C. Think and answer.

1 How do you know that the monkey band is clever?

2. Did Mowgli and Baloo enjoy the music? How do you know?

D. Know your values.

You see some boys throwing stones at the birds in rhe park.
What will you do?
a. I will ask them to stop.
b.I will keep quiet because they are bigger than me
I will complain to a guard.
d. I will call my parents.

We should be kind to all animals and birds. If we see anyone being cruel
to an animal, we must tell them to stop.

Grammar
Read these words.
walks through the jungle

jumps over the

trunk
The words in colour are called action words or verbs,

correct verbs from the bex.

A. Look at these pictures. Choose the
catch cook
skip drive climb hug

cook
2 Latth
 5. tlimel 6. dg
.
4 hug
GRAMMAR FUN'
action words.
one of these
Choose any
Play this game.
eat throw point carry fall
fly bathe
talk when you do this.
Do the actions. You cannot

action it is.
The rest of the class will guess which

We use a verb in the simple present tense when the action-

a is
ahabit-Mowgli sings songs while walking throughthejunge.
b. happens every day Mowgli walks through the jungle every day
-

is a fact Mowgli lives in the

C. -

jungle.
We add s or es to the verb when we use it with
he, she or it.
he/ she / it jumps
We also add s when we use
it with a
talks about one proper noun or a common noun ula
thing.
Sheeba walks.
The cat sleeps.
B.
Complete these sentences with
1. the correct verbs he brack
Jatin walks to the from tne
walk/ walks) library every evening
2. The children.
in the
playground.bln
(playl plays)
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3 The moon
Uk at night. (rise/rises)
4. Amma
lunch at one oclock. (eat/eats)
5. Naina
dimks
(drink/drinks)
a
glass of milk before going to school.

C. Read this passage. Underline the

verbs in the simple present tense
Kajol lives on a farm. She has a cat. Its name
is Snowy. Snowy
sleeps in a basket that is
inside the house. Kajol
carries Snowy to the
roof every day. She looks at the ducks. The
ducks play in the pond. Sometimes,
they walk
slowly, and sometimes they run fast. Every day,
Kajol brushes Snowy's fur. She also brushes her
tail. Then she gives her food and fresh water.

GRAMMAR FUN
Take turns to say what people are doing in the classroom and outside
the classroom. Use the simple present tense.

You can say things like-Miss Sharma teaches, Shalini talks, and so on.

Vocabulary
Can you guess where these animals live? Choose your answers

from the box.

burrow ant-hill hive stable web

. I am a rabbit. I live in a . Jecucel

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 2. I am a bee. I live in a hi

3. T am an ant. I live in anOMt:h hill

4. I am a horse. I live in a Salde.

5. I spider. I live in a
am a
R

Speaking
Read these sentences.
W e can play music for you, chattered the monkeys.
I
cannot play any music for you, said Baloo.
We use can to talk about things that we are able to do.
We use cannot or
can't to talk about
things that we are not able to do.
Can you open the
window for
I cant
me, please?
carry so
many bags. I can carry some of them.
Work in pairs.
Take turns to ask and
can and cannot. answer these
questio
1. Can you sing a
2. Can
song? Yes, I can./No.I cannot/cant
you a play guitar?
3. Can
you ride a horse?
 thinos.
things.R
.....
new
She learned many
lot of time with Raja.
Maya spent a flute!
how to play the
even taught Maya
not find Raia.
c a m e to the
forest but could
One morning, Maya started to play the 8
animals were sad too. Maya
was sad. The
Maya she could play it. Mayas m
see how well mus
She was surprised to
sadly. torest happy again.
was magical. It made
all the animals in the

Spelling words.
Complete this poem with -ght
I wentto sleep in my room at 'n /ght.
Suddenly, I wokeup in a fr q h t
My hands were shaking when I reached for the "1Lght.
"There's a monster!" I tho g ht
My fear began to go, when I turned on the lashlLyh t
I wasnt scared anymore, my room was so °br A h t .

Writing
Imagine that you are Baloo, the Bear. Complete these sentences usin-
the words from the box.
living in the jungle ery happy to play alone
with my friend wonderful music
Hello, I am Baloo. I am a bear. I love 'lininq in the untbecause ther
are
many trees and I have many animal friends. I like to go for a walk
h u 4eiend, Mowgli. We walk through the jungle every day
I also play games with him. I do
not like 3T play olz
Today, we danced to somesndHLu MmuAL Mowgli sang a song
We had a lovely day! I am
Uy habp

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Reading
questions.
A. Answer these

1 Where does the fox rest at night?

creatures named in the poem.
2. Make a list of living
3. Make a list of the animal homes mentioned in the poem.

B. Think and answer.

1. Where do you think the insects go at night? lalk to your friend

and then tell the teacher.

