Exercise 1

CLEANING YOURSELF

Luz said,

"I am clean and pretty.

I wash my face.

I put on a clean dress.

I trim my nails.

I comb my hair.

Look at me.

Am I not pretty?"

1. Who is talking?
A. Mother
B. Luz
C. Aboy
2. What does she do with her face?
A.She washes it.
B.She combs it.
C.She cuts it.
3.What does she do with her nails?
A. She cleans them.
B. She trims them.
C. She washes them.
4. What does she do with her hair?
A. She cleans it.
B. She combs it.
C. She washes it.
5.What does she say?
A. "I am clean and pretty."
B. "I am big and strong."
C."I am strong and healthy."
 Exercise 2

FLOWERS

The sampaguita is a flower.

It is white and it smells sweet.

The sampaguita is our national flower.

The gumamela is a flower too.

It does not smell sweet.

Some gumamela flowers are red,

Some are pink and some are white.

1. Which is our national flower?

A. Sampaguita
B. Gumamela
C. Rose
2. How does the sampaguita smell?
A. Bad
B. Sweet
C. No smell
3. Which flower does not smell sweet?
A. Camia
B. sampaguita
C.Gumamela
4. Whichis not a flower?
A. Butterfly
B. Gumamela
C.Sampaguita
5. Is there a white gumamela?
A.Yes
B. No
C. Did not say
 Exercise 3

OUR SCHOOL

Our school is big.

It is beautiful.

We have a flag in front of our school.

We have a garden in our school,too.

Our school is clean.

We help clean our school.

1. What does the story tell about?

A. House
B. School
C.Garden
2. Which word tells about the school?
A. Small
B. Dirty
C.Beautiful
3. What do we do to make our school clean?
A.Play inside
B.Help clean
C. Put paint
4. What do we have in front of our school?
A. Flag
B. House
C. Store
5. What else has our school?
A. Garden
B. Flowers
C.Grass
 Exercise 4

SHELLFISH

"Mother, what's this?" Sherbet asked

showing a shell she found on the beach.

"That is an empty home of a small animal called shellfish.

Shellfish has soft body so it needs

hard shell to protect it from starfish,crabs, fish or even birds.

1. Who found a shell?

A.Mother
B. Sherbet
C.Fisherman
2. Where did she find the shell?
A. On the beach
B. In the sea
C,In the yard
3.What animal lived in the shell?
A. Fish
B. Crab
C. Shellfish
4. What kind of body does a shellfish have?
A. Hard
B. Soft
C.Hairy
5. What sea animal eats shellfish?
A. Fish
B. Dog
C.Cat
 Exercise 5

GUESS

"Can you guess who l am?”

asked Tito.

"I teach children.

I teach them to read and write.

I teach them to be good.

I teach them how to be polite

and helpful."

1. Who is talking in the story?

A.Tito
B. Brother
C.Father
2. What did he ask the other children to guess?
A. What he is
B. Where he is
C.Who he is
3. What does a teacher teach in school?
A. Jump and run
B. Sleep and play
C.Read and write
4. What else does she teach in school?
A. How to eat
B. How to cross the street
C.How to be good
5. What else does she teach the children?
A. To watch TV
B. To be polite and helpful
C.To go home Exercise 6

BUSY CHILDREN

It was Saturday.

"Let us clean the house,"

said Gloria.

"I will clean the yard," said Nilo.

"I will pull out the grass.

I will sweep the yard.

I will burn the dry leaves."

"I will water the plants," said Lina.

1. What day was it?

A. Monday
B. Saturday
C.Friday
2. Who asked that they clean the house?
A. Nilo
B..Mother
C.Gloria
3.What will Nilo do?
A. He will clean the garden.
B. He will help clean the house.
C.He will clean the yard.
4. What will Nilo do with the grass?
A.Water them
B.Plant them
C.Pull them out
5. Who will water the plants?
A.Lina
B. Nilo
C.Gloria Exercise 7

THE RAIN

It is raining.

