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Structure of the Chapter

Warm-up Reading
Activities that help students make connections A good mix of Indian and Western classics
between school content and their real lives and contemporary prose and poetry

1 1 Father Now, read the story to find out how Ammachi 1 and her grandson Sooraj find the
Ammachi’s Incredible
Father
4 4 Ammachi’s Incredible unniappam 2 thief. 3 Let’s read the poem and find out how the poet describes his father.
Investigation Oh no, the My father knows the proper way Do you help your Let’s connect
Investigation
father in household
Theme: Science and technology unniappams The nation should be run;
Theme: Family have Someone chores? life skill interpersonal skills
Time to start
Time to start
Time to start disappeared! must have He tells us children every day
stolen them!
Time to start
Time to start
Time to start Just what should now be done.
the house. Be an investigator and find these 8 hidden objects in the picture. He knows the way to fix the trusts,
Tick (3) the things you usually see your father do around
He has a simple plan;
life skill problem solving
But if the furnace needs repairs,
SDG 5 gender equality life skill logical thinking
But who? We have to hire a man.
My father, in a day or two
Could land big thieves in jail;
There’s nothing that he cannot do,
He knows no word like ‘fail’.
‘Our confidence’ he would restore,
It could have been Of that there is no doubt;
But if there is a chair to mend,
Penny. Or maybe it
was that civet from the
We have to send it out.
attic. Or do you
think Appachen 3
took them?
Hmm.
proper: correct
Perhaps.
furnace: an enclosed
structure in which
1 means ‘Grandmother’ in Malayalam
keeping homes warm
civet: a small animal like a cat from heat is produced for
Africa and southern Asia
2 a traditional Kerala sweet snack made from fl our, banana, jaggery,
coconut and deep fried in ghee or oil
attic: a room at the top of a building, restore: to give back
mend: to repair
3 means ‘Grandfather’ in Malayalam
under the roof, often used for storing
things something that is
damaged
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Comprehension
4. Complete the given table. One has been done for you.
Items on Daadu’s list
Time to answer 1. bucket Who helps Lajjo collect them?
Babu helps Lajjo find a bucket.
Competency-based Answer these questions.
1. Write three instances from the poem that tell you that the grandma loves her
grandchild very much. 5. Look at these pictures. Daadu shows Lajjo how to make the water lter out of
questions to develop Hehehe! waste items. What does he do rst? What does he do next? Put the correct
number for each picture.
CHOMP-CHOMP
SCRUNCH Reference to the context
the creative and critical 2. What does the child mean when she says, ‘The way I look is a disgrace’? Read the line from the story and anwer the questions that follow.
1. ‘ Children, don’t begin till you hear what I have to say.’
3. The opposite word of ‘tangle’ is . a. Who said these words?
4. The character traits of the child are mentioned in the column. Now, pick lines from
thinking skills of TAKA-TAKA- the poem that tell you so and complete the table. Line life skill analytical thinking Reference to the context b. What did the speaker ask the children not to begin?
i. their breakfast
ii. their game
TAKA
Character trait Read the lines from the story and answer the questions that follow. iii. their lunch iv. their homework
NYUM-NYUM careless and clumsy 1. ‘A game! Who has time for games when the whole village is thirsty?’ c. Why did the speaker say these words?
the students doesn’t stay clean a. Who said these words and to whom? d. What kind of a person do you think is the speaker?

i. mean
MUNCH-MUNCH doesn’t like being cleaned b. What is the tone of the speaker here? iii. cunning ii. selfish
iv. kind-hearted
loves her Grandma i. joyous ii. serious iii. humorous iv. complaining e. What is the mood of the speaker while saying these lines?
—Vinayak Varma, illustrated by Rajiv Eipe Reference to the context c. Why is the whole village thirsty? i. feeling excited ii. feeling happy
Read the lines from the poem and answer the question. 2. ‘Don’t worry, Lajjo. Gudiya will be fine. Shall we play a game?’ iii. feeling sad iv. feeling selfish
Time to answer 1. ‘She gets a brush, I make a fuss, a. Who do ‘we’ refer to in the above lines? 2. ‘Ah, mein Go ! it is the good angels that come to us!’
A. Tick (3) the correct option. But, Grandma doesn’t care.’ b. What happened to Gudiya? a. Who are the good angels?
i. A kind family of 4 people
1. Who are the main characters in the story? a. Why does Grandma get a brush? c. Which game is the speaker referring to? iii. A kind family of 6 people ii. A kind family of 7 people
i. because the child has tangled hair
iv. A kind family of 10 people
Ammachi and Appachen Ammachi and Sooraj ii. because the child’s teeth are dirty b. Which one of the following words best describes the emotion of the speaker?
Ammachi and Penny Appachen and Sooraj iii. because the child’s shoes are dirty Time to think and answer i. thankful ii. horrified iii. upset iv. unhappy
floods?
2. Who were the suspects? (A suspect is a person who is guilty of commi ing iv. because Grandma wants to paint 1. How does the flood affect the people of the village? What can be done to avoid c. Why did the speaker say these words?
a crime.) 29 life skill analytical thinking life skill problem solving d. Why did the good angels pay the speaker a visit?
Penny, a civet, Appachen and Sooraj Penny, a civet and Appachen factual 53
Sooraj, Ammachi and Appachen Sooraj, Penny and Appachen RTC Time to think and answer
you think made her change her mind all of a sudden?
3. How many traps did Ammachi lay for the unniappam thief? 1. After initial reluctance, the narrator happily agreed to help the poor family. What do
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one two three four 2. If you were in the narrator’s position, would you have shared your lovely breakfast
with the poor family? Give reasons for your answer.
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MCQs inferential and
evaluative
Time to study language
You have learnt that prepositions are words that tell you the relation between a noun or
a pronoun with another word in the sentence. For example,
2. Draw the character sketch of Lajjo.
We threw stones at the snow leopard.
We met a few villagers on the way.
Character traits of Lajjo
What do you like about her?
I grew up in Kumdok.
Sometimes the prepositions at, on and in are used to talk about time. For example,
With at
Grammar We reached home at 5:30 p.m. (specific time)
We came back at dinner time. (with mealtimes)
Mother is working at the moment. (specific point of time)
Clear grammar explanations with contextual Examples from the text Are we going home at Buddha Purnima? (with festivals)
With in
We came across the snow leopard in February. (with months)
examples and application-based interactive I was born in 2016. (with years)
We do not go to the pastures in winter. (with seasons)
exercises to improve language skills Time to study language We leave for the pastures in the morning. (with periods of time during the day)
We will be back in a couple of hours. (to talk about future time)
In the 1970s, snow leopards were declared endangered. (with decades)
The cheetah became extinct in India in the twentieth century. (with centuries)
You have learnt about simple present, simple past and simple future tenses and the
present and past continuous tenses. Let’s revise them.
general facts. For example,
With on
The simple present tense is used to talk about likes and dislikes, habits, routines and
We came across the snow leopard on Friday. (with days of the week)
Lajjo lives in a village on the banks of the River Kosi. (fact)
Lajjo loves the rain. (likes) I was born on 16 August. (with dates)
He was born on Christmas Eve. (with special days)
Lajjo takes her doll everywhere. (habit)
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The simple past tense is used to talk about actions that have been completed.
We finished all our water.
Lajjo left her doll behind.
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