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It's a busy week, so please excuse my brevity...
The second perek opens with a few surprising discussions about Megillah reading, surprising in the sense that they are completely inconsonant with our familiar practice.
Mishna One allows for a Megillah to be written (and read!) in whatever language a person understands. My friend Rabbi Dov Linzer has actually written and read from an English language Megillah. You can read the story about why and when here
Mishna Three surprisingly offers three opinions as to where in the text the reading needs to begin (Not everyone thought that we need to read the gantza megillah!) When you come to these three opinions, it would be interesting to think about how each of the sages cited would answer the question, "What is the story primarily about?", as this is the question that presumably informed their thought as to where the reading needs to begin.
With Mishna Four the perek shifts to details about who may read the Megillah for the congregation and at what time it needs to be done. Of note are the facts that (1) the gender of the reader does not appear to be a factor, and (2) the Mishna does not appear to be acknowledging the existence of the nighttime reading of the Megillah at all! For more on both of these, scroll all the way down here for the halachik discussion around BDJ's nighttime Megillah reading that is done by Sara Smith!
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