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प्रश्न
Share your opinions/ feelings with your partner about a stranger who has a villainous look/appearance.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Form groups and use the following topic for discussion. Take the help of your college library and your teacher.
Dictatorship Vs Democracy
Given below are five main qualities for true sportsmanship.
| i. | Determination |
| ii. | Optimisation |
| iii. | Stamina |
| iv. | Perseverance |
| v. | Decisiveness |
Get into groups of four. Each group will choose one quality to talk about to the whole class for about one minute. But before you talk, you have two minutes to think about it. You can make notes if you wish.
You are visiting the primary school where you studied classes I to IV, after six years. You get a chance to go to your standard two classrooms and you are permitted to sit at the same place where you used to sit.
Describe your feelings at that time.
Deliver a short speech for about five minutes on the following.
Think of a situation where all the trees can speak. What will they talk about?
The cunning spider was waiting for a chance to pull the fly into its web and it used all the possible ways to trap her. Have you ever been trapped by flattery to do something you did not want to do? Discuss in pairs and share your experience in the class.
Imagine you are going to celebrate your forthcoming birthday at an orphanage/old age home.
Deliver a short speech about your birthday celebration by using the following hints.
- The reasons for choosing an orphanage/old-age home.
- The people who accompany you.
- The food which you are going to offer them.
- The useful gifts/articles which you are going to give them.
- Other events like cake cutting, conducting games, etc.
As a child I spent my free time ______.
I used to admire ______.
Have you ever been scared? What happened? How did you feel? Talk about it in one or two sentences with your friend. Repeat it to the class.
Collect images of some electronic gadgets and play a JAM (just a minute) game by picking one image and talking for a minute about it in your classroom.
Read the different verb form where they remain the same in the direct and indirect speech in the following case. Fill in the blank with missing indirect speech.
We do not usually change the modal verbs must and needn’t. But must can become had to or would have to and needn’t can become didn’t have to or wouldn’t have to if we want to express an obligation. Would/wouldn’t have to are used to talk about future obligations.
Your family has decided to go on a tour during the vacation. You are calling a travel agency and seeking information regarding package, places of visit, cost etc. Work in pairs and role play as a receptionist and a customer.
Read the story board and take roles as pilot and flight attendants to enact the scene.
Look at the picture. Work in groups and give a short talk about it using the words given below.
- sand
- waves
- when
- as soon as
- collect
- enjoy
- hatchlings
- basket
- boys
- night
- rough sea
- many
- eggs
- incubate
- hatchery
- after
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Volunteers of the Students Sea Turtle Conservation Network (SSTCN) release Olive Ridley hatchlings into the sea. |
Discuss in groups of five. Make a story about the comic strip. Then share it in the class.
Change the following into Indirect Speech.
“What do you want?” he said to her.
Change the following into Indirect Speech.
“Are you coming home with me?” he asked.
Change the following into Indirect Speech.
The teacher said to him, “Do not read so fast.”
Change the following into Indirect Speech.
“Go down to the bazaar. Bring me some oil and a lump of ice.” ordered his master.
Change the following into Direct Speech.
Lakshan asked me if I had anything to say.
Look at these images of different kinds of sports. Identify and name as many as you can with your partner.
Describe any one of them to your partner.
- Name of the sport.
- What equipment is used to play the sport?
- What kind of area/ground/field it is played in?
- How is it played?
Look at the picture of a village festival carefully. Talk about the activities that are going on by using the hints given in the help box.
About the place and the people — what is happening: what do the children and the adults do? – kind of shops – performances
Match the poetic lines with Figures of speech.
| 1) | So brainy | personification |
| 2) | Mountains | personification |
| 3) | It's so absent-minded | hyperbole |
| 4) | Computer gobbled a worm | metaphor |
| 5) | Very sick | metaphor |
Imagine that you and your friend have decided to spend a day together in your house. You have planned your schedule from morning till night. Discuss in pairs and speak about it in the class. You can start like this:
I like to go for a walk but my friend wants to work out in the gym.
