Lesson Connect: All of Me

Skill: Language through Reading

A. Look at the drawing and read the dialogue given below.
Then, complete the next drawing with your own text.
CR CT

Hello, my name is
Amritha. I live in
Ananthapura. I am
six years old. I love
playing football.

Hello my name is
.
I live in .
I am .
I
.

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 Aid to teachers
The following curricular goals are present through both enhancement
booklets of Grade 1. The learner
converses fluently and can hold a meaningful conversation.
listens to and appreciates simple songs, rhymes, and poems.
understands oral instructions.
develops phonological awareness and blends phonemes/syllables into words and
segment words into phonemes/syllables.
appreciates varied text types such as drawings, notices, letters, etc.
While conducting the activity given on the previous page, instruct the learners to give
specific information while introducing themselves, such as their name, their age,
where they study and the activities they enjoy doing.

B. Now, complete this language card. Use the picture cues.

 PS CT

I love      .

I love .

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I love .

I love .

Check if you used the words in the box.

eat  sing  play  swim

Say how you changed their spellings while filling in the blanks.

Aid to teachers

While attempting the activity above, teachers can help the learners to spell the
words correctly.

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Lesson Connect: At School
Skill: Listening Click
C. Listen and find answers to these questions. PS IL CT

1. Which is Amritha’s favourite day? What is her favourite

subject?
2. Which is Megh’s favourite day? What is his
favourite subject?
Note for teachers: This task aims to familiarise learners to notice the use of lan-
guage in familiar contexts. Learners can be asked to look at their own timetables
and discuss it in pairs.

Skill: Speaking
D. Work with a partner. Talk about your favourite day and
favourite subject. Role-play the conversation.
TC COM C CT

Remember
What + is = What’s    It + is = It’s
BUT Which + is = Which’s [It should be written as Which is]
Who + is = Who’s

Aid to teachers
Play the audio again. Choose learners as role-play participants. You should
reiterate the structures using different sets of cues. Immersive modelling
and iteration are the only ways to help emergent learners gain fluency.

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Lesson Connect: Hide and Sleep
Skill: Forming and Answering Wh- questions
E. Make your own questions with ‘What’s, Who’s and Which
is’. Answer them with ‘It’s’.
What’s your favourite colour?

It’s blue.

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Lesson Connect: At the Zoo
Skill: Writing
F. Look at the pictures and read. DC

A tiger can run. A skylark can fly.

A monkey can jump from one A snake can hiss.

tree to another.

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Now, think of other animals who can do the activities mentioned
in the circles. Write their names. DC C CT

jump swim

fly climb

Compare your list with those of your classmates.

G. Read the conversation between three friends visiting a
zoo. DC Click
Tarun: What’s this animal?
Kiran: I don’t know. I have never seen it before.
Adarsh: It’s a koala. It’s a kind of bear. This is a baby koala.
They are found in Australia.

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 Tarun: What about kangaroos? Can we see them here?
Kiran: Look! There’s a baby kangaroo over there.
Adarsh: That’s not a baby kangaroo. It’s a doe. A female
kangaroo is called a doe. The baby is tucked in the pouch in
her belly. Baby kangaroos are called joeys. Kangaroos also
come from Australia.
Kiran: Did you see a lion?
Tarun: Yes, I did. I saw a lioness with her three cubs. They are
from Kenya.

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Now, complete the fact sheet. PS CT

New Metropolitan Public School

Name of student:
Place visited:

Names of animals seen:

Number of grown-up animals seen:

Number of baby animals seen:

Where have the animals come from?

Note for teachers: Complete a model factsheet for learners who struggle with filling
the fact sheet.

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 Learning Achievement
Checklist
Learning Bloom’s Student Teacher’s
Skill
Outcome Taxonomy Assessment Comments
I can read and understanding;
understand a applying
Reading picture-based text
and create one of
my own.
I can use picture understanding;
Structure clues to complete applying
sentences.
I can understand understanding;
how spellings of applying
words change
in different
sentences.
I can listen and understanding
Listening find out the
main idea.
I can talk about understanding;
Speaking my favourite application
things.

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 I can complete understanding
simple
Writing information
texts.
I can understand understanding;
conversations, analysing;
the main idea, applying;
and complete creating
information
texts.

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 Answer Key
A. Answers will vary.
B. I love to play./I love playing.
I love to sing./I love singing.
I love to swim./I love swimming.
I love to eat./I love eating.
C. 1. Friday
2. Mathematics
3. Sunday and Monday
4. English
D. Answers will vary.
E. Answers will vary.
F. Answers will vary.
G. Answers will vary.

Listening Text
C. Amritha: Hi Megh! Did you get the new diary? And did you see the school
timetable?
Megh: Hi Amritha! Yes, I did. We have quite a lot of English, Maths and Tamil
classes.
Amritha: Yes, we do. But I’m looking forward to Fridays when we have two English
classes, sports and arts, along with a music class.
Megh: Which sport are you going to play?
Amritha: Gymnastics. I want to learn gymnastics.
Megh: That sounds interesting. But I don’t like sports much. I enjoy music
and craft classes. I think we’re going to learn to play the piano and I’m
looking forward to that.
Amritha: Piano? That’s wonderful. I want to learn playing it as well.
Megh: I think I’m going to enjoy my Sunday evenings—on Mondays we won’t
have sports but we will have music and art classes. We’re also going to
begin the day with English and that’s my favourite subject.
Amritha: Good to know you like English. I love doing Maths though I read a lot of
English stories at home.

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