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Compiled by - Niraj Kumar (Primary Teacher) MA (English), B.Ed, CPPDPT (IGNOU)
Kendriya Vidyalya Dipatoli,Ranchi
1 FOR BIGGNERS
SWAMI’S WORK BOOK
ON
ENGLISH CONVERSATION
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FOREWORD
Spoken English is what we expect from our children. During teaching of
English in Primary classes, I have observed that promoting English as corridor language is
a difficult task for a language teacher alone. However it is a collective effort. But certain
techniques are required to inculcate in teaching to promote this habit among student. In
this regard I have compiled set of questions which is a must for all the beginners. Drilling
of these questions with their probable answers may be of great help.
I am very much thankful to my Principal, Headmaster, colleagues, Staff and my beloved
wife motivated me to develop this Conversation Book for beginners. This book is in form
of a Work Book. Questions have been compiled from day today life. These frequently
asked questions will help student to develop their communication skills.
I hope this book will be equally useful to all the beginners.
- Niraj Kumar
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INDEX
SL No. Chapter Page No.
1. About My Self 3
2. My Family 4
3. My Routine Activities 5
4. My School 6
5. My Class Room 9
6. Politeness in the Classroom 10
7. My Home 11
8. My Best Friend 11
9. Good Habits 12
10. Healthy Food 13
11. Parts of the Body 14
12. Shapes 15
13. Colours 16
14. Seasons 17
15. Time 18
16. Days of the Week 18
17. Months in a year 19
18. My country & National Symbols 20
19. Festivals 21
20. animals 22
21. Homes of Animals 23
22. Sounds of Animals 24
23. The World around us 25
24. Our Helpers 26
25. Directions 27
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About Myself 1. Where do you live?
Answer: I live in _______________
2. How old are you?
Answer: I am__________________________________________________________
3. What is your father’s name? Answer: __________________________________________________________
4. What is your mother’s name? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
5. What is your father’s profession? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
6. Do you have brother(s) and sister(s)? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
7. How is your hair?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
8. What are your hobbies?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
9. What do you like to do in your spare time?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
10. What is your favourite food?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
11. Which class do you study in?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
12. What is your favourite flower?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
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My Family
a) What is your father’s name?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
b) What is your mother’s name?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
c) Who earns money for your family?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
d) Who cooks food for the family?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
e) How many members are there in your family?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
f) Name the members of your family?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
g) With whom do you play in the evening?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
h) Do you like your family?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
i) Who helps you when mother is angry with you?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
j) Who drops you for school?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
k) Who tells you stories?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
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My Routine
1. When do you wake up in the morning? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
2. What do you do on waking up? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
3. What do you do next? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
4. How do you greet your parents and elders every morning? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
5. Do you go for a walk every morning? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
6. When do you have your breakfast? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
7. What do you have for breakfast? Answer: __________________________________________________________
8. When do you leave your home for school? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
9. When do you play with your friends? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
10. When do you come back from school? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
11. When do you study and do your homework? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
12. When do you pack your school bag? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
13. What helps to pack your school bag? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
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14. Who helps to pack your bag? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
15. When do you read story books? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
16. When do you say your prayers? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
17. When do you go to bed at night?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
My School
1. What is the name of your school? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
2. Where is your school situated? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
3. What is the name of your Principal? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
4. In which class do you study? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
5. Who is your headmaster? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
6. What is the name of your class teacher? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
7. How do you go to school? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
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8. Do you have many friends in school? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
9. Who is your best friend? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
10. More about School Answer: ___________________________________________________________
11. When does your school begin? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
12. When does your school end? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
13. What do you learn at school? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
14. What else do you learn at school? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
15. Do you learn any games at school? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
16. Which games do you play at school? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
17. Do you like your school? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
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My Classroom
1. In which class do you study? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
2. How many doors and windows are there in your classroom? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
3. How many benches and desks are there in your classroom? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
4. How many students are there in your classroom? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
5. What are the windows for? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
6. Where does the teacher write lessons? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
7. How does teacher write on the blackboard? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
8. What do you see on the walls of your classroom? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
9. How is your classroom? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
10. Where do you display your activities in the classroom? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
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Politeness in the classroom
1. What do you do when your teachers enters the classroom?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
2. How do you greet your teacher?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
3. How do you request your teacher to let you enter the class?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
4. How do you request her/him to let you drink water?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
5. How do you request your teacher to let you go to the toilet?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
6. How do you request your teacher when you want to borrow something from your
classmate?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
7. What do you say when your teacher leaves the class?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
My Home
