ENGLISH PUPIL’S BOOK GRADE 07

UNIT 01 AT SCHOOL
Activity 1.1-1.5
1. Functions 20. Greeting 39. Conversation
2. Expressing 21. Postal 40. Mind
3. Congratulations 22. Share 41. Contraction
4. Complex 23. Sweetmeats 42. Pronounce
5. Conjunctions 24. Dramas 43. Disappointed
6. Result 25. Perform 44. Sleepy
7. Won 26. Fulfill 45. Warm
8. Competition 27. Responsibilities 46. Stayed
9. Attend 28. Blessed 47. Comments
10. Speech 29. Develops 48. Proper
11. Proud 30. Encourages 49. Mindful
12. Learnt 31. Daily 50. Tongue
13. Opportunity 32. Gathering 51. Copper
14. Provides 33. Chance 52. Leather
15. Leadership 34. Entertainment 53. Mixed
16. Qualities 35. Missing 54. Twisters
17. Unity 36. Shortened 55. Plains
18. Companionship 37. Ownership 56. Seashore
19. Mathematics 38. Possession 57. Shells

Activity 1.1 page 2/3

Supposing that you are Sankalpa, write what happened at the morning assembly. (Use
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 Write down what you can do in the following festivals. Write sentences in your
writing book Christmas, Thai Pongal, Vesak, Ramazan

 Match the following words with their meanings.

Assembly friendship
Develop gathering
Opportunity everyday
Companionship chance
Concert enhance
Daily entertaining program

Activity 1.2 page 4

Write 10 sentences to show the use of the apostrophe and inverted commas

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Activity 1.4 page 5

Write the given sentences with Sinhalese meanings to show the use of ‘since/ because
and as’.

1.5 page7 Relate a speech on schools in England using the present tenses.

 Mark these sentences as true (T) or false (F).

1. In England they don’t go to school until they are five years. ( )

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 2. At the age of five, they go to the play school. ( )
3. In some areas of England they have middle schools for those who are between 8
and 12 years. ( )
4. They start schools at 7.30 am. ( )
5. In most parts of England there are 3 terms and three holidays. ( )

Activity 1.6-1.10
1. Junior 12. Winter 23. Jewell
2. Secondary 13. Summer 24. needs
3. Move 14. Easter 25. steal
4. Middle 15. Usually 26. alone
5. Twelve 16. Study 27. caught
6. Least 17. Discuss 28. empty
7. Break 18. Similarities 29. wrong
8. Meals 19. Grid 30. refuse
9. Kitchen 20. Description 31. bidding
10. Extra 21. University 32. enough
11. Terms 22. University 33. events

Activity 1.6 Page 8

Use the following grammatical words to compare the similarities and differences
between schools in Sri Lanka and England (but/ also/ however/ too/ the same/although/
as/like/ unlike)

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Activity 1.7 Page 10

List down all the past tense verbs with their Sinhalese meanings

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Find and present a short folk tale to the class

Activity 1.8 Page 11

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Write ten sentences beginning with ‘I don’t want to ……………………………………….. and My
father doesn’t want to’………………………………………….

Activity 1.9 Page 12

Write a list of things you use at school, in the playground and in the laboratory

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Activity 1.10. Page 13

Use the details given on page 13 and write an agenda to be published on the school
notice board. Include the time too.

List out the extra-curricular activities you do in your school.

Activity 1.11-1.15
1. test 9. shuttlecock 17. index
2. teach 10. xylophone 18. map
3. foreign 11. novels 19. extra-curricular activities
4. cousin 12. microscope 20. allocate
5. imagine 13. javelin 21. observances
6. failed 14. slide 22. recitation
7. arrange 15. rackets 23. fancy
8. alphabetical 16. card 24. dress

Activity 1. 11 Page 14

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Use the past tense to describe what you did in a school English Camp. Your agenda will
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List down a set of commands used in giving directions. Your teacher will help you

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Activity 1.12 Page 15

How the following organs help you. Match them.

Eyes to hear

Ears to taste

Nose to see

Tongue to smell

Write sentences beginning with on my way to school, I see ………………………………………..

(I hear/ I smell/I observe/ I feel/ I buy/ I meet)

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Activity 1.12 Page 15

Prepare a set of rhyming words discussing them with your friend

Activity 1.13 Page 16

Recite the poem and make your own composition on “I am a book”

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Speak out what you have written

Using the poem in your text book, complete the following pairs of rhyming words.

Iead - ……………………………………………….. Die - ………………………………………………

Head - ………………………………………………. Ink - ………………………………………………

Activity 1.14 Page 17

Study the following words with examples. (opposite/ between/ next to/ on the right/
left/ on to the left/ right of/ in front of/ behind/ at the top/ at the bottom/ in the middle)

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Activity 1.15 Page 18

Write sentences to describe the present schools in our country. Start like this: Children
go to pre-childhood development centres at the age of 4 years. ( primary schools/
secondary schools/ universities/ technical colleges/ vocational training institutes)

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Use the events given in the text book and write 15 sentences

We go on the annual trip in December.

