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Speaking

Think and Act

a. Do you help your parents at home and teachers at school? How do
you help them?
b. You can do many things independently. Time has taught you to be
able to do. Make a list of any three things which you can do
yourself.
i. ……………………………
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ii. ……………………………
iii. …………………………..

Study Time

Read what Sharada has to say about her sister, Manju and mark her ability
and inability.
Manju, my sister, grew from not-
being-able to now-she-can. When
she was very little, she was too
scared to go down the stairs.
Time went by, and now she can.
When she was little, she couldn’t
pour milk on her cereal bowl
without spilling. Time passed,
and now she is able to do so. She
once wasn’t able to colour inside
the lines but now she can. She
wasn’t able to make a call, and
now she can do video calls. Manju
couldn’t solve even the simplest
problems of Mathematics at

primary level but now she can solve her mathematical problems herself.
Once my head was too high for her, now she can rest her head on it. What
she can’t do yet is stay away from me. I am sure with the passage of time
she will be able to do that too.

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