Gone with the Scooter — Textbook

Unit 1: Let's Have Fun

Gone with the Scooter

Pre-reading

Match the pictures in 'A' with their names in 'B' Write the serial number in the box

Suppose, you are playing cricket. When you strike the ball, where does it go? How will you find if it is lost? Search in the neighbourhood? Let's read a funny story about a game and see what the players do when their ball is lost.

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While-reading

The Text

Let us Read

1. It was summer afternoon. Gopi was sitting in the veranda, reading a book.

2. Suddenly, he heard something rustling past and falling with a thud in the garden. He thought what it could be. Perhaps, it was a mango falling from the tree. Immediately, Gopi put his book aside, got up, and ran into the garden.

3. He searched in between the thick grass near the garden fence. But, he found nothing. He looked among the bushes. Nothing was there again. Then, his eyes fell on a heap of dry leaves. There was a white ball on the heap. Gopi reached out and took the ball in his hands. It was a hockey ball.

[Image Description: A young boy (Gopi) wearing a blue t-shirt and pink shorts stands in a sunny garden with flowers and a wooden fence, holding a white hockey ball in his hand and looking up thoughtfully.]

4. Gopi thought-wondered, "Whose ball could this be?" He looked around, and looked outside the gate, but could see no one. Just then he heard his mother calling. "Gopi! What are you doing out in the garden? It's very hot. Come inside."

5. Gopi went inside, and drank a glass of water. He lay down on the mat, and said to himself, "I can't keep this ball for myself. I will ask others."

6. In the evening, Gopi went to the nearby playground where all his friends regularly gathered to play hockey every day.

7. "Friends, this afternoon I found a ball. Did any of you lose your ball recently?"

8. Manoj said, "I lost a ball four months ago." Gopi said, "So, the ball that I found cannot be yours."

9. Ramani said, "Then the ball is mine."

10. 'How do you know?' asked Gopi. "What colour is it?"

11. "Show me the ball and I will tell you," said Ramani smilingly.

12. Another friend Deepak said that his father had bought him a brand-new football the day before. "The ball I found is a hockey ball," said Gopi.

13. Everyone laughed. Gopi took out the ball from his pocket. Manoj took it away from Gopi and threw to Deepak.

14. Seeing this, Gopi said at the top of his voice, "Stop! I say, stop! Let's play before it gets dark."

15. Manoj went to the goalpost as he liked to be a goalkeeper. Gopi stood at the centre of the field holding the hockey stick. He passed the ball to Deepak, who threw the ball towards Ramani. Ramani hit the ball with the stick and it went to Jay.

[Image Description: A man in a yellow jacket and red helmet rides a blue scooter down the road. In the background, behind the playground gates, children holding hockey sticks watch as the hockey ball lands into the basket of the scooter.]

16. "Come on Jay, play the shot and drive it towards the goalpost," Manoj said loudly.

17. Jay tightened his wrist around the stick with the flat side touching the ball. He hit the ball so hard that it went past the playground gate and fell into the basket of a passing scooter. The scooterist who was unaware of what had happened, drove past. By the time the children ran to the gate, the scooter was gone... and so was the ball. They looked at each other and burst into laughter.

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New Words:

• burst into laughter – suddenly started laughing loudly

• fence – a structure made of wood, metal etc. that surrounds a piece of land

• recently – not long ago

• rustling – the sound of light dry things moving together

• scooterist – a person who rides a scooter

• tighten – to hold something more firmly

• thud – sound of a heavy thing falling to the ground

• unaware – not knowing that something is happening

Let us Discuss

1. Who are there in the story?

2. Where was Gopi sitting?

3. What sound did Gopi hear before he went to the garden?

4. Gopi ran into the garden to a) play b) work c) to see what fell d) meet his friends

5. Where did Gopi search for the ball?

6. Do you think Gopi will keep the ball with him or try to return it to its owner?

7. Who took away the ball from Gopi?

8. Where did the ball fall when Jay hit it?

9. Was the scooterist aware of it? Which word supports your answer?

10. Why did everyone laugh at the end of the story?

11. Imagine what happens to the hockey ball after it is taken away by the scooter? Where does it go? Who finds it?

12. Notice in the picture that the scooterist is wearing a helmet. Why is it important to wear a helmet ? Should the bike riders also wear helmets?

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Post-reading

Visual Memory Development Technique (VMDT):

Whole Text – Gopi's search for the ball, reading a book, hockey ball, the mat, Deepak, goalkeeper

Part (Paras-15 to 17) (i) goal post (ii) centre of the field (iii) hit the ball (iv) scooterist (v) burst into laughter

Let us Listen and Speak

1. Your teacher will read aloud the first page of the story 'Gone with the Scooter'. Listen to it attentively and fill in the blanks. (i) Gopi was sitting in the ______ one afternoon. (ii) He heard something falling with a ______ in the garden. (iii) He thought that a ______ fell from the tree. (iv) He ran into the ______. (v) He looked among the ______. (vi) His eyes fell on a heap of dry ______. (vii) He found a ______.

2. Role Play (Teacher vs students, students vs students in two groups, and finally two students in pairs)

• Gopi: Whose ball is this?

• Manoj: It's mine.

• Gopi: When did you lose your ball?

• Manoj: Four months ago.

• Gopi: Sorry, it's not your ball. I have found it recently.

3. The title of this Chapter is 'Gone with the Scooter'. Say the word 'book'. Next, say the word 'scooter'. Do you notice the difference? Although, both the words have 'oo' in them, the sound of 'oo' in 'book' is short; the sound of 'oo' in 'scooter' is long.

