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Question
Rewrite the following sentence using ‘If ’ without changing the meaning.
Unless we plant more trees, we cannot save our planet.
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Solution
If we don’t plant more trees, we cannot save our planet.
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The table below contains a list of nouns and some adjectives. Use as many adjectives as you can to describe each noun. You might come up with some funny descriptions!
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elephant |
circular, striped, enormous, multicoloured, round, cheerful, wild, blue, red, chubby, large, medium-sized, cold |
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face |
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building |
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water |
Say whether the verb in the sentence below is transitive or intransitive. Ask yourself a ‘what’ question about the verb. (For some verbs, an object is a person, so ask the question ‘who’ instead of ‘what’).
He walked all day.
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.”
The poet opens his poem with a question. Is the question asked to receive some answer? No. It is a question used to emphasize and stress upon the fact that modern man has no time to enrich his life from nature.
Such a device used by poets falls under the Figure of Speech called 'Interrogation' or 'Rhetorial Question'. Refer to the poem 'The Pilgrim' and find examples of Interrogation.
What are conjunctions? explain with some example?
Complete the following idioms using the appropriate colour term.
to have ______ fingers (be good at gardening).
Find and list the rhyming words from the poem.
Complete the story using the past tense of the verbs.
The Hare and the Tortoise
One day a Hare and a Tortoise decided to have a race. The Tortoise _______ (know) that the Hare _________ (can) run faster than him. But the Tortoise _______ (be) more intelligent than the Hare. 'Yes, I'll race you,'_________ (say) the Tortoise. The Tortoise ______ (have) a clever plan. He ______ (find) his brothers and sisters and he ______ (tell) them to wait in different places along the path of the race. So they all ______ (hide) behind the trees along the path. The race ______ (begin)! The Tortoise ______ (run) as fast as possible. But the Hare ______ (be) faster, of course. 'This will be a very easy race', ______ (think) the Hare. So the Hare _________ (decide) to rest, and he quickly ____ (fall) asleep at the side of the road. Suddenly, the Hare ______ (wake up) and he ______ (see) a Tortoise ahead of him! 'How did he get ahead of me?' the Hare asked himself. In fact, it ______ (be) not his friend the Tortoise: it ______ (be) the Tortoise's sister. But to a Hare, all tortoises look the same. The Hare ______ (run) past the Tortoise easily. Soon, he ______ (cannot) see the Tortoise, so he ______ (sit) down to rest. Then the Hare ______ (get up) and continued the race. But as the Hare _______ (turn) around the last corner before the finish line, his friend the Tortoise crossed the line and ______ (win) the race!
The girls _______ (learn) their lessons.
Complete the sentences in the paragraph using the appropriate form of words given in brackets.
My sister wanted to go to Mumbai last week. She made a __________ (decide) to buy a ticket at once. As __________ (reserve) could be done online, she gave __________ (prefer) to book a ticket that way. First, she collected __________ (inform) about the __________ (arrive) and __________ (depart) of trains and airplanes.
Fill in the gap with appropriate Pronoun.
______ of his family members would come to visit you.
Read the following sentences carefully and underline the preposition.
After lunch, the children were allowed to play.
Look at the picture and fill in the blank with suitable words.
It is a ______ day.
So you bought a car, ________.
Find me in the poem.
I can border your garden
Change the sentence from future continuous to past continuous.
The train will be arriving on 2nd platform.
Choose the correct reflexive pronoun.
Please make ______ at home while you wait.
Fill the blank with the clipped word.
We visited the ____________. (zoological park)
What we say?
Change the masculine noun to feminine noun in the given sentence.
My uncle presented me a watch.
Fill in the blank with present continuous tense of the given word.
They ______(eat) their breakfast.
Make sentence using the passive form of the verb.
First passenger train/inaugurated /India /1853
Idioms:
An idiom is an expression in English with a special meaning of its own. Idioms do not give the literal meaning of the individual words used in them.
You come across the idiom ‘by the skin of one’s teeth’ in the lesson. It means ‘a narrow escape’.
Here are some more idioms taken from the lesson. Find out their meaning and use them in sentence of your own.
tight corners
Fill in the blank with modal auxiliary.
You ______ not go to the market as I have brought vegetables.
Form a phrase with each of the following pair of noun given below.
nerve + disorder -
Identify the correct combination of the following compound words.
Haircut, headmaster, waterfall, swimming pool, drawback, public speaking, output, software, show case, world-famous.
Fill in the blank with the correct infinitive.
The doctor advised the patient ______his medicines without fail.
Write compound word using the picture.
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Spot the error in the spelling of the following word with reference to the passage and rewrite it correctly.
Innar
