Activity 8
Identify the words from the text which are the synonyms of the following words :
a) confused – puzzled
b) demand – claimed
c) argument – dispute
d) surprised – amazed
Activity 9
Complete the following sentences with the proper degree of adjectives :
a) Shiela has the longest hair in the class.
b) Mr. Ghosal is busier than Mr patnaik.
c) We should be more careful in our speech.
d) Shenawaz is as thin as Parlay.
e) The owl is considered as the wisest of all.
f) His house is farther away from my house than Sanjeev’s.
Activity 10
Fill in the blanks with either present continuous tense or past continuous tense :
a) It is raining now .
b) Dr. Manmohan Singh is visiting Kolkata today.
c) Hari was studying at 9:00 PM yesterday.
d) The boys are playing in the field now.
e) Rahim was talking to his friend when his mother called him.
Activity 11
Suppose your friend asks you to solve a riddle and you don’t know the answer to it. Write a dialogue in about seventy words based on the conversation that you had with your friend.
Begin like this:
Sunil : Hello Rohit! What’s going on?
You : Nothing serious. Just having a crack at this crossword.
Sunil : Good to see that you like puzzles. Well, here’s a riddle for you.
You : What’s the riddle?
Sunil : Well,………..
Ans:
Sunil : Hello Rohit! What’s going on?
You (I) : Nothing serious. Just having a crack at this crossword.
Sunil : Good to see that you like puzzles. Well, here’s a riddle for you.
You (I) : What’s the riddle?
Sunil : Well, answer the riddle – Three eyes have I, all in a row; when the red one opens, all freeze like the snow.
You (I) : It’s really puzzling me. I don’t know the answer.
Sunil : Think more. You can easily solve.
You (I) : What the thing may be ? Tell me.
Sunil : The answer is ‘Traffic Light’.
You (I) : Oh, how easy. I should answer it.
Sunil : But you can not. you have defeated.
You (I) : Okay. Bye. see you later.
Activity 12
Try to write a story that you may have heard before using the following points (in about seventy words):
A crow-finds meat—flies to a tree–a clever fox—-sees– says to crow—sing–crow sings—meat falls–fox takes—– crow sad flies away.
Ans:
A sly fox and a foolish crow
Once there was a foolish crow. One day it was flying over a meat shop. When the shopkeeper looked behind, it stole a piece of meat. Then the crow flew to a distant tree and sat on a branch. Under the tree there was a sly fox who noticed it. The fox was greedy and clever also. It asked the crow to sing a song with its beautiful voice. The crow felt proud and started singing. When it opened its mouth, the piece of meat fell down. The clever fox caught the piece of meat in the mouth. The sad crow flew away.
Moral: “Only fools are flattered”.