Listening Skills

Narayan Surve's My Mother

When the stars go off
Tall chimney-sirens sound
Daily with fast steps
Marching to the mill
Who looked backwards
And told us so lovingly
"Do not fight with anyone"
Gave us two paise
On the day before Dasara
She went with five of us
To see the festival
We bantered in the lanes
What a great pleasure
Beyond words
We returned with balloons
And whistles and pipes
We became birds

What happened on one day
They brought her in a cart
Her eyes were open
Blood gushed from her mouth
Her partner saluted
Came near, caressed us and said 'Balu'
We saw mutely everything
We searched our umbrella
Our roof, our mother.

That night we five
Stuck closer and
Wrapped up to the coverlet
Taking it to be mother's affection
Already we had nothing
Now there was even no mother
We awake all night
letting tears
Now we became fully unattached.

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Vowel Magic

Words consisting all five vowel letters 

➡➡ precaution 

➡➡ communicate

➡➡questionable 

➡➡ persuasion

➡➡ permutation 

➡➡ mountaineer 

➡➡ authorize 

➡➡ augmentation 

➡➡ auctioneer 

➡➡ auriferous 

➡➡ dialogue

➡➡ revolutionary 

➡➡ simultaneous 

➡➡ superannuation 

➡➡ gregarious 

➡➡ behaviour 

➡➡ reputation 

➡➡ computerization

➡➡ Education 

➡➡ automobile

Holiday Homework

Rewrite the following sentences into all types of Tenses.

1. A farmer ploughs his field.
2. I type an SMS.
3. They sow seeds in the farm.
4. It rains.
5. He directs a film.

Identify the Tense.

1. It is interesting.
2. They are inspired.
3. She put her bag on the table.
4. She has been telling a story.
5. He had entered the class.
6. She was working with her friend.
7. He will have completed his project.
8. They had been erecting a building.
9. How much does it cost?
10. What will you do ?
11. You did not reach in time.
12. He will be doing sums.

Change the voice.

1. He is especially entranced by the magic glimmer.
2. I saw this process.
3. We are generating forces.
4. They have been entertained by us.
5. She had cooked food.
6. You are welcomed by them.
7. Adolf Hitler wrote MEIN KAMPF.
8. It is being read by me,
9. He took out a mass demonstration in favour of national unity.
10. He was highly influenced by two people.

Change the degree

1. Blood is thicker than water.

2. Sword is not as mighty as pen.

3. 99 is the greatest two digit number.

4. No other boy is as clever as Aniket.

5. Platinum is more expensive than any other metal.

6. Mango is one of the sweetest fruits

7. Very few players are as good as Sachin.

8. Akola is hotter than most other cities.

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All type of tenses
1 A farmer ploughs his field .
A farmer ploughed his field . (s p)
A farmer will plough his field . (s f)
A farmer is plugging his field . (pr con)
A farmer was ploughing his field .(p con )
A farmer will be ploughing his field .(f con )
A farmer has ploughed his field .(pr perf )
A farmer had ploughed his field .(p perf)
A farmer will have ploughed his field .(f perf)
A farmer has been ploughing his field .(pr per c)
A farmer had been ploughing his field .(p per c)
A farmer will have been ploughing his field .(f per c)
Identify the tense.
1)Simple present tense 2) Simple present tense (passive construction) 3) Simple past tense 4) Present Perfect continuous tense 5)Past perfect tense 6)Past continuous tense 7) Future perfect tense 8)Past perfect continuous tense 9) Simple present tense 10) Simple future tense 11) Simple past tense 12) Future continuous tense.
🔹 Change the voice.🔹
1)The magic glimmer especially entrances him.
2)This process was seen by me.
3) Forces are being generated by us.
4)We have entertained them.
5) Food had been cooked by her.
6)They welcome you.
7) MEIN KAMPF was written by Adolf Hitler.
8)I am reading it.
9)A mass demonstration was taken out in favour of national unity by him.
Or A mass demonstration in favour of national unity was taken out by him.
10)Two people highly influenced him. Or Two people influenced him highly.
Change the degree.
1) Water is not as thick as blood.
2)Pen is mightier than sword.
3) Positive-- No other two digit number is as great as 99.
Comparative- -99 is greater than any other two digit number.
4) Superlative-- Aniket is the cleverest boy.
Comparative-- Aniket is cleverer than any other boy.
5) Superlative-- Platinum is the most expensive metal.
Positive-- No other metal is as /so expensive as platinum.
6) Positive-- Very few fruits are as sweet as mango.
Comparative-- Mango is sweeter than most other fruits. 7) Superlative-- Sachin is one of the best players.
Comparative--- Sachin is better than most other players. 8) Positive--Very few cities are as hot as Akola.
Superlative-- Akola is one of the hottest cities.

Holiday Homework 2

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Do as directed SSC

1. Match the following sentences with their correct question tag:

A	B
The word cereal comes from Ceres,	will you?
Atta is prepacked and milled,	can't you?
You can smell the river in the grain,	isn't it?
Get your Atta freshly ground from a local chakki,	doesn't it?
I was like any other kid	am I?
I am not surprised with these ressults,	don't they?
People shoo birds away,	wasn't I?

Key The word cereal comes from Ceres,doesn't it? Atta is prepacked and milled,isn't it? You can smell the river in the grain,can't you? Get your Atta freshly ground from a local chakki,will you? I was like any other kid,wasn't I? I am not surprised with these ressults,am I ? People shoo birds away,don't they?
2. Complete the following sentences by using passive voice.
1. You can save eight to ten trees every year.
• Eight to ten trees can be saved every year by you.

Your family uses a ton of paper every year.

• A ton of paper is used by your family every year.

He vacated the seat.

• The seat was vacated by him.

Language Study

1. "It's so unfair!"said the boys.(Rewrite as indirect speech.)
• The boys exclaimed that it was very unfair.
2. People are consuming packaged food.(Frame 'wh' question to get the underlined part as an answer.)
• Who are consuming packaged food?
3. One needs to do a little bit of time management and planning.
• What does one need to do ?
4. These medals are bigger than any other awards.(Begin the sentence with "No other award....")
• No other award is as big as these medals.
5. Their expansion was put on hold.(Rewrite using the Present Perfect tense of the underlined verb)
• Their expansion has been put on hold.
6. The true survival rate is not adequate.(Rewrite as an affirmative sentence.)
• The true survival rate is inadequate.
7. Playing for India gave me the opportunity to travel the world, to play on some of the greatest grounds of the world.(Rewrite using 'not only ..... but also)
• Playing for India gave me the opportunity not only to travel the world but also to play on some of the greatest grounds of the world.
8. Virdhawal Khade is the fastest swimmer in the world.(Begin your sentence with 'No other swimmer.....)
• No other swimmer is as fast as Virdhawal Khade.
9. He holds several records.(Begin with 'The several records.....)
• The several records are held by him.
10. She looked across at Geraldine Wong.(Frame 'wh' question to get the underlined part as an answer.)
• Whom did she look across at?
11. She thought wryly. (Frame Yes/No type question.)
• Did she think wryly?

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