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ACCORDING TO THE SYLLABUS OF FEDERAL

GOVERNMENT EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS [C/G]

ASAN
ENGLISH
With
GRAMMAR
FOR CLASS 7
Author:
Ubaid-Ur-Rahman
Shahida Ensari

Publisher

Academic Solutions & Assessment Network


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ASAN English 4 Class 7

Table of Contents

Sr. No. Units Page No.

1 Blessings of Allah 05

2 A Glimpse from the Life of The Rasool 36


of Allah Hazrat Muhammad 

3 Night Mail- W H Auden (Poem) 60

4 Stories of Mullah Nasruddin 77

5 Fire- S E Hinton 103

6 Robotics 124

7 Caged Bird (Poem) 148

8 Lincoln's Letter to His Son's Teacher 166

9 Dr. Ruth Pfau a Humanitarian 190

10 We Connect from Around the World 216

11 Visiting a Hospital Stanley Bastow 244

(1928 - 2011)

12 The Indus Saga 274

    
ASAN English 5 Class 7

UNIT 1

Blessings of Allah

Words Meaning  


Words Meanings Words Meanings
Break of  Giant
  

dawn
Rock  Refreshing  
Chirping 
 Calmness 
Utterly  Spellbound 
Magical   Unfolding 

Seemed  Immersad 

State  Deep
 
Spiritual  Peace 
Mighty   Lit up 
Micredible  Golden
 
Glow  Encircled 
 
Borders  Administration 
Maintained  Trails
     
Hikers 
   Unfold 
ASAN English 6 Class 7

Beauty  Wild life 


Dwellers   Opportunity 
Explore 
 Natural 
Stream  Settled 

Capture 
 Panaromic    
Silence  Exclaimed 

Wonderful 
   Idea 
Experience  Glory 
Credit  Affectionately
 
Praises  
 Blessed  
Recognize   Countless  
Nodded 
 Loaded 
Gratitude 
  Indeed 
Created 
  Serene 
Plantation   Destined 
Beneath  Quickly  
Purple   Absence 
Gardener   Mention 

Brief  Moment 
Silence  Respect 
Graceful 
   Watched 
Awe  Thick 

Vegetation 
   Flock of bird 

ASAN English 7 Class 7

Thoughtfully    Diverse
  
Bestowed  Indeed 
Creator  Chimed in 

Forget 
 Family 

Of course  Purpose built 
Physique   Gift
 
Intellect  Purposfully 
Serenity   Thankful 
 
Feeling   Treasured 
Memory   For ever
 
Conversation  Interrupted   
Behind  Bushes 

Search  Seems  

Move  Ahead
 
Reluctantly   Facial 
Expression Tired 
Knowingly    Delicious 
  
Chuckled 
 Delight 
Descending 

 Pleased 

Wonderful 
   Environment 
Translation

Para 1: It was still the early hours just before the break of
dawn. Three human figures were seen sitting on a giant
ASAN English 8 Class 7

rock, waiting for the sun to rise. The air was refreshing and
chirping of birds was adding to the calmness around. They
were sitting there, utterly spellbound by the magical
moment unfolding in front of them. They all seemed to be
immersed in a state of deep spiritual peace as the mighty
Margalla Hills lit up in an incredible golden glow right in
front of them.
 
 
  


  
      

         
 
    
       
     
 
          
   
 
Para 2: It was Saturday morning; Zahra and Taha along
with their father were on Trial No 5 in Margalla Hills.
Islamabad is encircled by the Margalla Hills towards its
north and north-west borders. The city administration has
maintained many trails in the hills for hikers which not only
unfold the beauty of wild life in the hills but also provides
the city dwellers with an incredible opportunity to maintain
health and fitness. Zahra and Taha are also amongst the
youth who love to explore the natural beauty of these hills
and regularly go for hiking. It was, however, the first time
that they had gone for hiking at such an early hour of the
day.
5
    
   
              

ASAN English 9 Class 7

   
             
 
   
     
  
    
            

 
  
      
  

         
Para 3: They had left home just after Fajer prayers and
started hiking on the trail. It took them thirty-five minutes to
get to the middle of trail where they crossed a fresh water
stream and settled on a higher rock. They were there to
capture the panoramic view of the city from above in the
rising sun. Zahra broke the silence and exclaimed:
"What a wonderful idea to experience the morning
glory here today!" Taha replied, "Yes, indeed. All credit
goes to Baba Jani".
 

       
 
    
  
  
  
 
  
     
   
  
                  
 
  

  
Para 4: Their father smiled affectionately and said, "All
praises to Allah ( ) who has blessed us with this day
to experience and recognize His countless blessings". Both
Zahra and Taha nodded in agreement. Their father
continued, his voice loaded with gratitude,
"Indeed, it is only Allah (  ) who has created
this world and many others. Look at this serene plantation,
ASAN English 10 Class 7

flowing clear water stream, chirping birds, cool breeze and


then the sun which is rising from its destined place and
lighting up the sky and everything beneath it".
         
 
     
    
 
     
 
   
             

    
 
  
     
 
Para 5: Zahra added quickly, And these beautiful purple
and yellow wild flowers growing on the hills in the absence
of any gardener!"
They all smiled on this mention and then there was
a brief moment of silence as if in respect of the peace
spread in the graceful hills.
             
 
  
  
   

       
Para 6: They all watched in awe while golden sunlight
started spreading across the thick green wild vegetation.
The air was fresh and a light breeze was touching their
faces, while a flock of birds was passing above them.
Taha all watched in awe while golden sunlight
started spreading across the thick green wild vegetation.
The air was fresh and a light breeze was touching their
faces, while a flock of birds was passing above them.
ASAN English 11 Class 7

Taha said thoughtfully, "How many different and


diverse blessings has Allah (   ) bestowed on us.
Indeed Allah (  ) alone is the Creator of all".
  
      
   
 
      
   

    
     
Para 7: Zahra chimed in, "And do not forget the blessing
of family and friends in our life while counting all other
blessings around us."
"Of course Zahra," said her father, "and our
purpose-built physique is also a gift of Allah (   ). We
have strong bodies, as well as intellect to live our life
purposefully".
 
       
      

    
          
         
         

    
Para 8: Zahra spread her arms in joy and said, "I wish I
could capture this serenity for always. I am thankful that I
can save this day and these feelings as a treasured
memory in my mind foreover."
       
  

        
  
 
 
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Para 9: Their conversation was interrupted when a group


of monkeys suddenly appeared from behind the bushes
and sat near them. "Perhaps they are here in search of
food. It seems that we should leave this place now and
move ahead", said their father. Taha stood up reluctantly
and reading his facial expressions Zahra said, "Baba Jani, I
think this was enough for today and we should go home
now. Taha seems to be tired." Their father smiled
knowingly and Taha added quickly, "In fact, I am feeling
hungry and want to enjoy the blessing of delicious
breakfast, Mummy must have prepared by now!"
 
    
  
     
  
  
    
   
     
   
      
    
     
    
           
  
   
  
          
   
   
Para 10: Zahra chuckled in delight and they all started
descending from the high point of Trail 5 walking towards
the car parking. All were pleased with themselves and
thankful for the wonderful experience they just had and
were hoping to be in that beautiful environment again
sometime soon.
 
   5
  
 

      
 
  
    
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Exercise

Understanding and Comprehension

Answer the following questions.


Reading for detail:
a. What was the time and day when the family of
three went for hiking in Margalla Hills?
Ans: It was Saturday morning. The family left home just
after Fajar prayers for hiking in Margalla Hills.
b. Can you name the place where they went?
Ans: They went on trail No. 5 Dara Janglan Margalla Hills,
Islamabad.
c. Is this the only place to visit in Margalla Hills?
Ans: No, city administration has maintained many trails in
the hills for the hikers.
Reading for meaning:
d. What provides city dwellers the opportunity
to maintain health and fitness?
Ans: Trails in the hill maintained by city administration
provides city dwellers the opportunity to maintain
health and fitness.
e. Wha t i s m e a nt b y " o ur p ur p o s e- b uil t
physique"?
Ans: "Our purpose-built physique" means that man has
strong bodies as well as intellect to live the life
purposefully and to get success in life.
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Reading for inference:


f. Why were they mesmerized and what made
them start a conversation?
Ans: They were mesmerized by the magical moments
unfolding in front of them. They all seemed to be
immersed in a state of deep spiritual peace as the
mighty Margalla Hills lit up in an incredible golden
glow due to sunrise.
They started conversation when Zahra broke the
silence and exlaimed: "What a wonderful idea to
experience the morning glory here today."
g. What were the thoughts of the father on the
beauty of the environment they were in?
Ans: Father narrated beauty of the environmnt by saying,
"Look at this serene plantation, flowing water
stream, chirping birds, cool breeze and then the sun
rising from its destined place and lighting up the sky
and every thing beneath it."
h. What time of the year might this have been?
Give reasons for your answer.
Ans: This might be the spring season of the year. As in
spring all the nature is in full swing. Cool breeze,
streams of water, birds chirping, plantation, flower
blossoming and sun rising after Fajar prayers all
indicate this season.
Reading for analysis:
i. How is our "purpose-built physique" a
blessing for us? Think about it and give your
answer with three reasons.
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Ans: "Purpose-built physique" is a blessing for us to carry


out the daily routine tasks. Allah ( ) has
provided all the necessary organs to complete the
jobs in the life effectively. First the shape of hands
enable us to grip any thing.
Second to eat, purpose built mouth, jaws, teeths
have been given.
Thirdly for running and walking legs and foot are
purpose built so that we can do this job as we
require.

Working with Words

1- Vocabulary, Diction and Pronunciation

Words/ Meaning
Classification
Spellbound ho ld t h e c o mp le te a tt e n tio n o f
verb (someone) as though by magic;
fascinate.
Immersed dip or submerge in a liquid.
verb
affectionately in a way that displays fondness or
adverb love
Bestowed confer or present (an honour, right, or
verb gift).
Gratitude the quality of being thankful;
Noun readiness to show appreciation for
and to return kindness.
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Destined (of a person's future) regarded as


adjective developing as though according to a
pre-existing plan.
Sprawling spreading out over a large area in an
adjective untidy or irregular way.
interrupted stop the continuous progress of (an
adjective activity or process).
Descend move or fall downwards.
verb

Task: Work in pairs and help each other in making


sentences of the words given in the table
a b o v e . F o r e x a m p l e : T he s a i l o r w a s
spellbound by the view of deep blue ocean
sparkling under sunlight.

S.No. Words Sentences


1 Spell bound The sky was sparkling so the
people were spell bound by
this scene.
2 Immersed He immersed himself in his
studies to get good grades.
3 Affectionately She looked up his brother
affectionately.
4 Bestow Th e v alia n t s oldie r was
bes towed on the highest
award.
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5 Gratitude I e x t e n d g r a t it u d e t o my
pare nts for the ir lov e and
support.
6 Destined We are destined to become
th e r oo mma te s in co lle ge
hostel.
7 Sprawling Children sprawled in TV
lounge to watch their favourite
cartoon.
8 Interrupted The speaker was interrupted
several times by the audience.
9 Descend After an hour long hiking they
descend from the height to the
parking.

2- Word Cloud
Word cloud comprising all attributes and
names of Allah ( )

Name Meaning
Al-Rehman The beneficient 

Al-Raheem The Merciful 

Al-Bari The Evolver  
Al-Wasi The vast, All encompassing 
Al-Wadud The loving, The kind one 
Al-Munir The lighted 
Al-Wahid Absolute one 
Al-Khabeer The All aware 
 

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Al-Sami The all hearing 


 
Al-Quddus The most holy,The most pure   
Al-Wahab The bestower 
 
Al-Razzaq The ever providing  
Al-Jabbar The Restorer, The Repairer  

Al-Qadir The Powerful  
Al-Aakhir The Last, The endless  
 
Al-Haleem The indulgent, The forbearer  

Al-Kabeer The greatest 
Al-Wakeel The trustee, The Guardian  
Al-Adil The Justice  
Al-Jamil The most beautiful, gracious 
Al-Badi The originator, The incomparable

Al-Majid The magnificient 
Al-Wajid The finder, The unfailing 
Al-Sabur The patient, Forbearing 
Al-Hafiz The preserver, The protector 
Al-Zahir The All victorious, The open 

Al-Batin All encompassing, The hidden 
Al-Lateef The subtle 

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Select at least five out of them and use them
in your own sentences.

S.No. Name Sentence


1 Al-Rehman Allah (Subhanahu) is v ery
beneficiant to all His creature.
2 Al-Wahid The basic belief of every muslim is
that Allah is the absolute and no
one share His power.
3 Al-Wahab Allah has promised to provide
earning to every one. He is the
sole bestower.
4 Al-Qadir Allah is the most powerful and
above all. He knows everything
and most powerful.
5 Al-Wadud Allah loves His creature more than
seventy mothers, very kind and
loving.

3- Word Types- Names of the Group of


Animals/ Birds
When animals or birds are gathered in groups, they
are called by unique collective noun for each of
them; For example flock of birds, swarm of bees,
herd of sheep, flight of insects, etc.
Task: Match the group of animals/ birds in Column
A with their respective name/ collective noun
given in Column B

S.No. Column A Column B


1 Elephant A pride
2 Fish A colony
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3 Lions A convocation
4 Rats A gaggle
5 Owls A school
6 Dogs A parade
7 Eagles A pack
8 Geese A parliament

Ans:

S.No. Column A Column B Correct Noun


1 Elephant A pride A parade
2 Fish A colony A school
3 Lions A convocation A pride
4 Rats A gaggle A colony
5 Owls A school A parliament
6 Dogs A parade A pack
7 Eagles A pack A convocation
8 Geese A parliament A gaggle

Reading Makes Us Wise!!

Water: One of Allah's Greatest Blessings


By: Harun Yahya
One of the great blessings that human beings
cannot manufacture, despite having all the raw materials
available, is water. The greatest requirement of life, is
provided readymade for us by God. We cannot watch water
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forming in a laboratory nor produce it ourselves. Water


came into being one time only during the creation of the
Earth; the same water has been allowing living things to
survive ever since.
It is impossible for life to exist without water. Water
is a substance specially created by God as the basis for
life, and with all its physical and chemical properties
created in such a way as to support life. Millions of different
life forms on Earth survive by means of water, and it helps
in creating the necessary balance for life to exist.
Water is a molecule that results from two hydrogen
atoms bonding to one oxygen atom. Oxygen and hydrogen
atoms are abundant in nature, but they do not just bind
together to form water; these atoms need to collide in order
to produce water. This collision essential for the formation
of water is only possible at a very high temperature and at
a very high level of energy.
The high temperature needed to produce water are
not currently present on Earth. It is therefore impossible for
new water molecules to form. The water on Earth which we
drink and use, and that constitutes the seas and oceans, is
the water that formed as the result of the high temperatures
during the creation of the Earth 4.5 billion years ago.
However, that is by no means the end of the miraculous
properties of water.
There is no water, the precondition for life, on any of
the other 63 celestial bodies in the Solar System. Yet a
large part of the Earth is covered by water; indeed, the
seas and oceans represent three quarters of the surface of
the Earth. There are also countless lakes and rivers on the
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land. The glaciers on the peaks of mountains are the frozen


form of water and a significant amount of the Earth's water
is also in the sky. A cloud contains tens of thousands and
sometimes even millions of tons of water. Part of that water
sometimes descends in the form of droplets, rain. There is
also certain amount of water vapour in the air you are
breathing now.
Rains, seas, rivers, strems, oceans, the drinkable
water that appears when you open the facuet: Most people
are so familiar with the idea of water that they ay never
think of the importance of much of the world being covered
with it. yet water is a very rare compound in space. The fact
that of all the known celestial bodies only the Earth has
water - and the fact that this water is drinkable - is a most
miraculous fact.
Although human beings can survive for one or two
weeks without food, they cannot go any more than three or
four days without water. The body consists of 55 percent to
75 percent water, and can lose up to two to three litres of
water per day through activities such as perspiration and
respiration. The water lost is made up by the water drunk.

        
   
  

   
   

  
      
   
  
   
      
    
 

     
  
 

  
  
  
   
   

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 
       
 
      
           
  
  
  

     
     
  
 
  
       
       
  4½  
 
  
 
   
        
  
    63        
     
 
 
 


               
   
          
   
  
 


 
  
      
  
 


  
          
   
      

 
   
   
     
  
       


 
   

   
     
 
 

  
  
   
%75  %55  
  
      
 
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Language Corner

1- Narrative Style of Writing:


The Four main genres of writing are: descriptive,
expository, persuasive and narrative.
Narrative writing is the most frequently used writing
style in both fiction and non-fiction writing. In this type of
writing, the author impart information, construct a story
including characters and styles. It has a sequence of
events, the plot that unfolds the story in sequence.
Task: Fill in the blanks with the help of the word
bank given at the bottom of this narrative.
In the early days, the city was not as crowded it is
today. First there was one traffic light on the main road and
the traffic was regulated well. In later years, as the
population of the city grew, this increased the number of
vehicles on the road. Resultantly traffic jam had become a
regular feature on the main road. So the city needed more
traffic lights to keep the traffic smooth.
Word Bank
In the early days, First, So the city, In later years,
Resultantly
2- Revision of nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs
M a ke f our c ol um ns na me d as no uns,
adjectives, verbs and adverbs. Now write the
words given below in the relevant column.
Serenity, actively, stumbling, landscape, flock,
anxiously, chucked, knowingly, mesmerized, hilly, family,
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pearly, berries, quietly, chilly, refreshing, hike, trail,


administration, graceful, maintain, descend, friends,
friendly, scenery, hills, gigantic, delicious, blessing, Mummy

Verbs Nouns Adverbs Adjectives


landscape Serenity Actively Stumbling
Flock Family anxiously hilly
chucked Berries knowingly Pearly
mesmerized Chilly quietly refreshing
maintain hike graceful
descend trail Friendly
administration gigantic
Friends delicious
Scenery
hills
blessing
Mummy

3- Understanding Meaning of Suffixes and their


usage
A suffix is added to a root word to change the
meaning of the word. For example in beautiful, 'ful' is the
suffix.

Common Meaning of Examples of


Suffixes Suffixes words
—able more than Applicable
—ful or —full characteristic or Thankful,
way of being Houseful
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—less the most Harmless


—ly action or state Cowardly, hardly,
weekly
—ment believes or does ornament,
refreshment
—ist characterized by/ agriculturalist,
inclined to psychologist
—ness worthy of, able to kindness,
darkness
—est without Fastest, warmest
—er full of Farmer, Helper
—y is like Salty, glory

Task: C ir cl e the w or ds w it h s uf fi xe s i n the


paragraph below.
You don't have to be a botan to grow

your own food! The warm time of year is the

best time for plant some seeds, while other


can only grow when planted during cold times.

Some plants, like tomatoes, become droop if you

don't water them dai . You must make sure the


soil has just the right amount of wet for each
type of plants. Garden can be difficult, but the

right know can make it eas .


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4- Understanding and using prepositions at


right place.
A pre pos it ion is a word which expresses a
relationship of a noun or pronoun to other words of the
sentence. Some important prepositions are:
'in, of, to, at, by, for with, under, above, into, upon,
about, behind, beside, before, after, towards, inside,
outside, below, around, between, among, since' etc
Task: Enlist the prepositions shown in this picture.
i. above ii. on
iii. through iv. inside
v. up vi. within
vii. beside viii. down
ix. below
5- Revising Punctuation
Rewrite the following sentence using capital
letter, commas, full stops, apostrophe,
quot atio n mar ks, q ues tion mar k s and
exclamation marks where required.

S.No. Sentence Rewrite


i. this boy bicycle is an This boy's bicycle is an
efficient machine efficient machine.
ii. omar lives in the Omar lives in the
busiest part of the city busiest part of the city.
iii. fabiha asked her Fabiha asked her
mother what she was mother what she was
cooking for dinner c o o k i n g f o r d in n e r
tonight tonight.
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iv. please attend your Ple a s e a t t e n d yo u r


school in tidy uniform school in tidy uniform,
polished shoes and polishe d s hoe s and
combed hair. combed hair.
v. what an awesome hit What an awesome hit!
exclaimed zayn with exclaimed Zayn with
joy joy.

Creative Writing

Recount
A recount retells an experience or an event that
heppend in the past. The purpose of recount can be to
inform, entertain or to reflect and evaluate. A recount
should always be told in the order that things happened.
A personal recount tells an activity the writer has
been personally involved in steps of recount may be:
1. Who 2. What
3. Where 4. When and how
— Use past tense
— Use first person or third person
— Brief summaries
Task: Wr ite a per sonal r ecount of y our best
weekend spent in the recent past.
I had a wonderful weekend. We went to bed early
on Friday night because we had to go for shopping on
Saturday. It was bit cold in the morning but we went for
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shopping. We did our shopping from the market and had a


breakfast. We enjoyed a lot from delicious breakfast. Then
we came back and did the rest of our house hold works. At
night we saw a beautiful movie and went to sleep. On
Sunday, I went to mechanic for repair of my car. The
mechanic took a lot of time to repair the car. I came back at
14:00 hrs. I was very tired. I had lunch and decided to take
rest and relax. Then I got up and stayed at home, watched
TV. I alongwith my family watched movie "Scream" which
was very horrible. Hence we always enjoy weekends.
A Project of Water Conservation Awareness
· Problems Situation: This summer Bilal's colony is
facing acute water shortage and everyone around is
worried about it. Since it was the talk of the town,
Bilal and his friends too often discuss this issue.
They realized that one reaso behind this shortage of
water was the unchecked wastage of water.
Together they want to run a campaign on thoughtful
use of water with the aim of educating people one
the ways they can avoid its wastage and conserve
whatever water resources are available in their
colony. What suggestions would you give him to
design his campaign?
 Do some research on this topic to find if there is any
success story of past attempts.
 Design a leaflet or poster which Bilal and his friends
can use as a resource in their campaign. Include
images to make it more attractive and persuasive.
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
—   

   
      
      
     
     
  
       

 
      
   
       
 
      
 
    
 
  
   
         
  
 
    

Suggestions for water conservations

 

English  


1- Check pipes,      -1
faucets, taps for
leakage.

 
 

2- Promptly repaur any   
   
   -2
leakage in and
around taps.
  
3- Turn off valves/ taps         
 -3
completly when not
in use.
  
4- Insulate all water  
 -4
taps.
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5- Use shut off nozzles    


  -5
for waste waters.
  
6- Use aerator or water         -6
flow reducer.
 
7- Reuse waste water   
    -7
where possible.

8- C o v e r s wi m m in g       -8
p o o ls , t o r e d u c e
evaporation.
 
9- Tell children not to   
  -9
play with water.
10- Do not wash your   
    -10
cars with running
water.
 


11- Use water meter to     -11
check hidden
leakage.

  


12- Check toilet for   -12
 
leakage.
13- Stop using toilet as  
 -13
ashtray.
 
14- Take short shower  
  -14
than bath and use
tub bath.
  


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15- Install water saving       -15



shower head or flow
resistors.
   
16- Turn off taps while     
 -16
brushing/ shaving.
 

17- 
Ins ta ll a djust ab le     -17
toilet flappers and
low flush tanks.
 
18- Use automatic dish      -18
washer.
19- Do not wash fruits  
 
  -19
and v egetables
under running
 
water.

20- Defros t food in 
 
  
   -20
refrigerator rather
under running
 

water.
21- Use automatic       -21
machine in full load.
  
22- Use shut off nozzles      -22
to control wastage.
  

 
23- W a t e r y o u r la wn     -23
during cool part of
day.
    
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24- Use sprinkle rather  -24


     
than pipes.
 

 
25- Keep your lawn cut     -25
higher.
26- W ash your pets  
     -26
near lawns.
 
 
27- Use broom to clean       -27
steps, sid ewalk,
drive ways etc.
   
28- D o n o t o v e r u s e    
 
  -28

water for lawn.
 
29- Water toys be     -29
avoided.
30- Pools, ponds, and     -30
water features be
equipped with
    
   
recirculating pumps.   
Leaflet for water conservancy
 

English  
1- Turn off taps while  
   -1
brushing teeth,
sh a v in g , s o a p in g

 
hands.  
2- Take short shower
  
  -2
instead of bath.
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3- Only run washing       -3


machines and
dishwasher with full
 
load.
4- Fix d r ipp ing t ap s 
  -4
and water main
promptly.
  
5- Use water sav ign       -5
devices.   
6- Tach children that  
     -6
wat er is no t f or
games.
 
7- W ash cars with      -7
water buckets and
towel.
 
8- Av oid flushing   
  -8
unnecessarily.

Fluency of Expression
S.No. Idioms Meaning Usage in
Sentences
01 To count To reflect on I try to remember
one's the good to count my
blessing things in one's blessing every day.
life and be
grateful for
them
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02 A blessing in An unfortunate His illness confined


disguise event or him to home which
situation that was a blessing in
leads to disguise for him.
unforeseen
positive
outcome
03 Be a mixed To have both A strong economy
blessing positive and of a country is a
negative mixed blessing for
results a stock market.
04 Thankful for Grateful for The thieves took
the small small benefits TV and a mobile
blessings one has in an but didn't take any
overall difficult jewellery, so let's
situation be thankful for
small blessing.
05 With my Expressing He married his
blessing consent or cousin with the
agreement blessing of his
family.

2- Fun Reading
'Pun' is used to create fun. It is a joke exploiting the
different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there
are words which sound alike but different meaning.
Examples
1. The life of a patient of hypertension is always at
steak.
2. What is difference between a conductor and a
teacher? Condutor minds the train and teacher
trained the minds.
3. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like mangoes.
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UNIT 2

A Glimpse from the Life of The Rasool of


Allah Hazrat Muhammad 

Words Meaning  


Words Meanings Words Meanings
Titles  Ummi  
Last  Implies
 
Formal  Divine  
Chosen  Teach 

 
Humanity 
  Knowledge 
Beyond  Revelation 
Archangel  
 Brought 

Commanded 
 Emphasize 
 

Seeking 
 Blessed  
Moment  Mount Nur 
Descended 

 Duty 

Embraced 
 I do not know  
How to read   Responded 

Every time  
  Replied 
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Finally  Created
  
Clot   Clinging 
All-magnificient 
   Pen-taught 
 
Clearer 
  Included 

Signs   Confirming
  
 
Creator  Significance 
Intellect  Explore 
Foremost  Acquire
  

Regardless  Gender 
Race  Completed 
Disappeared   Realized
 
Root  Heart
 
Repeating   Burden
  
Responsibility   Shoulders 
Mission  Introduce 
 
Excitement  Willed 
Returned 
 Shivering 

Cover me   Knees
 

Blessed day    Experience  
Resolve  Patience 
Remained  Calm 
Listening  Rejoice
  
Resolute  Stead fast  
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Swear 
 Messenger 
Alone   Knock 

Scholar  Holy books 
Confirmed  
 Great honour 
Longing to 
 Suspension 
meet
Voice   Gifted 

Cloaked one!    Solitude 
Arise   Warn 
 
Verses 
 Clarifying 

Declare 
 Existence 
Unity of Allah   Necessity
 
Believing  Judgement  
 
day
Establish 
 Undoubtedly 
Fulfilled 
  Perfection 
Religion   Finality
 
Praises  Gratitude 
 
Born   Sunnah 

Guidance 

Translation

Para 1: One of the titles of the last Rasool  of Allah

 is Ummi which implies that
 , Hazrat Muhammad 
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Rasool Allah  did not get nay formal deucaiton; rather,



he got divine education. In the Qura'an Allah     has
called His Rasool as Nabi-ul-Ummi. Allah   has
chosen His Nabi-ul-Ummi to teach humanity all the
knowledge of this world and beyond. The first revelation
which the Archangel Hazrat Jibrael  brought to Hazrat
Muhammad  was the first five Ayah of Surah Al-Alaq. In

these Ayah Allah   commanded us all the "read" thus
emphasizing the act of reading and seeking knowledge.
   
    
  

   
      
   
       

      
         
 
 
    
 
 
 
    

 

Para 2: The blessed moment fell on a Monday and the
year was 610, the month was Ramadan, and the place was
Mount Nur. It was here that Archangel Hazrat Jibrael  
 , his duty as a
descended and told Hazrat Muhammad
Rasool of Allah. Hazrat Jibrael  embraced Hazrat
Muhammad  and said "Read!". "I do not know how to

read," the Rasool of Allah responded. Hzrat Jibrael 
embraced him for two more times and said the same word,
"Read!" Evry time the Rasool of Allah, Hazrat Muhammad
 replied the same, "I do not know how to read!"

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Then Hazrat Jibrael  finally said to him:


"Read in and witht the Name of yoru Lord, Who has
created-Created human from a clot clinging (to the wall of
the womb). Read and your Lord is the All-Magnificient, Who
has taught (human) by the pen-taught human what he did
not know." (Al-Alaq 96:1-5)
 
  610    
   
   
  
     

               
  

         
  
     
   
 
 
  
  

          
    
 1-5 : 96     
  
 
Para 3: Things were now clearer; for when it was in the
name of the Allah   , everything could be read. This
included everything one could see or hear as these all are
signs confirming their Creator. This order to "Read" by Allah
  aslo spoke of a new beginning for the duty that lay
ahead for The Rasool of Allah. It also emphasized the
significance of "reading" by using one's intellect to seek and
explore knowledge. Thus it has become the foremost duty
of every Muslim to acquire knowledge regardless of gender
or or race.
  
        
 
       
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    



 

   
         
  

  
Para 4: Having completed his first duty in the cave of Hira
 d is a p pe a re d
on Mo u nt N ur , H a zra t J ib ra e l
immediately. After a while Hazrat Muhammad  realized
that every word of the revelation had taken root in his heart
and he found himself repeating them. He also realized the
burden of responsibility on his shoulders which was the
mission to introduce people to a way of life that was willed
by Allah  . He returned home shiv ering with
excitement and said: "Cover me, cover me!". He then put
his blessed head on the knees of our mother Hazrat
Khadija   and upon her asking, told her the event of
that blessed day. Hazrat Khadija   , a woman of
experience, resolve and patience, remained very calm
while listening to him. Then she said: Rejoice, O son of my
uncle! Be resolute and steadfast where you are! I swear by
He who hold Khadija's life in His hand that you are the
Messenger that these people are waiting for." Then she
covered the Messenger of Allah and left him alond in their
house to knock on the door of her cousin Waraqa bin
Nawfal. He was the scholar of Holy Books and after
listening to what Hazrat Khadija   told him, he
confirmed that this was the great honour that had also
come to Hazrat Musa   and Hazrat Isa   .
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  
       
         
      
      
   
  

               
   
 
     
            
  
 
 

    
   
 
  
        
     

  

    
     
     
          
  
    

    
Para 5: The Messenger of Allah kept visiting the cave of

Hira in Mount Nur while longing to meet Hazrat Jibrael
 and to receive the next message from Allah   .
When forty days of suspension passed after the first
revelation for which he had waited for forty years, he heard
the voice of truthful Hazrat Jibrael  again which was
saying: "O Muhammad! You are The true Rasool of Allah."
Here the second revelation was gifted to The Rasool of
Allah which was Surah al-Muddathir. This is the first surah
to be revealed as a whole and begisn with:
"O, you cloaked one (who has preferred solitude)! Arise
and warn! And declare your Lord's greatness! And keep
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your clothing clean! Keep away from all pollutio."


(Al-Muddathir 74: 1-5)
       
  
         
        
     
   
     
     
  
                 
   
   
Para 6: These verses were clarifying the mission of the
Last Rasool. These asked him to hold the hands of others
and to declare the name of his Lord to all. From now on he
would take about the existence and unity of Allah   .
He would be emphasizing the necessity of believing in the
Judgment Day and he would try to establish the truths of
Islam. He undoubtedly fulfilled his responsibility with
perfection and to this day the message of Allah    is
reaching humanity in every part of this world. Allah  
has perfected His religion through Hazrat Muhammad  
and in The Qura'an He has verily called Hazrat Muhammad
 the last of His Rasools. This finality was told as:

"Muhammad is not the father of (any) one of your men, but
(he is) the Messenger of Allah and last of the Prophets.
And Allah has knowledge of everything."
 
    
      
 
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      


   

     
     

    
       
       
     
 
    
  
      
  
   
     
   
Para 7: All praises and gratitudes to Allah who has
blessed us to be born as Muslims and to have the Noble
Qura'an and Sunnah of The Rasool of Allah to provide us
guidance in every field of life.
(Abridged and adapted from the book "Prophet
Muhammad-The Sultan of Hearts" by Resit Haylamaz)
   
 
 
 
  
   
  

Exercise

Understanding and Comprehension

Answer the following questions.


Reading for detail:
a. What was the date and place where Hazrat
Jibrael   brought the first revelation to
Hazrat Muhammad  ?
Ans: It was Monday and the year was 610 A.D, the month
was Ramazan and the place was Mount Nur where
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Hazrat Jibrael   brought the first revelation to


Hazrat Muhamamd  .
b. Where did Hazrat Muhammad  go after

receiving the first revelation?
Ans: Hazrat Muhamamd  returned home shivering

with excitement after receiving the first revelation.
Reading for meaning:
c. What is meant by "Nabi-ul-Ummi"? Why was
 given this title?
The Rasool 
Ans: The meaning of "Nabi-ul-Ummi" is that Allah has
chosen His Nabi-ul-Ummi to teach humanity all the
knowledge of this world and beyond. Rasool 
was given this title as he did not get any formal
education rather he got divine education.
Reading for inference:
d. What is the importance of seeking knowledge
for every Muslim?
Ans: The first revelation was the first five Ayahs of Surah
Al-Alaq. The first word of revelation is "Read". So
Allah     has commanded us all to read thus
emphasizing the act of reading and seeking
knowledge. Significance of "reading" by using one's
intellect to seek and explore knowledge is the
foremost duty of every muslim to acquire knowledge
regardless of gender or race.
e. What was the reaction of Hazrat Khadija  
 after listening to the incidents of the first
revelation?
Ans: Hazrat Khadija     said, 'Rejoice, O son of my
uncle! Be resolute and steadfast where you are! I
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swear by He who holds Khadija's life in His hand


that you are the Messenger that these people are
waiting for. "Then she covered Rasool   and left

him alone.
f. What is meant by the same honour as that
has come to Hazrat Musa   and Hazrat
Isa  ?
Ans: The same honour means Hazrat Jibrail   who
also came to Hazrat Musa   and Hazrat Isa
  was
  . Moreover Hazrat Muhammad  
also given the same honour of being Messenger
of Allah as Hazrat Musa   and Hazrat Isa
  were Messengers of Allah.
Reading for analysis:
g. Why was Hazrat Muhammad   called as 'O
cloaked one!' in the second revelation?
Ans: Hazrat Muhammad   was called as "O, clocked

one!" in second revelation as he was wrapped in
clothes and also these verses were clarifying the
mission of Last Rasool.
h. Why were 'seeking knowledge' and 'keeping
oneself clean' two of the initial commands
from Allah  ?
Ans: These initial commands from Allah    are the
basic duties of muslims. Seeking knowledge of
every kind make them a good and pious man.
Keeping oneself clean make the whole society and
surrounding free of any dirty things and make
people healthy and good.
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Working with Words

1- Vocabulary, Diction and Pronunciation


Read the words with the help of phonetic
script and practice in class. Also learn their
spellings and meaning.

Words/ Meaning
Classification
Revelation the divine or sacred message to
noun humans.
Emphasize give special importance or value to
verb (something).
Intellect A person's mental powers, the faculty
noun of reasoning and understanding.
Devoted very loving or loyal.
adjective
Resolute Admirably purposeful, determined,
adjective and unwavering.
Steadfast re s o lu t e ly o r d u tif u lly f ir m an d
adjective unwavering.
Longing i- a yearning desire.
noun/adjective ii- having or showing a yearning
desire.
Suspension the action of suspending someoen or
noun soemthing or the condition of being
suspended.
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Task: Use words given in the table above in your


own sentences. Help your friend in making
new sentences.

S.No. Words Sentences


1 Revelation First revelation on the holy
prophet was first five Ayas of
Surah Al-Alaq.
2 Emphasize The actor spoke very loud to
emphasize his nex action.
3 Intellect He became less dependent on
his parents as his intellect
grew.
4 Devoted Children are highly devoted to
their parents and siblings.
5 Resolute Army officers always had the
reputation of being resolute in
their duty.
6 Steadfast He remained steadfast in his
determination to bring the
corrupt people to justice.
7 Longing His sister watched him taking a
b it e o f s a n d w ic h a t o n c e
longing and agitated.
8 Suspension The player was annoyed about
his suspension from the team.
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2- Mind Map:
It is a visual structure to brainstorm thoughts and
ideas. It is a diagram used to represent ideas. It is a
diagram used to represent ideas linked to and
arranged around a central concept.

3- Wordtype - Anagram:
An anagram is formed by changing by changing the
position of the letters of a word. This creates a new word
out of it.
Task: Form anagram of the given words.

S.No. Word Anagram S.No. Word Anagram


1 vote Veto 6 meat team
2 anger range 7 dome mode
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3 peon nope 8 angle angel


4 pest sept 9 dire ride
5 cape pace 10 serve verse

Reading Makes Us Wise!!


Some cheerful moments from the life of Hazrat
Muhammad 

a) Who ate More dates?
One Hazrat Muhammad  , Hazrat Ali   and

a few other companions were eating a big plate. While
eating dates Hazrat Muhammad  put the seeds in front

of Hazrat Ali  . Resultantly, when all finished eating,
there were no seeds in front of Hazrat Muhammad   , but
a small heap in front of Hazrat Ali   . Hazrat
Muhammad   pretended to be surprised and asked
Hazrat Ali   if he ate most of the dates. Hazrat Ali 
 humbly replied to him saying that "O Rasool of Allah! I
have realized that you eat dates with the seeds."
  
     
  
  


  
      
 
   
    
    
  
   
  
   
    
           

  
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b) Camel Calf:
Hazrat Anas   narrated that once a man
begged Hazrat Muhammad  for a camel for conveyance.
Hazrat Muhamamd   was in a jolly mood, so He said,
"Yes, I will give you, but a calf (baby camel)". That person
could not understand and got surprised and said, "O
Rasool of Allah! what will I do with a calf of a camel?
(means how can I ride a calf?). Hazrat Muhammad 

said, "Every camel is the calf of a camel (meaning that
even after getting matured for riding, it remains the baby of
a camel)
(Reference: Tirmizi, Abu Dawood)
   

 
 
     
  
       
 
       
 
    
        
 
 
  
        
  
  
   
c) No heaven for old people:
Hazrat Anas  narrated that once an old lady
asked Hazrat Muhammad  to pray for her, so that Allah
may bless her with heaven. He said, "Why will old women
not enter heaven"?
She was shocked, begain crying asked, "Why old
women will not enter heaven?"
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Hazrat Muhammad  said, "Did you not read the



verse of The Qur'an which says, "Women of heaven will be
of young age." (Meaning that all people who died old will be
made young first and then will enter heaven.)
    
