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Exercise 1
A Kind of Family
Word World
A.1. Fill in the blanks with the correct words from the box.
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Exercise 2
Talk Time
Circle the words that rhyme with flew and underline the words that rhyme with the
could.
I like to draw
do
So a picture I .
flew
The wind came in a gust
Read these words aloud and sort them into the right columns.
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Name: _________________________Section: _____________ Date: ________ Score_______
Exercise 3
Language Ladder
In most cases, you can form the adverb by adding –ly to the adjective. However, if the
adjective ends in –y, you drop the y and add –ily to form adverbs.
1. Clever 6. Funny
2. Soft 7. Heavy
3. Rough 8. Busy
4. Quiet 9. Happy
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3. If we are not polite, we are .
1. He is as as a cheetah. (weak/yellow/fast)
Writing Time
Polly is your new pen friend. She received a pony called Black Beauty as a birthday present
from her parents. Send an email to her asking about Black Beauty and telling her about yourself
and your family.
(Write ten sentence with help of the ideas given in the box.)
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Name: _________________________Section: _____________ Date: ________ Score_______
Exercise 4
Now, add –en or –n to the following words to make verbs from them.
1. Straight 5. Tight
2. Sharp 6. Weak
3. Loose 7. Less
4. Short 8. Soft
Fill in the blanks with the correct words from the box.
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Name: _________________________Section: _____________ Date: ________ Score_______
Exercise 5
A. Listen to your teacher as she speaks out these words. Circle the
words that have an ai sound as in brain, cane or mate.
maid Made Late paint
B. Some words from the chapter are given below. The two syllables are marked with
the help of strokes (l ).
Write ten more two –syllable words from the chapter. Use strokes to separate the syllables.
C. Listen to your teacher and repeat these words. Stress the highlighted parts
correctly.
Nouns Verbs
Record Record
Permit Permit
Object Object
Present Present
Suspect Suspect
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Exercise 6
Language Ladder
A. Fill in the blanks with the correct word from the box.
A B
1. Danger a. Love
2. Deep b. Weak
3. Hate c. Shallow
4. Backwards d. Safety
5. Strong e. Forwards
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D. Solve the puzzle to find the names of birds. Use the hints.
Clues down
D
1. The new boy is as gentle as a . W A
2. Zaheer is as sharp-eyed as a . V R
4. Bindiya is as happy as a . P A C K
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Clues across
C N R Y
3. Shruti is as wise as an .
5. She is as beautiful as a .
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Exercise 7
Writing Time
1. In five sentences, write a description of the Nilgiri tahr using the details in the
story.
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2. Now, write five sentences describing any other animal that you have seen.
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Exercise 8
A Little Mistake
Word World
A. There are certain words that always go together, such as bread and butter. Use
and to join the words that go together from columns A and B.
A B
Pots Paste
Cut Chairs
Butter Pans
Cats Cheese
Tables Dogs
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
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B. The words took and shook have a short oo sound. The words soon and moon
have a long oo sound.
In English, the spelling of a word does not help us to make out the pronunciation.
The same letters may have different sounds in different words.
Now, circle the words with long oo sound and underline the words with a short oo
sound.
C. We say has when we talk of an action in the present. We use has when
we talk of ‘he’ and ‘she’. We use have when we talk ‘l’, ‘you’ or ‘we’.
When we talk of an action in the past, we say had. We use had for ‘l’,
‘you’, ‘we’, ‘he’ and ‘she’.
Snail: I have/had a lovely white sheel. But will you fit in?
Dog: I have/had a large kennel. Come with me. I have/hadjuicy bone too
but Iate it up.
Rabbit: See my burrow. I have/had a tiny one in the back garden, but now I
have/had a big one in the park.
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D. Remember the sentences correctly to make a story.
2. Akbar requested Birbal to go to heaven and talk to his dear father. Birbal
agreed.
Birbal.
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Name: _________________________Section: _____________ Date: ________ Score_______
Exercise 9
2. Circle the pronouns in the following sentences. Underline the nouns they
stand for.
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3. Fill in adjectives of your choice to tell the color, shape or size of the nouns.
4. Complete this imaginary dialogue between the seal and the fish. Frame
question using the hints in the brackets.
Seal: ________________________________________(What)
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Name: _________________________Section: _____________ Date: ________ Score_______
Exercise 10
A. Write a few lines to describe a seal. Use the hints in the box.
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1.Happy 5. Important
2. Kind 6. Common
3. Certain 7. Agree
4. Appear 8. Interesting
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C. Circle the odd word out.
