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प्रश्न
Here are some more idioms taken from the lesson. Find out their meaning and use them in sentence of your own.
in a nice pickle
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उत्तर
in a nice pickle- in a mess
Boney Kapoor is in a nice pickle unable to explain Sridevi’s sudden death to media personalities and to film Industry friends.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Say whether the following sentences are in the Active or the Passive voice. Write A or P after the sentence.
I found it last night in a ditch near my house. __________
Fill in the blank with comparative, superlative, and positive forms of the correct adjective in the bracket.
The tiger is the _____________ animal in the zoo (dangerous).
Go through the statement taken from the text – ‘The social democracy means a way of life which recognises liberty, equality, and fraternity’.
The underlined part of the statement provides us some facts/information about social democracy. The remaining part of the sentence which is not underlined can be converted into a wh-question.
What does social democracy mean?
Now go through the underlined part of the statement/sentence given below and change them into question by using the appropriate Wh-form.
The politically minded Indians preferred the expression ‘the Indian nation’.
Find out and write down some proverbs/axioms/quotations that convey a message similar to ‘Self-help is the best help.’
Make sentences of your own to show the difference in usage of the following Homophones.
- device ______
- devise ______
Find the opposite of the following word from the lesson.
begun
Edit the following passage by replacing the underlined incorrect words with correct prepositional phrase.
participates in sports. She gets on with everyone in case of __________________.
Match the words in column A with their Synonym in column B.
| S.No. | A | B |
| 1. | ease | endure |
| 2. | evolve | surplus |
| 3. | excess | effortless |
| 4. | survive | great |
| 5. | immense | progress |
Complete the mind map based on the inputs from the extract.
| 1. | Becky Thatcher, Tom’s friend had ______ coming to school. |
| 2. | So, Tom became ______. |
| 3. | Aunt Polly ______ about Tom. |
| 4. | She tried ______. |
| 5. | Tom pretended to like _____ and asked for it very often. |
| 6. | One day Tom gave the pain-killer to ______. |
| 7. | The incidents that followed made his aunt ______. |
There aren’t ________ students in the library.
I am going to my village ______ Sunday.
Fill in the blank with the appropriate verb.
The horse carriage ___ at the door.
Arya _______ (play) the same song for last three days. It has become boring now.
Look at the words in the box. Fill the wheel with their antonyms.
All the words begin with ‘S’ and are from the text
| hard | fat | weak | big | fast | hide | rough | dull |
Find me in the poem.
You can play with me
Change the sentence from future continuous to past continuous.
The train will be arriving on 2nd platform.
Join the word and write the new word.
Dance + er - _____
Choose the correct reflexive pronoun.
Paul copies his friend’s homework instead of doing it ______.
Fill in the blank.
______ old man
Do as directed.
Dinesh and Prabhu left the bus stop. Varsha rang them. (combine into a complex sentence)
Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb given in the bracket.
Sh! Someone______ to our conversation! (listen)
Recall your learning of basic preposition and complete the sentence using the prepositions given in options.
There is usually a garden ______a bungalow
Fill in the blank with appropriate correlative conjunction.
Suraj owns ______a typewriter ______ a computer.
Correct the error found in the question tag in each of the following
That’s definitely not the right thing to do in this situation, isn’t that?
Fill in the blank with the right idiom. Choose from the option.
When they had to climb through deep new snow the party sometimes had to______.
Rewrite the following sentence using ‘If ’ without changing the meaning.
The portraits would not have been so natural unless the artist had given his best.
Use the gerundial form of the verb in the bracket and fill in the blank.
______ (shop) is my favourite hobby.
i. Rearrange the following jumbled words/phrases in the given dialogue to create a meaningful sentence. (1)
Did you know that the lack of hydrological resources affects more than 40% of the world population?
No, I didn't. What are hydrological resources?
(i) WATER RESOURCES, / SURVIVAL / AND PLANT / TO HUMAN, / ANIMAL, / REFER TO / WHICH / ARE VITAL / HYDROLOGICAL RESOURCES
ii. Report the dialogues to complete the paragraph that follows. (2)
| Photographer: | I want to use a drone for photographing your event. |
| Customer: | Really! Do you usually offer this advice? |
| Photographer: | No. I don’t. Your event is in an open and picturesque area and I want to capture the complete scene. |
The photographer told the customer that she wanted to use a drone for photographing his event. The customer exclaimed in surprise and asked (ii) ______. The photographer replied in the negative and shared that (iii) _______as his event was in an open and picturesque area.
Start a collection of idioms with comparisons. Use the following categories.
Idioms with colours:
- as black as ______
- as white as ______
- as red as ______
- as blue as ______
- as green as ______
- as pink as ______
- as ______ as ______
- as ______ as ______
- as ______ as ______
Can you think of other examples of irregularities in English Spelling.