 

      
    
  
         

  
        

   
       
 
   
    
         
    
  

Language Corner

1- Prefixes:
A new word can be created adding a prefix at the
beginning of the word. This main word is called root word.

S.No. Root word Prefix Word


1 Hero Super Superhero
2 Medical Pre Premedical
3 Chip micro Microchip
4 Appear Re Re-appear
5 Advantage Dis Disadvantage
6 Corruption Anti Anti corruption
7 Marine Sub Sub marine
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8 Department Inter Interdepartment


9 Sense non non-sense
10 Join con conjoin

Commonly Meaning Example


used prefixes
Super above Supernatural
Pre Before Pre-medical
Anti Against Anti-corruption
Dis Not, opposite of Disadvantage
Micro Small Microchip
Sub Under Submarine
Inter Between Intercity
Non Not with Nonaggression
Con Together Conjoin
Re Again Reappear

Task: In the table below, rootwords are given. By


adding appropriate prefixes make new words.

S.No. Root word Prefix Word


1 Dis comfort Discomfort
2 Im Mature Immature
3 Dis play Display
4 Inter class Interclass
5 Super woman Superwoman
6 Pre School Preschool
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7 Micro chip Microchip


8 Non sense Nonsense

2- Combination of Nouns Phrases - Appositions


An apposition in grammar is the use of a noun
phrase immediately after another noun/ noun phrase which
refers to the same person or things. These noun phrases
are separated by commas. Examples are
1. Mrs. Khan, a strict principal, will deal with the
noun apposition
naughty boys.
2. Ali, the school topper, set a new record of
noun apposition
achieving the highest percentage in annual results.
Task: Add commas to mark off a noun or a noun
phrase in apposition.
i. Saira, the eldest of my three children, will
noun apposition
complete her studies this year.
ii. Zubair, the only boy in the group of five, scored
noun apposition
highest in Maths.
iii. Saman, the artist, won yeat another arts
noun apposition
competition this year too.
iv. Zia, the boy next door, is an awesome swimmer.
noun apposition
v. The largest masjid in the word, Masjid-ul-Haram,
apposition noun
is full of pilgrims these days.
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3- Phrasal Verb:
Task: Fill in the blanks by selecting suitable phrasal
verb from the option given against each.
i. The match was called off because of rain.
a. called off b. turned off
c. blacked out
Correct answer: a. called off
ii. Can you climb dow n easily or should I get a
ladder?
a. jog down b. fall down
c. climb down
Correct answer: c. climb down
iii. How did he pen down their bad behavior?
a. pen down b. account for
c. cover up
Correct answer: a. pen down
iv. She must be about eighty; she is really growing up
in age.
a. getting on b. growing up
c. going forward
Correct answer: b. growing up
v. In the end every thing turned up alright.
a. ironed out b. turned out
c. turned up
Correct answer: c. turned up
4- Types of Clauses:
A clause is a group of related words. It has a subject
and verb. There are four types of clauses:-
i. Main clause or Independent clause
ii. Subordinate or dependent clause
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iii. Relative or Adjective clause


iv. Noun clause.
Verb clause
A verb clause has at least a subject and verb.
Independent clause
This clause has subject verb expresses a complete
thought and can stand alone as a sentence subordinate or
dependent clause. This clause does not express a
complete thought and so it is not a sentence.
Example
1. When I get home (Subordinate)
2. The lights are not on. (Independent)
3. When you wake up. (Subordinate)
4. Put it on the shelf. (Independent)
5. Since it fell on the floor. (Dependent)
Task: With the help of examples, write at least two
sentences for each type of clause.
Dependent Clause
1. She likes to cook carrots but he likes to eat raw.
2. The dog was fast, yet the cat got away by climbing.
3. The tree are beautiful but it is autumn here.
Independent Clause
1. I picked a flower for you.
2. The teacher taught me how to read.
3. The singer sang.
Adjective Clause
1. Students who are intelligent get good grades.
2. The boy who is leading the parade is my relative.
3. Something that smells bad may be rotten.
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Noun Clause
1. I remember what you read yesterday.
2. You may take whichever biscuit you want.
3. My pet will eat whatever food I give him.

Creative Writing
Biography writing is usually a written history of a
person's life or it can be an account of the life of
something (such as an animal, a coin, or a building).
Following chronological order is crucial in writing any
biography. Use cohensive devices like first, then,
after that, later, finally etc.
Task: Write a short biography of a 'seed'.
I was a small wheat seed. A farmer planted me and
took care of me with the adequate nutrient and water.
Within few months, I became a big wheat plant. Slowly my
head and kernels began to appear. The farmer protected
me frm pests and birds until I became strong enough to be
harvested.
One day the farmer harvested the entire farm and
collected all my spikes in big sacks and taken to market. A
man came in the market and purchased the sach wherein I
was kept. He took me to home and kept in kitchen. Two
days later, I was grounded into five powder and kept in a
jar. Next day, the wife of the man picked up the jar and took
out fine atta to make a dough. She put atta in the bowl,
added water, salt and oil and make a dough. She prepared
a round roties and placed on dinning table for eating.
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Fluency of Expression

1- Some ways of Apologising


Apologising a way of showing respect and empathy
for the wronged person. We apologise when we have done
something wrong and it has caused other people hurtful
feeling and trouble. An equal important mannerism is to
accept that apology. Some ways of saying and accepting
apology are:-
Common ways of Acknowledgement of
apology Aplogy
1. I'm sorry for  Thats quite all right.
2. I'm so sorry, but I Please don't mention it.
did not 
3. I'm so sorry  There is no need to be
sorry.
4. Please forgive me I t ' s o k . P l e a s e d o n ' t
for  mention it.
5. Please accept my Thanks for your apology.
apologies for 
6. I d o b e g y o u r Please excuse me,
pardon 
7. Excuse me, please! It's all right please.
8. I apologize for  I accept your apology.
Task: Some situations are given, use one of the
expression given above for each of them.

S.No. Situation Apology


1 You drop one of your I'm sorry.
father's favourite cups.
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2 You accidentally spill I am really sorry that I


ink on your friend's did this.
shirt.
3 You sneeze without Excuse me, please.
covering your mouth.
4 You forgot to do your Please forgive me.
homework.
5 You didn't eat lunch I am sorry for not
your mother gave you. eating lunch.
6 You bumped into Sorry, I apologise for
someone and dropped your loss.
his/ her belongings.
7 You forgot to ask your I am so sorry, I forgot
sister to play with you to play with you.
when she wanted to.

2- Fun Reading (PUN)


1. The grammarian was very logical. He had a lot of
common sense.
2. Big Rig carrying fruit crashes on the expressway —
Creates Jam.
3. Why did the spider go to the computer? To check
his website.
4. Why are playing cards like wolves? They come in
packs.
5. Why are fish smart? Because they live in schools.

    
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UNIT 3

Night Mail- W H Auden (Poem)

Words Meaning  


Words Meanings Words Meanings
Crossing  Border
 
Bringing 
 Cheques 

Letters  Rich 
Poor  Corner
 

Pulling  Steady 
 
Climb 
  Gradient 
  
Past  Moorland
     
Boulder  Shovelling  
Shoulder  Snorting 

Noisily  Wind-bent   

Approaches   Stares 
Blank faced   Course  
Slumber 
 Paws 
Wakes  Shakes
 

Freshens 
  Descends 

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Translation

S.No. Sentence 
1 This is the night mail    
     
crossing the border,  
2 Bringing the cheque 
    
and the postal order,
3 Letters for the rich, 
letters for the poor,
4 The shop at the corner      

and the girl next door. 

5 Pulling up Beattock, a     
 

steady climb.......... 
  
6 The gradient's against  
      
her, but she's on time. 
7 Past cotton-grass and      
moorland boulder, 
 

8 Shovelling white steam   
over her shoulder,  
9 Snorting noisily as she 
     
passes   
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10 Silent miles of        
wind-bent grasses. 
      


11 Birds turn their heads      
  
as she approaches,  
 
12 Stares from the bushes      
a t h e r b l a n k- f a c e d 
coaches,
13 She ep d og s ca nn ot    

turn her course, 
14 The slumber on with      
paws across.  
15 In the farm she passes  
   
   
no one wakes, 

16 But a jug in the    
 
  
bedroom gently 

shakes.
17 Dawn f resh ens , the    
   
climb is done. 
18 Down towards    
Glasgow she desends.
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Exercise

Understanding and Comprehension

Answer the following questions.


a. What does the name of the poem indicate?
Ans: The name of the poem indicates a mail train runnign
at night.
b. What does the Night mail bring with it?
Ans: Night mail brings cheques, postal ordes and letters.
c. What are the different landscapes that the
train passes through?
Ans: Different landscapes the train passes through are
cotton grass, moorland boulder, wind-bent grasses,
bird bushes, farms, sheep and dogs.
d. What does the poet mean by "blank faced
coaches"?
Ans: The poet means that night mail coaches are moving
at night like blank faces which can not be identified
in darkand are without passengers.
e. Why do the people and dogs continue to
sleep as the train passes by?
Ans: People and dog continue to sleep as they are
habitual of the noise of the night mail passing them
daily.
f. What does the poet mean by "shoveling white
steam over her shoulder"?
Ans: The poet means that night mail is producing white
steam when it passes from various places. This
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white steam is cleaned by the train when moving


forward like a shovel which move soil and snow on
his way.
g. Write the main idea of the poem.
Ans: The poem is about a night mail train moving at night.
It brings letters, cheques and postal order for people
at Glasgow. It passes from the various landscapes,
animals, birds and farm on its way. It descends to
Gla s g o w at t h e b e g in n in g o f t he d a y a f t er
completing the climb of hills the whole night.
Reading for Meaning
a. Why does the poet call the train 'blank-faced
coaches'?
Ans: The poet called coaches of train as blank-faced as
the coaches can not be identified and are blank in
the dark and without passengers.
b. Who is 'she' in line 11?
Ans: "She" in line 11 is night mail train.
c. Who sleeps?
Ans: Persons working in the farm, sheep and dogs were
sleeping.
d. Why does a jug shake in line 16? Where is it,
exactly?
Ans: Jug shakes due to vibration of night mail. Jug is in
the bedroom.

Summary — Night Mail


In this poem, the poet describes the journey of a
night mail train which travels at night and brings letters,
cheques and postal orders for the people. It does not
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discriminate between the rich and poor. It serves them all.


It is very regular and punctual in duty. It is never late. Its
way is full of ups and downs but it does not get tired and
continues its journey smoothly. It passes through cotton
fields and hilly areas. It also passes by populated areas.
The sheep, dogs do not bark at it because they know that
they can not change its course. They continue to sleep. Jug
is merely shaken in the bed room by the vibration of night
mail when it moves along the house. It descends to
Glasgow at the beginning of the day after completing its
whole night journey.

Working with Words


Work in pairs and help each other in making
sentences of the words given in the table. For phonetic
transcription, followi the chart given under the table.

Words/ Meaning
Classification
Gradient ascent or descent, on a highway,
(noun) railroad, etc.
Moorland a tract of open land often overgrown
(noun) with shrubs
Shovel a tool with broad blade for moving
adverb soil, snow etc.
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Snorting breathing violently through nostrils


(verb) with a loud sound
Wind-bent kept from sailing by a wind from the
(adjective) wrong direction
Approach to come near
(verb)
Stare to gaze fixedly and intently with open
(verb) eyes
Slumber to sleep, doze off
(verb)
Descend to go from a higher to lower place, to
(verb) come down

S.No. Words Sentences


1 Gradient The ma x imu m gradient
depends on climatic
conditions.
2 Moorland The surf ace of Poto har is
moorland, mountaneous and
plain.
3 Shoved Shov els are use d to clear
snow from roads in winter
seasons.
4 Snorting The passengers were sitting in
lounge throwing their head
back, snorting and taking rest
due to late departure of their
flight.
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5 Wind-bent Cool breeze in the jungle was


blo win g a n d tr e es wer e
wind-bent looking beautiful.
6 Approach Rainy season is approaching.
Rain and floods are expected.
7 Stare We should never stare any
one on the road.
8 Slumber Animal slumber in jungle at
night.
9 Descend Descending from a hill track
must be v ery cautious and
careful.

Word Cloud
It is a group of words connected to the text.
Based on the picture and the poem, write the
key words in the boxes given below.
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Task:
a) Read the poem and write words that are
related to night mail.
Ans: Words related to Night mail
i) Border ii) Cheques
iii) Postal orders iv) Letters
v) Pulling vi) Climb
vii) Gradient viii) White steam
ix) Snorting x) Noisily
xi) Passes xii) Approaches
xiii) Blank-faced coaches xiv) Course
xv) Descends xvi) Down
xvii) Glasgow
b) Using your ideas from the Word Cloud
compose a paragraph aobut 50-60 words on
"Night Mail".
Ans:

"Night Mail"
Night mail is a train dedicated for the delivery of
mail/ posts. It runs across the country and delivers/ collects
mail in clud ing let ters , p arc els, pa cket s, cheq ues,
documents from main stations on the route. Mostly these
train start their journey in the evening as the whole post/
mail is collected from all the post offices and collected at
Railway station. The mail is segregated and sorted station
wise and handed over to rail staff. Mail train start their
journey at evening. The coaches of the train only contain
mail and carry no passengers. Steam engine or diesel
engine is used for pulling of coaches through various
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terrains staff of the mail included driver, conductor, guards.


During its journey, it passes through hilly areas, plains,
fields, rivers, streams, bridges, tunnels and other places.
The train stops at various stations to deliver and collect the
respective mail. During its journey, sometimes it passes
very near to urban areas thus houses near the rail track
vibrate and items in the houses start shaking. After whole
night journey, it reaches its destination in the morning
where it hand over all the mail to post office staff for further
disposal in early time.
Word Position
Compound words are formed when two or
more nouns join together to create a new
noun that has entirely a new meaning.
Example:
Air Plane Airplane
Ey Ball Eyeball
Think and write five compound words.
Ans: 1. Air port Airport
2. Foot Ball Football
3. Sea Port Seaport
4. Sun Flower Sunflower
5. Black Board Blackboard

Language Corner

1- Degree of Adjectives
Task: Complete the chart by writing degrees of
adjectives as shown in the example.
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Adjectives Comparing Comparing


two more
Big Bigger Biggest
Noisy Noisier Noisiest
Rich Richer Richest
Poor Poorer Poorest
High Higher Highest
Lazy Lazier Laziest

Note: Noisily is adverb and not adjective.


2- Homophones
Homophones are confusing due to their difference in
meaning. The words with same sound but different
meaning are called homophones.
Example:
Mail, Male
Mail: I received my admission confirmation letter in the
mail today.
Male: My brother has been blessed with a male child.
Task: Make meaningful sentences of these pair of
words.

Word Sentence
Birth She gave birth to a male child.
Berth We reserv ed a berth in the train for
Karachi.
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Bail Bail of the accused was rejected by the


court.
Bale There is a bumber crop of cotton this
year with 4 lacs bales.
Principal Principal of our college is very strict and
disciplined.
Principle W e sho uld n ot co mpromis e on the
principles of our life.
Break Boys playing in the ground broke the
glass pane of a house while playing
cricket.
Brake The student going back to home was
very fast and applied brakes when a dog
suddently came on road.

3- Tenses
A verb is a doming word or action. These actions
take place at different times.
i) now: Present ii) then Past
iii) still to happen: Future
These are known as
Example
Present Tense Past Tense
He drinks water. You drank water.
Future Tense
I will drink water.
Past Tense
The past tense of verb expresses events or action
that already occured.
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Example
1. He killed a lion. 2. We went to market.
3. He worked. 4. I drank water.
Task: Change the following sentences into past tense.

S.No. Sentence Past Tense


i) T h e y li k e to o r de r Th ey like d t o or d er
Chinese food. Chinese food.
ii) My uncle sleeps in My uncle slept in the
the afternoon. afternoon.
iii) They are n o t They were not
pr e p a re d t o t r ave l prepared to travel
next month. previous month.
iv) T he childr en bring The children brought
apples and bananas apples and bananas to
to eat in the park. eat in the park.
v) Mr. Hammad drives a Mr. Hammad drove a
truck. truck.

4- Punctuation
Punctuate the following passage. The following
punctuation marks are to be used.
a. Full Stop (.) b. Comma (,)
c. Capital Letter (ABC.....)
Passage
the wright brothers invented the first successful
airplane the first flight lasted for 12 seconds the two
brothers took turns flying the plane a strong wind tipped the
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plane over the first airplane never flew again do you think, it
was an easy task
Ans: The Wright brothers invented the first successful
airplane. The first flight lasted for 12 seconds. The
two brothers took turns flying the plane. A strong
wind tipped the plane over. The first airplane never
flew again. Do you think, it was an easy task?
a. Full Stop (.)
It is used at the end of a statement or command.
i. Do not make a noise.
ii. I go to school.
iii. There are three bedrooms in my house.
b. Comma (,)
It is used to separate three or more things in a
sentence instead using the word and three times or
more, we use comma (,). However we used and
before last thing. For example.
For: I bought a shirt and sweater and socks and shoes.
Read: I bought a shirt, sweater, socks and shoes.
c. Capital Letter (ABC.....)
First word of a sentence begins with a capital letter.
i. Someone is knocking at the door.
ii. My neighbours are very helpful.
Name of people, cities, countries, months, days,
special places are written with capital letters.
Task: Punctuate the sentences.

S.No. Sentence Past Tense


i) my sister likes to My sister likes to
collect stamps coins collect stamps, coins,
buttons ribbons buttons, ribbons and
comics comics.
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ii) will you go to dubai Will you go to Dubai


from Karachi from Karachi?
iii) no I don't want to go No, I don't want to go
to the movie today to the movie today.
iv) b r a z i l i s r i c h i n Brazil is rich in natural
natural resources resources.
v) we are having a party We are having a party
on Saturday and I am on Saturday and I am
excited about it. excited about it.

Creative Writing

1- Personification
When one give animal or object qualities that only a
human being can have it is called personification.
Personification is what the writer used to bring non-human
things to life.
Identify the object that has been personified
in the poem given above.
Ans: 1. Sunshine is the object personified in the
poem.
2. Night mail has been personified in poem.
Which words in the poem rhyme with
Ans: border order
coaches approaches
boulder shoulder
Explain the difference between prose and poetry.
Ans: Prose
It is wr it te n wo rk which con ta in s en te nc es,
paragraphs and does not have metrical structure.
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Poetry
It is in the form of verses, which make stanzas, No
of verses in a stanza depend on the type.
Identify personification in to poem.
Nightmail Sunshine
Snorting Smelling
Shovelling Trumpet
Noisily Wake up
Wind bent go to sleep
Stares go to school
Slumber
Shakes
Freshens
descends
Write a poem with personification.
Poem
The cat and the fiddle
The cow jumped over the moon
The little dog lauged
To see such sport
And the dish ran away with spoon
Personification
This poem is filled with personification. The dog
cannot laugh nor can the dish and spoon ran away. instead
the personification highlights the dreamlike world of
children.
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Poem
She sweeps with many colored brooms
And leaves the shred behind.
Oh, housewife in the evening west
Come back and dust the pond
Personification
Poem is not about housewife instead it is about the
setting sun personified on the housewife who sweeps in the
house.
2- A rail Route
Task: Plan a visit to your favourite station. Take
help from a map and make a chart of one rail
route, writing the names of the main stations
on that route.
Ans: Visit from Rawalpindi to Lahore planned by Tezgam
which departs from Rawalpindi Railway station at
08:00 hrs and arrives at 13:00 hrs at Lahore Railway
station. Name of the main station on the route are
1. Rawalpindi 2. Chaklala
3. Sihala 4. Mandra
5. Jhelum 6. Kharian
7. Gujrat 8. Wazir Abad
9. Gujranwala 10. Kala Shah Kaku
11. Shahdarah 12. Lahore

    
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UNIT 4

Stories of Mullah Nasruddin

Words Meaning  


Words Meanings Words Meanings
Climbed  Realise
 
Actually  Kept 
Looked down  Easy  
Think  Getting 

down
Seriously  
 Passing by 
 


Help  Safely 
Gathered 
  Tried 
Stuck 
 Just then
  

Walking by  Wondered 
What was going  Situation 
on?
Rope  Threw 
Waist  Fool proof  
 
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Tightly   Pulled 
Hurt 
 By stander  
Shocked  Turn 


Silly plan  
  Exactly 

Saved 
 Absolutely 
Rescued 
 Remember 
 
Best known 

 Popular 
Translate 
Attributed 
Witty  Humoour 
 
Conversationalist  Funny 
Anger  Wise 
Relaxed 
    Innocence 
Mischief   Prank  
Midst  Intrepid 
 
Explore  Admiring 

Wandering   First chair 
Reception  Quickly  
Reserved   Guest of 
honour
Mere  Diplomat 
Higher than  Suspiciously 
Sarcasm  Crazy   
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Turban  Introduce 
 
Lend me    Dressed  
Wearing  Annoyed  
Remarks   Expressed 

Annoyance 
 Go to such 

length

Translation

Para 1: Mullah Nasruddin (1208 - 1284) is Turkey's
best-known character who is very popular in the whole of
Islamic world. In Turkish language, he is addressed as
Hodja i.e. a title meaning teacher or scholar. Therefore, we
translate the title as Mullah in Urdu language. As many as
350 stories have been attributed to this character.
        (1208 - 1284) 
  
   
 
  
  350    
          
 
  
Para 2: Mullah Nasruddin was a witty man with a sense of
humour. He was a good conversationalist as he knew how
to talk to people in a simple, funny manner without showing
anger. He teaches people how to handle daily matters of
life with a wise and relaxed approach. Even when he fails in
his work, he handles it humorously and makes everyone
take it lightly. He succeeds in life through wit, innocence,
mischief and pranks.
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   
       
      
 
             
 
       
     
 
  
          
       

       
    

   
 
The man on the Tree 
  

Para 3: One day a man climbed up a tree. While climbing
up, he did not realise how tall the tree actually was and
kept climbing up. Upon reaching the top, when the man
looked down, he realised that climbing down from the tree
would not be as easy as climbing up. He could not think of
any way of getting down without injuring himself seriously.

     
  

  
  

    
  
  
 
     
     
  

 
  
Para 4: He asked the people who were passing by to help
him. But nobody could think of a way of bringing him down
safely. Soon, quite a few people gathered around the tree
and tried to help the man, but no one knew what to do. The
man remained stuck on top of the tree.
Just then, Nasruddin, who was walking by, saw this
scene and wondered what was going on. The people
standing around the tree told Nasruddin about the situation.
"Oh! Nasruddin said, "I'll get him down in no time."
He took a long rope and threw one end of it up to the man
telling him to tie the rope around his waist.
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Everyone wondered what Nasruddin's plan was.


When one of them asked him, Nasruddin replied, "Just
leave it to me. It's a foolproof plan."
        

            
  
 
          
  
             
     
    

    
            

   
         
 
   
         
          
   

Para 5: When the man on the tree had tied the rope
tightly around his waist, Nasruddin pulled the rope with all
his force. As soon as Nasruddin did this, the man fell down
from the tree and hurt himself badly. The bystanders were
shocked at this. They turned to Nasruddin and asked,
"What were you thinking? What kind of a silly plan was
that?"
Nasruddin replied, "Well, once I did exactly the
same thing and saved someone's life."
One man asked him, "Is that true?"
"Absolutely!" replied Nasruddin, "The only think I
cannot remember is whether I rescued him from a tree from
a well."

   
 
       


          
 
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       


     
    
           
        
         
    
 
 
 
   
  
The Guest of Honor 
Para 6: One day, in the midst of his travels to give talks in
various nearby villages, the intrepid Mulla Nasruddin came
across a beautiful palace he had never seen before. After
exploring all around the palace admiring its beauty he
decided to enter. Being tired from all of his wanderings, he
headed toward the first chair that he saw in the reception
area. It happened to be the largest and most comfortable
chair there.
 
      
 

  
     
             
 
     
       
 
Para 7: As he was about to sit down, the palace guard
quickly came over to him and said: "Sir, that chair is
reserved for our guest of honor."
"I am much more than a mere guest, honorable or
not," the Mulla replied without yet sitting down.
"Well, who are you? Are you a diplomat?" the guard
asked.
"No, I am not a diplomat," the Mulla said. "I am
much higher than that."
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"W ell, perhaps you're a minister," the guard


suggested suspiciously.
"Not even close; I'm much higher than that," the
Mulla said.
"Well, the only title higher than that is the title of
king," the guard replied with anger. "Are you perhaps the
king himself?" he asked with great sarcasm.
"No, I am much higher than that."
"Are you crazy? In this town, nobody is higher than
the king," the guard said angrily.
"Ah, at last. Now you understand. I am nobody!" the
Mulla said as he set down.
   
  
      
  
         
  
   
 
       
       
 
 
     
   
 
  

       
                     

     
    
    
   
  
 

 
   
     
      
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The Turban is mine  


Para 8: Nasruddin's old friend Eynolla came to visit him
one day from a far away village.
"I want to introduce you to a few people," Nasrudin
told Eynolla.
"OK," replied Eynolla, "but please lend me a turban,
for I am not properly dressed."
So Nasrudin lent him the turban, and they went and
visited one of Nasrudin's friends. "This is my friend
Eynolla," Nasrudin said, "but the turban he's wearing is
mine."
    
        

  
    
   
     
   
       
       
     
      
     
        
       
Para 9: Deeply annoyed by the remark, Eynolla waited
until they left hte friend's house, and then said to Nasrudin,
"Why did you comment about the turban I am wearing
being yours?! Don't do that during our next visit."
So they made their next visit, and this time Nasrudin
said, "This is my friend Eynolla-- and the turban he's
wearing is his, not mine.
As they left, Eynolla once again expressed his
annoyance, exclaming, "Why did you go to such lengths to
say that hte turban was mine and not yours. Don't do it on
our next visit."
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So as they made the next visit, Nasrudin said, "This


is my friend Eynolla...and I have nothing to say about
whether the turban he is wearing is his or mine."
   
  
        
   
    
     
        
     
  
     
       
             

        
          
            
   
  
  

Exercise

Understanding and Comprehension

Answer the following questions.


A: Reading for detail
a. What is the common in the two wor ds
"Mullah" and "Hodja"?
Ans: "Hodja" is a Turkish language word which is a title
meaning teacher and sch olar "Mullah" is its
translation in Urdu.
b. Why is Mullah Nasruddin popular in the
Islamic world?
Ans: Mullah Nasruddin is popular characters in Islamic
world since 13th century. He was educated person
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and also was a Qazi at that time. He was very witty,


intelligent and humourous personality of his time.
c. List the characteristics of Mullah Nasruddin.
Ans: Characteristics of Mullah Nasruddin are witty man
with high sense of humour, good conversationalist,
Teacher, innocent, playing tricks and making jokes.
B. Reading for meaning
a. Do you think Nasruddin failed in his attempt?
Explain with reference to story I:
Ans: Nas ru dd in d id n ot fa il in his at te mpt as he
succeeded getting down the man from tree.
However the man was hurt due to lack of safety
measures.
b. Who are the imporant people in our society?
Discuss with reference to story II:
Ans: Diplomats, ministers and king are the important
people in our society with reference to story II.
c. Why was Eynolla annoyed by Nasruddin's
remarks about the turban in story III?
Ans: Eynolla was annoyed by Nasruddin remarks as the
remarks was insulting and disguesting him in front of
strangers.
C: Reading for inference
Write True (T) or False (F) beside each of
these statements. Cite evidence from the
stories to support your answer:
a. The bystanders were all very happy.
b. Nsruddin is not the guest of honour.
c. Eynolla was happy to get the turban
from Nasruddin.
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Ans: a. False, Story I.


b. True, Story II,
c. True, Story III.
D. Reading for ideas
a. After r eading the stones, what is y ou
assessment of Mullah Nasruddin's character?
Ans: Mullah Nasruddin tries to solve the problems of
people and situations with humour, wit, innocence,
mischief and pranks sometimes he is irritating to
someone. His character shows carelessness,
humorous, fool, cunning, buffon, clever etc.
b. Do you think it is better to resolve problems
in an easy and humorous way? If yes, why?
Ans: It is better to resolv e problems in easy and
humourous way. Laughing at a situation quickly
diffuse tension. Joke is also one of the better
solution of a problem. Humour is our effective and
useful way to handle most of life's difficult situations.

Working with Words

1- Vocabulary, Diction and Pronunciation

Words/ Meaning
Classification
MIschief action that annoys or irritates
noun
Prank to play tricks, practical jokes
Verb/ noun
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bystander observer, onlooker, spectator, viewer

Mindst in the middle of something


noun
Intrepid bold, brave, courageous
noun/ adverb
Wanderings aimless, slow, or pointless movement
adjective
Mere Very simple, bare
adjective/ adverb/
noun
Diplomat a person who represents his or her
noun country's government in a foreign
country
Suspiciously doubtful, fis hy, pr oblematic ,
adverb/ adjective/ questionable
noun
Sarcasm Insult mixed with humour
noun/ adjective/
adverb

S.No. Words Sentences


1 Mischief His eyes glowed with delight
and mischief.
2 Prank Students never pull a prank on
their teachers.
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3 Bystanders There were many bystanders


gathered at the scene of
accident.
4 Midst It is wonderful to see flowers
bloom in the midst of a
snow-storm.
5 Intrepid Th e in t re p id a dv e nt u re r
climbed the rocky and high
mountain without fear.
6 Wonderings The stranger was wandering
here and there and looking
around.
7 Mere He was a mere puppet of his
lords.
8 Diplomat Diplomat are respected and
secured in each country.
9 Suspiciously He was looking the strange
man suspiciously.
10 Sarcasm He took his sarcasm as a sign
that he felt better.

Word Cloud

Story - I
i. Character Traits
Foolish, careless, humorous.
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ii. Character of story


Rescuer
iii. Words in bold
By standers
Story - II
i. Character Traits
Bold, Teacher, Nature admirer.
ii. Character of story
common man
iii. Words in bold
mid st , in tr ep id , wa nde ring , me re , diplomat,
suspiciously, sarcasm
Story - III
i. Character Traits
Friendly, irritating, foolish
ii. Character of story
Foolish friends
iii. Words in bold
annoyed

Reading Makes Us Wise


Wr i te the pa r a gr a ph "D ent is t a nd the
crocodile" by Roald Dahl
The crocodile, with cunning smile, sat in the dentist's
chair. He said, "Right here and everywhere my teeth
require repair." The dentist's face was turning white. He
quivered, quaked and shook. He muttered, "I suppose I'm
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going to have to take a look." "I want you, "Crocodile


declared, "to do the back ones first. The molars at the very
back are easily the worst." He opened wide his massive
jaws. It was a fearsome sight-- At least three hundred
pointed teeth, all sharp and shining white.
The dentist kept himself well clear. He stood two
yards away. He chose the longest probe he had to search
out the decay. "I said to do the back ones first!" the
Crocodile called out. "You're much too far away, dear sir, to
see what you're about. To do the back ones properly you've
got to put your head. Deep down inside my great big
mouth," the grinning Crocky said.
The poor old dentist wrung his hands and, weeping
in despair, He cried, "No no! I see them all extremely well
from here!" Just then, in burst a lady, in her hands a golden
chain. She cried, "Oh Croc, you naughty boy, you're playing
tricks again!" "Watch out!" the dentist shrieked and started
climbing up the wall. "He's after me! He's after you! He's
going to eat us all!" "Don't be a twit," the lady said, and
flashed a gorgeous smile. "He's harmless. He's my little
pet, my lovely crocodile."
Dentist and the crocodile 
 
 
      
    

           
 
 
           
     
         
 
  
                    
 

     
     300
  
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                
                    

             

          
 
               
    
         

 

          
  
              
    

 
  
           
  
  
  

Task 1: What makes you feel that it is a humorous
narration?
Ans: It feels me a humorous narration when a lady came
in the Dentist's shop and told that the crocodile is
harmless and is her little, lovely pet.
Task 2: Discuss the situation of the narration; is it
real or unreal? Give reasons.
Ans: The situation in this narration is unreal. Dentists cure
human beings only. Its impossible for a huge
crocodile to sit in dentist chair for examination.
Whole the narration is just an imagination of the
poet.

Language Corner

1- Idioms
It is a group of words in a fixed order that has a
particular meaning, different from the meaning of each
word on its own.
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Task: Find out the meanings of the following idioms


and make sentences in your own words.

S.No. Idiom Meaning Sentence


i. go back to Back to The treatment failed
square one begining and I was back to
square.
ii. go on To state He said that he
record something would go on record
publically about the corruption
in the office.
iii. go out of unable to She was out of her
your mind behave or mind with grief on
deal with her father's death.
things.
iv. go over the To be or be She went
top seen completely over the
excessive or top on her brother's
extreme way wedding.
v. go weak at affected by His smile made her
the knees strong go at the knees.
emotions

2. Pronouns
A pronoun is a word that takes place a noun. There
are different type of pronouns.
i. Subject pronoun
ii. Object pronoun
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iii. Possessive pronoun


iv. Reflexive pronoun
i. Subject Pronoun
Subject pronoun replace noun. That are subject of a
sentence/ clause (generally used before the verb).
Underline the - I am 12 years boy.
subject pronouns
- You seems upset.
- Azmat is angry, and he
wants Bilal to apoogize.
- This table is old. It needs to
be repainted.
- We aren't coming.

ii. Object Pronoun

Object pronouns are used to replace nouns that are the


direct or indirect object of a sentence/ clause. (generally
used after the verb).
Underline the - Give the book to me.
object pronouns
- The teacher wants to talk
to you.
- Jamila is hurt because Bina
pushed her.
- Rasheed received a letter
from him last week.
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- Mariyum can't find it.


- Don't be angry with us.
- Tell them to hurry up!

iii. Possessive Pronoun


Possessive pronoun replace possessive nouns as either
the subject or the object of a clause. Because the noun
being replaced doesn't apperar in the sentence. It must
be clear from text.
Underline the - This bag is mine.
possessive
pronouns
- Yours is not blue.
- That bag looks like his.
- These shoes are not hers.
- That car is ours.
- T hei rs is parked in the
garage.

iv. Reflexive pronouns


Reflexive pronouns like other pronouns refer back to the
subject of the clause because the subject of the action is
also the direct or indirect object. Only certain types of
verbs can be reflexive. You cannot remove a reflexive
pronoun from a sentence because the remaining
sentence would be grammatically incorrect.
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Underline the - I told myself to calm down.


reflexive pronouns
- You cut yourself on this
nail?
- He hurt hims elf on the
stairs.
- The cat threw itself under
my car!
- The children can take care
of themselves.

Task: Find examples of pronoun type from the Unit


and put them in the table below. Also mention
the page number for record.
Subject Object Possessive Reflexive
Pronoun Pronoun Pronoun Pronoun
He (41) His (41) mine (42) Himself (41)
We (41) Him (41) yours (43)
you (42) me (42) my (43)
I (42) our (43)
they (42)

Direct & Indirect speech: Dec laratives &


Imperatives
Declaratives
These sentences are simple statements.
a. Direct speech
In this type, the message of the speaker is conveyed
or reported in his/ her own actual words wihtout any
change.
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b. Indirect speech
In this type, message of hte speaker is conveyed or
reported in our own words.
Rules
There are rules which are followed in direct or
indirect speech.
i. The words of speaker are always enclosed
within the inverted commas or quotation
mark. This is called reported speech.
ii. A comma is placed before the inverted
commas whenever information about the
speaker is included. This shows reporting
verb.
iii. A punctuation mark (comma, full stop,
exclamation mark, question mark etc) is used
at the end of quoting the speakr and included
in the inverted commas and not out of it.
Examples
He said to me, "I am unwell".
Reporting verb Reported verb
They said, "We cannot live without water."
Change in reported verb
i When the reporting/ principal verb is in present or
future tense, the tenses of direct speech do not
change.
a. Direct: He says, "I go to school."
Indirect: He says that he goes to school.
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ii. When the reporting verb is in Past tense, all present


tenses of dir ec t s peech are changed to
corresponding past tenses.
a. Direct: He said, "I take exercise."
Indirect: He said that he took exercise.
iii. Tense in indirect speechs is "NOT CHANGED" if the
word in the quotation marks talk of universal truth or
habitual action.
Direct: He said, "Sun revolves around earth".
Indirect: He said that sun revolves around earth.
Steps/ Points
1. Change in Modal Verb Forms
2. Change in the tenses
3. Change in Time and Place
4. Change in Pronouns
5. Change in punctuation for indirect speech (Inverted
commas, comma, question mark, exclamation mark
are not used in an Indirect Speech.)
a) Imperative Sentences (Command, request
suggestion)
An imperative sentence expresses a command,
request, advice or suggestion. To change imperative
sentences in indirect speech, reporting verb is changed into
advise, order, request, suggestion, command, forbade,
threaten etc.
Example
1. He said to the students, "Do not make a noise."
He ordered the students not to make a noise.
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2. I said to the teacher, "Please explain this sum".


I requested the teacher to explain this sum.
b) Exclamatory Sentences (Exclamation and
wishes)
An exclamatory sentence is one which gives a
sudden expression like joy, sorrow, wish, wonder
etc. Hence words like wish, bless, pray, cry,
exclaimed with sorrow (wonder) joy etc in the
reporting verb are used while changing into indirect
speech.
Examples
1. My dad said to me, "Bravo! you have made me
proud."
My dad applauded me saying that I had made him
proud.
2. She said, "God save my son."
She prayed that God might save her son.
Exercise # 1
Change the below sentences from Direct
Speech to Indirect Speech by making the
appropriate changes wherever necessary.

S.No. Direct Indirect


1. He said, "Alas! What a H e e x c l a i m e d w i t h
fool I have been." sorrow what a fool he
had been.
2. She said to her friend, She requested her friend
"Please lend me your to lend her his pencil.
pencil."
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3. The teacher said to me The teacher asked me


very angrily, "Why are angrily why I was late to
you late to the class?" the class.
4. He said, "I can go to He said that he could go
school every day." to school every day.
5. "What a horrible sight!" We all exclaimed what
we all exclaimed. horrible sight was.
6. He says, "I am glad to He says that he is glad
be here this evening." to be here this evening.

Exercise # 2
Ins e r t t he q ue s t i o n m a r k s a nd o t he r
appr opr iate punctua tio n mar ks i n the
following sentences to make them Direct
Speech.