"It is raining hard," said Lani.

The rain is falling on the houses.

The rain is falling on the trees.

There is water on the streets.

"I will not go to school today,"

said Tita.

"I might catch cold."

1.Who will not go to school?

A.Tita
B.Lani
C.A girl
2. Why will she not go to school?
A. It is cold.
B. It is raining.
C. It is warm.
3.What filled the streets with water?
A.Wind
B.Clouds
C.Rain
4. Where is the rain falling?
A. On houses and trees
B. In the classroom
C.In the garden
5.Why will Tita not go to school?
A. She may catch cold.
B. She has no umbrella.
 Exercise 8
C.She will play. FLYING KITES

"Let us fly our kites,"said Celo.

"It is good to fly kites now.

The wind will help us fly our kites,"

The boys made their kites fly.

They had blue kites, red kites,

green kites,and yellow kites.

Their kites went up, up in the sky.

They looked like birds up in the sky.

1.Who asked the boys to fly kites?

A.Celo
B.Celso
C.Cenon
2. What helped them fly the kites?
A.Wind
B.Rain
C.Clouds
3. What are the colors of the kites?
A. White, black,orange
B. Green, white,yellow
C. Blue, red, green,yellow
4. Where did the kites fly?
A. Up in the sky
B. Up on the trees
C. Up on the houses
5. What did the kites look like?
A. Birds
B. Clouds
C. Sheep Exercise 9

HOW TO BE BIG AND STRONG

Berto is big and strong.

He eats good breakfast

before he goes to school.

He drinks milk.

He eats vegetables, too.

He plays in the yard.

These things help Berto

become big and strong.

1. Who is the boy in the story?

A.Tito
B.Berto
C.Lito
2.Which one tells about him?
A. He is big and strong.
B. He is small and thin.
C.He is lazy.
3.What does Berto eat before he goes to school?
A. A good dinner
B. A good breakfast
C. A good supper
4. What other things make Berto big and strong?
A. Milk and vegetables
B. Coffee and candy
C. Milk and coffee
5.Where does Berto play?
A. In the house
B. In the yard
C.Under the sun
Exercise 10

THE UGLY DUCKLING

Mother Duck sat on her eggs to hatch, One morning,the eggs began to crack. Five pretty chicks came
out of their shells.

But one egg had not hatched.

So Mother Duck sat down to wait.

Then the egg finally cracked.

Out came a chick with ugly feathers.

That chick was not a duckling.

It was a beautiful swan when it grew up

1. What did Mother Duck do?

A. Sat on her eggs
B. Swam in the pond
C.Played with her chicks
2.Why did Mother Duck sit on her eggs?
A. To hide them
B. To crack them
C.To hatch them
3. How many eggs were hatched first?
A.Four
B. Five
C.Six
4. What kind of chick came out last?
A. Beautiful duckling
B. Big duckling
C. Ugly duckling
5.When it grew up, the ugly duckling was actually a
A. mother hen
B. wild turkey
 Exercise 11
C.beautiful swan
OUR FRIENDS

I love to see the birds fly.

I love to hear their pretty songs.

Birds are our friends.

They eat harmful insects

on our plants.

They·are very pretty.

They make us happy.

We must be kind to birds.

1. What do we love to see?

A. Birds
B. Chickens
C. Geese
2. What do birds do?
A. They talk.
B. They fly.
C.They swim.
3. What do we love to hear?
A. Birds' songs
B. Birds'talk
C. Birds' call
4. What do birds do for us?
A. They make us sad.
B. They make us happy.
C.They make us angry.
5.How do birds help us?
A. They eat sweet fruits.
B. They eat harmful insects.
C.They eat green plants.
 Exercise 12

VEGETABLES

"Look,Father," shouted Leon.

“Our beans have fruits.

Our patola plants have fruits,too."

"Let us pick some of them,"

Father said.

