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What colour is it?
Mridang: Unit 2, Chapter 3
GoalSay the colour of animals and birds.
New words
green · the colour of grasswhite · the colour of milkpink · the colour of a rosebrown · the colour of mudcolour · red, blue, yellow and more
Explanation
Birds and animals have colours. A parrot is green. A swan is white. A flamingo is pink. An owl is brown. A peacock is blue and green. Ask: What colour is it? Answer: It is green.
Worked examples
Fatima
What colour is a swan?
Tenzin
A swan is white.
Fatima
What colour is an elephant?
Tenzin
An elephant is grey.
Tap the cards. Say the colours.
Ask a friend: What colour is a tomato? Answer with: A tomato is ... .
Class activity
Colour talk. A grown-up names an animal or a fruit: a frog, a banana, a mango. You answer: ‘A frog is green.’ Then look out of the window. Find a bird or a flower and say its colour.
Practice
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What colour is the sky on a sunny day?
Blue.
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Look at the pictures. Which one is green?
The frog.
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Listen. What colour is the bag?
…
Blue.
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Say the missing word: Milk is ___ . (white / green)
white.
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Writing: copy ‘A swan is white.’
A swan is white.