could go.

Write other sentences containing pronouns. Read

your sentences to the class.

TALKING ABOUT A PICTURE

In what game is the

boy in the picture taking part? How do you know?

Have you ever taken

part in this game? Tell the class how to play it.

Before giving your explanation, plan the order in which you will state the facts.

For instance, you may tell:

1. The things needed to play the game.

2. The kind of field.

3. The number of players, and their positions when

the game begins.

4. The way in which the game proceeds.

5. The way in which the game ends.

In the same way tell how to play:

BUILDING A VOCABULARY

Our baseball team played the team

Fill in the two blanks with the name of the opposing team and the date. Then give an account of the game. The following list of baseball terms may help you to give an accurate account of the game.

home-run
hit

fair hit

passed ball
wild pitch
sacrifice

fumbled grounder

base on balls

Give a similar account of a game of tennis, football, basketball, hockey, soccer, or any other game that you have taken part in or witnessed.

Before attempting to tell your story, make as complete a list as you can of the terms used in the game.

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REVIEWING PROPER NOUNS

In the following sentences find the name of each particular person, place, or thing. When a noun is the name of a particular person, place, or thing, what kind of noun is it? With what kind of letter should it begin?

Rewrite the sentences, showing the difference between the two kinds of nouns.

1. The history of games takes us back many centuries and to many countries.

2. The game of tennis was played centuries ago by

the greeks and romans. From italy it spread to france where it became the popular game of kings and queens,

3. Football was popular in england in the time of queen elizabeth, although elizabeth herself was opposed to it.

4. Golf is supposed to have started in scotland, but it really originated in the low countries of northern europe where it was played on the ice. 5. Baseball is the only popular game which was started in the united states. During the war our boys played it in england and in france, and taught it to soldiers of many nations.

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A BIBLE STORY

DAVID AND GOLIATH

I SAMUEL XVII-XVIII

Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and stood on a mountain on the one side, and Saul and the men of Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.

And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass. . . . He stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? Choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me. If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us. When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.

Now David was the [younger] son of Jesse. . .; and the three eldest followed Saul. But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem. . . And Jesse said unto David, his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren . . . and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.

And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host

was going forth to the fight, and shouted for battle... And David... ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren. And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard them.

And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid. . . . And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? . . . And the people answered him after this manner, saying, The man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel. . . . And David turned him toward another and spake after the same manner. And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him.

...

And David said to Saul, Thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine. And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth. And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion . . . and took a lamb out of the flock: and I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me I smote him, and slew him. . . . The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the Lord be with thee.

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And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him