New Middle East International School

Academic year: 2023-24

Name Semester I
Grade 4 Worksheet 9 Teacher’s
English Sign
Date / / 2023 Subject
Unit-4

Complete the following sentences using similes:

1. The girl was as beautiful ________________________________________________________

2. The sword is sharp _____________________________________________________________

3. The clouds were as black _______________________________________________________

4. Ali is brave _____________________________________________________________________

5. Hamed runs as fast _____________________________________________________________

Complete the given similes with your own ideas:

1. As free as a ___________________ 5. As sweet as _______________________

2. As slow as a __________________ 6. As cold as _________________________

3. As busy as a __________________ 7. As sour as ________________________

4. As quick as ___________________ 8. As green as _______________________

Match the following words to their correct meanings:

1 grunted quietly, calmly

2 peacefully kind

3 sheer low, short sound

4 valley very steep, almost straight up and down

5 generous magical and unrealistic

6 fantasy an area of low land between mountains

Add speech marks and punctuations wherever required:

1. When do you do your homework asked Jim

2. Dan will be coming next week informed his friend

3. She exclaimed How tall the building is

4. John said I am the strongest boy in my class

5. How strange is this place said the lady

Contextual Passage:

‘‘And there was something else that didn’t go with the idea of heaven in

the least. A few metres away from her….was an absolutely enormous dark brown

beast….. And then she remembered. A yeti. She had been carried away by a yeti over

mountains so dangerous that she could never make her way back alone. She was

trapped here in this secret valley, perhaps for ever.’’

Q1) Why was Agatha thinking about heaven?

A)_____________________________________________________________________________________

Q2) How did Agatha describe yeti?

A)_____________________________________________________________________________________

Q3) Where was Agatha trapped?

A)_____________________________________________________________________________________

Q4) How do you think Agatha remembered about yeti?

A)_____________________________________________________________________________________

Q5) Use a simile to describe yeti in your own words.

A)_____________________________________________________________________________________