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Three Butterflies - Class 4 English Unit-1

Three Butterflies – Class 4 English Unit-1

Activity-1

Look at the picture and answer the questions..
1. What do you see in the picture?

Ans:  I see two girls walking down in the rain. It is raining heavily. A girl is protecting herself from rain by keeping an umbrella over her head while the other is                       getting   wet as she doesn’t have an umbrella. 2. Do you like to play in the rain?

2. Do you like to play in the rain?

Ans: Yes, I like to play in the rain.

3. What do you carry when you go out in rain?

Ans: I can carry an umbrella when I go out in rain.

4. If you were in the place of the girl holding an umbrella, what would you do?

Ans: If I were in the place of the girl holding an umbrella, I would ask the other girl in the picture to come near me, Walk under my umbrella and protect herself too               from rain.

Three Butterflies – Class 4 English Unit-1

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GLOSSARY:

nectar : a sweet liquid produced by plants and collected by bees.
shelter : a place that protects one from bad weather.
pebbles : small stones
dismay : a feeling of unhappiness and disappointment.
chased : ran after (someone or something) to catch (them)

Fill in the blanks.

1. The butterflies lived in a …garden……………..
2. Butterflies suck …nectar…………….. from flowers.
3. The rain hit the ………butterflies……….. like pebbles.
4. ……The sun….…..…..was watching the butterflies from behind the clouds.

VOCAVULARY

Observe the underlined words in the given sentences.
1. “I won’t stay here sending away my friends in dismay,” replied the  white butterfly.
2. Three butterflies lived in the garden.
In sentence 1, the word ‘butterfly’ denotes only one
butterfly. So the noun butterfly is singular.
In sentence 2, the word ‘butterflies’ denotes more than
one butterfly. So the noun butterflies is plural.

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Activity-3

Fing the plural forms of the singular nouns from the reading text. Write in the table.

flower: flowers, pebble:pebbles, fellow: fellows, petal:petals, cloud:clouds, wing:wings, butterfly:butterflies.

Singular nouns form their plurals by adding ‘s’,
‘es’, or ‘ies’ depending upon the word endings

GRAMMAR

Read the sentence taken from the text.
The rain came down like pebbles on the butterflies.
Read some more sentences….

1. Honey is wholesome food and good for health.

2. Gold is a precious metal.

3. We get wood from trees.

4. We should drink clean water.

5. We get wool from sheep.

6. I don’t eat meat.

7. Houses are built using bricks and cement.

The nouns which are underlined above are made of a metal or substance. Such nouns are called material nouns

A material noun is the name of a metal or substance from which a thing is made.

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Activity-5

Underline the material nouns in the sentences given below.

1. Silver is used to make jewellery.

2. The hen lays eggs.

3. I use coconut oil for my hair.

4. I get new clothes on my birthday.

5. Drink milk for good health.

6. My sister likes cheese.

7. Iron is used in constructions.

8. My father has a mobile phone.

Three Butterflies – Class 4 English Unit-1

WRITING

           Conventions of Writing

Read the given passage.

“Look! There are clouds in the sky,” said Praneetha. “Start raining!

O cloud! I want to dance in the rain,” said John.

“I want to make paper boats and float them on water.” said Masthan.

“O cloud! Don’t rain please. It is Sunday. I have to play,” said Momeen.

“O cloud! Don’t rain please. It rains in my house too,” said Banti.

Does it rain now?

Observe where the full stop (.), comma (,),
question mark (?) and capital letters are placed.
Now listen to what the full stop (.), comma (,),
question mark (?) and capital letters tell about
themselves.

Three Butterflies – Class 4 English Unit-1

Three Butterflies – Class 4 English Unit-1

Activity-6

Read the following and punctuate the sentence correctly.

rani mary rajesh basha and rehana are playing cricket “don’t  you go to school” asked an old man “today is sunday sunday is a holiday”they said Rewrite the above passage using punctuation marks the full stop (.), comma (,), question mark (?) and capital letters, wherever necessary.

 Ans: Rani, Mary, Basha and Rehana are pllaying cricket. Don’t you go to school?” asked the old man. “Today is Sunday. Sunday is a

holiday,”they said.  

Three Butterflies – Class 4 English Unit-1

Activity-7

Complete the conversation using the hints given below.