S.No. Direct Indirect


1. The servant says Dinner T h e s e r v a n t s a y s ,
is ready. "Dinner is ready."
2. He says that he is glad He says, "I am glad to
to be here this evening. be here this evening."
3. My tuition teacher said My tuition teacher said
to me Honesty is the to me, "Honesty is the
best policy. best policy."
4. He said that they have He said, "We won the
won the match. match."
5. The old man requested T h e o l d m a n s a i d ,
them to give h i m "Please give me some
someting to eat and said thing to eat and said he
that he was hungry. is hungry."
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Creative Writing
Story Analysis

S.No. Title Characters Situation Tone


II The Nasruddin i. Nasruddin Humorous,
guest of palace wandering. Angry
Honour guard Repitition,
Bold
enough
ii. Came
across a
palace.
iii. Entered in
palace.
iv. To sit in first
chair
v. Palace
guard told
him it was
for guest of
honor.
vi. Questioned
by palace
guard.
vii.Nasruddin
reply not
satisfied the
guard.
viii. Palace
guard
became
angry.
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ix. Nasruddin
told he is a
common
man.
x. Nasruddin
sat down on
chair.
III The Nasruddin i. Eynolla Humorous
Turban is eynolla came to Irritating
mine visit annoyed
Nasruddin. A n g r y
insulting
ii. Nasruddin
want to
introduce
him to
friend
iii. Lent turban
to eynolla
as he was
not properly
dressed.
iv. Visited
friends.
v. Humiliated
every time.
vi. Eynolla
became
annoyed &
irritating

    
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UNIT 5

Fire — S E Hinton

Words Meaning  


Words Meanings Words Meanings
Suddenly  Caught
 
Gathered   Narrator 
Salmmed 
   Stared  
Whispered 
 Happened 
Jumping out 
 Crowd 
Front side    Mostly 
 

Wondered  Quickly  
For sure  god-natured 
grin   noticed
 
smoke  Spread 

wet season  turned 


shouted 
 stand back  
running up   missing 
probably  confusion 
might be  shook 
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thought  swings 
froze   fanitly 
yelling 
 sounded  
went white 
 looked like  
screaming  I'll get them   
run towards  caught
 
stay out  jerked
 

ran on  save 

drowning  smoke 
roar  crackling  
louder  guess  
  
shouted 
 stumbling  
found 
huddled 
head off  get you out  
  
surprised  quit  
Looked over 
 shoulder 
turned toss out
  

picked up 
 leaned out 
dropped  gently  
attention  get out of   
there
going to cave 
  although 

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crashing 
  snatch up 

down
landed  coughing 
so hard  stand up
  
crumble  shoved  
leaped out  timber
 
staggered 
 sobbing 
 
breath  scream 
clubbed  across the
   
 
back
went down  darkness
 

ached 
 wondered 
dimly  tried to think
  
high-pitched  siren 

rescue 
 thirsty 
wished  sponging off   
coming 

  voice  
around
blinked  stranger
 
take it easy   Frightened
  

right behind  calm down 
passed out 
   timely 
 
handling 
  
situation 
injured  taken to  
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Translation

Para 1: A school building suddenly caught fire when the
school children had gathered in the playground for a picnic.
Jerry is the narrator. Dally, Samantha and Bryan, are all
school teachers who had come to enjoy the picnic with the
children.
(Someone had called the fire Brigade without
wasting time.)
   
         

   
      
             
    
  

Para 2: Dally suddenly slammed on the brakes and
stared ahead. "Oh", he whispered. The school building
was on fire!
'Let's go and see what has happened,' I said,
jumping out of the car.
There was a crowd at the front side of the building,
mostly little kids, and I wondered how they had reached
there so quickly.
I asked the nearest person, 'What's going on?
'Well, we don't know for sure', he answered with a
good- natured grin. 'We were having a school picnic up
there and the first thing we noticed was smoke coming out
of the building. Thank goodness! The fire didn't spread due
to the wet season'. Then he turned around and shouted,
'Stand back, children! The firemen will be coming soon.'
ASAN English 107 Class 7


               


  
              
  
       
 
    
     
    
 
     
    
       
       
     
    
   
 
Para 3: At that time Samanatha came running up. 'Jerry,
some of the kids are missing'.
Jerry replied, 'They are probably around here
somewhere. You can't tell with all this confusion where they
might be.'
'No.' Samantha shook her head. 'They've been
missing for at least an hour and a half. I thought they were
at the swings.
Then we all almost froze. Faintly, just faintly, you
could hear someone yelling. And it sounded like it was
coming from inside the building.
Samantha went white. 'I told them not to play inside
the building----I told them', She looked like she was going
to start screaming.
'I'll get them, don't worry!' I started to run towards
the building, and Bryan caught my arm. 'I'll get them. You
stay out!'
  
              

   
        
      
       
 
ASAN English 108 Class 7

     
         




          
     
            
   
 

    
  
    
   
Para 4: I jerked loose and ran on. All I could think was:
We have to save the children. We have to save the kids.
We were drowning in the smoke. The roar and crackling
was getting louder, and Bryan shouted the next question.
'Where are the kids?'
'In the back, I guess.' I shouted, and we started
stumbling through the building.
 
      
     
     

   
           
   
 
Para 5: We pushed open the door to the back room and
found four or five little children, about eight years old or
younger, huddled in a corner. One was screaming his head
off, and Bryan yelled, 'Stop crying! We are going to get you
out!' The boy looked surprised and quit screaming. Bryan
looked over his shoulder and saw that the door had turned
black by flames, then pushed open the window and tossed
out the nearest kid.


 

  
  
  
        
  
 
         


ASAN English 109 Class 7

      


 
   
   
 
  
 
Para 6: I also picked up a kid, leaned out the window and
dropped him as gently as I could. A crowd was there by
that time. Dally was also there, and when he saw me, he
screamed, 'get out of there. The roof is going to cave in any
minute.
I didn't pay any attention, although pieces of the old
roof were crashing down. I snatched up another kid, and
dropped him without waiting to see if he landed okay or not.
I was coughing so hard I could hardly stand up. It was too
hot. We dropped the last of the kids out as the front of the
building started to crumble. Bryan shoved me towards the
window. 'Get out!'
 
           
 
 
      
       
  
       
   
   
  
  
   
 
 
 
          
 
      
 
  
    
Para 7: I leaped out of the window and heard timber
crashing and the flames roaring right behind me. I
staggered, almost falling, coughing and sobbing for breath.
Then I heard Bryan scream, and as I turned towards him,
he clubbed me across the back as hard as he could, so
that i am not hit by the falling roof. I went down into a
peaceful darkness-----.
ASAN English 110 Class 7

 
      
 
     
 
 
  
     

  
Para 8: I ached badly and wondered dimly where I was. I
tried to think, but there was a high- pitched screaming
going on, and I could not tell whether it was inside my head
or out. Then I realized it was a siren. The police had come
to rescue us. I was extremely thirsty and wished for some
water. Someone with a cold wet cloth was sponging off my
face, and a voice said, 'I think he's coming around.'
    

  
     
        
    
 
 
           

      
    
Para 9: I opened my eyes. It was dark. I'm moving, I
thought. I blinked at the stranger sitting beside me. He said,
'take it easy----you are in an ambulance.' 'Where's Bryan?' I
cried, frightened aat being in this car with strangers.
'They are in the other ambulance right behind us.
Just calm down. You are going to be okay. You just passed
out.'
With the timely handling of the situation, all children
were safe and the injured were taken to the hospital.
     
   
             
ASAN English 111 Class 7

  
          
       
           
       
   

 

Exercise

Understanding and Comprehension

A: Reading for detail


Answer these questions in a few words:
a. Give the reaction of the crowd in your words.
Ans: The crowd was at the front side of the building,
mostly little kids. The people in crowd don't know
what had happened. A person in the crowd told that
they were having a school picnic and they noticed
smoke coming out of the building. However fire
didn't spread due to wet season.
b. Why is Jerry confused?
Ans: Jerry was confused as some of the kids were
missing and probably they may be somewhere
around there but Jerry was confused where the
children might be.
B: Reading for meaning
Answer these questions in complete sentences:
a. What was the first indication that the children
were inside the burning building?
Ans: First indication about children inside burning building
ASAN English 112 Class 7

was when people outside heard someone yelling.


This sound was coming from inside the building.
b. List the factors that made the rescue of the
children difficult?
Ans: Factors that made the rescue of the children difficult
were:-
a. Smoke b. Roar of fire
c. Crackling
c. Why do you think the kids had to be taken out
without wasting any time?
Ans: Kids had to be taken out without wasting any time
as the building was turning black by flame and front
of the building may collapse at any time due to
crashign of old roof.
C: Reading for inference
f. Write True (T) or Falst (F) beside each of
these statements. Cite evidence from the
stories to support your answer:
a. T he c hil dr e n wer e ha ving pic nic
school.
b. Samantha started to run in a direction
opposite to the building.
c. The door is totally burnt down.
Ans: a. True (T) P-57 b. True (T) P-57
c. True (T) P-58
D: Reading for ideas
Discuss your answer to these questions as a
class or in groups:
a. How important is it to have a fully equipped
dispensary in the school?
ASAN English 113 Class 7

Ans: Fully equipped dispensary in any school must be a


basic necessity. It is very important that every school
must have a dispensary alongwith trained staff and
a plenty of first aid medicines according to the
number of s tudent s. So that in case of any
emergency in the school, the trained staff can
administer first aid and medicines to the sick or
injured students before sending them to hospital for
further treatment. The dispensary must have first aid
boxes, plenty of medicine stock and trained
paramedics. Qualified doctors must also have been
attached with dispensaries for regular visits to check
the students. Regular eye check must be done for
students. Having a fully equipped dispensary might
help the punctuality in attendance and better results.
b. Do you think creating panic is a solution to a
disaster? Discuss why.
Ans: Disaster is an emergency situation in which a
mana ged e ffo rts b e don e by a ll th e related
departments and organisations. Only well trained
persons be allowed to tackle such situation.
Creating panic at the sight of disaster is never the
solution to fight it. In case of fire, earthquake, floods
and other natural clamities, people must be away
from the scene of the disaster. Well tained and
experienced workers must be allowed on the scene
of emergency. Common people must never be
allowed to make a crowd and panic, this will hinder
the working of the experience workers, transport,
ambulances, fire tenders, cranes, shovels etc to
ASAN English 114 Class 7

c le a r a n d e v a c u a t e t h e me n a n d m a t e r ia l
entrenched in the disaster. Resultantly precious lives
and valuable goods can be saved from the place of
disaster.
1. Read the text carefully. Find the correct
words to fill in the blanks.
i. I shouted, and we started stumbling through the
door.
ii. The boy looked surprised and started screaming.
iii. Bryan shoved me towards the window.
iv. I staggered almost falling, coughing and sobbing
for breath.
v. The roof is going to cave any minute.

Working with Words

1- Vocabulary, Diction and Pronunciation

Words/ Meaning
Classification
Staggered to walk, move or stnad unsteadily
verb
Roaring a loud deep cry or sound
noun
Leaped jumped
verb
Cinders partially or mostly burned piece of
noun wood, coal
ASAN English 115 Class 7

Crackling making slight cracking sounds rapidly


noun
Slammed shut with force and noise
verb
Startled to disturb or agitate suddenly as by
verb surprise
Shove to push roughly or rudely
verb
Clubbed to unite, combine, join together
verb
Timber wooded land, growing t rees
noun themselves
Task: Work in pairs and help each other in making
sentences of the words given in the table
above. Use a variety of sentence structure.

S.No. Words Sentences


1 Staggered The man was staggered on his
trembling legs.
2 Roaring When he came to the scene of
fire, it was roaring.
3 Leaped She leaped from her bed and
went into the kitchen.
4 Cinders When the fire was put out by
firemen, cinders were seen all
there.
5 Crackling Pieces of timber were
crackling and spitting in the
furnace.
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6 Slammed The butler slammed the plates


in the sink for washing.
7 Startled The boy gave a startled laugh
to his friends.
8 Shove He shoved the door till it finally
opened.
9 Clubbed The students clubbed together
to b uy a pr es en t fo r t he ir
teacher on her birthday.
10 Timber Timber is used as a fuel in
winter season.

3- Word Cloud:
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A word cloud is a group of words connected with the


theme word. Make a word cloud by filling in the boxes in
the relevant words from the text.
4- Phrasal Verbs
A phrasal verb is a combination of words (a verb + a
preposition OR verb + adverb) when used together, usually
take on a different meaning to that of the original verb.
Example: Out

Phrasal Meaning Sentence


verb
Pass out Faint It wa so hot in the hall that
the young man passed out.
Put out Extinguish The fire fighters put out the
fire in ten minutes.
Break out Beginning/ The fire must have broken
Starting of out during the night.
something.

Now find five more phrasal verbs, their


meanings and make meaningful sentences.

Phrasal Meaning Sentence


verb
Jump out To suddenly If he opens the door, the
come out furious cat might jump out at
from a hiding him.
place
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Come out emerge, I am confident that every


appear, thing will come out right in
become time.
known
Look over quick He wa s de p u t e d b y t h e
inspection of department to look over the
something, production.
survey
Run up an act of They can run up so fast that
running they caught the train.
Leap out To jump The lion leaped o ut and
killed the deer.

Language Corner

Word Families

Noun Verb Adjective Adverb


satisfaction satisfy satisfactory satisfactorily
suspect suspect suspicious suspiciously
grief grieve grievious greviously
apology apologise apologetic apologetically
repitition repeat repeatedly repeatably
rebellion rebel rebellious rebelliously
sympathy sympathise sympathetic sympathetically
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8. Sentence
A group of word which makes a complete sense is
called a sentence. It always has a subject and a predicate.
Predicate
The part of a sentence containing a verb and stating
something about the subject is called predicate.
Simple Predicate
Simple predicate is the verb in the sentence or
complete subject.
Simple Subject
Simple subject is the main word in the complete
subject.
Examples
1. She looked like to start carying. (Predicate)
2. My friends play hockey (My friends is complete
subject and play is simple predicate)
3. Ran into the river (complete predicate)
Ran is simple predicate.
Underline the simple predicate in each of the
following sentences.
1. The rooster sang loudly.
2. He seemed very excited.
3. The fox came to the tree.
4. The baker sells chocolate cakes.
5. She has drawn colourful pictures.
6. My neighbour's garden is clean.
7. Rehana is afraid of the monkeys.
8. Hadi's report is fantastic.
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Make as many sentences as you can by


joining the subject to the predicate part of
each sentence:
1. Usman got up from the dinner.
2. He got up from the dinner.
3. His mother got up from the dinner.
4. His father got up from the dinner.
5. His sister got up from the dinner.
6. Usman went to his bed room.
7. He went to his bed room.
8. His father went to his bed room.
9. Usman washed all the dishes.
10. He washed all the dishes.
11. His mother washed all the dishes.
12. His sister washed all the dishes.
13. Usman went to his office.
14. He went to his office.
15. His father went to his office.
16. Usman likes to read novels.
17. He likes to read novels.
18. His mother likes to read novels.
19. His father likes to read novels.
20. His sister likes to read novels.
Fluency of Expression/ Oral Activity
Idioms

S.No. Idiom Definitions


1 spread like a wild to spread, circulate very
fire quickly and rapidly
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2 haste m a k e s quickly doing things results


waste in a poor ending
3 without a doubt for certain, surely
4 lend me your ear to politely ask for
someone's attention
5 a piece of cake a task that can be
accomplished very easily.

Reading Makes Us Wise!!

Measures to be taken during an earthquake.


An earthquake is a natured disaster which can be
devastating, causing loss of lives.
       
   
    

 
Measures to be taken during an earthquake.

 

S.No. English Urdu


1 Do not panic.   

2 Try to move out into open     
areas. If this is not possible    
  
or Take shelter under table
  
or stairs.
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3 Do not run as you may fall   


 
and hurt yourself and 
 
others.
4 Run nin g will cau se a     
stampede which will hurt   

more people.
5 Do not push others.  
6 Do not turn on gas or water  
 

connections.
7 Be careful about broken   
  
glass and debris.   
8 Stay out of damaged    
buildings as they become
unstable and collapse.   
 

9 D o n o t w a s t e t i m e i n      
gathering your belongings.  
   
10 Ask your teacher about the       
 
ev a cu ation pla n d uring      
such occasions.

11 Know the location of fire       
extinguishers in the      
building.
  
12 Fir s t a id kit sh o u ld b e 
     
readily available at school   
 

as well as at home.
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Creative Writing
1 Write about a similar incidence in which you
might have helped any child, a woman or an
old man.
Once a time, I was coming back from school to
home. I was very happy because I had got highest marks in
my English test. On my way, I saw an old man who was
trying to cross the road but he couldn't because he had the
fear of having an accident. Suddenly, he went on to cross
the road and when he was the middle of the road, I saw a
truck coming from the opposite side. The truck was very
fast and I thought he can get an accident. I quickly ran very
fast and helped him to cross the road and saved him from a
sure accident. I was very happy and this happiness of
saving the life of an old man was far than having full marks
in my test. Really it was a proud feeling day for me. I came
home and told my parents. They also praised my this good
deed a saving a life of an old man.
2 Subject---- Verb Agreement
Subject verb agreement means that the
subject must agree in number. Both need to
be either singular or plural.
Fill in the blanks with right form of verb.
i. They travel by bus. (travels, travel)
ii. We usually eat lunch at this restaurant. (eat, eats)
iii. The dog barks at strangers. (bark, barks)
iv. The children talk to their teacher. (talks, talk)
v. My mother cooks nice meals. (cook, cooks)
vi. You don't know how to write an essay.
(know, knows)
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UNIT 6

Robotics

Words Meaning  


Words Meanings Words Meanings
Figures   Creative 
Activity 
 Busy 
Keep you  Started
   
Imagination  Passage of 
   

time
Experiments 
 Entertainment 
Enjoy 
 Challenge 
 
Created   Action
 
attach  adventure 
simulation  artificial 
intelligence  technique
 
machine-brain     ability 
understand  human
 
 
behaviour
fill 
 count 
 
calculate 
  change 

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developed   decision 


serve food  
 translate 

language  
 information  
resources    solve 

Forced work 
  man-made 

perform 
  automatically  
remote-control  study 
variety  material  
composed 
 commands  
moving part  follow 

mechanical   parts 
gripper  wheels
  

grab  turn 

lift 
 powered 
 
sensors   surrounding 
 
allow   determine 

Space  objects  
direction  relation 
properties  identify 

pressure  
 grabbing 

crushing    initially  
introduced 
  automobile 

huge   gradually   
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aspects  industry 
space  exploration 
construction 
 surgery 

micro scopic 
 function 
blood stream  
 delicate  
difficult  target 
destroy 
  touching 
agriculture   speed up
 

repetitive   farmers
 
 
focus 
 improving 

production   harvesting 

picking 
 weed 
mowing  seeding 

utility  cheaper 
manual 
  precision 

boredom  accomplish
 

dangerous  
 mines  

volcanos  advancement 
design  sophisticated 

 
daily life 
  interesting 
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Translation

Para 1: As a child you played with blocks, making figures,
shapes and objects. This createive activity kept you busy
for hours. Then you started building things out of your
imagination with lego pieces. With the passage of time, the
experiments of plstic toys and computer machines brought
huge entertainment in the toy industry. Such toys are
generally called robots and at times they are given proper
names as well.

     
   
 
           

   
     
    

   
Para 2: You play and enjoy computer games for hours.
The challenge in the game is created through action,
attack, adventure, role-play, simulation and artificial
intelligence (AI) techniques. This is machine-brain which
helps computers and robots to hav e the ability to
understand human behavior. A robot that fills a box with
biscuits can "count" the number. Similarly, a computer can
determine the amount of traffic on a street to calculate
when to change the traffic light. This science is in the early
stages, but robots are being developed that can bmake
decisions to serve food, translate words from one language
to another, and get information from outside resources to
solve problems.

    
    
  
     
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 
     
 

   
 
    

           
 
  
  

 
      
Para 3: The word Robot comes from the Czech word
"robota" which means "forced work or labor." We use the
word "Robot" today to mean any man-made machine. It
can perform work or other actions, normally performed by
humans, either automatically or by remote control.
    
         
  
 
            
      
   
      
     
  
Para 4: Robotics is the science and study of variety of
materials including metals and plastics. Most robots are
composed of three main parts that control its operations:
1. The Controller - also known as the "brain" / Al
- is run by a computer program. Often, the
p r o g r a m is v e r y d e t a ile d a s i t g iv e s
commands for the moving parts of the robot
to follow.
2. The mac hanic al par ts inc lude mo tors,
pistons, grippers, wheels, and gears that
make the robot move, grab, turn, and lift.
These parts are usually powered by air,
water, or electricity.
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3. Sensors tell the robot about its surroundings.


Sensors allow the robot to determine sizes,
shapes, space between objects, direction,
an d o th e r r elat ion s a n d p ro pe r ties of
substances. Many robots can even identify
the amount of pressure necessary to apply
for grabbing an item without crushing it.
     

    
       
   
   
   
 
 
 
  
       
    
       
    
 
 
     
  
  
  
    
   
   
     
          
   
   
  
  
     
 
    
Para 5: Initially, robot were introduced in an automobile
plant for moving huge car parts around. Gradually, these
were developed for homes as toys, vacuums, dish washers
and programmable pets. Today robots are a part of many
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aspects of industry, medicine, science, space exploration,


construction, food packaging and are even used to perform
surgery.
 
  
  
      
   
       
        

        
Para 6: With the development of nano-robots which are
microscopic in size, robots can now be put into very small
spaces to perform a function. For example, these may be
placed in the blood stream to perform surgical procedures
that are too delicate or too difficult for standard surgery.
These will be able to target cancer cells and destroy them
without touching healthy cells.
     
        
 
         

     
    
   
 
  
Para 7: Agriculture robots speed up the slow, repetitive
and dull tasks of farmers. They allow farmers to focus on
improving the overall production of crops. Some of the
most common robots in agriculture are used for:
 harvesting and picking
 weed control
 mowing, seeding, spraying and thinning
 sorting and packing
 utility platforms.
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             


      

 
    
  
     
 
  
    
  
Para 8: Robots are often cheaper to use as compared to
manual labour. Secondly, it is easier for robots to do the
same things over and over again with precision and
without boredom. Thirdly, robots can accomplish some
dangerous tasks, e.g. they can explore inside gas tanks,
mines, volcanoes, travel the surface of Mars or other
places too dangerous for humans to go. With advancement
in robotics, we can design even more sophisticated robots
to help make daily life easier and much more interesting.
           
         
   
  
  

          
                

      
  
 
    

Exercise

Understanding and Comprehension


A: Reading the detail
Answer these questions in a few words:
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a. Which robot mentioned in the text do you like


the most? Give a reason.
Ans: Agricultural robots are liked most by me. They
speed up the slow, repetitive and dull tasks of
farmers. Resultantly production of crops increase
too much.
b. What are the main functions of a nano robot?
Ans: Nano-robots are microscopic in size and can be put
into a very small spaces to perform a function.
These are used in delicate and difficult surgeries like
cancer.
B: Reading for meaning
Ans w e r t he s e q ue s t i o ns i n c o m p le t e
sentences:
a. Artifical Intelligence (AI) gives a mind to a
robot. Discuss in your own words?
Ans: Artificial intelligence (AI) is the brain of the robots to
understand the human behaviour. The robot carry
out the programmed task and can move, walk, run
and do jobs automatically or by a remote control.
b. Do you think agricultural robots will do a
better job of growing food for every one?
How?
Ans: Agricultural robots will carry out better jobs in
growing food as they will speed up the existing
procedures adopted by farmers. They will allow
farmers to focus on improving overall production of
crops. The robots are being used in
i. harvesting and picking
ii. weed control
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iii. seeding, spraying and thinning


iv. sorting and packing
Robots carrying out above tasks will help increase in
production of crops, minimising man handling, curtail
time and also clean crops be obtained for every day
food for the population.
C: Reading for inference
Write True (T) or False (F) beside each of
these statements. Cite evidence from the
passage to support your answer:
a. A robot cnnot control traffic.
b. A machine has a brain.
c. Food can be packed in boxes by
robots.
Ans: a. False (F) Para 2
b. True (T) Para 4
c. True (T) Para 5
D: Reading for ideas
Discuss your answers to these questions as
a class or in groups:
a. Do you think humans beings will become lazy
when most of the work will be done by robots
in the future? Give reasons.
Ans: Human beings will become lazy and jobless with the
induction of robots in various factories, industrial
plants, open places, restaurants, cleaning jobs,
hospitals, airports etc. Robots are more efficient,
less tired and can do jobs effectively in warehouses
to move heavy things. Employing robots can cut
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cost, increase efficiency, offer new propositions and


may execute new business models.
With the induction of robots in most of the work in
industrial and private sectors, human being work
force will be badly affected and will be deprived off
from their earnings. Resultantly there will be
unemployment and most of the population will
become under the poverty line and world may suffer
a lot and human existence will be endangered.
b. What type of a robot will help your mother in
her household work?
Ans: Vacuum cleaner, Dish washer, coffee maker, lawn
mowing, laundry.

Working with Words


1- Vocabulary, Diction and Pronunciation

Words/ Meaning
Classification
Simulation imitation of a situation or process.
noun
Techniques a skilful or efficient way of doing or
noun achieving something.
Automatically by itself iwth little or no direct human
adverb control.
Initially at first.
adverb
Gradually in a gradual way; slowly; by degrees.
adverb
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Precision the quality, condition, or fact of being


noun exact and acurate.
Sophisticated a b le t o u n d e r s t a n d d if f i c u lt o r
noun complicated ideas

Task 01: Work in pairs and help each other in


making sentences of the words given in the
table above.

S.No. Words Sentences


1 Simulation A popular characteristic of
video and computer is
simulation.
2 Techniques Special techniques are used to
make garments in industry.
3 Automatically Now a days, most plants of
drink work automatically.
4 Initially The result of the covid-19 was
much higher than was thought
initially.
5 Gradually G r a d u a ll y h i s h e a r t b e a t
decreased and he expired.
6 Precision Precision of an equipment is
highly important for testing.
7 Sophisticated More modern and
sophisticated instruments are
necessary in research
laboratories.

Word Cloud
A word cloud on robotics is shown. Mark the words
and make sentences.
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Words in word cloud


Industry, plant, work, automation, manufacture,
control, mechanical, cyborg, production, industrial, artificial,
design, humanoid, device, equipment, futuristic, science,
compulsory, modern, feedback, factory, assembly,
electrical, machinery, system, android, reality, robot,
robotics, engineering, technology, application

S.No. Word Sentences


1 Industry Indust ry is the ba ackbon e of
economy of a country.
2 Manufacture Manufacture plant of Suzuki cars
is situated in Karachi.
3 Control During protests when police could
not control the situation, Army
took over the control of situation.
4 Artificial Experiments are underway for
artificial rain in summer.
5 Production Production of sugar in Pakistan is
more than its demand.
6 Factory Factory workers are demanding
increase in their salaries.
7 Assembly German y ha s the lar gest car
assembly plant.
8 Design Robots are designed in the labs
before production in factory.
9 Mechanical Agricultural robots bas replaced
mechanical farming to increase
production of crops.
10 Device Remote control is a dev ice to
control the movement and actions
of a robot.
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3- Conceptual understanding
Three nouns which have variety of meanings are
used in the text. These are given the table below. Different
meanings of these words are mentioned. Choose the
correct option relating to the text and write in the last
column.

S.No. Noun Meanings Use in


the text
1 Intelligence a . t h i n k i n g a b i l i t y : "a"
understand, learn, para 2
to form judgment/
opinion, resoning
b. information collected
by gov ernment/
group about
countries/ enemies
2 operation a. mathematics process "b"
such as addition to para 6
produce one set of
numbers
b. medical process for
doctors to cut body
open to repair/
remov e/ r eplac e
unhealthy or
damaged part
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3 Function a. purpose/ duty/ the "a"


way s omething para 6
works
b. mathematical
relations hip
between two or
more sets
c. cr emony/ s ocial
event/ official
ceremony

Reading Makes Us Wise!!


Our Robotic Success   
In Pakistan, the field of robotics is gaining a lot of
popularity. It has been introduced as a subject in sixty
universities. This will enhance research and development in
creating, designing and making robots to help us resolve
our issues through the use of technology. There are
number of competitions at the national level to encourage
researchers to think out of the box and create innovative
robotic models. It will not be a surprise if, in the near future,
we s ee r ob ot s as f ir e- f ig ht e rs , nu rs es , te a ch er s,
technicians, housemaids etc. The field of entertainment has
been transformed through the use of robotics and
animation. Read and enjoy some of these developments:

     


    

        
    
   
  
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        



         
 
 
   
     
  
 
  
  
    
 
Football team for robo cup   

Pakistan is the first south Asian country to get its
team selected for the international competition Robo-cup.
RoboCup brings together some of the finest minds in
technology from around the world. Established in 1997, its
mission is to create a team of robots capable of beating the
human World Cup champions by 2050. Altogether, there
are twenty teams from different countries in this world cup.
A team consists of six players in uniform which helps them
to send ball passes to each other. The opposite team has a
different uniform and that helps them to make their moves
for scoring goals. They play independently by following the
movement of the ball. The robots show a lot of balance in
their structure as they lift a foot to kick the ball. The body
flexibility allows them dance-like movements which they
can show-off if and when they win the RoboCup.
     

1997    
       



      
 
 2050  
 
      
    
       
     
 
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
  
     
       
      
 


  

   
Robotic wheel chair     

In collaboration with the health service sector,
researchers have been continually trying to improve the
support provided to aging population, accident victims and
people in need of mobility assistance. An inbuilt camera
helps to find an easy and comfortable path for the rider.
The research will further facilitate people without limbs -
robotic structures can become their arms and legs and help
them improve their quality of life.
These examples must have inspired you to study
the subject of robotics. Look around at the issues of people
and environment around you. What type of a robot would
you like to create? Remember! At first your aim is to take
care of the issue but later you have to ensure the success
of your robot.
Design your robot and BEST OF LUCK!

        


    
          
  
    
       
  

         
    

        
 
      
     
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         


 

  
   

Language Corner
1. Phrasal Verbs with "Put"
A phrase that combines a verb with a preposition or
an adverb or both and that functions as a verb whose
meaning is different from the combined meanings of the
individual words is called a phrasal verb.
Choose a phrasal verb from the box to complete the
sentences given under.
1. Put off – to postpone
2. Put up with – to tolerate
3. Put down – to insult
4. Put on – to dress oneself
5. Put up – to adjust
6. Put across – to communicate something.
7. Put out – to publish
8. Put back – to put something where it was previously
Now decide which phrasal verb is needed in
each sentence:
1. I can't put up with this cat anymore, it's driving my
crazy!
2. Please put back the milk in the fridge when you're
finished with it.
3. Can we put off the meeting unti lWednesday
please?
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4. He is putting across an act to win everybody's


sympathy.
5. They put out a new newsletter every Friday. It's
worth reading.
6. I wasy trying to put across my point of view but no
one was listening.
2. Transitional Devices
Transitional devices are words or phrases that help
carry a thought from one sentence to another, from one
idea to another, or from one paragraph to another. These
link sentences and paragraphs together smoothly so that
reading is comprehended.
A table is given below with 05 types of Transitional
Devices, with examples. Read the two text passages again
to locate what devices are used in the texts. Write in the
relevant boxes.

S.No. Transitional Text - 1 Text - 2


Devices Headings Robotics Our
_ Examples Robotics
Successes
1 To indicate more
information:
Besides...
furthermore... in
addition... in fact....
however
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2 To Sow sequence of
ideas:
first... second... third...
also... lastly... after...
before... in the
meantime... next...
so... then
3 To show Time:
While... second...
today... later...
Next... tomorrow...
afterward...as
soon as... now... next
week... about...
when suddenly...
during... until...
yesterday
4 To show location:
Above... across...
around... behind...
beside...
between... in back of...
in front of... inside...
near... outside... over...
under
5 To Summmarize or
Conclude:
in conclusion... lastly...
to sum up...
hence... therefore...
thus... as a
result... consequently
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3. Compound Sentences
A compound sentence is two or more clauses joined
with the help of conjuctions; such as for, and, nor,
yet, so, when etc. A clause is a group of words
containing a subject and a predicate and functions
as a complex sentence.
Read the sentences given under and mark
subject (S), predicate (P) and conjunctin
(con).
1. When it rained, they went inside.
con P S P
2. I love opening the windows when the cool breeze
S P con S
blows.
P
3. She walked to the store in order to buy chocolates.
S P con P
4. If that's a cupcake, I'm having it.
con S P
5. Let's go for a walk while the sun's still out.
S P con S

Creative Writing
Write a dialogue of at least 12 sentences
using all the four types of sentences. You
may begin like this.
Me: Hello, How are you?
You: I am fine. What about you?
Me: I am also fine. Where are you going?
You: I am going to market.
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Me: Okay. What will be buying?


You: I am going to buy copies and pens.
Me: Be careful! Watch traffic on road!
You: Its so nice of you. I am so excited!
Me: When will you come back?
You: I will be back in half an hour.
Me: Good luck and take care.
You: You are welcome.

Fluency of Expression
Choose a topic and prepare it according to
the format
a. Robot as a pet - Def ine your
expectations?
b. Should robots be in our hospitals?
a. Robot as a pets
A robotic pet is an Artificial intelligent machine made
in the image of an animal commonly kept as pets, like
dogs, cats and birds. It also in clude things not normally
considered as pet like Pleo a robotic dinosaur.
Some people even treat them like actual pets.
Robots are becoming more and more common and more
present in households. They mimic more naturally and are
less work to take care of them the actual pets. Children
treat robots as if they are living. Robotic pets appear to
obtain similar responses from human as living pets. Actual
pets must be cared and provided with water, food, exercise
etc. Whereas robotic pets don't need such things. These
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robotic pets can benefit people. Who are allergic to pets,


short on space, in hospitals or scared of real animals.
Robotic pet also keep elderly people from being depressed
and also keep them active, positive mindset and happy.
Robotic pets has also been prepared for lonely adults which
will promote an easier and affordable life style and
companionship.
b. Robots in hospitals
Robots are everywhere from science fiction to local
hospitals where they are changing healthcare system. They
are helping relieving medical personnels from routine tasks,
medical procedure safer and less costly, accurate surgery
in tiny places, transport dangerous substances.
Robotic medical assistants monitors vital statistics of
patient and alert the nurses. They enter information
automatically in patient electronic helath card, supply
medicines and food, disinfect patient rooms and operation
theatres. They work in labs to take samples, transport,
analyze and store them. Robotic lab assistants can take
blood samples easily with less pain and anxiety to patients.
These robots can also prepare and dispense medication in
pharmacalogical labs. Robotic carts carry bed linens, meal
from floor to floor, riding elevators and passing through
automatic doors. Robots also help in physical therapy and
paraplegics. They can also respond trauma situation
looking a victim screaming bleeding and then responding
for treatment.
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Hence robots have become a necessity in our


hospitals carrying out so many tasks with accuracy and
non-tiring. So hospitals must equip them with robots to
enhance their medical capability and quick response to
patient.

Fun Reading
2. Meet Miko
He can see, hear, speak and feel. What
command will you give to Miko?
Q: Hello Miko! Come here!
Q: Please sing a song.
Q: Tell me Alphabets.
Q: Check the warm water.
Q: Go and take chair.
Q: Where is cat?
Q: Open the door.
Q: Check water for cold.
Q: Put on lights.
Q: Put off fan.

    
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UNIT 7

Caged Bird 



Words Meaning  


Words Meanings Words Meanings
Free    Leaps  

Back  Floats  

Downstream  Current 
Dips 
 Wing 
Sun rays   Dares 

Claim 
 Stalks  

Narrow  Cage 
Seldom   Bars of Rage 
Clipped  Tied 
Throat  Sing 

Fearful   Trill
   
Unknown Longed for 
Tune  Heard   
Distant    Freedom   
Breeze  Trade winds  
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Sighing trees   Worms   


 

Bright  Grave 
Dreams  Shadow 
Shouts  
 Nightmare   
  
Scream 
Translation

S.No. Sentence 
1 A free bird leaps 
 
  
on the back of the wind  

and floats downstream  

till the current ends  
and dips his wing  

in the orange sun rays  

and dares to claim the        
 
sky.

2 But a bird that stalks 
 

down his narrow cage 
can seldom see  
through
his bars of rage 
   
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his wings are clipped 


and
3 his feet are tied  

so he opens his throat    
to sing.
The caged bird sings   
 
with fearful trill   
of the things unknown 
but longed for still 
and his tune is heard    
on the distant hill   
for the caged bird 
  
sings of freedom  
The free bird thinks of  
   
another breeze
and the trade winds  
   
soft through the sighing
trees
and the fat worms 
   
waiting on a dawn

bright lawn
and he names the sky  
      
    
his own.

 
 
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But a caged bird   


  

 
stands on teh grave of

dreams
his shadow shouts on        
a nightmare scream
 
his wings are clipped  
    
and his feet are tied

so he opens his throat   
to sing

The caged bird sings   

with a fearful trill   

of things unknown 
but longed for still 
and his tune is heard    
on the distant hill  

for the caged bird 

sings of feedom.    

Exercise

Understanding and Comprehension


Answer the following questions.
Reading for detail:
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a. What does the free bird do while flying in the


free air?
Ans: Free birds leaps on the back of free air and floats
downstream till the air current ends.
b. How does the caged bird pass its time in the
cage?
Ans: The caged bird sings with fearful voice in the cage
for freedom.
Reading for meaning:
c. Are both birds singing the same song? What
is the difference between their songs?
Ans: No, both the birds are not singing same song. Free
birds song is the song of happiness, joy and
freedom whereas the song of caged bird is for
freedom, anger, fear and scream.
d. Write a character sketch of a free bird and a
caged bird.
Ans: Free bird leaps on th back of wind, has freedom to
go anywhere, to do any thing, endless opportunities,
travelling with breeze, eating fat worms at any time,
achieve his dreams any time.
Caged bird is in cage, can not fly easily, no
opportunity to see beyond cage, trapped, clipped
wings, feet tied, can only sing freedom song in
fearful voice, highly angered but helpless.
Reading for inference:
e. What does the poet mean by 'clipped wings'
and 'tied feet'?
Ans: The poetess uses various metaphors and imagens
in the poem. "Clipping wings" mean trimming a
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bird's wings or feathes so that they can not fly. In


this poem, the poetess uses "Clipped" as metaphor
for the systematic forms of oppressions which
prevent class mobility. Being clipped in society on
the basis of race prevents an individual from testing
their ability for success. Black Americans have been
denied for schooling, certain kind of works and
certain jobs. As per the poetess, the clipped wings is
to never give a chance to black American in life for
success.
"Tiet feets" is also a metaphor and indicates lack of
liberty and distressed life of black American in
contrast is their white counterparts. It also depicts
the limitations put on them, miserable life, ill
treatments of black Americans.
Reading for analysis:
f. The poetess has used powerful metaphors in
this poem. What is meant by these two
metaphors?
1- bars of rage,
2- grave of dreams
Ans: 1- Bars of rage
"Bars of rage" are the bird utmost frustration
and anger at his confinement in the cage with
clipped wings and tied feets. The poetess pointed
out about the oppression, racism, abuse, lack of
liberty of black Americans in American society.
2- Grave of dreams
It means that the people, the bird represents
many dreams and ambition of their life but all these
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were killed by the society and oppression so the bird


stands upon the "grave" of these dreams as
remembering them that these dreams will never
come true till the time the bird is in cage and the
black Americans are under these limitations and
oppressions.
g. Write the main idea and summary of the
poem in your own words.

