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Question
Discuss in groups and share with one another.
The daily routine of your mother and father on working days.
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Solution
- My mother wakes up at 5 in the morning and prepares tiffin for me and my father. Then she wakes us up and helps us get ready. Then, she starts preparing lunch. After lunch, she takes a nap and then goes out to meet her friends. She comes in the evening and prepares dinner. She watches TV for a while and then sleeps.
- My father is my hero. I’ve seen him work hard for us all his life. He usually wakes up at 6 a.m. Then he brushes his teeth, has his breakfast, and goes jogging. He comes back and gets ready for work. He’s a librarian. He helps my mother prepare for our tiffins and leaves for his office. He comes back around 6 in the evening and has some snacks. After that, he helps me with my homework. Sometimes he hangs out with his friends and comes back and gets some dinner. After that, he reads his newspaper, has his dinner, and sleeps by 11.
RELATED QUESTIONS
Read the following passage carefully and do the given activities:
A.1) True or False:
Write the statements and state whether they are true or false:
(i) Those who choose to live well must help others.
(ii) If neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily improve the quality.
(iii) The farmer grew award-winning corn.
(iv) The reporter discovered that the farmer didn’t share his seed corn with his neighbors.
There once was a farmer who grew award-winning corn. Each year he entered his corn in the state fair where it won a blue ribbon. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his sweet corn with his neighbors. “How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?” the reporter asked.
“Why sir”, said the farmer, “didn’t you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn.” He is very much aware of the connectedness of life. His corn cannot improve unless his neighbor's corn also improves. So it is with our lives. Those who choose to live in peace must help their neighbors to live in peace. Those who choose to live well must help others to live well, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches.
The lesson for each of us is this: if we are to grow good corn, we must help our neighbors grow good corn.
A.2) Consequences:
Write the consequences:
(i) The farmer shares the corn.
(ii) The farmer doesn’t share the corn.
A.3) Antonyms:
Find out the words opposite in meaning from the passage:
(i) superior x _______
(ii) lost x _______
(iii) improve x _______
(iv) inconstantly x _______
A.4) Language study:
(i) We must help our neighbors. (Replace the modal auxiliary showing advice).
(ii) The wind picks up pollen from ripening corn and swirls it field to field. (Use “not only…….. but also” and rewrite)
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