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✏️ Section A: Picture Reading
(Look at the pictures in your book and answer.)
1. What can you see in Picture 1?
2. Look at Picture 2. What is the man doing with the wheat?
3. Look at Picture 4. Who are they? What are they doing?
4. What is the girl doing in the last picture?
5. What do you have along with chapatti?
6. Have you seen a field? What was growing there? Speak about it.
✏️ Section B: Poem – The Big Laddoo
(Recite and enjoy the poem. Answer the following.)
New Words: sea, splish-splash
✏️ Section C: Let Us Think
1. Have you seen a big laddoo? How big was it? Did you eat it all by yourself? Tell your friends about it.
2. Have you eaten anything that is very big? What was it? Talk about it.
3. What different kinds of laddoos have you eaten?
4. Name a few things that are round in shape. Can you eat all of them? Write them in the correct column.
That can be eaten That cannot be eaten
5. The child threw the Big Laddoo into the sea. What do you think happened to the laddoo?
✏️ Section D: Let Us Speak
Jithu and Meena are friends. It was Meena’s birthday. Jithu gifted her a box of mixed sweets. She felt the sweets and excitedly picked up the big laddoo. She said, “I love laddoos!” Jithu asked her, “How did you know it was a laddoo?”
👉 Think and say what Meena answered.
✏️ Section E: Let Us Learn
Write words that tell us about the laddoo.
___________________, ___________________, ___________________, ___________________, ___________________, ___________________
✏️ Section F: Let Us Write
A. Frame a few sentences using the given words:
1. play – ____________________________
2. plum – ____________________________
3. cloud – ____________________________
4. clock – ____________________________
5. blue – ____________________________
6. blanket – ____________________________
B. Match the following:
1. cock – _______
2. lion – _______
3. peacock – _______
4. mare – _______
5. bull – _______
6. drake – _______
Options: lioness, cow, hen, duck, peahen, horse
✏️ Section G: Let Us Explore
Put these objects into water. Tick (✔) the objects that float and cross (✘) the ones that sink.
1. a piece of paper _______
2. a small stone _______
3. a green leaf _______
4. a pencil _______
5. an eraser _______
6. a feather _______
7. a spoon _______
✏️ Section H: Festivals and Food
1. Which is your favourite festival? Write the names of some sweets and dishes prepared on that day.
✅ Answer Key – The Big Laddoo (Class 3 English, Santoor)
✏️ Section A: Picture Reading
1. In Picture 1, I can see a farmer working in the field.
2. In Picture 2, the man is grinding wheat.
3. In Picture 4, they are women. They are cooking food.
4. The girl is eating chapatti in the last picture.
5. We usually eat chapatti with vegetables, pulses, or pickles.
6. Yes, I have seen a field. There were crops of wheat (or rice / sugarcane / vegetables – accept student’s answer).
✏️ Section B: Poem – The Big Laddoo
(Poem recitation – no written answers needed here)
✏️ Section C: Let Us Think
1. Yes, I have seen a big laddoo at weddings / festivals. It was bigger than my hand. I did not eat it all by myself.
2. Yes, I once ate a very big watermelon.
3. I have eaten besan laddoo, boondi laddoo, motichoor laddoo, coconut laddoo, til laddoo.
4.That can be eaten That cannot be eaten
laddoo, apple, orange, watermelon ball, wheel, moon, globe
5. When the child threw the laddoo into the sea, it dissolved in water and made a big “splish-splash”!
✏️ Section D: Let Us Speak
👉 Meena might have answered: “I knew it was a laddoo because it was round and soft, and it smelled sweet.”
✏️ Section E: Let Us Learn
Words that tell us about a laddoo:
Round, sweet, yellow, soft, tasty, big
✏️ Section F: Let Us Write
A. Frame sentences
1. play – We love to play in the park.
2. plum – I ate a juicy plum.
3. cloud – The cloud is white and fluffy.
4. clock – The clock shows the correct time.
5. blue – The sky is blue.
6. blanket – I use a warm blanket in winter.
B. Match the following
1. cock – hen
2. lion – lioness
3. peacock – peahen
4. mare – horse
5. bull – cow
6. drake – duck
✏️ Section G: Let Us Explore
Objects that float and sink:
1. a piece of paper – ✔ (float)
2. a small stone – ✘ (sink)
3. a green leaf – ✔ (float)
4. a pencil – ✔ (float)
5. an eraser – ✘ (sink)
6. a feather – ✔ (float)
7. a spoon – ✘ (sink)
✏️ Section H:
Festivals and Food
(My example answer – students may write their own.)
My favourite festival is Diwali.
On that day, we prepare sweets and dishes like laddoos, barfi, kheer, puri, and samosa.