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Pre Reading

• Why do you think the boy in picture I is running?

• What happens when he reaches the school as shown in picture II?

• Have you ever been late to school? Why were you late and how did you feel then?

Reading

Wake Up

Wake up! Wake up!

It’s a lovely day.

Oh! Please get up and come and play.

The birds are singing in the trees.

And you can hear the buzzing bees.

Wake up! Wake up!

5 Wake up!

I II

Good Habits

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It’s a lovely day.

Oh! Please get up and come and play.

It’s much too late to lie in bed,

So hurry up, you sleepy head.

Wash and dress

And come on out

Everyone is up and about.

The cow, the horses, the ducks

And the sheep,

The tiniest chicken

Cheep-cheep-cheep

Wake up!C. Fletcher

Word Meaning in Context

lovely beautiful lqUnj

buzzing low and continuous fHkufHkukrs gq,humming sound (e.g. of bees)

lie to rest y¢Vuk

sleepyhead inattentive Å¡?krs gq,

tiniest smallest lcls NksVk

Comprehension

I. Tick (3) the right options.

1. The speaker wants the reader toa. sleep on b. wake up

2. The birds are singing a. in the trees b. in the room

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3. The day is

a. boring b. lovely

4. It’s much too late to

a. do homework b. lie in bed

II. Answer the following questions.

1. What are the birds doing?

2. Why does the speaker ask the late-riser to wake up early?

3. What is suggested by the phrase ‘sleepy head’?

4. What is the poet trying to suggest in the poem?

Vocabulary

Look at the following pairs of words.

day play hen men

talk walk run fun

These words end with the similar sound. They are called rhyming words. Now pick out more such words from the poem which end with the similar sound. Then, write two more words of your own which end with the similar sound.

Word from poem Rhyming words Two more words

Bed Head

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Grammar

Look at the pictures.

Here ‘long’, ‘longer’ and ‘longest’ are describing words. All of them describe the noun ‘pencil’.As you can see, the describing words have three forms of comparison: long/longer/longest. While comparing two persons/objects/ideas we use second form of comparison (e.g.’longer’). While comparing more than two persons/objects/ideas, third form of comparison (e.g. ‘longest’) is used. 2nd form is mostly made by adding ‘-er’ to the describing word and third form is mostly made by adding ‘-est’ to the describing word.

For example:

Positive degree Comparative degree Superlative degree

long long + er = longer long + est = longest

dark dark + er = .................... dark + est = ...................

fast fast + er = .................... fast + est = ....................

Sometimes the last consonant of the describing word is doubled before adding ‘er’ or ‘est’, as shown below.

Positive degree Comparative degree Superlative degree big big + er = bigger big + est = biggestthin thin + er = .................... thin + est = ....................hot hot + er = .................... hot + est = ....................

The red pencil is long. The blue pencil is longer than the red one.

The yellow pencil is the longest.

1 2 3

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Sometimes the last ‘y’ of describing word is changed into ‘i’ and then ‘er’ or ‘est’ is added, as shown below.

Positive degree Comparative degree Superlative degree

easy easy + er = easier easy + est = easiest

holy holy + er = .................... holy + est = ....................

dry dry + er = .................... dry + est = ....................

Now complete the sentences.

Q : Who is taller, Ruby or Deepa ?

A : Deepa is _______________ than Ruby.

Q : Who is shorter, Ruby or Deepa ?

A : Ruby is ___________________

Listening and Speaking

I. Repeat the following words aloud after the teacher.

wake take lake make cake shakeplay say way they pay hey

II. Recite the poem.

Early To Bed and Early To Rise Cocks crow in the morn, To tell us to rise. And he who wakes late Will never be wise. For early to bed And early to rise Is the way to be healthy And wealthy and wise.

Ruby

Deepa

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Writing

I. Arrange the following activities in the order you generally do after you wake up and write them in your notebook.

take breakfast brush teeth wish your parents

go to school take a bath take exercise

read the newspaper pray to God go to washroom

II. Describe in a paragraph how you spent your last Sunday. Write it your notebook.

Follow Up

I. Go for a morning walk. While doing yoga in a park, listen to rustling of leaves, blowing of wind, chirping of birds etc.

II. Let’s have fun with the sounds of some animals.

dogs - bark horses - neigh cats - meow donkeys - bray

lions - roar snakes - hiss birds - chirp cows - moo

Work in groups and try to imitate the sounds that some of these animals produce.