NEED FOR ENGLISH

Write a paragraph in 120 words about importance of learning English.

List out any three reasons for learning English.

Write any three problems that you face in learning English

What difficulties do you face while learning English?

Write any five ways to learn English.

Write any three suggestions to improve one’s English.

List at least 5 problems commonly faced in learning English and suggest appropriate solutions.

CLASSROOM ENGLISH

Write your expressions in the following situations in the class room.

a) You don’t know the answer for the question asked by the lecturer.
b) When you don’t understand the question

Write the expressions the teacher would use in these situations.

a) The students are making a lot of noise.

b) A student speaks very softly and what she tells is inaudible.

Write any three expressions used by a teacher in the class.

Write any three expressions used by students in the class.

EXPRESSING FEELING

Fill in the blanks with suitable words to express feelings.

I have to take medicines. I am ________ .

She had to give a speech. She was ___________.

Express your feelings in the following situations:

a) You go to watch a movie, the story is not interesting, and the songs too are not good.
b) There was a debate competition in your town, you spoke well and won a prize.
 EXPRESSING LIKES AND DISLIKES

Mention any three features you like in your best friend.

Mention any three features you dislike in your friend.

Write three sentences about what you like in your parents.

Mention any three things you like in your college.

Mention any three things you dislike in your lab.

MAKING REQUESTS

Change the following into requests.

Switch on the Television.

Repeat the lesson.

Make requests in the following situations.

Close the window.

Give me your pen.

How do you offer help in the following situations?

You are going by car. Your neighbor is waiting for an auto to go to his office.

You see an old man who is trying to board a bus with a lot of luggage.

Rewrite the following sentences as directed.

Offer your friend a cup of tea.

You find that your friend has difficulty in changing the wheel of his car. (Offer help)

DESCRIBING WORDS

Fill in the blanks with suitable describing words.

She is ______ (tall) than her sister.

This is _______(good) of the two.

Describe any three things in your lab using six adjectives.

Describe your college/friend/village/mother/father using at least ten adjectives.

Read the passage and identify describing words.

HOW TO USE A DICTIONARY

How does a dictionary help you ?

Divide the following words into syllables.

Department community

How many syllables does the word ‘record” have?

List out any three advantages of referring to a dictionary.

Mention any three kinds of dictionaries.

Write five basic uses of a dictionary.

How do you locate word ‘Government’ in a dictionary?

WORDS OFTEN CONFUSED

Use ‘peace’,’peace’,’peas’ in your own sentences.

Fill in the blanks with homophones given in brackets.

a. I went to _______(meat/meet) my friend.

b. I _________(see/sea) him everyday.

Write the common word(Homograph) for the following meanings.

a bird

a stick to play with a ball

Write sentences on your own for the following heteronyms.

Minute, minute

Watch, watch
Fill in the blanks with capitonyms.

I saw a _________ when I visited _________. (Turkey, turkey)

The __________ did not ___________ his shoes. (Polish, polish)

TENSES

Fill in the blanks with suitable forms of the verbs given in brackets:

a. The earth __________ (revolve) around the sun.

b. My friend _________ (go) to college yesterday.

c. I ________ (drink) coffee just now.

d. She _________( attend) college regularly.

e. He _________(buy) a car next week.

Write a paragraph on your mother’s daily routine using present tense.

Change the given sentences into negatives:

a. She eats an apple.

b. He bought a car.

c. Smita is a scientist.

BASIC SENTENCE STRUCTURES

Write a sentence for the given structure.

S V O

SV

S V SC

S V OC

S V IO DO

Identify the sentence structure in the following sentences.

Birds fly in the sky.

My father is a teacher.

They ate fruits.

VOICE

Rewrite the following sentence changing the voice.

My teacher gave me a book.

The work will be finished by Rohan.

Rewrite the following sentence in passive voice.

Close the door

He is playing football.

Rewrite the following sentences using the hints given below.

They presented him a gift.

A gift ______

He _____

Rewrite the following Newspaper Headlines using the passive verb forms.

Teachers felicitated.

Parking prohibited

ASKING QUESTIONS

Frame three “Yes/No” questions from the passage.

Elephants are the largest existing land animals. Three living species are currently recognised: the African
bush elephant, the African forest elephant, and the Asian elephant. They are an informal
grouping within the proboscidean family Elephantidae. Elephantidae is the only surviving family of
proboscideans; extinct members include the mastodons. Elephantidae also contains several extinct
groups, including the mammoths and straight-tusked elephants. African elephants have larger ears and
concave backs, whereas Asian elephants have smaller ears, and convex or level backs.

Change the following statements into “Wh-“ questions.

I went to market.

She went to Warangal by car to buy books.

Read the following paragraph and write five “Yes/No” questions and five “Wh-“ questions.

Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals. They are an
informal grouping within the infraorder Cetacea, which usually excludes dolphins and porpoises. Whales,
dolphins and porpoises belong to the order Cetartiodactyla, which consists of even-toed ungulates. Their
closest non-cetacean living relatives are the hippopotamuses, from which they and other cetaceans diverged
about 54 million years ago. The two parvorders of whales, baleen whales (Mysticeti) and toothed
whales (Odontoceti), are thought to have had their last common ancestor around 34 million years ago.
Whales consist of eight extant families: Balaenopteridae (the rorquals), Balaenidae (right
whales), Cetotheriidae (the pygmy right whale), Eschrichtiidae (the grey whale), Monodontidae (belugas and
narwhals), Physeteridae (the sperm whale), Kogiidae (the dwarf and pygmy sperm whale), and Ziphiidae (the
beaked whales).
Whales are fully aquatic, open-ocean creatures: they can feed, mate, give birth, suckle and raise their young
at sea. Whales range in size from the 2.6 metres (8.5 ft) and 135 kilograms (298 lb) dwarf sperm whale to the
29.9 metres (98 ft) and 190 metric tons (210 short tons) blue whale, which is the largest known creature that
has ever lived. The sperm whale is the largest toothed predator on earth. Several whale species exhibit sexual
dimorphism, in that the females are larger than males.
Baleen whales have no teeth; instead they have plates of baleen, fringe-like structures that enable them to
expel the huge mouthfuls of water they take in, while retaining the krill and plankton they feed on. Because
their heads are enormous—making up as much as 40% of their total body mass—and they have throat pleats
that enable then to expand their mouths, they are able to take huge quantities of water into their mouth at a
time. Baleen whales also have a well developed sense of smell.

PARAGRAPH WRITING

Write a paragraph in 100 words using the following hints:

Road – water- air- railway – two wheelers – three wheelers – four wheelers –boat s- ship – steamer –
helicopter – airplane – cargo.

Write a paragraph in 150 words on your ‘Favourite movie’.

Write a paragraph on the given topic.

“Advantages of Media”

Write a paragraph using the topic sentence ‘Exercise is good for health’.

LETTER WRITING

Write a letter to your mother on importance of saving water.

Write a letter to your father describing your college.

Write a letter to your friend explaining ‘Harithaharam’ programme in your college.

Write a letter to your principal on unhygenic conditions in your college surroundings.

Write a letter to your HOD requesting for benches and fans in your classroom.

Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper to publish an article on ‘Pollution’ in their newspaper.

List out salutations used in an official letter.

What do you write in ‘Heading’ of a letter?.

Write any two salutations/greetings used in personal letters.

Mention any three parts of an official letter.

Give any two examples of subscription in personal letters.

List out the different ways of writing date in letters.

Give any two examples of closures/subscriptions used in official letters.