Ans: Main idea


Central idea of the poem is that the poetess wants
to show that how black Americans were treated and
they tried to be free or any race or person facing
such type of discrimination anywhere trying to be
free and get freedom. The "cage bird" poem is a
metaphor for those held down and denied the basic
amenities of life in a society. Thus poem speaks
about hope by the song of "caged bird" and people
with similar experience must be treated in the same
way.

Summary
A free bird flies on the wind as floating downstream
and bird dips its wings in the orange sem light and
dares to call the sky his own.
Contrary a bird in cage moves angrily and silently
and can barely see through cage bars. His wings are
cut so he can not fly and his feet are tied together so
he opens his throat to sung. The caged bird sing
fearfully but still wants that his song be heard for
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away to distant hills beause the bird sings about


freedom.
The free bird thinks about another breeze and about
the global winds that blow and make the trees
sound as they are sighing and also thinks of fat
worm to be eaten on the lawn in the early morning.
But a caged bird stand on the grave of his dead
dreams and screams from the nightmare. He sings
fearfully of things he does not know but still wants
that his song can be heard far away to distant hills.

Working with Words


1- Vocabulary, Diction and Pronunciation
R ead the w or d s w i th th e he l p of
phonetic script and practice in class. Also
learn their spellings and meaning.
Words/ Meaning
Classification
Leap jump or spring a long way, to a great
verb height.
Dare have the courage to do something.
verb
Stalk to walk with measured, stiff strides.
verb
Rage violent uncontrollable anger.
noun
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Trill a quavering or vibratory sound.


noun
Distant far away in space or time.
adjective ii- (of a person) not intimate; cool or
reserved.
Scream a long, loud, piercing cry expressing
noun extreme emotion or pain.

Task: Use the given words in your own sentences


and share with your friends too.

S.No. Words Sentences


1 Leap The lion made a leap to hunt
a dear.
2 Dare He would not dare look up
while she was watching.
3 Stalk Hunters were stalking in thick
wo od ju n gle s fo r h u nt in g
deers.
4 Rage He was shivering with rage.
5 Trill Some birds trill their songs.
6 Distant The mosque was not distant
from our house more then a
half kilometer.
7 Scream She tried to scream but no
sound came out.

2- Connecting Thematic Ideas:


Task: Write at least one sentence while connecting
freedom with the linked thematic word.
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S.No. Words Sentences


1 Freedom of Joy Freedom of joy is the basic
right of citizen in a civilized
country.
2 Freedom of Freedom of liberty has been
liberty granted in the constitution.
3 Freedom of Every citizen of a civilized
happiness nation enjoy the freedom of
happiness.
4 Freedom of Freedom of speech is the
speech main slogan of modern world.
5 Freedom of press Freedom of press is the basic
d e ma n d in a d e mo c r a t ic
country.
6 Freedom of Ev ery citizen of a country
religion must be ensured freedom of
religious activities according
to his beliefs.
7 Freedom of rights Freed om of human rights
have been guaranteed by the
united nation charter in each
country.
8 Freedom of Every individual must have
individual freedom to earn his living by
legal means.
9 Freedom of In diversity of cultures, every
cultural culture hav e freedom to
flou rish a nd p ro sp er in a
country.
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10 Freedom of C o n s t it u t i o n s o f v a r i o u s
political countries ensure the freedom
of political activities according
to the prevailing laws.
11 Freedom of Every inhabitant of country
traveller must have freedom of travel
in any part without any fear
and halt.

3- Word Type-Ephithet:

Column Column Epithetic Sentence


A B
Dirt Coated Dirt coated The soldier was
boots wearing dirt coated
boots.
Honey Coloured Honey The house was built
coloured by honey coloured
bricks bricks.
Ice decked Ice decked Ice decked vessels
are increasing in
use for
transportation of
perishable items.
Jewl encrusted Jewl The queen was clad
encrusted in a rich jewl
robe encrusted robe.
Sugar strewn sugar strewn Th e kit c h e n w a s
cubes filled with s ugar
st r e wn c u b e s f o r
making of drinks.
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Sun white Sun white Sun white co lor ed


colour rays pass through
transpar ent glass
easily.

Reading Makes Us Wise!!


Task: a) Recite this poem aloud underline the
rhyming wor ds. Write its rhy ming
scheme at the end of each line.
LEISURE
(W.H.DAVIES)
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?
Rhyming scheme AA
No time to stand beneath the boughs,
And stare as long as sheep and cows:
Rhyming scheme BB
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:
Rhyming scheme CC
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night:
Rhyming scheme DD
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance:
Rhyming scheme EE
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began
Rhyming scheme FF
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A poor life this if, full of care,


We have no time to stand and stare
Rhyming scheme GG
Task: b) Write five pairs of rhyming words from
the poem.
Ans: 1. Care Stare
2. boughs cows
3. pass grass
4. glance dance
5. can began

Language Corner
1- Alliterations and Assonance:
Alliteration is when a writer repeats the consonant
sounds at the beginnings of wrods. For example, in the
given poem "My puppy punched me in the eye," the words
"puppy punched" are alliterative because they both begin
with /p/.
Assonance is when a writer repeats the vowel
sounds in the stressed syllables of words. For ecample, in
the line "My rabbit whacked me ear," the words "rabbit
whacked" are an example of assonance because they both
contain a short /a/ sound on the stressed syllable.
Alliteration and assonance do not have to have the
same letters; just the same sounds. Therefore, "falling
phone: is alliterative and "flying high" is assonant, because
they repeat the same sounds even though they don't repeat
the same letters.
Task:
1. Read the following poem.
2. Underline the alliterative words in each line.
3. Circle the assonant words in each line.
My Puppy punched Me in the Eye
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My puppy punched me in the eye.

My my ear.
My ferret gav a frightful cry
and roundhouse kicked my rear.

My lizard me down.
My kitten kicked my head.

My me to the ground
and left me nearly dead.
So my advice? Avoid regrets;
no matter what you do,
don't ever let your family pets
take lessons in kung fu.

Creative Writing
1 - C om par e an d c on tr a st us i n g V en n
Diagram.
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Similarities
1. Bird 2. Wing 3. Feet
4. Fly 5. Eat 6. Dream
7. Sing 8. Travel 9. Leap

Differences
Free Bird Caged Bird
1. Free 1. Caged/ Confined
2. Leap at back of 2. Could not leap
wind
3. Travel infinite 3. Can not travel
4. Fly and where 4. Can not fly
5. Can do anything 5. Limited things
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6. Endless 6. Limited
possibilities possibilities
7. Eat as wish 7. Eat only in cage
8. Stay under 8. Stay in cage and
warmth of sun in dark.
9. Sing happy song 9. Sing freedom
song
10. Achieve any 10. Standing on
dream grave of dream
11. Free wings 11. Clipped wings
12. Free feet 12. Tied feet
13. Can see through 13. Seldom see
sky through bar
14. Happy 14. Angry

2- Descriptive Writing:
Task: After doing the above Venn diagram, write a
description of either a free bird or caged bird
based on the details given in the poem, and
how both of them spend their day.
Ans: Free Bird
The free bird leaps on the back of wind as he travels
infinite on down stream till it ends and when the sun rises it
dips its wing in its rays and get warm. He has freedom to
go anywhere and to do anything. His possibilities are
endless. So he names the sky as his own. He thinks of
travelling with the breeze and has opportunity to eat fat
worms from lawn in the morning. He always have chance
to dream anything he wants.
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Caged Bird
The caged bird sits in his cage thinks that he can not
fly in the sky. He stalks down his narrow cage because he
is angry at his helplessness. He has no opportunity to see
beyond his bars of rage. He feels trapped and feels no way
out of this situation. His wings are clipped and can only sing
aobut his freedom so he desprately desire. He knows he is
standing on the grave of dreams and can not fly. He has
given up the goal and dreams and only his shadow shout
now for freedom.

Fluency of Expression
1- Learn Idioms for fluent expressions:
S.No. Idioms Meaning Use in
sentences
01 A bird's eye To get the From the
view view of a aeroplane we
location had a bird's eye
from above view of Karachi
it. city.
02 As the crow The distance The trip from
flies from one Murree is 40
place to miles away from
another Islamabad as the
place in a crow flies.
perfectly
straight line
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03 A rare bird Somebody The beauty of the


or model has made
something her a rare bird.
of a kind
that one
seldom sees
04 Bird of a People Birds of a feather
feather having flock together.
similar
characters,
backgrounds,
interests, or
beliefs
05 An early bird Someone The early bird
who does catches fat
something worms in the
prior to the lawn.
usual time,
or someone
who gets up
early.

    
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UNIT 8

Lincoln's Letter to His Son's Teacher

Words Meaning  


Words Meanings Words Meanings
Counted   Orators
 
Statesmen  Studying 

Learn  Know  
True  Teach   
Scoundral Selfish
 
Dedicated   Enemy
 
Friend   earned
 
 
more value  
 found 
lose 
 enjoy  

Steer him 
 away 
envy  secret 
quiet  laughter 
bullies   lick
 
wonders   ponder 

eternal  mystery
  
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honorable   cheat
  

faith  ideas  
wrong  gentle 
tough  strength  

follow 
 crowd 
band wagon  listen 

filter  hears  
screen truth 
shame  tears 
scoff  cynic  
beware   sweetness 
brawn &   bidder
  
brain
price tag  soul 
howling mob 
 cuddle 
 
test of fire   courage 
impatient   patience
  
sublime   faith 
mankind    fellow
   

Translation

Para 1: Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth preseident of
the United States of America (1861-1865). He is counted
among the greatest orators and statesmen of the world.
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This is the letter he wrote to the headmaster of the school


where his son was studying:
      1865-1861   
   

            
 


Para 2: He will have to learn, I know, that all men are
not just, all men are not true. But teach him also that for
every scoundrel there is a hero; that for every selfish
politician, there is a dedicated leader...
          
 
  
     

  
 
 
 
Para 3: Teach him for every enemy there is a friend.
It will take time I know; but teach him, if you can, taht a
dollar earned is of far more value thatn five found.
Teach him to learn to lose and also to enjoy winning,
Steer him away from envy, if you can. Teach him the
secret of quiet laughter. Let him learn early that the bullies
are the easiest to lick... Teach him, if you can the wonder of
books.... But also give him quiet time to ponder the eternal
mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun, and the flowers
on a green hillside.
    
   
 
     
 
        
    
 
  
 
        

   

                 
 
 
           
        
 

  
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Para 4: In school teach him, it is far more honourable to


fail than to cheat... Teach him to have faith in his own
ideas, even if everyone tells him they are wrong... Teach
him to be gentle with gentle people, and tough with the
tough. Try to give my son the strength not to follow the
crowd when everyone is getting on the band wagon...
Teach him to listen to all men... but teach him also to filter
all he hears on a screen of truth, and take only the good
that comes through.
     
  
       
      
 
     
      
   
     
 
  
           

 
Para 5: Teach him if you can, how to laugh when he is
sad... Teach him there is no shame in tears. Teach him to
scoff at cynics and to beware of too much sweetness...
Teach him to sell his brawn and brain to the highest
bidders: but never to put a price-tag on his heart and soul.
Teach him to close his ears to a howling mob... and to
stand and fight if he thinks he's right.
     
     
   
 
   
     
 
                

           
   

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Para 6: Treat him gently, but do not cuddle him, because


only the test of fire makes fine steel. Let him have the
courage to be impatient... let him have the patience to be
brave. Teach him always to have sublime faith in himself,
because then he will have sublime faith in mankind.
This is a big order, but see what you can do... He is
such a fine fellow, my son!
   
   
 

          

         
 
  

      

Exercise

Understanding and Comprehension


Answer the following questions.
Reading for detail:
1. What was the objective of writing this letter?
Ans: He wrote a letter to head master of his son's school
to teach him to develop various traits and characters
in his son. He expects the teacher to impart values
of life and foundation of character building of his
son.
2. Why do you think it is honourable to fail
rather than to cheat?
Ans: In my opinion, cheating is also a type of stealing
because we are taking someone's else work and
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calling it own. During cheating there is always fear of
being caught. Cheating is the same as lying and
s t e a li n g . It c a u s e s s t r e s s , u n f a ir t o o t h e r
heardworking students, unfair for you and your
family it hamper progress, disrespectful, it kills trust
and may become a habit and eventually leads to
failure. So it is very honorable to fail rather to cheat
avoiding all the above mentioned consequences.
3. Why should one be aware of too much
sweetness?
Ans: Abraham's Lincoln wanted his son's teacher to teach
his son that one should always keep distance from
those should always keep distance from those who
are too sweet for you but they might be selfish inside
and can cause harm.
4. "Treat him gently, but do not cuddle him".
What was the reason?
Ans: Abraham Lincoln wanted his son be educated in the
best possible manner. It means to treat him with
love and delightfully but not to hug him as he must
be de p en de n t o n s o me on e 's lo v e, clo se to
someone, be good with him but do not go so close
that if he leaves you, you hurt feel emotions for him.
5. After reading the letter what impression do
you have of Lincoln as a father.
Ans:
a. Use these words in sentences:

S.No. Word Sentence


1 eternal Some people are very concerned
about their eternal destiny.
2 sublime All the individuals have sublime faith
in their religion.
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3 ponder The students pondered in depth


weather they afford a trip or not.
4 filter Water must be filtered or boil before
use in rainy season.
5 honourable He r etire d fr om ser v ic e a fte r a
successful and honourable career.

b. Read these expressions and choose


the correct option:
'He should have faith in his own ideas'
What will he gain?
i) fame ii) confidence
iii) money
Ans: ii) Confidence
'Be gentle with gentle people' will teach
him
i) arrogance ii) politeness
iii) instability
Ans: ii) politeness
c. Take help from Internet and get more
information about Abraham Lincoln.
Ans: Ab r a h a m' s L in co ln wa s t h e s ix t e e n th
president of United States of America. He
was a great American Statesman, Lawyer,
Orator who served as USA president from
(1861 - 1865). he led the nation through its
greatest moral, Constitutional and political
crises in American Civil War. He preserved
the union, abolished slavery, strengthened
the Federal Government and modernized US
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economy. He was born in poverty and raised


on the frontiers in Indian. He was self
e d u c a t e d a n d b e c a m e a la w ye r . H e
participated actively in politics and became
leader of Republican party. He became
president in 1861. He was assossinated on
April 14, 1865 when he was enjoying a night
at a theatre. Lincoln is remembered as the
United State's Martyr hero and he is ranked
as one of the greatest U.S. presidents.
d. Find out the idioms and proverbs in the
text and make a separate list of each.
Ans: Idioms and proverbs
1. Bullies are the easiest to lick.
2. To ponder eternal mystery.
3. Not to follow the crowd when every
one is getting on the bandwagon.
4. To filter all he hears on a screen of
truth.
5. To sell brawn and brain.
6. Never to put price-tag on heart and
soul.
7. To close ear to howling mob.
8. Test of fire makes fine steel.
Inference:
e. Do you think guidance of teachers and
parents is a blessing?
Ans: Teachers and parents can act as motivation
and can nurture students. They can prepare
them from a bright career and to face
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challenges of future. Certain important habits


like reading and writing can be inculcated
from an early stage of children. Guidance of
teachers and parent is blessing for children
behaviour, attitude, thinking and character.
They regularly interact with the child and
understand their ambition, dreams and
aspirations. Parents should identify the
interests of children and encourage them to
read books, watch videos and related matter
to the subject of their interest. Parents treat
their children with care and love and should
give them lessons of dedications, hard work,
sympathy and team work. Parent should
praise their children's achievements and
should act as guiding force to their academic
growth.
Teacher should conduct regular quizzes and
interactive sessions and generate interest of
studies and prov ide them thorough
knowledge of the subject. Teachers should
focus on general knowledge and current
affairs as an additi onal c o mponent
responsible teachers guide their students
from initial stage and teach them about
preparation of competitive exams and so on.
Also, teachers should teach them to be
self-conscious, recognize their own talent and
develop them accordingly. Teachers can
conduct regular educational tours, interactive
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session, career counselling. Teachers can


p r e p a r e t h e m t o f a c e c h a l le n g e s o f
competitive world and can give them idea
a b o u t v a r i o u s o c c u p a t i o n s a n d t h e ir
importance.
Summarizing guidance of parents and
teachers is highly blessing for a child and
then student and play an important role in
choosing and selection of future career.
Working hand in hand, teachers and parents
can be important in career development and
bright future life of students.
f. Writing a letter is better than sending a
text message. Give your viewpoint.
Ans: Writing a letter to someone adds more
personal touch then sending text messages.
To share the real feeling of happiness,
sorrow with a friend or any relative, writing a
letter has no alternative. Communicating with
a friend or relative after long time, written
letter are of great importance to share the
feelings t ruely. Howev er wit h the
advancement of science and technology,
means of communication has changed too
much extent. Online connection, mobile links,
emails and most of them personal meeting
with teachers of wards are very important
mode of contact. Latest communication
means have lessen the importance of writing
letters and people have access to online
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v oice and v ideo talks, text messaging


emailing skype and many other apparatus
are available all the times and everywhere is
the world. So writing letter has become
primitive now a days and overcome by latest
communication means.

Working with Words


1- Vocabulary, Diction and Pronunciation

Words/ Meaning
Classification
Brawn Physical strength
Bully a person who uses his strength to
hurt weaker people
Cuddle hold someone close to show love
and affection
Cynic people who don't believe something
good will happen to them
Envy feeling of wanting to be in the same
position
Howling very fierce, with strong winds
Ponder to think about something carefully
Scoff talk in a way that others are stupid
Scoundrel a person who treats others badly
Steer to take control of an influence

Pick out two more such words from the unit.


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Sentences

Words Sentence
Brawn He has plenty of brains as well as brawn.
Bully It seems normal to bully or be bullied at
college.
Cuddle She cuddled close to her mother and
lifted her face for his affection.
Cynic He is very much cynic to believe that his
friend will keep his promise.
Envy I envy your ability to work so fast and
accurate.
Howling Wolves were howling in the jungle at the
full moon.
Ponder Students pondered whether they afford a
trip to Murree.
Scoff We must not scoff at education, habits
and tastes of other people.
Scoundrel He was a thief as well as a scoundrel.
Steer He tried to steer the conversation away
from his problems.

2- Word Position
The position of the word Laugh is shown as
different parts of speech.
Laugh verb
Laughingly adverb
Laughter noun
i) Laugh as loud as you can.
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ii) He was doing a difficult work laughingly.


iii) His laughter drew the attention of the people around.
Make meaningful sentences of the following set of
words:
Envy, Envious, Enviously
Politics, Political, Politically
Truth, Truthfulness, Truthfully

S.No. Word Sentence


1 Envy I envy you having such a close
family.
2 Envious She was envious of her friend style
and beauty.
3 Enviously He looks enviously at the success
of his friend in medical college.
4 Politics Taking part in politics is not a very
easy task.
5 Political The constitution gives right to every
citizen to become a member of a
political party.
6 Politically Womens in developing countries
are becoming politically more active
and vibrant.
7 Truth Always speak the truth.
8 Truthfulness The reporter raised a question
a b o u t t h e t r u t h f u ln e s s o f h is
statement.
9 Truthfully He answered all the questions of
the court truthfully.
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Task: Fill in the blank spaces with the correct form:

Noun Verb Adjective Adverb


Dedication dedicate dedicated dedicatedly
friend friend friendship friendly
enjoyment enjoy enjoyable enjoyingly

Word Cloud
Word Cloud is a group of words connected with the
theme word. Pick three words from the image and
make meaningful sentences.

S.No. Word Sentence


1 know I know him very well.
2 better It is better to work hard to pass
through the examination.
3 learn Student must learn their lessons by
heart.
4 planet Earth is a planet which revolves
around the sun.
5 education Education is necessary for progress
of a country.
6 improving System of education in our country
is improving gradually.
7 access Now a days every people have
access to internet through mobile
network.
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Reading Makes Us Wise!!


Passage
Here is a simple narration by an old Boy Scout. It
relates to duties we perform out of love.
Once a king and a persian slave were sailing in the
same boat. The slave had never been at sea, and never
experienced any calamity. After some time the boat was hit
by a storm and started tossing. It was very inconvenient for
the passnegers. All remained quiet except the slave who in
fear of being drowned began to cry and tremble, and
created a nuisance for others. They all tried to pacify him
with kindness and affection but he didn't hear anybody.
When the uneasiness lasted longer the king also became
unpleased.
In that boat there happened to be a sergeant, who
said, "With your permission, my I quieten him".
"it will be a great favour", the king replied.
The sergeant ordered to throw the slave into the
water, so that he could experience the true danger of life.
Two persons threw him in the sea and when he was about
to be drowned, they pulled him back to the boat, and he
clung to the stern with both hands. Then he sat down and
remained quiet. This appeared strange to the king, who
could not comprehend the wisdom in the action taken by
the sergeant, and he questioned it.
The sergeant replied:
"Before he had experienced the danger of being
drowned, he didn't know about the safety of the boat. A
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man does not realize the worth of safety from the


misfortune until he has tasted it".
 
     
 
  

 

       
 
            
    
    
   
      
         
   

   
    
  
     
   
  
               
   

  

 
  
      
             
  
    
  
 
   
   
           
 
     
  
    
   
   


Language Corner
1- Transitive, Intransitive, Gerunds
Off all the parts of speech, the verb is the most
importnat. It's the part around which all other elements are
built. It is essential to identify verbs and use them correctly.
A verb is a word that shows action, links another
word to the subject, helps another verb, or merely indicates
existence.
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Examples:
i) All men are not just.
ii) For every scoundrel there is a hero.
iii) Teach him to have faith in his own ideas.
iv) When everyone is getting on the bandwagon.
v) Teach him there is no shame in tears.
a. Transitive or Intransitive Verbs
A transitive verb is a verb that has a receiver of the
action to complete its meaning.
Example: The teacher receives the letter. (Teacher
receives the action.)
An intransitive verb is a verb that does not have a
receiver fo the action.
Example: Listen to all men. (There is no receiver.)
b. Gerund
Gerunds are words formed with verbs but act as
nouns. Every gerund is a verb with ing at the end. There
are no exceptions to this rule.
Examples:
i) Close his ears to a howling mob.
ii) Learn to lose and also to enjoy winning.
Task: Write the Gerunds of these words:
lose steer laugh teach filter

S.No. Words Gerunds


1 lose Losing
2 steer Steering
3 laugh Laughing
4 teach Teaching
5 filter Filtering
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Task: Fill in the blanks with gerunds of the given


words.
i) I am interested in (swim) swimming.
ii) My friend is fond of (read) reading historical books.
iii) My uncle is afraid of (go) going by plane.
iv) You should give up (smoke) smoking
v) I don't feel like (play) playing hockey.

Fluency of Expression
1) Discuss the following points in groups and
share a brief explanation with each other:
a) 'A dollar earned is far more than five hundred found'.
b) 'Be gentle with gentle people and tough with tough
people.'
c) 'Scoff at cynics and beware of too much sweetness'.
d) "Only the test of fire makes fine steel". What does it
mean?
e) "There is no shame in tears".

S.No. Words Explanation


1 'A dollar earned This sentence means that
is far more than earned money is the product
five hundred of dedication and hardwork so
found'. it si of more value and respect
than the money got without
any hard work. The money
found with no effort is
valueless and gives no
pleasure and also respect in
our own eyes.
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2 'Be gentle with This is English proverb which
gentle people means that you must behave
and tough with the smae way with others as
tough people.' you are treated by others. You
must not be soft and smooth
when some one is behaving in
a rude or tough manner and
behave softly with the one
who behaves softly and in
gentle manner with you.
3 'Scoff at cynics In this sentence, one should
and beware of always keep distance from
too much people who don't believe in
sweetness'. you and believe in yourself
and pay no attention to them.
Also beware of the insincere
admiration of people.
4 "Only the test of It means that children can not
fire makes fine be made so gentle by being
steel". What does so a ffe ctio nate . W e must
it mean? warn them and also advise
them to bear the difficulties of
life to become a better and
responsible citizen.
5 "There is no This sentence is a line of letter
shame in tears". of Abraham's Lincoln to his
child's headmaster. He
wanted him to guide the child
on concealing his sadness
and laugh through his tears.
He also requested the teacher
to make the child understand
that there was no shame in
shedding tears when he was
true.
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Proverbs
A proverb is a short, wise saying. It is a sentence of
phrase shich briefly expresses some recognized truth or
observation about life.
Examples:
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
Meaning: Things we already have are more valuable than
what we hope to get. All is well that ends well.
Meaning: As long as the outcome is good, problems on the
way don't matter.
Task: Find out the idioms and proverbs in the text
and make a separate list of each.
Ans:
1. For every scoundral there is hero.
2. For every selfish politician, there is dedicated leader.
3. For every enemy there is a friend.
4. A dollar earned is of far more value than five found.
5. Steer him from envy.
6. Bullies are easiest to lick.
7. To ponder eternal mystery.
8. It is far more honourable to fail them to cheat.
9. Be gentle to gentle people and tough with tough.
10. Not to follow the crowd when everyone is getting on
the bandwagon.
11. To filter all he hears on a scream of truth.
12. Scoff at cynics.
13. Beware of too much sweetness.
14. To sell brain and brawn to highest bidder.
15. Not to put price tag on heart and soul.
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16. To close ears to a howling mob.


17. Treat gently but do not cuddle.
18. Only test of fire makes fine steel.

Creative Writing
1- Letter Writing
Letter writing means correspondence to exchange
certain information or social purposes.
Letter can be formal, informal or official. There is a
specific format for formal letters. In this way, the recipient
knows where to find certain information in the letter and
understands the message quickly.
The formal letters are written for various purposes.
 To ask for information
 To offer thanks, congratulations or condolences
 To ask for advice or express a view
 To give reference
Here is an example/ format of an informal
letter:
Specimen Letter
122- School Road
Quetta
March 12 2012
Dear Hamza
I haven't heard from you for many weeks. I am sure
this way because of yoru examinations. I was also very
busy with my examinations. My last paper was yesterday.
Papers were quite easy this time. I am hopeful to pass with
flying colours.
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Now that we are free, why don't you make a


programme to come over to Quetta. The weather is very
pleasant these days and we will be able to go to many
places. My parents are also very enthusiastic. I am sure
you will acept my initation and inform me about the date of
your arrival.
How are aunty and uncle doing? Give my best
regards to them and love to your younger brother.
Looking forward to meeting you soon.
Yours Sincerely
Adeel Ahmad

 122

 
 

      
   
 
    
   
     
  
   
        
 
        
   
 
    
 
 
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Writing
1. Write a biographical essay on the personality
of Ab r a ha m L i nc o l n, se a r c hi ng m o r e
information about him from the internet,
encyclopedia and other sources.
Ans: Abraham Lincoln was born in February 12, 1809 in a
small hut located on a farm called skinning sprung
Farm in Hardin Country, Kentucky.l He was the 16th
President of United States. He grew up in a poor
family on the Western border of state of kentucky.
He taught himself through self education because
he had to help his family work the farm.
Lincoln took part as president in a period of war. He
suspended a few rights and stretched the forces of
both the official and national government. Moreover
Lincoln made law including approaches identifying
wit h mo n e y, h o me s te a d e r s , r a il r o a d s a nd
assessments. He was famous for his passion about
people and that led in freeing slavery. He went into a
war against the states which called themselves the
"Confedrate States of America". He used former
slaves to go for war against those states. It was his
winning card for this war. Throughout his life,
Abraham showed an excessive amount of influence
on not only USA but the whole world. He was one of
the America's most successful presidents due to his
incredible impact on the nation and his views on
slavery and civil rights. He was war time leader of
his nation. He was very respected man. He worked
hard most of his life nad worked hard in law and as
president to keep his nation united during civil war.
He lived a long and resentful life, full of problems.
He was assasinated on April 15, 1865.
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2. Write a letter to younger brother who has
recently shifted to a hostel, advising him
about studies and general behaviour.
76-A
G-6-I
Islamabad
June 10 2020
How are you? We all are fine here but worried about
your studies. It has almost been three months you have
been shifted to hostel. This was first time you are living
alone. However it can be a good experience too and also
memorable in your life. Living alone in an hostel can have a
lot of fun but concentration on studies is important as well.
Never forget the reason of being away from home. You are
there to prove yourself better.
We have received your monthly result from school
and sorry to say you had not done well and not to the
expectation. And I believe you had also realized this. you
are in hostel to study the subjects and get good grades. So
you must work hard to improve you result and I hope you
will do your best and successful in doing it. We have
believe and faith in you. I think you have fallen in some bad
company which affected your result. To get good result and
to be on the expectation of your family, you must leave
such friends and bad company and pay full attention
towards your study. Always remember that hardwork is key
to success. I hope that you will act upon my advice and
start working hard. I also hope that you will improve
yourself after word of advice from me. Study but never
forget to take care of your health. Parents and all others are
well.
With best wishes
Your loving brother
A.B.C
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UNIT 9

Dr. Ruth Pfau a Humanitarian

Words Meaning  


Words Meanings Words Meanings
national   lived 
 
died 
 used to say  
chosen  receive 

turn it down 
 choice 
calamities  damaged 

barely  survived  
 
missionary  decision 
attend  patients
 
deadly  disease  
leprosy  chronic
  
affects 
 nerves 
respiratory  tract
  
known  

 occur 

infancy   curable  
 
averts   disabilities 

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stigma patients
   
fear   in fact 
forced 
 isolation 
destiny 
 en route  
by chance    leper colony 
  
met  afflicted 
realized  needed 
organize 
 moment 
spent  rest of life
  
 
service  all over
 
    
believe 
 condition 

key life 
  joined  

set up  slums 
 

transformed 
 hub 

treeted 
   infected 

decade   compaign 
declared  ahead  
gave up   explained  

intention    dynamic 
removing 
 
 healing 

enable   dignity
  

fore front   relief  
disaster  struck 

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drought  earthquake 


devastating   helping hand  
victims   oblivious 
limitation  focused 
overlooked   manistream
  
  
charity  philosophy 
selflessly  peacefully 
state funeral   honours
   
acknowledge 
 symbol 

selflessness  devotion 
draped  covered
 
apart  
Translation

Para 1: Dr. Ruth Pfau (1929 - 2016) was a German
national, who lived and died for Pakistan. She used to say,
"God has chosen you Himself. When you receive such a
calling, you cannot turn it down, for it is not you who has
made the choice".
  
 
    (2016 - 1929)   
  
      
 

     
 
Para 2: Ruth Katharina Martha Pfau (pronounced fow),
lived through the calmities of World War II. Her home was
damaged, her baby brother became ill and died and she
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herself barely survived the bombing attacks. As a Christian


medical missionary, she had taken the decision to attend
to patients of a deadly disease, leprosy. It is a chronic
disease which affects the skin, nerves linked to nose, ears
and eyes and surfaces of the upper respiratory tract. It is
known to occur at all ages ranging from early infancy to
very old age. Leprosy is curable and when treated early
averts most disabilities. However, the disease becomes a
stigma - as people around the patients do not like to attend
to them for fear of catching the disease. In fact, in the past,
these patients were forced to live in isolation outside the
villages and towns.
          
     

   
 
 
    
  
      
  
 
     
  
          

 
                
 
      
 
  
  
 
Para 3: Destiny had brought Pfau to Karachi in 1960 en
route to a posting in India. By chance, she visited a leper
colony in Karachi, where she met thousands of Pakistani
patients afflicted with the disease. She realized that she
was needed to organize a leprosy-control program. This
became a moment of decision for her and she spent the
rest of her life in the service of our people from all over the
country.
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     1960       


            
          
 
 
        
 
           
 

      
  
Para 4: Dr. Pfau joined the Marie Adelaide Leprosy
Center, set up in the slu ms of Karachi. She soon
transformed it into the hub of a network of 157 medical
centers that treated tens of thousands of Pakistanis
infected with leprosy. Less than four decades after Dr. Pfau
began her campaign to contain leprosy, the World Health
Organization declared it under control in Pakistan in 1996,
ahead of most other Asian countries.
 
   
    
    
  
 
  
 157    
 
          
       
 
 
  
  1996       
    
Para 5: Even after she gave up the directorship of the
center in 2006, she lived in a single room in the centre and
attended to her patients. She explained that she had no
intention of ever retiring completely. Thus, she had played
a dynamic role in removing the stigma attached to the
healing of leprosy patients and "enabled hundreds of
thousands of people to live with dignity."
 
      
    
  2006
  
  
     
   


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   
          
 
       

Para 6: Dr. Pfau was at the forefront for relief work every
time a disaster struck the country. From the drought in
Balochistan in 2000 to the earthquake in Kashmir in 2005
and the devastating floods that hit the country in 2010, Pfau
was there each time, extending a helping hand to the
victims, completely oblivious to the difficult conditions or the
limitations of her age. Her relief work also focused on
sections of the population, which were overlooked by the
mainstream charity organisations. Her philosophy in life
was:
'.....help would continue to come if a person is
working selflessly and she called it "the working of God."'
       
        
 2005        2000  
2010  
          

   
          
        
        
   
 
            
   
Para 7: At the age of 87, Dr Ruth Pfau died peacefully in
her hospital at Karachi. A state funeral with full national
honours was held to acknowledge her as a symbol of
selflessness and devotion. Armed forces personnel carried
her coffin which was draped in the Pakistani flag and
covered with rose petals.
She is the third civilian apart from Quaid-e-Azam
and Abdul Sattar Edhi to receive a state funeral.
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               87  


     

   
     
          

   
  
   

 
  
Para 8: "I could not believe that humans could live in such
conditions," she told the Pakistani newspaper in 2014.
"That one visit, the sights I saw during it, made me make a
key life decision."
 2014   
  
 
  
           
      
     
  

Exercise

Understanding and Comprehension


Answer the following questions.
Reading for detail:
Answer these questions in a few words:
a. List the symptoms of leprosy?
Ans: Leprosy affects skin, nerves linked to nose, ears and
eyes and surfaces of the upper respiratory tract.
b. What is a state funeral? Name the civilians
who received this honour?
Ans: A state funeral is the burial of civilian with full
national honour. Armed forces personnel carry coffin
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which is draped in Pakistani flag and covered with


rose petals. For civilians have received state
funerals:-
1. Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
2. Abdul Sattar Edhi
3. Dr. Ruth Pfau
Reading for meaning:
Answer these questions in complete
sentences:
c. Leprosy was considered a stigma? Explain.
Ans: Leprosy was considered stigma as people, relative
and friends around the patients do not like to attend
them for the fear of catching the disease such
patients were kept in isolation outside the villages
and town and no one was ever dare to meet them.
Hence this disease was considered as stigma for
the society.
d. Why do we fear chronic diseases?
Ans: People facing chronic d iseases su ffer great
emotional turmoil, think burden to someone and
possible of facing death. People facing chronic of
illness usually fear the following.
i. Loss of control of life.
ii. Loss of independance
iii. Stigma due to apparent physical disability.
iv. Chronic condition give rise to lot of anger.
v. Isolation (Physical, social and emotional) can
result.
vi. Fear of death due to chronic illness.
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How can we award dignity to sick people?


Ans: Sick people can be awarded dignity by the following.
1. Listen to their concerns
2. Ask their opinion
3. Tell them that they are important
4. Involve them in decision making.
5. Include them in conversations.
6. Don't talk about them in their absence.
7. Speak to them as adult.
8. Re s pe c t th e ir pr iv a c y, p h ysic a lly a nd
emotional.
9. Respect their choice of eating, clothing,
medicines and other.
Reading for inference:
Write True (T) or False (F) beside each
of these statements. Cite evidence from the
stories to support your answer:
e. She came to Pakistan by her own choice. T
Ans: Evidence Para 2
Destiny had brought Pfau to Karachi in 1960 enroute
to a posting to India. By chance she visited a leper
colony in Karachi. Where she met thousand of
Pakistani patients afflicted with the disease she
realized that she was needed to organize a leprosy
control program. This became the moment of
decision for her and she spent the rest of her life in
the service of our people from all over the country.
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f. She has att ended to p atients a ll over


Pakistan. T
Ans: Evidence Para 2
She spent the rest of her life in the service of our
people from all over the country.
g. Leprosy is an incurable disease? F
Ans: Evidence Para 1 line 8
Leprosy is curable and when treated early averts
most disabilities.
Reading for ideas:
D i s c u s s yo u r a n s w e r s t o t h e s e
questions as a class or in groups:
h. As you grow older and more qualified, you
tend to take more responsibilities in life. What
will be your aim in life?
Ans: An aimless man is like a ship without control and a
man without an aim can never achieve hsi life goal
and prosper in life. I have also an aim in life and that
is to become a scientist. Science is one of the most
beautiful gifts to the human race which should not
be distorted. Our society now a days rely on science
and technology. New discoveries are made for
everyday. I hav e always been fascinated with
science and its latest inventions. From childhood, I
have always wanted to be like Newton, Einstein, and
Ed is o n . T h e s e g r e a t s c ie n t i s t s ma d e h ig h
contribution to humanity. I have always liked my
science subjects because I wanted to be a scientist.
My parents are very supportive of my career goals
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and I compensate their efforts by studying hard in


school. Most people have perception that great
scientists have high intellectual capabilities but this
is not true. W hat makes a great scientist is
character. Science is the key to the prevailing issues
of our society.
Life is full of changes that are yet to be solved. Field
of science is very challenging and I want to use it for
the betterment of humanity. I want to reconstruct my
ideas that bring a change. Development and
advancement in science and technology belive that
scientists are the archeticts behind such works. I
don't want to become a scientist just for my pleasure
but want to make significant impact in the field of
science and technology so that the lives of my fellow
citizens be improved.
i. What type of tasks and responsibilities are
shared by older people around you? Make a
list.
Ans: Older people and senior citizen may contribute in the
society and their family purposfully keeping their
vast experience of life. Following is a list of tasks
senior people do around us.
1. The lookafter their grand children.
2. They can shop from market.
3. They can pay taxes, utility bills.
4. They can make donations to charitable
organisations.
5. They do house work.
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6. They maintain lawns, water plants and


cultivate flowers, vegetables etc.
7. They provide emotional support to others.
8. They care their spouses well.
9. They can play indoor games.

Working with Words


1- Vocabulary, Diction and Pronunciation

Words/ Meaning
Classification
Humanitarian c o n c e r n e d w i t h o r s e e k in g t o
Adjective/ noun promote human welfare
Calamities an event causing great and often
noun s u d d e n d a ma g e o r d is t r e s s ; a
disaster.
Missionary a person sent on a religious mission.
noun/ adjective espec ially on e s ent to promote
Christianity especially one sent to
promote Christianity in a foreign
country.
Avert turn away (one's eyes or thoughts)
verb
Stigma a mark of disgrace associated with a
noun particular circumstance, quality, or
person.
Destiny the ev e nts th at will nece ssarily
noun happend to a particular person or
thing in the future.
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en route during the course of a journey; on the


adverb wa y - A n e x p r e s s i o n o f F r e n c h
language
Hub the effective centre of an activity,
noun region, or network
decade a period of ten years.
noun
Dignity the state or quality of being worthy of
noun honour or respect.

