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प्रश्न
Compare the items in the picture using -er, more, less or an irregular form. Use the word under the picture. You may write your answer in more than one way.
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उत्तर
• A Swiss knife is more useful, easier! handier and more versatile than a tin-can opener.
• A tin-can opener is less useful, easy/handy and versatile than a Swiss knife.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Work with your partner and fill in the table with information about yourselves. You may add other characteristics, if you like. When you have
finished, compare the results.
| Characteristics |
You (Write your name here:____ ) |
Your partner (Write his/her name here: _____) |
| • Height | ||
| • Weight | ||
| • Age (years and months) | ||
| • Hair | ||
| • Number of members in the family | ||
| • Distance of home from school | ||
| • _____ | ||
| • ______ |
Read this feature article in which the writer compares the treatment or
boys and girls. Complete the article by filling in the spaces with ONE appropriate word from the box given below. You may have to change the
form or the word you need to use and some words may have to be used more than once.
| than much few less as many |
For many parents, especially those who are poor and illiterate, a girl is a 'lesser child'. Doesn't it make you mad to know that girls aren't given an equal chance to be born? Though female infanticide was banned by law over a century ago, thousands of girls are killed before they are born orwhen they are babies.
Even the girls who are allowed to survive live with less of everything. ______ girls are sent to school _______ boys. They get _____ medical care, so _________girls die. Boys get _________nutritious food and also________ time to play.______ jobs are open to girls, and even if they are employed, they are not paid ________as boys. Most of all, they get ____ respect. They are not given as _______opportunities as boys tospeak out on matters that concern them. And yet a girl usually does twice as ___ work ___ a boy, not only in the house but also in the fields. This discrimination and bias must end, and end now! Can we count on your support?
Work with your partner and list the names of magazines that you know.
| Name of Magazine |
Now make as may sentences as you can from the table below to express your own opinions about the magazines you have listed. Write your sentences in your notebook.
|
I think
I don't think |
(name of a magazine)
|
contains |
less more fewer as much as many |
information news pictures advertisements advice fun |
Than as |
(name of another magazine) |
Note: You may add more information if you like
When do we use (a) less than/ as much as and
When do we use (b) fewer than/ as many as?
Create some sentences, and try to work out the "rule".
Compare the two rockets shown below and complete the paragraph which follows.
| Helios | Selene | |
| Height | 20 metres | 25 metres |
| Weight | 15 tonnes | 18 tonnes |
| Diameter | 1 metre | 1 metre |
| Date of first launch | 1993 | 1991 |
| Payload capacity | 1 tonne | 1.1 tonne |
| Range | 3000 kms | 2300 kms |
The Selene, first launched in 1991, is five metres ____ (height) and three tonnes.__________ (weight) _________the Helios. The diameter of the Helios is
_____ the Selene. However, the payload capacity of the Helios is 1 tonne, which is 0.1 tonne_________ the Selene. Interestingly, the Heliios has a range of 3000 km, which is 700km_________ the Selene
Compare the items in the picture using -er, more, less or an irregular
form. Use the word under the picture. You may write your answer in
more than one way.
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Compare the items in the picture using -er, more, less or an irregular form. Use the word under the picture. You may write your answer in more than one way.
Compare the items in the picture using -er, more, less or an irregular form. Use the word under the picture. You may write your answer in more than one way.
Compare the items in the picture using -er, more, less or an irregular form. Use the word under the picture. You may write your answer in more than one way.
Compare the items in the picture using -er, more, less or an irregular form. Use the word under the picture. You may write your answer in more than one way.
Compare the items in the picture using -er, more, less or an irregular form. Use the word under the picture. You may write your answer in more than one way.
Compare the items in the picture using -er, more, less or an irregular form. Use the word under the picture. You may write your answer in more than one way.
What does this proverb mean?
The higher you climb, the harder you fall.
Match the clauses from column A with those in column B to form meaningful sentences.
| A | B |
| 1. The longer a candle burns, | a) the shorter it becomes. |
| 2. The lower the sun is, | b) the higher it sounds. |
| 3. The faster a guitar string vibrates, | c) the less oxygen there is. |
| 4. The smoother an object is, | d) the redder it appears. |
| 5. The higher we climb, | e) the less friction it creates. |
Study the following sentences
| Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa. The Pacific is the deepest of all the oceans in the world. The Nile is the longest river in the world. |
Now make similar sentences about the following. Use your general knowledge and imagination.
1. Diamonds __________________________________________
2. The Himalayas __________________________________________
3. The Ganga __________________________________________
4. Leh __________________________________________
5. The Taj Mahal __________________________________________
6. Kolkata __________________________________________
7. Jupiter __________________________________________
8. The elephant __________________________________________
9. Mt.Everest __________________________________________
10. Russia __________________________________________
What is your favourite colour? What does it remind you of?
Are you afraid of the dark? What does it make you think of?
Form pairs. List the names of as many vehicles as you can. Choose any two of them, but they must be of different types. Then draw a word web for each of them to show their appearance, qualities and the things that these features remind you of. You may use words as well as phrases in the web.