Say aloud the following words. Encircle the words which have a long 'oo' sound. Your teacher will say first. Listen and speak.

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[Image Description: A male teacher with glasses holding a textbook next to a red memo card labeled "Note to the Teacher". Below is a small illustrated mascot reading a book.]

Note to the Teacher

Encourage the learners to pronounce the long and the short vowel sounds clearly.

Let us Read:

1. Read the story and arrange the sentences in order as they happened in the story. Write the serial number in the box.

• He heard something fall in the garden.

• He found a hockey ball.

• The ball went past the playground gate and fell into the basket of a passing scooter.

• One afternoon Gopi was sitting in the veranda.

• Gopi and his friends played with the ball.

• All of them looked at each other and laughed.

• He ran into the garden.

• His friend hit the ball hard.

2. Read the following passage carefully.

Suddenly, he heard something rustling past and falling with a thud in the garden. He thought what it could be. Perhaps, it was a mango falling from the tree. Immediately, Gopi put his book aside, got up and ran into the garden.

He searched in between the thick grass near the garden fence. But he found nothing. He looked among the bushes. Nothing was there again. Then, his eyes fell on a heap of dry leaves. There was a white ball on the heap. Gopi reached out and took the ball in his hands. It was a hockey ball.

Now, circle the word in the passage for each expression (words). Write the serial number of the expression in the circle. (i) the sound of light dry things (ii) the sound of a heavy thing falling to the ground (iii) without interval of time/without delay (iv) a structure made of word or metal that surrounds a patch of land (v) looked for something (vii) a game played with the help of ball and sticks

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Let us Write:

1. Form new words by following the examples given below:

[Image Description: A word-web diagram with "sun" in the center pointing to "rise", "set", "shine", and "flower"; and another grouping showing "ball" combining with "base", "foot", "basket", and "volley".]

• sun + rise = sunrise

• foot + ball = football

Write a sentence using each of these words in your notebook.

2. Notice that the word 'said' has 'ai' in the middle. Write ten words that have 'ai' in the middle using the clues given below. One has been done for you.

3. Look at the word 'scooterist'. It has two parts— scooter + ist. Similarly, write the new word for each of the following.

• guitar + ist =

• motor + ist =

• tour + ist =

• art + ist =

• cartoon + ist =

• journal + ist =

Add two more words like this.

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[Image Description: Gopi running joyfully across the grass while playing hockey with a stick.]

4. Complete the following story using the words given in the box.

so | when | since | but | before | and | because

Gopi worked hard for his English Test ______ he wanted to get good marks. ______ test, he was afraid of English. ______ his friend Manoj helped him. ______ he had worked hard, he answered all the questions correctly. ______ he was happy. ______ the result came out, Gopi got 'A' grade ______ thanked Manoj for his help.

5. Read this sentence.

Gopi usually plays hockey but today he is playing cricket.

'Usually' and 'today' are time words. They tell more about an action or a verb. Such words are called adverbs.

[Image Description: Gopi standing upright holding a small ball against a vertical boundary line.]

Now encircle the adverbs in the following sentences. (i) Gopi immediately got up and ran into the garden. (ii) Sudha often writes in her diary. (iii) All his friends play hockey everyday. (iv) I always do my homework. (v) Yesterday I ate an apple after lunch. (vi) Neha never eats fast food. (vii) Now they are going to school.

6. Read these sentences: It's very hot. I can't keep this ball for myself.

The underlined words are short forms. It's = It is can't = cannot

Short form (or contractions) are when two words are combined and some letters are left out. An apostrophe (') takes the place of the missing letters. For example:

• aren't = are not,

• Tisa'll = Tisa will,

• wouldn't = would not,

• We've = We have

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Let us Write

1. Write the contractions for the following words. (i) do not (ii) is not (iii) are not (iv) cannot (v) could not (vi) did not

2. Rewrite the following underlined words using contracted forms. (i) Partho is not feeling well today. His parents have decided that he will stay at home till he gets better. Partha is bored and cannot stay at home anymore. He decides to ask his grandmother if he can go outside, but he thinks she, too, would not agree. (ii) It is a rainy day, and Tina is not happy. She cannot go out to play with her friends. Her brother does not want to play indoors either. They have decided to watch a movie instead. Their mother says she will make popcorn for them.

3. Fill up the bio-data of a famous player of Odisha. Choose the information from the box given below.

BIO-DATA

Name : Game : Date of birth : Place of birth : Games he played : Awards received :

Write a paragraph on Dilip Tirkey using the information from his Bio-data. Dilip Tirkey was a ______ He was born on ______ He is from ______ He played for India in ______ He won ______

4. Write answers to the following questions, each in a sentence or two. (i) What fell in the garden? (ii) Where did Gopi find it? (iii) What did the children do with the hockey ball? (iv) Name the children who played hockey in the story? (v) Where did the ball fall?

Mental Talk

"We must accept things that happen all of a sudden."

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Let us Do

1. Complete the table given below.

A. Prepare a chart with the following categories

[Image Description: A young girl in a purple polka-dot shirt and pink skirt sitting on the grass with an elbow crutch resting beside her, smiling cheerfully.]

Just for Fun

A 'CAR' changes into a 'BUS'! Let's see how it is possible. Change one letter at a step and go on making new words.

• CAR

• CAT – We changed R and put T and got new word CAT.

• BAT – We changed C and put B and got new word BAT.

• BUT – We changed A and put U and got new word BUT.

• BUS – We changed T and put S and got new word BUS.

Now 'CAR' becomes 'BUS'! Can you change CUP to TEA in this way?