Please select a subject first
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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 | ||
| • _____ | ||
| • ______ |
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Based on your reading of the article above, answer the following question :
Why have Kerala’s tourism figures grown while those of some other states have remained static ?
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Based on your reading of the article above, answer the following question :
Why does the author say that we should now make efforts to attract the domestic traveller ? What are the areas that we should focus on to achieve it ?
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Based on your reading of the article above, answer the following question :
Why does the author say, “Clearly Tourism, like Charity, begins at home ?”
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Find words or phrases from the passage that mean the same as the following.
(a) to renovate, redo, or revise (paragraph 1)
(b) trying to win the favor, preference, or goodwill of (paragraph 1)
(c) come in small numbers (paragraph 4)
(d) well-off; rich (paragraph 5)
(e) friendly (paragraph 6)
(f) wanting or enjoying expensive pleasures (paragraph 6)
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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?
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Read the imaginary situations given below and complete the sentence
that describes the situation in each case. One has been done for you as an
example.
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Example: You have always wanted to be the owner of a five-star hotel.What would you do if you won a million rupees? |
If I won a million rupees, I would build a five-star hotel. |
| 1 Shikha is in her farm-house. During her morning walk one day, she narrowly escapes being bitten by a snake. What do you think would happen if she was bitten by a snake? |
If Shikha was ________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ____________________________________-_ |
| 2 I have misplaced the book Ajay gave me on my birthday. I must find it. If I lost the book, how would Ajay feel? |
Ajay would ____________________________- _______________________________________ _______________________________________ _______________________________________ |
| 3 Mira might win an air-ticket to Europe.She has been dreaming of going to England. Where do you think you would go if you won an air-ticket? |
If I ____________________________________ _______________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ |
| 4 Hema has gained weight. The doctor has advised her to do her exercises regularly. The doctor thinks: |
If she _________________________________ __________________________________________ ________________________________________ _______________________________________ |
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5 Delhi Textile Mill is planning to close down its factory. As a consequence, |
If ______________________________________ __________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ |
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6 Your friend Mani parks his scooter in the lane outside. You fear that it will |
What would you do _________________________________________ ___________________________________________ ______________________________________________ __________________________________________ |
Underline the pairs or verbs used in each or the sentences you have
written above. Now state below what tenses they are in.
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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.
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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".
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Complete the sentences below in the same pattem as in the example,
choosing the words from the box.
| If l were rich, I would open schools for small children. |
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• the Principal of my school |
1. If I were ____________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________
2. If I were __________________________________________
3. If I were ___________________________________________
4. If I were ___________________________________________
5. If I Were ___________________________________________
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will write the report asked for. First though, it is necessary to study the following statistics and draw appropriate conclusions. Work in groups of four. Discuss the three figures in this section and the questions that follow each figure, and write notes to answer those questions. (Contrary to the recent trends, foreign tourists visiting Palwal Pradesh outnumber domestic tourists).
Number of Tourists over the Last Five Years
What has been the general trend in the number of tourists visiting Palwal Pradesh over the last five years ?
Which groups have shown increases, and by how much ?
Suggest reasons for the changes over the last five years, for both groups of tourists.
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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
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write sentences using the ideas in the table below. You will need to match the items first.
| A | B |
| go/Walk | enough/Money |
| Write/Letter | Weather/Fine |
| go/Cinema | get/ticket |
| go/shopping | (not)go/out |
| Pass Exams | enough/work |
| I'll go for a walk if the weather is fine. |
_____________________________________
Underline the pair of verbs in each of the Conditional sentences you have
written above, and say which tense they are in.
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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.
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| If + past petfect | would+ have+ past participle |
If they had brought the man to the hospital immediately after the accident, his
life would have been saved.
Construct sentences in the above pattern using the clues given:
1. We Wasted time. We missed the train.
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2. He did not take the advice of his accountants. He lost a lot of money.
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3. There was an accident on the way. I did not reach the office in time.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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