Unit 1: Let's Have Fun

[Image: A classroom where a male teacher wearing a light-blue shirt and grey trousers checks his shirt pocket while four schoolchildren in blue and white uniforms look at him and point with amusement.]

1. Grandpa's Glasses

Pre-reading

Role-Play:

Amit: Sir, What're you looking for?

Mili: Sir, are you looking for your glasses?

Teacher: No, no, Mili.

Mili: Sir, are you looking for something else?

Teacher: Yes, my pen. I can't find it now.

Safina: Is that in your pocket?

David: It is there, Sir.

Teacher: Oh my God! Thank you children!

(All laughed and laughed...)

[Image: A young male teacher in a green shirt holding books, standing beside a red note pad pinned with a paperclip.]

Note to the Teacher

Greet the class.
Tell the class about the role-play and assign the roles to the children.
Give a demo—start the role play with action to mark the attendance and looking for the pen.

Now, Let's read a wonderful poem and enjoy.

While-reading

The Text

Let us Recite

[Image: A collection of illustrations showing an elderly man searching around the house, crawling under a wooden chair with his spectacles resting on top of his head, while a young girl and boy smile and point toward him.]

Today our Grandpa

Is searching everywhere,

He has lost his glasses,

It was his only pair!

He cannot read the newspaper,

He cannot watch TV,

He cannot cut the vegetables,

Oh! Where can it be?

He checked inside his pockets,

He glanced under his chair,

He searched near the window,

He looked everywhere.

I told him, "Stop Grandpa!"

I went up close and said!

"Grandpa, your glasses

Are right there on your head!"

[Image: An illustration of a cheerful man wearing a red shirt with spectacles perched on his head, smiling.]

New Words:

Word	Meaning
glance:	quick look
lost:	not found
pair:	a set of two things used together
search:	look for

Let us Discuss

What is Grandpa searching for?
What are the possible places where he can find them?
What can't he do without glasses?
Where does Grandpa find his glasses at last?
What makes Grandpa happy?
(i) Make a list of things as told below.

Things generally misplaced at your home	Who helps in finding these misplaced things

(ii) What will you say to the person, when s/he helps you to find your lost things?

Post-reading

Visual Memory Development Technique (VMDT)

Whole: i) searching everywhere ii) glasses on head
Part: (Stanza-3 and 4) i) "Stop Grandpa!" ii) checked inside his pockets iii) near the window

Let us listen and Speak

"Grandpa" is a commonly used word in English to address one's 'Grandfather'. Say aloud the word you use for 'Grandfather' in your language. Do it in a chain-drill.

Note to the Teacher

Follow the steps of the 'Chain-drill' activity.
Ask children to follow the following structure: "I call my Grandpa, '_______', what's about you?"

2. Look at each picture and say where the glasses are.

*[Image: A 6-panel grid showing glasses in different locations:

On top of a wooden table
Underneath a wooden chair
Inside the front pocket of a yellow shirt
In front of a metal storage trunk
On the floor beside a seated doll
Placed between two books]*

3. Your teacher will read aloud a few word pairs. Listen carefully and circle the pairs in which the words sound different.


pair – peer	ate – eight	bed – bad	knot – not
fair – fare	hair – hare	fair – fear	where – were
sun – son	deer – dear	cold – could	heal – heel
knot – note	dare – dear	wood – would	fill – feel

Note to the Teacher

Repeat each pair 3–4 times so that the learners can focus on the sounds.
Listen to the sounds and get familiarize the learners with the sounds before you do this activity.
You may also use audios in the class.

