# Out! Out!

## Overview
The story *“Out! Out!”* focuses on two children, Jeet and Babli, who spend a holiday playing together. It combines storytelling, vocabulary enrichment, grammar practice, oral expression, and hands-on creativity. The story encourages imaginative play using household items and promotes communication in English through reading, speaking, and writing tasks.

## Key Topics Covered

### 1. Picture Reading
- **Activities**: Children observe and discuss what they see in a picture.
- **Prompts**: Questions like “What are the children doing?” and “How are they having fun?”
- **Objective**: Enhance observation, speaking, and interpretation skills.

### 2. Story: “Out! Out!”
- **Plot Summary**:
- Jeet and Babli play different games, including skipping and hide and seek.
- They decide to play “bat and ball.” Jeet throws the ball, and Babli hits it.
- The ball goes into Mohit's locked garden, and the game stops.
- Later, they make a new ball using rags, paper, wool, and string.
- Babli throws the new ball, Jeet hits it, and Babli catches a piece, shouting “OUT! OUT!”

- **Objective**: Promote creative thinking, problem-solving, and joy in playing with handmade toys.

### 3. Vocabulary Building
- **New Words Introduced**:
`skipped`, `threw`, `courtyard`, `gathered`, `brought`, `picked`

- **Sight Words**:
`This`, `a`, `how`, `also`, `they`, `after`, `and`, `of`

- **Objective**: Improve reading fluency and comprehension.

### 4. Speaking Practice
- **Questions**:
- What games do you like to play?
- Have you played ‘bat and ball’?
- Have you used waste material to make a toy?
- **Reordering Activity**: Arrange story events in correct sequence.
- **Objective**: Enhance articulation and sequencing ability.

### 5. Reading and Phonics
- **Focus Sound**: Short vowel 'e' as in "pen", "egg", "engine", "elephant".
- **Article Usage**: Noticing the use of 'a' and 'an' before words.
- **Objective**: Develop phonemic awareness and grammar intuition.

### 6. Writing Activities
- **Fill in the Blanks**: Recall characters and materials used in story.
- **Opposites**:
- Examples: up-down, in-out, open-close, fat-thin, hot-cold, small-big.
- **Sentence Joining with ‘and’**:
- Example: “Suresh went to school. Gopal went to school.” becomes “Suresh and Gopal went to school.”
- **Objective**: Strengthen vocabulary, grammar and sentence construction.

### 7. Creative and Experiential Learning
- **Activity A**: Enact the story in pairs using words from the text.
- **Activity B**: Talk to elders about the games they played and narrate it in class.
- **Objective**: Encourage creativity, listening, and public speaking.

## New Words and Terms (Simple Meanings)

| Term | Meaning |
|------------|------------------------------------------------------|
| skipped | jumped over a rope again and again |
| threw | sent something through the air using your hand |
| courtyard | open space inside or near a house |
| gathered | collected or brought things together |
| brought | carried something along from somewhere |
| picked | lifted or chose something using fingers |
| rag | an old piece of cloth |
| wool | soft hair from sheep used to make cloth or balls |
| string | thin strong cord used to tie things |

## Practice Questions

### Easy (3)
1. **What games did Jeet and Babli play?**
*Answer*: They played skipping, hide and seek, and bat and ball.
*Explanation*: The story mentions all three activities.

2. **Where did the ball go when Babli hit it?**
*Answer*: The ball went into Mohit’s garden.
*Explanation*: It’s stated clearly in the story.

3. **Name any two materials used to make the new ball.**
*Answer*: Rags and paper.
*Explanation*: Babli used rags, paper, wool, and string.

### Medium (2)
4. **Why did the children stop the game first time?**
*Answer*: The ball was lost in Mohit’s locked garden.
*Explanation*: They could not get it back, so the game stopped.

5. **What did Babli do after the ball scattered in the air?**
*Answer*: She jumped, caught a piece of rag, and shouted “OUT! OUT!”.
*Explanation*: It was her reaction when the homemade ball scattered.

### Difficult (3)
6. **Why did Babli and Jeet make a new ball?**
*Answer*: Because their original ball got lost and they wanted to continue playing.
*Explanation*: They used materials around them to make a new one.

7. **How is creativity shown in the story?**
*Answer*: Babli used waste materials to create a new ball to keep playing.
*Explanation*: This shows thinking and using resources around them.

8. **What does the story teach us about playing?**
*Answer*: It teaches that we can use simple things around us to create toys and have fun.
*Explanation*: Playing doesn’t always need expensive things.

### Very Difficult (2)
9. **Write the correct sequence of events: Jeet threw the ball, Babli hit the ball, Jeet got ready to throw the ball, Ball went into the garden, They lost the ball.**
*Answer*:
1. Jeet got ready to throw the ball
2. Jeet threw the ball
3. Babli hit the ball
4. The ball went into Mohit's garden
5. They lost the ball
*Explanation*: Based on the story’s timeline.

10. **Describe in your own words how to make a ball using household items.**
*Answer*: Take some paper, old cloth (rags), and wool. Roll them into a round shape. Tie them with a string to hold them together.
*Explanation*: This reflects the method Babli used.

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