. In early toothbrushes, the brush handles were made of wood, bamboo, or bone.
Vocabulary
1. Toothbrush
2. Dentist
3. Tongue-cleaner
4. Rinsing
5. Mouthwash
6. Cavities
7. Gums
8. Gargling
Grammar
A. 1. huge 2. hot 3. obedient 4. small
5. funny 6. heavy
B. 1. hotter than 2. taller than 3. slower than
4. lazier than 5. busier 6. softer than
C. 1. the coldest 2. the highest 3. the kindest
Punctuation
1. This is the latest model of Creta. It is my father’s car.
2. Mr Lal is my neighbour. He works in Axis Bank.
3. The girls’ shoes are outside the music room.
4. Pia, Soma, Kriti, and Samira are going to watch a movie on Sunday.
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10
Meadows– 3
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
Suggested Time: 4 to 5 periods
LESSON PLAN
Learning Objectives
After completion of the topics covered in this lesson, the students will be able to:
read and enjoy a poem on the discovery of the world.
answer questions based on the poem.
identify words related to Earth in Vocabulary.
learn about adverbs and their types in Grammar.
pronounce words with silent /t/.
write an informal letter.
do a cross-curricular activity.
Teaching Aids
Show images of ancient explorers and travellers, and the routes they took across the world
on the digital board.
Whiteboard and marker/Blackboard and chalk
Meadows- Main Course Book of English Reader (Workbook Style)-3, Lesson 10: Christopher
Columbus
World map
Introduction/Warm-up
As given at the start of the chapter on page 80, the teacher will read the Warm-up and introduce
the poem to the class.
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can write a few fill-ups on the board and call the students to fill them up with correct
adverbs. The students, thereafter, will take up the practice task given on page 83 and
may reinforce it using Step Ahead— A Book of Grammar and Composition-3.
Day 4: In the pronunciation task, the students will say aloud words with silent /t/ and also pay
attention to the correct spellings. The class will be shown the format of an informal letter
and how it is written either on a conventional or a digital board. The difference between
a formal letter (an application) and an informal letter should also be explained.
Day 5: The students will fill up the words from the help box to complete the informal letter
given on page 84. The teacher will confirm the correct answers or He/She can ask the
students at random to read their drafts. If time permits, another informal letter can be
given for practice.
Activity: The students will label the seven continents and five oceans in the world map given on
page 83 or, alternatively, they may use a bigger map, complete it and stick it in their notebooks.
Reading Comprehension
A. explorer, voyage, discover, leaked, remove, maps, clear, lost, Atlantic Ocean, India, the
Americas, journey
B. 1. F 2. F 3. T 4. T 5. T
Vocabulary
1. Oceans 2. Rivers 3. Mountains 4. Countries
5. Continents 6. Islands 7. Forests
8. North, south, east, west
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Grammar
1. The lion roared fiercely. M
2. Rani and Sana are playing outside. P
3. We are going to have a holiday tomorrow. T
4. It’s good to get up early and go for a walk. T
5. She ran fast but missed the bus. M
6. The party is happening upstairs. P
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Meadows– 3
LESSON PLAN
Learning Objectives
After completion of the topics covered in this lesson, the students will be able to:
read and understand a travelogue on Kashmir.
answer questions based on the text.
learn travel-related vocabulary.
refresh and practise prepositions and contractions in Grammar.
practise the use of commas in quoted sentences.
know about packing essentials and personal safety rules while travelling.
complete a dialogue.
do a cross-curricular activity.
Teaching Aids
Show images of the culture of Kashmir on the digital board.
Whiteboard and marker/Blackboard and chalk
Meadows- Main Course Book of English Reader (Workbook Style)-3, Lesson 11: The Festivals
of Kasheer
Art material
Introduction/Warm-up
As given at the start of the unit, the students will do the tasks given under Do and Learn, if
possible, independently.
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prepositions, their meanings and usage through a variety of examples, following which
the class will tackle the practice task given on pages 90-91 by choosing the correct
answers. Step Ahead— A Book of Grammar and Composition-3 will help give more
practice to the students in consolidating the topic.
Day 4: The teacher will familiarise the students with contractions using appropriate examples.
They will complete the practice task given on page 91. After this, the students will finish
talking about lists of essential travel items and, later, listen to personal safety rules.
Day 5: Where to insert commas in quoted sentences is the punctuation task for today. The
class will go through the practice task given on page 92, following which they will
be familiarised with dialogue completion. They will read the given questions and the
statements carefully and write the answers.
Activity: The students will find out which states the given handicrafts (page 92) belong to. They
will paste their pictures on a chart paper and write their names and states.
