Poet ae ZimbabweBOOK LENDING RECORD Name of Schook:. Stationery/Textbook Stock Control Register Number: District: Date that the school received the book: Condition of ] Condition of book ‘Name of Recipient book when re edn For the teacher: Please clearly write the student/recipient’s name in the first column, then indicate ‘one of the following conditions: 1. New book 2. Book used but in good condition 3. Book used but average condition 4. Book used and in poor condition ase ericourdige the student/recipient to take care of the book so that it can beFOREWORD This textbook is a gift of Zimbabwe's friends in the international community which include (in alphabetical order) Australia, Denmark, the European Union, Finiand, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Through the wonderful generosity of these countries and our ability to work together in the Education Transition Fund (set up by the Ministry of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture) we have been able to produce several million textbooks like this one which are being distributed countrywide to all schools. This gift is a demonstration of the great love our friends have for Zimbabwe and her children. [hope that you will respect this spirit of generosity and love by looking alter this book well. Please try to cover it and keep it out of the rain and dirt. Under no circumstances should this book over be sold because * itis a gift My hope is that with this book in your hands and with the help of your teacher you will be excited to learn more and through that you will play a role in building Zimbabwe into the Jewel of Africa Yuu. Senator David Coltart OF \ APRIL 2010Welcome back to school.Che My chest is hurting 3 eye—hT; Is your ear hurting, Thabo? Th: Yes, it is. T: Is it bad? Th: Yes, it’s very bad. T: Then you must go to the clinic. Is your stomach hurting, Rudo? Yes, it is. Is it bad? No, it’s not very bad. Go to the clinic tomorrow. a ast at Reading Vusa and Alice Vusa is’ sick. He has a headache and a fever. His chest is hurting and his eyes are hurting. Alice isn’t sick. She doesn’t have a headache and her eyes aren't hurting. Can you find these words in the story? sick hurting ears eyes well are have5 a bus stationThabo says: | Our house is in a town. The name | of our town is Marondera. We have some big shops here. | There are some schools, a Post Office, a bus station and a market. There is a big church too. I like our town. Rudo says: Our house is near the farm. My mother and my father work on the farm. They grow maize and beans. I like helping them on the farm. My father goes to Harare sometimes. He goes on the bus. Questions Who grows food? Who lives in Marondera? Who lives near the farm? Where is the Post Office? Is there a bus station in Marondera? Ol Oe Does Rudo’s father go to Marondera by bus? 7eee Make the word-cards and put them on the picture. a bus| [a shop [a clinic| [a school] /a church] Make your own true sentences. ; # - ar EEENEEEno Lee Se << near the river.|Hive in Bulawayo, ! live in Takawira. My house is far from here] J walk to school,AAs oe & This bucket >made of glass. | “>made of wood. This bag is > ae > ade of metal. These bottles are> je of plastic, e> wy ‘These spoons 24What we do at school In English we listen and look. We speak English We read English. Sometimes we write too. What do you do in P.E.? What do you do in Art? 25at ni He y fg i. At Sipho's school, they have a very good garden. They grow maize, onions, beans and cabbages. They eat the beans and the cabbages, but they sell the maize and the onions. They don’t eat the maize, or make sadza. The teachers and the children are very happy about the garden. All the children work in the garden. The little children water it and weed it. The older children weed the garden too, and they dig and plant seeds. The teachers work there too. In the picture some Grade 2 children are watering the garden. It is early. The sun is not hot. They don’t water the garden in the afternoonThere is a fine garden at Sipho’s school. The children grow onions and maize. They make’sadza at the school. The teachers are not happy about the garden. The little children water the garden The older children dig the garden. The teachers don’t do any work. The children water the garden in the early morning. 