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1 copyright Pearson Education 2 copyright Pearson Education Christian Andersen was born into a very poor family in Den-mark. He was not a very bright student and was often made fun of because he looked different. But that never stopped him from be-coming one of the greatest story-teller of all Most famous fairy talesThe Little MermaidThe Ugly DuckingThumbelinaThe emperor s new clothesThe Princess and The PeaThe Snow QueenCharles Perrault was born into wealthy French Fam-ily. He started writing fairy tales at the age of 67, after he lost his job, and published his collection under the subtitle: Tales from Mother most famous fairy talesCinderellaSleeping BeautyLittle Red Riding HoodPuss-in-BootsJacob and Welhelm Grimm were two german brothers who are best known for pub-lishing a collection of popular fairy tales. They too came from a very poor family and are popularly known as the Brothers Grimm. They also wrote their own version of many of Perrault s fairy tales like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Little Red Riding most famous fairy talesSnow White and the Seven DwarfsRumpelstiltskinHansel and GretelKNOW WITH.

2 2 April, the birth date of Hans Christian Andersen, is celebrated every year as International Children s Book SKILLSCLASS 3 ONCE UPON A TIMESHEET 1 NAME _____ DATE _____3 copyright Pearson Education WITH ..An artist is a person who draws and paints. An artiste is a singer or a dancer. Sometimes when we talk about a group of things, We use a collective noun for it. A collective noun can be described as the name given to a number (collection) of persons or things taken together and spoken of as a in the blanks with the corrective nounA. Animal collective of shoal or a _____of colony or an _____of _____of _____ of _____of _____of _____of monkeysB. People Collective Nouns1. A group of people watching a performance _____2. A group of artistes, dancers and acrobats_____3. A group of actors _____4. A group of people at a church or for a religious purpose_____5. A group of singers in a church _____6.

3 A group of sailors on a ship _____ ARMY, AUDIENCE, LIBRARY, CREW, CONGREGATION, FLEET, TEAM, GAGGLE, QUIVER, SET, DECK, PACK, TROOP, SWARM, SCHOOL, TROUPE, PRIDE CHOIR, CLUTCH, COMPANY, BOUQUET, STRINGC. Things Collective _____ of _____ of _____ of _____of _____ of _____ of _____ of _____ of toolsLIFE SKILLSCLASS 3 COLLECTIVE NOUNSSHEET 2 NAME _____ DATE _____4 copyright Pearson Education is an interesting quiz. The answer to the first question starts with A the second with B and so In Wonderland, she met strange creatures like the Mad Halter and the Cheshire Cat A_____2. A Lovely story about the life of a beautiful horse B _____ B _____3. This comic character is a friendly ghost C_____4. He was the eldest son of King Dhritharastra. D _____5. She is the author of the Noddy series books E _____ B _____6. The princess kissed this animal and it turned into a handsome prince F _____7. He was a bad-tempered dwarf.

4 G _____8. His best friends are Ron and Hermione H _____ P _____9. She is a robot and Richie Rich s maid I _____10. A book about a little boy named Mowgli (the) J _____ B _____KNOW WITH ..We must always take care of our books,. When we are putting a book down we should put a bookmark and close the book. Never fold a corner of the page or turn the open book SKILLSCLASS 3A, B, C, QUIZSHEET 3 NAME _____ DATE _____5 copyright Pearson Education WITH ..The Main characters in a fable are usually animals, through whom we learn the difference between right and wrong, and also the values of friendship, knowl-edge, confidence and hard of us have heard or read fables. A fable is a story with a moral. Let us read Aesops Fables: Aesop was a slave who lived in Ancient Greece many years be-fore the birth of Jesus Christ. He is credited with having written these fables while he was in : Panchatantra is a collection of stories in five volumes, written in Sanskrit by Vishnu Sharma.

5 Panchatantra means five doctrines of conduct . A few of the fables in the Panchatantra are common to those in Aesop s Tales: The Jataka Tales is a collection of some 550 short stories of wis-dom and morals. In each of the stories, Lord Buddha appears as a creature in one of his former lives- sometimes as an animal and sometimes as a The Ant the Grasshoppera. If you do wrong you will always get caught2. The Boy Who Cried Wolfb. If you are too greedy you will lose it all3. The Crow and the Pitcherc. Don t hate something just because you cannot get it4. The fox and the Grapesd. Never put off till tomorrow what you do today5. The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggse. Where there is a will there is a way6. The Tortoise and the Haref. Once you tell a lie people will never believe you7. The Wolf in Sheep s Clothingg. Slow and steady wins the raceMatch the Fable with the Moral LIFE SKILLSCLASS 3 FABLESSHEET 4 NAME _____ DATE _____6 copyright Pearson Education WITH.

6 Do we sit in a chair or on a chair? Many of us are confused. Don t be, the solution is simple. If the chair has arms then you sit in the chair. However, if the chair does not hane arms, then you sit on it. If we do not know the nature of the chair being spoken about, then it is safe to use in .Words like on in and at link the noun or pronouon in a sentence with the other words. These words are called prepositions. They tell us the position of the noun or Fill in the blanks using the correct The thief escaped by jumping _____a window and _____a waiting Every morning I take the bus _____school3. My father was talking _____his friend _____the We eat our meals _____the dining The gymnast jumped _____the ring of reach his office my father travels _____ bus to the ,. THROUGH, INTO, OUT OF;BY, AT, TO, ONB. Here s a fun game. Follow the in-structions to find the The first two letters of the name of our country give you the opposite of out _____2.

7 Change one letter where your mother bakes cakes to get the prepo-sition, meaning beyond _____3. This preposition is usually the last word in a fairy tale _____4. A word that sounds the same as this preposition means to purpose something. _____5. Australia is also known as _____ Under. The blank is a preposition meaning not up .LIFE SKILLSCLASS 3 FUN WITH PREPOSITIONSSHEET 5 NAME _____ DATE _____7 copyright Pearson Education WITH ..Many of us say return back. This is incorrect. The word return means to give back. If you say return back then you are actually saying to give back back. Remember never to use the word back with return. It is the same with the word comprises which means consists of. Hence, we never use the world of after the word of these sentences is grammatically incorrect. Write the correct sentence in the space Please repeat again what you said_____2. Her Dress is made from When you are coming to my house?

8 _____4. He told to me that he will be absent I asked him where is he In my opinion none of the two deserves to win_____7. He likes playing above all This book comprises of 68 I rang the bell two No one said nothing when he started to SKILLSCLASS 3 COMMON ERRORS WHILE SPEAKINGSHEET 6 NAME _____ DATE _____