English For Today chapter 2: Alphabet and Numbers

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Unit - 2

The Alphabet and Numbers Printed page 12

Lesson 1: The Alphabet Song A Listen and sing. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z x y z oh, dear me! When shall I learn my a b c ? B Sing ‘The Alphabet Song’ in groups. Figure Description: A teacher stands at the left of a classroom. Children in red shirts sit in groups at wooden benches with books on them, and some of them raise their hands. C Look at the letters. Listen and repeat. Printed page 13 D Look and trace. Figure Description: Nine rows of dashed guide lines to trace, from top to bottom: vertical lines, circles, slanted lines leaning right, slanted lines leaning left, a horizontal line, two wavy lines, and two zigzag lines. Printed page 14

Lesson 2: aA bB A Look at the picture. Say the names of the things. Figure Description: An outdoor village scene. A boy in a red cap is throwing a ball on the left. Four children stand in the middle, two holding balls. A boy in a green shirt holds a cricket bat and a girl in a blue dress stands on the wicket stumps on the right. Houses, trees, flowers, a bird flock, a sun and an airplane are in the background. B Look, listen and say. Figure Description: A black ant. Figure Description: A red apple with a green leaf. ant a Ant A apple a Apple A Figure Description: A cricket bat. Figure Description: A football. bat b Bat B ball b Ball B Printed page 15


ant	a	Ant	A
apple	a	Apple	A


bat	b	Bat	B
ball	b	Ball	B

Lesson 2 C Listen, say and read. a A b B D Trace in the air. Trace and write. Figure Description: Tracing guide for small letter a: a numbered stroke sequence (1, 2) with a direction arrow, followed by two dotted tracing copies of a. Figure Description: Tracing guide for capital letter A: three numbered strokes (1, 2, 3) with direction arrows, followed by two dotted tracing copies of A. Figure Description: Tracing guide for small letter b: numbered strokes (1, 2) with direction arrows, followed by two dotted tracing copies of b. Figure Description: Tracing guide for capital letter B: three numbered strokes (1, 2, 3) with direction arrows, followed by two dotted tracing copies of B. E Read and match the small and capital letters. Figure Labels: b, a, A, B Description: Four letters in two rows, each in a coloured outline: small b and small a on the top row; capital A and capital B on the bottom row. Lines are not drawn between them. Printed page 16 F Look at the pictures. Write the first letter of each word in both the small and capital forms in the given boxes. Figure Description: Eight empty answer boxes arranged around three pictures: two boxes on the left beside a football (one above the other), and four boxes on the right beside a red apple with ants (one box per row). A cricket bat is shown horizontally below the apple, with two empty boxes beneath it. G Project: Letter craft. See the pictures and make your own fun letters. Figure Description: A green pear-shaped letter A with a red apple inside it, in a bordered box. Figure Description: A brown letter B with a smiling yellow bee inside it, in a bordered box. Printed page 17

Lesson 3 A Look at the picture in pairs. Say the names of the things that you see. Figure Description: A park scene with a river. A boy runs on the grass towards a spotted cat and an orange dog that are playing with a red-and-white ball. Two cows graze on the grass at the right, and two white ducks swim in the river at the lower right. Trees and bushes frame the left and lower edges. B Look, listen and say. Figure Description: A spotted cat, side view. Figure Description: A white cow, side view. cat c Cat C cow c Cow C Figure Description: An orange dog, side view. Figure Description: A white duck, side view. dog d Dog D duck d Duck D Printed page 18 C Listen, say and read. c C d D D Trace in the air. Trace and write. Figure Description: Tracing guide for small letter c: one numbered stroke (1) with a direction arrow, followed by two dotted tracing copies of c. Figure Description: Tracing guide for capital letter C: one numbered stroke (1) with a direction arrow, followed by two dotted tracing copies of C. Figure Description: Tracing guide for small letter d: numbered strokes (1, 2) with direction arrows, followed by two dotted tracing copies of d. Figure Description: Tracing guide for capital letter D: numbered strokes (1, 2) with direction arrows, followed by two dotted tracing copies of D. E Read and match the small and capital letters. Figure Labels: a, c, B, d, b, D, A, C Description: Eight letters in two rows of four, each in a coloured outline: top row small a, small c, capital B, small d; bottom row small b, capital D, capital A, capital C. Lines are not drawn between them. Printed page 19


	cat	c	Cat	C
	cow	c	Cow	C


	dog	d	Dog	D
	duck	d	Duck	D

Lesson 3: cC dD F Look at the picture. Write the first letter to say the name of each animal or object in the picture. Figure Labels: ow, OG, AT, all, uck Description: A cow, a dog, a cat, a football and a goose are drawn. Above, on the right, are two boxes reading "ow" and "OG"; below are three boxes reading "AT", "all" and "uck". Each box has a dotted blank before the word. G Project: Letter craft. See the pictures and make your own fun letters. Figure Labels: C, D Description: Two framed pictures. On the left, a black cat forms a large letter "C" with a red circle inside. On the right, a duck forms a large letter "D" with a yellow "D" inside it. Printed page 20

Lesson 4: Numbers A What do you see in the picture? Figure Description: Five children play football in a yard; one boy stands on crutches. Behind them is a house with a tin roof and a yellow wall, with the Bangladesh flag on a pole on the roof. Trees and flower bushes surround the yard, and two birds fly in the sky. B Look, listen and say. Read the numbers. Figure Description: A football is shown beside a box with the number "1". Below a dotted line, two green birds are shown beside a box with the number "2". Printed page 21

Lesson 4: Numbers C Trace in the air. Trace and write. Figure Labels: 1, 2 Description: A grid of boxes in four rows of six. In row 1, the first box shows a solid "1" and the next three show dotted "1"s to trace. In row 3, the first box shows a solid "2" and the next three show dotted "2"s to trace. All other boxes are empty. D Count the number of animals in each picture and write the numbers in the small box. Figure Description: Five pictures of animals, each with an empty small box below it. Top left: one elephant. Top right: two camels. Bottom left: one lion. Bottom centre: two tigers. Bottom right: one horse. Printed page 22

Lesson 5: Two Little Hands A Look, listen and say.

Two Little Hands Figure Description: Four children are drawn beside the verses: a girl with hands on her chest, a boy walking, a girl standing with her arms out, and a boy with his head tilted to one side. Two little hands to Clap, clap, clap Two little legs go Tap, tap, tap Two little eyes are Open wide One little head goes Side to side. B Recite and act out the rhyme. Figure Description: Four small children stand in a row, alternating girl, boy, girl, boy, for reciting and acting out the rhyme. Printed page 23

Lesson 6 A Look at the picture. Say the names of the things that you see. Figure Description: A river scene. On the left, a bird's nest is in a tree and a bird sits on a branch; an eagle flies in the sky. A man in a red shirt holds a fishing net in the river, and a small child with a basket stands beside him. Frogs sit on lily pads at the water's edge, and houses stand on the right. B Look, listen and say. Figure Description: An egg, and an eagle. egg e Egg E eagle e Eagle E Figure Description: A fish, and a frog. fish f Fish F frog f Frog F Printed page 24


egg	e	Egg	E
eagle	e	Eagle	E


fish	f	Fish	F
frog	f	Frog	F

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