Story: The Smart Monkey - Keeping the Stadium Clean - Class 2 English Worksheet
Read the story The Smart Monkey about two girls, a monkey and a dustbin, and practise story questions, the sounds fl and cl, and clapping the parts of words.
Learning Objective
Read a story with a message about keeping places clean, recall who did what, put events in order, use the blends fl and cl and clap syllables.
Skills Practised
- Story questions
- Story order
- Using a dustbin
- Blends fl and cl
- Syllables
- New words
The Smart Monkey
One day Anju and Farida went to the market. Anju bought a bag and Farida bought a water bottle. Then they went to a shop and bought a packet of groundnuts and a bottle of juice. They felt tired. They sat on a bench under a tree to rest. There was a monkey on a branch of the tree above them. Anju and Farida did not see the monkey. They took out their food and began to eat. The monkey had a banana. He peeled the banana and ate it. Anju and Farida ate the groundnuts and threw the packet down. Then they drank the juice and threw the bottle down. Just then, the monkey climbed down the tree with the banana peel. There was a dustbin nearby. The monkey threw the banana peel into the dustbin. Anju and Farida saw this and felt ashamed. They picked up the packet and the empty bottle and threw them into the dustbin.
Preview Questions
Q1. In the story “The Smart Monkey”, Anju and Farida went to the ___.
- market
- stadium
- school
- park
Q2. Anju bought a ___ at the market.
- bag
- water bottle
- banana
- bottle of juice
Q3. Farida bought a ___ at the market.
- bag
- packet of groundnuts
- water bottle
- banana
Interactive Story Mission
Join Coach and Pariskhit for a 10-minute football training story. Children work through 12 activities with big buttons, kind feedback, hints when they get stuck, and a badge and stars at the end.
- What Happened Next: Put the story in order.
- True Sentence: Think of the story. Pick the sentence that is true.
- The Banana Skin: Drag the missing word into the goal.
- Close By: Think of the story. Pick the missing word.
- A Hard Word: Read the sentence. Pick the right meaning.
- Bin or Keep: Look at each picture and word. Does it go in the dustbin, or do we keep it?
- Find the Dustbin: Tap the dustbin.
- Clap Counts: Clap once for each part of a word. How many claps does each word have?
- Starts with fl: **“fl”** is the sound at the start of flag. **“cl”** is the sound at the start of clap. Tap the picture whose name starts with **“fl”**.
- Starts with cl: Tap the picture whose name starts with **“cl”**.
- Say It in a Sentence: Read the sentences. Pick the right one.
- Shop Words: Read the sentence. Pick the missing word.
Note for Parents & Teachers
This follows the NCERT Class 2 English lesson The Smart Monkey (Mridang): Anju and Farida eat under a tree and throw their litter down, and a smart monkey puts his banana peel in a dustbin, so they feel ashamed and clean up. The words are a short retelling of the textbook story. It also covers the blends fl and cl (flag, flower, floor, cloud, clap, clock) and clapping syllables. Talk about where waste goes at home and at school.