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BUSINESS ACTIVITIES
Whata business activity is as learnt in Grade One?

SOURCES OF GOODS

The items we buy and use come from a source.

A source is where something is found.

Activity 1 work as a class.

Look at the pictures below.

1. What is happening in the pictures?

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 2. Name goods in the pictures.
3. What are the sources of the goods named above

What are the sources of goods we use?

Activity 2 Work in pairs

Look at the pictures below

1. What do you see in the pictures?

2. What are the people in the pictures doing?
ACTIVITY 3 Work as a class
Take a walk to the neighbourhood. Find out various sources
of goods.
1. What did you see people in neighborhood doing?
2. Name the goods you saw.
3. Draw and colour the goods.
4. Name where the goods are produced.

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 ACTIVITY 4 Work in groups

1. Match the following goods with their sources.

GOODS SOURCES

ACTIVITY 5 Work at home.

Discuss with your parents or guardians the sources of goods you
use at home.

PROVISION OF SERVICES

What did you learn about services in Grade One?

Name some of the services you learnt.

ACTIVITY 6 Work in groups.

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Look at the pictures below.

1. What are the people in the pictures doing?

2. What name is given to the activities happening in the
pictures?

ACTIVITY 7 Work in pairs

Watch the video provided by the teacher.

1. What do you see in the video?

2. Name the services from the video.
3. Which of the services is common in your area?

ACTIVITY 8

Take a walk to the nearest market place. Observe different

services provided.

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 1. Name the services you observed.
2. What are the names of the people providing services in the
market?

ACTIVITY 9 Work as a class

Role play the provision of services.

Importance of provision services.

ACTIVITY 10 Work in groups.

Read the following story.

Mr. John is a doctor. One day he left home going to work. On the
way to work he realized that he had dirt on his shoes. He went for
shoe shining at Jane’s market stall and paid 100 shillings. Mr.
John then boarded a matatu to the hospital. At the hospital he
met Amina who was sick and he treated her. Amina paid using the
mobile phone.

Complete the following questions.

1. Mr. John is a ___________________ ( Shoeshiner, doctor)

2. ____________________ is a service. ( shoe shining, Jane )
3. Jane does shoe shining to get __________________ ( money,
shoes)
4. Amina went to the hospital for _______________ services.
( treatment, transport)

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 5. Mr. John boarded a ______________ to the hospital. ( mobile
phone, matatu )

MOVEMENT OF GOODS

ACTIVITY 11 Work in groups.

Look at the following pictures

1. What do you see in the pictures?

2. Which of the means of moving goods have you seen in your
area?

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ACTIVITY 12 Work as a class.

Take a walk to the nearest market. Observe the means used in

moving goods.

1. How many means of moving goods did you see?

2. Name the means of moving goods you saw.
3. Which of the means was used by many people?

ACTIVITY 13

Role play the moving of goods in a market.

ACTIVITY 14. Work as a class.

1. Name the means of moving goods you like.

2. Why do you like that means of moving goods?
3. Draw and colour the means of moving goods.

ACTIVITY 15. Work as a group.

Identify and circle the means of moving goods in the word

puzzle given below.

Q H F U F C G K W T

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 A Y J N C A P Y V R
N H L S V R R Y G U
Y J B O A T A S C
K S H I P L W Y S K
C D Z A C N E R E E
V B V E X Y R R O D
L N W C Y P C O O Y
M O T O R C Y L E A
X M L K J H G D E G

1. List the names from the complete word puzzle.

ACTIVITY 16 Work at home

Discuss with parent or guardian how they move goods.

BUYING AND SELLING

Buying is giving of money to get what you don’t have.

When we don’t have food, we use money to buy it.
Pupils buy books and pens to use in school.
Selling is the giving out items to get money in return.
Shopkeepers sell items to get money
How do we get items we use at home?

ACTIVITY 17 Work in groups.

a. Look at the following pictures.

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 1. Name the items.
2. Which of the items in the pictures above are used in your
home?
3. How do you get the items used at home?

b. Look at the picture below.

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 What are the people in the picture doing?

ACTIVITY 18 Work as a class.

Take a walk to the nearest market. Observe how buying and

selling takes place.

1. What happens during buying and selling?

Difference between buying and selling

ACTIVITY 19. Work in Pairs.

Look at the following pictures

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 1. What is happening in the pictures?
2. Name the people who are buying.
3. Name the people who are selling.

ACTIVITY 20. Work as a class.

Role play buying and selling in class

Importance of buying and selling.

Why is buying and selling important?