D. Use the correct form of the expression given in the scroll to fill in the
blanks.
look out break out take away fight back fade away
1. The villagers __________ __________ with sticks and stones against the dacoits.
2. We were ___________ ___________ for someone to take Mihir’s place in the cricket team.
3. Mother ____________ ____________ the storybooks and hid them till we finished our
homework.
4. The lovely flower that bloomed in the morning had __________ ____________ by night.
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Name: _________________________Section: _____________ Date: ________ Score_______
Exercise 11
Talk Time
1. Work in pairs. Take turns to read out one sentence at a time.
One partner reads the sentences and the other gives the opposite
of the highlighted word.
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2. Continue working in pairs. Take turns in forming questions for
the statements given in Q.1. and giving the answer. The first two
have been done for you.
Q3: ________________________________________________________________
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Q4: ________________________________________________________________
A: ________________________________________________________________
Q5:_________________________________________________________________
A:_________________________________________________________________
Q6: ________________________________________________________________
A: _________________________________________________________________
Q7: _________________________________________________________________
A: _________________________________________________________________
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Name: _________________________Section: _____________ Date: ________ Score_______
Exercise 12
A B
2. Trevor was known for _____________ in his attempt to save the innocent from the
. gallows.
5. Everyone warned Tariq that negotiating with the terrorist was like ____________.
6. Nikhil’s habit of ____________ stops him from being serious even when it is required
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3. All the underlined words end in –ly. Write Adv for adverbs and Adj for
adjectives.
1. The clerk hardly earned enough money for his large family of six. ____________
5. I woke up with such a start that I nearly fell off the bed. ______________.
4. Fill in the blanks with will or shalland the appropriate verb from the box.
_____________ ____________ .
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Name: _________________________Section: _____________ Date: ________ Score_______
Exercise 13
Writing Time
Write a letter to your friend about what you are going to do in the summer
holidays.
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Name: _________________________Section: _____________ Date: ________ Score_______
Exercise 14
Foreign Lands
Replace the highlighted nouns in the sentence with words given in the box.
Write the new pairs of words (adjective+noun) in the space provided. Make
new sentences with the new pairs.
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A B C
broke brook brush
croak Crook Crush
Smoke Smooth Suck
Bowl Book Bulk
coal Cool Club
Soul School Skull
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Name: _________________________Section: _____________ Date: ________ Score_______
Exercise 15
Rumplestilskin
Rumplestilskin had a more uncommon name than other people.
3. We should take ___________ of vegetables and fruits than fish and eggs.
A B
1. A period of is a century
1.
15 days
2. 2. A period of a is a week
100 days
3. 3. A period of is a fortnight
seven days
4. 4. A period of is a month
365 days
5.
5. A period of is a day
30 days
6.
6. A period of is a year
24 hours
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Name: _________________________Section: _____________ Date: ________ Score_______
Exercise 16
Noise Cause
1. Whirr a. noise made when you need to blow your nose
2. Grrr b. noise made when we feel cold
3. Sniff c. noise made by something going around fast
4. Brrr d. noise made by an angry lion or dog
5. Yum e. noise made when we taste something good
Make three words that begin with gr- and cl- and three which end with –ash.
gr-
cl-
-ash
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Name: _________________________Section: _____________ Date: ________ Score_______
Exercise 17
A. Fill in the blanks with the correct words from the box.
4. We practiced on the stage last week. We’ve practiced there twice since __________ .
B. Complete the following sentences with the Past Participle form of verbs in
the brackets.
2. When their old house had __________ down, their mother died of shock. (burn)
5. ____________ by its parent, the child wandered about in the village looking lost.
(abandon)
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Name: _________________________Section: _____________ Date: ________ Score_______
Exercise 18
Write a story based on the hints given below. Add details to make the story
interesting.
Milkmaid gets a pot of milk… goes to the market… on the way starts dreaming… what
she would do with all the money…. Trip and falls… pot breaks.. dreams disappears…
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Name: _________________________Section: _____________ Date: ________ Score_______
Exercise 19
Watermelon
s_ _ _ s v_ n_ _
_we_ _ j_ _ _ e
Rainbow
c_l__r_ s_v__n
Garden
_ lo _ _ _ s _ ra _ _
_ re _ _ b _ _ te _ _ _ _ es
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Name: _________________________Section: _____________ Date: ________ Score_______
Exercise 21
Work in pairs. You can be Mr. Kumar and your partner can be Mr. Lal. You
make a few statements to which Mr. Lal will respond. Tick the response
which both of you think is the correct one.
Exchange your role with your partner. There are three options for each
question or response. Speak out the correctone.
