Please select a subject first
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Pick out the words and phrases in the story that indicate that the author was not financially well off. One is done for you.
| Words | not afford | |||
| Phrases | beyond my means |
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Fill in the blank with a word or a phrase given in the bracket in its appropriate form.
(startle, catch sight of, overload, water, pass)
“I never ______ my stomach”, she said.
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Fill in the blank with a word or a phrase given in the bracket in its appropriate form.
(startle, catch sight of, overload, water, pass)
I was ______ when the menu was brought.
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Fill in the blank with a word or a phrase given in the bracket in its appropriate form.
(startle, catch sight of, overload, water, pass)
The author ______ the guest at the play.
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Fill in the blank with a word or a phrase given in the bracket in its appropriate form.
(startle, catch sight of, overload, water, pass)
I had seen asparagus in the shops, my mouth often ______ at the sight of them.
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Fill in the blank with a word or a phrase given in the bracket in its appropriate form.
(startle, catch sight of, overload, water, pass)
The author’s guest was ______ through Paris.
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Make a meaningful sentence by using the following phrase in your notebook.
in the pursuit of
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Make a meaningful sentence by using the following phrase in your notebook.
be afraid of
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Make a meaningful sentence by using the following phrase in your notebook.
give up
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Read the text again. You will find that the text contains many phrases. Match the phrases in ‘A’ and their meanings in ‘B’. After matching their meanings, make sentences of your own.
| ‘A’ Phrases | ‘B’ Meanings |
| 1. run of terrible bad luck | a. hit on a topic |
| 2. draws heavily on | b. without being affected by a particular factor |
| 3. struck a chord | c. endure in difficult circumstances |
| 4. in spite of | d. a period of time when bad things happen |
| 5. holding on | e. makes use of |
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Make a meaningful sentence by using the following phrase:
'pitched in to help'
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Copy the first 8 lines and mark the stressed syllables using a coloured pen.
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The number of stressed syllables (Rhythm) in the line.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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Pick out the word from the given box and write it in the correct columns below.
| jump, narrow, cable, live, queen, butter, tree, kitten, van, yellow, dale, happy, night, printer, star, sober, paper, cloud, pearl, within, bike, began, slender. |
Here the focus is not on the spellings but the pronunciation of the words.
| Words with one syllable | Words with two syllables |
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Write the names of any five of your friends and mention the number of syllables in each name.
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Copy any two stanzas of the poem in the lines below. Using a coloured pen underline the stressed syllables in each line and put a stress-mark (') over each.
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Count the syllables and underline the appropriate number in the box.
| elephant |
| 1 2 3 |
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Count the syllables and underline the appropriate number in the box.
| mirror |
| 1 2 3 |
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Count the syllables and underline the appropriate number in the box.
| bus |
| 1 2 3 |
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Count the syllables and underline the appropriate number in the box.
| kangaroo |
| 1 2 3 |
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