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What do the tools say?
Textbook: Part 2, pp. 28–32
GoalName tools and their purpose; spot personification.
New words
axe · boltasaw · arrahammer · bolg‘ahoe, spade · ketmon
Explanation
Every tool is made for a certain job. The textbook has a poem by Ne’mat Dushayev in which work tools “speak”. The author wrote poems and stories for children in his books. We do not retell the poem; we read our own text. Tools “speaking” is personification: a thing is given the human ability to talk.
Worked examples
“Grandfather’s shed”. One day the tools in grandfather’s shed had a talk. The hoe said: “I loosen the soil, so the crops grow.” The axe said: “I split firewood, so the house is warm in winter.” The saw said: “I cut boards straight.” The hammer said: “Nothing is firm without a nail, and my blow drives it in.” Grandfather came in and said: “You are all needed, only let my hand not stay without work.”
Personification: “the hoe said” – a hoe cannot talk, but in the text it does.
Class activity
“Tool and job”: a child shows a tool name, others say its job and the matching profession.
Practice
1
What does the hoe do?
Loosens the soil.
2
What is the axe for?
Splitting firewood
3
What does the hammer do?
Drives in the nail.
4
What did grandfather say to the tools?
He said that they are all needed.
5
Where is the personification in the text?
Where the tools speak