Sl. No | Chapter title | Incidences of grammar | Grammar taught | Classes | Part of textbook assignment | Total classes |
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1 | Mongoose | • Mongooses like to hunt together • without getting hurt themselves | • Noun + Regular vs irregular plural noun | 1 | No | 3 |
• they travel in groups of about twenty to look for beetles | • Pronoun (possessive, reflexive, demonstrative, interrogative, relative and indefinite) • Person | 2 | No | |||
2 | The riddle master | • Every evening children sit round Budhu | • Simple present | 3 | No | 6 |
• He has gone to herd the alligator | • Present perfect + Past perfect | |||||
• Budhu Hadam came out of his room | • Simple past | |||||
• They were getting ready for the test | • Past continuous + Present continuous | |||||
• All the boys, who had been listening attentively, laughed at once | • Past perfect continuous + Present perfect continuous | |||||
• Is it an animal? | • Question formation | 1 | Yes | |||
• He is very good at riddles • Is it a thing used by a businessman? | • Preposition (time, place, direction, and position) | 2 | Yes | |||
3 | A slave’s riddle | • His master’s children liked him very much • He was also a very good singer • Jim was really very happy • Read paragraph-4 silently | • Adverb (manner, time, place, frequency and degree) | 3 | No | 3 |
4 | Math magic | • The three persons were quarrelling because they could not divide • I can count them correctly | • Modals (ability, permission/request, advice and possibility/deduction) | 2 | No | 4 |
• He was happy too. But the happiest man was the young math-man | • Adjective and Degrees of adjective + Regular vs irregular adjectives | 2 | No | |||
5 | Six wise men | • Look! One of us is missing | • Interjection | 1 | No | 3 |
• He gave a rap on the second man's head and counted | • Apostrophe | 1 | No | |||
• Let's make sure | • Contractions | 1 | No |