3. This is my home.

Total number of periods: 2

Period 1
Getting started
Objective:
• To initiate learners into the theme of family and home
Time required: 5 minutes
Material required: the book and crayons

A. Colour

Procedure:
1. Ask learners to look at the picture given in the book and
name the people shown in it.
2. Ask them to name the people who live in their house.
3. Then ask them to colour the people who live in
their house.

Listening and learning

Objective:
• To listen and learn about the parts of a house
Time required: 10 minutes
Materials required: the book, Smart Board, speakers
and crayons
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 B1. Listen
Procedure:
1. Read out the task given in the book.
2. Ask learners to listen attentively to Mani telling about her
house, focusing on the parts of the house while listening.
3. Replay the audio.
4. Ask learners to colour the happy face if Mani’s house has
that place and colour the sad face if her house does not have
that place.
5. Discuss the answers in class.
Answer key:
Places to be coloured with a happy face: library, garden,
kitchen, bedroom, living room
Places to be coloured with a sad face: pond, tennis court, play
room

Extended activity: You can talk about different places in a

house and what we do there. You may include words like
balcony, porch, corridor, verandah and lobby.

Assessment parameters:
• Learners should be able to comprehend the information
given in the audio.

Speaking and practicing

Objective:
• To talk about family members

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 Time required: 15 minutes
Materials required: the book, a few photographs of family
members, glue

C1. Talk

Procedure:
1. Ask the learners to paste the pictures of their family members.
2. Then, divide the class into pairs.
3. Tell them to talk about their family members to each other.
4. Encourage them to talk about their family members using
the words in the Word Wizard box. Help them pronounce
the words correctly.
5. Play the video and ask them to watch it attentively.
Assessment parameters:
• Learners should be able to talk about their family members
confidently.
• Learners should be able to use the correct words.

Saying it right
Objective:
• To say words beginning with g, l, f, b sounds correctly
Time required: 10 minutes
Material required: the book and Smart Board

D1. Sing

Procedure:
1. Inform listeners that you are going to play the song.
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 2. Ask them to listen to the song and sing along.
3. Play the song.
4. Help learners to say the words in the song correctly.
Teaching tip: Replay the song. You may make learners act
out the actions described while singing.
Explain the meanings of these words:
fig: a fruit glee: happiness
bleat: a sound made by sheep

Assessment parameters:
• Learners should be able to pronounce words with the f, l, g, b
sounds correctly.

D2. Repeat

Procedure:
1. Inform learners that you are going to play the audio with the
words.
2. Ask learners to listen attentively to the words and repeat
them, paying attention to the beginning sound of every
word.
3. Play the audio.
4. Help learners say the words correctly. Then, play the video
and ask learners to watch it attentively.

Extended activity: Make a word web in the classroom and

ask learners to add more words with the sounds f, l, g, b
to the web. This will help in enriching their vocabulary and
revising the concept taught.

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 Assessment parameters:
• Learners should say words beginning with f, l, g, and b
sounds correctly.

Interacting and communicating

Objective:
• To describe what different people are doing
Time required: 10 minutes
Materials required: the book

F. Ask and answer

Procedure:
1. Ask learners to look at the picture and observe what
different people are doing.
2. Tell them you are going to play an audio.
3. Ask them to listen to the questions in the audio and answer
them according to what they see in the picture.
4. Play the audio.
5. Instruct learners to use the words given under Grammar
Guide to answer the questions they hear.
6. Then ask learners to form pairs and encourage them to ask
questions about each other’s family and answer them.
Teaching tip: Tell learners that we use:
‘He is …’; ‘She is …’; ‘They are ...’ to describe what people
are doing.

Assessment parameters:
• Learners should know how to describe what people are doing.
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 Period 2

Getting started
Objective:
• To talk about people in one’s family
Time required: 5 minutes
Procedure:
1. Ask learners to work in pairs and tell their partner one thing
about every member of their family.

