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प्रश्न
Here are some more idioms taken from the lesson. Find out their meaning and use them in sentence of your own.
have cold feet
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उत्तर
have cold feet- be frightened
The hotel staff had cold feet when Dubai police enquired him about Sridevi’s death.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Find these phrasal verbs in the story.
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burn out
light up
look on
run out
keep out
Write down the sentences in which they occur, consult a dictionary and write down the meaning that you think matches the meaning of the phrasal verb in the sentence.
Fill in the blank in the sentence below (the verb given in bracket will give you a clue).
The zookeeper was stuck in a tree and his _______ was filmed by the TV crew. (rescue)
Here are some words from the lesson which describe different kinds of sounds.
fill in the blank using the correct form of the word given.
The _________________ of breaking glass woke me up.
The poet opens his poem with a question. Is the question asked to receive some answer? No. It is a question used to emphasize and stress upon the fact that modern man has no time to enrich his life from nature.
Such a device used by poets falls under the Figure of Speech called 'Interrogation' or 'Rhetorial Question'. Refer to the poem 'The Pilgrim' and find examples of Interrogation.
What is adverbial?
Rewrite the following in indirect speech.
….. the words seemed to mean, “Let us do this painful thing while the fit is on us.”
Rewrite the following in indirect speech.
“What! Are you drawing it all out again?” he asked in surprise.
“Yes, the whole thing,” I said.
Rewrite the following sentence by rectifying the errors in the use of modal.
You may speak politely to the elders.
Find the synonyms for the underlined word.
The narrator was in trouble because he took the oranges.
Change the following into passive voice.
My grandfather built this house in 1943.
Rewrite the story in the past tense.
The boy chases a cat. The cat climbs up the tree and purrs from the branch of the tree. The cat jumps to another tree. The boy who is chasing the cat notices a snake under the tree. He leaves his attempt to catch the cat and he runs home screaming for help.
Fill in the blank with appropriate airline vocabulary given in the options.
The captain and the co-pilot sit in the______.
The predators follow the ______of the turtles to eat their eggs.
Work in pairs and say the sentence to each other. Do you hear any difference in the way it is spoken? Discuss and share with the class. Discuss the difference in the meaning of the sentence.
Look at this banyan tree.
Read these sentence from the story carefully. Do they give command or request or make statement? Write 'C' for command and 'R' for request and 'S' for statement.
I want a roof over my head.
Read the sentence given below. Fill in the blank with the correct form of the appropriate laughter word from the exercise above.
When I tickle Nishanth, he always makes a loud ______.
Choose the correct plural form.
We celebrate Independence day _______ 15th August, every year.
Choose the plural forms.
Key
Change the sentence from past continuous to future continuous.
Prasanth was reading newspaper.
Give the correct verb form for following sentence.
They ______ to school.
Choose the correct verb.
The birds ______ in the sky.
Complete the following sentence using past perfect tense.
The satellite _________ on the moon before they gave the command. (land)
Fill in the blank using past perfect tense form of the verb:
Mariappan knew Pudukottai so well because he ______(live) there for five years.
Look at the following complex sentence. Circle(bold) the Main clause and underline the Subordinate clause.
Nobody knows when the power supply will resume.
Rewrite the following sentence using ‘If ’ without changing the meaning.
Kavin will not stop flying kites unless he understands the risk involved in it.
Fill in the blank with the correct infinitive.
______ concession, you have to apply well in advance.
Combine each of the following pair of sentence using participle. The first one is done for you.
The girl entered the room. She was singing a song.
In the following item, sentence I is complete, while sentence II is not. Complete sentence II, making it as similar as possible to sentence I. Write sentence II in the case.
(I) As soon as the students enter their classroom, the teacher welcomes them.
(II) No sooner ___________.