00 ON Oe G0 Say and write Make true sentences about your school In our school we ... a garden It isa... garden We grow . . . and The ., . and the . . . work in the garden. Our class - .. the garden. We eat the .. ., and we sell the. . .. In the holidays, the garden By Se Of WN 27 |28 The chickens are Mr Moyo’s. The garden is Mrs Moyo’s. |Where does our food come from? We can grow maize on our farms. We can grow beans, cabbages, onions and tomatoes. On big farms, they grow oranges, bananas and apples. We can find other fruit on trees in the bush. What about eggs? We can keep hens, and they will give us eggs. We can eat the chickens too. People keep cows. Cows give us milk and meat Goats give us milk and meat too. There are also some pig-farmers in Zimbabwe. They keep pigs. We get meat from pigs. 1. We get eggs from .. .. 2. We get milk from... and. ... 3. We get meat from .. .. 4. We also get meat from...and. ... 4142 We eat supper together in the evening: We have sadza with vegetables. Sometimes we have meat too. Sometimes we have fish. What about you? Do you have breakfast at home? What do you eat? Do you eat any food at school, in break time? What do you have for supper?This is Peter. He likes sadza. He likes fruit too. This is Kundai. She likes bread and jam. This is Sisa. She likes vegetables with her sadza This is Farai. He likes sweets Donteat a lot Suen seus he, = ore. bacl For your teeth Ng What do they like to drink? Sisa likes milk. Peter likes tea with milk and sugar. Kundai doesn’t like tea. She likes orange drink Answer these questions 1. What does Peter like to eat and drink? 2. What does Kundai like? 3. What does Sisa like? What about you? 4. What does Farai like? 5 D9 you all like oranges? 6. Do you all like milk? 7. Do you like both sadza and vegetables? 43es There are three children in the Magaya family. Xoliswa is twelve years old, Yona is ten, and Zama is eight. Their mother works on the farm, and their father is in Harare. Sometimes he works, sometimes he doesn’t. They live in a small house, and keep some chickens. The family has very little money. So every morning the children sell food in the town. They get up very early. Sometimes they get up at five o'clock. They don’t eat breakfast, but go out and sell. Xoliswa sells eggs and oranges. Yona and Zama sell tomatoes and onions. They get the tomatoes and onions from the farm. They get the eggs from their six chickens. Mrs Magayo’s brother gives them eggs and oranges too. 44The children don’t sell together. Xoliswa sells in the market. Yona sells at the bus station. Zama sells near the Post Office. They carry the food in baskets or in buckets. The children walk and call out: Tomatoes! Oranges! Eggs! Very good eggs! Come and buy my eggs! Onions! Fine onions! People can hear them. People come and buy an orange for 20 dollars, and a tomato for 10 dollars. They buy an egg for 30 dollars, and three onions for 100 dollars. Then the children go home and eat breakfast. They take their books and run to school. They aren’t late for school? Do you sell in the mornings? Do you sell at weekends?— We have a football at home My brother and | ploy with if. We have some books and apicture. on the wall. We have a lot of chickens but we don't have any cottle —-\We don't have a cor, We have some cooking pots. We have some mats on the floor and a big chair We have alot of plates and cups. We don't have any chickens Say and write your answers Do you live in a town? Do you live in a village? What do you have at home? Do you have any chickens? Do you have a dog?My father keeps a dog, but we don’t have other pets. He has a plough, some oxen and two donkeys. He grows a lot of maize. He has an axe and a bicycle. Grandmother has fi radio. She walks with a walking stick What about you? owe nay a Complete these sentences about yourself. | My mother has a lot of . . ., but she doesn’t have any My father has a lot of . . ., but he doesn’t have any | We have some . . . too. We have . . ., but we don't havea... .. aMake the word-cards. Then put the correct cards on the pictures. pig | | pins [bed | [ cap hair | pens bird | “cup “hare Can you draw a picture for dig and cup? Now you can read these words, and make good sentences with them. glass clay live work ride grass day line walk writewashed | [played| | helped| [made J y Une. had supper2 Every day we get up in the morning. We wash our faces and clean our teeth. We have some breakfast. We walk to school and have our lessons. In break time we play with our friends. At