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Listen and Learn • Communication Skills

• Listening to a poem for specific details
A. Your teacher will read the poem given in the listening text. Listen to it carefully and
circle the answers to the following questions.

1. Which meal does the giant come for? Dinner/Breakfast

2. How does he eat cornflakes? With a spoon/Spade

3. What is the ‘lorry load’ of eatables? Toast and marmalade/Sandwiches

4. In what container does the giant fill tea? Kettle/Dustbin

5. How does he drink it? In a gulp/Slowly

6. What is left for the poet? Lot of food/Mess

• Communication Skills
Converse and Connect • Collaboration
• Creativity
• Speaking about watermelons and living alone on an island, like a character in the story
A. Work with your partner. Imagine you are living all alone on the island and growing
watermelons. A fisherman talks to you like the fishermen who spoke to Mai An
Tiem. Talk about how you live there, what you eat, how you grow watermelons and

all the goodness of the new fruit. Use your own expressions to make it interesting.
Read the conversation given below.

B. Nidhi from the mainland and Nupur from the island meet one day. They have the
following conversation.

Hello, may I know who you I am . I live on the .
are? What are you doing here? Can you tell me about this new kind of
fruit that I can see growing here?

Hi, I am Nupur.
I live .
What about you? Sure.

Fill in the missing details and continue your conversation. Use ideas from the story
to do so.

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