English for class 2 ( Mridang ) Solutions

Let us Speak

(A) Listen to the sounds that your teacher will share on the mobile. Can you identify the sounds?
Ans: Do yourself.

(B) Answer the Questions.

Teacher: If you were a cat, what would you do?
Child 1: I would run after a mouse.
Child 2: I would drink milk.
Child 3: I would say ‘meow’.
Teacher: If you meet an elephant, what would you say?
Child 1: I would say _ _ _
Child 2: I would say _ _ _
Child 3: I would say _ _ _
Ans: 
Teacher: If you were a cat, what would you do?     
Child 1: I would run after a mouse.
Child 2: I would drink milk.
Child 3: I would say ‘meow’.
Teacher: If you meet an elephant, what would you say?
Child 1: I would say, “Hello, Mr. Elephant!”
Child 2: I would say, “You’re so big and strong!”
Child 3: I would say, “Can we be friends?”

(C) Say the words

Now make sentences with these words. One has been done for you.
Monkeys climb trees.
Ans: 
1. Monkeys climb trees.
2. Frogs leap from lily pad to lily pad.
3. Fish swim in the deep blue ocean.
4. Horses trot gracefully in the meadow.
5. Birds fly in the sky.

Let us write

(A) What can you do like any animal or bird?

I can _______ like a _______ .
Ans: I can swim like a fish.

(B) Name any two animals or birds other than fish that can swim?
1. _______ 2. _______
Ans: 1. Dolphin, 2. Duck

(C) Name any two animals that live on trees?
1. _______ 2. _______
Ans: 1. Monkey, 2. Squirrel

(D) Answer the following
Q1: What can the child in the poem do?
Ans: The child can walk like a duck.

Q2: The child in the poem can do so many things. Which of them (any two) do you like the most?
Ans: I like to leap like a lamb and trot like a horse the most.

Picture Reading

Q1: What do you see in the picture? Talk about it.
Q2: Write a few sentences about the picture.
Ans: Do it yourself.

Let us think

A. Match the animals to their actions.
Ans: 

Q1: What do you see?
Ans: We see children.

Q2: How many children are there in the picture?
Ans: There are about 17 children in the picture.

Q3: What are the children doing?
Ans: The children are playing

Q4: How are children having fun?
Ans: The children are having fun by playing different games.

Q5: What games do you play?
Ans: We play cricket and football.

Let’ us Speak

A. Answer the following questions.

Q1: What games do you like to play with your friends?
Ans: I like to play cricket and football with my friends.

Q2: Have you played ‘bat and ball’?
Ans: Yes, I have.

Q3: Babli made a ball using a few rags, paper, wool and string. Have you tried to play a game using the things around you? What did you play? Name the things that you use to play. Talk about it in the class.
Ans: Yes, I have, I played tippu using the ball made by paper, rags and string.

Q4: Read pages 10 – 11 of the story again and number the following sentences in their correct order.

(i) Babli hit the ball.
Ans: (3)

(ii) Jeet threw the ball.
Ans: (2)

(iii) The ball went into Mohit’s garden.
Ans: (4)

(iv) Jeet got ready to throw the ball.
Ans: (1)

(v) They lost the ball.
Ans: (5)

Let’s Write

A. Read the story ‘OUT! OUT!’ again and fill in the blanks.

Q1: Write the names of the children in the story.
Ans: Jeet, Babli, Mohit

Q2: Write the items that the children used to make a ball.
Ans: Rags, paper wool

B. Write the opposites of the following words. One has been done for you.

Ans:
1. Up – down
2. in – out
3. open – close
4. fat – slim
5. hot – cold
6. small – big

C. Join the sentences using ‘and’. Write it in the given space. One has been done for you.

Q1: Suresh went to school.
Gopal went to school.
Ans: Suresh and Gopal went to school.

Q2: I like to eat mangoes.
I like to eat grapes.
Ans: I like to eat mangoes and grapes.

Q3: The cat sat on the mat.
The dog sat on the mat
Ans: The cat and dog sat on the mat.

Q4: This ball has yellow dots on it.
This ball also has green dots on it.
Ans: The ball has yellow and green dots on it.

Q5: There are tables in my classroom.
There are chairs in my classroom.
Ans: There are tables and chairs in my classroom.

Share with the Class

Q1: Have you seen a bicycle?
Ans: Yes I have seen a bicycle.

Q2: Where have you seen it?
Ans: I saw it my home.

Q3: What colour is it?
Ans: It is red in colour.

Q4: Who generally rides it?
Ans: My elder sister generally rides it.

Q5: Have you seen a tricycle?
Ans: Yes I’ve seen a tricycle.

Q6: Have you seen a wheelchair?
Ans: Yes I’ve seen a wheelchair.

Let’s Listen

A. Listen to the sounds that your teacher has recorded on the mobile. Can you identify the sounds of different bells?
Ans: Do it yourself

A. Write the names of the parts of the bicycle in the given boxes. You may use the help box for selecting names.

Ans: 

Let us think

A. Imagine that you have a magic bicycle. Draw it in the box.
Ans: Do yourself.

Let us Write

A. Complete the following sentences.

Q1: The child in the poem has a ______________bicycle.
Ans: The child in the poem has a red bicycle.

Q2: The sound of the _ makes people move aside.
Ans: The sound of the bell makes people move aside.

Q3: The __ and __ are black.
Ans: The tyres and pedals are black.

B. Put a True for the correct sentences and a False for the incorrect sentences.

Q1: The child has a blue bicycle.
Ans: False

Q2: The bell goes trin… trin… trin.
Ans: True

Q3: The child’s bicycle is always fast.
Ans: False

Q4: The child needs some water to keep the bicycle moving.
Ans: False

Q5: The child puts on a little helmet while riding the bicycle ( )
Ans: True