S.No. Words Sentences


1 Humanitarian Dr. Ruth was a great humanitarian
for her long efforts ot eradicate
leprosy from Pakistan.
2 Calamities Pakistan suffered sev ere
calamaties of earthquake in 2005
which destroyed various parts of
country.
3 Missionary Various missionary societies also
established schools, hospitals,
dispensaries in various parts of
country.
4 Avert The hectic efforts of scientists are
not yet successful averting the
corona disease.
5 Stigma He still had to overcome the stigma
attached to his mental illness.
6 Destiny Ou r d es t in y is sh a pe d b y ou r
ac tio ns an d d e cis io n s a nd b y
chances.
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7 en route PIA plane crashed enroute from


Lahore to Karachi.
8 Hub Karachi is the hub of economical
activities of the country.
9 decade During the first decade of 21st
century, Pakis tan s uffered
clamaties like earthquake, floods,
drought etc.
10 Dignity Only a truly free person thinks
about the dignity of human.

2- Signs and Words as symbols.


Symbolism is the practice or art of using an object or
a word to represent an abstract idea. An action, person,
place, word, or object can all have a symbolic meaning. A
writer can use symbolism to express a certain mood or
emotion, making the readers to add their own feeling and
imagination to it. Given below are two examples.
i- Humanitarian hand
a. Humanitarianism is an active belief in the value of
practice and treatment to provide assistance to other
human beings.
b. A hand is the most frequently symbolized part of the
human body. It gives blessings, it expressive. It stands for
generosity, hospitality and stability; example "lend a hand"
means to support some one. The gesture of hands stands
for greeting and friendship.
ii- World map in Joining hands
The map of the world shows its div ision into
continents, countries and boundaries of seas and oceans.
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Together, we form a multicultural society with different


languages, religions and cultures. The symbol of joining
hands stands for collective efforts. We support each other
and become strong. Such relationship helps us to fight
disease, poverty and disaster in a collective manner.
Dr. Pfau being a German helped Pakistan more
than any Pakistani could do. This example tells us that the
planet earth is a home for all people. Similarly many
Pakistanis are living in different parts of the world helping
other countriest to achieve their targets.
Task: Do you agree/ disagree with the two designs
of hands given above for the message of
brother hood? Comment!
Ans: I agree with the both designs of hand as these
design express brotherhood, supporting each other,
generosity, hospitality etc. Symbol of hand also
stand for greeting and friendship. Moreover joining
hand design stand for collective efforts of nations for
humanity and human being all over the world.
Joining hands together support each other in fighting
against poverty, disasters, diseases and other
calamaties around the world.
3- Conceptual understanding – Construct
your own knowledge:
Three terms are mentioned below which have
different uses. Read the term mentioned in the unit again
and find out which si the correct answer alphabet. Also give
reasons.
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S.No. Term Meaning and Answer with


examples reasons
1 Stigma a. a mark of shame "c"
or discredit: the As leprosy makes
stigma of specific sign on the
cowardice skin, parts of body
b. an identifying and upper
mark of respiratory tract
characteristic which other people
c. a specific do not like.
diagnostic sign of a
disease
2 Slums a densely "d"
populated usually All such areas in a
urban area marked city are crowded
by: a. crowding, with poor people
b. poverty, and socially
c. social disorganized.
disorganization,
d. all of these
3 Hub a. central part of a "b"
circular object As per unit, leprosy
(such as spokes centre was
attached to the hub transformed into
of the wheel) centre of activity for
b. a centre of other medical
activity centres in the
c. an airport or city country.
through which an
airline routes most
of its traffic
d. a central device
that connects
multiple computer
on a single network
(s)
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Reading Makes Us Wise!!


Dr. Muhamamd Amjad Saqib – A Role Model
A medical graduate from King Edward Medical
College, Dr. Amjad Saqib dedicated his life to build a
poverty free society promoting principles of compassion
and eq uity. He la unched the platform of Akhuwat
Foundation to alleviate poverty by empowering socially and
economically deprived families. Interest free loans, cloth
banks for clothing the poor and scholarships for educational
services are some of the hallmarks of the foundation.

  
    
   
   
 
      
  
   
     
 
       
      

 
 
  
Akhuwat stands for three principles as shown in its
logo; Faith, Compassion and Equity.
Within a short span of time, under the leadership of
Dr. Amjad, the foundation successfully opened 662
branches in 350 towns of Pakistan with over 600,000 active
clients and 1,695,000 total beneficiary families. Akhuwat
has disbursed billions of rupees for interest free loans while
retaining a successfully recovery rate of 99.98%.
         
    6      662 350     
              
 
 95 16
  99.98%
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Besides Akhuwat, he also provides volunteer


services to many philanthropic ventures. Dr. Amjad is
vice-chairman Punjab Educational Endowment Fund, the
largest education fund in Pakistan. Government has
appointed him Chairman for Prime Minister Interest Free
Loan Scheme. On account of his tremendous contribution,
President of Pakistan bestowed upon him the coveted Civil
Award, "Sitara-a-Imtiaz".
   
 
      
    
   
    
        
 
   
  
    
 
      
      

Language Corner
1. Connotation – Secondary Meaning
You have read the word "stigma" inthe text. It has a
negative feeling to it. On the other hand the word "dignity"
shows a positive feeling. W ords have two types of
meanings:
i. A Dictionar ymeaning which is also called the
"lexical meaning" for example; home and house.
ii. Words also have positive or negativ e feeling
attached to it. It is called connotation. A home has
as positive feeling as it stands for warmth, comfort
and affection.
Task:
Choose fieve words each with positive and negative
feeling from the text. Discuss and elaborate the
reason of their use in the text.
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S.No. Word Feeling Reason


1 Calamities Negative Natural suffering like
war, earthquake etc.
2 Chronic Negative Long lasting diseases,
incurable
3 deadly Negative Fatal, fear of death.
4 disability Negative Deprive of some thing,
mental, physical
5 Isolation Negative confinement, separate
living.
6 Dynamic Positive Great energetic, forceful
7 Dignity Positive Worthy of respect, live
with respect etc.
8 Devotion Positive Loyalty, love, care
9 Selflessness Positive Caring, loving,
respecting
10 Peacefully Positive Quiet, calm, tree from
worries

2. Active Voice/ Passive voice


A sentence is based on three parts; subject(S),
verb(V) and object(O). Thus the pattern of active
voice becomes S V O. e.g.
The girl eats a piece of cake.
The pattern of passive voice will be OVS. e.g.
Apiece of cake is eaten by the girl. We use by before the
person who does the action and the verb is changed to
passive form.
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Task I: Read the sentences given below and mark if


these are active or passive. (Hint: In these
sentences look for the person who is carrying
out the action).
i. Ali catches a ball. Active
ii. The picture was painted by Bilal. Passive
iii. Tina opens the present. Active
iv. The phone is beign used by the teacher. Passive
v. James hit the tree with his stick. Active
vi. Daniel was watching the birds. Active
Task II: Change the following sentences into active
voice.

S.No. Sentences Active Voice


i. The football was kicked Usman kicked the
by Usman. football.
ii. The knife was left on The maid left the knife
the table by the maid. on the table.
iii. The milk had been A cat had knocked over
knocked over by a cat. the milk.
iv. The car had been A bad driver had driven
driven into a wall by a the car into a wall.
bad driver.
v. The windows had been He had washed the
washed. {Think window.
carefully about this one}
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Task III: Change the following sentences into


passive voice.

S.No. Active Voice Passive Voice


i. The actors had The play by
performed the play by Shakespeare had been
Shakespeare. performed by the actor.
ii. A stone smashed the The window was
window. smashed by a stone.
iii. The boys pushed the The tree was pushed
tree over. over by the boys.
iv. James climbed the The ladder was climbed
ladder. by James.
v. Sam baked a big cake. A big cake was baked
by Sam.

3. Rules for making Noun Plurals


A noun is used as a singular or as a plural. The
simplest forms of adding 's' or 'es' to make plurals is
already practiced by you. Here are some more rules
ot learn for making noun plurals.
A. Simple Rules
a. Regular plural
Find some examples from book. Note page number
for record..

S.No. Word Page No. Word Page No.


1 Student 32 Letters 33
2 Birds 33 Sheep 33
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3 Stories 41 Scholar 41
4 Rope 41 Turban 43
5 Children 57 Brackes 57
6 Roof 58 Robot 67
7 Motors 67 Puppy 85
8 Villages 97 Patients 98

Creative Writing
1. Character Analysis
Dr. Ruth Pfau had led a very successful and
inspirational life. She started her life as a girl suffering many
problems through World War 1 in Germany. But then her
life changed. Read the text again and fill the boxes with
information required.

Dr. Ruth Pfau's Life Design


Beginning: German End: Gave up directorship
National, born 1929, live in in 2006, still lived in centre
World War II, Home and attended patients,
damaged, brother died, forefront worker in natural
survived in bombing attack, disasters like earthquakes,
christian medical floods, helping hand to
missionary, decided to victims. At age of 87 died
attend leprosy patients. at Karachi in 2016. state
funeral was awarded to
acknowledge her as
symbol of selflessness and
devotion.
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Changes: Came to Karachi in 1960, visited Leper


colony at Karachi, met patients, organize leprosy
control program, decided to live in Pakistan, Joined
Marie Adelaide Leprosy centre, Transformed this centre
to hub of 157 medical centres, treated tens of
thousands of Pakistani patients, WHO declared
Pakistan Leprosy controlled country in 1996.

2- Role Model – Maintaining Record


We are lucky to have many role models in our
society. Such people display behavior which everybody
wants to adopt and imitate. Look around your home,
school, friends, sport heroes, etc. and think what would you
like to adopt and from whom! Begin with your parents,
teachers, aunts and uncles!

S.No. Name Relation Characteristic


you like to
adopt
01 Quaid-e-Azam Father of the Honesty,
Muhammad Nation steadfast,
Ali Jinnah determined
02 Allama Poet of Nation Philosopher,
Muhamamd Selflessness,
Iqbal poet, social
reformer
03 Abdul Sattar Angle of Philanthropist,
Edhi Mercy voluntear,
humanatarian
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04 ABC Father Loyal,


supportive,
open mind,
lover,
appreciator,
Honest,
Protector

3. Aim in Life
As you are promoted to senior classes, you tend to
think what you would find more important things in life. We
acquire qualifications and earn for ourselves.
 Do we need only money?
 Do we enjy respect, honour and dignity more?
Task: Write a short essay (in three paragraphs) on
the topic –
My aims in life
My future ambition is to become a doctor. I want to
study medicine to become a specialist doctors who are
certified professionals who treat the sick people who are
sick. I love helping people and make lives better. Doctors
are qualified to save lives and capable of helping sick. I
admire the medical profession. It means service to
humanity, help to needy and love to mankind to serve
people is to serve God. I shall consider it my duty to serve
my fellow citizens. If I become a doctor, I will start to serve
my city and treatment for poor and needy people will be
free. I will be very much careful about tests and treatments
of my patients. I will visit my remote villages regularly to
provide them with medical facilities where there is great
need of medical and healthcare facilities. A doctor is a
saviour of society so I shall try my best and hard work to
become doctor and serve my country and people of the
society.
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Fluency of Expression
1. The person I like the most and why?
Ans: I like my mother the most. She is very loving,
affectionate, caring and hardworking. She is always
helpful and fond of children. She has a good sense
of humour. She is well educated and guide us in
studies. She was very intelligent and hardworking at
scho ol time and g ot go od po sitions. She is
multitalented personality. She works as an interior
designer and earns a lot. She spends her earning on
needy people and also on charity. She buys a lot of
things for us. She buys books, clothes, toys, sweets.
She never broke her promises and tell's my father
that one should not make a promise if one can not
keep it she is more like a friend to me than a harsh
mother. I love her very much and she also loves all
of us.
2. Information collection
Talk to people around you in English by asking small
questions. Be respectful in your tone. You may begin like:
"Can I ask you a question, please?"
i. Ask your friends questions about the characters that
have inspired them.
ii. Also ask them about the reason.
iii. Fill in the given table and share it with the class.
Name Name of
S.No. of Hero/ he/ Reason
friend she likes
1 Daniyal Hazrat Messenger of God our
Muhammad prophet, Great leader
)
( and commander.
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2 Ahsan Allama Iqbal Motivated poet and


dreamer of Pakistan
3 Anwar Quaid-e-Azam Founder of Pakistan
4 Adil Abdul Sattar Mercy Angel, great
Edhi humanatarian

Fun Reading: Poetry Recital

The Leader in Me: 


When I was a child my parents were my role model
  
 
For my good behavior
When I learnt, my teacher was my role model
  

For my good knowledge
When I played outside, my friend was my role model
 
     

For my good habits
When I made a mistake I was the role model
   

for finding a solution
Think for yourself to find a better way of life
  

  

    
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UNIT 10

We Connect from Around the World

Words Meaning  


Words Meanings Words Meanings
beautiful  ancient 
temples  beaches 
modern 
  unique  
identity   contact
 
cultural  exchange  
host   gathering
   
hoping  foster 
global  banner 
develop think 
beyond  boundaries
 
learn  promote  
peace  co-existence 

participant  exhibit
 
tradition   display 

represent 
 returned 
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bagging     countless  


memories   through  
internet  thought of
 
safely  telling
   
enjoyed  downtown 

profound  history
   
rich history  
 abundant  

heritage  forbidden 
sprawling  architecture 
extremes   highest  
  

lowest 
 worth  

mention
wake up  blooming 
bow  nod 

increasingly   shake 

respecting 
 prized 
tradition   exist  
greet 
 promised 

introduce 
  famous 
cuisine 
 good bye 
 
felt  missing 
 
recalling 
 
 gossip 

delightful   besides 
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edge   artistic   
elaborate  narrow 
amazing  stretches  

tulips  hyacinth 
crocuses  daffodils 
breath   landscape  
takingly
mention 
  iconic 
windmills   preserved
 
like wise  greeting 
discourteous  striking
  

feature  plenteous 
beloved   fell sick  

comfortable    scenic 
beauty  showed 

vacation  come up 

plans  for now 
thought  performing  

art
venue  located  
Harbour  wonder 
witness   indigenous 
inhibited  richest  

aboriginal 
 Archeological 

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create 
 piece of art  
friendly   culture 
indication  stay in touch
 
Translation

Para 1: Fukuoka is a beautiful city in Japan, known for
ancient temples, beautiful beaches and modern shopping
malls. Fukuoka has unique identity as a contact point for
cultural exchange between Japan and other countries in
the world. Every year Fukuoka hosts a large gathering of
children from forty countries from across the world hoping
to foster "global citizens" under the banner of Asia Pacific
Children Conventin (APCC). The aim is to help develop
global citizens who are able to think of thw world beyond
national boundaries and learn to promote "peace and
co-existence" in the world. Every year children from
Pakistan also participate in this gathering and exhibit
Pakistan's culture and traditions in the international
displays. In July 2019 Omar, Sarah and Muhammad went
to Fukuoka to represent Pakistan. During their stay they
made friends from across the world and exchanged email
addresses with each other. They have returned to Pakistan
after bagging countless memories of the time spent with
their friends and they are in contact with each other through
the internet. Following are a few of the emails they have
received from their friends from different parts of the world.
Who knows they might meet each other somedayin some
other country or place they never thought of!
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
   
  

      
 
    

          
            
 
 
   
    
  
  
  
    
   
       
    
    
  
2019          
     

         
  

        
   
  
       
   
  
           
      
       

Para 2: From: Zhang Wei
To: OmarSikandar
Subject: Greetings from Beijing, China
Omar my friend, I am safely home and hoping that
you must be in best of health too. I have been telling stories
of our happy times to my family and they enjoyed listening
to them. I live in downtown of Beijing which is the capital
city of China. This is a city with profound history and it
has been the Chinese capital for about 700 years. My
father told me that it is about as old as London, six times
older than New York, and ten times older than Sydney. It's
long and rich history has left behind and abundant historic
and cultural heritage, including The Great Wall and the
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Forbidden City. Alongside its rich ancient cultural sites hsi


sprawling capital is also known as much for modern
architecture. Every year about 4.4 million international
tourist and 1.4 million Chinese tourists travel to Beijing.
      

   

  
   
 
      
  
  
   
     

 
 
     700 
    
       

  
 
          
    4.4    
     
    
    
   1.4   
Para 3: I don't know about yoru city but Beijing is a city of
extremes in terms of temperatures. The highest recorded
temperature in Beijing is 42 °C (109 °F) while the lowest is
-27 °C (-170 °F). This means the best times of the year to
visit are spring and fall. above all, spring in Beijing worth
mentioning as the whole city wakes up with flowers
blooming everywhere after a four months long winters.
             
      °109   °42      
  
   
     
     
     
 
   
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Para 4: In China, we greet each other with a bow or a nod


instead of shaking hands although it is becoming
increasingly common to shake hands. Respecting elders is
one of the prized traditions which still exists and whenever
meeting a group we greet the oldest, most senior person
before others. As promised, I am sending you pictures of
my Beijing and I wish you could visit me sometime. I'll be
happy to host you and would love to introduce you to the
famous Chinese cuisine too.
Good Bye my friend!
      
     
 
         
   
  
 
   
  
     
 
 

           
      
    
  
  
 
Para 5: From: Emma Janssen
To: Sara Hussain
Subject: Greetings from Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hallo dear Sara!
I reached my home last week and felt so happy to
meet my mommy but now I am missing you all. I am
recalling the play and gossip time which we used to have
every afternoon. I am sure you must be doing well too and
having a delightful time with your family and friends. My
house is besides a canal on the edge of Amsterdam, the
Netherlands' capital. Amsterdam is known for its artistic
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heritage, elaborate canal system and narrow houses.


Whenever we visit the mai ncity, me and my mommy love
to go to world famous arts museums, Van Gogh Museum
and Madame Tussaud Museum. Do you know Amsterdam
is also called "Venice of the North" because of its 165
canals which are about 50 kilometres long with 1281
bridges? Isn't that amazing!


     
    
   
         
    
   
  
    


      
  
     
     

    
  
  
           
   
 50  165       
1281 
 
Para 6: I must tell you about Netherland's "bulb belt", for
which its world famous. This is Keukenhof which stretches
over 70 acres and it houses 700 varieties of tulips,
hyacinths, crocuses and daffodils. Every year about 15
million tourists v isit Netherlands just to enjoy this
breathtakingly beautiful landscape. Another thing I would
like to mention is the iconic windmills which were used to
mill grains (gristmills), pump water (wind pumps) or both
centuries ago. Today they are kept preserved as tourists'
sites and as our cultural heritage.
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           



     70     
     700  
     

    15 
 
    
      
       

           
  
Para 7: Sara, I remember you telling me how welcoming
people of Pakistan are! Likewise, the people of Netherlands
are very friendly and welcoming too. The common greeting
in the Netherlands is a handshake along with a nod of the
head. You should take both your hands out of your pockets
if you shake someone's hand otherwise it might be taken
as discourteous. A striking feature of my city is cycling and
there re plenteous bikers' lanes alongside almost every
road across the land. Please do visit here and let me know
in advance so I can schedule my days accordingly to host
you well. Please in reply to this email, do not forget to share
pictures of your country and specially your city Lahore. I am
so looking forward to hear back from you. Bye for now.
     
      
  
              
 
       
    
  
     
        
   
 
    
    
  
       
 
 
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      


     

       
   
 
 
Para 8: From: James Adamson
To: Muhammad Ahmed
Subject: Greetings from Australia
Hello Mate,
Greetings from Sydney-my beloved city and thank
you for your email. I got back home ten days ago and fell
sick as I am not always very comfortable with air travels. I
loved the pictures you sent of your country and was
amazed to see the scenic beauty of Pakistan. I showed
them to my family and it seems that we might come up with
plans for one of our vacations in Pakistan. For now, I
thought to tell you about my city and I'll begin with the
Opera House which is an performing art venue located at
Sydney Harbour. The Opera House is one of the most
famous architectural wonders of the 20 th Century and
since 2007 it is one of UNESCO's heritage sites. Every year
new year's celebrations begin with fireworks at the harbor
and I love witnessing that new year's night.
  
  
   
 

           

       
   
   
  
  
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  
    
  
  

      
  
    
 
         
  
    2007   
      
          
 
 

Para 9: Sydney has a long history of indi gen ous
Australians who have inhibited this area for at least 30,000
years, which makes it the richest Aboriginal archaeological
sites in Australia. Our school trips are often planned to visit
the museum and I love Aboriginal art. I even try to create
my own piece of art on their pattern. Muhammad, we
Aussie people are very friendly and greet everyone with a
simle or wave. We have respect for other cultures therefore
we do not shake hands until others do. If people keep their
hands inside the pockets it will be an indication that they
don't want to shake hands. We are alright with that as we
are very careful about everyone's personal space. It's
getting late and I'll wake up early to catch my school bus at
7:00 am tomorrow as my holidays have just ended today. I
hope we'll stay in touch and do tell me more about your pet
parrots you told me about when we used to talk during our
walks before sleeping in the camp. See ya mate!
      
     
 
   
  


     
 
 
  
 
 
      

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
       
 
   
    
 
 
          
 
 7:00     
      
 
     
      


   
  

Exercise

Understanding and Comprehension


Answer the following questions.
Reading for detail:
a. What is the unique identity of Fukuoka
amongst all cities of the world?
Ans: Fukuoka has unique identity among all the cities of
the world as a contact point for cultural exchange
between Japan and other countries in the world.
Every year Fukuoka host a large gathering of
children from forty countries across the world.
b. What is the number of annual tourists visiting
Beijing every year? Write three reasons for it
being a top tourist destination?
Ans: Every year 4.4 million international and 1.4 million
chinese tourist travel to Beijing. Three reasons for
being it top tourist destinations are the great wall,
the forbidden city and modern acrhitecture.
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c. What ha ve y ou lear nt fr om the James


Adamson's email about Aussie people?
Ans: Aussies people are very friendly and greet everyone
with smile or wave. They respect other cultures and
do not shake hands until other do. They are very
careful about everyone's personal space.
Reading for meaning:
d. What is the 'prized tradition' of China and
how can you relate it with your culture?
Ans: Respecting elders is prized tradition of China.
Whenever they meet, they greet the oldest, the most
senior p erson b efore o thers. In our culture,
respecting older is our obligation. We always
respect our olders in any age and their orders and
directions are always binding on other family
members.
e. Who are indigenous Australians?
Ans: Indigenous Australians are those who have inhibited
the area for at least 30000 years in Sydney making it
richest Aboriginal archeological sites in Australia.
Reading for inference:
f. Why is Beijing called "city of extremes"?
Ans: Beijing is c alled city of ex tremes in te rm of
temperature as highest recorded temperature in
Beijing is 42 °C (109 °F) in summer and lowest
temperature is -27 °C (-170 °F) thus both seasons
are very severe and harsh for the citizens of China.
g. Why Amsterdam is called 'Venice of the
North' and what is the point of comparison
between Amsterdam and Venice?
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Ans: Amesterdem is called "Venice of North" as it has a


large elaborated canal system and have 165 canals
which are about 50 km long and with 1281 bridges.
The point of comparison between Amesterdem and
venice is the canal system of both the cities.
Reading for analysis:
h. Why did Zhang Wei mention Chinese cuisine
in his email to Omar Sikandar?
Ans: Zhang Wei mentioned Chinese Cuisine as Chinese
foods are very famous in Pakistan also and most of
us lo v e th e m a n d ea t r e gu la rly in C h in e se
restaurents. Hence Zhang mentioned in his email
about Chinese Cuisine to be introduced during visit
of Omar to China.
i. Write a short note on 'bulb belt' explaining
why it is significance for Netherlands?
Ans: Bulb belt is "Kenkenhof which stretches over 70
acres and it houses 700 varieties of tulips, hyacinth,
crocuses and daffodils flowers. Every year 15 million
tourist visit Netherland just to enjoy this beautiful
landscape.
j. After reading James' email how do you feel
about meeting someone from Australia?
Ans: I would love to meet Australian people as they are
very friendly and greet everyone with smile or wave.
They respect other cultures and customs and they
are careful about everyone personal space.
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Working with Words


1- Vocabulary, Diction and Pronunciation

Words/ Meaning
Classification
Profound i-(of a state, quality, or emotion) very
adjective great or intense.
ii-(of a person or statement) having
or sho wing grea t knowledg e or
insight.
Heritage properly that is or may be inherited;
noun an inheritance.
Sprawling spreading out over a large area in an
adjective untidy or irregular way.
"the sprawling suburbs"
Elaborate involving many carefully arranged
i-adjective p a r t s o r d e t a i ls ; d e t a i le d a n d
ii-verb complicated in design and planning.
Spectacular beautiful in a dramatic and
i-adjective eye-catching way
ii-noun
Plenteous Plentiful, abundant
adjective
Architectural relating to the art or practice of
adjective designing and constructing buildings.
Indigenous originating or occuring naturally in a
adjective particular area or region
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Aussie i- a person from Australia


i-noun ii- Australian
ii-adjective

Task 01: Work in pairs and help each other in


making sentences of the words given in the
table above. For example: The architectural
landscape of Islamabad is developing along
the lines of a modern city.

S.No. Words Sentences


1 Profound He was profound in a way that
surprised me.
2 Heritage Moenjo Daro has been declared as
archeological heritage by UNESCO.
3 Sprawling Karachi is sprawling along the
goastline of Arabian sea.
4 Elaborate Elaborated arrangements were
made for the function.
5 Spectacular Spectacular v ictory of Pakistan
hockey team was celebrated all
over country.
6 Plenteous Rain is more plenteous in monsoon
season of Pakistan.
7 Architectural B a d s h a h i mosque is an
architectural symbol of Mughal time.
8 Indigenous The local factories are
manufacturing indigenous products.
9 Aussie Au ss ie s a re v e ry fr ie n dly a nd
welcoming people.
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2- Comparative Descriptions:
In this unit you have learnt many aspects about at
least three cities of the world. Fill the column below
with details given in the emails you have just read
and find relevant detail of your own city in the last
column.

Details Beijing Amsterdam Sydney Your


city
Country a a a a
and
Continent
Famous a a a a
buildings
Culture a a a a
and
traditions
Any a a a a
specialized
information

Ans: Details
Beijing
Country: China
Continent: Asia
Famous buildings: 1. Great wall, 2. Forbidden city
Culture and traditions:
1. Greeting with above or a nod instead of shaking
hand
2. Respecting elders
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Any specialized information:


1. Extreme temperature in summer and winter.
2. In spring flower blooming every where.
3. 4.4 million international and 1.4 million chinese
tourist travel to Beijing.
Amsterdam
Country: Holland
Continent: Europe
Famous buildings: 1. Van Goh Museum
2. Madame Tussand Museum
Culture and traditions:
1. People are friendly and welcoming
2. Common greeting is handshake alongwith nod of
head.
3. To take out both hands out of pocket if one wants to
handshake.
Any specialized information:
1. Venice of North due to elaborate canal system.
2. "Bulb belt" stretches 70 acres and houses 700
varicties of various flowers. 15 million tourist visit to
see the place.
3. Iconic wind mills preserved for tourists.
4. Striking feature is cycling. Plenteous bike's lane are
alongside of almost every road.
Sydney
Country: Australia
Continent: Australia
Famous buildings: 1. Opera house at sydney Harbour
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Culture and traditions:


1. Friendly people
2. Greet every one with smile and wave.
3. NO handshake
4. Respect for cultures
5. Careful about personal's space
Any specialized information:
1. Opera House as UNESCO heritage
2. Indigenous Australian inhibitants for 30000 years.
3. New year's celebration begin with fire work at
Sydney harbour
Islamabad
Country: Pakistan
Continent: Asia
Famous buildings: 1. Faisal Mosque
2. Convention Centre 3. Shakar Parian
4. Lok Virsa Heritage 5. Rawal Lake
Culture and traditions:
1. Greeting with shake hand and Hugging
2. Respecting elders
Any specialized information: 1. Planned city
2. Parks 3. Zoo
4. Parliament House
3- Word Types- Helping Verbs:
Helping verbs are verbs that help the main verb in a
sentence by extending its meaning thus helping the main
verb. There are two types of verbs, which are auxiliary and
modal.
ASAN English 235 Class 7

a- Auxiliary Verb:
Helping verbs that add meaning to the clause where
they are being used are called auxiliary verbs which are
used to express tense or to add emphasis. The three
common auxiliary verbs have multiple forms:
 To be: am, is, are, was, were, be, been
 To have: have, has, had
 To do: do, does, did
Task: Fill in the blanks with appropriate auxiliary
verb:
i. I am having another piece of pizza.
ii. She is making dinner for us now.
iii. I do not know the answer.
iv. I have been running for over an hour.
v. She has given the grand prize.
b- Modal Verbs:
Helping verbs that perform other specific tasks to
further modify the action or meaning of the main verb are
called modal verbs. These tasks are to express: ability,
possibility, permission or obligation. Modal verbs do not
change form. They are:
 Can/ could/ be able to
 May/ might
 Shall/ should
 Must/ have to
 Will/ would
Task: Fill in the blanks by selecting appropriate
modal verb so the meanings of the sentence
are clear:
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i. Ali can name all the Pakistani prime ministers.


(can/ may)
ii. You should go home and lie down. (should/ will)
iii. When it's your time, you may go. (can/ must)
iv. I may be late for the meeting. (may/ can)
v. Would you mind if I stayed here for a while?
(shall/ would)

Reading Makes Us Wise!!

~My Grandfather's Language~


By Ami Choi
He was my mother's fathr, and he lived with us
when I was a teenager.
My grandfather wrote poetry on great rolls of thin
white paper with a painbrush. He offered to read and
explain his poems to me several times over the years, but I
only let him do it once. I'd let my Chinese go by then, which
made listening to him too much of an effort. Though I was
raised speaking Chinese, it wasn't long before I lost my
language skills. I spoke English all day at school, listened
to English all evening on TV. I didn't see the point of
speaking Chinese. We lived in Australia.
From Monday to Friday, Grandad went to the city,
dressed in a suit with a waistcoat, a hat, and carrying his
walking stick. He would take the bus to the station, the train
to the city, the tram to Little Bourke Street. On Mondays,
he'd be sitting at a large round table at Dragon Boat
Restaurant with other old Chinese men. Tuesdays to
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Fridays, he was at a small square table by himself with a


pot of tea and the Chinese newspaper. I watched him leave
in the morning and come back in the afternoon, as punctual
and as purposeful as any school kid or office worker, for
years.
When Ami was sixteen, her grandfather died.
At the funeral, my sadness was overshadowed by a
sense of regret. I'd denied my grandfather the commonest
of kindnesses. I was sixteen years old. I am now twenty-six.
A few weeks ago, during a family dinner at a Chinese
restaurant, the waiter complimented my mum on the fact
that I was speaking to her in Chinese. The waiter told mum
with a sigh that his own kids could barely string a sentence
together in Chinese. Mum told the waiter I had stopped
speaking Chinese a few years into primary school, but that
I had suddenly started up again in my late teens.
I have often wandered how aware my mum is of the
c on ne c ti on be twe en G r and ad 's dea th an d my
ever-improving Chinese. Whenever I am stuck for a word, I
ask her. Whenever I am with her, or relatives, or a waiter at
a Chinese restaurant, or a sales assistant at a Chinese
department store, I practice. I am constantly adding new
words to my Chinese vocabulary, and memorizing phrases
I can throw into a conversation at will. Text books and
teachers are not necessary since I am only interested in
mastering the spoken word. I am simply trying to ensure
that the next time an elderly relative wants me to listen to
them, I am not only willing, I am able.
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


    
 
      
    


 
   

   
    
   
    
     
     


       
            
  
  
 


 

   

    
 
 
   
    
   
   
 
    
       
   

     
 
       
    
 
    
        
   
 
 
  
       
 
 
     

       
  
  
         
     
 
  
  
     

    
      
   
 
  

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 
     
    
  

        
    
         

             
  
   
   
    
 

Language Corner
1- Prepositions
Pr e p o s it i o n s c a n b e s i m p l e p r e p o s i t i o n s
(consisting one word only), compound prepositions
(consisting) more than one word and phrase prepositions
(group of words used as a single preposition). They all
have function to explain a relationship or show location.
Some examples of all types of prepostions are:
Simple prepositions (at, by, for, of oof, in, out, till, up, with,
through)
Compound prepositions (about, between, around, before,
besides, beneath, below, behind, along, across, above etc)
Phrase prepositions (according to, because of, in front of,
by means of, for the sake of, in addition to, in case of, with
reference to, in course of, instead of, in order to etc)
Task: Select the appropriate preposition from the
given choices in the box below.
at, from, along, during, in front of, under, by, on
behalf of, in accordance with, to.
i. The little girl sat under the tree.
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ii. The old woman from the cash counter, went to the
cupboard.
iii. He acted in accordance with my instructions.
iv. Why don't you go along with your brother?
v. There is a large mango tree in front of of his house.
vi. The grandfather sat by the fire and told us tales of
his past.
vii. During the ceremony, he read the address of his
staff.
2- Revision of Punctuation
In grade VI you have learnt the use of comma,
apostrophe, hyphen, colon and semi colon. The following
exercise is to revise their usage in the correct way.
Fill in the blanks with use of appropriate
punctuation.
i. If I water the plants _______ they won't die.
ii. Ali _______ please go away from my room.
iii. I have to clean my room _______ arrange books
_______ and do the dishes.
iv. Pe n c il s c a n b e e r a s e d _ _ _ _ _ _ _ p e n s a r e
permanent.
v. It was a heavy down pour _______ the match was
cancelled.
vi. I like cats _______ however _______ I am allergic.
vii. Islamabad _______ the beautiful _______ city of
diplomats.
viii. The fruit basket _______ apple _______ orange
_______ banana _______ and pomegranate.
ix. The school _______ principal was standing at the
school _______ gate _______ welcoming students.
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Ans:
i. If I water the plants, they won't die.
ii. Ali! please go away from my room.
iii. I have to clean my room, arrange books and do the
dishes.
iv. Pencils can be erased. Pens are permanent.
v. It was a h eav y d own po ur . The mat ch was
cancelled.
vi. I like cats. However, I am allergic.
vii. Islamabad, the beautiful city of diplomats.
viii. The fruit basket, apple, orange, banana and
pomegranate.
ix. The school's principal was standing at the school's
gate welcoming students.
3- Contractions- Questions Tags:
A contraction is a word formed from two words by
the omissions of one or more letter. An apostrophe (')
shows the location of the omitted letter(s). For example,
Must have is contacted to must've, Can not is contracted to
can't and Do not is contracted to don't. Contactions are
often used in question tage. A questions tags is a
statement in a conversation to ask for a confirmation. For
example, It is very hot today, isn't it? The later underlined
part 'isn't it?' is called a question tag.
Task: In this unit a number of contractions are
used. Identify them and write on y our
notebook.
Ans: 1. Pakistan's 2. It's 3. don't
4. I'll 5. Netherland's
6. Isn't 7. tourist's
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8. Someone's 9. bikers'
10. UNESCO's 11. year's
12. don't 13. It's
14. We'll

Fluency of Expression
1- Learn Idioms for fluent expression:
Learn the following idioms and try to search for more
of them and add to your collection. With the help of your
friends and teacher make (sentences using the) following
idioms.

S.No. Idioms Meaning Usage in


Sentences
1 mile a At a very He was talking a mile a
minute rapid pace minute about the
accident.
2 travel To travel I hate travelling with
light without heavy luggage and suit
bringing cases so I always try to
much travel light.
luggage
3 off the away from His colleagues are
beaten the planning to go
track/ frequently somewhere off the
path traveled beaten track for
routes. summer vacations.
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4 asleep not attentive He was requested to


at the towards submit the assignment
wheel one's job by due date but it looks
like he was asleep at
wheels and not
submitted the same.
5 in the in similar We are in the same
same (often boat so we must help
boat difficult) each other in study.
circumstances

Fun Reading:

Linguistic Fun through Pun:


Enjoy reading!
If you spent a day in a well, can you say your
day is well-spent?

    
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UNIT 11

Visiting a Hospital - Stanley Bastow

Words Meaning  


Words Meanings Words Meanings
Turned 
 Corner
 

Came down  
 Stood  
aside  watched   
pass by  move away
 

towards  centre 

moment  main 
 
entrance
hospitalized 
  medicines  
 
caused  serious
 

ailment   admitted 
ridiculously   inside
  

apparently 
  noticed 
crossed  courtyard 
steps  looked 
pushing  stepping in  

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vast  tiled floor  



leather  pillar 
stood back  hiding 
achieve 
 ventured  
 
corridors leading 
swing door     round 
stout  grey haired
   

briskly   thought 
changed  course  
echoing  started   
glinted   rimless 

humour  irritation
  
stammered 
 uncomfortably 
patient  afraid 
visiting hour   over 
blushing 
 gaze 
heart  beat 
meddling   grown-up 

wandering off  out of sight
 
stretcher  rolling 
noiselessly  white tunic 
blanket  chin 
unconscious  means 
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helpless  dragging 
huge stranger 
return  embracing 
secure  spick and  
span
incomplete bare 
solitary  meal 

necessaties 

Translation

Para 1: An ambulance turned the corner and came down
the drive. Joby stood aside and watched ti pass by and
move away down the hill towards the centre of town. A
moment later he was walking up the way the ambulance
had come, towards the main entrance of the hospital.
Joby's mother had to be hospitalized because she
herself started taking medicines, that caused her serious
ailments. His father brought her to the hospital and the Dr
admitted her.
 
        
  
 
       
    
   

   

   

  
 
         
 
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Para 2: It was ridiculously easy to get inside the hospital,


because there was no one to stop him. Nobody apparently
noticed him as he crossed the countryard and went up the
steps to the doors. He looked in through the doors for a
minute before pushing them open and stepping inside. The
hall wa s a v as t plac e wit h a tile d f lo or a nd long
leather-covered benches. Joby stood back behind a pillar,
though why he was hiding or what he hoped to achieve
here he didn't know.
        
 
  
          
   
        

 
       
    

   
            
    
Para 3: When the nurses had gone he waited a minute
then ventured a few minutes into the open hall. There were
a lot of doors about and corridors leading away into the
heart of the building. Many paintings hung on the walls in
the corridor. There were also some polished brass plates
with lettering on them that Joby couldn't read because they
were fixed too high on the walls.
  
   



        
          
       
  
   
     
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Para 4: He was moving towards one of the plaques to see


what was written on it. A swing door with a round window
pushed back and a stout grey-haired woman in a
pink-and-white nursing uniform walked briskly through. He
thought at first she hadn't seen him; then she changed
course and came towards him, her voice echoing like that
of the other nurses as she started to speak to him from
twenty feet away.
           