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Make your year-plan and write it in your note book.

Activity 1.16-1.20
1. topics 3. directions 5. smell
2. select 4. dictate 6. choose

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 7. sellers 14. feel 21. unkindly
8. dust 15. fell 22. dead
9. smoke 16. recite 23. hate
10. add 17. wood 24. sucks
11. attempt 18. die 25. grumble
12. knee 19. quite
13. share 20. treats

Activity 1.16 Page 20

Tell the stories to the class in your own words.

Create a dialogue between you and your friend about your last holiday. Write it in the
book.

Activity 1.21-1.27
1. position 8. exhibition 15. librarian
2. relation 9. quiz 16. troubled
3. left 10. debate 17. seaside
4. display 11. cage 18. ride
5. annual 12. individually 19. charge
6. beginning 13. chance
7. interschool 14. laugh

UNIT 2 Children
Activity 2.1(page 22)

Answer the following questions.

1. Who is Madduma Bandara?

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4. What are the reactions of his family members after calling to the palace? ……………

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5. What did Madduma Bandara say? ………………………………………………………………………….

6. What was the king’s order?……………………………………..………………………………………………

7. What happened to Madduma Bandara? …………………………………………………………………

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Activity 2.2 Find meanings for the following words. (from oxford dictionary)

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Activity 2.3(page 25) Group the kid inventers and their inventions.

inventors inventions

Activity 2.4 Write an account on an inventor you know.

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Activity 2.5 Write a notice to establish a young inventors club in your school.

Activity 2.6(page 28)

Write the tragedy happened to Hans Brinker

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Activity 2.7 Write single word for each phrases selecting from the box below.

1. Shaking the body or shivering- ……………………………………………………………………………….

2. A big town- …………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

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9. Soft- ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
10. A priest- …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Cleargyman, trembling, city, chubby, frightened, flood, errand,

humming, dyke, blind

Activity 2.8 (page 33) Write down the sports played in your school sports meet.

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Activity 2.9 Group the games in your text into following columns.

Track event Field event games

Activity 2.10(page 34) Write an account on Oliver Twist.

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Activity 2.11(page 35)

Fill in the following table.

David Copperfield Philip Piirip

Nation

Family background

Service

Activity 2.12(page 36) Find and write the rhyming words in the poem.

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Activity 2.13(page 37) Write the purpose of the lullaby and how it happens

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Activity 2.14(page 38)

Write a letter to your pen friend describing your national dress.

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UNIT 3 About Our Past

Activity 3.1 (page 41) Write down the pupils and their projects.

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Activity 3.2

Here we Group the 2 occasions which they use apostrophe in the dialogue and write
examples for them.

1. In contractions
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Activity 3.3 Write the contraction forms of the followings.

I am ……………………………………………………… She is …………………………………………………………

I will …………………………………………………….. They are …………………………………………………….

What is ………………………………………………… Where is …………………………………………………….

Who is …………………………………………………. That is ………………………………………………………..

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Activity 3.4 Write the possessions using apostrophe.

1. Sister – purse Ex: sister’s purse

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3. Tharindu-pen………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
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5. Malindu-bat……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Activity 3.5 List down your needs and the people who supply them.

needs people
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Activity 3.6 Write an account on your favourite carrier.

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Activity 3.7 Answer the following questions.

1. What is the material used in making pots? …………………………………………………………….

2. What are the outcomes of pottery?...........................................................................

3. What is the equipment used in pottery? ……………………………………………………………….

4. Describe the action of that machine……………………………………………………………………….

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5. How do they decorate pots? ………………………………………………………………………………….

Activity 3.8 (page 48) List down the handicrafts mentioned in the text

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Activity 3.9(page 51) Mark true or false.

1. Gem is an important import item. ………………………………………………………………………………..

2. Sabaragamuwa province is well known for gems. …………………………………………………………

3. Ratnapura is well known for museums. ………………………………………………………………………..

4. Gem cutting is an ordinary job which anyone can do. …………………………………………………..

5. Women too work in the gem field. ……………………………………………………………………………….

Activity 3.10 List down the kind of gems mentioned in the text.

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Activity 3.11(page 53) Answer the following questions.

1. What is the staple food of Sri Lanka? …………………………………………………………………………

2. What did the farmers grow in ancient time? ……………………………………………………………..

3. How did they cultivate paddy in the past? …………………………………………………………………

4. Where did they store the reaped crops? …………………………………………………………………..

5. How did they cultivate paddy in the past? ………………………………………………………………..

6. How did the king support them in cultivation? ………………………………………………………….

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Activity 3.12 Explain the meanings of the following terms.

