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Question
Form groups of 4-5. Read the following sentences aloud. Using your imagination and with the help of group discussion, write other situations in which the sentences can be used.
- The outcome: disappointment and anger.
- The hour of battle had sounded
- What a chase!
- This was our chance, .........
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Solution
- The students wanted to meet the minister and waited continuously outside his office for three days. Finally the secretary informed them that the minister was on a long foreign trip. The outcome: disappointment and anger
- The two warring teams faced each other aggressively. Both wanted desperately to win. The hour of battle had sounded.
- I watched the lion chase the deer in and out through bushes and trees for over an hour before it gave up. What a chase!
- The Principal asked us if we had any problems or complaints. We thought of our daily burden of homework. Should we complain now? This was our chance…..
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Complete the call-outs:
A.1)
Our world is an institution
Of environmental pollution
We choose not to care
For our future generations
And I for one am guilty
For buying the hundreds of electronic gadgets
That attracts the industries to produce like maggots
environmental pollution is at the heart of our planet
The forests are dying
Wildlife is crying
Millions of fish are dying
Mother earth is sighing
Tell me is it right
That we sleep well at night
Replenishing ourselves
For tomorrow’s greedy fight
Overcrowded trains
Overloaded brains
Where is the light? What is our plight?
While the river break their banks
And greedy industries play their polluted pranks.
A.2) Find the examples that show that we do not care for our future generation
A.3) Match:
Match the lines in Column ‘A’ with the figures of speech in Column ‘B’:
| Column ‘A’ | Column ‘B’ | ||
| (i) | Our world is an institution | (a) | Personification |
| (ii) | Mother earth is sighing | (b) | Simile |
| (c) | Metaphor |
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The life of the cherry tree was threatened.
Expand the idea inherent in the following proverb:
A Bad workman blames his tools.
Think and answer:
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Find the meaning of the following word.
abused
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Try your own.
