The Engenious Class

I Match the homophones

Hare	buy
Peace	break
by	hair
brake	piece

II Look at the underlined words in the sentences. Write the words similar in meaning (synonyms) in the blanks

1. Leela is very slim and beautiful. _________________________

2. I am feeling very sleepy and tired. _________________________

3. My brother is very clever. _______________________

4. Sachin Tendulkar is a well known cricketer .___________________

III Who said these words to whom?

1. “Peace is very important in life.”

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2. “Don’t use fingers. Use your chopsticks”

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3. “I am the colour of health and strength.”

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4. “I am not happy anymore can you help me?”

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IV Answer the following

1. Write the significance of the colour yellow?

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2. Why do some people build small and light houses? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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3. Some animals kill other animals. Why?

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4. What was magical about the pair of scissors?

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V Read the given answers and make questions

1. My mother’s name is Anita Menon.

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2. I live in Ajantha apartments.

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3. She is my new neighbour.

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4. Yes, I like to draw.

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5. No, this computer doesn’t work. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

VI Write the correct conjunction (and, but, or) in column B to complete the sentence

A	B	C
A dog can jump very high		it cannot climb a tree.
Children like chocolates		ice-creams.
I will draw		read a book in my free time.

VII Do as directed

a) Rewrite the sentence using pronoun

1. Dennis has a toy train. Dennis’s toy train has a remote control.

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b) Circle the adverbs in the passage

Sleepily Harry pushed the dog out of bed and swung his legs over the edge. The dog moaned gloomily and licked Harry’s hand. Harry groaned and quickly wiped his fingers in the pillowcase. “Oh no!” he muttered and looked at the clock. He leapt of his bed in a rush, tripped over his slippers and banged heavily into the wardrobe. “Not a good start to a day!” He groaned.