Three butterflies wanted to learn dancing, singing and swimming.
First, they went to a peacock and asked…
Butterflies: Dear Peacock, we know that you are a good dancer. We
want to learn dancing. Would you teach us to dance?
Peacock: With pleasure, Dear Butterflies, I can teach you to dance.
Secondly, three butterflies went to a cuckoo and asked…

Butterflies : Dear Cuckoo, we know that you are a good singer. 
……………we want to learn ssinging. Would you teach us to sing?

Cuckoo : With pleasure, Dear Butteflies, I can teach you to sing,

Lastly, the three butterflies went to a fish and asked…

Butterflies : …Dear Fish, we know that you are a good swimmer. We want to learn swimming. Would you teach us to swim?

Fish : …With pleasure, Dear Butterflies, I can teach you to swim.

Listening and responding

Listen to the conversation between a butterfly and a caterpillar.

Caterpillar : Hi, Butterfly.
Butterfly : Hi dear, caterpillar!
Caterpillar : You are so beautiful!
Butterfly : You too.
Caterpillar : Really!? Am I beautiful?
Butterfly : Yes. We both are beautiful.
Caterpillar : Is it so?
Butterfly : Yes, it is.
Caterpillar : You have beautiful wings. But I don’t have.
Butterfly : You see, I too was once just like you.
Caterpillar : Hard to believe!
Butterfly : Believe it. I still can remember crawling just like you.
Caterpillar : You are lucky! You can fly. But I can’t.
Butterfly : Don’t feel like that. You too will become like me. But
good things take time to happen.
Caterpillar : Really!?
Butterfly : Yes dear, Caterpillar! Waiting for you to fly together

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Activity-8

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Answer the following questions.

1. “You too will become like me”; who is ‘you’ and who is ‘me’ in the sentence?

Ans: “You” is the caterpillar and “me” is the butterfly.

2. “We both are beautiful,” said butterfly. What is your opinion on  this statement? Justify.

Ans: I too feel the same. Actually, a caterpillar transforms its body and emerges as a butterfly. We must not give imporrrtance to outward appearance. In my view                too, both of them are beautiful.

3. “Difficult to believe”, what is that difficult to believe?

Ans: It was dificult to believe for the caterpillar. When the butterfly told the caterpiller that it too was once just like it, it said so.

4. Which one do you like, the caterpillar or the butterfly? Why?

Ans: I like the butterfly because it is wonderful to watch a flying butterfly.

5. Which one do you usually chase, the butterfly or the caterpillar? Why?

Anas:  I usually chase a butterfly because it naturally flies. Chasing a flying creature gives us joy. But a caterpillar can’t fly. It only crawly. There is nothing to                          chase a caterpillar.

6. What happens to the butterfly if you catch them?

Ans: If I catch a butterfly, it will lose its coloured scales that are on its wings.

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Making request using ‘can’ and ‘may’.

Read the following sentences from the reading text.

1. “Can we stay here till the rain is over?”
2. “You can stay with me till it stops raining.”
In the first sentence, the butterflies are asking permission to stay
with the sunflower. In the second sentence, the sunflower is giving
permission.

Read the following conversation

Three Butterflies - Class 4 English Unit-1

Three Butterflies – Class 4 English Unit-1

Three Butterflies - Class 4 English Unit-1

Three Butterflies – Class 4 English Unit-1

Activity-9

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Now, convert the following instructions into questions for asking
permission by using “can”, “may”. Role play the conversation given
below:-
Note to the teacher: Form pairs and ask them to play their roles.
1. Take your eraser. 2. Go to toilet.
3. Close the door. 4. Ask you a question.
5. Use your bicycle. 6. Open the window

Three Butterflies - Class 4 English Unit-1

Tongue twister:
Say the given sentence as quickly as possible.
Butterflies fly but a butterfly flies

Activity-10

Dictation:
Listen to the teacher carefully and write down the paragraph dictated
by your teacher.
……The teacher dictates the sentences. The pupils write them down in their notebooks.

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Language game – following instructions.

Material required: Dice and beads.
Procedure:
1. Make the students form a group of four at least.
2. Ask them to throw the dice, read the number and count the
number of grids and move the bead on the board.
3. And ask them to follow the instructions given in the grid.
4. The one who moves to the end is to be declared winner of the
game.
(Note to the teacher: Let the students express freely. Encourage
children. Don’t bother about the mistakes. Prompt them whenever
necessary.

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