This document provides tips and guidelines for various language skills: 1. It outlines best practices for picture comprehension such as carefully observing details, counting objects, understanding concepts, and answering questions accurately. 2. Tips for punctuation emphasize starting sentences with capital letters and ending with proper punctuation. Contractions and quotation marks are also addressed. 3. Effective strategies for skills like translation, listening, speaking, reading and writing emphasize preparation, organization, clarity, maintaining focus, and practicing techniques like stress and intonation. 4. Sample passages, questions and prompts illustrate applying the techniques across different content.

1. Picture ComprehensionPicture Comprehension
1. What do you see in the picture ?
2. what is the boy doing?
3. How many birds are flying?
4. Are they happy?
5. How do you feel if you travel in
the cart?
Tips for answering:
1. Observe the picture carefully .
2. Count the figures and objects.
3. Understand the concept and
situation.
4. Read the questions and answer
accordingly.

2. PUNCTUATION
• Here are the important punctuation
marks.
• Use it every time you do a piece of
writing.
C . , ? “ ___” !

3. Can you all hear me?

4. PunctuationPunctuation
1. Start with the capital letter(proper nouns, month, day) & full stop at
the end of a sentence
Eg: i met ravi and anitha in may at trichy
I met Ravi and Anitha in May at Trichy.
2. Contractions – eg. Im =I’m, ive= I’ve
3. Eg: veena said am i an english teacher
Veena said, “Am I an English teacher? ”
2. Use Double quotes (“ ”) in direct speech
3. Question mark at the end of both “wh” and “yes or no” type
4. Exclamatory marks at the end of sentences that express emotions

5. Translation
Tips for translation
1. Read through your piece carefully before you start
2. Translate the meaning, not the words
3. Take your time
4. Reread, and make it flow
5. Condense and clarify.

6. LISTENING SKILL
TIPS FOR LISTENING
The teacher must read out the passage louder.
Students must listen to the teacher by closing the book.
Teacher should ask questions out of the story.
The students will answer the questions
A farmer used to fetch water in
two buckets. One bucket had a
hole in it. Everyday the water
was half full. The bucket with a
hole spilled water all the way.
There grew grass and flowers
on the traveled road. Thus the
bucket with a hole too
performed a good job.
Everyone one of us has a unique
personality.
1. What did the farmer do?
2. How many buckets did he
carry?
3. Was there a hole in the
bucket?
4. what grew on the travelled
road?
5. Who has unique personality?

7. Speaking Skill
1) Speak loudly and clearly.
2) Keep to the topic
3) Do not deviate
4) Narrate things in logical order
5) Look at the audience and
maintain eye contact
Express your
ideas on this
picture
Tips for Speaking

8. Reading skill
• Tips for reading
• Set REALISTIC READING
GOALS
• Follow proper punctuation
marks.
• Give importance to stress and
intonation.
• Beauty is only when
pronunciation is ample.
• Maintain the level of tone is also
essential.
• Read for meaning rather than
mere reading
Mobile phone is one of the
modern devices at present.
Every human is seemed to
have a mobile. Anyone can
feel that world is brought
small into the device. It is
because of the facility that
made the users GO
BEYOND THAN TALKING.
It means they can surf the
net and get information they
need.

9. Writing Skill
Tips for Writing :
Collect ideas from all
the sources
• Organize the ideas
• Prepare the rough draft
• Evaluate and edit the
rough draft
• Revise and rewrite the
fair draft
Complete the story...
Once there was a king. He had many ministers. One was
Tennalirama. Oneday , he saw a man hunting a bird……

10. 1.Express your views about the picture given
below in few points.
2. In listening skill passage, who carried the two
buckets?
3.Complete the following passage:
My name is Rajan. I am studying in 9th
standard. I would like to…………
Evaluation

11. Answer the following questions:
5.How did the lion cub joined the sheep?
6. what did the older lion take the younger one
to the pool?
7. what is the plural form of the word “
nucleus”?