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For beginners
Proclamation
Zahid Notes aims to provide sound educational base to the beginners
in order to make them prepared for an outstanding performance in
their primary schooling. We claim an inspiring atmosphere with
tremendous focus on creativity and innovation. In this regard, we plan
to take different initiatives to meet the level of quality education which
is inevitable for a brilliant learning root of the students.
So, the primary focus of this book remains to make the students
speak English and Urdu just to learn how to speak various words with
correct pronunciation. This speaking practice will surely help them
improve their reading skills in their primary schooling. It is hoped that
this handbook will serve to the purpose of its being part of our
curriculum.
Director P & R
Miss Huma Zahid
Note for the Teacher
This booklet is a limited source of knowledge. This is for the fact that
there are syllabus limitations which hindered the expansions of
knowledge in this booklet. So, this booklet is to serve only as a
guideline for the teacher in order to find there track of teaching and to
make them target oriented.
Saif Ullah
Director
Contents
1. Myself ......................................................................................................................................... 5
2. Pakistan...................................................................................................................................... 6
3. Daily Life..................................................................................................................................... 7
4. Shopping .................................................................................................................................... 8
5. Transport .................................................................................................................................... 9
6. Stars and Planets ................................................................................................................... 10
7. The Seasons and the Time ................................................................................................... 11
8. Sports and Games .................................................................................................................. 12
9. Birds and Animals ................................................................................................................... 13
10. Body Parts ............................................................................................................................. 17
11. Professions ............................................................................................................................ 19
12. History of Pakistan................................................................................................................ 20
13. Eating ..................................................................................................................................... 21
14. Fruits and Vegetables .......................................................................................................... 22
15. Various Concepts ................................................................................................................. 25
17. Parts of Body ......................................................................................................................... 36
18. Computer ............................................................................................................................... 37
19. Miscellaneous ....................................................................................................................... 38
20. Allah Almighty (Urdu) ........................................................................................................... 46
21. Hazrat Muhammad SAW(Urdu) ......................................................................................... 47
22. The Holy Quran (Urdu) ........................................................................................................ 48
23. Islam (Urdu) ........................................................................................................................... 49
24. The Angels (Urdu) ................................................................................................................ 50
25. Meeting Manners (Urdu)...................................................................................................... 51
26. Eating Etiquettes (Urdu) ...................................................................................................... 52
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1. Myself
Q.1. Who are you?
2. Pakistan
3. Daily Life
4. Shopping
5. Transport
Paste a picture of
football
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Names of Birds
These are Pakistani birds. The names of these birds are part of are
included targets of annual assessment of the students. So, teachers
may help the students learn about these birds through different
activities.
Names of Animals
These are Pakistani animals. Teachers may help the students learn
about these animals through different activities.
11. Professions
13. Eating
Q.1. With which hand do we eat food?
Ans: We eat food with right hand.
Q.2. How should we eat food?
Ans: We should eat food slowly.
Q.3. What is called the food that we eat in the morning.
Q.4. It is called breakfast.
Q.5. What is called the food that we eat in the noon.
Ans: It is called lunch.
Q.6. Which type of food should we eat?
Ans: We should eat healthful and fresh food.
Q.7. Name four fast food items. Paste a picture of one
fast food item
Ans: Burger, pizza, shwarma, Sandwich
Q.8. Name some soft drinks.
Ans: Pepsi, Coca Cola, Mirinda, 7 up, Dew, Sprite
Q.9. What do we make omelet with?
Ans: We make omelet with egg.
Q.10. Which is your favourite food?
Ans: ______________________is my favourite food.
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Q.10. What are called the fruits that have sour taste?
Names of Fruits
Teachers may help the students learn these about these fruits through different
activities like showing the students model of fruits and asking them to tell their
names, making the students recognize the starting sounds of every fruit name
etc.
Names of Vegetables
Teacher may help the student cut and paste the photos of various pictures in the
boxes below. Teacher may help the student recognize the pictures of various
vegetables from the wall chart in the room.
2. Write „B‟ below the big object and „S‟ below the small object.
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2. Long/Short
Long Arrow Short Arrow
Activity-1
Teacher will show the students ropes of various lengths and the
students will be asked to pick up the long rope and the short rope.
Activity-2
Teacher will make the children understand the concept of long and
short objects even if they are twisted or folded. For example, teacher
will fold a long rope to make it short in volume; another short rope
which will look long in comparison to the former will be placed beside
it. The students will be asked to tell which rope is the long and which
rope is the short.
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3. More/Less
More Ants Less Ants
More Milk
Less Milk
Note:
Activity-1
Teacher will divide the students into two groups and the students,
one by one, will be asked to tell which group contains more students.