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Name: _________________________Section: _____________ Date: ________ Score_______
Exercise 22
5. Are you inviting _________ of your friends for your sister’s birthday?
6. Last winter, there were _________ chrysanthemums in my garden but this time
Use have/has along with the correct form of the verb from the
brackets to complete these sentences.
picnic.
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Name: _________________________Section: _____________ Date: ________ Score_______
Exercise 23
Rewrite the paragraph by choosing the correct word.
Lucy, John and Gary were three friend/friends. They were going to visit the
zoo/zoos today. They boarded a bus that went to the zoo. Suddenly, John
realized that he did not have any change/changes to pay the bus fare/fares.
He asked Lucy and Gary if they have some money/moneys to lend him so that
he could pay his fare. Luckily, both Lucy and Gary were carrying extra
money/moneys and said that they would pay for John. They finally managed
to reach the zoo where they spent a long time/times. They also made friends
with many people/peoples at the zoo and came back home in the evening
filled with joy/joys.
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Name: _________________________Section: _____________ Date: ________ Score_______
Exercise 24
Fill in the blanks with words in the box to indicate the quantity or
quality of the nouns in these sentences.
8. They did not have ___________ time to prepare for the trip.
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Name: _________________________Section: _____________ Date: ________ Score_______
Exercise 25
1. Don’t bluff,
2. I saw a giraffe,
He was so sad
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Name: _________________________Section: _____________ Date: ________ Score_______
Exercise 26
Say which of these sentences are in Simple Past and which ones
in Present Perfect. Write SP or PP against each.
6. Blossom has put off her visit to the dentist till next week. ___________
7. The mermaid sat by the seashore and sang all through the night. ___________
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Name: _________________________Section: _____________ Date: ________ Score_______
Exercise 27
Rewrite the sentences replacing the underlined words with one or more
words from the brackets. You can use the dictionary to check the most
appropriate word.
(narrow/little/thin)
3. The population of mosquitoes around the locality has swelled in the last one year.
(increased/become stronger)
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Name: _________________________Section: _____________ Date: ________ Score_______
Exercise 28
A. Brand and strand rhyme with each other. Speak out the rhyming pairs
from the following and list them.
B. You have outgrown some of your woolens and want to give them away to
the needy children in your neighborhood. You visit the nearby Red Cross
office. Ask your partner to play the official at the Red Cross office and
complete the following conversation.
You: Hello, sir! I have some woolens that I wish to give away. We were told at school…
You: ________________________________________________________________
You: ________________________________________________________
Official: ______________________________________________________
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Name: _________________________Section: _____________ Date: ________ Score_______
Exercise29
A. Complete the sentences using have/has/had and the correct form of verbs in
brackets.
4. She ____________ (speak) to the manager today about the poor arrangement.
1. Shireen was painting the lake and the fields. (Present Continuous)
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Name: _________________________Section: _____________ Date: ________ Score_______
Exercise 30
Present Continuous
A. Complete the sentences with the following verbs in the correct form.
4. They don’t have anywhere to live at the moment. They ______________with friends
concentrate.
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B. Put the verb into the correct form. Sometimes you need a negative (I’m
German.
other.
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1. A. I saw Brent a few days ago.
A. Psychology.
enjoy) He’s been in the same job for a long time, and
expensive.
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Exercise 31
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B. Put the verb into the correct form.
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C. Use the following verbs to complete the sentences. Sometimes
you need the negative:
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D. You ask Liz questions about herself and her family. Write the
questions.
1. You know that Liza plays tennis. You want to know how often. Ask her.
2. Perhaps Liza’s sister plays tennis, too. You want to know. Ask Liza.
3. You know that Liza reads a newspaper every day. You want know which one. Ask
her.
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4. You know that Liza brother works. You want to know what he does. Ask Liza.
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5. You know that Liza goes to the movies a lot. You want to know how often. Ask her.
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6. You don’t know where Liza’s grandparents live. You want to know. Ask Liza.
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E. Complete using the following:
I recommend I suggest
3. I won’t let you play for the meal. _____________________ that you let
me play.
it highly.
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Name: _________________________Section: _____________ Date: ________ Score_______
Exercise 32
2. Names
________________________ ___________________________
________________________ ___________________________
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3 Choose the correct responses.
1. A: Hi, I’m Lim. 4. A: Hello, I’m William Dean. Please call me Bill.
B:______________________ B: ____________________________
B: _____________________ B: ____________________________
B: _____________________ B: ____________________________
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References
https://www.bmconsultantsindia.com/advanced-english-workbook.html
http://mek.oszk.hu/10300/10365/10365.pdf
https://global.oup.com/education/content/primary/series/international-
english/?region=international
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Welcome to
Workbook on
Language skills!
Balderas, Abigail E.
Gorantes, Nieva A.
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