Buying helps us to get our basic needs like food, clothing and
shelter.

Buying helps to get what we don’t have.

We sell to get money.

ACTIVITY 21 Work on your own.

1. Buying is giving of ____________ to get what you don’t have.

2. The shopkeeper is ____________ bread. ( selling, buying)
3. We sell to get ___________.
4. Buying helps us to get our basic needs
like_________,___________ and _________.
5.

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ACTIVITY 22 Work at home.

1. Discuss with parents or guardians other importance of

buying and selling.
2. List the importance in your exercise books.

COMMUNICATION
NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION
Look at the picture below

A B

C D

Activity 1. Work as a class.

Talk about what you see in the picture above

What I have learnt.

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Nonverbal Communication is a way of passing information using hands, heads,
face and other body parts.

Activity 2. Work in pairs,

In pairs, practise the following nonverbal communication;

1. Saying No.
2. Saying Yes.
3. Goodbye.
4. Come.
5. Pointing.

Activity 3. Watch videos of people using nonverbal communication (Link

provided)

1. Identify the signs used in the video.

2. State the meaning of the signs identified.
Activity 4. Work in groups.

Talk to one another on a suggested topic and practise the following

1. Maintain eye contact.

2. Use the head and the face.
3. Use the hands.
Activity 5. Work at home

Talk with your parents or guardian about the nonverbal communication that
they know.

Share your finding with your classmates.

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 Exercise

1. Passing information using hands, heads, face and other body parts is
called_________________ (Talking, nonverbal communication)

2. Match the following with the right nonverbal sign

Goodbye

Come

Yes

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 Pointing

TURN TAKING

Look at the picture below

An image of two people talking to each other in turns

Hello
Hello
Linda
Linet,
how are
you
I am fine,
and how I am fine
are you? too,I love
your hair

Thank
you, my
friend, and Thank
your hair you
looks nice Linet.
too

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Activity 6. Work in pairs

Role play turn taking as demonstrated above

Let us learn

Turn taking is where one person speaks and the other person is listening. As they
continue to speak, the speaker and the listener exchange roles.

The speaker is the person talking first, then stops talking to allow the listener to
speak.

Exercise

In turn taking, the ________ speaks first (Listener, Speaker) and the_______
listens (speaker, listener).

VERBAL COMMUNICATION

Activity 7. Look at the picture below

An image of two people talking in turns

Hello
Hello
John,
James
how are
you

I am fine
I am fine,
too, nice
and how
to see
are you?
you after
a long
time
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 I went for Welcome
a holiday back
in Nakuru friend

What is happening in the picture above?

Verbal communication is passing information by word of mouth. When talking to

someone face to face, in groups or in a classroom, we use verbal communication.

Activity 8. Work in groups,

Role-play on verbal communication

Share with your classmates what you talked about in groups

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Exercise

1. In verbal communication, we use _______ (hands, mouth) when

communicating.
2. Match the following with the right verbal communication
Teaching in a
classroom

Two people talking

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 Telephone
conversation

Listening to radio

LISTENING
Look at the picture below

Activity 9. Work as a class

What can you see in the picture?

Let us learn

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Listening is keeping quiet when the other person is speaking. When you keep
quiet, you hear what the other person is saying.

To be a good listener, one should do the following;

1. Keep quiet when the other person is speaking

2. Maintain eye contact

Activity 10; work in groups

The teacher reads a story

Learners to talk about the story

MONEY
SPENDING HABITS
To spend money is to use money. When using money, it should be used in a
good way. For example: one should buy what he/she can afford
Look a the pictures shown below

KSH 5
KSH 55 KSH 65
KSH 110

ACTIVITY 1: Work as a class

1 .Identify the items that you can afford to buy with one hundred shillings.

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 ACTIVITY 2: Work at home

Discuss with your parents about good ways of spending money.

SHOPPING LIST
Before we buy things that we need, we need to make a list
of things that we want to buy. This list is known as a
shopping list. It can be carried around when buying
things.
Look at the pictures below

A B

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C

ACTIVITY 3: Work as a class

1. Talk about what you see in the pictures shown above.

2. Copy the list of items shown in picture c in your exercise

books.

ACTIVITY 4: Work in groups

1. Discuss in groups why a shopping list important.

ACTIVITY 5: Work at home

Work with parents or guardians to prepare a sample shopping list

that can be used at home.

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 MONEY SAVING
To save money is to keep money for future use.
Look at the pictures shown below

B C
ACTIVITY 6: Work as class

1.Identify the items shown in the pictures above.

2.State what is happening in picture A.