Activity-2
Two water pots, half filled with water, will be brought in front of the
kids. One pot should have wider radius than the other. The level of
water should be equal in the both of the pots. As all of us know well,
the pot with wider radius will contain more water in it. So, the students
will be asked to tell which pot contains more water and which pot
contains less water. After this activity, the teacher will explain to the
students how a pot with wider radius can contain more liquid in it. For
this purpose, the teacher may engage the students in the following
activity.
Activity-3
The teacher will fill equal water in two glasses of equal size and
radius. The water of one glass will be poured in one pot and the water
of the second glass will be poured into other glass. The students will
be asked to observe the level of the surface of water in both of the
pots. Which pot has lower level of water? The teacher will explain to
the students.
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4.Living/Non-living Things
Living Things
Non-living Things
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Activity-1
Teacher will show the some flash cards with colourful pictures one by
one. The students will be asked to recognize the object in the picture
and tell if it is living or non-living thing.
Activity-2
Activity-3
The teacher calls the names of various objects and for every name,
the students will say „Living‟ or „Non-living‟ aloud. At the end, the
teacher will tell the students that every bird, plant and animal is living
thing.
Activity-4
Living Things:
Non-living Things
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5. Hot/Cold
Activity-1
Teacher will explain the concept of hot and cold to the students. Then
teacher will show the students some flash illustrations and will ask the
students to tell if the object in the illustration was hot or cold.
Activity-2
A short movie clip will be shown to the students and amidst the clip, a
short question answer session will be held. As the character in the
clip will touch different objects, the students will guess from his/her
reaction if the object being touched is hot or cold. Similarly, when the
actor in the movie enjoys various foods, the students will guess the
temperature of the object being eaten from his/her reaction and from
the type of food being eaten as well.
Activity-3
6. Neat/Dirty
Neat Shirt Dirty Shirt
Note:
Teacher will help the student understand the concepts of dirty and
neat through broad explanation with examples from daily life.
Activity-1
A student will be asked to point out the students with dirty uniforms
and they will be asked to come to the school in neat uniforms.
Activity-2
Teacher will give the students some pictures of babies. The students
will be asked to separate the pictures of dirty and neat babies.
Activity-3
Students are engaged in making their room neater and clean, while
the teacher will tell the students the importance of cleanliness in
Islam.
Activity-4
Students will be made watch a short video clip showing how dirty
environment affects our health.
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7. Open/Closed
Closed Door Opened Door
Note:
The teacher will give comprehensive understanding of opened and
closed objects through examples. The teacher will tell the students
that their school is always open from Monday to Saturday but it
remains close on Sunday.
Activity-1
Teacher will ask the students to open and close various objects like
bottle, door, book, colour box, their eyes, mouths etc.
Activity-2
The students will be shown a movie clip and there will be answer
question sessions in between the movie on some frozen frames.
Activity-3
8. Heavy/ Light
Note:
Activity-1
Teacher will give two boxes two the children and they will be asked
which one is heavier and which one is lighter. Similarly teacher will
make the students compare between their books and bags.
Activtity-2
A short video clip will be shown to the students. There will be two
characters in the clip. One will be carrying heavier load than the
other. This would be visible through their effort they would be
employing to carry the weight. The students will be asked to tell which
character would be carrying lighter load.
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Colour it Colour it
Colour it
18. Computer
Note: These parts of computer are part of syllabus of play, nursery and prep
classes. The teacher should help the students recognize these parts from
charts pasted on the walls in classroom. Different activities like dialogues,
answer question sessions, letter-word game etc may be organized in
order to give more clarity to the students.
Mouse Keyboard
19. Miscellaneous
As a part of annual assessment targets, the following topics are to be
covered as a course of the students.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
2. Words Opposites
3. Masculine Feminine
Note:
The teacher will show the students the pictures about the words
above in the computer. Teacher will help the students recognize
them.
5. Stationary Items
Activity-1
Teacher will collect various stationary items. He/she will ask the
students to pick up a certain item by calling its name. The students
will pick up that thing, the other students, who don‟t know about that
object, will see the others picking up and they will come to know the
names of those objects being picked up.
Activity-2
Teacher will show the students various stationary items and will ask
students to tell the name that item. Teacher will use that item in front
of the children so that they may understand its functions and uses.
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Activity-3
washing
soap towel nail clipper
powder
Note
Teacher will make the students understand the use of these things
through various activities.
Activity-1
Activity-2
A short video clip will be shown to the students and the students will
tell which things or product the character in the video is using. The
students may be shown the result of an item used earlier. The
students, by seeing the result, will tell which thing had been used
which produced such result.
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Activity-3
Paste some pictures of the things that are used for cleanliness and
adornment.
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7. Edibles
Note:
The teacher will use wall charts, pictures and menus of various
bakers and hotels to help the student recognize the items.
Activity-1
Activity-2
Activity-3
Paste a picture of
Roza-e-Rasool
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Paste a picture of
mosque
Paste a picture
showing eating activity