Lesson 10 The Wonders of Nature
Mentor Note: Please send your mentee the entire lesson plan, except for this note. Please introduce/reinforce the words that are in bold. Please use these as spelling words too. As usual, ask them questions about the text.
The second exercise is a story writing exercise. We have purposely chosen random words, so the stories can be more creative. If you think your mentee will not be able to attempt writing a very short story, please ask him/ her to make sentences with the words.
Please decide if your mentee can do the grammar exercise in both present and past tense. If they are beginners they can stick to the present tense.
Enjoy the poem!
The Story of a Butterfly
A butterfly lays a tiny green egg on a leaf. The egg sticks to the leaf, even in the wind and rain. Inside the egg is a little caterpillar. After a week it begins to move, and splits the shell open. The tiny caterpillar is hungry. It needs to eat. It chews the fresh green leaf. Its body is soft and fuzzy. It has fourteen short, thick legs. A few days later the caterpillar has eaten so much, that it is too big for its skin. It wriggles and splits its tight skin open. It crawls out. It grows wider and longer. Three more times the caterpillar eats, grows fat and cracks open its skin.
Three weeks later, when the caterpillar is as big as your toe, it finally stops eating.
The caterpillar weaves a small, sticky bed on the back of a leaf. It clings to this bed and hangs with its head down. One last time, it sheds its skin.
But this time, the caterpillar’s new skin is different. It is tight and stiff.
It is now called a pupa.
Inside it, the caterpillar is changing. The pupa cracks open. Slowly, the wings unfold.
A butterfly is born.
Three weeks later, when the caterpillar is as big as your toe, it finally stops eating.
The caterpillar weaves a small, sticky bed on the back of a leaf. It clings to this bed and hangs with its head down. One last time, it sheds its skin.
But this time, the caterpillar’s new skin is different. It is tight and stiff.
It is now called a pupa.
Inside it, the caterpillar is changing. The pupa cracks open. Slowly, the wings unfold.
A butterfly is born.
Use the correct form of the verb given in brackets, to show the action in present and past tense:
1. Example: He —( to eat) an apple everyday.
He eats an apple everyday. Present
He ate an apple everyday. Past
2. Ram––(to write)in his notebook .
3. They —(to go) to school, but it — (to be) a holiday.
4. I —(to fall) down and —(to injure) my knee.
5. Maya—(to like) cake but her sister—(to prefer) ice cream.
6. The children —(to blow) bubbles in the air and —(to laugh)a lot.
7. In the show, the singer —(to sing) a sad song.
8. The doctor—(to give) me an injection.
9. I —(to tell) my friend to come to my house, but he —(to do) not come.
10. I — (to run) fast but —(to come) second in the annual race.
Poem: Rain! Rain!
Rain! Rain!
Sings the frog
To an empty sky
Rain! Rain!
Sings the frog
Because the land is dry.
Rain! Rain!
Sings the frog
And others join his call
Rain! Rain!
Sings the frog
As at last the raindrops fall.