Chapter 6: Fun with Pictures
1st StandardEnglish
Fun with Pictures - Chapter Summary
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# Fun with Pictures
## Overview
**"Fun with Pictures,"** is designed to build young learners’ vocabulary around fruits, vegetables and market-related words through a mix of speaking, singing, reading and writing activities. It starts with picture-based oral questions, moves into a simple fruit poem, explores a short dialogue in a market setting, and reinforces learning with drawing, labeling and fill-in-the-blank exercises.
## Key Topics Covered
### 1. Let Us Speak (Picture Discussion)
* **Picture prompts**: Questions about what students see in a vibrant illustration of fruits and vegetables: identifying names, counting total fruits and vegetables, and noting colours (e.g., red fruits, green vegetables).
* **Personal connection**: Learners discuss which items they like most and why fruits and vegetables are important for health.
### 2. Let Us Sing (Fruits for All)
* **Poem 1** ("Five yellow mangoes…"): A counting rhyme about sharing mangoes with a traveller, bird, squirrel, rabbit and a friend.
* **Poem 2** ("Five red apples…"): A variation with apples and a subtraction twist ("One less for the rabbit…"), reinforcing numbers and verbs in context.
### 3. Let Us Do (Fruit Chaat Activity)
* **Hands-on task**: Students bring a fruit, wash, cut and prepare a simple fruit chaat together, fostering teamwork and reinforcing names of fruits in a real-life context.
* **Guiding questions**: Who does the tree share with? What do you share with family or friends? Students also circle the prepositions "for" and "on" in the poem.
### 4. Let Us Read (A Visit to the Market)
* **Story passage**: Mini accompanies her farmer father to the market, learning names of flowers (roses, marigolds, jasmine) and fruits (apples, pineapples, oranges, watermelon).
* **Role play suggestions**: Teachers are encouraged to assign roles and prompt children to name local flowers and fruits in English and their home language.
* **Sight words**: his, he, them, her, around, there, those, behind, with, these.
### 5. Let Us Write & Let Us Draw
* **Labelling**: Children draw and colour their favourite fruits and vegetables, writing labels such as "yellow mango," "green guava," "red apple," etc.
* **Sentence frames**: Prompts like "We had a good dinner." and "I saw many \_\_\_ there." to practice word placement and comprehension.
### 6. Fill in the Blanks
* **Grammar focus**: Questions like "Are these potatoes?" with responses "Yes, they are." / "No, they are not." and identifying correct item names (onions, brinjals, carrots, roses, etc.).
* **Health message**: Concludes with "Vegetables are good for health. We should eat them every day."
## New Word / Term Definitions
* **Sight words**:
* *his* – belonging to a boy or man
* *them* – object pronoun referring to multiple people or things
* *around* – located on every side
* **Fruits & Vegetables**:
* *pineapple* – a tropical fruit with a rough, spiky skin and sweet yellow flesh
* *brinjal* – another name for eggplant, a purple vegetable
* *cauliflower* – a white vegetable that grows in a head of florets
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# Fun with Pictures
## Overview
**"Fun with Pictures,"** is designed to build young learners’ vocabulary around fruits, vegetables and market-related words through a mix of speaking, singing, reading and writing activities. It starts with picture-based oral questions, moves into a simple fruit poem, explores a short dialogue in a market setting, and reinforces learning with drawing, labeling and fill-in-the-blank exercises.
## Key Topics Covered
### 1. Let Us Speak (Picture Discussion)
* **Picture prompts**: Questions about what students see in a vibrant illustration of fruits and vegetables: identifying names, counting total fruits and vegetables, and noting colours (e.g., red fruits, green vegetables).
* **Personal connection**: Learners discuss which items they like most and why fruits and vegetables are important for health.
### 2. Let Us Sing (Fruits for All)
* **Poem 1** ("Five yellow mangoes…"): A counting rhyme about sharing mangoes with a traveller, bird, squirrel, rabbit and a friend.
* **Poem 2** ("Five red apples…"): A variation with apples and a subtraction twist ("One less for the rabbit…"), reinforcing numbers and verbs in context.
### 3. Let Us Do (Fruit Chaat Activity)
* **Hands-on task**: Students bring a fruit, wash, cut and prepare a simple fruit chaat together, fostering teamwork and reinforcing names of fruits in a real-life context.
