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Places You’ll

Go…

Adventure and Imagination

Warm Up

• What do you do during your summer holidays?

• Is it important to travel during every vacation? Can one do interesting things in
one’s own city during the summer holidays? Share your thoughts.

Let us read a story about a girl named Mohini and her most wonderful trip during her
summer holidays.

I Read

Summer vacations were over. Days of slurping ice creams, drinking
mango panna and lazing around in the afternoons were over. But
Mohini wanted to stay in bed till late.

‘Wake up, Mohini! Do you want to be late for school on the very first slurping
day after the holidays and set a bad example?’ Mohini’s mother scolded
her.

‘I am waking up, Maa’, said Mohini, rubbing her eyes.

Mohini quickly brushed, got dressed and sat down for breakfast. As she sat nibbling at
the mint chutney sandwich, her mind was repeating Miss Nalini’s words: ‘Everyone has

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