Listening and learning

Objectives:
• To listen and learn to describe people
• To listen, comprehend and extract specific information
Time required: 15 minutes
Materials required: the book, Smart Board, speakers and
crayons

B2. Listen

Procedure:
1. Read out the task given in the book.
2. Ask learners to observe the picture of Deepak’s family.
3. Ask them to listen attentively to Deepak talk about his
family, focusing on the description of each person’s dress.
4. Play the audio and pause it after each person’s description.

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 5. Ask learners to colour the dress of each person as described
in the audio.
6. Let them show the coloured picture of Deepak’s family to
their partner.
Answer key:
grandfather: blue shirt; grandmother: yellow saree; father:
white coat and black pants; mother: blue uniform; brother:
blue jeans and red T-shirt

Teaching tip: Ask learners to focus on how we describe

people: we talk about their appearance or what they wear
and what they do as well as their qualities.

Assessment parameters:
• Learners should be able to comprehend the descriptions.

Speaking and practising

Objective:
• To learn to talk about the parts of a house
Time required: 15 minutes
Materials required: the book, a pencil, crayons and chart paper
C2. Discuss

Procedure:
I. Ask learners to form pairs.
2. Tell them to draw their house on the chart paper.
3. Encourage them to talk about their house using
Grammar Guide.
4. Ask each pair to talk about the common things in their houses.

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 Assessment parameters:
• Learners should be able to talk about the parts of a house.

Saying it right
Objectives:
• To complete words with the vowel sounds a and i
• To identify words with the consonant sounds f, g, b and l
Time required: 10 minutes
Material required: the book, a pencil and an eraser

D3. Say aloud

Procedure:
1. Ask learners to say the names of the things given in the book.
2. Tell them to insert a or i to complete the words.
3. Ask them to check each other’s work.
Assessment parameters:

• Learners should be able to identify the vowel sounds a and i

in words.

D4. Say aloud

Procedure:
1. Ask learners to say aloud the words given in the book.
2. Ask them to identify and match the words with the same
beginning sound.
3. Instruct them to check each other’s work.

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 Answer key:
last--little; bag--big; green--goat; film--fat
Assessment parameters:
• Learners should be able to identify words with the f, l, g,
and b consonant sounds.

Dictation time
Objectives:
• To familiarize learners with words and phrases
• To assess understanding of sounds and spelling
Time required: 10 minutes
Materials required: the book, Smart Board, speakers, a pencil
and an eraser

E. Listen and write

Procedure:
1. Inform the learners that they are going to hear a few words.
2. Instruct them to write down the words that they hear, using
the correct spelling.
3. Play the audio, or read out the words.
4. Let them listen attentively and write down each word as
they listen.
5. Pause after each word, giving them ample time to write.
Answer key:
Mother Father Brother Sister
Grandfather Grandmother Flat Villa

Assessment parameters:
• Learners should be able to spell out the words given.
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 Fun Activity
Materials required: the book, a pencil, an eraser and crayons or
colour pencils

Procedure:
1. Explain what a family tree is.
2. Ask the learners to draw their representations of their family
members.
3. Tell them that they should draw their grandparents in the
top two circles.
4. The learners should draw the pictures of their parents
in the two circles in the middle of the tree, and those of
their uncles or aunts in the two circles on the second row,
on the sides.
5. Instruct them to draw their picture in the big circle at
the bottom.

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 Take a break!
Objective:
• To help the learners to identify pictures and name them.

Time required: 30 minutes

Materials required: The book, Smart Board, a die

Procedure:
1. Instruct the learners to sit in a cirlce.
2. Ask them to look at the grid on page 31.
3. Then, ask each learner to toss the die.
4. The learner has to say the name of a picture in the same
column as the number shown on the die they have tossed.
5. After naming the object, ask the learner to identify the first
sound of the word they have said.
6. Then, ask the learner to say another word beginning with
the same sound.
Answer key:
1. fish, fan, man, mat
2. cat, can, lip, lock
3. dog, den, rat, rug
4. pin, pan, hat, hen
5. nib, net, girl, gift
6. tiger, tap, bag, bug
Any words that begin with the same sounds as the pictures can
be accepted.

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