SECTION C 

NOTE EXPANSION 

Noni - walking – school – saw– beggar - tree

beggar – shivering – hungry – took – lunch box - gave

ate up – food – eating – smiled – thanked - kindness

Step 1 :

What is the story about?

It is about a girl who gave her food to a beggar.

Step 2 :

Look at the verbs given.Try to identify the correcttense to use.

Find the verbs in the story:walking Continuous Tensesaw Past Tenseshivering Continuous Tensetook Past Tensegave Past Tenseate Past Tenseeating Continuous Tensesmiled Past Tensethanked Past Tense

What is the Tense to be used?

Simple Past Tenseand

Past Continous Tense

Step 3 :

Write the story.

Introduction:

Noni was a kind and helpful girl. She liked to help other people in trouble.

Subject Verb Complement

Noni was walking to school

She saw a beggar.

The beggar was sitting under a tree.

One day, Noni was walking to school. On her way, she saw a beggar. The beggar was sitting under a tree.

Subject Verb Complement

The beggar was shivering.

He was hungry.

Noni took out her lunch box.

She gave the food to him.

The beggar was shivering. He was very hungry. Noni felt sorry for him. She took out her lunch box from her bag and gave the food to him.

Subject Verb Complement

The beggar ate up the food.

He finished eating.

He smiled.

He thanked Noni for her kindness.

The beggar ate up all the food. After he finished eating, he smiled and thanked Noni for her kindness.

Ending:

Noni felt happy because she had helped the beggar. She continued her walk to school with a big smile on her face.

Step 4 :

Read the story again. Can you make it better?

Check for any mistakes:

1. Plural nouns – (many shoes not many shoe; remember the ‘s’!)

2. Punctuation and capitalisation – Capital letter at the beginning of sentences; a full stop at the end.

3. Make sure you use the correct articles – check the article ‘a’. Do you put ‘a’ in the correct places? (e.g.: Writing “Woman is shopping” is wrong! )

Check for any mistakes:

1. Do you use ‘is’ and ‘are’ or ‘was’ and ‘were’ correctly? (Remember: is/was – singular, are/were – plural)

2. ‘There’ or ‘They’? (Do not confuse these two words!)

3. Make sure every sentence you write is related to the picture. (Do not write any sentence that is not related to the picture!)

4. Spelling – Check and double-check!

Exercise:

Picture 1

Exercise:

TIME / LINKERS

T

SUBJECTS

VERBV

COMPLEMENTC

Last Sunday

Salim and Raju

went to the zoo.

They went with their parents.

All of them were very happy.

Answer:

Last Sunday, Salim and Raju went to the zoo. They went there with their parents. All of them were very happy. They went there by car.

Exercise:

Picture 2

TIME / LINKERS

T

SUBJECTS

VERBV

COMPLEMENTC

After that Salim took many pictures at the zoo.

Raju was riding

an elephant.

The elephant

was very tame.

Answer:

They went there at eight o’clock in the morning. They reached there at nine o’clock. There were many people there. After that, Salim took many pictures at the zoo. Raju was riding an elephant. The elephant was very tame.

Exercise:

Picture 3

TIME / LINKERS

T

SUBJECTS

VERBV

COMPLEMENTC

Raju helped to take

Salim’s pictures with the monkeys

Salim was giving banana to the monkey.

The monkey enjoyed the banana.

Answer:

Raju helped Salim to take his picture with the monkey. Salim was giving banana to the monkey. The monkey enjoyed the bananas. They were very happy to come here. They hoped that they can come here again. They returned home happily.

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