English: Class 2 — Chapter 2: Picture Reading (Out! Out!)

• What do you see in the picture?
• How many children are there in the picture?
• What are the children doing?
• How are children having fun?
• What games do you play?

• Holiday Fun: Jeet and Babli play multiple games, including skipping rope and hide-and-seek.
• The Lost Ball: They decide to play 'bat and ball'. Jeet throws the ball, and Babli hits it. The ball flies into Mohit's locked garden and is lost, causing the game to stop.
• Creative Solution: Babli knows how to make a homemade ball. She gathers rags, paper, wool, and string to roll and tie a new ball together.
• The Exciting Finish: The game resumes. Babli throws the new ball, and Jeet hits it so hard that the ball bursts and scatters in the air. Babli catches a flying piece of rag and happily shouts, "OUT! OUT!"

• skipped: Jumped over a rope repeatedly.
• threw: Propelled something through the air with force.
• courtyard: An open area of ground surrounded by walls or buildings.
• gathered: Brought together from different places.
• brought: Took or carried along to a place.
• picked: Chose or took up.

Practice reading these common words: This, a, how, also, they, after, and, of.

This section introduces the short vowel sound 'e' as in pen. Notice the use of the article an before words starting with the vowel 'e'.

• Using 'an': an egg, an engine, an elephant
• Using 'a': a pen, a pencil, a bell, a kettle, a hen, a well

• up × down
• in × out
• open × close
• fat × thin
• hot × cold
• small × big

Learn how to combine two sentences using the conjunction and.

• Example 1: "Suresh went to school." + "Gopal went to school." → Suresh and Gopal went to school.
• Example 2: "I like to eat mangoes." + "I like to eat grapes." → I like to eat mangoes and grapes.
• Example 3: "The cat sat on the mat." + "The dog sat on the mat." → The cat and the dog sat on the mat.