English
Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary EducationHSC Science Class 12

Continue and complete the following story and suggest suitable title for the same. A rich man had a neighbour who was suffering from acute poverty. The rich man was proud of his wealth and

Advertisements
Advertisements

Question

Continue and complete the following story and suggest suitable title for the same.

Four friends decided to go to a restaurant for dinner. They ordered an extra-large pizza with grated cheese and other choice toppings. The next 20 minutes seemed to be too long a time. Their eyes widened and their mouth watered, when the server brought the steaming hot pizza and placed it on the table. They could barely control the drool. Simultaneously, all the four hands pulled at a slice from the plate, their faces beaming with a victorious grin. Silence prevailed as they were absorbed in the taste of their favourite food. They relished every mouthful to the core and savoured the taste of each topping with a smile of approval. Soon, the plate was empty and clean with no trace. The boys dabbed their mouths and wiped their hands with tissues. Mission accomplished, they leaned back with immense joy and satisfaction not knowing, it would be short-lived. The waiter arrived with the bill. Joseph, who had brought the others to the restaurant for a treat casually slipped his hand into his pocket to get his wallet. He gave a soft shriek accompanied by an expression of dismay and utter disbelief. He exclaimed, “It’s not there! Someone has pinched my wallet! What are we to do now?”______

Answer in Brief
Advertisements

Solution

Four friends decided to go to a restaurant for dinner. They ordered an extra-large pizza with grated cheese and other choice toppings. The next 20 minutes seemed to be too long a time. Their eyes widened and their mouth watered, when the server brought the steaming hot pizza and placed it on the table. They could barely control the drool. Simultaneously, all the four hands pulled at a slice from the plate, their faces beaming with a victorious grin. Silence prevailed as they were absorbed in the taste of their favourite food. They relished every mouthful to the core and savoured the taste of each topping with a smile of approval. Soon, the plate was empty and clean with no trace. The boys dabbed their mouths and wiped their hands with tissues. Mission accomplished, they leaned back with immense joy and satisfaction not knowing, it would be short-lived. The waiter arrived with the bill. Joseph, who had brought the others to the restaurant for a treat casually slipped his hand into his pocket to get his wallet. He gave a soft shriek accompanied by an expression of dismay and utter disbelief. He exclaimed, “It’s not there! Someone has pinched my wallet! What are we to do now?"

Joseph tried to convince the manager of the hotel about the theft of the purse. He refused to accept their version and asked them to pay the bill. Joseph asked his friends to stay in the hotel and he went home, brought money and paid at the hotel, for the relief of all.

shaalaa.com
Grammar
  Is there an error in this question or solution?
Chapter 3.1: In Celebration of Being Alive - Writing- Story Writing [Page 86]

APPEARS IN

Samacheer Kalvi English Class 12 TN Board
Chapter 3.1 In Celebration of Being Alive
Writing- Story Writing | Q 2. 2. | Page 86

RELATED QUESTIONS

Find these phrasal verbs in the story.

burn out

light up

look on

run out

keep out

Write down the sentences in which they occur, consult a dictionary and write down the meaning that you think matches the meaning of the phrasal verb in the sentence.


Say whether the following sentences are in the Active or the Passive voice. Write A or P after the sentence.

The tyres were deflated by the traffic police. _________


Complete the sentence below using the appropriate forms of the verbs in brackets.
When you ___________ (see) Mandal again, you __________ (not/recognise) him. He is growing a beard.


Write the Rhyming word and Scheme of the 3rd stanza.

The pilgrim raised his old gray head,
“My friend in the path I’ve come,” he said, “There followeth after me today
A fair haired youth, who must pass this way. The chasm which held no fears for me
To the fair haired youth, may a pitfall be.
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim.
My friend, I am building this bridge for him.”


Find the antonym of the following from the passage.

Cowardly × ______


Explain the metaphor in the following line: 

Sometimes there are clouds...


Add the proper prefix like up-, un-, dis-, in- to the following to form the opposite.

happy 


Change the following into Passive voice.

Why have you left your brother at home?


Find the antonym for the underlined word in the following sentence.

Seventeen oranges were hidden in the narrator’s pockets.


Find out the anagrams. Use a pair of phrases as clues.

  • A place to grow flowers ______
  • Something to be careful of______

Find any five words related to sea from the text (Sections I & II). Write them below. Then use the words to frame sentences of your own.

eg: beach – We like to play in the sandy beach.

______ - ______

______- ______

______- ______

______- ______

______- ______


Read these sentence from the story carefully. Do they give command or request or make statement? Write 'C' for command and 'R' for request and 'S' for statement.

There was a forest on the island.


Read the sentence given below and Choose the verbs appropriately.

Our school is ______ at 9.00 in the morning.


Fill in the blank with words given in the box to make compound word.

Clean the ashes out of the ______place.


Give the correct verb form for following sentence.

It______ a car.


Match the correct rhyming words.

nature herd
bird race
face creature

 Choose the correct pictures.

behind


Fill the blank with an appropriate auxiliary.

Maha ______ asked a question to his father.


Fill in the blank with simple future tense of the verb.

You ______ (travel) around the world.


Frame meaningful sentence of your own using the following expression from the story. Use a dictionary if required.

accepted her seclusion with resignation


Read the following passage adapted from ‘Three Men in a Boat’ and fill in the blanks with appropriate modals and read the paragraph aloud.

I thought I will go to British Museum today to read the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touch. I (1)______ read all I wanted to read and then felt I (2)______begin to study diseases. I started to generally turn the leaves idly. I came to typhoid fever, read the symptoms and discovered I (3)______be having it for months without knowing it. Cholera, I had severe complications. Diphtheria, I (4)______have been born with. I was relieved to find that Bright’s disease, I had only in a modified form as so far as that was concerned, I (5)______live for years. The only disease I (6)______conclude I had not got was a housemaid’s knee. I sat and pondered. I tried to feel my heart. I (7)______(not feel) my heart. I walked into the reading room as a happy healthy man but crawled out as a decrepit wreck.


Read what these people say and rewrite as sentence.

I have completed my work.

Satya ______


Underline the prepositional phrase.

We are proud of our children.


Form a phrase with each of the following pair of noun given below.

skeleton + system -


Fill in the blank with the correct infinitive.

Rajesh went to the airport ______his friend.


Identify the error in each of the following sentence and rewrite them Correctly.

A variety of pleasing objects charm the eye.


Write the compound word from the picture.

______

Make smaller words using the letters in the given word. (At least 5 words)

meditation


Write the opposites (antonyms) of the following.

  1. cheap × ______
  2. discouraged × ______
  3. inadequacy × ______
  4. accept × ______
  5. simple × ______
  6. irrational × ______
  7. understand × ______
  8. clear × ______

In the following sentence, replace the incorrect underlined word to make the sentence meaningful and grammatically correct.

The teacher handed down the report cards.


Share
Notifications

Englishहिंदीमराठी


      Forgot password?
Use app×