   
        
  
 
    
 
      
        
       
    
     
Para 5: 'Now, young man, what do you want?'
Here eyes glinted behind her rimless glasses; with
humour or irritation, Joby couldn't tell. He stammered as he
began speaking and his heart was knocking uncomfortably.
'I was looking for my mother.'
'Are you with her?'
'No, I am on my own.'
'Have you been sent here for treatment? Is there
something wrong with you?'
Joby shook his head. 'No, I'm just looking for my
mom.'
'Is your mother a patient here?'
'Yes, she's inside.'
'Ah, I see. Well, I'm afraid you can't see her. Visiting
hours are over, and little boys aren't allowed in anyway.
What's her name?'
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'Mrs Wetson...I wanted to find out how she was


going on, so I came up.'
'Hasn't any body visited her? 'My dad comes,' Joby
said. 'He came today.'
'Well, hasn't he told you how she is?'
'He says she's alright; but I wanted to find out for
myself.'

       
            
       
            
 
          
 
               
       
                        
 
  
          
   

 
              
 
    
         
  

     

Para 6: The nurse looked at him for a long moment until
Joby felt himself blushing under her gaze and his heart
beat faster still. She was going to tell him to go: he'd no
business her, medding into grown-up affairs. Instead she
said:
'You wait here. Don't go wandering off.'
       
             
             
     
      
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Para 7: She walked away across the hall, round a corner,


and out of sight. Joby waited, wondering where she had
gone and what she was going to do. A stretcher came by,
rolling noiselessly on rubber wheels, pushed by a man in
white tunic. There was someone on the stretcher, lying very
still with blankets drawn right up to the chin. His mother
must have looked like that after her operation; a white
unconscious face. His mother was helpless in the hands of
people whose job it was to look after her, though they didn't
really care. How could they? They didn't know her. What
was his mother to them except one of hundreds of
patients?
   
        
 
            
 
  
       
    
     
  
 
         
  
        

Para 8: He had no means of knowing how long he stood in
the huge empty hall; but as he waited through the dragging
minutes for the nurse to return, he felt like a stranger in an
unknown land. He felt far from home, not only in terms of
distance but in his knowledge that for the first time in his life
he could not think of home as a secure embracing whole. It
was incomplete. The heart had been taken out of it. It was
a spick and span house in which a solitary man laid a table
with the bare necessities of a lonely meal.
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               
         

           
 
     
       

    
     
Para 9:
Theme
Bringing awareness about choice of a profession is
highlighted in the unit. Every profession has its merits and
demerits. Until and unless one has sufficient knowledge of
a profession, one can not decide about any choice.

  
     
  
  
    
  
    
   

Exercise

Understanding and Comprehension


Answer the following questions.
1. Why was it easy to get into the hospital?
Ans: It was easy to get with the hospital because there
was no one to stop anyone.
2. Why couldn't Joby read the plaques?
Ans: Joby couldn't read the plaques as they were fixed
too high on the walls.
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3. Why did the nurse stop Joby from seeing his


mom?
Ans: The nurse stopped Joby from seeing his mom
because visiting hours were over and little boys
were not allowed any way.
4. What thoughts came to Joby's mind upon
seeing the patient on the stretcher?
Ans: Joby thought that his mother must had looked like
the patient on the stretcher after her operation: a
white unconscious face. Her mother was helpless in
the hands of the people whose job is to look after
her though they did not really care as her mother
was one of hundred of patient for them and also
they did not know her.
5. List joby's observations as he stood in the
huge empty hall.
Ans: 1. Joby left like a stranger in an unknown land.
2. Joby felt far from home.
3. He felt that for the first time in his life he
co uld n ot th in k o f h ome a s a se wa re
embracing whole.
4. He felt his house was imcomplete without his
mom.
5. The heart of his house was taken out.
Glossary
1. briskly ------------- quickly
2. dragging ------------- pulling something with effort,
difficulty
3. echoed ------------- sound heard again after bouncing
off a wall
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4. exaggerated ------------- made to seem larger, better,


worse than in reality
5. impersonality ------------- lacking friendly human
feelings or atmosphere
6. isolated ------------- lonely, far away from others
7. meddling ------------- to touch something in a careless
way
8. plaque ------------- flat piece of stone, metal usually
with a name on it
9. protruding ------------- sticking out from a place or
surface
10. restrained ------------- stopped somebody from doing
something
11. ridicule ------------- very silly or unreasonable
12. ridiculously ------------- unreasonably
13. rimless ------------- glasses (having lenses) but not
surrounded by frames
14. solitary ------------- without other poeple, alone
15. stammer ------------- repeating sounds or words with
difficulty while speaking
16. tangible ------------- something that can be seen
clearly to exist
17. taut ------------- stretched tightly
18. venture ------------- a business project or activity

S.No. Words Sentences


1. briskly He turned and walked briskly to
market.
2. dragging The labour was dragging a cart.
3. echoed As h e wa lke d , his f o o t st e p s
echoed off the whole corridor.
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4. exaggerated Fishermen always exaggerate the


size of a fish they caught.
5. impersonality He searched for a topic which
would warm his office
impersonality into friendship.
6. isolated Patients of chronic diseases are
is o la t e d i n s p e c ia l wa r d s o f
hospital.
7. meddling I don't like meddling of other
people in my affairs.
8. plaque Plaques of principals of colleges
are hanged in the office.
9. protruding H e h u n g h is c o a t o n a n a il
protreding from the wall.
10. restrained He restrained himself as much as
possible to keep him injuring.
11. ridicule Silly mistake often arouse ridicule.
12. ridiculously Sh e w a s w e a r in g a p a i r o f
ridiculously high-heeled shoes.
13. rimless She was wearing rimless glasses.
14. solitary There was a solitary sheep in the
field.
15. stammer Many children stammer but grow
out of it.
16. tangible Time should not be spent arguing
tangible topics.
17. taut His skin was smooth and warm
stretched taut over an athlete
badly.
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18. venture Th e p r o je c t i s j o in t v e n t u r e
between the public and private
section.

Reading Makes Us Wise!!


Dialogue
The doctor tells him that he may have few cavities.
He takes the x-ray.
After taking the X-ray, the Dr. tells Daniyal that there
are two cavities in his teeth. One looks superficial but the
other one needs to be properly treated.
      
     
   
    
  
 
   
Daniyal: How long will the treatment take?
Doctor: I'll get the fillings drilled and you need to take
care of it. One cavity is deep so you'll have to
come again. (he tells Daniyal that it's decay,
looks like he does not clean his teeth properly).
   
 
   
      

    
    
 
 
  
  
Daniyal: But, Dr. I daily brush my teeth in the morning.
Doctor: You must brush your teeth after dinner, before
going to bed. If you don't, the food stuck in your
teeth during night will get stale and damage
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your teeth. Make it a habit to brush your teeth at


night before going to sleep.
 

   

       
  
 
   
     
 
 
Daniyal: Thank you very much Dr for giving me such
useful information. In future I'll follow your
instructions.
Doctor: I'm giving you the medicine for tooth ache. Take
o n e t a b le t h r e e t ime s a d a y. Ta ke t h e
appointment after three days. I'll see the
condition of the tooth and do the treatment
accordingly.
 
         
 
  
   
    

  
  
   
Daniyal: (L e av e s th e c lin ic af t er t a kin g t he n e xt
appointment).
(Comes to the clinic at the time of appointment).
Dr. Sahib, my tooth ache is much better now.
Doctor: Please recline, I'll check. (He tells Daniyal that
he is filling the cavity after cleaning).
I've completed the treatment. Now you must
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keep in mind that cleaning teeth properly is very


important. Otherwise tooth decay is the main
source of stomach infection as well.

      


 
 
       

 
 
   
        
          
  
    
    
  
 

Daniyal: Thank you very much Dr. I will follow your
advice and take care of my teeth.
Good bye!

Doctor: Good bye!

    


  
  

 
  
 

Working with Words


Task: Link the given words with the pictures
Teeth, Doctor, The clinic,
Tooth decay
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Ans:
Teeth

Doctor
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Task: Complete the mind-map with word related to
"teeth"

Task: Find out what the following diseases and


illnesses are? Give symptoms and causes.
malaria measles mumps cholera
typhoid pneumonia
Ans:

S.No. Disease Definition Symptoms Causes


1 Malaria Malarial Fever, flu Caused by
fever like illness, biting of
shaking mosquito
chills,
headache,
muscle
ackes,
tiredness,
Nausea,
Vomiting
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2 Measles Contagious Fever, Measles


infectious cough, virus
disease runny nose,
inflamed
eyes, small
white spots
3 Mumps Viral Fever, Virus that
infection headache, spreads
affects muscle from
salivary aches, person to
glands tiredness, person
located loss of
near ears. appetite,
swallowing
of salivary
glands
4 Cholera Infection of Prouse Bactarium,
small diarrhea, vibroio
intenstine vomiting, cholerae,
dehydration, unsafe
Muscle water,
Cramp, unsafe
sukken food,
eyes, Fish contaminated
odor, sin with
bluish grey, human
extreme feces,
loss of fluid poor
dry mouth, sanitation,
wrinkled unclean
hand or feet drinking
low blood water
pressure,
rapid pulse
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5 Typhoid Bacterial High fever, Bacteria


infection abdominal salmonella
that cause pain,
high fever, constipation,
diarrhea headache,
and mild
vomiting. vomiting,
skin rash,
rose colored
spots
6 Pneumonia Infection in Dry cough, Bacteria,
one or both chest pain, virus,
lungs. fever fungi
Difficult in difficulty in bacterial
breath breathing streptococcus
pneumoniae

Task: We cannot think of a hospital without 'Doctors'


and 'Nurses.' Find information on the internet
about who else are there to assist the doctors?
Ans: 1. Nurses 2. Ward boys
3. X-ray technicans 4. Therapists
5. Technicians 6. Clerical staff
7. Janitorial staff 8. Info tech staff
9. Food service staff
10. Environmental services staff
11. harmacists 12. Psychiatrists
13. Dentists 14. Technologists
Task: By using the reference books in your library, find
out some of the advances made in the field of
medicine.
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Ans: For one the some advances made in the field of


medicines.
1. Virtual reality
2. Precision medicine
3. Health wearables
4. Artificial limbs/ organs
5. 3-D printing
6. Wireless brain sensors
7. Robotic surgery 8. Smart inhalers
9. Telehealth
10. Clu st e re d r e g ula rly in te r s pa c ed sh o rt
palandromic repeats (CRISPR)
11. Online
12. Information technology
Conceptual Understanding
Link the person from left-hand column with
the correct 'identifying information' in the
right-hand column.

S.No. Person Identifying Information


i) fugitive a physician who treats mental
illness
ii) archaeologist one who defeats others
iii) amateur a person who translates spoken
language
iv) playwright a person who keeps financial
records
v) traveller someone who excavates ancient
sites
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vi) receptionist a person on the move


vii) conqueror a non-professional
viii) psychiatrist a person who is fleeing
ix) interpreter someone who receives people
entering an office
x) accountant a writer for the stage

Ans:

S.No. Person Identifying Information


i) fugitive a physician who is fleeing
ii) archaeologist someone who excavates ancient
sites
iii) amateur a non professional
iv) playwright a writer for the stage
v) traveller a person on the move
vi) receptionist someone who receives the people
vii) conqueror one who defeats others
viii) psychiatrist a physician who treats mental
illness
ix) interpreter a person who translate spoken
language
x) accountant a person who keeps financial
records

Language Corner
1. Adverbs
An adverb provides information about the
verb, adjective, or another adverb in a
sentence.
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Examples:
i) The boy ran quickly. ('quickly' gives information
about the verb 'ran')
ii) They ha d a r eally good t ime. (' rea lly' g iv es
information about the adjective 'good')
iii) She walks very slowly. ('very' gives information
about the adverb 'slowly')
Kinds of Adverbs
i) Adverbs of manner (how)
She sang loudly. He ran fast.
ii) Adverb of time (when)
Come tomorrow. Call me early.
iii) Adverbs of place. (where)
Put it there. Wait outside.
Task: Underline the adverbs and also mention the
types.
i) He ran quickly to open the door.
Type: Adverb of Manner
ii) She told the story sobbingly.
Type: Manner
iii) He was driving carelessly.
Type: Manner
iv) I finished my work immediately after the class was
over.
Type: Time
v) The English teacher teaches us diligently.
Type: Manner
2. Pronouns
Pronouns take the place of nouns. Pronouns can do
anything that nouns can do.
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Types of Pronouns
i) Personal pronouns
ii) Relative pronouns
iii) Demonstrative Pronouns
iv) Reflexive Pronouns
v) Interrogative Pronouns
i) Personal pronouns
The personal pronoun is used in place of a noun
that refers to the name of a person, place or thing. A
personal pronoun can be either the subject, the
object or the possessive.
Example words:
I, we, me, us, you, she, her, he, him, it.
It is between you and me.
This is for you and him.
He was with Human and us.
For each of these pronouns, we can tell
 person (who is speaking)
 number (is the pronoun singular or plural)
 gender (is the pronoun feminine or masculine)
ii) Relative pronouns
 use who, that, which for subjects
 use whom, that, which for objects
 use who and whom for people; that and which for
things.
iii) Demonstrative Pronouns
are those which demonstrate, point and identify
nouns. They are this, that, these, those, one, none.
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Example:
He looked at these, decided that was the best, and
said none of the others could match it. Those are
yours; this is mine; and he already has one.
iv) Reflexive Pronouns
reflect or refer to the subject in a clause. They all
end in -self or- selves.
Myself, yourself, himself, itself, oneself, ourselves,
yourselves, themselves
Napolean (subject) appointment himself as leader
and opposed others (subject) who wanted the position for
themselves.
Shahida (subject) was at fault herself, but expected
that I (subject) would take the responsibility myself too.
v) Interrogative Pronouns
are those which interrogate or question. They are
who, whom, whose, which, what, whoever, whichever.
Which is the house and who is going to be there?
Out of these cars, whose are we going in and what
does it look like?
Task: Fill in the blanks by using different kinds of
pronouns.
1. Boys, can you make your beds yourself.
2. The girl looked at her in the mirror.
3. Freddy, you'll have to do your homework yourself.
4. You don't need to help them. They can do it
themselves.
5. I introduced him to my new neighbour.
6. So, Little Red Riding Hood made his way to
Grandma's house.
7. In the forest he met the big bad wolf.
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Fluency of Expression
1 Share your own experience of visiting a
hospital.
Ans: Last Sunday, I happened to visit the local hospital to
see my friend who was admitted there after an
accident. He got head injury and also fractures. I
went to hospital at 1000 hrs as the visiting hours of
the hospital were fixed from 1000 hrs to 1200 hrs on
Sunday. I entered from main gate. The main
building of the hospital was neat, clean and great.
The rooms of the wards were well lit and ventilated
on the left of the entrance, There was an enquiry
room. A receptionist was there on duty. A large
medical stone was adjacent to the enquiry room. A
casualty room was also near it where all the
emergency cases were attended upon. A young
man was brought on the stretcher with shirt and
trouser covered with blood. He had met an accident.
I entered the hospital I saw separate wards for
different kinds of diseases. On the front was ENT
ward. Here all types of diseases regarding ear, nose
and throat, are attended. Next to it was orthopedic
department. Here all case of bne fractures were
attended to. A small child was crying as his leg was
plastered after fracture. As I entered the main
building of hospital, I saw many people lying in the
beds. It was general ward. All the patients were
looking sad and in distress. Neatly dressed nurses
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and doctors were attending them. There were


silence and gloom every where. I went to surgical
ward to visit my friend. I reached there and found my
friend lying in a bed with plastered legs and
bandaged head. He was looking like a ghost.
However he was conscious and he recognized me.
His brother was also with him. I sad besides them
and asked about his health and recovery. I sat there
for half an hour and then asked permission. I said
good bye to him and prayed for his early recovery.
His eyes were looking sad but he was helpless. I left
the ward and came out of the hospital.
2 Discuss with your class fellows why it is
important to follow the visiting hours?
Ans: It is important to respect the visiting hours and rest
times of hospital because patients need time to
recov er. Hospitals is place for treatment and
recovery. It is importnat to keep to hospital's visiting
hours so patient can get plenty of rest. Visitors can
help people recover fast and also to reduce their
anxiety and stress. However visitors must respect
hospital policies and visitng hours. Visitor must obey
the rules of the ward and should leave the wards
before the closing time and must step out of the
room and ward. If visiting hours are not followed,
than patients will be more tired, exhaustive and
other patients will also to have suffer. So visiting
hours must be observed by all for the early and
speedy recovery of patients. Moreover their checkup
by medical staff is ensured.
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3 Discuss the different professions that attract


you to pursue further and why?
Ans: Following profession attract me for future of life.
1) Doctor 2) Teacher
3) Scientist 4) Lawyers
1) Doctor
The profession of doctor is very respectable,
humanity service. A doctor maintains or restores
human health. He diagonoses and treat human
diseases, ailment, injuries, pain or other conditions
through listening the patient, examining, taking
samples of blood, sputum, stool for testing purposes
to ascertain the nature of disease. Doctors are
specialized in various fields of human systems. Ear,
nose, throat, eye, dentists, heart experts kidney,
obstetricds, paediatrics etc. Hence this profession is
highly motivated and service to mankind.
2) Teacher
A teacher is a person who helps students to acquire
knowledge, competence or virtue. Teachers provide
instructions in all the subjects of study. A teacher's
professional duty is beyond formal teaching. They
may accompany students on field trips, supervise
study halls, help school functions and other
extracurricular activities. Teachers are coming
persons, makages instructions, expert learner,
disciplined, affectionate and sometime stern.
Teachers must show enthusiasm toward course
material, must have better interaction with students,
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highly qualified and trained. The profession of


teacher is highly respectable in our society an dhe is
also considered as a role model for students.
3) Scientist
A scientist researches and examines various aspect
of ph ysical world in order to attain a better
understanding of how thing function and work.
The re ar e many sp ec ialization of sc ien tists
depending on the field of study. Each scientist
follows the scientific methods which is strict set of
rules that ensure that all new discoveries and
inventions are factual and not speculations. Scientist
work in every field of life large and small companies
hire scientists to work on product and research
projects universities hire scientist for research work
or to teach. Gov ernment and hospitals issue
research grants and hire scientists to work on
funded projects. A large number of scientists
ca te go rie s a re av aila b le in clud in g c h emis t,
biochemist, biologist, geneticist, zoologists, food
analysts, entomologist etc. This profession is highly
respectable and service to humanity and must be
adopted for advancement of discoveries and
inventions in the world.
4) Lawyers
A lawyer is a profession of great respect and
honour. Becoming a lawyer is an enormous
undertaking in terms of commitment and financial
investment. This profession is highly earning.
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Lawyers are among highest paid professionals. It


depends on employer, experience and location. This
profession is hall mark of prestige. Impressive
degree and authority over other have placed lawyer
in ether circles of professionals who command
respect and embody the definition of success. They
enjoy a unique status. They are in unique position to
help individuals, groups, and organizations. With
their legal problems and to the public goods. Lawyer
help low income individuals and underserved
position of population such as elders, victim of
domestic abuse, children etc. It is most intellectually
rewarding job and are problem solver. They have
global influence and my affect societies as law
maker and thought leaders. They write laws, rules
t h e c o u n t a n d h o ld in f lu e n t ia l p o s it io n s in
government and politics. Most of the politicians play
effective role in their country. Quaid-e-Azam won
their freedom struggle through the rule of law.
Hence this profession is highly effective influential
and respectable.

Creative Writing
Task: Choose any two professions and write a few
lines about your selection. You may take help
from the pictures.
Ans: Following professions are good and better to choose
in future.
1) Engineer 2) Nursing
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1) Engineer
1. An engineer is someone who builds house and
invent thing.
2. Engineer are different types i.e. mechanical,
electrical, robotic, civil etc.
3. Engineer solve technical problem.
4. Engineers do not only work with machines but also
work with other people.
5. Different type of engineer work together and help
each other.
6. Computer are used by engineers for prototype and
then manufacture in factories.
7. Engineering profession is most rewarding and fun
professions.
8. Mechanical engineers design other machines inside
buildings such as elevators, escalators.
9. They build societies, buildings, auto mobiles, heavy
machines, agriculture machines etc.
10. Engineer perform duties of planning and designing
tools, engines, machines, and also installation,
operation, maintenance and repair of equipments
and machines.
2) Nursing
1. A nurse is a trained healthcare worker who serve
patient in hospitals.
2. It si considered the largest health profession service
in the world.
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3. A nurse is very dedicated and hard working and


carries out many responsibilities with honesty and
devotion.
4. A nurse treats all type of patients including infected
by diseases and also those who met accidents.
5. A nurse works as doctor's assistance and obeys his
orders.
6. A nurse is very sympathetic, kind, polite.
7. A nuse is known as sister of mercy.
8. A nurse is kind nature, always smiling and cheerful.
9. Nurses are trained professionals and sometime they
look after the patients in absence of doctors.
10. Nurses wear white uniform and puts on a cap on the
head.

    
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UNIT 12

River Indus Saga

Words Meaning  


Words Meanings Words Meanings
source   fertility 
melting  pouring 


volume  swelling 
sound   indicates  

strength   rhythmic
 
dipping 
 splashing
 
gushing  fury 
compared   slows down  
 
gentle   phases 
vital   climate 
seasons  back bone  
supplies 
 lakes 
provides 
 scenic 
existence   countless  
civilization  represent
 
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habitations  ancient 


searched  
 ballast 

bricks   ruins 
realized  archeologist 


excavation  dead city 
elevated  spanning 
irrigation 
  variety  
endangered    amphibian   

wild boar  inhabitant 
diversity  ethnicity 
linguistic  historic  
distinctive  boundry 
culture  populated  

richness   observed 
fact  script 
ferared   with passage  

of time
replaced 
 altogether 
incredibly  looked after 

properly   gravel
 
river bed  
  untreated  
sewerage  cause 

pollution   thankfully 
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recognize  recreation 
canoeing   community 
protected  favor  
equally 
Translation

Para 1: A river is a source of life and fertility. Melting snow
and pouring rain at the mountain tops add volume to the
water and it goes on swelling. The sound of water indicated
its strength through rhythmic, dripping, splashing or gushing
sounds. The fast fury of the river slows down as it
high-grounds and enters low-lands. Its journey ends as it
falls into the sea. The path of a river can be compared to
human life that it begins with speed in the beginning, slows
down in the middle and gets gentle and slow in the end. All
these changing phases of a river's course are vital to the
climate and the season.
         
  
 
    
          
  
  
     
         

    
    


                 
  
        
   
   
Para 2: River Indus is like the back bone of Pakistan. It
supplies water to all provinces and major cities. It forms
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lakes and dams for our use and provides us scenic beauty.
We select water spots for fresh and cool air, chirping birds
and colourful flowers. Can we take the existence of this
river for granted?

 
 
    


        

         
 

 
   
Para 3: The rive beds become home to countless people
and this practice had been there for centuries. The major
cities of the Indus Valley Civilisation, such as Harappa and
Mohenjo-Daro, date back to around 3000 BC, and
represent some of the largest human habitations of the
ancient world. In 1856, a group of British railroad engineers
uncovered an ancient and advanced civilization. The
engineers were laying tracks through the Indus River Valley
in present-day Pakistan. They searched the area for stone
to make ballast. The engineers found bricks that seemed
very old but were formed exactly alike. The local people
told the engineers of the ruins of an ancient city made of
the same bricks. The engineers soon realized that the
bricks were part of one of the earliest advanced civilizations
in history. Archaeologists first visited Mohenjo-Daro in
1911 and continued excavations till 1964 to dig out the
dead city. The ancient city sits on elevated ground in
modern-day Larkana district of Sindh province.
         

 3000    
   
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   1856   


   


      
    
     
  
     
       
      
     
       
 1964     1911  
  
      
Para 4: River indus tells us stories of the time gone by. It is
the longest river of Pakistan spanning a length of 2,700km,
providing water for a wide range of uses for human beings
including drinking, irrigation and industries. The river Indus
and its banks are home to a variety of endangered species
including fish, amphibians, birds, small and large mammals
such as the Indus blind dolphin, hog deer, wild board,
Indian cobra and many more.
   
      
     
   
     

 2700  
   
 
 

    
   
 
   

 
 
Para 5: The inhabitants of the regions are mainly Muslims
but the banks of the river and the ancient Indus civilization
show diversity in ethnicity, religion, national and linguistic
backgrounds. The source of the river indicates historic
background where Buddhist, Hindus, Jains lived for
centuries. Then the river descends into Baltistan, Northern
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Pakistan, passing the main Balti city of Skardu, where


people are mainly Kohistani and speak the Kohistani
language. The Indus river forms a distinctive boundary of
ethnicity and cultures upon the western banks where the
population is largely Pashtun, Baloch, and of some Iranian
tribes. The eastern banks are largely populated by Punjabis
and Sindhis.
   
  

 
   
    
       

 
 
    
 
  
     
 
       
       
      
   
    
  

 
 
Para 6: The linguistic richness of the country can be
observed from the fact that there are around 70 languages
spoken in the country. Beginning with the river in the north,
the languages continue to change after a distance of 20-30
kilometers. Some of these languages include Punjabi,
Siraiki, sindhi, Pashtu, Balochi, Hindko, Brahui, Burushaski,
Balti, Khawar, Wakhi, Gujrati, Kashmiri, Potohari etc. Urdu
is the official language of Pakistan. As it is written in an
Arabic script, hence, most of the languages follow the
same script. Some of the languages are only used for
spoken purposes and it is feared that with the passage of
time more developed languages might replace them
altogether.
  
 70 
  
 
 
 30-20
  
 
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           



      
       
  

 
 
 
 



  
      

 
Para 7: Rivers are incredibly important to people and
animals, but we have not always looked after them
properly. Removing sand and gravel from river beds for
building materials can damage them, and secondly while
pouring untreated sewerage and other wastewater into
rivers, we cause pollution and lower water quality.
Thankfully, many people recognize just how important
these rivers are and they use water for recreation, from
fishing and canoeing to making gardens and sitting places
along the riverbanks. Community groups are formed to help
keep the rivers clean and protected. Rivers give us life and
it is vital that we return the favor equally by looking after
them!
         
   

  
       
  
  
     
      
     
 
        
      
 
    
  

       
     


    
     
  
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Exercise

Understanding and Comprehension


Answer the following questions.
Reading for detail
Answer these questions in a few words:
a. How do rivers grow in size?
Ans: Melting snow and pouring rain on the mountain top
increase the volume of water in river and hence size
of the river grow.
b. Read the list of languages and tell which
languages have you heard or can?
Ans: Following languages have been heard
1. Urdu 2. Punjabi
3. Sindhi 4. Pushto
5. Siraiki 6. Hindko
7. Potohari 8. Kashmiri
c. What do we learn from the excavations of
Moenjo-Daro?
Ans: Excavation of MoenJo Daro revealed that it was built
on elevated ground in District Larkana of Sind
Province.
Reading for meaning
Ans w e r t he s e q ue s t i o ns i n c o m p le t e
sentences:
d. Discuss the relationship of gravity and the
flow of water.
Ans: Gravity is force of attraction between earth and
bodies on earth. All the bodies come from high
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points to low points under the action of gravity. So
when water starts flowing from mountain to lower
land, its speed is very high under the action of
gravity and hence flow of water is very speedy, and
indicate its strength through gushing sound.
Whereas in plain areas it is very slow and stable due
to less gravity.
e. What do you think is the reason for the colour
of the river water?
Ans: When rocks are weathered down over passage of
time, the minerals from rocks are dissolved and
small pieces are released into water, they cause
different colour. Iron, Manganese and calcium
carbonate from limestones are common mineral that
cause water to range in colour from red and orange
to green and blue. Sediments and soil sun off also
change water color. Erosion from river banks bring
soil into water changing the color. After heavy
storms, many rivers run brown from run off water
flowing in the river. Clay can cause the water color
murky white brown or yellow. Algae can also cause
change in colour of water from dark green to
reddish. Minerals, soil run off and sediments. Cause
water to vary from its natural color of blue
Reading for inference
Write True (T) or False (F) beside each of
these statements. Cite evidence from the text
to support your answer:
f. A river is like a human life.
Ans: True
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Evidence
Page 133 line 1
A river is source of life.
g. Every province has only one language.
Ans: False
Evidence
Page 134 line 16, 17
There are around 70 languages spoken in the
country. The language continues to change after a
distance of 20-30 kilometer.
h. Excavations do not tell us much about the
past.
Ans: False
Evidence
Page 133 last two lines
The excavation of Moenjo Daro till 1964 continued
to dig out the dead city. The ancient city sits on the
elevated ground in modern day Larkana.
Reading for ideas
Discuss your answers to these questions as
a class or in groups:
i. Would you like to live close to a river? Give
reasons for your choice.
Ans: There are lot of benefits living close to a river.
1. The fresh air to breathe.
2. Immune system is strengthened.
3. Better sleep
4. Increase white blood cells.
5. River water provide rich soil for farming.
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6. River provide transportation for people.


7. Various types of food and crops he cultivated
near riverside due to rich and fertile soil.
8. Pollution free environment.
9. Easily fishing and hunting near river sides.
10. Fresh water supply and climate pleasant.
j. How many languages can you speak/ read/
write? Make a chart.
Ans:

Speak Read Write


Urdu Urdu Urdu
Punjabi Punjabi Punjabi
Hindko Arabic Arabic
Potohari English English
Potohari Potohari

k. Indus civilization makes us proud! Discuss.


Ans: Indus valley civilization was a bronze age civilization
in North Western regions of South Asia. It was one
of the three early civilization of North East and South
Asia and mostly wide spread. Its sites spanning an
area stretching from North East Afghanistan through
much of Pakistan and India. It flourished in the
basins of River Indus which flows through the
lengths of Pakistan. It is names after Indus river
system. A sophist icated and techn ologically
advanced urban culture is evident in Indus valley
civilization. The quality of municipal town planning
was very effective with high priority of hygeine, easy
access of religious rituals. Excavation of Harappa.
Moenjo Daro rev eals the urban plan included
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sanitation system, water from wells, separate
bathing facility, waste water to covered drains,
houses opened only to inner courtyards and smaller
lanes. Advanced architecture of Harappan is shown
by doc kya rd, g ran eries, ware h ous es, br ick
platforms, and protective walls. The massive walls
of indus cities protect them from floods and
invaders. City dweller were traders or artisans.
Materials were used for construction of seals, beads
and other objects. Although some houses in this
civilization were larger than others, indus civilization
cities were remarkable for their apparent. All the
houses had access to water and drainage facilities.
This gives the impression of a society with relatively
low wealth concentration though clear social
levelling is seen in personal adornments. Hence the
indus civilization were for advanced, planned and
access of various facilities to all the inhabitants.

Working with Words


1- Vocabulary, Diction and Pronunciation
a- Read the words with the help of phonetic
script and practice in class. Also learn their
spellings and meaning.

Words/ Meaning
Classification
Civilizations an advanced state of human society,
noun in which a high lev el of culture,
science, industry, and government
has been reached.
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Fertility the ability to produce young


noun/ adjective
Fury extreme anger or force:
noun
Vital necessary or extremely important for
adjective the success or continued existance
of something
habitations the act of living in a place:
noun
ballast the small stones on which railways
noun and roads are made:
Archaeologists someone who studies the buildings,
noun graves, tools, and other objects of
people who lived in the past.
Excavations the act of removing earth that is
adjective/ adverb/ covering very old objects buried in
noun the ground in order to discover things
about the past:
span an extent, stretch, rach, or spread
between two limits; space or lifetime
Tranquility calm, quiet, and peaceful:
adjective/ noun
Transparent allowing light through so that objects
adjective/ noun can be clearly seen through it
Confluence a situation in which two things join or
noun come together
Dehydrated not having normal amount of water in
adjective your body so that you feel ill or weak
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Ethnicity a group of people who s hare a


noun common and distinctive culture,
religion, language etc

S.No. Words Sentences


1 Civilizations He took admission in university to
study the civilization of Arab world.
2 Fertility He studied the effects of pollution
on fertility of soil in the area.
3 Fury He could hardly contain his fury.
4 Vital Basic sciences are vital part of
school study.
5 habitations A large number of old buildings
hav e bee n de cla red unf it f or
human habitation.
6 ballast They got ballast out and loaded in
truck.
7 Archaeologists A r c h e o l o g i s t s discov ered
Harappa, taxila.
8 Excavations During excavation of Moenjodaro,
various items were discovered.
9 span His academic interest span a
variety of topics.
10 Tranquility Pa k is t a n e n s u r e p e a c e a n d
tranquality on its border side.
11 Transparent The wate r in p ond was so
transparent that we can see fish
swimming.
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12 Confluence Th e ma r r ia g e i s a b e a u t i f u l
representation of confluence of
two families.
13 Dehydrated Vegetables and fruits are
dehydrated to conserve them for
future use.
14 Ethnicity Ethnicity has strong influence on
community status relation.

Reading Makes Us Wise!!

Kartarpur – A Friendship Corridor


Under the leadership of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad
Ali Jinnah, the Muslims fought for their freedom and
achieved the goal of a separate homeland – Pakistan. As a
policy, the country decided to be sympathetic towards all
minorities and to prov ide them the needful support
whenever required.
With the division of India in 1947, the land under
the green and white flag was blessed with many sacred
places recognized by different groups of people. Pakistan
possesses the rich heritage of Buddhists with stupas,
statues and remains abundantly spread in the Northern
areas. Punjab was divided during partition in 1947, hence
many of the Sikh Gurdwaras and places of religious
significance came in the domain of Pakistan. As Muslims,
we understand the value of pilgrimage to holy lands and
our government has always felt obliged to facilitate people
in performing rituals in their respective religious sites. One
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of these places is Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur, the


place where the leader of the sikh religion, Guru Nanak
lived for many years and spent the last days of his life.
A corridor is a narrow tract of land forming a
passageway, for example one connecting two major cities
or countries. In 2018, Pakistan took the initiative to
announce the construction of "Kartarpur Corridor" as a
cordial gesture to facilitate the request of the Sikh
community of India. In the media, all over the world this has
been regarded as "Corridor of Friendship". Prime Minister
Imran Khan played a vital role in the creation of this
Corridor.
The Kartarpur corridor became operational in time
for celebrations of the 550th anniversary of the birth of
Guru Nanak. This corridor leads from the Indian border
straight to the Gurdwara at a distance of 4 km, with the
side s f e nc e d o ff . Th e mo v e h as be e n we lco med
enthusiastically by the Sikh community. It also represents a
rare instance of co-operation between the two countries,
who have fought three wars since independence.
  
   

           
 
   
 
 
 
  
   
 1947


           
      

1947        
        
      
 
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  
       

          
 
   
        
    


    
 
   
 
   
          
   

       
 2018    
      
               
 

             
    


       550    

   

  
 4     
   
 
          

  
      

Language Corner
1- Analogies
A river to the land is like a backbone is to the
body.
You have just read the above analogy in the unit. An
analogy is a comparison between two things that are
usually thought to be different from each other, but that
have something in common. Analogies help us understand
something by comparing it to something we already know.
It might sound a little confusing, but a few examples will
make it easier to understand. Analogies can help build
vocabulary and reading skills. Learning tools, like a
thesaurus, can be very helpful if you get stuck when trying
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to use an analogy. Try two more examples of analogies:


 Birds to feather as dog is to _______. (fur)
Hot is to Sibi as is to K2. (cold)
Task:
 Circle the word that best completes each analogy.
 Explain why you chose your answer.
1. Cat is to mouse and spider is to ______.
i. dog ii. Rat
iii. Fly iv. lizard
Correct answer: iii. Fly
Explanation: As cat catches mouse so
as spider catches fly.
2. Giraffe is to spots as zebra is to _______.
i. runs ii. Stripes
iii. wild iv. animal
Correct answer: ii. stripes
Explanation: As giraffe has spot on skins similarly
Zebra has spot on skins.
3. Triangle is to three as pentagon is to _______.
i. shape ii. Five
iii. corners iv. building
Correct answer: ii. Five
Explanation: As triangle means three so
penta means five.
4. Hungry is to eat as thirsty is to _______.
i. food ii. water
iii. drink iv. cola
Correct answer: iii. drink
Explanation: As hungry person eats so
thirsty person drink.
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2. Similes & Metaphors


I. Similes and metaphors are two types of analogies. A
simile is a comparison using the words "like" or "as".
 Example: The lamp seemed as bright as the sun.
II. A metaphor is a comparison without using the words
like or as.
 Example: I picked the orange that remined me of a
basketball.
Task: Below are sentences that contain a metaphor
or a simile. Identify which is used in each
sentence and write the metaphor or simile in
the blank.
i. The sky was the color of the calm Pacific thousands
of miles from land. Metaphor
ii. I am as hungry as a bear recently awakened from
hibernation. Similes
iii. She was a kite, floating above the confusion around
her. Metaphor
iv. Like a silent thief, the dog crept into the kitchen.
Similes
v. The dark, cold and dilent room was a tomb.
Metaphor
vi. The sunshine was like a warm blanket on a cold and
rainy night. Similes
3. Perfect Tenses
Perfect tense is used when we want to talk about
something that happened before another point in time.
These tenses are formed by preceding the past participle of
the verb with 'had', 'have' or 'will have'.
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The perfect tenses are used to talk about actions


that are completed at the time of speaking.
 I have finished my homework. (Present perfect
tense)
 I had finished my homework before the guests
arrived. (Past perfect tense)
 I will have finished my homework by the time the
guests arrive. (Future perfect tense)
Formation of the perfect tenses
The perfect tenses are formed by putting has, have
or had before the past participle (3rd form eg. Eat – ate –
eaten) form of the verb.
Task:
A. Complete the sentences with a present
perfect verb phrase.
i. Hailey visit many countries.
ii. My sister eat Chinese food before.
iii. I find the solution to the puzzle.
iv. We meet the teacher recently.
Ans:
i. Hailey has visited many countries.
ii. My sister has eaten Chinese food before.
iii. I have found the solution to the puzzle.
iv. We have met the teacher recently.
B. Select the words that correctly complete each
sentence.
i. Ramzan _______ the entire garage.
a. have not cleans b. has not cleaned
c. has nt cleaning d. have not cleaned
Correct answer: b. has not cleaned
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ii. The friends _______ to the market.


a. has not gone b. have not going
c. have not gone d. have not went
Correct answer: c. have not gone
C. Improve each to use a negative present
perfect phrase for the underlined words.
i. The dog did not hurt its leg. ___________________
ii. My friends did not steal my chair. _______________
iii. Karim did not study well for the test. ____________
Ans:
i. The dog did not hurt its leg. has not hurt
ii. My friends did not steal my chair. has not stolen
iii. Karim did not study well for the test.
has not studied

Creative Writing
1. Conducting a Survey - Data Collection
Pie Chart is a graphic representation of quantitative
information by means of a circle divided into sectors, in
which the relative sizes of the areas of the sectors
correspond to the relative sizes of proportions of the
quantities.
Task – 1
i. Ask your friends about their mother tongue (MT).
ii. Fill it up in the given table.
iii. Choose colours or shapes for different languages.
iv. Count the number of languages and number of
speakers of a language and show the information
numerically. Begin with total number of friends 20.
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No. Language Percentage%


of %Formula: Part/ whole = %100

3 Urdu × 100 = 15%

5 Pushto × 100 = 25%

7 Punjabi × 100 = 35%

3 Sindhi × 100 = 15%

1 Siraiki × 100 = 5%

1 Potohari × 100 = 5%

20 a a

S.No. Name Mother Tongue


1 Ahsan Punjabi
2 Ashraf Punjabi
3 Ehsan Pashto
4 Umer Punjabi
5 Kaif Urdu
6 Akram Potohari
7 Riffat Siraiki
8 Faisal Sindhi
9 Abid Urdu
10 Anwar Punjabi
11 Ayaz Pushto
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12 Haidar Pushto
13 Akhtar Urdu
14 Qaisar Punjabi
15 Abdul Rehman Pashto
16 Abdul Raheem Punjabi
17 Gul Hassan Sindhi
18 Qalandar Sindhi
19 Shahid Pashto
20 Nasir Punjabi

2. Water Footprint Calculator:


Make a list of the activities which show how much
water do you use every day. It is not just the water that
comes out of the tap, but also the water it takes to make
the food you eat, the energy you use and the products you
buy. Find out your water footprint!
Draw a glass as a measurement to show your
personal use of water!
Table: Use of Water

S.No. List of Number of glasses


Activities (total of drinking water
in liters)
1 Drinking 10 litres
2 Bathing 15 litres
3 Kitchen 25 litres
4 Cloth washign 50 litres
5 Lawn watering 20 litres
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6 Vehicle washing 25 litres


7 Brushing 5 litres
8 Abultion 25 litres

3. Water Cycle – Reflection Time


Water is recycled like all other old things. The water
you consider fresh has been recycled many times. Do you
know this?
Look at the water in the glass you are about to drink
and reflect on the water cycle! and its stages Write your
reflection in the given box.

