Fit Body, Fit Mind, Fit Nation — Textbook

Unit 4: Fun with Games

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Fit Body, Fit Mind, Fit Nation

Pre-reading

[Image Description: Top left shows a cartoon boy with red hair, wearing a blue sports tank and red shorts, jogging cheerfully across a patch of grass. Top right shows a boy sleeping under a colorful quilt in a wooden bed at night, with a nightstand and a window showing a starry sky with a crescent moon.]

Hop a little,

Jump a little,

One, two, three.

Skip a little,

Run a little,

Tap one knee.

Bend a little,

Stretch a little,

Nod your head.

Yawn a little,

Sleep a little,

in your bed.

Note to the Teacher

• Sing the rhyme with action once or twice. Students listen to you.

• Sing stanza 1 with action. Children follow you.

• Teacher and class sing and act out the rest part of the rhyme in the same way.

• Link the rhyme with the lesson and proceed with While-reading.

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While-reading

The Text

Let us Recite

[Image Description: An illustration of a happy boy with dark curly hair in a white-and-purple sports uniform playing field hockey with a stick and ball on a field with a goalpost in the background.]

Active boy Anant,

plays the game of hockey,

even when the ground is rocky.

Graceful girl Geeta,

practises on her skates,

and learns daily from her mistakes.

[Image Description: An illustration of a smiling boy sitting cross-legged wearing a colorful striped shirt and red pants, playing an acoustic green and tan guitar with musical notes floating nearby.]

Little boy Lalit,

proudly plays a guitar,

while his friend joins him

with a sitar.

Swift girl Shabana,

after winning a cycle race,

happily celebrates her fastest pace.

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[Image Description: An illustration of a girl in a red and yellow traditional dress dancing joyfully among flowers with musical notes and a butterfly floating in the air.]

And then there is me,

musical Meena,

singing in rhythm.

[Image Description: A group illustration of five cheerful children: a girl with a bicycle wearing a helmet and holding a pennant, a dancing girl in traditional dress, a boy leaping with a hockey stick, a boy playing a guitar, and a girl raising her arms in celebration on roller skates.]

Cheerful children everywhere,

playing is a joy!

for every girl and boy.

[Image Description: A cartoon male teacher with glasses and a green shirt holding books, standing next to a red sticky note labeled "Note to the Teacher".]

Note to the Teacher

• Read the poem about two times, students listen with their books closed.

• Ask a few general questions to check the learners' listening comprehension, such as:

• What is the poem about?

• What colour is the bicycle?

• Tell some words you have listened in the poem.

• Read the poem aloud for the third time and the fourth time. Students will listen to and follow the poem in their books.

• Allow students to read the poem aloud two times and help them if they needs.

• Allow students to read the poem silently and understand.

• Ask comprehension questions after they have completed silent reading.

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[Image Description: A faint outline illustration in the background showing two children reading under a tree.]

New Words:

• active : smart and prompt

• celebrate : take part in special, enjoyable activities

• graceful : beautiful

• pace : a step taken

• proudly : with pride, with a feeling of deep pleasure

• rhythm : a regular repeated sound

• swift : prompt

Let us Discuss

1. Which game does Anant play?

2. Which musical instruments are mentioned in the poem?

3. Who practises on her skates?

4. Who learns daily from her mistakes?

5. What does Lalit play?

6. What does his friend join Lalit with?

7. What does Shabana celebrate?

8. Who sings in rhythm?

9. What games do you play at your school?

10. Which game do you enjoy more - playing an indoor game or an outdoor game?

11. Shabana celebrates her fastest pace after winning - (Tick the correct choice.)

(a) hockey (b) skating (c) guitar (d) a cycle race

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Post-reading

Visual Memory Development Technique (VMDT):

Whole: guitar, hockey, cycle race, musical meena

Part (Stanzas-1 and 2): active Ananta, graceful Geeta, ground is rocky, skates, learns daily from her mistakes

Let us Listen and Speak:

Your teacher will read out the poem. Listen to him/her carefully, and correct the wrong word in each of the following lines.

1. Ananta plays football.

2. Geeta practises on her skipping.

3. Lalit plays the sitar.

4. Shabana has won a running race.

5. Meena is dancing in rhythm.

Let us Read:

1. Read this passage. This is a very good game for keeping our body and mind fit and fine.

In this game, there are two teams. One player from the first team crossing into the second team's side while chanting the name of the game continuously without taking a breath! The goal is to touch as many players as possible and return to their side before being caught. If the player is caught, the other team scores.

Can you guess the name of the game?

Write the name in the box: [ ]

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2. Read the text again and match the describing words under 'A' with the names given under 'B'. One is done for you.

3. Match the picture under 'A' with the names of musical instruments under 'B'. One is done for you.

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Let us write

[Image Description: Cartoon male teacher holding books next to a "Note to the Teacher" box.]

1. Match the words in column A with the words in column B. One has been done for you.

Note to the Teacher

Words under column A are describing words (Adjectives) and similarly, words under column B are naming words (Nouns)

2. Fill in the blanks with the naming words that suit the describing words.

happy _______ red _______ sweet _______ beautiful _______

3. Write the describing words for the naming words.

_______ mangoes _______ baby _______ nation _______ winner

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4. Look at the picture and fill in the blanks with words that have double letter.

Example: Village has 'll' in it.

This is my pet _______ It loves to eat _______ It is _______ in colour.

5. List seven things of your house that have double letters in their spellings. Do it in pairs.

For example: spoon

a) _______ b) _______ c) _______ d) _______ e) _______ f) _______ g) _______

6. Write rhyming word for each of these words.

(i) hockey _______ (ii) skates _______ (iii) guitar _______ (iv) race _______ (v) joy _______

7. The lines below are from the last two stanzas of the poem. But they are not in the right order. Arrange them in order and put the lines in two separate stanza.

for every girl and boy musical Meena playing is a joy! And then there is me Cheerful children everywhere singing in rhythm

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8. Given below are the names with pictures of famous persons of our country. Match the pictures under Column-A with the fields they are popular in, under Column-B.

Now complete the following paragraph using right words you have matched.

_______ is a hockey champion.

Lata Mangeshkar is a _______

_______ is an international cricketer.

Padmini Rout is a _______

Kelucharan Mohapatra is the _______

_______ is an olympic sprinter.

Veer Surendra Sai is a _______

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

(i) What game does Anant play? Where?

(ii) What does Geeta practise?

(iii) Who plays the guitar and the sitar?

(iv) What does Shabana do after running a cycle race?

(v) What is Meena?

Mental Talk

Games, sports and music keep our body and mind fit.

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Let us Do

1. Read the following sentence. Notice the underlined describing words used for the children.

Active Ananta plays hockey. Graceful Geeta practises skates. Little Lalit plays a guitar. Swift Shabana rides a bicycle.

Now write the names of your class-mates and one describing word for each. One is done for you as example.

Just for Fun

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Riddle

Big creatures can get into me,

but not the small ones.