3.Discuss in groups why money saving is important.

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ACTIVITY 7: Work at home

Work with parents or guardians to prepare items that can aid saving money.

4.HOME TRADE
RETAIL TRADE

Retail trade is the buying and selling of goods and services to

people for their personal use.

The goods and services are also sold in small amounts.

Look at the pictures below

ACTIVITY 1 Work in groups

(a) what can you see in the pictures above?

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(b) Name the different types of retail traders shown in the
pictures?

ACTIVITY 2 Work as a class.

Take a walk to the nearest market, observe what takes place.

(a) What is the name of the market you visited?

(b) What were the people in the market doing?
(c) Name the retail traders that you saw in the market.

ACTIVITY 3 Work as a class.

Role play retail trade.

WHAT I HAVE LEARNT

A retail trader buys goods in large amounts and sells in small

amounts.

Retail trade helps in people get goods they need in small

amounts.

EXERCISE

1. Retail trade refers to the buying and selling of goods and

services in __________ amounts ( large, small)
2. A ________________ buys goods in large amounts.

ACTIVITY 4: Work at home

With the help of your parents or guardians, discuss the different
types of retail trade in your locality.

PRICE LIST
Price list is a list of goods with their prices
Look at the pictures shown below

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ITEM PRICE (SHS)
110

55

65

ACTIVITY 5: Work as a class

1.Identify the prices of the goods shown in the picture above.
ACTIVITY 6: Work in class
Copy the price list above.

5. HUMAN NEEDS AND WANTS

Needs are things we cannot live without such as food, shelter and
clothing.

FOOD
Look at the pictures below

A B

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C D

ACTIVITY 1 Work in groups

(a)Name the foods shown in the pictures above.

 We eat food when we are hungry.

 The foods in picture A make us to grow.
 The foods in picture B give us energy to work and play.
 The foods in picture C and D make us healthy.

ACTIVITY 2 Work as a class

(b) Recite the following poem on the importance of food

FOOD I EAT
I eat cassava and bread, to be strong,
I eat meat and beans, to grow well,

I eat fruits and vegetables to be healthy.

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I eat a balanced diet, for strength, growth and good health

Complete the following sentences

1___________and _________make us strong. (fruits, vegetables,

cassava and Bread)

2. Meat and beans help us to ________________ (be strong, grow

well, be healthy)

3. _______________ and_______________ helps to be healthy.

4. Food helps us to be__________________, _________________.and

______________

ACTIVITY 3 Work at home

With the help of your parents or guardians, discuss the

importance of the food you eat at home.

CLOTHING
Look at the pictures below

A B

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C D

ACTIVITY 4 Work in groups

(a) In the pictures above, what clothes are the

people wearing?
(b) Why are the people wearing the clothes?

ACTIVITY 5 Work as a class

Recite the following poem

Child who feels cold, if you feel cold,

You must wear sweater, to keep warm,
Child who goes to school, if you go to school,
You must wear uniform, to show yourself,
Cook who makes food, if you make food,
You must wear an apron, to keep off dirt
(a) Complete the following sentences
1. A sweater keeps us……………………….(cold, warm)
2. Children going to school wear………………..to identify
themselves (apron, shirt, uniform, coat)
3. Mechanics wear overalls to keep them ___________ ( unsafe,
safe )

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 What I have learnt.

Write the following sentences in your exercise books.

We wear Clothes to:
 keep us warm.
 make us look smart.
 identify ourselves.
 protect us from dirt.
 protect us from injury.
 Part of our culture.

ACTIVITY 7 Work at home

With the help of your parents or guardians, talk about the
importance of clothes.

SHELTER
Shelters are houses made for people to live in.
Look at the pictures below.

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 A hut A house

ACTIVITY 8 Work in groups

(a) Name the houses shown in the pictures above?
(b) Draw and colour your house.
ACTIVITY 9 Work as a class
Recite the following poem.
This is the hut, So close to my heart
To it I go, When I am hurt,
To it I go to rest, To it I go to eat,
It’s my best,
For to it, I sleep and hide,
From wild animals,
And bad people.
Complete the following sentences

1. Houses and huts are good because in them we_________,

____________and ______________
2. Can houses protect us from sun and cold?__________ (no,
yes )

What I have learnt.

1. Shelters are houses people live in

2. We use shelters to sleep, rest, to protect ourselves from wild
animals and people, and to protect ourselves from bad
weather.

ACTIVITY 10 Work at home

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With the help of your parents and guardians, find out more about
different types of houses built by different communities.

ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITIES
GRADE 2 COURSE BOOK.

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