Week-1 Adventures Of Isabel (vii)

1. Write down the adverbs formed the following adjectives. Use your dictionary if necessary.
a) Happy …………………
b) Brave …………………
c) Full ……………………
d) Clumsy ………………….
e) Whole …………………..
f) Unkind …………………
g) Steady …………………
h) Usual …………….
i) Ready ……………….
j) Clever ………………..
k) Ironic …………………
l) Jeep …………………..
m) Sensible ……………..
n) Agitated …………….

2. For each of the following uses of the simple present tense, give some example of your own.
a) The simple present tense is used to express things we do as a habits.

Example: He works. The play piano.

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b) This tense Is often used with adverbs, or adverb phrases, such as always, often, never,
sometimes, on Fridays, twice a week, etc.

Example: He always brings us presents. She sometimes cries.

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c) The simple present is also used for things that are always true.

Example: Birds fly. Dogs bark.

The Earth moves round the sun.

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d) It is used for a planned future action.

Examples: We leave Karachi on Friday night and arrive in Multan on Sunday.

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e) It is used instead of the present continuous tense with some verbs.

Examples: love; I love chocolate. Not, I am loving chocolate), see, like hate etc.

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Week-2 Light in the Night
1. Think of suitable adjectives to use with these nouns. You may choose words from the text or
use your own.
a) ………………… lamp
b) ………………… ladder
c) …………………. Streets
d) ………………… work
e) …………………. City
f) …………………. Light

2. Pick the adverbs in the following sentences and say what kind of adverbs they are.
a) London glows brightly.
b) The Lamplighter could safely rest his ladder on them.
c) Lamplighters would put a lamp outside the house.
d) You could easily get lost.
e) They often became a key figure in their communities.
f) They light them every evening and put them out every morning.
g) The lampposts were decorated with the royal crest and were looked after carefully by the
lamplighters.

3. Make three columns and sort the words out into groups. Name the three columns Nouns,
Adverbs (normally), and Adjectives.

Early poorly grimly actively friendly costly silly family duly chilly barely bully pearly

Fairly mainly hilly holy carefully curly gaily homely stately tally folly

4. Which of the following words form adverbial phrases of the kind. Mark t or f.
a) Round b) up c) down d) through e) once f) more g) further h) over
h) To i) over j) backwards

5. Use the adverbial phrases given above in the following sentences.

a) …………………….. Went the balloon. (literal meaning)
b) His health has been on the ……………. Since he moved to Lahore. (improving)
c) She got caught in the rain and she’s wet ……………. (completely)
d) The wheel went ……………….. And the children shrieked louder. ( Spinning)
e) They sat in the shade of a tree and ………………… they fell asleep. (after a while)

6. Use the adverbial phrases on thos age to write sentences of your own in your notebook.

7. Fill in the blanks with the missing masculine or feminine names.

Masculine feminine

a) Heir ………………..
b) Host ………………..
c) Master ………………..
d) Prince ……………….
e) ……………….. bride
f) ……………….. landlady
g) ………………. Niece
h) Emperor ………………….
i) Mayor …………………
j) …………………… waitress

8. Here are a few languages. Do you know where they are spoken?
a) Polish:
b) Spanish
c) Mandarin
d) Urdu
e) German
f) Greek

9. You will find all the languages above and one more hidden in the sentences below. They may
be part of a single word or made up from the letters of two or more words.

Example: Mr Shah gave Umar a bicycle for his birthday. (Arabic)

a) The pan is hot! We can fry the eggs now.

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b) The children were sitting on the steps polishing their shoes.

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c) I think there’s some curd under the table, that’s why.

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d) I really don’t know how the badger managed to escape.

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e) Is that brave man daring to cross the ocean alone?

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f) The horrible looking thing reeks of garlic!

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10. Fill in the blanks.

Example: Pakistanis lives in Pakistan.

a) …………………… live in Australia.

b) …………………… live in Greece.
c) …………………… live in Israel.
d) …………………… live in Iran.
e) The …………………. Live in Vietnam and the …………… live in France.

11. Which is which? Write the correct names.

Anagrams of the words to be used.

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12. Find out what a fly in the ointment means. Write a short description of how someone or
something might be considered a fly in the ointment.

No (vii) Week 3

1. Write sentences to show the difference in meaning between:

a) Across and a cross
b) Away and a way
c) Again and a gain