5th Class

LEARNING OBJECTIVES              This lesson will help you to:-

• understand the importance of vocabulary
• study  the applicant of vocabulary.
• examine various types of vocabulary.
• learn the importance of vocabulary.  

  QUICK CONCEPT REVIEW              Vocabulary is basically the set of words within a language that a person knows. Vocabulary generally develops with age and serves as a useful and important tool for communication.   Vocabulary is the study of:              The meanings of words              Many words have several meanings each, study the meanings of the words and the part of speech.              Homonyms are words that are both spelled and pronounced the same, but different meanings. Like : bank ( river bank): bank (place to deposit money), bat (thing we play with): bat (an animal).              Homographs (spelled the same) but have a different meaning.Like:             1.  bear more...

LEARNING OBJECTIVES              This lesson will help you to; comprehend a passage. answer the related questions. develop new vocabulary and grammar.     QUICK CONCEPT REVIEW              Explanations              The action or capability of understanding something, an idea, apprehending of realization of facts or fiction is known as comprehension.              Comprehension means 'understanding whatever you read and answering questions related to it. Answering question a given passage depends actually on the following abilities of a person:              (a) How good you are in understanding the meaning of the entire points?              (b) How good you are in finding the answer in the passage?             (c) command you have in English language.   Points to keep in mind while doing comprehension             

Read the given paragraph carefully and underline important points.             

Read the questions one by one and try to find the answers from the passage. more...

Real Life Example              Prepositions are the glue that hold sentences together. By explaining the relationships between the words in a sentence, they provide the reader with critical information about the sentence?s meaning. But you cannot easily conjure up simple images like an apple or a person running to remember what prepositions are. As, such it is very important for students to learn about prepositions in a manner that is fun and will stir their motivation to learn more.     LEARNING OBJECTIVES This lesson will help you to: learn about preposition. study different kinds of prepositions. identify words followed by prepositions.     QUICK CONCEPT REVIEW              Read the given sentence:              The river flows below the bridge.              Here the word 'below' shows the relation that the words ?river? and ?bridge? have with each other. You would also notice that it is placed before the noun -bridge.   more...

Real Life Example              The most basic is the coordinating conjunction which is seen in such English words as ?and?, ?but?, and ?or?. These join items, ideas, or parts of the sentences that are equal, e.g., ?Bob and Ted? or ?Carol and Alice?, but not 'Tom, Dick or Harry'.   Conjunctions BOY    SAT    (with) BEN But Or So And Then Both..... and Either......or Neither......nor     LEARNING OBJECTIVES                This lesson will help you to:

• understand conjunction more clearly.
• study various types of conjunction.
• study the application of conjunction.  

  QUICK CONCEPT REVIEW              These are joining words that are used to join words, group of words (phrases) and sentences together. You can think of them as connectors or a linking word that is used to join other words or sentences together. more...

Real Life Example      Adverbs are commonly used in day-to-day life along with nouns, pronouns, adjectives, etc. in communication.     Amazing Fact In Dutch adverbs have the basic form of their corresponding adjectives and are not inflected.    LEARNING OBJECTIVES   This lesson will help to:- study about adverbs. Learn to differentiate between adverbs and adjectives. Learn and understand about different types of adverbs.     QUICK CONCEPT REVIEW Adverbs: Adverbs are words that: Modify a verb. Example: He drove slowly.How did he drive?  Modify an adjective. Example: drove a very fast car. ? How fast was this car? Modify another adverb. Example: She moved quite slowly down the aisle. ? How slowly did she move?              Adverbs often tell when, where, why, or under what conditions something happens or happened. Thus adverbs describe verbs, adjectives and adverbs in terms of such qualities as time, frequency and manner.              more...

Learning Objectives This lesson will help you to: Understand various types of Verbs. Examine uses of Verbs. Study Modals Auxiliaries. Study application of Verbs, Modals Auxiliaries.     QUICK CONCEPT REVIEW Verbs are important elements of language and grammar. As our life is full of movements so verbs become an integral part of our speech, conversation and writing mode. Verbs determine the position and action of nouns and pronouns.     VERBS EXPRESS ACTIONS Verbs are doing words. A verb can express: A physical action (e.g. to swim, to write, to climb). A mental action (e.g. to think, to guess, to consider). A state of being (e.g. to be, to exist, to appear) The verbs which express a state of being are the ones which take a little practice to spot, but, actually, they are the most common. The most common verb is the verb to be. That's the one more...

Real-Life Example Be aware of instances where a pronoun might be ambiguous. For example, in the sentence ?When Rose, John and Derek played, Rose gave the ball to him, ?him? could refer either to John or Derek. In these cases, it?s better to use the regular noun to eliminate confusion.     LEARNING OBJECTIVES This lesson will help you to:- learn about different kinds of pronouns. know the correct usage of pronouns.     QUICK CONCEPT REVIEW Definition: Pronouns are parts of speech that replace other words. Usually nouns, in a sentence. They include words like 'I', 'we', 'it', 'myself' and 'you'. Using pronouns is beneficial because it makes a sentence sound less repetitive, and the pronouns may be shorter than the word to which they refer. Just look at this: _ _ _  "Simran bought an ice cream and Simran ate the ice cream because Simran was feeling hot." more...

Real-Life Example Shopping List- To help yourself understand what a concrete noun is, you can create a shopping list for the grocery store or mall. Each letter of the alphabet must be represented on the list and must include concrete nouns that can actually be found in the type of chosen.     LEARNING OBJECTIVES This lesson will help you to:-

• Understand nouns as a part of speech and its grammatical usage. 
• Analyse different kind of nouns and distinguishing factors between them.
• Develop the idea of using the nouns in proper context.  

  QUICK CONCEPT REVIEW Definition: A noun is the name of a person, place, or thing.     KINDS OF NOUN There are five different kinds of noun: (a)    Proper Noun: It is the name of particular person or place and is always written with a capital letter. Eg. more...

Real Life Example Games and Puzzles              Word puzzles and related activities can have adjective themes. Any group of words can be composed into common puzzles like crosswords and word finds for students who are studying vocabulary and may already be familiar with adjectives and their grammatical functions. Easier games, such as those involving simple spelling and letter jumbles, are an ideal way to introduce adjectives as a new concept. Games and puzzles help beginners understand spelling differences and improve their word recognition.     LEARNING OBJECTIVES This lesson will help you to:

• learn about Adjectives
• understand Determiners and Quantifiers.
• Identify usage of Adjectives.  

  QUICK CONCEPT REVIEW              Explanations: Adjectives are descriptive words that modify nouns pronouns. They usually come before the noun they and can be grouped together with several other adjectives to accurately describe something. Adjectives used in more...

Real Life Example              Tenses are very important in Grammar. They have different rules in different languages but form the most important part of the communication.     LEARNING OBJECTIVES This lesson will help you to:- 

• understand tenses.
• learn about different types of tenses and their importance.
• learn and understand about the correct tense.
• understand the basics of simple, perfect, continuous tenses.
• study about the meaning of aspects. v   understand about different aspects of tenses.  

  QUICK CONCEPT REVIEW              Tenses: Tenses come from a Latin word "tempus" which means time. Tenses are therefore an indication of time reference, often using three basic categories of:  "before now", i.e. the past:  "now", i.e. the present; and "after now", i.e. the future.              Tense differs from aspect in showing the time reference.     PRESENT TENSE              Simple Present              Simple Present Tense is used when an more...