Lesson 3

Spelling
1. mused
2. churn
3. fair
4. scornful
5. milkmaid

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Reading Flight
Idiomatic expressions are a type of informal language that
have a meaning different from the meaning of the words in
the expression.
Example:
1. She was tickled pink by the good news. ---> made very happy
2. You are hands down the best player on the team. ---> There
was no competition.
3. He's been down in the dumps lately. ---> sad or depressed
4. I feel sick as a dog. ---> very sick
5. My grandma has been under the weather. ---> not well

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✦ Hyperbole is a figure of ✦ Irony is a literary
speech and literary device in which
device that creates contradictory
heightened effect statements or
through deliberate situations reveal a
exaggeration. reality that is different
✦Examples: from what appears to
✧I’m so hungry that I be true.
could eat a horse. ✦ Examples:
✧I Love You to the moon ✧ A fire station that
and back. burns down
✧She is more beautiful ✧ Oedipus Rex
than the moon and (Sophocles): Oedipus
stars. is searching for a
murderer who, it turns
out, is himself
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Tell if it is Hyperbole or Irony.
✦ You’re as light as a feather.
✦ These high heels are killing me.
✦ Dr. Johnson smokes a pack of cigarettes a day.
✦ I’m on cloud nine right now.
✦ A post on Facebook complains about how
useless Facebook is.
✦ The police station gets robbed.
✦ Cry me a river.
✦ A famous singer sings her own song at a
karaoke bar but is booed.
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Vocabulary Development
✦ You can get the meaning of words by
analyzing roots, basically from Latin.
✦ sentimental– sent, Latin root meaning
feel; -ment, a suffix meaning a state
of; -al, suffix meaning relating to.
✦ Let us try page 23 letter A and B.

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Oral Reading Fluency
Read the story “The
Milkmaid and the
Pail” on page 24.

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Questions:
✦ What good and bad characteristics
does the milkmaid have?
✦ What was the milkmaid’s pride part
of the things which flowed out from
the pail of milk?

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 While “tone” is the writer’s attitude, “mood” is the feeling the reader
gets from the writing. Tone often describes the writing overall, but the
mood of a piece of writing can change throughout it. For example, at
the death of a character the mood could be depressed or sad, but at the
“Tone” is the writer’s attitude discovery of a long lost friend, the mood could be upbeat and joyful. A
that is expressed in the writing. readers mood often goes hand in hand with a characters, if the
character-reader relationship is strong enough.
For example, the tone of a
novel could be suspenseful,
because the author holds back
certain information to create
this feeling.
Tone is also generally thought
of as describing the work as a
whole, rather than a particular
section.
Grammar
Past tense is formed Present tense is Future tense is formed
by adding –d or –ed formed by using is, by using shall or will
to the base from of am or the base form with the base form of
the verb. Was or were of the verb. Generally, the verb.
are the past tense of -s or -es is added to Example:
be, the base form when
the subject is singular. All the young men will
Example: look at me.
All the milk flowed Example:
out of the milkmaid’s Her carelessness ends
pail. the realization of all
her thoughts.

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Grammar
Past progressive is Present progressive is Future progresive is
formed by using was formed by using is or formed by using will or
or were with the –ing are with the –ing form shall with be and the –
form of the verb. of the verb. ing form of the verb.
Example: Example: Example:
She was walking to They are now The school president
school when my boarding the school will be seeing us again
friend saw her. bus. by the end of this term.

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Page 27 Letter A
Page 28 Letter B, C and D 12