weekends we stay at home. We help Mother and Father. We sit with the family, Yesterday ... Yesterday was Monday. We got up and washed our faces and cleaned our teeth. We had some breakfast. Then we walked to school. At school we had our lessons and played together at break time. At 12 o’clock we came back and helped Mother in the house. In the evening she made sadza and we had our supper.A. In the past: write the word and add ed help =. wash ~— walk play stay Use the words to make sentences. B. Which pairs make “present and past”? come had have made get came do got make did C. Complete these sentences 1. Yesterday Alice w . . . her face. 2. Then she w ... to school. 3. Little Tawanda s ... at home. 4. Hep... with his toy. 5. At 12 o'clock Alice c. . . home. D. Choose the correct word 1 cat boat goat goal 2 bun but run bus must, 3 mouse house horse 51Or climb trees for fruit? Or work in the field? Let us go forawalk!| oe a a Yesterday, Jacob and Tendai said to their friends: “Let's go for a walk!” “I want some fruit. Let’s climb trees!” said Farai. “I want to fish in the dam,” said Sipho. “I want to work in the field,” said Peter. Peter is a worker! The friends went for a walk. They visited Lovemore for 10 minutes. Then they all climbed a tree. The fruit was lovely! On the road they saw a builder. He was building a | new house. A boy was helping him. Then Sisa and Tendai went and fished in the dam. The others worked in the field together. . True or not true? . All the friends went for a walk. . Lovemore visited them. . They climbed a tree . Three people were building a house. . Sipho fished in the river. . Peter worked in the field. QAnrRwWna54 A. Was or were? Vusa was at home yesterday. Sipho and Rudo were at the dam. | was at home yesterday- 1. Kundai . . . late for school yesterday. 2. The baby . . . asleep all night. 3. The twins .. . sick yesterday. 4. The teacher. . . happy with the class. 5. “I. .. working in the field yesterday,” said Peter. 6. Vusa and Jacob . . . talking together for a long time yesterday. B. These things happened yesterday Read the words, and complete the sentences _walk | talk | | work | play {climb | visit 1. Rudo walked .... 2. The friends talked . . .. 3. The farmer worked ...: 4. The girls played .. .. 5. The boys climbed .... 6. We visited . . .. C. What's missing?D. Put the sentences with the correct pictures. Last Saturday A | The children climbed a mango tree. B_ | Father counted his cattle. & | Mother made a dress. Co | The family went to the market.Christmas. [like it. Mrs Dube is a nurse at the hospital. Sometimes she makes clothes for her children. Sometimes she buys them. Mrs Dube was not working last Monday afternoon. She went to the shops with her children, Rose and Vusa. They looked in one shop, but they didn’t like the clothes. They looked in another shop and bought a brown jersey for Rose. Then Mrs Dube met a friend. They talked for a long time. In the next shop, she bought some shorts for Vusa “Please may I have that red tie?” asked Vusa. “But you are only eight, you don’t need a tie!” said ais mother. She didn’t buy the tie, but she said: 5a? “will get you a tie at Christmas.” aA. Answer the questions 1. Does Mrs Dube make clothes for her children? 2. Did she buy any clothes on Monday? 3. How many shops did the family visit? 4. Did they like the first shop? | 5. Did they meet anyone on the way? 6. What did Vusa want? 7. Did Mrs Dube buy it? B. Dialogue Shopkeeper: Good morning! Mrs Dube: Good morning! I’m looking for a nice Jersey. Shopkeeper: — These are very nice jerseys. They are 2000 dollars each Mrs Dube: Do you like the red jersey, Rose? Rose: No, I like the blue one Mrs Dube: All right. We will take the blue one. Shopkeeper: = Thank you very much. C. Exercise We did .... We didn’t. . .. 1. We visited our Grandma yesterday. We didn’t visit her on Saturday. 2. We talked to our friends yesterday. 3. We bought some sweets yesterday. 