* **Guiding questions**: Who does the tree share with? What do you share with family or friends? Students also circle the prepositions "for" and "on" in the poem.
### 4. Let Us Read (A Visit to the Market)
* **Story passage**: Mini accompanies her farmer father to the market, learning names of flowers (roses, marigolds, jasmine) and fruits (apples, pineapples, oranges, watermelon).
* **Role play suggestions**: Teachers are encouraged to assign roles and prompt children to name local flowers and fruits in English and their home language.
* **Sight words**: his, he, them, her, around, there, those, behind, with, these.
### 5. Let Us Write & Let Us Draw
* **Labelling**: Children draw and colour their favourite fruits and vegetables, writing labels such as "yellow mango," "green guava," "red apple," etc.
* **Sentence frames**: Prompts like "We had a good dinner." and "I saw many \_\_\_ there." to practice word placement and comprehension.
### 6. Fill in the Blanks
* **Grammar focus**: Questions like "Are these potatoes?" with responses "Yes, they are." / "No, they are not." and identifying correct item names (onions, brinjals, carrots, roses, etc.).
* **Health message**: Concludes with "Vegetables are good for health. We should eat them every day."
## New Word / Term Definitions
* **Sight words**:
* *his* – belonging to a boy or man
* *them* – object pronoun referring to multiple people or things
* *around* – located on every side
* **Fruits & Vegetables**:
* *pineapple* – a tropical fruit with a rough, spiky skin and sweet yellow flesh
* *brinjal* – another name for eggplant, a purple vegetable
* *cauliflower* – a white vegetable that grows in a head of florets
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Fun with Pictures
Overview
"Fun with Pictures," is designed to build young learners’ vocabulary around fruits, vegetables and market-related words through a mix of speaking, singing, reading and writing activities. It starts with picture-based oral questions, moves into a simple fruit poem, explores a short dialogue in a market setting, and reinforces learning with drawing, labeling and fill-in-the-blank exercises.
Key Topics Covered
1. Let Us Speak (Picture Discussion)
- Picture prompts: Questions about what students see in a vibrant illustration of fruits and vegetables: identifying names, counting total fruits and vegetables, and noting colours (e.g., red fruits, green vegetables).
- Personal connection: Learners discuss which items they like most and why fruits and vegetables are important for health.
2. Let Us Sing (Fruits for All)
- Poem 1 ("Five yellow mangoes…"): A counting rhyme about sharing mangoes with a traveller, bird, squirrel, rabbit and a friend.
- Poem 2 ("Five red apples…"): A variation with apples and a subtraction twist ("One less for the rabbit…"), reinforcing numbers and verbs in context.
3. Let Us Do (Fruit Chaat Activity)
- Hands-on task: Students bring a fruit, wash, cut and prepare a simple fruit chaat together, fostering teamwork and reinforcing names of fruits in a real-life context.
- Guiding questions: Who does the tree share with? What do you share with family or friends? Students also circle the prepositions "for" and "on" in the poem.
4. Let Us Read (A Visit to the Market)
- Story passage: Mini accompanies her farmer father to the market, learning names of flowers (roses, marigolds, jasmine) and fruits (apples, pineapples, oranges, watermelon).
- Role play suggestions: Teachers are encouraged to assign roles and prompt children to name local flowers and fruits in English and their home language.
- Sight words: his, he, them, her, around, there, those, behind, with, these.
5. Let Us Write & Let Us Draw
- Labelling: Children draw and colour their favourite fruits and vegetables, writing labels such as "yellow mango," "green guava," "red apple," etc.
- Sentence frames: Prompts like "We had a good dinner." and "I saw many ___ there." to practice word placement and comprehension.
6. Fill in the Blanks
- Grammar focus: Questions like "Are these potatoes?" with responses "Yes, they are." / "No, they are not." and identifying correct item names (onions, brinjals, carrots, roses, etc.).
- Health message: Concludes with "Vegetables are good for health. We should eat them every day."
New Word / Term Definitions
-
Sight words:
- his – belonging to a boy or man
- them – object pronoun referring to multiple people or things
- around – located on every side
-
Fruits & Vegetables:
- pineapple – a tropical fruit with a rough, spiky skin and sweet yellow flesh
- brinjal – another name for eggplant, a purple vegetable
- cauliflower – a white vegetable that grows in a head of florets