"We shall sell them in the market.

Mother will cook some,too."

1. Who saw the fruits of the beans and the patola?

A.Leon
B.Father
C.Mother
2. What will they do with the fruits?
A. They will eat all of them.
B. They will sell some and eat some.
C. They will give them away.
3. What will Mother do with some of the fruits?
A. Give them away
B.Cook them
C.Throw them away
4. What does Father want to do?
A. He wants to water the vegetables.
B.He wants to pick some of the fruits.
C.He wants to eat the vegetables.
5. Where will Father take the vegetables?
A. To the store
B. To the kitchen
C.To the market
 Exercise 13

HELPING OUR COUNTRYMEN

"Let us go to Heng's store," said Cora.

"I will buy a pencil."

"Heng is a Chinese.

Aling Maria is a Filipino.

We should buy from Filipino stores.

We should help Filipino sellérs,"

Delia said.

1.What did Cora want to buy?

A.Book
B. Pencil
C.A bag
2.Where would she buy a pencil?
A. At Heng's store
B. At the market
3. Who wanted to buy at Aling Maria's store?
A.Cora
B.The children
C.Delia
4. Where should we buy the things we need?
A. From Chinese stores
B. From Filipino stores
C.From any store
5. Whom should we help?
A. Chinese sellers
 Exercise 14
B. Filipino sellers
BE KIND
C.Old sellers
Tito and Belen were going home.

Tito saw a nest.

It has three little birds.

I will take the birds home," said Tito.

"No,Tito," said Belen.

“For sure, the mother bird will look

for her baby birds.

Do not take them away."

1.What did Tito see?

A. A hen's nest
B. A bird's nest
C. A duck's nest
2. How many littlebirds were there?
A.Four
B.Three
C.Two
3.What did Tito want to do?
A. Take the birds home.
B. Sell the birds.
C.Cook the birds.
4. Who did not want Tito to take the birds home?
A.Mother
B.Brother
C.Belen
5. Who would look for the birds? Exercise 15

A. The mother bird HONEST BEN

B. Tito's Mother
Ben was on his way to school.
C. Tito's sister
While walking, he found
a ten-peso bill.
He went to his teacher's room.
"Good morning, Miss Reyes,”
said Ben.
"I found this on the street."
He gave the ten-peso bill to his teacher.

1.Where was Ben going?

A.To school
B. To church
C.To the market
2.What did he find?
A. A five-centavo coin
B. A ten-peso coin
C.A ten-peso bill
3. Where did Ben find it?
A. On the street
B. In the playground
C. In the classroom
4. To whom did he give the money?
A. To his Mother
B. To his sister
C. To his teacher
5. Which word tells about Ben?
A. Polite
B. Honest Exercise 16
C.Kind
A WISH

I wish I were a farmer

A farmer good and wise,

I want to help my countrymen

By growing lots of rice.

1. What is the title of the poem?

A. A Farmer
B. A Wish
C. A Seller
2. What does the one talking in the poem want to be?
A. A farmer
B. A policeman
C. A seller
3.Who does he want to help?
A. People in his town
B. People in his school
C. People in his country
4. What does he want to grow?
A. Lots of rice
B. Lots of corn
C. Lots of vegetables
 Exercise 17

CLEAN-UP WEEK
5. What kind of a farmer does he want to be?
A. A lazy one Keep your home and yard clean
B. A big one
Dust and wipe all your things
C. Good and wise
Throw your trash in garbage cans

And love you will surely win.

1. What is the celebration for the week called?

A. Clean-up Week
B. Cleaning Week
C. Parents' Week
2. What should we keep clean?
A. Our neighbors' things
B.Our home and yard
C.Our garbage cans
3. What should we do with our trash?
A. Put them in garbage cans.
B. Throw them on the streets.
C.Throw them into canals.
4. What should we do every day?
A. Clean all around
B. Play all around
C. Have fun all around
5. What do we win if we are clean?
A. Neighbors
 Exercise 18

B. Prize A PRAYER
C. Love
I pray to God before I go to bed. Ipray to God when l awake. Thank
you,God,for my parents. Thank you, God, for my brothers and
sisters,

Thank you,God,for the food leat. Thank you,God, for my good

health,

1.What have you just read?