4. We climbed some trees yesterday.Read and answer these questions Were you at school yesterday? Were you sick last weekend? Was the headteacher at school yesterday? Did you visit your grandmother yesterday? Did you wait for a bus yesterday? Did you listen to a story last night? Did you sleep well last night? Did you clean your teeth this morning? Did you go to the hospital last week? .Were you afraid of the nurse? Mesa so Va SS Dialogue Were you at School yesterday? Did hear. eboced Peter? Now read all about it! 58“Peter!” called his father. “Grandfather is walking to the next village. Please go with him. He is a very old man. You must carry things for him.” “Yes, Father,” said Peter. So Peter went and helped his grandfather “Please carry this box,” said Grandfather. “Yes, Grandfather,” said Peter. “Please carry this bag,” said Grandfather. “All right, I will carry it,” said Peter. They walked down the hill. The old man followed behind with his walking-stick. The boy carried the box and the bag. They walked past Grandfather’s farm. There was another bag by the road. “This is my bag too,” said Grandfather. “Misi (i We ((C as ee“Can you carry another bag, Peter?” said Grandfather. “Yes, I can, Grandfather.” So now Peter was carrying three things. Tt was very hot. Peter was tired. “Are you tired, Peter?” “No, Grandfather.” “Good boy, Peter.” After half an hour, they came to the village. At the well, Grandfather said: “Have a drink of water; Peter.” “Thank you, Grandfather.” “Put the box and the bags down here. There is a cup in one of them.” But Peter put his foot on a stone. He fell down! The box and the bags fell too! Poor Peter! ee Peter and his grandfather had a drink. “Now I will help you,” said the old man. “Thank you, Grandfather,” said Peter. 60This stick is one metre long. We call it a metre stick. Let's measure things in the garden. The bed is 8 metres long. The row of beans is 6 metres long. The rows of maize are 7 metres long. Look at those tomato plants. How high are they? They are 1'/, metres high. The small plants have more tomatoes! Make a metre stick. Mark it half-way. Measure things roughly with it, at home and at school.How long ? How high? Last week, Grade 2D had a lesson on measuring They worked in pairs. Sisa and Grace were a pair. First they measured the chalkboard. Sisa stood on a chair. “It is 5 metres long, and 1'/, metres high,” she said Then they went to the storeroom, and measured the shelves. The shelves were 4 metres long. The top shelf was 2 metres high exactly. “Look at all those crayons and tins of paint!” said Grace. “Look at that pile of paper!” said Sisa. “How high is it, Grace?” “It’s roughly one metre high,” said Grace. “The school has a lot of things in the storeroom. We are lucky.” Read and answer the questions How high was the chalkboard? How high was the top shelf? How long were the shelves? | How high was the pile of paper? / What did the girls see in the store? : Br SN Measure these things exactly: the chalkboard the door a table. Measure your chair roughly.How tall? . ‘Lam a big boy. Tam 1,30 metres tall,” said Lovemore. “Tam not tall,” said Peter, “Tam only 1,10 metres. But I am strong, and I can run very fast.” Speak for yourself How tall are you? How tall is your friend? Is there.a tree near your classroom? Is it a tall tree, or a small tree? Complete each sentence Use long, high or tall. - My pencil is 10 centimetres . My sister is 1,30 metres . . .. . The classroom door is 2 metres . Our headteacher is not very . The row of cabbages is 4 metres .. . . It isa... way from Kariba to Bulawayo. auoRwWn= 63A. Complete the following sentences using the pictures shown a wit 2 Tandi.. . sadza last week. 1 Yesterday John ... to the store. 4 We... to church on Sundays. Mother . .. every day. our clothes . Complete each sentence My foot is . . . centimetres long. . The teacher’s table is . . . centimetres long. . Tam taller than .... . My father is very. . .. | nn i2. She is going to paint a picture. 3 They are going to put 4 They are going to dig the roof on. the field. What are you going to do in break time? What are you going to do tonight? 65The weather these days May and June Last month it rained. But these days it is dry and windy. The nights are cold. Soon it will be cold in the day time. The leaves are falling. The plants are not growing. The sun is shining now, and the sky is blue. But it will be cold tonight. There will be a big moon. We are going to play games in the moonlight. Then we are going to put on our jerseys and woollen caps, and sit near the fire. Grandmother is going to tell stories. We like Grandmother's stories. . Answer the questions . When did it rain last? . Is it wet these days? . What is the sky like today? . Is the moon going to shine tonight? . What are the children going to wear? . Where are they going to sit? . What is Grandmother going to do? NOUFWN=>D 66