1. Where is your home situated? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
2. Is it a pucca house or Katcha house? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
3. What is your house made of? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
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4. How many rooms does it have? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
5. Where does your mother cook food? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
6. In which room do you dine (eat your food)? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
7. Where do you have bath? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
8. Where do you sleep? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
9. Do you have a garden at house? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
My best Friend
1. Who is your best friend? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
2. What is her/his name? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
3. How old is he/she? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
4. In which class does she/he study? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
5. Where does your best friend live? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
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6. What is the name of his father? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
Good habit
1. How do you greet your parents in the morning? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
2. How do you greet your elders in the afternoon? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
3. How do you greet your elders in the evening? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
4. What do you say your parents before going to bed? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
5. What do you say when you receive something? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
6. What should you say when you want something? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
7. What should you say when you do something wrong? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
8. What do you say to someone if they are in need? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
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Healthy Food
1. What do we need to live and grow? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
2. What must we eat to be healthy? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
3. What do we call the meal that we have in the morning? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
4. What do we call the meal that we have in the afternoon? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
5. What do we call the meal that we have in the evening? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
6. How should eat food? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
7. What are fast food are called? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
8. Which food are not good for our health? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
Parts of the Body
1. How many eyes do you have?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
2. How do your eyes help you? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
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3. How many ears do you have?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
4. How do your ears help you?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
5. How many noses do you have?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
6. How does your nose help you?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
7. How many arms do you have?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
8. How many hands do you have?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
9. How do your hands help you?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
10. How many fingers do you have?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
11. How many legs do you have?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
12. How do your legs help you? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
13. How many feet do you have?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
14. How many toes do you have? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
15. How do your teeth help you?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
16. How does your tongue help you?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
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17. How do you keep your body healthy?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
SHAPES
This is a triangle.
This is a square.
This is a rectangle.
This is circle.
This is an oval.
This is a cube.
This is a cone.
This is a cylinder.
1. Can you name somethings that are cubical in shape?
Answer: Yes, I can. A sugar-cube and dice.
2. Can you name some things that are conical in shape?
Answer: An ice-cream cone and coown’s cap.
3. Can you name some things that are cylindrical in shape?
Answer: Gas cylinder and roller pin.
4. How many faces does a rectangle have?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
5. How many faces does a cube or cuboid have?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
6. How many corners does a square have?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
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7. How many edges does a cuboid have?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
COLOURS
1. What is the colour of an apple? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
2. What is the colour of the sky? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
3. What is the colour of the leaves? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
4. What is the colour of the sun? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
5. What is the colour of chocolates? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
6. What is the colout of the blackboard? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
7. What is the colour of a brinjal? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
8. What is the colour of an orange? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
9. What is the colour of this frock? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
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10. How many colours are there in the rainbow?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
Seasons
1. How many seasons are there in a year? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
2. Name the seasons. Answer:_________________________________________________________________
3. Which is the hottest season in the year? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
4. Which is the coldest season of the year? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
5. In which season do flowers bloom? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
6. In which season do trees shed their leaves? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
7. What types of clothes do we wear in the winter? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
8. What types of clothes do we wear in the Summer? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
9. What types of clothes do we wear in the Rainy season? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
10. Which fruits do we get in summer season? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
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Time
1. What do we use to tell time? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
2. How many hours are there in a day? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
3. How many minutes are there in an hour? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
4. How many seconds are there in minutes? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
5. How many hands does a clock have? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
6. What does the long hand indicate? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
7. What kind of clock is this? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
8. What kind of watch is this? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
Days of the Week 1. How many days are there in a week?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
2. Can you name of the days of the week?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________ 3. Which is the first day of the week?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
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4. Which is the last day of the week? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
5. Which day comes between Tuesday and Thursday? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
6. Which day comes before Saturday? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
7. Which day comes after Sunday? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
Months in a Year
1. How many months are there in a year?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
