Now Develop Your Writing Skill 

  Write a paragraph on The Cuckoo  using Simple Present Tense.

Singing bird---messenger of spring—sweet voice—black bird like crow—differs with crow in voice—appears in spring—cannot bear cold—sing day and night—found in West Bengal and many other states—not in cold countries—female cuckoo lay eggs in the nest of the crow.

1.Fill in the blanks with the Future continuous tense form of verbs in the brackets.

(i)  He -------------------- (have) lunch late.

(ii)  They______________ (work) hard next month.

(iii)  The cat _______________(run) after the mouse.

(iv)  The police ________________ (chase) the thief.

(v)   Samir _______________ (arrive) to London.

(vi)  The boys ______________ (quarrel) among themselves.

(vii)  They _______________(leave)  for madras soon.

(viii)  Kabita __________________ (prepare) her home-task till 5 pm.

(ix)   It _________________________(rain) today.

(x)    I____________________( wait) for him.

Do as directed

(i)  They will be playing now. (Change into past continuous tense)

(ii)  Rabin is drinking milk. (Voice change)

(iii)  As soon as he saw me, he ran away.(Use No sooner did)

(iv)  The boy was too weak to do work. (Use so…that)

(v)   He has killed ___________ bird.(?Use article)

(vi)  I need _______apples.(Use some/any)

(VII) He is my______brother.(Elder/older)

(VIII) Kalpana is ______than Swapan.(Elder/older)

(IX)  Fish swims______water. (Use preposition)

(X)  My mother likes vegetable. (Correct the sentence)

(XI) The boy obtained full marks in mathematic. (Correct the sentence)

(XII) I have a strong headache. (Correct the sentence)

 Use  so....that in place of too...to/Make negative sentence

বাক্যের মধ্যে too.....to  ব্যবহার করলে বাক্য টি Simple Sentence বা সরল বাক্য হয়।

বাক্যের মধ্যে so.....that  ব্যবহার করলে বাক্য টি Complex Sentence বা জটিল বাক্য হয়।

নিয়ম : 

 1. too এর জায়গায় so বসে।

 2. To এর জায়গায় that +sub+can/could not বসে।

 3.  Verb বা ক্রিয়া পদ present থাকলে can not আর Past থাকলে could not বসে .

1. She is too weak to walk.
2. She was too fat to walk.
3. He is too selfish to learn from past.
4. The boy is too clever to be caught.
5. We are too late to catch the train.
6. He speaks too fast to be understood.
7. The news is too good to be true.
8. He was too tired to keep awake.
9. The food is too hot to be eaten.
10. The boy is too dull to understand it.

Use of No sooner had/No sooner did/Hardly had/Scarcely

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No sooner had + Sub + Verb³ + than  + 2nd incident

No sooner did + Sub + Verb1 + than + 2nd incident

Hardly had + Sub + Verb³ + when  + 2nd incident

Scarcely had + Sub + Verb³ + when  + 2nd incident

      Ans: No sooner did he go than it started raining.

      Ans : Scarcely had he gone when it started raining.

     Ans:  Hardly had he gone when it started raining.

****এখানে বিভিন্ন রঙের মাধ্যমে দেখানো হয়েছে কোথায় কি কি পরিবর্তন হচ্ছে ।****

NOW PRACTICE YOURSELF

1. As soon as I saw him,I rushed towards him.
2. As soon as  I reached the station,the train steamed out.
3. As soon as the teacher went out, the boys began to shout.
4. As soon as she read the telegram,she fainted.
5. As soon as I solved the problem,another cropped up.
6. As soon as the police arrived,the protesters began their tantrum.
7. As soon as I heard the shot,I rushed to the spot.
8. As soon as he saw me,he began to laugh.
9. As soon as the rain came,the seeds began to sprout.
10. As soon as the sales began,we bought our presents.

COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES WITH THE INFORMATION FROM THE     POEM:

1. The poet will linger in.............................
2. ................................is biting its blue finger.
3. The frosty field is as white as.........................
4. The poet will not yield in front of.......
5. The warm fireside is like the..........................

1. The vagabond wants to dip his bread in the river water.
2. The vagabond wants the way to be far away from him.
3. The vagabond wants a sea run by him.
4. He wants a dear friend to accompany him.
5. Here 'linger' means spent a while.

1. What kind of life does the poet want?
2. What does he like to see while lying in bed?
3. In what does he like to dip his bread?
4. What are the things that do not interest the vagabond?
5. What does he seek then?

