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प्रश्न
Frame illustrative sentence to distinguish the meaning of the word in the following cluster.
career – carrier – courier
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उत्तर
A J. Cronin started his career as a doctor but eventually became a writer.
The curry spilled over as the tiffin carrier lid was not tightly closed.
The courier office is closed on Sundays.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Given below is a jumbled sentence. Working in groups, rearrange the word in the sentence to form the correct sentence.
You will find that the sentence contains an idiomatic expression that you have come across in the lesson. Underline the idiom and write down its meaning. Then use your dictionary to check the meaning.
the student/The teacher/his eyebrows/when/said that/all their lessons/raised/they had revised
Ans:____________________________________________
Idiom:__________________________________________
Complete these pieces of conversation using will or going to with the verbs given.
Rani : What shall we have for dinner?
Ravi : I can’t decide.
Rani : Make up your mind.
Ravi : All right, then. We __________ (have) fried rice and dry beans.
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.
Old people often _______________ hear very well; they _______________ use a hearing aid.
When Tenzing and Hillary reached the summit, Tenzing in utter joy said, “We have done it.” In this sentence, the subject (we) is the doer of the action while (achieving the feat) is the subject. The verb of passive voice is formed by using the correct form of the verb ‘to be’ + past participle of the main verb. Construct the sentence accordingly.
Now carefully go through the changes in both the sentences and do the changes accordingly in the remaining sentence.
- We have done it.
It has been done by us.
I remembered him.
Comment on the literary device, used in the following line:
Titania: Come wait upon him: lead him to my bower.
Two separate words combine together to make a new word with a different meaning. They form Compound Words. Using a dictionary, find the meaning of the following compound word.
spyglass
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.
- brilliant
- genius
- bright
- intelligent
Complete the following idioms using the appropriate colour term.
give someone a ______ look (a look of anger, dislike, etc.)
The following expression is a combination of a noun preceded by a describing word.
modern technique
Replace the describing word with as many others as you can, that goes with the underlined noun.
Use the following idiom/expression in sentences of your own.
to go beyond
Use the following phrase in your own sentence -
get a hold of
______________ several warnings, he continued to swim.
Find the antonym for the underlined word in the following sentence.
Pongo locked the narrator inside the cabin.
Choose the correct verb from the following sentence.
Ezhil _______ a cake when they came when they came.
Can you finish the work ______ tomorrow?
Read the poem and write the rhyming words and rhyme scheme for the given stanzas.
| Stanza | Rhyming words | Rhyme Scheme |
| 1 | alone- ______-______ ______ - space |
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| 3 | ______- May mind -______ |
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| 4 |
tree- ______ |
The predators follow the ______of the turtles to eat their eggs.
Look at the punctuation of these sentence. Why are they punctuated differently? Discuss in class.
Come here.
Find the describing words given in the poem.
| p | a | s | m | a | I | I | s |
| g | I | a | r | g | e | s | t |
| h | u | e | i | j | k | h | r |
| I | f | t | a | I | I | a | a |
| m | e | n | d | s | p | r | i |
| q | s | r | o | t | a | p | g |
| u | u | v | o | x | y | n | h |
| z | a | d | g | h | e | b | t |
Read the sentence given below and Choose the verbs appropriately.
Our school is ______ at 9.00 in the morning.
Fill in the blank with suitable linking word or conjunction.
The box was heavy ______ he could not lift it.
Give the correct verb form for the following sentence.
He ________ (watch) movie.
Choose the plural forms.
Lady
Fill in the blank.
5 is ______ 4.
Mark (✓) if it is past perfect tense and (x) future perfect tense.
They had cooked the vegetables.
Choose the sentences that are in simple future tense.
- They washed the van.
- Kamal will meet you at the shop.
- My dad helps me read.
- It will rain tomorrow.
- He ate many mangoes.
Change the masculine noun to feminine noun in the given sentence.
A young man was driving the car.
Idioms:
An idiom is an expression in English with a special meaning of its own. Idioms do not give the literal meaning of the individual words used in them.
You come across the idiom ‘by the skin of one’s teeth’ in the lesson. It means ‘a narrow escape’.
The mud houses are not ______ the buildings in your city.
Write compound words using the picture.
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