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The postmaster believes that he had seen Ali. What do you think? Discuss with your partner and present your views in front of the class.
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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.
Some people are so ________ to their work that they have no time for their family. (para-2)
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The postmaster was anxiously waiting for his ailing daughter's news. On not getting any news, he visits his daughter's town. Now create a dialogue between the postmaster and his daughter and enact it.
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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.
Harshad’s corrupt practices soon gained him ________ in the city. (para-2)
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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.
When a person is dehydrated, he should be given ________ amounts of fluid. (para-6)
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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.
He visited various vintage car rallies because he had a ________ for old cars. (para-7)
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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.
If you over-eat and do not exercise, you will become ________ (para-9)
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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
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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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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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Based on your reading of the story answer the following question by ticking the correct option.
The narrator earns his living by ………………………….
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What advice would you have given Walter on his diet ?
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Where do you think he got the money from to eat so much food ?
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Based on your reading of the story answer the following question by ticking the correct option.
The writer was overconfident about his ability to write ghost stories because ……
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