Let us Read

1. Read and tick ( $\checkmark$ ) what Grandpa cannot do without glasses.

Without glasses Grandpa cannot—

2. Encircle the word that is spelt correctly. One has been done for you.

No.	Option A	Option B	Option C
(i)	watter	water	weter
(ii)	vegatables	veggetables	vegetables
(iii)	balloon	baloon	ballon
(iv)	hause	house	houze
(v)	elephant	elefant	ellephant
(vi)	spactacles	spektacles	spectacles
(vii)	karpenter	carpenter	carpainter
(viii)	fruitt	fuirt	fruit
(ix)	receive	recieve	raceive
(x)	prinsipal	principal	princpal

3. Read and enjoy the following story. Then do the activity that follows:

Sir Isaac Newton was a great scientist. He was very busy all the time thinking his own thoughts. So forgetful!

One day he wanted to have eggs in supper. He ran to the kitchen, stood near the stove. Water in the pan was boiling. He dropped his watch into the boiling water. When he looked for the eggs in the pan, he found it in his hand. He laughed and laughed......

Great thinkers are often forgetful!

Write 'T' for the 'True Statements' and 'F' for the 'False statements' in the box given for each.

(i) Sir Isaac Newton was a great pilot. [ ]
(ii) The water in the pan was cold. [ ]
(iii) He wanted to have eggs in breakfast. [ ]
(iv) He boiled water in place of eggs. [ ]
(v) Great thinkers never forget. [ ]

Let us Write

1. Look at the words in each group. Arrange them in ascending order (Write the smallest or lightest object first and the biggest or heaviest last.)

(i) towel, sari, handkerchief, bedsheet
(ii) apple, strawberry, cherry, Watermelon
(iii) bullock cart, bicycle, bus, car
(iv) hen, crow, sparrow, eagle
(v) ox, rabbit, elephant, squirrel

Write two more examples, following the same pattern.

2. Note the following phrase:

a pair of shoes

[Image: Five illustrations displaying pairs of objects: a pair of yellow-brown shoes, a pair of blue scissors, a pair of green-striped socks, a pair of pink rubber gloves, and a pair of crossed badminton/tennis rackets.]

The word 'pair' is used in all the phrases given below. Fill in the blanks with the names of things in the pictures.

(i) a pair of ________________

(ii) a pair of ________________

(iii) a pair of ________________

(iv) a pair of ________________

(v) a pair of ________________

(vi) a pair of ________________

(vii) a pair of ________________

3. Complete the story using the correct prepositions.

around, after, for, in, above, on, among, at

My grandfather has a habit of keeping his glasses ________ different places.

Last week, he could not find his glasses and looked ________ the house.

We checked the big box that reached ________ our waists.

My grandfather looked for the glasses ________ the newspapers kept ________ the table.

He continued searching ________ two hours. He sat down the bed ________ giving one final look to the room.

4. Use the clues given below to complete the crossword puzzle!

[Image: A crossword puzzle grid numbered from 1 to 9.]

Across	Down
2. Not far, it's ________.	1. I said no but he said ________.
6. I want ________ clothes, not the dirty ones.	3. Something small is not ________.
8. Not inside, play ________.	4. Don't be sad, be ________.
9. When it's not bright, it's ________.	5. You are slow, she is ________.
	6. Not hot, she likes ________ coffee.
	7. Not bought, but ________.

5. Write answers to the following questions, each in a short sentence or two.

(i) Who has lost his glasses?
(ii) Where were the glasses?
(iii) What cannot he do without glasses?
(iv) What places did he look for his glasses?
(v) Who helped him to find out the glasses?

Mental Talk

Grandpa often forgets things.

Let us Do

Grandpa often forgets things.

1. Fun with matchsticks.

Move 3 matchsticks to make 3 squares.

[Image: A square pattern formed by 12 matchsticks arranged to create a 2x2 grid of 4 adjacent squares.]

2. Look at the flame.

Touch the red star with the tip of your nose, and look at the candle. And lo! It starts burning!

3. Look carefully. Can you find 'd'? Circle it.

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Just for Fun

Riddle

[Image: An illustrated frame containing a riddle alongside a sketch of two children sitting beneath a tree reading a book together.]

I go to the market, I lovingly bring you home, I sit in front of you, And I cry, cry, cry. What is it?

Grandpa's Glasses — Textbook