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प्रश्न
Read the extract from Kayal’s diary entry regarding her Nepal Trek, and fill in the blanks with the correct tense form of the verbs given in brackets.
DAY 1 We ______(leave) Anna International Airport in Chennai two days ago catching a direct flight to Kathmandu in Nepal. We ______(spend) a day sightseeing. Kathmandu is full of people, rickshaws and the smell of sandalwood. I’ve never ______(be) on a trip like this before. So I’m really excited.
DAY 2 It ______(rain) when we reached Pokhara, Nepal’s second largest city, and saw the snowy peaks of the Himalayas for the first time. We ______(reach) Pokhara after a hairraising six-hour bus journey along very narrow roads with a lot of hairpin bends. The bus ______(be) so full that one person had to share the driver’s seat.
DAY 3 We _______________ (begin) our trek at last. We are at about 900 metres and the weather is warm and humid. For lunch we had chips and yak cheese sandwiches. I didn’t like them very much. I’m thrilled that we ______(pitch) tents for our camps in the dense forests.
DAY 4 Yesterday a landslide ______(block) our path and we had to use ropes to get over it. This morning we walked along the river Kali Gandaki through dense forests of oak trees and we pitched our camp at Tukuche below the Annapurna mountain range. The main danger in addition to landslides, is ‘yak attack’. Yaks ______(be) not dangerous but you have to be careful if you meet a herd of them because they can push you off the sides of the mountain.
DAY 5 We met a lot of children on our trek through the villages. They ______(play) in the pool of muddy rain water as we left the place. We have already climbed 2,400 metres. Up here, it never ______(rain) and there are no trees. It ______ (be) windy and dusty and I am always thirsty.
DAY 6 Yesterday we ______(go) up to the mountainside of the township of Mukthinath, at 3,600 metres. The thin air with less oxygen there ______(leave) us breathless. We ______(feel) that we couldn’t go any further. We ______(drink) a lot of extra fluids to prevent altitude sickness.
DAY 7 We turned around today and started to descend to Jomosom. As we went down, the oxygen-filled our blood again and we seemed to ______ (fly) instead of walking.
DAY 8 We went back to Pokhara in a small plane yesterday. It was exciting when we _____(fly) between the mountain peaks. We arrived in Kathmandu this afternoon and we ______(spend) our last few hours in shopping. We leave for Chennai tomorrow. We’ve had a trip of a lifetime.
उत्तर
DAY 1 We left Anna International Airport in Chennai two days ago catching a direct flight to Kathmandu in Nepal. We spent a day sightseeing. Kathmandu is full of people, rickshaws and the smell of sandalwood. I’ve never been on a trip like this before. So I’m really excited.
DAY 2 It was raining when we reached Pokhara, Nepal’s second largest city, and saw the snowy peaks of the Himalayas for the first time. We reached Pokhara after a hair-raising six-hour bus journey along very narrow roads with a lot of hairpin bends. The bus was so full that one person had to share the driver’s seat.
DAY 3 We began our trek at last. We are at about 900 metres and the weather is warm and humid. For lunch we had chips and yak cheese sandwiches. I didn’t like them very much. I’m thrilled that we pitched tents for our camps in the dense forests.
DAY 4 Yesterday a landslide blocked our path and we had to use ropes to get over it. This morning we walked along the river Kali Gandaki through dense forests of oak trees and we pitched our camp at Tukuche below the Annapurna mountain range. The main danger in addition to landslides is a ‘yak attack’. Yaks are not dangerous but you have to be careful if you meet a herd of them because they can push you off the sides of the mountain.
DAY 5 We met a lot of children on our trek through the villages. They were playing in the pool of muddy rain water as we left the place. We have already climbed 2,400 metres. Up here, it never rains and there are no trees. It is windy and dusty and I am always thirsty.
DAY 6 Yesterday we went up to the mountainside of the township of Mukthinath, at 3,600 metres. The thin air with less oxygen there left us breathless. We felt that we couldn’t go any further. We drank a lot of extra fluids to prevent altitude sickness.
DAY 7 We turned around today and started to descend to Jomosom. As we went down, the oxygen-filled our blood again and we seemed to be flying instead of walking.
