UNIT 3 • GOING PLACES

Come Back Soon

Class 2 • Mridang • Chapter 1

📖 Let us Read • Recite

Take a bus
Or take a train,
Take a boat
Or take a plane,

Take a taxi,
Take a car,
Maybe near
Or maybe far,

Take a rocket
To the moon,
But be sure
To come back soon.

👀 Sight Words

take is the or two may be

📚 New Words

train boat plane taxi near rocket

🗣️ Let us Speak

1 Have you ever travelled by a bus or a train?

2 Where did you go?

3 What did you eat on the way?

4 What did you see from the window?

5 Who else went with you?

6 Did you have fun? Share it with the class.

🎧 Let us Listen

A. Listen to your teacher and read out a poem.

Everybody stop,
Everybody stand,
Everybody sit,
and raise your hand.

Everybody jump,
Everybody run,
Everybody stop,
Oh! What fun.

🎯 Let us Do

🎵 Action Poem Activity

Listen to the words and do the action. Click the action buttons below to practise.

🛑
stop

🧍
stand

🪑
sit

✋
raise your hand

🦘
jump

🏃
run

🎨 Let us Draw

A. Draw the vehicle that you like the most.

✏️ Draw your favourite vehicle here

The vehicle may be imaginary or real. The vehicle may have wheels or wings.

✍️ Let us Write • Make a List

Sort out the different means of transport depending on the surface they move on.

The first one has been done for you.

bus car aeroplane train jeep ship boat bicycle helicopter truck yacht cart raft taxi tractor

🚗 Land

Bus __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________

✈️ Air

__________ __________ __________ __________

🚢 Water

__________ __________ __________ __________ __________

🔤 Vowel Sound ‘u’

Read the words below each picture.

an umbrella short ‘u’ sound

a truck short ‘u’ sound

a duck short ‘u’ sound

a jug short ‘u’ sound

a mug short ‘u’ sound

a cup short ‘u’ sound

a bus short ‘u’ sound

a rug short ‘u’ sound

a hut short ‘u’ sound

Notice: The vowel sound is ‘u’ as in hut. The word “an” occurs before the word “umbrella” beginning with ‘u’ in the table.

📚 Interactive Vocabulary

Click any highlighted English word to see its phonics, pronunciation, Hindi meaning and an easy sentence.

🇬🇧 English Summary

“Come Back Soon” is a short poem about different ways of travelling.

The poem mentions a bus, train, boat, plane, taxi, car and rocket.

It says that we may travel near or far and even imagine travelling to the moon.

At the end, the poem reminds the traveller to come back soon.

The chapter also encourages children to talk about their travel experiences, listen and recite an action poem, draw a favourite vehicle, and classify vehicles according to whether they move on land, in air or on water.

The phonics section introduces the vowel sound ‘u’ as in hut.

🇮🇳 हिंदी सारांश

“Come Back Soon” एक छोटी कविता है, जिसमें यात्रा करने के अलग-अलग साधनों के बारे में बताया गया है।

कविता में बस, ट्रेन, नाव, हवाई जहाज, टैक्सी, कार और रॉकेट का उल्लेख है।

इसमें बताया गया है कि हम पास या दूर किसी स्थान की यात्रा कर सकते हैं और कल्पना में चाँद तक भी जा सकते हैं।

कविता के अंत में यात्री से जल्दी वापस आने के लिए कहा गया है।

अध्याय में बच्चों को अपनी यात्रा के अनुभवों के बारे में बोलने, कविता सुनने और बोलने, अपनी पसंद का वाहन बनाने तथा वाहनों को भूमि, वायु और जल के आधार पर वर्गीकृत करने का अवसर मिलता है।

अंत में ‘u’ vowel sound को hut के उदाहरण के साथ समझाया गया है।

CLASS 2 • MRIDANG UNIT 3 • GOING PLACES CHAPTER 1 • COME BACK SOON