1. Aththam ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

2. Vap magula …………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

3. Vee bissa ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

4. Andiya linda ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Activity 3.13(page 58) Write a legend you know apart from the one in the text book.

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Activity 3.14 Imagine you were king Pandukabhaya and write down your life story

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Activity 3.15(page 60)

Write the things which are seen in the present, but not in the past, according to the
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UNIT 4 Our Planet Earth

Activity 4.1(page 62)

Name the 9 planets in the solar system with

The help of your teacher.

1. …………………………………………………………… 4……………………………………………………………

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Activity 4.2 Write down the specialties of the planet earth.

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Activity 4.3 Find out the similar words for the following from the box and write.

1. The persons doing scientific experiments. ………………………………………………………………

2. The facts that make you to believe something………………………………………………………..
3. More important………………………………………………………………………………………………………
4. Crops or the cultivations grown in an area………………………………………………………………

Vital, vegetation, scientific, evidence

Activity 4.4(page 65) Find meanings for the following from a dictionary (Oxford) and
write them down.

1. Axis ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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4. Hemisphere …………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Activity 4.5 Ask 2 of your friends and fill this grid.

Friend Places Visited Places not yet visited

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Now write sentences as follows.

Ex: Saman has visited Kandy. I have not visited there yet.

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Activity 4.6 Imagine you are a bird, write an account on your life as a bird.

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Activity 4.7 Fill the following grid.

Polar regions in the Animals which live Nationalities living Climatic condition
world there there

Activity 4.8 Find the animals living in Polar Regions from the box below and circle them.

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F O X Q W E R T Y I
L L J H G F D S A P
K A R T I C H A R E
Z R X C V B N M Q A
Z B W S X E D C R F
V E T G B Y H N U J
S A S F P L O K I M
Y R G G H K L C V N

Activity 4.9 Fill the following grid choosing the animals from the box below.

mammals amphibians reptiles insects

Elephant, crocodile, snake, frog, dolphin, bat, tortoise, turtle, horse, butterfly, ant,
pig, rat snake, cockroaches, mosquito, lion, penguin, lobster, beetle, python, viper

Activity 4.10 Draw and write about an animal you like.

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Activity 4.11(page 75)

Fill in the blanks of the following article on Swiss land.

Swiss land

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6. Habits of Swiss people: ………………………………………………………………………………………………

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Activity 4.12 Write a reply letter to Eric describing your country.

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Activity 4.13(page 76,77,78)

Find and write the rhyming words in those three poems.

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Activity 4.14 Describe the appearance of the clock mentioned in the first poem.

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Activity 4.15 What are the little things mentioned in the second poem.

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Activity 4.16 1. What are the noble deeds that man can do?

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UNIT 5 Machines in Use

Activity 5.1(page 81) Find similar words for the followings and write them.

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3. Confused state- ……………………………………………………………..
4. Lift- ………………………………………………………………………………..
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Panic, trap, elevator, street, complete

Activity 5.2 Suppose you were in New York that time. Explain your experience to your
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Activity 5.3

Write down the instructions of using the following machines effectively.

1. Electric iron

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 2. Computer

3. Refrigerator

4. Water filter

5. Television

Activity 5.4(page 84, 85) Fill the following grid.

Machine appearance Activity they do

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Activity 5.5 Write a dialogue with a machine you like most.

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Activity 5.6(page 91) Write an article to the school magazine on ‘tour de France’.

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Activity 5.7

Find similar words for the following from the text and write them down.

1. Thrilling …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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Activity 5.8(page 96) Write 5 machines used in your day today life, with their use

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Activity 5.9 Write down the importance of the following machines.

Activity 5.10 Write 5 instructions to save electricity. (use the forms “should”,
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Activity 5.12(page 102) What are the things which describe the appearance of steam in
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UNIT 6 Wonders of Nature

Find words to describe a forest

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Activity 6.1(page 104) Fill in the following article.

Pitcher plant

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Activity 6.2 Find the meanings for the followings and write them down.

1. Shallow ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
2. Twist ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
3. Accumulate …………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
4. Attract ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
5. Struggle ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
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Activity 6.3(page 103,104) Name some plants similar to ”Niidikumba”

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Activity 6.5 (page 111,112) Fill in the following grid.

Name of the grasses Areas we can find them appearance

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Activity 6.6(page 113) Write down the special features of Sinharaja forest in points.

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Activity 6.7

Write the areas that come under Sinharaja according to the following points.(refer to a
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Activity 6.8(page 117) What are the activities of tall trees mentioned in the poem.

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Activity 6.9(page 118) What do the leaves do?

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Activity 6.10(page 119,120) Answer the following questions.

1. What is the importance of coral reefs?

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 4. Write steps to protect coral reefs

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Activity 6.11(page 122) Fill the following grid.

snakes Symptoms when they bite Actions should be taken

Activity 6.12(page 127) Write an account on your motherland.

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