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प्रश्न
Look at these sentences.
- Animals cannot survive for long without water.
- So desert animals have to find different ways of coping.
The first sentence says what cannot happen or be done; the second tells us what must, therefore, be done, what it is necessary to do. Complete the sentence using cannot and have to/has to.
He ______ have a new bicycle now; he______ wait till next year.
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उत्तर
He cannot have a new bicycle now; he has to wait till next year.
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The word ‘hobble’ means to walk with difficulty because the legs and feet are in bad condition.
Tick the words in the box below that also refer to a manner of walking.
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shuffle |
stride |
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waddle |
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wriggle |
paddle |
swagger |
trudge |
slog |
Fill in the blanks with words from the box.
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little |
hard |
young |
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thoughtful |
delicious |
beautiful |
A __________ woodcutter lived on a ____________ hillside. He was a ___________ son who worked _____________ but earned ____________ money. One day he saw a ____________ waterfall hidden behind a rock. He tasted the water and found it _________________.
‘She went to one of the kitchen drawers’.
Look at the sentence carefully. The underlined word tells us that she went (some time ago) to a particular place (at one of the kitchen drawers). Now discuss with your partner and tell the class what you did ‘yesterday’ and what your friend did ‘yesterday’. Complete the table. One is done for you.
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Look up the following verbs in a good dictionary. List at least 20 different uses of the following. You may include their use with different prepositions, adverbs, and idioms.
Study the following sets of words :
- Set A – pleased, happy, joyful, ecstatic
- Set B – letter, word, sentence, paragraph
The words in these sets are arranged in ascending order, each word showing a higher degree than the previous one.
Now rearrange the following groups of words in ascending order.
- mountain
- peak/summit
- mound
- hill
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1950s Boy - brought home the groceries.
List as many words as you can that will go with the given adjective. (At least 3 each.)
Example: sudden - sudden change, sudden shower, sudden fall
- simple
- odd
- only
- honest
- long
Make a sentence in the present perfect tense using the verb.
Have you ___________ your lunch?
Convert the following active sentence into a passive sentence by supplying an appropriate passive verb form.
Begin the work tomorrow./Let the work ____________ tomorrow.
Read the process of making soup. Use suitable passive form of verbs and complete the paragraph.
The packet is opened and the contents (i) __________ with 750 ml of water without allowing it to form lumps. The mixture (ii) __________ into a heavy-bottomed vessel. It (iii)_______ in low flame for five minutes. The soup (iv) _________ into soup bowls and (v) __________ with fried corns.
Fill in the blanks with correct travel words.
| schedule | reach | book | railway | pack | board |
To make travel convenient, we must ______tickets well in advance. Then we have to ______our things and ______our trip. We have to reach the ______station in time and ______the train in order to ______ our destination.
Use two or three words from the box to describe each picture.
| red | cute | cubs | icy | tall | mountain |
| boy | tiger | kangaroo | two | little | hot |
| chillies | book | wooden | table | cat | round |
| big | black | three | windows | blue | snow |
| brown | smiling | ball | tail | house | long |
Choose the correct plural form.
Change the sentence from future continuous to past continuous.
The train will be arriving on 2nd platform.
Now, use the verb given in bracket in the following sentence in their correct form.
I ____(like) to spend time with my friend, whenever I ____(be) free.
Complete the following sentence with modal using the clue given.
The patient is critical. He ______ be taken to the hospital. (compulsion)
Pick out the finite verb in the following sentence:
The old man struggled to walk without support.
Pick out the finite verb in the following sentence:
But for your help, I could not have completed the assignment.
Find out the synonym of the underlined word in each of the following sentence.
Anna would say with an impudent smile.
The coach hoped that in his absence the team would ______ with the practice.