Relfection:

Ans: Water Cycle — Stages


1. Evaporation 2. Condensation
3. Sublimation 4. Precipitation
5. Transpiration 6. Run off
7. Infiltration

Relfection: As the surface of glass is transparnt,


smooth and shining so the light will reflect at the same
angle as it hits the surface.
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Fluency of Expression
1. "My Pledge to save water" –
One-minute Speech
When the water in our rivers, lakes, and oceans
becomes polluted; it can endanger wildlife, make our
drinking water unsafe, and endanger the waters where we
swim and fish.
Some language clues are given to help you speak
on the given topic:
Note: Some words, given under change during direct and
indirect narration.
I pledge .....
I promise that I will .......
I swear I will
I swear I won't
I assure you that I will
Believe me, I won't disappoint you .....
Trust me, I can do it.

1. "My Pledge to save water"


1. I pledge to conserve water every day
use it wisely, not waste it away
I will save every drop I can
Every day of the week
Here is my plan
2. I promise that I will
a) Turn off water while brushing teeth
b) Take a shorter shower, Five minute is great
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c) Tell an adult if I see a leak


d) Remind friends and family to save water
e) Throw trash in trash can instead of flushing
down in toilet.
3. I swear I will not waste water
4. I swear I would not wash my cycle and toys with
pipe.
5. I assure that I will not use excess water in toilet.
6. Believe me, I won't disappoint you and will act upon
my promises.
7. Trust me I can do it.
2. Gratitude Journal
A great to practice Gratitude is to write down the
many things you are grateful for.
 This can be an activity just before going to bed.
 Two samples are shown under but you can design
something for yourself.
 You can use a small coil note book or sticky note
pad. Collect them to form your journal.
I am thankful for
a) my parents b) my siblings
c) my friends d) my teachers
e) my ears f) my eyes
g) my legs h) breakfast
i) lunch j) bicycle
k) books l) good school
m) beautiful house n) small garden
o) beautiful pets p) modern toys
q) tablet/ mini computer
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3. Investigative Journalist
The basis of investigative journalism is for students
to interview one another in pairs and present their findings.
In todays world of media, this role has gained popularity.
Prepare a team of friends to locate places where an
awareness campaign for water conservation can be carried
out.
For example; School washrooms, kitchens etc.
(You may use school camera with permission to
take pictures and display them)

Fun Reading:

Quotations
 If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in
water.
 Without water drops, there can be no oceans;
without steps, there can be no stairs; without little
things, there can be no big things!
 Every drop of water has wealth of life in it.

    
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GRAMMAR
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Table of Contents
Sr. # Lesson Page No.
1 Parts of Speech 304
2 Noun 304
3 Kinds of noun 305
4 Gender 307
5 Sentence 312
6 Parts of Sentence 312
7 Subject and Predicate 313
8 Kinds of Sentence 313
9 Phrase and Clause 315
10 Pronoun 316
11 Kind of Pronoun 316
12 Case and its types 320
13 Verb 322
14 Types of verb 322
15 Forms of verb 324
16 Adverb 330
17 Kinds of Adverb 331
18 Adjective 333
19 Kinds of Adjective 334
20 Degrees of Adjective 335
21 Prepositions 339
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22 Conjunctions 340
23 Interjections 342
24 Prefixes/Suffixes 343
25 Homophones 345
26 Antonyms 347
27 Synonyms 349
28 Direct and Indirect narration 351
29 Singular/Plurals 358
30 Proverbs 362
31 Active and Passive voice 363
32 Tenses 370
33 Exercises 394
34 Application 405
35 Letters 408
36 Stories 412
37 Essays 416

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PARTS OF SPEECH

  
There are eight parts of speech.
1- Noun:
The name of a person, place or a thing is called noun.
  

 
Examples:
Ahmad, Nimra, Karachi, Pakistan, Book, Dish.
2- Pronoun:
The word that is used in place of a noun is called pronoun.

   
   
    
Examples:
We, You, They, She, He, It, This, That.
3- Adjective:
The words which tell us about a good, bad quality, a state or
give an explanation.
   
     
    
    
  
Examples:
A good boy. A bad girl. A white horse. Fresh milk. Five books.
4- Verb:
A verb is a word that describes an action, a state or an event.
  
   
  
Examples:
Run, Grow, Play, Feel etc.
5- Adverb:
Words that add to the meaning of a verb are known as adverbs.
      
Examples:
Quickly, Happily, Swiftly, Slowly.
6- Preposition:
Words that show a relationship of a noun or pronoun with a
verb, adjective or another noun or pronoun are called preposition.
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   
  
     
     
Examples:
Inside, From, In, On, Under, Into etc.
7- Conjunction:
Words that join together words, Phrases and clauses are known
as conjuction.
    
    
     
     
Example:
And, Or, But, Yet, So, As, Such, If, While, Because, When.
8- Interjection:
Words which show sudden feelings and emotions are called
interjection.
   
  
 

Example:
Ah! Hurrah! Hello! Oh! Alas!
Kinds of Noun
Noun:
The name of everything, which exists in this universe, is called
noun.
         
 
Example:
Allama Iqbal, Islamabad, Sugar, Bravery, Iron, Table etc.
Kind of Noun:
Nouns are generally classified into the folloing kinds.
1 Common noun 2 Proper noun.
3 Countable noun 4 Uncountable noun.
5 Collective noun 6 Abstract noun.
7 Material noun 8 Regular noun.
9 Irregular noun 10 Possessive noun.
1- Proper noun:
The name of particular person, a particular place, or a
particular thing is called proper noun.
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Example:
Quaid-e-Azam, Pakistan, The Holy Quran.
    
   
  
2- Common noun:
The name which is common everyone or everything of its kind
is called a common noun.
Example:
City, country, Pencil, Field, Love.
    
        
   
3- Countable Noun:
The names of things which can be counted are called countable
noun.
Example:
Egg, cycle, watch, Mango, School.
 
  Countable Nouns   
4- Uncountable Noun:
The names of things which cannot be counted are called
uncountable nouns.
Example:
Salt, Water, Grass, Flour, Milk, Sand.
 
  Uncountable Nouns   
5- Collective Noun:
The names of groups of people, animals and things are called
collective nouns.
Example:
Crowd, Flock, Gang, Bunch, Army, Class.
      
    
6- Abstract Noun:
Names of qualities, Feelings, Actions and states which we
cannot touch or see are called abstract noun.
Example:
Wisdom, Bravery, Love, Sadness, Fight, Poverty, CHildhood,
Weather, Headach.
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  
      
    
  

    
7- Material Noun:
The word that are used for the name of a substance is called
material noun. Substance of material things cannot be counted, that can
only be measured.
Example:
Wood, Iron, Silver, Gold, Steam, Paper.
      
         
         
     
8- Regular Noun:
The noun whose plural is formed by adding S, Or, es, Are
called regular nouns.
Example:
Apples, Balls, Caps, Bushes, Branches.
  
"es" noun
"s"
9- Irregular Noun:
The nouns whose plural is formed by changing their spellings
are called irregular nouns.
Example:
Man, Men, Ox, Oxen, Mouse, Mise, Foot, Feet.
  spellingsnoun
10- Possessive Noun:
Possessive nouns show ownership. We form that by adding an
apostrophe ( ' ) and an "s".
Example:
1- Adog's nose is very sharp.
2- This is my pen.
  
       
  

Masculine Feminine Gender
Gender:
The difference of sex is called gender.
 
  "Gender"
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In English grammar the gender of noun is of four kinds.


 
     
  
 
1- Masculine Gender: 
Masculine gender denotes men, boys and male animals.
   
   
2- Feminine Gender:   
Feminine Gender denotes, woman, girls and female animals.
  
   

3- Common Gender: 
The nouns which denote both males and females are called
common genders.
    
   
Such As:
Baby, Doctor, Cousin, Friend, Child.
4- Neuter Gender:  
The nouns which denote the life less objects are called neture
gender.
  
    
Such As:
Stone, Table, Radio, Phone, Tree.
"Rules of Forming Gender"
1 Some feminine nouns are formed by adding, "ess" to some
mesculine nouns.
 
   ess

Masculine Femine Masculine Femine
Lion Lioness Steward Stewardess
Giant Giantess Prince Princess
jew Jewess God Godess
Count Countess Manager Manageress
Tiger Tigress Murderer Murderess
Author Authoress Mayor Mayoress
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Heir Heiress Host Hostess


Poet Poetess Headmaster Headmistress
Priest Priestess
2- Some feminine nouns are formed by adding, "ess" after
droping the last vowel in the masculine gender.
  Mesculine Nouns 
   ess     vowel 
feminine nouns
 
Masculine Meaning Feminine Meaning
Actor    Actress    
Porter  Portress 
Conductor   Conductress 
Founder  Foundress 
Songster 
 Songstress  
Emperor  Empress 
Governor  Governess 

Benefactor  Benefactress 
Hunter   Huntress  
Waiter   Waitress  
Negro  Negress 
Monitor  Monitress  
Inspector  Inspectress 
Tiger  Tigress 
Elector  Electress  
Traitor  Traitress  
3- Some genders are formed by adding a word of the mesculine
and feminine gender.

 word feminine gender Masculine gender
 
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Masculine Meaning Feminine Meaning


He-Wolf 
 She-Wolf 
 
He-Bear  She-Bear  
Peacock  Peahen 
Cock-Sparrow 
 Hen-Sparrow 


Grand father   
 Grand mother  
He-Rabbit 
 She-Rabbit 

Bridegroom  Bride 
Bull-Calf  Cow-calf 
Tom-Cat  She-Cat 
Landlord  Landlady  
He-Camel 
 She-Camel 

Brother-in-law   Sister-in-law  
He-Rat  She-Rat 
Milkman  Milkmaid 
Washerman   Washerwoman 
Manservant  Maidservant 
Billy goat  Nanny goat 
Step father 
 Step mother  
Doctor   Lady doctor  
Teacher   Lady Teacher 
4- Some mesculines and feminines have no rule.
  
 
Masculine Meaning Feminine Meaning
Cock  Hen 
Brother  Sister 
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Bachelor  Maid  


Boy  Girl 
Father  Mother 
Uncle   Aunt 
Husband  Wife 
Nephew  Niece 
Son 
 Daughter 
Wizard 
  Witch 
 
Jackass  Jenny 
Horse   Mare 
Dog  Bitch 
Bull  Cow 
Buck 
 Doe 

Drone  Bee 
Stag  Hind 
 
Ram  Ewe-Sheep 
Man  Woman 
Widower 
 Widow 
Drake   Duck  
Fox 
 Vixan 

5- Common Gander 
Gender Meaning Gender Meaning
Bird 
 Baby 
Doctor   Child 
Cattle  Teacher  
Singer   Patient 
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Guardian  
  Principal 
Servant   Farmer 
Student 
 Peon 
Clerk  Cousin 

Enemy  Relative   
Neighbour  Minister 

Artist  Orphan 
Cook   Friend  

"Sentence"
Sentence:
A combination of words that makes a complete sense is called
asentence.
   
 
1- We go to school daily.   
2- Pakistan is an agricultural country.    
3- God is one.  
4- Ahsan was my neibour.  
5- I learn my lesson.  
 

Parts of a sentence
Subject: 
The thing or person you are talking about is called asubject,
For example, Kashif, I, We, You, They etc.
   
 Subject    
  
 

 
Verb: 
A word that describes an action or state is called a verb, For
example, Is, Are, Come, Walk, Eat, Have etc.
   
 verb    
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Object: 
A person or thing to which something is done is called an
object.
 
 Object   


Sentence Subject Verb Object

He writes a letter.   He writes letter

We are students.   We are students

"Subject and Predicate   "


The subject and predicate make up the sentence.
  
1- Subject: 
The part of a sentence which names the person or thing we are
speaking about is called asubject.
 
 Subject 
 


2- Predicate:  
The Part of a sentence which tells something about the object
is called a predicate.
 
 Predicate Subject
"Kinds of Sentence"
There are five kinds of sentences according to their meanings.
   
 
1- Declarative Sentences. 
2- Interrogative Sentences.   
3- Imperative Sentences.    

4- Exclamatory Sentences. 
5- Optative Sentences.  
1- Declarative Sentences: 
A declarative sentence makes a statement.
 

1 Salman is my friend.   
 
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2- She is not working hard.  


3- The Sun rises in the East.  
 
4- They are farmers.     
5- Asif catches a ball.  
2- Interrogative Sentences:  
If something is asked in a sentence, It is called an Interrogative
Sentence.  
 
1- What is your name?   

2- Is he doctor?   
3- Where are you going?  
4- Do you take tea?     

5- Why are you crying?  
3-  
Imperative Sentences:  

A sentence which expresses a command, Advice, a request or
prohibition is called an imperative sentence.
   
  

  

1- Speak the truth. (Command)  
2- Please shut the door. (Request)        
3- Do not make a noise. (Prohibition)     
4- Always get up early in the morning. (Advice)     
5- Please help me. (Request)     
4- Exclamatory Sentences:  
A sentence which shows feelings such as anger, Excitement,
Surprise etc. is called an exclamatory sentence.
    
   
  
1- What a shot!       
 
2- How cold the night is!   
3-       
Hurrah ! We have won the match.      
4- How foolish she is!    
5- Alas ! I am ruined.  
     
  
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5- Optative sentences:  


The sentence which express some pray, Wish, Desire or hope
are called optative sentences.
      
      
1- May you recover soon!    
2- May God protect you!  
3- Long live Pakistan!   

4- Wish a happy journey!  

5- Wish you good luck!   
"Phrase and Clause"

phrase:
A phrase is a combition of words that makes some sense but
not complete sense.
    
 
Example:
1- On the table. 

2- In the class.  
3- Chain of gold. 
4- In the evening. 
  
5- By Ahad.  
6- At that moment. 
7- In the west.  
8- With care.  
Clause:
1- A simple sentence contains only one sentence.
A simple sentence has just one clause.
Every clause has subject and a predicate.
The former ploughs the fields
Subject Predicate
2- A Compound Sentence has at least two independent sentences.
Therefore, a compound sentence has two independent clauses.
The student closed their books and they started playing.
Subject Predicate Subject Predicate
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Example:
1- The tiger is a cat but no one would keep it as a pet.
2- Hafeez whistled after I caught the ball.
3- We decided to go to the picnic when the sun come out.
4- Pakistani's like to speak the truth and they are hard working.
Pronoun:  
The word that is used instead of a noun is called a pronoun. Its
generally used to avoid repition of the noun.
   
  (Pronoun)    
    
     
 
 
 

Example:
Ali is aboy. He reads in viii class.
 
   

Kinds of Pronoun:
1- Personal Pronoun.
2- Demonstrative Pronoun.
3- Indefinate Pronoun.
4- Interrogative Pronoun.
5- Possessive Pronoun.
6- Relative Pronoun.
7- Reflexive Pronoun.
8- Distributive Pronoun.
1- Personal Pronoun:
A word that is used in place of a person's name is called a
personal pronoun.
 
 Personal Noun 
 
I, We, You, They, Its, His, She, Me, Us, Him, etc are pronouns
Personal pronoun stands for three persons.
1- The person speaking , ( i, e, first person)
2- The person spoken to , ( i, e, The second person)
3- The person spoken of , (i, e, The third person).
Learn the following table of pronouns:
Subjective Case Possessive Case Objective Case
1st Person I, We My, Our Me, Us
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2nd Person You Your You


3rd Person He, She His, Her Him, Her
They, It Their, Its Them, It
1- She has her car.  

2- I have my bicycle.   
3- That is your book.  
4- We have our house.   
 
5- They have their oxen.   
6- The children have their bag.   
2- Demonstrative Pronoun:
The words this, these, that and those are called demonstrative
pronouns.
   Demonstrative Pronouns Those That, These, This
We use "this and these" when we point to things near us.
 "These"
 
"This"



We use "that and those" when we point to things farther away.
 
"Those" 
 
"That"

Exmples:
1- This is a chair.  
2- That is an iron.  

3- These are desks and those are chairs.   


4- These are mangoes and those are bananas.    
3- Indefinite Pronoun:
The indefinite pronouns refer persons or things in general way,
not in particular.
 
Indefinite      
   Pronouns
Some, any, someone, somebody, few, anybody, something, one, none,
much, others, enough, both, etc are indefinite pronouns.
Examples:
1- Some people are born great.   
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2- Nobody was there.   


3- All were drowned.    
4- Anyone can learn this lesson.   

5- Everyone's mouth was open.   
6- 
None of these books is worth reading.  
 
4- Interrogative Pronoun:
Interrogative pronouns are used for asking questions.
Interrogative Pronouns           
  
Who, why, which, what, whose, whom, how, are interrogative
poronouns.
Examples:
1- Who is your friend?   
2- How much water is in the jug?  
3- Whose book is this?  
4- Why is she weeping?  
5- What are you doing?   
6- Where is your father? 
5- Possessive Pronoune:
We use a possessive pronoun without a noun when the noun is
understood.

   Possessive Pronoun Noun
Mine, their, hers, yours, ours, its etc are possessive pronouns.
Example:
1- This book is mine.  
2- These feathers are its (Pigeon).   
 
3- This bag is hers. 
4- These cats are ours.   
5- This ballon is his.   
6- This pen is yours.  
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6- Relative Pronoun:
A relative pronoun is used to connect a phrase to noun or
pronoun.
Relative             
    Whom   
    Who     Pronoun
Whose     When     How  What     Which   
   As  
Relative  But     That       
 Pronouns
Examples:
1- This is the toy which I want to buy.
 

 
 

2- Did you see the letter which came this morning?
 
     
3- I spoke to the girl who was laughing.
  

4- This is the boy who stole my book.
  
 
5- These are the girls whom teacher praised.
 
6- This is the car whose leadlights are dim.
  
7- This is the house that is well-built.
  
 
8- The man gave a bike to my friend who is a rich man.
   
  

    
7- Reflexive Pronoun:
They are formed by adding "Self" singular numbers and
"Selves" to plural numbers of the possessive case.
 
      Personal Pronoun 
 "self"  (Possessive Case) 
 her, him, your, my  "self"    
   "selves"
 them, your, our  "selves" 
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1- I have written this letter myself.  


2- We went there ourselves.   
3- They themselves decided to swim in the river.  
 
4- He wrote the letter himself.  
5- God helps those who help themselves.     
 
  
6- You clean your room yourself.   
7- The dog hurt itself.  
8- She herself went there. 
   
8- Distributive Pronoun:
A distributive pronoun is a pronoun which denotes persons or
things of a group separately.
Distributive  
         
   Each 
 Neither    Either   
    Pronoun
 Distributive Pronouns
Examples:
1- We never quarral with one another.    
2- Neither of them can cook.  
3- Each of the girls is intellegent.    
4- Either of two boys will go. 
  
5- Sara and Sana help eachother.      
6- Each of the girls had a pen.   
 
7- Either of these roads leads to railway station.
  
8- Neither of the two boys is a player.
  
 
Case: 
The relation of a noun or a pronoun with a word or words is
called its case.
 
  (Case)  
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There are three cases used in English Grammar.


 
    
 
1- Nominative Case: 
When a pronoun is a subject to the verb, it is its Nominative Case.

  
 Subject
Examples:
All the underlined words in the following sentences are in the
subject case.
1- They are players.   
2- He is a farmer.  
3- It is a dog.  
4- I am a brave girl. 
  
5- We are muslims.  
6- She is a genius girl.   

2- Objective Case:  
When a pronoun is an object of a verb, it is its objective case.

   
objectverb
Examples:
All the underlined words in the following sentences are in the
objective case.
1- She gave me abook.   
2- He helps me.  
3- Usman is writing her a letter.    
4- Nimra gave it milk.  
   
5- I gave you a car. 
  
6- They gave us a cow.    
7- She gave them pencil.  
 
3- Possessive Case: 
When a pronoun shows its relation or possession with other
noun or pronoun that is its possessive case.
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  
    
 
 
Examples:
All the underlined words in the following sentences are in the
possessive case.
1- My book is red.   
2- Your pencil is new.  
3- His bag is beautidul.  
4- Are these your tickets?  
5- Here's your coat.  
Verb: 
Averb is a word that tells or says something about a person or
thing.We cannot make sentence without a verb. It is, therefore, the most
important word in a sentence. It also describes an action, a state or an
event.
        Verb
 
 
  
Examples:
1- She is running. (action).   
2- It happened last month. (Event).  
3- Boys were singing. (Action). 
4- The child sleeps. (Action). 

5- Ahmad feels tired. (State) 
6- He reads a book. (Action).     
Types of Verb:
1) Main Verb.
2) Linking Verb.
3) Auxiliary Verb or Helping Verb.
4) Modal Verb.
1- Main Verb:
Main verbs indicate an action state or event. eat, walk, sing,
feel, run, etc are main verbs.
  
    Main verb

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Examples:
1- She eats mangoes. (Action).     
2- Amjad looks relaxed (State)   
3- It rained. (Event)   
4- I play football.(Action)      
2- Linking Verb:
A linking verb connects the subject of a sentence to the information
about it. A linking verb is also a category of the main verb.
Linking       Linking verb
 mian verbverb
 
Some linking verbs:
Look   Seem / Appear  
Feel 
 Prove  
Sound      Smell 
Become  Go 

Be ( is, are, am, was, were).
3- Auxiliary or Helping Verb:
Auxiliary verbs are also called helping verbs because they are
almost always following by a main verb. They extend the meaning of
the main verb.

 
      
 
 
 
Some helping are:
is  am  are 
do 
 does  
 was 
had  /
 has 
 
did  have 
 were 


 notmain verb 
Examples:
1- I am teaching. I am not teaching.
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2- She was washing dishes. She was not washing dishes.


3- They had gone to the park. They had not gone to the park.
4- We are playing. We are not playing.
5- I am sleeping. I am not sleeping.
4- Modal Verb:
Modal verbs show the ability, permission, possibility or
obligation. The modal verbs or modal auxiliary verbs include
can, could, may, might, shall, would, will, must, need, dare etc.
     
  modal verbs
  Modal Auxiliary Verbs
modal verbs
    verbModal verbs  
Example:
1- You need not go there.
2- She may come in time.
3- We might come in time.
4- Would you like a coffee?
5- She can bring up her children.
6- You ought to meet him.
7- You should help your friends.
8- May I come in?
9- He could get first position.
10- You must obey your parents.
'Forms of Verbs"
Regular Verbs and Irregular Verbs:
Present Past Past- Participle
Present Meaning Past Past-Participle
Awake 
 Awoke Awoken
Attack 
 Attacked Attacked
Ask  Asked Asked
Apply  
 Applied Applied
Abide  Abode Abode
Abuse    Abused Abused
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Arise  Arose Arosen


Be 
 Was Been
Bear   Bore Born
Bear  
  Bore Borne
Beat   
  Beat Beaten
Become 
 Became Become
Begin 
  Began Begun
Bend  Bent Bent
Break 
 Broke Broken
Bring 
 Brought Brought
Build 
 Built Built
Burn 
 Burnt Burnt
Buy 

  Bought Bought
Call 
 Called Called
Catch 
 Caught Caught
Carry 
 Carried Carried
Cry  Cried Cried
Choose 

 Chose Chosen
Cling  Clung Clung
Creep  Crept Crept
Cut  Cut Cut
Cost  Cost Cost
Complain 
 Complained Complained
Dare  
 Dared Dared
Decide 
 Decided Decided
Die 
 Died Died
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Dig 
 Dug Dug
Draw 
 Drew Drawn
Dream    Dreamt Dreamt
Dress   Dressed Dressed
Dry 
 Dried Dried
Eat 
 Ate Eaten
Earn 
 Earned Earned
Enjoy  
 Enjoyed Enjoyed
Err 
 Erred Erred
Fall 

 Fell Fellen
Feed  Fed Fed
Feel 
 Felt Felt
Fill 
 Filled Filled
Fight 
 Fought Fought
Find 
 Found Found
Fix 
 Fixed Fixed
Flee 
 Fled Fled
Float 
 Floated Floated
Fly 
 Flew Flown
Forget 
 Forgot Forgotten
Forbid 
 Forbade Forbidden
Forgive 
 Forgave Forgiven
Freeze 
 Froze Frozen
Gain 
 Gained Gained
Get 
 Got Got/Gotten
Give  Gave Given
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Graze 

 Grazed Grazed
Grow 
 Grew Grown
Guess  
  Guessed Guessed
Hang   Hanged Hanged
Has, Have  Had Had
Hear 
 Heard Heard
Help 
 Helped Helped
Hide  Hid Hidden
Hunt 
  Hunted Hunted
Hurt 
 Hurt Hurt
Inform     Informed Informed
Invent 
  Invented Invented
Invite  Invited Invited
Join 
 Joined Joined
Joke 
 Joked Joked
Jump 
 Jumped Jumped
Keep  Kept Kept
Kick 
   Kicked Kicked
Knock 
 Knocked Knocked
Know  Knew Known
Lay 
 Laid Laid
Laugh  Laughed Laughed
Lead 
 Led Led
Learn  Learnt Learnt
Leap  Leapt Leapt
Leave 
 Left Left
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Lend   Lent Lent


Let   Lent Lent
Lie 
 Laid Laid
Listen 
 Listened Listened
Live  Lived Lived
Make 
 Made Made
Marry 
 
 Married Married
May 
 Might Might
Meet  Met Met
Melt  Melted Melted
Mistake 
 Mistook Mistaken
Note 
 Noted Noted
Notice 
 Noticed Noticed
Occupy 
 Occupied Occupied
Open  Opened Opened
Pay 
  Paid Paid
Play  Played Played
Preach 
 Preached Preached
Promise 
 Promised Promised
Pull  Pulled Pulled
Quarrel 
 Quarrelled Quarrelled
Reach  Reached Reached
Refuse 
 Refused Refused
Rend    Rent Rent
Reply  Replied Replied
Ride 
  Rode Ridden
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Ring 
 Rang Rung
Rise  Rose Risen
Run 
 Ran Run
Saw 
 Sawed Sawn
Say  Said Said
See  Saw Seen
Seek 

 Saught Saught
Sell  Sold Sold
Send  Sent Sent
Sew  Sewed Sewn
Shake 
 Shook Shaken
Shoot 
 Shot Shot
Show 
 Showed Shown
Shrink 
 Shrank Shrunk
Sing 
 Sang Sung
Sleep 
 Slept Slept
Speak  Spoke Spoken
Stand 
 Stood Stood
Take 
 Took Taken
Teach  Taugh Taugh
Tease 
 Teased Teased
Tell 
 Told Told
Think  Thaught Thaught
Throw  Threw Thrown
Tie 
 Tied Tied
Touch 
 Touched Touched
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Try 
 Tried Tried
Unite 
 United United
Use 
 Used Used
Vanish 
 Vanished Vanished
Visit 
 Visited Visited
Vote   Voted Voted
Walk  Walked Walked
Wash 
 Washed Washed
Wear  Wore Worn
Weave 
 Wove Woven
Weep 
 Wept Wept
Win 
 Won Won
Worry 
 Worried Worried
Write  Wrote Written
Wrap 
 Wrapped Wrapped
Wind    Wound Wound
Yawn 
 Yawn Yawn

Adverb: 
An adverb is a word which qualifies ( or adds) to the meaning
of a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
 
  
 
Quickly, honesly, Quite, Clearly etc are adverbs.
Examples:
1- He was walking slowly.    
2- This is very sweet mango.    
3- You are very intelligent boy. 
4- She was walking quite slowly.    
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Formation of Adverbs:
In most cases, an adverb is formed by adding "_ly " to an
adjective.
 __lyAdverb
   
 

Adjective Meaning Adverb Meaning
Sweet  Sweetly 
Kind 
 Kindly  

Soft  Softly  
Safe  Safely  
Loud    Loudly    
Brave   Bravely   
Easy   Easily   
Happy  Happily 
Probable  Probably 
Terrible   Terribly  
Tragic  
 Tragically  

Kinds of Adverbs:
1- Adverbs of Manners.
2- Adverbs of Place.
3- Adverbs of time.
4- Adverbs of frequency.
5- Adverbs of degree.
6- Adverbs of Quantity.
1- Adverbs of Manners:
A words that says how something happens is called an adverb
of manner.
 
 Adverb of manner 
    
 
1- She read loudly.     
2- Salman swims well.  
   
3- We were quarrelling angrily.     
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4- The Muslims fought bravely.    


5- The horse runs fast. 
  
2- Adverb of Place:
A word that tells "Where" something happens is called an
adverb of place.
    
 Adverb of place   
1- My mother was out.     
2- The girls moved forward.     
3- Come in. 
   
4- The children are playing there.  
5- Saeed comes here.   
3- Adverb of time:
A word that tells us whom something happens is called an
adverb of time.
 
 Adverb of time    
 
 
1- They will leave very soon.  
2- He is going to Islamabad today.       
3- Nafeesa came here yesterday.    
4- I have heard this before.  
5- I shall go there immediately.   
6- Now we should go.    
7- Tomorrow she will host a programme.
    
 
 

4- Adverb of Frequency:
The word which tells how often something happens is called
an adverb of frequency.
 
 Adverb of Frequency 
    
 
1- They often go for a walk.   
2- She is seldom absent. 
3- I shall again talk to you.  
   

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4- They usually get up early in the morning.   


 
5- Zain always obeys his parents.   
6- You have met me just once.     
5- Adverb of degree:
The word which tells us aboutthe intensity or degree of an
action, an adjective or another adverb.
 
 
adverbs  
  Adverb of Degree
   
1- She has almost finished the work.     
2- The tea was extremely hot.  
3- The story is very interesting. 
4- Soup is too hot.  

5- The answer is completely wrong. 
6- I can hardly hear you.  
7- Shahid is strong enough.   
6- Adverb of Quantity:
The adverbs shows the quantity.  
 
1- He is quit well.   
2- She has little water.   

3- Salma has much money.  
4- I am very sorry.  

Adjective:   
An adjective is a word used to add to the meaning of a noun or
a pronoun. It describes a good, quality, a bad quality, a state or give an
explanation.

     
      
  
     
Examples:
1- She is a pretty girl. 
2- It is a good book. 
 
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3- I gave her two pencils.    
4- Karachi is a big city.   

5- It is a beautiful horse.   
6- Kamran is an intelligent boy.   
7- We drink fresh milk.      

8- She is an active lady.     
9- This man is healthy.  
10- Salman is a wise man.    
11- This box is heavy.   
12- Affan is an obedient boy.   

Kinds of Adjective:
Some importent kinds of adjectives are as follows.
1- Adjective of quality:
The adjectives which point out some quality of a person or
thing are called adjectives of quality.
    

1-Baautiful, 2- Smart, 3- nice, 4- Honest, 5- Black, 6- Heavy,
7-Second, 8- good, 9- Bad, 10- Long.
2- Adjective of Quantity:
The adjective which shows the quantity of a noun a called
adjective of quantity.
  
 
1-Little, 2- much, 3- full, 4-Enough, 5- some, 6- many, 7- half, 8- Any.
3- Adjectives of Number:
The adjectives that tells us how many persons or things are
meant is called the adjective of number.
  
  Adjectives of Number  
Distributive Adjectives:
An adjective used to refer to each and every person, thing
separately is called distributive Adjectives.
For examples: Every, Each, Neither, Either etc.
Distributive  
            
   Adjectives
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Interrogative Adjectives:
They ase used to ask questions.
  
For example: What, which, whose etc.
Demonstrative Adjectives:
Demonstrative adjective are adjectives that are used to modify
a noun so that we know which specific person, place or thing is
mentioned. These adjectives show that which and what thing is meant.
For examples: this, that, these, those, some etc.
            adjectives 
       
    noun
  this, that   
     
  
1-Two 2- several 3- seventh
4- sufficient 5- single 6-many
7- first 8- all 9-few
10- hundredth.
Adjectives of shape, size and colour:
The adtectives which shows the size, shape and colour of any
person or thing.
  
  
Shape Size Colour
Round Short Red
Square Big Green
Flat Tall Orange
Oval Medium Blue
Zig-Zag Tiny Black
Circular Wide Pink
Chubby Tall White
Triangular Giant Yellow
Rectangular Slim Grey
Hexagone Enormouse Brown
Degrees of Adjective:  
The degrees of comparison are three in number.
 
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1- 

Positive Degree:  
Positive degree simply shows the quality of a person or thing.


   

1- A noble man.    
2- You are a bad boy.  
 

3- This is a small tree.   
  

 
2- 
Comparative Degree:  
Comparative degree gives comparison between two noun. It
shows a high or lower quality of an adjective. 


      
  
     


1- This chair is greater than that.  
 
    
2- This cloth is more beautiful than that.    
   
3- Shahla is wiser than Sana.    
  
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3- 
Superlative Degree:  
The superlative degree shows the highest or lowest degree of
the quality an adjective. It shows comparison between more than two. 

  
   

      


 
   

1- He is the wrost of all. 
   

2- Noman is the best boy of the class.    
3- Akbar is the tallest of all.  
   
Rules to form 2nd and 3rd Degrees:
1- By addition of er and est.
Positive Comparative Superlative
Fast Faster Fastest
Big Bigger Biggest
Dark Darker Darkest
Deep Deeper Deepest
Noble Nobler Noblest
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Wise Wiser Wisest


Hard Harder Hardest
Old Older Oldest
Young Younger Youngest
low lower Lowest
Sweet Sweeter Sweetest
Rich Richer Richest
Tall Taller Tallest
2- By addition of r and st.
Positive Comparative Superlative
Brave Braver Bravest
Fine Finer Finest
Large Larger Largest
Simple Simpler Simplest
Close Closer Closet
Safe Safer Safest
Noble Nobler Noblest
Able Abler Ablest
Late Later Latest
Nice Nice Nicest
Pale Paler Palest
True Truer Truest
White Whiter Whitest
Wide Wider Widest
Wise Wiser Wisest
3- "Y" in the end is changed with "i'' and ''er'' and "est".
Positive Compative Superlative
Dry Drier Driest
Lazy Lazier laziest
Busy Busier Busiest
Easy Easier Easiest
Heavy Heavier Heaviest
Happy Happier Happiest
Marry Marrier Marriest
Pretty Prettier Prettiest
Noise Noisier Noisiest
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4- Constant at the end is doubled with "er" ''or' "est" is added.


Positive Comparative Superlative
Hot Hotter Hottest
Big Bigger Biggest
Wet Wetter Wettest
Fat Fatter Fattest
Sad Sadder Saddest
Thin Thinner Thinnest
Bit Bitter Bittest
Red Redder Reddest
5- By addition of more and most.
Positive Comparative Superlative
Active More Active Most Active
Beautiful More Beautiful Most Beautiful
Careful More Careful Most Careful
Difficult More Difficult Most Difficult
Expensive More Expensive Most Expenive
Important Most Important Most Imprtant
Honest Most Honest More Honest
Successful More Successful Most Successful
Interesting More Interesting Most Interesting
Precious More Precious Most Precious
6- Some are irregular degrees.
Positive Comparative Superlative
Bab Worse Worst
Evil Worse Worst
Little Less Least
Many More Most
Much More Most
Old Older,Elder Oldest,Eldest
Out Outer Outer most
Well Better Best
Good Better Best
In Inner Inner most
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Prepositions:  
A preposition is word that shows the connection of a noun with
another word.
   
    Pronoun
 Noun
Examples:
1- I go to my office.     
2- She lives in Lahore. 
3- He jumped into the river.     
4- The cat run after the mouse .  
5- He sat among his many friends.   
6- He passed through the garden. 
    
7- The dog is under the tree.    
8- The rat is near the hole.       
9- The chair is behind the table. 
10- Do not make a noise during the class.    
11- They fought against the british.     
12- Ali stood between two girls.  
13- The baby is with its mother.  
14- Some birds flew over his house.       
15- Her name comes before mine.      
Use of prepositions in sentsnces:
Words Meaning Sentences
In face of   He stood in face of denger.
 

Due to  The match was cancelled due to rain.

 
By means of  You opened the door by means of its
handle.    
Near to 
 There is a school near to my house.

  
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Belong to  This book belong to me.



 
In case of  You can inform me in case of any need.
 
As well as  You shold read as well as write.
   

Because of  We cannot play cricket because of rain.

 
Give up   Give up smoking.   
Fond of  I am very fond of book reading.
 

Convey to  Convey my message to him.
 
  
Conjunctions: 
A conjunction is a word which is used to join together
sentences and sometime words.
   
      Conjunctions
Examples:
1- She is old but hard working.   

2- Hamna and Huda are friends.       
3- He is poor but honest. 
  
4- Two and two make four.   
Co-ordinating Conjunctions:
The conjunctions which join two sentences of equal rank are
called co-ordinating conjunctions.

  
 
1- I was hungry, so I ate my fill.  

2- The boys can play cricket, or they can sit in the ground.

  

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3- She is poor, yet she is honest.  


 
4- Samee is a good bowler, and Ahmad is a god batsman.
  
