2nd Class

Remember There are double contractions too! For example she'd've for she would have.     LERANING OBJECTIVES This lesson will help you to ·     

• learn about contractions ·     
• use correct form of contractions in your writing
• identify the contractions  

  QUICK CONCEPT REVIEW                 Contractions are words that are put together to form a smaller word. But they mean the same; the meaning of the two words does not change. In contractions an apostrophe takes place of the missing letter. Like for example; should have is contracted to should've. The lion should have gone on a prowl can also be written as the lion should've gone on a prowl.                                                For example: I am thinking can also be written as I'm thinking.   more...

Remember Sometimes you need to revise a sentence to make sure that you have used the correct conjunction.   Suggested activity Make flashcards of different connecting words. Write two sentences and try to connect them through the connecting words.     LEARNING OBJECTIVES         This lesson will help you to 

• learn about conjunctions.
• use conjunctions to join two or more words or sentences.  

  QUICK CONCEPT REVIEW   Conjunctions are also called connecting words. We use Conjunctions to join words and sentences to make a meaning out of them. Conjunctions do not have any other purpose than joining the words and sentences. And, or, but, when, before, while, and after are words that are used to join sentences. For example: And is used when we want to tell more. And is used when we want to express similar ideas. For example; I can more...

Amazing facts No articles is used before an uncountable noun. Uncountable nouns are nouns that cannot be counted like sand, milk, sugar. Though we can say a glass of milk. We cannot say a milk.     LEARNING OBJECTIVES This lesson will help you to · 

• learn articles 
• use articles to make proper sentences

  Quick Concept Review As you know there are 26 alphabets in English. Out of them there are only five vowels, rest all are consonants. The five vowels are. a e, i, o, u. We use I articles such as a', an' or 'the. A is used before the words that begin with a consonant sound. For example a boy, a girl, a cup. A clock, a butterfly, a star.                   more...

Playtime You can make placards of different position and hide different things places. One of you will become the den who will look for things at places you show placards for example you can hide an apple in a vase and can show ?in? the ?denner? will look for things fix up any 10-20 things where you will hide things.     LEARNING OBJECTIVES This lesson will help you to 

• learn the correct way to use prepositions.
• identify prepositions  

  QUICK CONCEPT REVIEW Prepositions are also known as Where words. They tell us about the position and time of Of person or a thing. Here are some common prepositions. At is used for small towns, as well as time For example I will leave at 5 in the evening Words like on, at, by, for, past tell us about time For example: He more...

Remember When we add 'ly' to a word it becomes an adverb. For example slow becomes slowly.     Amazing fact Though most of the adverbs end with a 'ly' but there are some that do not end with 'ly' for example today     LEARNING OBJECTIVES This lesson will help you to

• understand adverbs ·     
• use adverbs before verbs and adjectives  

  QUICK CONCEPT REVIEW Adverbs are words that tell us something more about a verb or an adjective. Adverbs give us more information about a word and also change it slightly. For example when we say that a boy suddenly started running. The word suddenly tells us how the boy started running. Adverbs answer the following questions ·     

• How?     
• When?      
• Where?     
• Why?    
• How much?

Adverbs of How tell us more...

Remember Adjectives in comparative degree also use or less before them. Like beautiful becomes more beautiful.     LEARNING OBJECTIVES This lesson will help you to 

• learn describing words ·        
• use adjectives for nouns and pronouns  

  DEFNITION Adjectives are describing words. They help in Knowing more about a noun. Words such as fat, beautiful, good, bad tell us more about any noun or a pronoun.     QUICK CONCEPT REVIEW We all know that adjectives are describing words. A word that tells us more about a noun or a pronoun is called adjective. For example in the sentence A thin Man, the word thin tells more about that man apart from the fact that he is a man. Take another example where we see a cat, we say that the cat is cute, the word cute tells us more about that cat or we more...

Real life example

• If you look around you will see people doing different kinds of work, for example your mom is cooking food. Here cooking is a verb as it tells us about what your mom is doing.
• Let us look at another example
• The dog is sleeping
• Here sleeping is a verb as it tells us that the dog is sleeping.  

  LEARNING OBJECTIVES This lesson will help you to

• learn what are verbs 
• recognize different types of verbs
• Learn to use verbs in your sentence making.  

  DEFINITION The words that tell us about an action or words that show that some work is being done are called action words, doing words or Verbs. Dance, paint, smile or read, they all show that some action is being done. more...

Remember The name of the object or the subject has to be mentioned first, so that the reader has an idea about what you are talking about.     LEARNING OBJECTIVES This lesson will help you to 

• understand pronouns.
• use pronouns in place of nouns 
• make better sentences.

  QUICK CONCEPT REVIEW We all know that pronouns are words that are used in place of naming words. For example: I, She, He, You, are used for one person whereas. We. They, and You are used for more than one person. It is used for animals, places and things. There are:   Possessive pronouns: words used in place of nouns to show that something belongs to someone are called possessive pronouns. Yours, mine, theirs, hers more...

Think The nouns that do not denote either female or male gender are called neuter gender. For example shoe,     LEARNING OBJECTIVES This lesson will help you to ·  

• Understand nouns as naming words. 
• Understand different types of nouns.  

  QUICK CONCEPT REVIEW Nouns are naming words. The name of a person place or thing is called a noun. Everything around us has a name like the Chair you sit upon, or a place that you go to study, is known as a school.          Common Nouns: names given to common things around you like dog, cat, .school, mat are called common nouns.   Proper Nouns: Names given to people, more...