Please send the mentees the text and ask them questions related to the theme of the week: Cleanliness.
You can also ask them to write a few lines on this topic.
OUR INDIA, CLEAN INDIA In a village there were three best friends – Mohan, Latif and Arjun. They studied in the same school. All the three were good in their studies. They all liked the school. It was the place where they all met. They never missed school. Once Arjun didn’t come to school for five days. Latif and Mohan were worried. They decided to visit Arjun. They were shocked to see the place where he lived. It was very filthy. There was stagnant water on the roads where they saw mosquitoes breeding. Waste was thrown all around. When they reached Arjun’s house they saw that he was down with very high fever. His mother told them that he had malaria. She was sobbing. Arjun looked very pale and tired. He could hardly talk. Malaria is a disease that is spread by mosquitoes. It affects the liver and blood cells. The next day the boys told their classmates about Arjun. They decided to do something for their friend. So they made up their minds to clean the place during the weekend. So the students gathered in the street and divided themselves into small groups and started cleaning the place. They swept the roads, collected the waste and threw it in dustbins. They also cleaned the dirty water. Thus the mosquitoes became fewer. They continued the cleaning process every week. This was an eye opener for the people staying around. They slowly started participating in the cleaning spree. All were happy and the place became clean and tidy. More people wanted to clean their streets also. Hence small groups were formed and more places were cleaned. Very few people fell sick. The principal appreciated the children in the assembly. The district collector too appreciated the children for making the people aware. The cleaning effort of the people of the village was shown on TV. Many states also adopted the cleaning movement. Slowly it became a national movement. Thus a small movement that started in a small village spread to the whole country. Finally even the President declared that Our India is a Clean India. Moral: if we want our country to be a clean and healthy place to live we should first keep our house and surroundings clean.
Grammar of the week:
Articles: a, an and the.
A is an indefinite article as in ‘ I want an apple.’
The is a definite article as in ‘I want the red apple.’
I saw a girl. ( any girl)
I saw the girl in a school uniform.
( a particular girl)
Mrs. S. is a teacher.
I went to meet the English teacher.
When do you use ‘a’ and when do you use ‘an?’
‘A’ becomes ‘an’ when the word that follows begins with a vowel ( a-e-i-o-u)
I saw a crow.
I saw an owl.
Have them make sentences with ‘eye’ ‘apple’ ‘elephant’ ‘orange’ and ‘umbrella’ following the indefinite article.
You can take the lesson a step further by telling them that an ‘h’ that is silent is also preceded by an ‘an.’
Examples: an honest boy or she came an hour late.
The quote of the week: Cleanliness is next to Godliness—– Mahatma Gandhi.