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Hi ! My name is Kassim.

I am a Malay boy.

What is your name ?

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Rani is my friend.

She is an Indian girl.

She lives near the school.

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Who is that man near Rani?

Is he her father ?

She looks very much like him.

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Where is the ball ?

Is it in the cupboard ?

Is it in the basket ?

Oh! It is in the bag.

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Father has four pens.

I have two.

You have three.

How many pens are there ?

Four plus two plus three is nine.

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Look at these balloons !

They are very colourful.

There are blue , green, red, white, purple, yellow and orange balloons.

Are there any black balloons ?

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Is today Monday ?

It is not ?

Is it Tuesday then ?

Oh! I remember. It is Thursday today.

Yesterday was Wednesday.

Tomorrow will be Friday.

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My family is very big.

My father, his parents, my mother, her parents my four brothers, my four sisters and I live in this house .

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Ravi has rice for lunch everyday.

He eats rice with vegetables and curry .

After lunch, he always eats some fruit.

Ravi does not eat rice for dinner.

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Mala looks very pretty today.

She is wearing a blue skirt and a pink blouse.

She has red shoes on her feet.

Her ribbon looks pretty ,too.

Is it her birthday today ?

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Sani, please take this book to the office.Give it to the clerk .

Ask him for a box of chalk.

Bring the chalk to me.

Can you do that ?

Good. Dont forget to say thank you.

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That is not a square .

It is a rectangle.

In a square, all sides are equal .

In a rectangle, only opposite sides are equal.

Both rectangles and squares have four sides.

How many sides does a triangle have ?

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We see with our eyes.

We hear with our ears.

We smell with our noses.

We also breathe with our noses.

We speak and eat with our mouths.

Do you know that our ears help us to stand straight ?

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Many animals are useful to us.

We get milk from cows and goats.

We get meat from chicken, goats, pigs and cows.

We get eggs from chicken.

Some animals help us in other ways.

Cats and dogs are such animals.

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My mother has a flower garden in front of her house.

She has planted roses, hibiscus , sunflower, canna and orchid plants.

My father has a vegetable garden behind the house.

He has planted okra, brinjal, long beans, cabbage, and tomato plants.

My parents work hard in their gardens.

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My grandfather is a very old man.

He is ninety years old.

He is tall and thin but strong.

He still walks straight.

He doesnt use a walking stick.

My father is fifty years old .

He is short and fat.

He is not strong .

He uses a walking stick to walk.

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My school is made up of three buildings.

We have the office, the staff-room , the science laboratory, the canteen and the library in one building.

In the second building, we have six classrooms and toilets.

In the third building is our hall .

We do not have a field.

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What do you want to be when you grow up ?

Do you want to be a doctor who treats patients ?

Do you want to be an engineer who plans and builds roads and buildings ?

Do you want to be a teacher who teaches little children ?

Work hard and you will be what you want to be .

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Do you want to go to the post office ?

Go straight down this road and turn right at the first junction.

Walk until you reach Station Road .

Turn left and walk about a hundred metres.

The post- office is next to the Star Supermarket .

It is a red double-storey building.

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Simon goes to school at seven in the morning and comes back at about two in the afternoon.

His brother ,Alex, leaves home for school at twelve noon and returns home at about seven in the evening.

Both the brothers do their homework from eight to ten oclock at night.

They go to bed at eleven oclock .

Neither of them sleep during the day even though they wake up at six in the morning.

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