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प्रश्न
Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of the following foreign word/phrase. Use them in sentence of your own:
ex gratia
उत्तर
Ex gratia- compensation paid by the Government to the victim of an accident.
The Hon’ble Chief Minister gave each of the eight survivors of the Road accident an ex gratia of. two lakh rupees.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Given below is a jumbled sentence. Working in groups, rearrange the word in the sentence to form the correct sentence.
You will find that the sentence contains an idiomatic expression that you have come across in the lesson. Underline the idiom and write down its meaning. Then use your dictionary to check the meaning.
The village/tried/the crime/on the young woman/to pin
Ans:____________________________________________
Idiom:__________________________________________
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’).
The fawn lifted its nose.
Write the noun form of the following word by adding -ness or -ity to them appropriately. Check the spelling of the new word.
enormous - ________.
Which form of the verb is more natural in below sentence?
Don’t worry about the dog. It won’t hurt/isn’t hurting you
'Worms play a very important role in maintaining ecological balance. They are friends of farmers.'
Form groups and discuss the significance of worms in the above two roles.
Write the following dialogue from the story in the Indirect Speech.
‘Who are you?’ asked the bird. ‘I am the Happy Prince.’
‘Then why are you crying? I am wet with your tears.’
Frame sentence using the prepositional verb given below.
rely on
Make a sentence in the present perfect tense using the verb.
My mother ______ to London.
Rearrange the words in the correct order to make a meaningful sentence.
as / I / healthy / are / you / am / as
The soldier climbed ______ a horse and rode away.
Fill in the blank by using the correct preposition.
Families often argue ____ Christmas time.
______play football?
We ______ not found the dog yet.
Tom left the class _______ he was sick.
He lost the key _______ he couldn’t open his room.
Match the rhyming word.
| 1. | green | can |
| 2. | society | care |
| 3. | man | clean |
| 4. | welfare | duty |
Frame meaningful sentence of your own using the following expression from the story. Use a dictionary if required.
a turning point
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.
Fill in the blank using past perfect tense form of the verb:
My father ______(be) to Mumbai once before.
Fill in the blank choosing the word from the box. Refer to a dictionary if required.
Tharini acts as an interpreter at meetings between statesmen from different countries. She is also a much sought-after tour guide, as she is wellversed and fluent in multiple languages. Tharini is a ______.
Use the following phrasal verbs in sentences of your own.
run
- over
- away
- into
Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of the following foreign word/phrase. Use them in sentence of your own:
teta-te
Change the following sentence into Passive Voice.
The Governor inaugurated the exhibition at ten o’clock.
Change the following sentence into Passive Voice.
How did you do the experiment?
Add suitable question tag to the following sentence and punctuate properly.
We enjoyed the trip very much.
Form a phrase with each of the following pair of noun given below.
fancy + idea -
Spot the error in the following sentence and rewrite them correctly.
The new health care scheme announced by the Government will bring relief to the children suffering with acute tuberculosis.
Find out the synonym of the underlined word in each of the following sentence.
Our father rejected it, saying it wouldn’t be sturdy.
The students could not ask any questions to the teacher. (Rewrite using unable to)
Read the example and fill in the blank in the same pattern.
Example: sweet - sweeter - sweetest
great - ______ - ______
