Chapter 2 — Badal and Moti

It is a short story about a boy named Badal who rescues a puppy and names it Moti. The puppy later saves Badal's life when he falls into a deep pit on a rainy day.

The main characters are Badal, a village boy, and Moti, the puppy he rescues. Badal's mother also plays a role by giving him permission to keep the puppy.

One evening, while returning from school, Badal saw a puppy shivering in the cold by the side of the road and brought it home.

She agreed, but only on the condition that Badal promised to take care of the puppy. She smiled as she said this.

Moti caught Badal's scent and followed it to the pit. He then started barking, which alerted the neighbours who pulled Badal out using a rope.

On a rainy day, Badal slipped on a muddy lane on his way home from school and fell into a deep pit from which he could not climb out on his own.

The chapter introduces past tense verbs by showing words from the story that end in -ed, such as lived, loved, played, gathered, and thanked. Students then practise adding -ed to words like walk, talk, and ask.

Students learn when to use a question mark and when to use a full stop. They practise adding the correct punctuation to statements and questions.

The teacher reads the story aloud and students arrange given sentences in the correct sequence of events from the story.

Students arrange jumbled pictures of a story about a dove and an ant in the correct order and then fill in blanks using given words to complete the story.

Students mark sentences about the story as true or false, for example whether Badal lived with his grandmother (false) or whether Moti caught Badal's scent (true).

The story teaches kindness by showing Badal rescuing a helpless puppy, responsibility by showing him taking care of Moti, and friendship by showing how loyalty between friends can save lives.