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Spring the healer
Textbook: Part 3, pp. 23–24
GoalRead a lyrical text about spring expressively; interpret spring as a “healer”.
New words
healer · tabibto awaken · uyg‘onmoqbud · kurtakearly spring · navbahor
Explanation
Spring is the season when nature awakens. The earth, tired in winter, comes back to life in spring and buds appear on trees. In the textbook poem “Tabib ko‘klam” (Spring the healer) by Rauf Tolib, spring heals every year the wounds that people cause to nature. We do not retell it; we read our own text. In expressive reading we heed punctuation: a short pause at a comma, a longer one at a full stop.
Worked examples
“Spring the healer”. March came and the sun began to warm the earth. The soil frozen stiff in winter softened, and the first grass came out. Tiny buds swelled on the apple branches. “The orchard’s healer is spring,” says my grandfather, “because it gives life to everything.” On 21 March the holiday of Navro‘z came: we planted seedlings and cooked sumalak. Everybody was glad that nature had awakened.
Expressive reading: short pause at a comma, long pause at a full stop.
Class activity
“Expressive reading”: children read the text in two tones (cheerful and calm) and notice the difference.
Practice
1
What happens to the soil in spring?
It softens and grass comes out.
2
What appeared on the apple branches?
Tiny buds
3
Why does grandfather call spring a healer?
It gives life to everything.
4
On what date is Navro‘z celebrated?
21 March
5
How do we pause at a comma?
Briefly