New Vocabularies: Mighty, Ocean, Humble, Eternity, Deeds, Eden, Heaven, Above, Alternate.

2.1 

Ask and answer the following questions in pairs.

1. How do you help your parents at home? Does that make you or them happy?
2. What do you usually do to make your brother/sister/friend happy  When they are sad? 
3. Do you feel happy when they become happy?
4. Have you ever been on a road trip to the hills?
5. Have you ever been to Cox’s Bazar or any other sea beaches? How did you feel then?

2.2

Now, listen to the poem “Little Things” carefully and fill up the missing words in the poem. মনোযোগ দিয়ে Little Things কবিতাটি শোনো এবং কবিতার খালিস্থানে Missing Words গুলো বসাও।

Little drops of water,

Little grains of ………………………………………………………….

Make the mighty ocean

And the pleasant………………………………………………………

Thus the……………………………………………………………. minutes,

Humble though they be,

………………………………………………………………The mighty ages

Of eternity.

Little deeds of……………………………………………………………….

Little words of…………………………………………………………………..

Make our……………………………………………………………….…An Eden,

Like the heaven above. 

2.3

 Let’s play the Listening Game, “Lend your ears” 

চলো খেলি  Listening Game, “Lend Your Ears”

2.4

Read the poem in pairs to find out the correct words/phrases from The box and write next to the sentences. You can choose more than one answer.

 জোড়ায় কবিতাটি পড়ো এবং নিচের সঠিক শব্দ/ শব্দগুচ্ছ খুঁজে বের করো। বাকোর পাশে তা লেখো। একের বেশী উত্তর তুমি পছন্দ (Chaase) করতে পারো।

1. What makes a land pleasant?…………………………….
2. What makes the earth an Eden?…………………………………..
3. How much water makes a mighty ocean?…………………………………….
4. What makes the earth heaven?.……………………………………

2.5

Read the note and answer the following questions in pairs. 

Note টি পড়ো এবং জোড়ায় নিজের প্রশ্নগুলোর উত্তর দাও।

Note

A poem is a kind of literary writing. It has some characteristics. Two of them are Stanza and Rhyming.

Stanza: A stanza is a group of lines in a poem. It consists of two or more lines arranged together as a unit. Most poems are divided into stanzas. A stanza in poem is like a paragraph in an essay.

Rhyming: The similar sounding words at the ends of the alternate lines of a poem.

Questions:

1. How many stanzas are there in the poem titled ‘Little things”? …………………………………………………………………………..
2. Match the rhyming words.

Can you identify the rhyming words in the following lines?

1. Little grains of sand And the pleasant land

1. ) Humble though they be of eternity
2. Little words of love Like the heaven above

2.6

Make a list of the “little things” you usually do and share it with the Class. 

 তুমি সাধারণত করে থাকো এমন ছোট ছোট কাজের একটি তালিকা তৈরি করো এবং শ্রেণিতে Share করো।

For example:

I wash my hands before I eat. I keep my room clean. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

2.7

In a group of 5-6, design a poster on ‘The little steps to keep the classroom neat and clean and present it to the class.

৫-৬ জনের একটি দলে একটি পোস্টার ডিজাইন করো। শ্রেণিকক্ষ পরিষ্কার-পরিচ্ছন্ন রাখার ছোট ছোট পদক্ষেপ।‘ পোস্টারটি শ্রেণিতে উপস্থাপন করো।