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Question
Read out the following phrases aloud. Divide them into loud and softer sounds.
- clapping hands
- a worm moving
- stamping feet
- a bud blooming
- a butterfly flying
- a feather dropping
- an ant walking
- a car moving
- the wind blowing
- ssshhhh
- whisper
- tiptoe
- a leaf falling
| Loud sounds | Softer sounds |
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Listening Activity
First, read the questions given below. Next, listen to an excerpt from a poem read out by your teacher or played in a recorder. Note how a child admires and praises the abilities of his/her father. Then tick the right answers from the options given.
by Edgar Albert Guest
My father knows the proper way
The nation should be run;
He tells us, children, every day
Just what should now be done?
He knows the way to fix the trusts,
He has a simple plan;
But if the furnace needs repairs,
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
Of that there is no doubt;
But if there is a chair to mend,
We have to send it out.
In conversation, father can
Do many wondrous things;
He’s built upon a wiser plan
Then presidents or kings.
He knows the ins and outs of each
And every deep transaction;
We look to him for theories,
But look to ma for action
i) When the ______ needs to be repaired, they have to hire a man.
- heater
- furnace
- stove
- oven
ii) Father knows no word like______
- fail
- frail
- jail
- snail
iii) It is certain that the father would restore the _______of the family members.
- glory
- prosperity
- confidence
- happiness
iv) The father will not be able to mend a broken
- table
- bench
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v) The children expect their _________ to guide them in action.
- mother
- father
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- guardian
Some phrases have been left out in the poem below. Fill in the missing phrases on listening to the reading or the audio played by the teacher. You may listen again, if required
The Soldier
If I should die, ______
That there’s some corner______
That is ______ There shall be
In that rich earth a richer ______
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, _____ roam;
A body ______ air,
Washed ______ suns of home.
And think, ______ away,
A pulse in the ______, no less
Gives somewhere back ______ given;
Her______; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter,______ and gentleness,
In hearts .______ English heaven.
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