Reading Comprehension
A. 1. (i) 2. (iii) 3. (i) 4. (ii) 5. (iii)
B. 1. Dal Lake 2. Hangul and black bear
3. Chaam 4. River rafting and trekking
5. The Indus and the Jhelum
C. 1. At the Shikara Festival, people paint and decorate shikaras or house boats with flowers to
participate in the Dragon race and the boatmen play water polo while rowing their boats.
2. During the Hemis Festival, drums, horns, and cymbals are played.
3. Students will do it on their own.
4. The Gurez Festival is uncommon because people enjoy adventure sports like river rafting,
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trekking, zorbing, cycling, etc. They also participate in competitions, like painting and
drawing.
Vocabulary
1. train 2. suitcase 3. tickets 4. berth
5. seatbelt 6. duffel bag 7. map
Grammar
Prepositions
1. behind 2. between 3. by 4. into
5. of 6. with
Contractions
1. It’s a purple flower.
2. We’re going for dance practice.
3. He’s sick and has gone to the dispensary.
4. I’m going to visit Aunt Keki tomorrow.
5. She can’t believe that she saw a turtle in her garden.
Punctuation
1. Dolly said, “We visited a new restaurant today.”
2. “Let’s go out for a walk”, Rajni said.
3. Sana yawned, “I’m feeling so sleepy.”
4. Danish smiled, “Mother is feeling much better now.”
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12
Meadows– 3
MY FARMER FATHER
Suggested Time: 4 to 5 periods
LESSON PLAN
Learning Objectives
After completion of the topics covered in this lesson, the students will be able to:
read and enjoy a poem dedicated to a farmer-father.
answer questions based on the poem.
learn about farming words in Vocabulary.
use question words and conjunctions correctly in Grammar.
pronounce words with silent /d/ sound.
write about a person.
do a cross-curricular activity.
Teaching Aids
Show images of farmers and farming on the digital board.
Whiteboard and marker/Blackboard and chalk
Meadows- Main Course Book of English Reader (Workbook Style)-3, Lesson 12: My Farmer
Father
Art material
Introduction/Warm-up
The teacher will read Warm-up given on page 93 and introduce the poem as given at the start
of the chapter.
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using the wh- words or question words given in the box. The teacher will confirm and
correct the answers.
Day 4: In the vocabulary task, the class will match the meanings with the words related to
farming that are given in the help box. Next, they will say aloud words with silent /d/
in the pronunciation task and also pay attention to their spellings. If time permits, the
teacher will explain to the students how to write about a person.
Day 5: The students will do the writing task. Each of them will draw or paste the picture of their
father in the notebook and write why they are proud of him.
Activity: The class will study the flow-chart of pictures that show different stages of farming
given on page 97. They will find out what happens after the crops are stored and how different
food products reach us. The students may browse the web or can be shown a video about the
same.
Reading Comprehension
A. 1. (i) 2. (ii) 3. (iii)
B. comfort, dirty, springtime, a good harvest, parent, God, prayers, a farmer, honestly, proud,
thankful, bless him
C. 1. pray 2. care 3. prayer 4. toil
Grammar
Conjunctions
1. Amjad and I are going to the party.
2. The accident was bad, but she was not hurt.
3. Do you want to take some rest or go out for a walk?
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Question Words
1. Where were you born?
2. When did Shashi Didi go to Hyderabad?
3. Who was chatting with his classmates?/ What was Sanju doing? / Who was Sanju chatting
with?
4. Which house is yours?
5. What is the time?
Vocabulary
Earth - soil
till - cultivate
clearing - weeding
watering - irrigating
reap - harvest
fertilising - manuring
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13
Meadows– 3
MOTU PATLU
Suggested Time: 4 to 5 periods
LESSON PLAN
Learning Objectives
After completion of the topics covered in this lesson, the students will be able to:
read and understand a narrative about popular animation characters.
answer questions based on the narrative.
enhance vocabulary with TV-related words.
refresh the verb ‘do’ and learn about interjections in Grammar.
practise punctuation of sentences.
give the voice-over in Listening and Speaking.
write about an animation character.
do a cross-curricular activity.
Teaching Aids
Show images of popular animation characters on the digital board.
Whiteboard and marker/Blackboard and chalk
Meadows- Main Course Book of English Reader (Workbook Style)-3, Lesson 13: Motu Patlu
Art material
Introduction/Warm-up
As given at the start of the unit, ask the students to complete task B. Reserve task A for the next
chapter.
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and ‘doesn’t’, followed by a practice task given on page 104 and more exercises given
in Step Ahead— A Book of Grammar and Composition-3. The class will get introduced
to interjections or ‘emotion words’ through suitable examples furnished by the teacher.
Thereafter, the students will complete the practise task given on page 104.
