# Talking Toys

## Overview

In this chapter, students enter the imaginative world of a toy shop where toys come to life. Through storytelling, grammar activities, listening and writing exercises, and engaging hands-on projects, learners expand vocabulary, improve language structure, and express creativity.

## Key Topics Covered

### 1. Story: The Toy Shop

- The story is set on a holiday in a busy local market.
- The toy shop opens and toys excitedly wait to see who will buy them.
- Children and their parents visit the shop and choose toys like:
- **Snakes and Ladders** board game
- **Vande Bharat toy train**
- **Toy aeroplane**
- **Toy phone**
- **Marbles**
- **Toy elephant**
- **Spinning top**
- **Dancing dolls**

- The toys express emotions and excitement as customers enter, showing imaginative interaction.

**Moral Focus**: The joy and emotions connected to toys and how children bond with them.

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### 2. Vocabulary: New Words

- **displayed** – items placed for viewing
- **excitement** – feeling of happiness and eagerness
- **eagerly** – with interest and energy

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### 3. Grammar Concepts

#### A. Describing Naming Words
- Examples:
- **happy boy**
- **pretty doll**
- **blue frock**
- **red cap**

- Students learn how describing words (adjectives) tell us more about naming words (nouns).

#### B. Adjective-Noun Practice
Using words from a help box (brown, clean, cold, white, cotton, large), students match adjectives with nouns:
- yellow mango
- cold water
- cotton kurta
- clean food
- white paper
- large tree

#### C. Plurals

- **Adding ‘s’**:
- toy → toys
- cup → cups
- doll → dolls
- shop → shops
- train → trains

- **Adding ‘es’**:
- box → boxes
- class → classes
- bus → buses
- pouch → pouches
- brush → brushes
- mango → mangoes

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### 4. Poem: “My Top”

- A colourful and fun poem about a spinning top.
- Encourages pronunciation practice and colour identification:
- red, green, yellow, brown

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### 5. Writing Activity: Making a Kite

- The baby bird wants to fly a kite.
- The mother bird helps by using:
- Onion peel
- Spider web thread
- Tree gum
- Palm tree leaf blade

**Objective**: Story sequencing and sentence completion.

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### 6. Drawing and Craft

#### A. Drawing a Bird from the Letter ‘B’
- Step-by-step guide to create a bird illustration using the letter 'B'.

#### B. Creative Letter Drawing
- Children are encouraged to draw a picture using another letter.

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### 7. Puppet-Making Activity

**Materials**:
- Jute or cardboard sheets
- Colours, pencil, wool, glue

**Steps**:
1. Draw and cut out a human face.
2. Add outlines and colours.
3. Use wool for hair and attach a handle.

**Objective**: Combine art with motor skills and imagination.

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## New Words and Simple Meanings

| Word | Meaning |
|-------------|---------|
| displayed | shown for people to see |
| excitement | strong feeling of joy and interest |
| eagerly | with great interest or energy |
| plural | more than one of something |
| adjective | a word that describes a noun |
| puppet | a toy that looks like a person or animal and can be moved |
| spinning top | a toy that spins around quickly |
| kite | a light toy that flies in the air |
| thread | a thin string |
| jute | a strong, rough fiber used in crafts |

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## Practice Questions

### Easy (3)
1. **What toy did the little boy want to buy?**
→ He wanted the Vande Bharat toy train.

2. **Name any two toys mentioned in the story.**
→ Spinning top and toy elephant.

3. **Write the plural form of ‘doll’.**
→ Dolls

### Medium (2)
4. **Which toys were chosen by the girls who entered the shop?**
→ One bought marbles and the other bought the toy aeroplane.

5. **Add an adjective to describe the noun: "____ cap".**
→ red cap

### Difficult (3)
6. **Why were the toys in the shop excited?**
→ They were waiting eagerly to be bought by children.

7. **Make a sentence using the word 'eagerly'.**
→ The toys looked eagerly at the children entering the shop.

8. **What are naming words and give two examples from the story.**
→ Naming words are names of people, places or things. Examples: doll, shopkeeper.

### Very Difficult (2)
9. **Describe the process of how the mother bird helped make a kite.**
→ She brought onion peel, used spider web thread, added gum from a tree, and used a palm tree leaf blade.

10. **Write the plural forms of the following: class, brush, mango**
→ classes, brushes, mangoes

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