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Shapes and riddles

Week 25 · Unit 3: The Food we Eat · 3 lessons
1

Round, long and flat

Mridang: Unit 3, Chapter 2
GoalSay the shape of some foods.
New words
shape · how something looksround · like a balllong · not shortflat · not high, like a table topfood · what we eat
Explanation

Foods have different shapes. A melon is round. A cucumber is long. A flatbread is flat. Look at the pictures and say the shape. What other round things can you see?

roundlongflat
Worked examples

A ball is round.
A ladder is long.
A book is flat.

Listen and say.
Look at the pictures. Which one is round?
We eat round food, long food and flat food. All of it can be tasty.
Class activity

Shape hunt. Walk around your home with a grown-up. Find one round thing, one long thing and one flat thing in the kitchen. Say: ‘This is round.’ ‘This is long.’ ‘This is flat.’

Practice
1
Is this round, long or flat?
2
Is this round, long or flat?
3
Is a stick of sugarcane round or long?
4
Listen. Is it round, long or flat?

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5
Writing: copy the word ‘round’.