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Read the play out in parts. Enact the play on a suitable occasion.
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Read the extract and do the following activities :
B1 Likes and dislikes :
(i) The child likes eating _______
(ii) The child dislikes eating _______
They won’t eat peas, don’t like your bread -
For something in it crunches;
They gag on fat, the gravy’s gross,
They won’t eat grapes in bunches.
Tomatoes, onions, peppers, fish
Garlic nor cottage cheese;
Oh, it’s a dish uncommon rare
That truly seems to please.
No red sauce may the ice cream have,
“It’s bleeding,” they will say;
And gravely hand it to their mum
To take it to clean away
But let us speak of chocolate cake,
It must be frosted o’er;
They’ll devour three full slabs,
And calmly ask for more.
Oh, I do so always love to eat
With picky little pests,
Whose parents joy to make them
The most undesirable guests!
B2 What message does the poem convey for children?
B3 Pick out two pairs of rhyming words from the poem.
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Using a good dictionary, find the shade of difference in the following:
‘Profession’ refers to ____________
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- Problem:
- Attempts made to solve it:
- Climax/Turning point:
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- End:
Read the lesson and name the following.
The world’s most advanced surgical robot ______
Fill in the gap, choosing a word from the bracket to make an appropriate comparison.
(tall / quiet / humble / merry / busy / slippery / fast / sly / slow / big)
as ______ as a giraffe
Fill in the gap, choosing a word from the bracket to make an appropriate comparison.
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as ______ as a deer
Suggest what you would do in the following situation:
You are going through a crisis that is making you short-tempered and impatient, due to which you end up causing harm to your family and friends. They have started complaining about it quite often.
What did one of the fluttering creatures do?
State the difference between poetry and drama.
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Write an imaginary telephone conversation in which you invite your friend to the above function.
Identify one example of a main clause and one example of a dependent clause from the content below:
Troy was filled with the sight of leaping flames and the sound of shouting and the noise of weapons and the cries of weeping women. The sleeping Trojans sprang out of their beds, but they were taken by surprise. Their enemies were right inside their walls, and many of the Trojans were killed before they could put on their armour and seize their weapons.
A bright light lit up the night sky as palaces and houses, temples and towers, went up in flames. The Trojans fought as well as they could, but it was all in vain. Old King Priam was killed with all his brave sons. Hector’s wife and his old mother and sister were carried off as slaves by the conquerors. Their fate was in contrast to Helen’s when King Menelaus rushed through the city, looking for her, and found her in her palace. She hung her head in shame and sorrow as she faced her former husband. Her voice was choked with emotion and she could not speak. But Menelaus forgave her and she went back with him, for it was only Aphrodite who had turned her heart away from her home and her husband and her child.
When morning came, nothing was left of the proud, rich city that had resisted attack for ten years.
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Complete the following diagram.
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Pick out and write down such lines or expressions that support the above statement.
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- _______________________.
- _______________________.
- _______________________.
- _______________________.
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Say whether you agree or disagree.
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A Command
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unfair
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What a trouble must I have been to you then!
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Take a stanza from the poem. Write it in the blanks and find the rhyme scheme.
| Lines from the poem | Rhyme scheme (a/b/c/d) |
Fill in the table
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| The train stopped in the middle of the forest. | |
| They couldn’t hire the elephant. | |
| They were in need of an elephant driver. |
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Grandfather felt planting trees would help the forest because______.
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Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
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Amuthan locked the door behind him.
________ was a young talented doctor.
Try your own.
The brown sparrow laid ________eggs.
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Read the passage carefully and answer the following question.
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Recite the poem The Painter with correct intonation.
Pencil asked him to draw ______.
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What did the boy make with the trunk of the tree?
What did the boy wonder about?
Complete the dialogue.
| Anil: | Which is your favourite book? |
| Sunil: | ________________________ |
| Anil: | What type of book is it? |
| Sunil: | ________________________ |