Name the character or speaker.
“Let me try pulling this lever.”
Join in one of the two groups. Choose one character, speak two sentences for and against it.
| I support Kaliyan because ______ |
| I oppose the rich man because ______ |
Find the qualities of these animals from the passage.
A little
red hen had some wheat seeds. “Will you help me sow this seed?” asked the hen,“No” replied the selfish dog. Then the hen did it by herself. The seeds grew into a field of wheat. “Will you help me reap the wheat?” asked the hen, “No” replied the sleepy cat. She did it by herself. “Will you help me grind the wheat?” asked the hen, “No” replied the noisy duck. She did it by herself. “Will you help me make a bread?” asked the hen, “No” replied the lazy cow. She made the bread by herself. “Will you all help me eat this bread?” asked the hen, “Yes” replied everyone,“No” said the hen.
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See how they speak at this situation and practise as if you were in that situation. A teacher is teaching the class.
A boy and a girl are talking about their holidays.
What are the things your mother asks you to do?
| Things you like to do | Things you do not like to do |
Describe a few funny things you have seen. Do they make you laugh?
What does ‘features’ mean? Look up the dictionary. What are the different kinds of features of people we come across in the world? Discuss.
Some letter are missing in each word.
pl ______ se
Now add more words with and and put them inside the bubbles.
Ram is a curious little boy. He is always asking questions. One day he came home and asked his grandfather questions like –
- Why can’t we look at the sun during a solar eclipse?
- Why can’t we touch the sun?
- Why can’t we go out to play in the dark?
Discuss these questions with your teacher and class. Do you know the answers?
How could Alice have got into the garden?
Are you afraid of the dark? Why?
Have you ever been very frightened? Tell your partner about it.
What is the word that starts with t , rhymes with ‘cease’, and means to playfully make fun of ?
Where did the tip of the tongue touch?
Using sign language make these letters with your hand
‘C’, ‘H’, ‘E’, ‘K’
Do you think that –
Do birds have secrets?
Do you think that –
Do you know the secret language of any animal? Tell the class about it.
Have you seen
- a hippopotamus in a hat?
- a hen in a beehive?
- a helicopter with hair?
- a horse drink honey?
Make a story of the poem and share it with your friends. You can change Hiawatha’s name and give the name of your classmate. Start the story which other children can continue. Happy Hiawatha, hungry hippopotamus, high horse, heavy hand.
You could begin like this –
Once upon a time there was a boy called
What is your mother tongue?
Pick out the silent letters from these words
| silent letter | |
| hour | |
| knit | |
| wrong | |
| doubt | |
| often | |
| know | |
| night | |
| could | |
| write | |
| knife | |
| high | |
| walk |
Do you like reading story books?
What are the different kinds of books in this bookshop or in any other bookshop you have seen? Tell the class.
Tell the class about your ambition in life and the way you are working towards achieving your goal.
‘When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.’ Explain the meaning of this statement to your friends.
Build a dialogue of 8–10 exchanges between your friend and yourself, on the following situation:
You were to board a train to Delhi. By mistake, you got into the wrong train and fought for your seat there. On realising your mistake, you left the train shamefaced, after creating a commotion there. Role-play this situation before the class.
On the occasion of World Environment Day, you have been asked to deliver a speech during morning assembly on the importance of tree planting. Write the speech in about 100 – 150 words.
- Introduction
- Suggested value points Pollution control – Medicine – Necessary for wildlife – Cause rainfall
- Conclusion
Now use these ideas and prepare a speech on the topic ‘The importance of developing a positive attitude’ and deliver the speech in the school assembly
Given below are a few proverb. Prepare a short speech of two minutes on one of the proverb.
Where there is a will there is a way.
Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” is a piece of science fiction. Discuss plots of similar stories with your partner and share your ideas with the class.
Assertion: The SI system of units is the suitable for measurement.
Reason: The SI unit of temperature is kelvin.