DAY 8 We went back to Pokhara in a small plane yesterday. It was exciting when we was exciting between the mountain peaks. We arrived in Kathmandu this afternoon and we spent our last few hours in shopping. We leave for Chennai tomorrow. We’ve had a trip of a lifetime.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Fill in the blanks using the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
My little sister is very naughty. When she __________ (come) back from school yesterday, she had _________ (tear) her dress. We ________ (ask) her how it had _________ (happen). She _______________ (say) she ____________ (have, quarrel) with a boy. She __________ __________ (have, beat) him in a race and he ________ _______ (have, try) to push her. She _____________ ____________ (have, tell) the teacher and so he ______________ ______________ (have, chase) her, and she ____________ ____________ (have, fall) down and _____________ _____________(have, tear) her dress.
Say whether the following sentences are in the Active or the Passive voice. Write A or P after the sentence.
My father gave it to the mechanic. ______________
Write the noun forms of the following word adding −ance or −ence to it.
abhor ______________
When Tenzing and Hillary reached the summit, Tenzing in utter joy said, “We have done it.” In this sentence, the subject (we) is the doer of the action while (achieving the feat) is the subject. The verb of passive voice is formed by using the correct form of the verb ‘to be’ + past participle of the main verb. Construct the sentence accordingly.
Now carefully go through the changes in both the sentences and do the changes accordingly in the remaining sentence.
- We have done it.
It has been done by us.
I took photographs of Tenzing holding aloft the flags.
Say whether the underlined is Infinitive/ Participle (Present or Past)/Gerund.
The dying swallow fell at his feet.
Find what the young one of the following animal is called:
donkey -
Change the meaning by changing the adverb.
Speak gently.
Rewrite the following sentence replacing ‘as soon as’ by ‘No sooner than ’
As soon as the bell will ring, the School Assembly will start
He _________ (attend) the conference.
Convert the following active sentence into a passive sentence by supplying an appropriate passive verb form.
She will not recognize us./We ____________ by her.
He said that he wanted to become ________ engineer.
I have ________ pencils with me.
Fill in the blank with the connector that goes with the underlined word.
Jaya teaches not only English _________ Science.
Tick the correct sentences.
| 1. | I had desired to eat a cake. | I had desired to have eaten cake. | ||
| 2. | My son is fond of music. | My son is fond to music. | ||
| 3. | Sreena avoids eating fruits. | Sreena avoids to eat fruits. | ||
| 4. | Bravery is not to pick a quarrel. | Bravery is not picking a quarrel. | ||
| 5. | It is easier to say than do. | It is easier said than done. |
“I have not done it today.” I explained that I had not done it ______
Write a suitable sentence for the pictures given below.
Work in pairs and say the sentence to each other. Do you hear any difference in the way it is spoken? Discuss and share with the class. Discuss the difference in the meaning of the sentence.
What a beautiful banyan tree!
Put the words in correct order and rewrite sentence.
Mahesh is a boy. (Thin, Tall, Clever)
Look at the picture and fill in the blank with suitable word.
Paul______plays cricket with his friends.
Look at the picture and choose the correct plural word.
Man
Rewrite the sentence using the word in the bracket.
We play cricket on Sundays. (Aravind)
Fill in the blank with suitable homophone:
A five-day annual training camp for the senior cadets of the National Cadet ______has been organised.
Form meaningful sentence using the given word to bring out at least two different meaning.
train
Auction House Puzzler
You have come across many terms associated with an auction, in the lesson. Now solve the crossword puzzle with words from the lesson. Make use of the clues given.
Across
- conducts auction
- a protective garment
- strip with numbers
- offer
Down
- painter
- school of painting
- auction house
- painting
Choose the appropriate linker from within the options and complete the sentence.
The vendor saw the train moving slowly from the platform, ______ he got in.
Fill in the blank with appropriate correlative conjunction.
I would ______starve ______ beg.
Attempt the following with the help of the advertisement given below:
With the help of the advertisement given, write a dialogue between you and your friend on how you enjoyed your visit to the exhibition
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GRAND ARTS AND CRAFT COMPETITION
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Given below are some idiomatic comparisons with ‘like’. Can you guess their meaning? Look them up in a good dictionary. You won’t find them under ‘like’. Which words will you look up to find these comparisons?
- Like a bull in a china shop (Here, china means delicate articles of porcelain)
- Like a cat on a hot tin roof.
- Like a red rag to a bull.
- Like a cat that stole the cream.
- Like water off a duck’s back.
- Memory like a sieve.
Using your imagination write more comparisons using ‘like’
Write compound word using the pictures.
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