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‘When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.’ Explain the meaning of this statement to your friends.

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‘When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.’ Explain the meaning of this statement to your friends.

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Mouse knows the capacity of the cat to pounce on him and make a meal of him in just records. The mouse could dare to laugh at the cat when the scope of escape into the hole is bright.

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पाठ 4.2: Macavity - The Mystery Cat - Exercises [पृष्ठ १३१]

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पाठ 4.2 Macavity - The Mystery Cat
Exercises | Q H. b. | पृष्ठ १३१

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

You are visiting the primary school where you studied classes I to IV, after six years. You get a chance to go to your standard two classroom and you are permitted to sit at the same place where you used to sit.

Who do you miss very badly, your friends or teachers?


Have you ever been scared? What happened? How did you feel? Talk about it in one or two sentences with your friend. Repeat it to the class.


Read the conversation of the simple machines. Take roles to play. Then discuss in pairs to describe any simple machine. Create your own storyboard and take roles to play.

Jack: Don't you know how simple machines make your life easy?

Jimmy: Um... I don't know what simple machines are.

Jack: Simple machines are mechanical devices for applying force like a wedge or ramp.

Jimmy: Oh! wow! How I did not know this!

Jack: Like the wheels on hospital bed and IV pole. They help you move people faster by reducing the friction.

Jimmy: Is the stick over there that the TV is attached to, is that a simple machine too?

Jack: Yes it is, it's a lever. The wheels on the bus are simple machines, they make the bus move.

Jimmy: What about the doors?

Jack: 'Yeah' the driver pulls a lever and the doors open and you climb up the inclined plane aka the stairs. The cable in the elevator is wrapped around a groove in the wheel and axle, an electric motor pulls the cable, lifting the car between floors.

Jimmy: So the wheels on the rolling chair are too by rolling the chair back instead of lifting the chair back.

Jack: 'Yes' they are, they move the chair and reduce the friction.


Do you work individually or in pairs?


Imagine that you are going to interview one of the survivors of the Pan Am Hijack. Discuss with your partner and write down the conversation. Then one of you play the role of the interviewer and other the survivor. You can use the sample questions given below.

  1. Do you have any information regarding the suspects of the hijack?
  2. Which countries did the hijackers belong?
  3. What are the details of the hijacked flight?
  4. How many passengers were aboard? 
  5. What happened in the last few minutes of the hijack drama?
  6. Do you have information regarding the victims?
  7. Was there any recorded communication to/from the plane during the hijacking?
  8. How many terrorists were there?
  9. How did you feel when you were in the flight?
  10. Can you recall Neerja’s role in safeguarding the passengers?

Answer the following:

A Tiny Little Plant

Deep in the heart of a little seed,
    Lay buried so, so deep,
A tiny little plant fast asleep.

Out came the bright Sunshine,
     Down crept its light,
Into the seed, too bright.

A little plant woke up to see,
How bright the world might be.

List the rhyming words in the first three lines.


Look at the picture. Work in groups and give a short talk about it using the words given below.

  1. sand
  2. waves
  3. when
  4. as soon as
  5. collect
  6. enjoy
  7. hatchlings
  8. basket
  9. boys
  10. night
  11. rough sea
  12. many
  13. eggs
  14. incubate
  15. hatchery
  16. after

Volunteers of the Students Sea Turtle Conservation Network

(SSTCN) release Olive Ridley hatchlings into the sea.


Change the following into Indirect Speech.

“Bring me a glass of milk,” said the swami to the villagers.


Change the following into Indirect Speech.

“Go down to the bazaar. Bring me some oil and a lump of ice.” ordered his master.


Match the poetic lines with Figures of speech.

1) So brainy personification
2) Mountains personification
3) It's so absent-minded hyperbole
4) Computer gobbled a worm metaphor
5) Very sick metaphor

Pick out the line which tells you about seasons (in Sec II). Which seasons are mentioned?


Imagine that you and your friend have decided to spend a day together in your house. You have planned your schedule from morning till night. Discuss in pairs and speak about it in the class. You can start like this:

I like to go for a walk but my friend wants to work out in the gym.


Name the character or speaker.

“I am fine. We must wear the space suit.”


Match the rhyming words.

1. tall best
2. song all
3. rack along
4. rest sack

What did the teacher teach?


Write the full form for the following.

she’ll - ______


Say these words and feel what your tongue does when you say –

toe, top, tie, ten


Do you think that –

Hiawatha liked learning new languages?


Do you know any other language? Do you know a joke in English? Tell your friends.


Do you have a garden at home?


What kinds of stories do you like?


Is there a bookshop near your home? If there is, do you like to visit it?


This phrase originates from the fable ‘The Monkey and the Cat’. Explain how Macavity contradicts the phrase ‘cat’s paw’.


Build a conversation for the following situation with a minimum of five exchange.

A father and his daughter about the advantages of the habit of newspaper reading.


Given below are a few proverb. Prepare a short speech of two minutes on one of the proverb.

Where there is a will there is a way.


Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” is a piece of science fiction. Discuss plots of similar stories with your partner and share your ideas with the class.


Assertion: The SI system of units is the suitable for measurement.

Reason: The SI unit of temperature is kelvin.


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