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Find word in the passage from the paragraph indicated within bracket and complete the following sentence. Use only one word, in its appropriate form, in each blank.
The driver had to ________ the winding road to the mountain top with caution. (para-8)
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Find word in the passage from the paragraph indicated within bracket and complete the following sentence. Use only one word, in its appropriate form, in each blank.
The new literacy programme ________ a 20% increase in the literacy rate over the next two years. (para-11)
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Arrange the following words associated with eating on a scale ranging from ‘peck’ to ‘gorge’. You may add more words to the list given below :
Words : gobble , nibble, bite , hog , feast , gormandize ...............
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Arrange the following words from a similar scale for words that describe a person's build:
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Given below is a list of words related to ghosts and ghost stories with their jumbled up meanings against them. Match the words/expressions with their correct meanings:
| Apparition | a feeling of anticipation or anxiety over a future event |
| Poltergeist | a reanimated corpse that is believed to rise from the grave at night to suck the blood of sleeping people |
| Clairvoyance | a conjurer who expels evil spirits by conjuration |
| Crystal Ball | a spelling board device intended to communicate with and through the spirit world, obtaining answers to questions |
| Eerie | beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation |
| Medium | any of a set of 22 playing cards bearing allegorical representations, used for fortune telling |
| Transmigration | a supernatural appearance of a person or thing, a ghost, spectre or phantom |
| Psychic | so mysterious, strange or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| Ouija Board | the supposed power to see objects or events that cannot be perceived by the senses |
| Exorcist | a person through whom the spirits of the dead are alleged to be able to contact the living |
| Premonition | a globe of quartz crystal in which images, believed to portend the future, are supposedly visible to fortune tellers |
| Paranormal | to pass into another body after death: going from one state of existence or place to another |
| Tarot Card | capable of extraordinary mental processes, such as extrasensory perception and mental telepathy |
| Vampire | German word, meaning "noisy ghost"-a troublesome spirit that announces its presence with unexplainable sounds and the creation of disorder |
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The title of the story is A Shady Plot. The dictionary defines the words as:
shady adjective
- Full of shade; shaded.
- Casting shade: a shady grove.
- Quiet, dark, or concealed; hidden.
- Of dubious character or of questionable honesty.
plot noun
- i) a small piece of ground, generally used for a specific purpose: a garden plot.
ii) a measured area of land - a ground plan, as for a building; a diagram.
- storyline- the plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story
- a secret plan to accomplish a hostile or illegal purpose; a scheme.
Based on the definitions above, can you predict what the story is about? Make a brief note of your prediction in your notebook.
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The title of the story is A Shady Plot. The dictionary defines the words as:
plot noun.
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Have a class discussion…
What do you think life was really like for Walter Hudson ? Was he happy ? Did he have many friends ? Think of the things that you do everyday : what things could Walter not do ? Also, what about clothes, chairs, a bed, washing himself…
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Why do you think he did not go on a serious diet when he was much younger, so that he could live a fuller life ?
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What advice would you have given Walter on his diet ?
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Based on your reading of the story answer the following question by ticking the correct option.
What made the writer overconfident about his ability to write ghost stories?
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Based on your reading of the story answer the following question by ticking the correct option.
The sight of the ghost materialising in his room filled the narrator with ………
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Based on your reading of the story answer the following question by ticking the correct option.
The ghost wanted John to …………………………………………..
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Have a class discussion…
Who do you think bought and cooked all the food he ate ? Were they also to blame for Walter’s obesity ?
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Based on your reading of the story answer the following question by ticking the correct option.
John wants the ghost to disappear before his wife enters the room and waves his arms
at the ghost with something of the motion of a beginner when learning to swim. His
movement shows his ………………………
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Based on your reading of the story answer the following question by ticking the correct option.
When the narrator says his wife is never so pretty as when she's doing something she
knows he disapproves of, his tone is …………………….
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Based on your reading of the story answer the following question by ticking the correct option.
The ghost says "It's all your fault.'It' here refers to ………………………
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Based on your reading of the story answer the following question by ticking the correct option.
Gladolia wishes to leave the narrator's house as ………………….
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Answer the following question briefly.
Which genre of stories does Jenkins want the narrator to write? Why?
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Answer the following question briefly.
Does the narrator like writing ghost stories? Support your answer with evidence
from the story.
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