Day 4: Divide the class into groups of four or more. In each group, two or more students will
act or mime (without speaking) and the other will give voice-over to their actions.
The teacher can show how to modulate voice. The punctuation practice task will be
completed after this and the correct sentences rewritten in the notebooks.
Day 5: The images of five popular characters are shown on page 105 in the writing task. The
students will choose any one of them and not only write a few lines about it, but also
colour it.
Activity 1: The students can browse the web (if they don’t know) to find out about the country
of origin of the cartoon characters whose names are mentioned in CCA.
Activity 2: They may paste pictures of these characters and or draw and colour them.
Reading Comprehension
A. 1. (ii) 2. (v) 3. (iv) 4. (i) 5. (iii)
B. 1. Rajnikanth 2. samosas 3. neighbouring 4. Furfuri Apartment
C. 1. Motu and Patlu deal with tough situations with the help of their friends and a little luck.
2. Furfuri Nagar is in Maharashtra. We know that because most of the vehicles’ license plate
numbers start with ‘MH’.
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3. Boxer is so strong that he can break through walls and send people into the clouds with a
punch.
4. Dr Jhatka creates strange gadgets and uses them to experiment on Motu and Patlu
without telling them.
Vocabulary
1. (ii) 2. (v) 3. (vi) 4. (i)
5. (iii) 6. (iv)
Grammar
Do/Does/Don’t/Doesn’t
1. You don’t work in this library.
2. Cars don’t cause pollution.
3. She doesn’t write neatly.
4. He doesn’t play hockey very well.
Interjections
1. (iv) 2. (v) 3. (i) 4. (ii) 5. (iii)
Punctuation
1. Sona said, “The office is closed tomorrow.”
2. Mohit has karate practice on Tuesdays Thursdays, and Saturdays.
3. The girls’ shoes are outside the art room.
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14
Meadows– 3
MY MUMMY IS STRANGE!
Suggested Time: 4 to 5 periods
LESSON PLAN
Learning Objectives
After completion of the topics covered in this lesson, the students will be able to:
read and enjoy a play on the importance of playing.
answer questions based on the play.
distinguish the meanings of homonyms in Vocabulary.
learn about subject and predicate in Grammar.
complete a poem in Listening and Speaking.
pronounce words with silent /c/.
make their own timetable.
do a cross-curricular activity.
Teaching Aids
Show images of children playing outdoors on the digital board.
Whiteboard and marker/Blackboard and chalk
Meadows- Main Course Book of English Reader (Workbook Style)-3, Lesson 14: My Mummy
Is Strange!
Art material
Introduction/Warm-up
For Warm-up, the students will start with task A in Do and Learn given on page 98.
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they will make sentences with the homonyms given on page 112 so that their meanings
become clear. After this, the basic structure of a sentence (subject and predicate) will
be discussed through relevant examples. Once the concept is clear, the students will
complete the practice tasks A, B, and C given on page 113.
Day 4: In the Listening and Speaking tasks, the students will share any two things that make
their mother or father strange in a good way. Next, they will listen to an audio file and
complete the poem given on page 113-114. In the pronunciation task, the class will say
aloud words with silent ‘c’.
Day 5: The students will prepare their own time-table that they can follow at home. They can
be given this task as homework, a day prior to writing the final draft in classwork. They
will note down their individual time-table and read it in class.
Activity 1: The students will cut and paste pictures of five junk food items in their notebooks or
scrapbooks. They will also study the wrappers to find out themselves or ask their elders to tell
them why these food items are unhealthy. They will write the information below each picture as
well.
Reading Comprehension
A. 1. These lines were said by Deepa.
2. These lines discuss that if a student has copied his/her homework from someone else, the
teacher will know about it.
3. Yes, the boy understands his mistake as he says that he’ll do his homework himself.
B. 1. T 2. T 3. T 4. T
5. F 6. T
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C. 1. To avoid playing outdoors, Puru said that it’s too hot, while Deepa said that she had
already played enough for the day in the games period in school.
2. Mummy explained the value of playing with friends by saying that the children will learn
new things, make new friends, quarrel and make up with them, and enjoy.
3. Puru thinks that his Mummy is strange for asking them to go outdoors because most
parents are always complaining about their children’s playtime. But, his Mummy wants
them to play.
4. Mummy had a problem with the children’s TV time because she wanted Deepa to not be
breathless on the stairs and Puru’s clothes have become too tight for him.
Vocabulary
1. (a) I can write my name in cursive.
(b) Each of us drank a can of lime soda.
2. (a) The dog’s bowl was filled with Pedigree.
(b) The group of friends went to bowl at the bowling centre.
3. (a) My friends and I walked down to the river bank for picnic.
(b) He deposited `1000 in his bank account.
Grammar
Subject & Predicate
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