2. How many of these animals and insects have you seen around y
Tell the class about it.

C. Enjoying the Poem

Look at these rhyming words. Can you write some words
of your own in the boxes?

asleep 1. creep 2. M 3R
nest 1 rest 2.ehes 3.tost
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.* bees.

her busy
her
all
h all
with
bee
buzzed by honey
sweet
Just then, a queen
and made
from the
flowers
happily
ever aafter
after.
the nectar
beautiful
and lived
and
became bea
flat field
This is how the Reginald D
bee who is
the THINKPAIR SHARE
queen bee:
a large female
leader of a group of
bees
buzzing sound
Work in pairs. Tellyour friend f
buzzed by: the bees made a would like to live near a river, on g
while passing by
nectar: a sweet liquid that is
made by
plain or on a
mountain. Say why
bees to make honey
flowers and
collected by

Reading
A. Answer these questions.
1. Why did the field look plain and dull in the beginning?
2. How did the field grow a hump?
3. What did the cloud do to the hollow in the ground?

4 What did the field do when it felt hot?

5. Why did the field want rainbows?
6. Who took the nectar from the flowers? What did they do with it?

B. Complete these sentences with words from the text.

1. flat field covered in grass. The

The
loved the grass.
was

2. When the flat field grew a

appeared.
hump, a .

heles
3. duck . and RRA came to live
in the lake.
 4. The river ran towards the
5. The field squeezed. URHA Lout of the grass.
6. The flowers had the colours of the
MQmkou
C. Think and answer.
1. Why was the field happy when the ducks and came to live
in the lake? geese

2. Why do you think the animals that came to live in the field
were happy?

3 Do you think that the flat field was clever?

D. Know your values.
In the story, the flat field wanted to be more beautiful becaus
it was dull.
Do you feel that the world around you is dirty or clean? Mention two
ways in which we can take care of the world around us.

We get a lot of wonderful things from nature. If we want to enjoy these gifis,
we must take care of it. We must all learn to take care of the beautiful world
around us.

Grammar
Read this sentence
The sun is shining down from the blue sky for many hours now.
The words in colour are in the present continuous tense. The present
continuous tense describes an action which is going on in the present
as we speak.
We torm the present continuous tense like this-

am/is/ are + verb + ing

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se ton
******"

presenl
with the
these
sentences

A. Complete
the box.
of the verbs in drink
watch
kick fly read
buy
the newspaper
1. Mother is reading
kiuk the ball into the goal.
2. Rahul

3. The bird y in the sky.

their
4. Smita and Priya 1uach
tavourite show on television.

5. Zainab drink_aglass of milk.

6. Grandfather and I ul fruits from
the market.

B. Rewrite these sentences with the present continuous tense forms

of the verbs in colour.
1. I walk to school.

Lam walkingto school.

2. Sam climbs the stairs.

3. The tap drips

4. The ship sails on the sea.

5. Father drinks hot tea.

6. Tony sings a song.

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GRAMMAR FUN'
Play this game with your friends.
Tell your triend an action
word. Your friend will need to act it out in tront
of the class. Remember that he/she
cannot say the word aloud. The rest of
the class will describe what he/she is
ing format. doing using the am/is / are+ verb +

For example-A: draw B: Sara is

drawing.

Vocabulary
Look at these words.
sun + light sunlight
= house + boat = houseboat

We can join some words together to make compound words.

A. Match the words in A and B to make compound words.

A B

1. |break corn
2. news bground

room
3. time
d. fast
|4. pop
bag
5. black
rable
6. bath
& paper
7. hand
h. board
8. play

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 complete these
from Exercise A
B. Use the correct
words
to
entence
1. Tina and Arif played on the see-saw and the slide in the ployo

2. Please get me a MRLL pabay, I would like to read hda

3. What did you have for Jegoazk Lasl I had milk, brea
and jam.
4 The brown hond hac with thegoldenbuckle belo
to Mother.
5. We have two classes before break-time according to the Lg

THINK PAIR SHARE

Work in pairs. Come up with as many compound words as you can using these words.
1. fire 2 house 3. air 4. book
For example: air + port =
airport

Listening
Listen and write the names of the
seven colours of the
in the correct order. rainbow
Then, colour the rainbow.

1
2
3
4
5
6.
7.
Listen again and
complete the task.
 Writing
Put these sentences in the correct order. Number them from l to 5,

a. The flat field was happy, now that it was looking beautiful. G
b. Many ducks and geese came to the lake.
3
C. The cloud filled up a hollow with water.
2
d. The field squeezed some flowers from the grass.

e. The flat field shoved and shoved till it made a hump.

Now write these sentences in vour note-book using these words.

First Next Then Finally

You can begin like this-
First, the flat field shoved and shoved...

Life Skills
Your teacher is reading the story The Happy Field in class and you are
listening to her. Two of your classmates start talking to each other.
You are not able to hear the teacher because of this. What will you do?
a. Tell your teacher about this.
b. Ask them to stop talking and listen to the teacher.
C. Keep quiet.
d. Ask them what they are talking about and
join them.