1. Happy and delightful-
2. A stream-
3. A place where a soul finds peace and God-
4. Surrender-
5. Sky-
6. In the field-

FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH PREPOSITIONS:

1. He is busy___-present.
2. He is not fit ___this post.
3. The king died _____cancer.
4. I have not seen him___a month.
5. The taxi will arrive__-5A.M.
6. The old man is resting____the tree.
7. Put the chair ___the wall.
8. Samir is married___a rich lady.
9. Cats are fond___fish.
10. My brother is down____work.

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MODEL ACTIVITY TASKS

ENGLISH

CLASS VII

LESSON – 5: “UNCLE PODGER HANGS A PICTURE”

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:

And then he would take off his coat, and begin. He would send the girl out for sixpen’orth of nails, and then one of the boys after her to tell her what size to get. “Now you go and get me my hammer, Will,” he would shout, “and you bring me the rule, Tom. I shall want the step- ladder, and I had better have a kitchen-chair, too. And don’t you go, Maria, because I shall want somebody to hold me the light. When the girl comes back she must go out again for a bit of picture cord. Tom ! – Where’s Tom ? – Tom, you come here; I shall want you to hand me up the picture.”

ACTIVITY 1

Tick (√) the correct alternatives:

(a) The nails cost ---

i) five pennies

ii) six pennies √

iii) seven pennies

(b) Before beginning his job, Uncle Podger would ---

i) took off his coat √

ii) drink tea

iii) buy some nails

(c) The girl would go out again to bring ---

i) a kitchen-chair

ii) some more nails

iii) the cords √

ACTIVITY 2

Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements in the given boxes. Give supporting sentences / statements from the text:

(a) Uncle Podger asked Aunt Maria to assist him with the chair. F

S.S. : And don’t you go, Maria, because I shall want somebody to hold me the light.

(b) Two persons were engaged to bring the nails. T

S.S. : He would send the girl out for sixpen’orth of nails, and then one of the boys after her to tell her what size to get.

(c) The first thing that Uncle Podger wanted was Will’s hammer. F

S.S. : And then he would took off his coat, and begin. He would send the girl out for sixpen’orth of nails,

ACTIVITY 3

Fill in the blanks with the proper forms of the Verbs given in brackets. One is done for you:

Your examination is going ( go ) on. It will be ( be ) over in 10 days or so. It is hoped ( hope ) that many of you will do ( do ) well. However, after the examination, everyone will be waiting ( wait ) for the day when the result will be publish ( publish ).

ACTIVITY 4

Rewrite the sentences as directed:

(a) What a fool you are! ( Turn into a Statement )

 Ans. You are a great fool.

(b) Hang the picture on the wall. ( Change the Voice )

Ans. Let the picture be hanged on the wall.

(c) She is a happy woman.  ( Turn into a Complex Sentence )

Ans. She is a woman who is happy.

ACTIVITY – 5

Suppose one day you and your brother undertook a task of hanging a picture on the wall of your room. Write in your own words all the funny things that both of you did during the work in five complete sentences.

Ans. 

Last Sunday I and my brother took a job of hanging a picture on the wall of our room. I tried to hang the picture. I fell down from the chair. One of the legs of the chair was broken. It was great fun.

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CLASS IX

ENGLISH (2nd Language)

1. Read the text carefully and answer the questions that follow:

The children were eager to see the sun. They had been on Venus all their lives. They had been only two years old when the sun last came out. They had long since forgotten the colour and the heat of how it really was. They played in the echoing tunnels of the underground city and sang of summer and the sun.

The rain stopped.

A. Complete the following sentences with information from the text:

i) The children had been only two years old when the sun last came out.

ii) When the sun last came out the children had been on Venus.

iii) The children had forgotten the  colour and the heat.

2. Fill in the blanks by choosing the correct alternative given in brackets:

When he saw (see/saw/seen) a star shooting (shoot/shoots/shooting) across the sky, he breathed (breathed/breathing/breathe) a prayer. 

3. Write a letter to the Manager of a courier service in about 100 words, enquiring about the delivery of a precious parcel to your home.

To,

The Manager,

ABC Courier,

Bankura, West Bengal

                         Subject - Enquiry about the delivery of a parcel

Sir,

I beg to state that I sent a parcel through your courier service to Kolkata on 12 th  July 2021. But the parcel has not yet been reached at the destination. The order number of the parcel is 123456789. I checked to track details online but I did not find out the updated position of the Parcel. I have visited the courier outlet where the Parcel received several times but did not get any satisfactory answer.

So, therefore, I would like to request you once again to take necessary action in this regard.

N.B.  I have attached the booking receipt with this letter.

                                                                                     Thanking You

 Dated:12th July'21                                                              Yours faithfully,

Place: Bankura                                                                       Sunanda Das