Chapter 2 — Picture Reading

Chapter 2 of the Class 2 English NCERT textbook (Mridang), "Picture Reading", tells a short story about two children, Jeet and Babli, who play bat and ball on a holiday and teaches vocabulary, sight words, opposites, and how to join sentences with "and".

• The Story: OUT! OUT! — On a holiday, Jeet and Babli play several games including skipping rope and hide and seek. They then play bat and ball, but the ball lands in a neighbour's locked garden and is lost.
• Babli Makes a New Ball — Babli uses rags, paper, wool, and a piece of string to make a new ball. The game starts again, but when Jeet hits the homemade ball very hard, it bursts open and scatters in the air.
• Vocabulary: Sight Words and New Words — The chapter introduces sight words such as 'this', 'how', 'they', 'after', and 'and'. New words include 'skipped', 'threw', 'gathered', 'brought', and 'picked'.
• Vowel Sound and Word Groups — Children practise the short vowel sound 'e' through picture-word sets — egg, engine, elephant, pen, pencil, bell, kettle, hen, and well. They also learn that 'an' is used before words that start with the letter 'e'.
• Language Activities: Opposites and Joining Sentences — Children write opposites of simple words such as 'up', 'in', 'open', 'fat', 'hot', and 'small'. They also practise joining two sentences into one using the word 'and'.

1. 01Jeet and Babli are the two main characters who play together on a holiday.
2. 02The children play skipping rope and hide and seek before switching to bat and ball.
3. 03Their ball is lost when it lands in Mohit's locked garden.
4. 04Babli makes a new ball using rags, paper, wool, and string.
5. 05When Jeet hits the new homemade ball hard, it bursts open and Babli shouts 'OUT! OUT!'
6. 06The chapter introduces the short vowel sound 'e' with words like pen, hen, bell, and kettle.
7. 07Children practise joining sentences using the word 'and' and writing opposites of simple words.