# Around the World

## Overview
In this unit, students explore life in a bustling city through the poem "Sing a Song of People" and related activities. They compare urban and rural lifestyles, reflect on transport and travel, learn to observe crowd behavior, interpret maps, write creatively, and engage with poetic structure and new vocabulary.

## Key Topics Covered

### 1. Poem: Sing a Song of People
- **Theme**: The hustle and bustle of city life.
- **Imagery**: Fast-moving people, crowded sidewalks, elevators, taxis, and subways.
- **Emotions**: Observes different moods—smiling, laughing, grumpy, silent, noisy.
- **Conclusion**: We often see many people in the city but never really know them.

### 2. Vocabulary and Comprehension
- **New Words**:
- Subway – underground passage
- Underneath – below
- Elevators – lifts
- Grumpy – ill-tempered
- **Comprehension Questions**:
1. Modes of transport: buses, taxis, subways.
2. Carried items: hats, umbrellas.
3. Places observed: buildings, sidewalks, stores.
4. Reasons for crowds and hurry in the city.

### 3. Word Practice: Opposites
- Students write antonyms for:
- slow / fast
- up / down
- back / front
- tall / short
- below / above
- crowd / alone
- loud / quiet
- go / come

### 4. Poem Comparison: Village Child vs City Child
- **Village Child**: Lives near woods, enjoys birds and flowers, feels lonely.
- **City Child**: Lives in crowded streets with traffic, dislikes noise and smoke, wishes for nature.
- **Activity**: Reflect and compare personal experience of where students live.

### 5. Poetry Writing
- Introduction to rhyming patterns in poems.
- Task: Students write a four-line rhyming poem.

### 6. Population Inquiry and Reflection
- Research task: Number of people in India.
- Reflective questions: Do we have enough land, food, and water for all?

### 7. Neighbourhood Survey Activity
- Collect data from 10 families:
- Age-wise distribution
- Number of educated members
- Outcome: Write a report based on findings.

### 8. Teacher Interview and Writing
- Guided interview questions:
- Why became a teacher
- Daily travel
- Pets
- Reading interests
- Hobbies
- Activity: Write a short paragraph about the teacher.

### 9. Map Reading: Ajay’s Route
- Map-based questions:
- Identifying roads, landmarks, alternative paths.
- Writing task: Describe the route home using verbs (go, turn, cross) and prepositions (across, behind, near).

### 10. Poem: Day by Day I Float My Paper Boats
- **Poet**: Rabindranath Tagore
- **Theme**: Imagination, hope, and communication.
- **Activity**: Reflect on sending messages creatively (then and now).

### 11. Writing on Excursion or Holiday
- Guiding questions:
- Destination
- Companions
- Items packed
- First sight on arrival
- Favorite part of the trip
- Duration of stay
- What was missed at home

### 12. Grammar: Making Sentences with New Words
- Students practice using new words in meaningful sentences.

### 13. Picture Activity: Travel Time
- Visual comprehension task:
- Preference between travelling by plane or ship
- Justify choice with reasons

### 14. Vocabulary Practice: Group Words
- Group names:
- troop of soldiers
- swarm of bees
- team of players
- litter of puppies
- fleet of ships
- library of books
- Exercise:
- Fill in blanks with suitable group names like clump, cluster, choir, bunch, flock, band.

### 15. Grammar: Adverbs Ending in -ly
- Transform describing words into adverbs (e.g., sound → soundly)
- Sentences to complete:
- The girl slept ______.
- The children finished work ______.
- The man shouted ______.
- The boys played ______.
- Do your work ______.
- I can do the sum ______.

### 16. Project Work
- Select a country to visit:
- Paste/draw map, flag, stamps, currency, monuments.
- Explore the Seven Wonders of the World:
- Identify their countries and names.
- Note: The Taj Mahal is India’s wonder.

### 17. Sound and Spelling Practice
- Changing vowel + consonant words to long vowel forms with silent “e”:
- cap → cape
- mat → mate
- pin → pine
- not → note
- Examples for reading and pronunciation included.

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## New Terms and Simple Definitions

| Term | Definition |
|--------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| subway | Underground train or passage used in big cities |
| underneath | Below something |
| elevator | A machine that moves people up and down in a building (also called a lift) |
| grumpy | Someone who is angry or in a bad mood |
| meadow | A field with grass and flowers |
| rhyme | Words that sound similar at the end (like cat and hat) |
| prepositions | Words that show position or place like on, under, between, near |
| monuments | Large important buildings or statues |
| project | A small research or art-based activity on a topic |
| adverb | A word that tells more about how an action is done (often ends in -ly) |

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## Practice Questions

### Easy (3)
1. What are some of the places mentioned in the poem "Sing a Song of People"?
2. Write two opposite words for: tall and loud.
3. Name two things the village child likes.

### Medium (2)
4. How is the life of a city child different from that of a village child?
5. What kind of transport do people in cities use?

### Difficult (3)
6. Why do people in the city appear to be in a hurry?
7. How do poems like “Sing a Song of People” and “Day by Day I Float My Paper Boats” help us understand different experiences?
8. What did the poet hope for by sending paper boats in the stream?

### Very Difficult (2)
9. Conduct a survey of 10 families and prepare a short report on the age-wise distribution of people and how many are educated.
10. Write your own four-line poem with a rhyme scheme and meaningful theme.

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## Answers with Explanations

1. **Places mentioned**: sidewalk, subway, bus, tall buildings, stores.
*These show the variety of city spaces people move through.*

2. **Opposites**: tall → short, loud → quiet.
*Opposites help understand contrast in meaning.*

3. **Village child likes**: birds, flowers.
*Natural elements provide comfort and company in the village.*

4. **City vs Village Child**: City child lives among noise and traffic, misses nature; village child lives in quiet, but feels lonely.
*This shows different advantages and challenges of each place.*

5. **City transport**: buses, subways, taxis, elevators.
*Multiple fast and busy means to travel quickly in cities.*

6. **People in a hurry**: Because of work, schedules, and busy city life.
*Urban lifestyle demands speed and constant movement.*

7. **Poem insights**: City poem shows anonymity; boat poem shows imagination and hope to connect.
*Poetry reflects emotion, creativity, and human experiences.*

8. **Paper boats**: The poet wishes someone would find them and learn about him.
*Symbolic of longing to be known across distance.*

9. **Survey report**: (Sample) Out of 10 families, 4 had more elders, 3 had young children. 80% of families had 4 or more educated members.
*Encourages observation, math, and reporting skills.*

10. **Sample poem**:
_The rain falls soft upon the land,_
_It washes earth with gentle hand._
_The flowers bloom, the trees stand tall,_
_The wind it whispers through them all._
*Shows rhyme and natural imagery.*

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