Sri Lanka Grade 4 English Workbook Activities

This outlines the activities presented in the Sri Lanka Grade 4 English Workbook, published by the Educational Publications Department.

Unit 1: My Family and Friends

• Lesson 1: Matching greetings and introductions, followed by reading and responding to simple questions.
• Lesson 2: Filling in blanks with personal information (name, age, grade) and writing a short self-introduction.
• Lesson 3: Drawing, coloring, and labeling family members in a family photo.
• Lesson 4: Describing family members and their occupations.
• Lesson 5: Drawing and labeling family members based on a poem from the Pupil's Book.
• Lesson 6: Identifying and writing body parts (head, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hair, hand, fingers, elbow, leg, knee, toes).
• Lesson 7: Matching names of pets with their type (fish, parrot, calf, dog) and filling in the blanks in a short poem about a bird.
• Lesson 8: Finding and coloring simple words (is, bit, dig, fan, ten, ban, cat, lop) and reading them aloud.

Unit 3: Places Around Me

• Lesson 1: Numbering pictures of places (church, temple, post office, hospital, school, library) and naming them.
• Lesson 2: Identifying places based on their function (e.g., buying stamps at the post office) and completing sentences about places.
• Lesson 3: Following directional instructions (left, right, straight) and describing what can be seen at the end of the path.
• Lesson 4: Drawing and coloring modes of transportation (bus, train, car, aeroplane) and matching them to their destinations. Includes a game involving giving and following directions to different locations.
• Lesson 5: Reading a train announcement and answering questions about the destination, time, and stops.
• Lesson 6: Matching words (beach, playground, children's park) with pictures and rearranging words to form correct sentences about places.
• Lesson 7: Completing sentences in posters about keeping the classroom and environment clean.
• Lesson 8: Describing pictures of places (zoo, park, library) and writing simple sentences about them.

Unit 4: Joy of Work

• Lesson 1: Naming professions (postman, teacher, nurse, doctor, farmer), finding job words in a word search, and matching professions to their workplaces.
• Lesson 2: Finding job words in a newspaper, drawing pictures of different professions, and circling job words.
• Lesson 3: Filling in the blanks with professions of family members and solving puzzles about jobs.
• Lesson 4: Labeling kitchen appliances (blender, gas cooker, rice cooker, refrigerator, spoon, coconut scraper, mortar and pestle), finding kitchen items in a newspaper advertisement, drawing kitchen utensils (knife, plate, spoon, cup and saucer, fork), and naming items in a market basket.
• Lesson 5: Matching actions related to using a TV (press, select, change, watch) with their objects (channel, power button, film, volume) and solving a hidden word puzzle.
• Lesson 6: Completing sentences about cartoon characters using color words and drawing and describing a favorite cartoon character.
• Lesson 7: Drawing faces to indicate whether one can perform certain actions (watering plants, sweeping, flying, scraping coconut, swimming).
• Lesson 8: Finding and writing simple words (box, ten, hen, din, bed, fed, lug, not, beg, pen).

Unit 5: Our Festivals

• Lesson 1: Matching pictures of festivals (Christmas, Deepavali, Ramazan, Vesak, Sinhala & Tamil New Year) with their names.
• Lesson 2: Finding and writing names of festivals and people celebrating them.
• Lesson 3: Finding and writing names of places of worship (church, temple, kovil, mosque).
• Lesson 4: Finding and coloring words related to festivals and places of worship.
• Lesson 5: Completing festival greeting exchanges.
• Lesson 6: Selecting and writing festive food items (milkrice, watalappan, cake, laddu) and matching them to the relevant festivals.
• Lesson 7: Listening to a story about Christmas and marking statements as true or false.
• Lesson 8: Putting words in order to form sentences about Vesak and writing about the festival.

Unit 6: Let's Go Shopping

• Lesson 1: Coloring items in different packaging (tins, boxes, packets).
• Lesson 2: Filling in blanks with demonstrative pronouns (this, these, that, those) and subject pronouns (it, they).
• Lesson 3: Matching phrases commonly used in shopping conversations.
• Lesson 4: Finding prices of items and practicing asking and answering about prices.
• Lesson 5: Singing a song about shopping and using question marks and periods.
• Lesson 6: Solving word problems involving quantities and money.
• Lesson 7: Role-playing a shopping scenario using common shopping phrases.
• Lesson 8: Matching and reading rhyming words.

Unit 7: My Calendar

• Lesson 1: Putting the days of the week in order.
• Lesson 2: Completing a "months ladder" and writing the order of the months.
• Lesson 3: Selecting verbs and writing about daily activities.
• Lesson 4: Creating a zig-zag booklet about daily activities and completing a sentence about the current date.
• Lesson 5: Answering questions based on a calendar page showing July and August.
• Lesson 6: Numbering pictures of weather conditions and drawing pictures to represent the weather during a week.
• Lesson 7: Talking about birthdays and marking them on a table.
• Lesson 8: Coloring clocks to represent favorite times, marking times on clocks, and playing a game involving calendar and time-related questions.

Unit 8: Playing Games

• Lesson 1: Circling pictures of actions (walk, run, hop, skip, jump, catch, hit, throw, bend, kick).
• Lesson 2: Completing sentences about actions using present continuous tense (is, am, are).
• Lesson 3: Playing a game involving rolling a dice and describing actions in pictures.
• Lesson 4: Talking about hobbies and marking them on a table.
• Lesson 5: Playing a game involving spelling, repeating, miming, drawing, and writing about a favorite sport.
• Lesson 6: Writing about hobbies and favorite sports.
• Lesson 7: Making a sports cap.
• Lesson 8: Sorting words based on rhyming sounds.

Unit 9: Good Practices

• Lesson 1: Writing about daily routines (morning, afternoon, evening, night).
• Lesson 2: Matching and writing polite phrases for different situations.
• Lesson 3: Rearranging words to form sentences about good practices (protecting the school bus, keeping the road clean, planting trees, following road rules, saying thank you).
• Lesson 4: Completing a crossword puzzle about healthy habits (good sleep, healthy food, brushing teeth, eating dinner together, washing hands, drinking boiled water, being kind to animals).
• Lesson 5: Finding and writing words related to good habits (drink, plant, dump, protect, wash, brush, hands, get up).
• Lesson 6: Sorting food items into categories (fruits, vegetables, cereal, green leaves).
• Lesson 7: Rearranging words to form sentences about the benefits of trees.
• Lesson 8: Sorting words based on rhyming sounds.

Unit 10: Happy Days

• Lesson 1: Matching pictures of emotions (happy, hungry, thirsty, tired, sleepy) with sentences and asking/answering questions about feelings.
• Lesson 2: Playing a pronoun matching game.
• Lesson 3: Completing sentences using possessive pronouns (his, her, our, my, their).
• Lesson 4: Labeling festive food items, decoding words, and writing sentences about food preferences.
• Lesson 5: Creating badges for food items, arranging a festive food table, and having a show-and-tell event.
• Lesson 6: Reading a birthday invitation and answering true/false questions about it.
• Lesson 7: Drawing and writing about a past birthday celebration.
• Lesson 8: Circling and writing words that sound like "good".