2. Can you name the months in a year?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
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3. Which is the first month of the year?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
4. Which is the last month of the year?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
5. How many days does a month have?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
6. Name the month that that have 30 days?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
7. Name the month that have 31 days?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
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8. How many days does the month of February generally have?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
9. What is a leap year?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
10. In which month your birthday fall?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
My Country and National Symbol
1. What is the name of your country? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
2. By what other names is India also known? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
3. What is the capital of India? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
4. When did India became an independent country? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
5. When India did became a republic? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
6. What is our national language? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
7. Which is our national game? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
8. Which is our national flower? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
9. Which is our national bird? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
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10. Which is our national song? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
11. Who wrote our national song? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
12. Which is our national animal? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
13. Which is our national Anthem? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
14. Who wrote our national Anthem? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
15. Who is the President of India? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
16. Who is the Prime Minister of India? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
17. Who is called the ‘father of the nation’?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
18. Who was the first President of India? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
19. Who was the first Prime Minister of India?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
Festivals
1. What are some of the festivals celebrated by Hindus? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
2. Which festival is called the ‘Festival of Lights? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
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3. Which festival is called ‘Festival of Colours’? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
4. By whom is Christmas celebrated? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
5. Who celebrates Eid? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
6. By whom is Guruparv celebrated? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
7. By whom is Buddha Purnima celebrated? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
8. By whom is Mahavir Jayanti celebrated? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
9. By whom is Baishakhi celebrated? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
10. By whom is Bihu celebrated? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
11. By whom is Pongal celebrated? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
12. By whom is Onam celebrated? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
13. Name some national festivals. Answer: ___________________________________________________________
Animals
1. Where do wild animals live? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
2. Where do domestic animals live? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
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3. Name five wild animals. Answer: ___________________________________________________________
4. Name two animal kept as pet. Answer: ___________________________________________________________
5. Name some animals that give us milk. Answer: ___________________________________________________________
6. Name some animals that give us egg. Answer: ___________________________________________________________
7. Name the animals that are used to pull cart. Answer: ___________________________________________________________
8. Which animal gives us wool? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
9. Which is the biggest animal of Land? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
10. Which is the biggest water animal of Land? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
11. Which is called the ‘ Ship of the desert?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
12. Which animal is ‘The king of the Jungle’?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
13. Name animals that have strips on their body.
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
14. Name the animal that carries its baby in its pouch.
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
15. Where do you see different types of wild animals in cages?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
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16. Name the animal that has a hump.
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
17. Which animal has a trunk?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
Homes of Animals
1. Where do birds live? Answer:___________________________________________________________
2. Where do bees live? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
3. Where do lions live? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
4. Where does a cow live?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
5. Where does a dog live? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
6. Where do pigs live? Answer: ___________________________________________________________
7. Where do rabbits live?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
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Animals Their sounds and their young ones
1. What is young one of a duck called?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
2. How does a cow sound?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
Animal sound Yong ones
Dogs Bark Pup/puppy
Cat Mews kitten
Cow Moos calf
Horses Neigh foal
Sheep Bleat kid
Monkeys Chatter
Lions roar cub
Elephants Trumpet
Birds Chirp
Ducks Quacks ducklings
crows Caw
Pigeons Coo
Snakes Hiss
bees Hum
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The World Around Us
1. What gives light during the day?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
2. Where does the sun rises?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
3. Where does the sun sets?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
4. What do we see in the sky during night?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
5. Name some other things that you can see in the sky.
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
6. Do you know name of the planet that we live in?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
7. Name a few things that we see on land.
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
8. What do you see in water?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
Our Helpers 1.Who bring milk for us ?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
2. Who bakes bread?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
3. Who brings letters and post cards?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
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4. What do we call the person who mends shoes?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
5. What do we call the person who stitches clothes?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
6. Who lay the bricks?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
7. Who brings newspapers?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
8. Who fits the pipes and taps?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
9. Who make furniture?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
10. What do you say to the people who work for us?
Answer: I say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to people who work for us.
DIRECTIONS
1. How many directions are there?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
2. Name the four directions.
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
3. Name sub directions.
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
4. In which direction does the sun rise?
Answer: ___________________________________________________________
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