A.A letter
B.Aprayer
C.A wish
2.When does the child pray?
A. Before eating
B. Before going to school
C.Before going to bed and after waking up
3. To whom does he pray?
A.To Mother
B. To Father
C. To God
4. What does he thank God for?
A. For his toys and books
B For his parents, food and good health
C.For his home and pets
5. What should you remember to do every day?
A. Play
B. Pray
Exercise 19
C. Eat
A GOOD BUYER

Mother told Nena to go to the store,

She told her to buy bread

and tomatoes.

Nena went to the store. She bought six big tomatoes. She bought a loaf
of bread. The loaf was soft and fresh. Nena was a good buyer.

1. Where did Mother ask Nena to go?

A. To school
B. To the market
C.To the store
2. What did Nena buy?
A. Milk and eggs
B. Tomatoes and bread
C.Bread and butter
3. What kind of tomatoes did Nena buy?
A.Big ones
B. Soft ones
C. Green ones
 Exercise 20
A FOOLISH FROG
4. What kind of bread did Nena buy?
King Frog was vey sad.
A. Hard and big
He wanted to have wings.
B.Sweet buut small
He wanted to fly up in the sky.
C. Soft and fresh
He saw a hawk flying by.
5. What kind of a buyer was Nena?
He asked the hawk to take him
A. She was a good buyer.
up to the sky.
B. She did not know how to buy things.
The hawk took him up,
C.She did not know how to count money.
Then it dropped King Frog.
King Frog fell to the ground.

1. Who was very sad?

A King Frog
B. The hawk
C. The bird
2. What did he want to have?
A. Claws
B. Feet
C.Wings
3. Who took King Frog up to the sky?
A. A hawk
B. A frog
 Exercise 21
A FLOWER GARDEN
C.A bird
4. What did the hawk do?
Cora has a beautiful flower garden.

A. It dropped King Frog. There are many plants in her garden.

B. It took King Frog to many places. There are big plants.

C. It ate King Frog. There are small plants.

5.What happend to King Frog? Many plants have flowers.
A. He flew and flew. The flowers have pretty colors.
B. He fell to the ground. Many flowers smell sweet.
C. He did not like to fly.

1. What does Cora have?

A. A fountain
B. Fruit trees
C.A flower garden
2.What kind of plants are in the garder
A. Big trees and small trees
B. Big plants and small plants
C.Grass and trees
3.What do the plants have?
A. Insects
B.Flowers
 Exercise 22
A PLAYGROUND
C.Fruits Mang Isko was watching a group of boys
4.What do the flowers have? on the street.
A.Pretty colors When a car passed by,the children hag
to stop playing and stay out of its way.
B.Big petals
One day,Mang Isko saw a big
C.Small petals
vacant lot near the end of the street.
5.What can you tell about many of the flowers? Tall grass grew on it.
A.They smell sweet. "This is a good place for a playground,”
B. They are small. said Mang Isko to himself.
C.They have pretty colors. He called the children and together
they cleaned the vacant lot.
"Now,you can play safely here!”
Mang Isko said happily.

1.Who was Mang Isko watching?

A. Jeep passing by
B.Children playing
C.Big vacant lots
2.Where were the children playing?
A. On the sidewalk
B. In the school playground
C.On the street
3.What did Mang Isko see one day?
A. A big vacant lot
B. A wide, clean playground
C.A grassy garden
4. What did he plan to do?
A. Plant vegetables on the lot
B. Build a house on it
C.Turn it into a playground
5. Who helped him clean the lot?
A. The neighbors
B. The children
C.His sons