  
Sub-ordinating Conjunctions:
The conjunctions are used to join an independent clause with a
dependent clause.
   
            
 
  Subordinating Conjunction
1- You will succeed if you workhard.    
2- I like my house although it is small.  
 
3- My reason for praising him is that he is brave and honest.
  
 
4- Poetry has no other aim than entertainment.
  
5- Please wait until the rain stops.      

6- 
Wait here till they come back.       
7- Finish your work before you go home.     
8- Move fast otherwise you will miss the train.
  
 
9- Asim is intelligent than Danish.  
10- You cannot eat unless he comes.  
 

Co-relative Conjunctions:
These are simply pairs of conjunctions used in a sentence to
join different words or groups of words in a sentence together.
  
  Conjunctions 
 
  
1- No sooner did we see the lion than we ran away.
   
2- The medicine was so bitter than I could not take it.
  
    
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3-  
As soon as he saw a lion, he ran away. 
4- Either take it or leave it.    
  
5- I am not so lucky as you are.    
6- Although it was raining yet they played hockey.
  

7- 
Whether you go or stey, I do not care.    
 
8- Both the museum and the zoo are worth seeing.
 
    

 
9- He is not only noble but also honest.
  
 
10- He neither went to school nor home.  
  
Interjections:
An interjuction is a word which is used to express sudden
feelng or emotion like surprise shock or excliment.
  Interjections      
    
  
Interjections Meaning
Hurrah!      

Yahoo! 
Goodness!    
Wonderful!  
Wel done!    
Hello! 
Great!   
Alas!  
Bravo!   

Aha! Ah!  
Oh!  
Look! 
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Cheers!  
 
Hey!  
Oops!  
Wow!  
Ouch!  
Hush!  
Use of interjections in sentences below:
1- Alas! We are in trouble.    
2- Hurrah! We have won the match.       
3.- Hush! Do not make a noise.   
  
4- Look! Your father is coming.   
5- Fie! You naughty.     
6- Hello! How are you?   
7- Bravo! You saved the drowing man.         

8- Congrats! You got first position.    
9- Wow! Its a beautiful picture.     
10- Oops! The Glass broke.    
11- Ouch! This tea is hot.   
12- Oh! His leg has been broken.    
   
''Prefixes / Suffixes"  
Prefixes:   
A group of letters that is added to the begining of a word to
change its meaning is called a prefix.

           
 
 
 

Examples:
Un Dis Re
Unable  Disable    Refresh 
 
 

Unsold  
   Disagree 
  Revange 

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Unbalance   Disappoint 


 Return 
Unknown  Disbelieve   Rearrange 
  

Unbuilt  Discharge 
  Reform 


Unhealthy  Disclose  Rename  
 

Uneasy  Disconnect   Regain
  


Unfit   Discourage 
  Recall 

Uncover  Discover 

 Reclose 


Uncut  
 Disappear  Recoil
 
Undress 
 
  Dislike  Recolour   
 
Unequal  Dishonest  Recreate 
 

Uneven   Disloyal   Reset   
 
Unfit   Disorder
 
 Refund 

Suffixes:  
The letters that are added to the end of a word to form a new
word are called suffixes.
 
       
Example:
Ment Ful Ness
Statement  Helpful   Hapiness 
Movement 
 Useful  Kindness 


Agreement  Forgetful  Boldness 
Commitment  Painful  Coolness 
Treatment  Careful   Darkness 

Settlement  Thoughtful  Dryness 
Entertainment  Shameful  Illness 
Shipment   Colourful  Fullness 

Placement  Powerful  Gladness  

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Punishment   Playful   Hotness 


Argument  Handful  Lioness 
Amazement  Harmful  Loveliness 
Disappointment   Lawful   Madness 
Homophones ( pairs of words )      
Homophones are words that sound the same as another word
but they have different meaning and different spellings.
      
   


Words Meaning Words Meaning
Affect 

 Ceiling  
Effect 
 Sealing 
Ate 
 Cell  

Eight  Sell 
Advise  Fair 
Advice  Fare 
Angels 
 Ferry 
Angles    Fairy 
Ball  Feet  
Bawl 
 Feat 

Bare  Except 
Bear  Accept 

Brake 
 Foul 
 
Break 
 Fowl 

Buy 

  Heal 

Bye 
  Heel 

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Cast   Flow 


Caste  Flu  
Forth  Peek 
Fourth   Peak 
Hail   
 Peace 
Hale  
 Piece 
Herd   Plain 
Heard 
 Plane  
Hole   Rest   
Whole  Wrest 

Made 
 Sea 
Maid   See 
Meat 
 Soar 


Meet  Sore 
Dear  Steal 

Deer 
 Steel   
Letter  Tail 
Latter 
 Tale 
Medal  Wail 
 
Meddle 
 Whale 
Naught  Yoke 
Knot 
 Yolk 
 
One 
 Prey 
 
Won 
 Pray 
 
Pail  Profit 
Pale  Prophet 
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Pair   Sail 

Pear  Sale  
 
Antonyms/Opposite Words:    
Two words which ha ve opposite mea nings are ca lled
Antonyms.
 
      
Words Meaning Opposite Meaning
Back  Front 
Hold 
 Release 

Big   Small 

Left 
 Right 

Slow  Fast 
Many  
 Few  
Give  Take 

Honest 
  Dishonest 
Healthy  Sick 
Below  Above 

Arrive  Leave 

Best  Worst 

Ancient  Modern 
 
Happy  Sad  
Up 
 Down 
Open  Close 
Enemy  Friend  

Rich  Poor 

Empty  Full 
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Alive 
 Dead 
Admit 
 Deny 

Buy 

  Sell 
Busy  Free  
Far  Near  

Guest  Host 

Minor 
 Major  
Tidy  Untidy 
Question  answer 
Forward  Backward 
Warm 
 Cool 
Tiny 
 Gaint  
Hell   Heaven 

Swim 
 Sink  
Enclude 
  Include  

Laugh  Weep 

Broad   Narrow 
Hide 
 Seek 

Give  Take 

Die 
 Live 

Gather 
 Scatter 

Inhale 
 Exhale 
 
Attract 
 Repel 
Begin 
  Finish 

Cry 
 Laugh 
Kind 
 Cruel 
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Synonyms/Similar Meaning Words:    


 
If the two or more words have the same meanings, They are
called synonyms.
       
     

Words Synonyms Meaning
Ask Inquire 
Best Fine 
Buy Purchase 

 
Cease Stope 
Comical Funny 

Dawn Sunrise   
 
Cunning Clever 
Gain Obtain 

Ability Skill  
Calm Quit 
 
Evil Bad 
 
Correct Right  

Good Nice 
Nice Kind 
Loyal Faithful  
Always Forever 
Brave Bold  
Connect Join 

Fatal Deadly 
Glad Happy 
Aid Help 
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Below Under 
Safe Secure 
Precious Valuable 
Near Close  

Hard Difficult 
Yelling Shouting 

Repidly Quickly  
Untidy Dirty 
Heaven Paradise  

Enough Sufficient 
Journey Travel 
Ill Sick 
Fooliosh Silly  
Mistake Error 
Centre Middle 
Huge Enormouse  

Easy Simple  
Idle Lazy 
Mercy Pity 
Occuption Job 
Display Show 

Chop Cut 
Conqure Win 

Hamble Modest 

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"Direct and Indirect Narration"


We can report the words of a speaker in two ways:
1- She said, "I am doing my home task now".
2- She said that she was doing her home task then.
The first way of reporting the speaker's words is called Direct
Speach.
While doing this we have produced the exact words of the
speaker and put them in inverted commas.
The socond way of reporting what the speaker had said is
called the Indirect Speach. While doing this we have made the
following changes in the sentence.
Direct Indirect
1- He said, "I am not a thief". He said that he was not a thief.
2- You said, "I read a book". You said that you read a book.
3- Arif says to me, "You are a Arif says to me that I am a teacher.
teacher".
4- Noreen says, "I like birds". Noreen says that she likes birds.
Imortent Changes:

1- Change of pronoun.   
2- Change of tense - verb.  
3- Change in sentences.  
1- Change of pronoun:
Table of pronouns:
Subjective case Passive case Objective case
1st person I My Me
We Our Us
2nd person You Your Your
3rd person He His Him
She Her Her
They Their Them
It Its It
Formular for change pronouns:
To change pronouns learn formula. SON
S: First person changes in to subject.
O: Second persont chenges in to object.
N: Third person never changes.
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Examples:
1- I say to him,"she broke your pencil"
I tell him that she broke his pencil.
2- Imran says,"I can win the match".
Imran says that he can win the match.
3- Sufyan says to me,"she is a nice girl'.
Sufyan tells me that she is a nice girl.
Changes of Tences:
  reporting speech    Direct Speech
  reported speech

tense   reported speech  present tense  reporting speech 
 

Present Tense:
Direct Indirect
1- Shabnam says,"Nida tells a lie Shabnam says that Nida tells a lie.
2- He says,"I am ready to go". He says that he is ready to go
3- They say,"we play football". They say that they play football.
4- He will say to me,"you are He will tell me that i am welcome.
welcome".
Present simple changes into past simple:
Direct Indirect
1- He said,"They are poor'. He told that they were poor.
2- Salma said,"He is a student Salma told that he was a student.
3- They said,"The earth is round". They said that the earth is round.
4- You said,"he is a doctor. You said that he was a doctor.
Present continuous changes into past continuous:
Direct Indirect
1- He said to me,"it is raining". He told me that it was raining.
2- She said,"i a m pa inting a She said that she was painting a
picture". picture.
3- They said,"we are gatting late". They said that they were getting
late.
4- I said,"it is raining heavily". I said that it was raining heavily.
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present perfect changes into a past perfect:


Direct Indirect
1-Jameel said,"I have bought a Jameel said that he had bought a
book". book.
2-I sa i d," the y ha ve won the I said they had won the match.
match''.
3- She said ,''I have made tea''. She told that she had made tea.
4- I said,''he has taken tea''. I told that he has taken tea.
5-They said,''we have not started They said that they had not started
yet''. yet.
Present perfect continuous changes into past perfect
continuous
Direct Indirect
1- I said to him,''you have been I told him that he had been doing
doing sums since morning''. sums since morning''.
2- She said,''it has been snowing She said that it had been snowing
all day''. all day..
Past tense:
Past simple tense changes into past perfect:
Direct Indirect
1- She said,''I did not visit the She said that she had not visit the
doctor''. doctor.
2- Ahad said to me,''you told a Ahad said to me that i had told a
story''. story.
3- She said,''I joined the club''. She said that she had joined the
club.
4- He said to me,''I did not beat He told me that he had not beaten
you''. me.
Past continous changes into past perfect continuous:
Direct Indirect
1- Sajid said,''They were playing Sajid told tha t they had been
cricket''. playing cricket.
2- She said,''I was running''. She s a id t ha t s he ha d b e en
running.
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3- They said,''we were watching They said that they had been
TV''. watching TV.
Past perfect tense does not change:
Direct Indirect
1-She said,''she had completed her She said that she had completed
work''. her work.
2- They said,''we had won the They said that they had won the
match." match.
3- I said,''he had written an essay". I said that he had written an essay.
Past perfect continuous tense does not change:
Dircet Indirect
1-You said,''Ahsan had been You said that Ahsan had been
working since morning,'' working since morning.
2 - The y s a i d, ' ' H e ha d b e e n They sa id tha t he ha d be en
sleeping for an hour.'' sleeping for an hour.
3- She said,''she had been waiting She said that she had teen waiting
for 35 minutes.'' for 35 minutes.
4- I said,''he had been driving more I said that he had been driving
than an hour,'' more than an hour.
Future Tense:
Will and shall will change into would:
Direct Indirect
1- He said,''I shall help you''. He said that he would help me.
2-She said,''I shall help you''. She said that she would help me.
3-They said to you,''we will return They said to you that they would
soon''. return soon.
Future continuous:will be and shall be will change into
would be.
Direct Indirect
1- She s a i d,' 's he wi l l not be She said that she would not be
working''. working.
2-He said,''I will be learning a He said that he would be learning
poem". a poem.
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3- I said to him,''I will be taking I told him that i would be taking


the exam''. the exam.
Future perfect : will have and shall have will change into
would have.
Direct Indirect
1- She said,''I will have typed the She said that she would have typed
letter''. the letter.
2- You said,''you will have washed You said that you would have
my cloths." washed my clothes.
3- Amjad said,''I shall have solved Amjad said that he would have
the sum''. solved the sum.
4- She s a id,' ' the y wil l ha ve She said that they would have
arrived". arrived.
Change in sentences:
1- Assertive sentences. 
2- Interrogative sentences.  
3- Imperative sentences. 
4- Exclamatory sentences. 
5- Optative sentences.  
1- Assertive sentences: 
  (Reporting speech)   
    
       that  
 
"told"  "said" "tell"  "say"  (Reproting speech) 
 


Direct Indirect
1-She said,''i am a good teacher''.She said that she was a good
teacher.
2-He said to me,''she planted many She told me that she had planted
trees''. many trees.
3- He said to me,''I had written a He told me that he had written
letter''. aletter.
4- Isaid to him,''I shall write a I told him that I would write a
letter''. letter.
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Interrogative sentences:   



 "ask" "say to"(Reporting speech)  
 
   
 "enquired""asked" "said to" "enquire"
"whether" "if"  (Reported speech)   
(Reported         
       
  speech)
Direct indirect
1- She said,'' what is your name''? He asked what my name was.
2- She said to me,''are you ill''? She asked me whether I was ill.
3- He said to him,''have you a He asked him if he had a pen.
pen''?
4- She says to me,''where do you She asks me where I live.
live''?
5- The teacher said to the studnet, The teacher asked the students if
''Did you spot the difference''? he had spotted the difference.
6- She said to me,''what are you She asked me what I was playing.
playing''?

Imperative sentences:   


"order" "say"(reporting speech)  
 
"ordered"  "said"  "offer", "forbid", "advise", "request"
    "offered", "forbade", "advised", "requested"
 
 
 forbid  say to     not to     do not  
 
   "should"verb   
 purpose suggest  Let 
Direct Indirect
1- My father said to me, ''work My father advised me to work
hard to get the first position. hard to get the first position.
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2- He said to me,''bring me some He requested me to bring him


food''. some food.
3- Seema said to her sister, ''don't Seema forbade her sister to shut
shut the window''. the window.
4- The teacher said to the boy, ''get The teacher ordered the boy to get
out of the classroom''. out of the classroom.
5- Sania said to me,''let us go Sa nia proposed me tha t they
outside''. should go outside.
6- Mohsin said to him,''let us Mohsin suggested to him to finish
finish our work first''. their work first.
Exclamatory sentences:  
 "say"(Reporting speech)    
  
"excplaim with  "sorrow", "exclaim with", "exclaim with joy"
"exclaimed  "exclaimed with joy" "said"      wonder"
  "exclaimed with wonder" with sorrow"
Ah, Alas, exclaimatory words said Reproting speech
 bravo, also, hurrah
Direct Indirect
1- He said,''what a strange building He exclaimed with wonder that the
it is!'' building was very strange.
2- She said;''Hurrah! My father has He exclaimed with joy that his
come''. father had come.
3- The sailor said,''Alas! Our ship The sailor exclaimed with sorrow
was wrecked''. that their ship had been wreaked.
4- The king said,''What a nonsense The king exclaimed angrily that
you are saying''! you were saying nonsense.
5- He said,''Hurrah!we have won He exclaimed joy fully that they
the match''. had won the match.
6- He said,''Pooh! How smelly it He exclaimed with contempt that
is''. it was very smelly.
5- Optative sentences:  
 
"say"(Reporting speech)    
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      
 "prayed"  "said" "pray" 
 
wish    "cursed" "said"  "curse"  "say"
  
 might May  that
Direct Indirect
1- He said to me;''May you live He prayed for me that I might live
long''. long.
2- They said.''Would that we were They wished that they had been
millionaires!'' millionaires.
3- The bad man said to him,''May The bad man cursed him that he
you lose your ability to speak!'' might lose his ability to speak.
4- I said to her,''May you succeed!'' I wished that she might succeed.
5- She said,''May my dreams come She prayed that her dreams might
true!'' come true.
6- The begger said,''May Allah The begger prayed that Allah
reward you!'' might reward me.

''Singular/Plural Nouns''  


According to numbers,there are two kinds of nouns,singular
and plural.
     

1- Singular nouns:    
A singular noun denotes one thing one person or one place i.e,
a book, a boy, a city.
     
 
 
 
2- Plural nouns:  
A plural noun denotes more than one thing, one person,or one
place, i.e. books, boys, cities.
    
     

3- Regular nouns:
The nouns which are made plural by adding 's' or 'es' are called
regular nouns.
   regular nouns 

 'es'
's'   
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Singular Plural Singural Plural


Aunt Aunts Eye Eyes
Actor Actors Frog Frogs
Arm Arms Fruit Fruits
Ant Ants Finger Fingers
Ball Balls Grape Grapes
Book Books Ghost Ghosts
Bag Bags Hat Hats
Bottle Bottles Game Games
Bear Bears Gun Guns
Cup Cups Garden Gardens
Cat Cats Face Faces
Cake Cakes Flag Flags
Crow Crows Gate Gates
Date Dates Hen Hens
Davil Davils Hill Hills
Doll Dolls Hour Hours
Duck Ducks Ink Inks
Ear Ears Idol Idols
Egg Eggs Jug Jugs
Expert Experts Job Jobs
Card Cards Jeep Jeeps
Cobbler Cobblers Jaw Jaws
Dessert Desserts Kite Kites
Dwarf Dwarfs Jar Jars
Eagle Eagles Iron Irons
Mark Marks Meal Meals
Market Marketes Monkey Monkeys
Nation Nations Nose Noses
Owl Owls Onion Onions
Neck Necks Lawn Lawns
Orange Oranges Pin Pins
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Quilt Quilts Quill Quills


Office Offices Page Pages
Peon Peons Pen Pens
Roof Roofs Rose Roses
Rag Rags Soap Soaps
Sun Suns Ship Ships
Toad Toads Uncle Uncles
Vest Vests Vally Vallys
Zebra Zebras Quarrel Quarrels
Rain Rains Room Rooms
Ray Rays Result Results
Sack Sacks Sea Seas
Tap Taps Tailor Tailors
Umbrella Umbrellas Well Wells
X-ray X-rays Village Villages
Storey Storeys Tear Tears
Sign Signs Top Tops
Vegetable Vegetables Wall Walls
Some plural nouns end in,''es'':
Some singular nouns are made plural by adding ''es'' when the
last letter of singular nouns are ch,sh,o,s or x,we usually add ''es''.
Singular Plural Singular Plural
Ass Asses Glass Glasses
Bench Benches Gas Gasses
Bush Bushes Match Matches
Tax Taxes Watch Watches
Punch Punches Branch Branches
Bush Bushes Brush Brushes
Bus Buses Inch Inches
Mango Mangoes Dish Dishes
Box Boxes Hero Heroes
Tomato Tomatoes Crutch Crutches
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Match Matches Dress Dresses


Fox Foxes Topaz Topazes
Whiz Whizes Bitch Bitches
Church Churches Princess Princessses
Irregular nouns:
The nouns which are made plural by changing vowels,
changing the words or adding a different ending are called irregular
nouns.
 
  vowels nouns
   irregular nouns 
Some plural nouns end in ies:
When the last letter of a singular noun is 'y' and it is preceded
by a constant, we drop the 'y' and add 'ies' in to the end.
Singular Plural Singular Plural
Jelly Jellies Diary Diaries
Baby Babies Lorry Lorries
Cry Cries Hobby Hobbies
Body Bodies Strawberry Strawberries
Country Countries Copy Coppies
Story Stories Lady Ladies
Puppy Puppies City Cities
Fly Flies Butterfly Butterflies
Fairy Fairies Carry Carries
Some plural nouns end in''ves''.
If a nouns ends in ''f' 'or ''fe'', we replace with ''ves'' to from its
plural nouns.
Singular Plural Singular Plural
Knife Knives Wife Wives
Half Halves Calf Calves
Thief Thieves Shelf Shelves
Leaf Leaves Life Lives
Some form of singular and plural nouns:
Some nouns have the same form of both.
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Singular Plural Singular Plural


Scenery Scenery Cattle Cattle
Fish Fish(es) Deer Deer
Dozen Dozen(s) Hundred Hundred
Thousand Thousand News News
Change one or two vowels tomeke plural:
In some cases we change one or two vowels of a noun to make
its plural.
Singular Plural Simgular Plural
Goose Geese Mouse Mice
Foot Feet Man Men
Louse Lice Tooth Teeth
Cactis Cacti Child Children
Person People Ox Oxen
Proverbs:  
1- A burnt child dreads of fire.   
2- A figure omong ciphers.  
3- A drowning man catches straw.    
4- A friend in need is a friend indeed.       
5- A little knowledge is a dengerous thing.   
6- Easy come easy go.   
7- Honesty is the best policy.       

8- As you sow, so shall you reap.  
9- Knowledge is power.    

10- Hast makes wast.     
11- It is no use crying over spilt milk.
   

  
12- A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.   
13- A bad worksman qurrels with his tools.      
14- Necessity is the mother of invention.    
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15- Pride hate a fall.  


16- All that glitters is not gold.    
17- There is something wrong at the bottom. 
18- Truth is always bitter.     
19- Grapes are sour.  
20- It is a hard nut to creack.   
21- Where there is a will,there is a way.  
22- Barking dogs seldom bite.      
23- To err is huaman.    
24- Union is strength.      
25- All is well that ends well.   
26- Charity begins at home.  
27- Tit for tat.  
28- Blood is thicker than water.  


  
29- To kill two birds with one stone.    
30- Make hey while the sun shines. 
31- Dainties and plenty.   
32- As long as there is life, there is hope.      
33- Might is right.   
34- Rome was not built in a day.   
35- A wolf in sheep's clothing.     
Active & Passive voice: 
To change Active voice sentences into passive voice, we make
following changes:
1- The subject becomes object and object becomes subject.
2- The pronoun''i'' is changed into ''me '',''we''is changed in to ''us'',
''he'' is changed in to ''him'', ''she'' is changed in to ''her'', ''they'' is changed
in to ''them''.
3- The verb's third form is used and helping verb comes before
the verb and in end "by" is used.
4- In negative sentences ''not'' is used between the helping verb
and third form of verb.
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5- In interrogative sentences helping verb is placed before the


subject.
    passive voice  active voice   
 
 object subject  
 Subject Object (i)
 her she  him  he
   us  we  Me I  Pronouns (ii)
 
them  they
form   form  form    Verb (iii)
   helping verb 'by'
  'not'helping verb  (iv)
   helping verb (v)
Present tense: ( passive voice)
Simple present tense:
Active voice Passive voice
1- He reads a book. Abook is read by him.
2- I write a letter. A letter is written by me.
3- We sing a song. Asong is sung by us.
4- Mother love me. I am loed by mother.
5- They do not eat bananas. Bananas are not eaten by them.
6- Atif do not learn the lesson. The lesson is not learnt by Atif.
7- The dog does not bark at him. He is not barked by the dog.
8- Does Imran throw aball? Is a ball thrown by Imran?
9- Who boils potatoes? By whom are potatoes boiled?
10- Do you help the poor? Are the poor helped by you?
Present continuous tens:( passive voice)
In such sentences ''is'' or'' am'' or ''are'' is followed by being and
the third form of verb.
 

 beingis, are, amtense
In interrogative sentences helping verb is put before the
subjectwhile the question word becomes the openingword of the
sentences.
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 helping verb"being"  "not"


  subject helping verb
Active voice Passive voice
1- You are making a noise. A noise is being made by you.
2- Yumna is reading a book. Abook is being read by yumna.
3- Sara is lighting a lamp. A lamp is being lit by Sara.
4- He is doing his work. The work is being done by him.
5- Our class is not winning the The prize is not being won by our
prize. class.
6- S a b e en i s not dr a wi ng a A cartoon is not being drawn by
cartoon. Sabeen.
7- Ar e the men ma ki ng t he Are the carpets being made by
carpets? men?
8- Where are they grazing the Where are the cattlebeing grazed
cattle? by them?
Present perfect tense:(passive voice)
It takes ''has been'' or ''have been'' and third form of the verb.
  "have been"
"has been" verb tense
While translating negative sentences ''not'' follows ''has''or
''have''.
  "not""has""have"
In interrogative sentences ''has'' or''have'' comes before the
subject.
   "have""has"
Active voice Passive voice
1- She has bought a book. A book has been bought by her.
2- I have taken tea. Tea has been taken by me.
3- We have built a house. A house has been built by us.
4- He has written a letter. A letter has been written by him.
5- The farmers have not ploughed The fields have not been ploughed
the fields. by the farmer.
6- Khalid has not opened the The window has not been opened
window. by Khalid.
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7- Has he taken the medicine? Has the medicine been taken by


him?
8- Have you ironed my clothes? Have my clothes been ironed by
you?
Past tense: (Passive voice)
Simple past tense:
In these sentences we have used ''was or ''were'' with the third
form of verb.
 was, were third form  verb   passive voice  tense 
  
In negative sentences ''not'' is used between ''was'' or ''were'' and
interrogative sentences take ''was'' or were'' before the subject.
  third form  verb "was" 
"were"  "not"     
  "were" "was" 
Active voice Passive voice
1- Usman bought a car. A car was bought by Usman.
2- I watched T.V. T.V was watched by me.
3- Dua washed many dishes. Many dishes were washed by Dua.
4- A cameraman took a photo. A photo was taken by a
cameraman.
5- She did not get first prize. First prize was not got by her.
6- The cat did not kill the mouse. The mouse was not killed by the cat.
7- Did Adil open the gates? Were the gates opened by Adil?
8- Why did she put out the lamp? Why was the lamp put out by her?
Past continuous tense: ( Passive voice)
In translating sentences belonging to past continuous
tense''was'' or ''were'' is followed by ''being'' and third of verb.
  beingwas, were passive voice tense
In negative sentences ''not'' comes in between ''was'' or ''were''
and being.
 beingwas
were  not  
In interrogative sentences helping verb is put before the
subject.
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   helping verb


Active voice Passive voice
1- She was keeping promise Promise was being kept by her.
2- Asad was reading a novel A novel was being read by Asad.
3- They were forgetting me. I was being forgotten by them.
4- He was riding a scooter. A scooter was being ridden by
him.
5- The children were playing Games were being played by the
games. children.
6- She was not taking bath. Bath was not being taken by her.
7- The students were not making a A noise was not being made by the
noise. students.
8- Was the mechanic repairing the Was the car being repaired by
car? mechanic?
9- Why wa s she shutting the Why was the window being shut
window? by her?
10- Who was slaughtering the By whom wa s the cow being
cow? slaughtered?
Past perfettense:(Passive voice)
Here we have used "had been" with the third form of verb.
  beenhadpassive voice tense
In negative sentences"not" is added just after "had" in case of
question,however, had is placed befor the subject.
  had  nothad  

Active voice Passive voice
1-Fozia had phoned me. I had been phoned by Fozia.
2-He had posted a letter. A letter had been posted by him.
3-You had lost the match. The match had been lost by him.
4-They had sung a song. A song had been sung by them.
5 - M y s i s t e r h a d d o n e h i s The homework had been done by
homework. my sister.
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6-She had missd the train. The train had been missed by her.
7-Sonia had not plucked flowers. Flowers had not been plucked by
Sonia.
8-The tiger had not caught a deer. A deer had not been caught by the
tiger.
9-The hens had not laid eggs. Eggs had not been laid by the
hens.
10-Had the birds made their nests? Had the nests been made by the
birds?
11-Who has completed his work? By whom ha d his work been
completed?
Future tense: ( Passsive voice)
Simple future tense:
In simple future tense we have used third form of the verb
after"will be" or "shall be".
  bewill, shallpassive voice tense
In negative sentences "not" is placed after "will" or "shall".
  not shallwill
In interrogative "will or shall" is used before the subject.
  subject will or shall
Active voice Passive voice
1-He will speak the truth. The truth will be spoken by him.
2-Shahid will hit the ball. The ball will be hit by shahid.
3-I shall help my father. My father will be helped by me.
4-She will solve my problem. My problem will be solved by her.
5-We shall win the prize. The prize will be won by us.
6-Saad will not steal my copy. My copy will not be stolen by
saad.
7-Shameem will not sweep the The floor will not be swpt by
floor. Shameem.
8-Who will paint this wall? By whom wi l l t hi s wa l l b e
painted?
9-Will the snake bit the child? Will the child be bitten by the
snake?
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10-How will she tell alie? How will alie be told by her?
11Will they hunt the bird? Will thebird be hunted by them?
12-Shall we help our neighbours? Will our neighbours be helped by
us?
Future perfect tense:
Here we have used "will have been" or "shall have been".
been  shall have, will have    passive voice tense 
  
In negative sentences we use "not" after "will" or "shall" and in
interrogative sentences "will or shall'' are put before the subject.
shall,      not shall, will 
  subject will
Active voice Passive voice
1- The doctor will have injected The patient will have been injected
the patient. by the doctor.
2- I shall have finished my work. My work will have been finished
by me.
3- They will have built a bridge.
A bridge will have been built by
them
4- Aslam will not have trusted You will not have been trusted by
you. him.
5- He will have not bought a A shop will not have been bought
shop. by him.
6- Will you have climed up the Will the tree have been climbed up
tree? by you?
7- Will you have helped us? Shall we have been helped by you?
Note: Present, Past ad Future perfect continuous and future
continuous tense
 
Passive voice  Tenses 

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"Tenses"
Tense:
In English grammer tenses show the time of happening of a
work (verb). Thus in any sentence in which a work is donewill either be
in present time, or in the past or in the time to come. In short the tense
of a verb show the time of an action or event.
  
        (Tense)      
   
     
  
      
   
 
 
 tense verb
Kinds of tenses:
There are three kinds of tenses.    
i Present tense. 
ii Past tense.  
iii Future tense. 
Every tense has four kinds.
Present tense:  
1 Present indefinite tense:
In this tense third person singular subject takes first form of
verbs with "s" or "es" but the plural and "i" take the first form without
"s" or ''es".
     
  
    tense
  verbsubject tense (1)
 ies
s, es verb singular subject  it, she, he (2)
 
Examples:
1 He reads good book.    
2 I play football.    
 
3 They write a letter.     
4 I get up early in the morning.   
5 You take a bath daily.    
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6 We do our work ourselves.    


7 You deal in suger.   
   
8 The child cries.  
9 She passes her exam every year.   
  
10 She acts upon her parent's advice.       
While translating "negative sentences" we use "does not"for
third person singular subject and"do not" for plural subject and "I"
followed by the first form of the verb.
 I, we, you, they   negative  tense 
plural (1)
  do not subject
singular subject it, she, he 
  "does not"
   "es" "s" verb does not do not (2)
Examples:
1 I do not wish to meet him. 

2 We do not run this factory.     
3 He does not drink milk.   
4 She does not always speak the truth.  
5 They do not do their own work.       
6 You do not know his name.    
7 We do not like hockey.   
8 It does not rain here daily.    

9 The goat does not eat meat.    
10 He does no go to school on foot.  
 
In the "interrogative sentences" or question,the question word
with "do" or "does" comes before the subject.
subject  does do  interrogative tense
 
Examples:
1 Do you work in a  office?     
2 Does he hate anyone? 
 
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3 Do we respect them?  


4 Do the girls s ng a sweet song? 
5 Does she go to school?  
6 Does he drink milk?  
7 Does the hens lay eggs?   
8 Does he get angry for nothing? 
 
9 Does she tell a lie? 
10 Does I tease you? 
 
Present continuous tense:
In translating sentences belonging to present continuous tense
we use "is'',"am" or "are" with the first form of the verb adding "ing".
    
 tense (1)
   ing verb are am, is (2)
Examples:
1 I am making the map of Pakistan.    
2 He is winding the watch.   
3 They are jumping off the wall.     
4 We are leaving for Karachi tomorrow.   
5 The hen is laying eggs.    
6 She is kniting a sweater.  
7 The fisherman are catching fish.  
8 We are printing a new book.   
9 He is turning the tap on. 
10 They are learning the English language.      
In case of "negative sentences" we use "not" after "is","am" or
"are" with the first form of verb, followed by "ing".
are am, is  not  negative tense
 ing verb
Examples:
1 I am not wasting the time.  
 
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2 We are not working in the fields.    


3 She is not smiling.  
4 The villagers are not making progress.   
5 They are not learning lesson.    
6 I am not telling him the secret.    
7 You are not cooperating with me. 
8 He is no facing the danger bravely.      
9 She is not going to the airport.       
10 They are not catching fish.  
When we translate "interrogative sentences" or questions, "is",
"am" or "are" is used before the subject but after the question word.
   subject  am  are, is  tense 


   
Examples:
1 Is the baby sleeping? 
2 Am I not helping you? 
3 Are you listening to the news? 
4 Are they working hard? 
5 Is he making tea? 
6 Is Rida going to her aunt's house? 
7 Where are the people dancing?   
8 Is the player playing the match?    
9 Are we going to America?   
10 Is he always working?  
     
Present perfect continuous tense:
We use a present continuous tense to talk about something
which started in the past and has been in progess up to the present.
 tense
    tense  (1)
  Present continuous tense    
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     1956             


 
   6  

  7         (2)
  2019
point of time   senence   (3)
    since 
   period of time    
  for
 verb  have been has been     tense  (4)
  ing
Examples:
1 Affan has been flying kite since noon.  
2 I have been going to school since monday.
3 Baby has been weepingfor two hours. 
4 Peaple have been coming to the park since morning.
  
5 She has been watching cartoons for one hour.
 

6 The players has been playing cricket since 6 o'clock.
 
 
7 You have been wasting you time since last week.
   
8 I have been teaching since 2000.   
 2000
9 They have been living in this house since 1990.
 1990
10 Moiz has been taking a bath for half an hour.
   


In "interrogative sentance" we use "not" between "has been'' or
"have been" and the first form of verb with "ing".
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   not  have  has  negative  tense 


 been
Examples:
1 I have not been doing my work since 3 o'clock.
    
2 You have not been acting upon the advice of your parents for
several day.
   
 
3 She has not been taking exercise for one week.
 
  
4 The passenger have not been burning five for since evening.

    
5 He has not been watching T.V. since morning.
 TV 
6 The idle students have not been working for many days.

     
7 The doctors have not been treating the patients for six days.
   
8 We have not been going to office for two days.
   
While translating "interrogative sentences" or questions "has"
or ''have'' come before the subject.Question words are followed by "has"
or "have" as in the example.
 have  has    
interrogative  sentences  tense    
  (?)  sentences
Examples:
1 Since when has the rich man been taking rest?
  
   
2 Has she been learning her lesson for forty minutes?
 
 
3 Has he been sleeping since 7 o' clock?
  
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4 Have they been growing crops for six months?


   
5 Have the players been inflating football for 20 minutes?
 
   
6 Have your friend been helping you since January?
  
 
7 Where has the carpenter been repairing chairs since Sunday?
  
 
8 Why has Salman been taking medicine for five days?
    

           tense  
 
       
    
Examples:
1 He has been studying in this college.  
 
2 We have been playing match.   
3 Have you been taking exercisa lately?
4 She has been cooking meals.   
Present perfect tense:
We use the present perfect tense to indicate the recently
completed activities.
  
          Present perfect tense 
 
3rd form  verb  have 
has   subject  tense    
 
Examples:
1 I am taken my lunch.  

2 You have finished your work.     
3 The girl has written the letter.  
4 We have accepted the invition.  
5 They have heard the song.  
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6 The winter has come to an end.  


7 Aslam has won the match.   
8 That girl has learnt the lesson.  

9 She has gone to London.   
10 He has gone to school.   
While translating "negative sentences" we use "not'' between
"has" or "have" and the third form of the verb.
 not    verb  have has  tense  
 
Examples:
1 I have not ironed my clothes.   
2 He has not torn the book.  
3 They have not gone for a walk.   
4 We have not taken our meal. 
5 The girls have not played cricket.   
6 The sun has not set in. 
7 You have not informed me.     
8 She has not cheated me. 
9 The hen has not laid the egg.   
10 The labourers have not gone on strike.    
 
In translating the "interrrogative sentences" or questions we
use 'has" or "have" in the begining of the sentence, followed by the
third form of verb.

          have
 hasTense
Examples:
1 Has he gone?  
2 Have you finished your work?     
3 Have they returned?   
4 Has your father gone to Lahore?   
5 Have you defeated him?     
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6 Where have you seen this man?   


7 Has Shujah not neglected his duty?

      
 
8 Has your brother reached the top of the hill?

   
9 Have the robbers madegood their escape?
    
10 Have we bought a new house? 
  
Past tense:
1 Past indefinate tense:
This tense can be used for any action whether relating to long
past or near past. For translating such sentences we use only the second
form of verb.
         Simple past tense  

 
  
  tense  (1)
  2nd form verbtense (2)
Examples:
1 I posted the letter.   
2 He broke the glass.    
3 You invited me to dinner.  
 
4 They went to Islamabad.   
5 She ran for his life.   
6 Faraz spoke the truth. 
  
7 We boarded the train.    
8 People caught the thief.  
9 Misbah made a beautiful picture. 
  
10 My grandfather told me a story    
While translating negative sentances we use "did not" after th
subject and use first form of verb.
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 "did not"subject negativetense 


  verb
Examples:
1 You did not fulfil your promise.   
2 She did not obey his teacher.     
3 The cobbler did not mend the shoes.     
4 I did not make fun of him.     
  
5 It did not rain heavily.  
6 She did not smile.  
7 They did not push me a side.    
8 My father did not lock the door.  
    
9 We did not pluck the flowers    
10 My sister did not tell a lie.  
In the interrogative sentences or questions, the question word
with"did" comes before the subject.
     subject  did   tense 


       
Examples:
1 Did you sing a song? 
 

2 Did he waste his time?     
3 Did she tell the truth?  
4 Did the lion carry away the cow?  
 
 
  
5 Did they go to fields?   
6 Did i get a scholarship? 
7 Why did he tear the paper?  
8 How did she cook fish?  
9 Did army capture the fort?   
10 Did they get up early yesterday? 
   Simple past tense 
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1 I waited for him all day.


2 He worked for six hours.
              
 Simple past tense
1 He went to Quetta yesterday. 
 
2 She come to see us last month.  
Past continuous tense:
We use the past cotinuous tense to talk about something which
was in the past.We use "was" with the first form of the verb
accompanying "ing" for singular subject and "were" for plural subject.
     
 Past continuous tense   

       tense  (1) 

"werer"  plural subject  "was"  Singular Subject   
  wereYou 
  "ing" verb (2)
Examples:
1 She was playing.  
2 He was running fast.  
3 You were telling a story.  
4 The baby was crying.  
5 We were listening to the news. 
6 They were laughing at his jokes.   
7 I was flying kites.    
8 His brother was working in a mill.   
9 They were selling their car.    
10 The shopkeeper was lying.    
In case of ngative sentences we use "not" after "was" or "were"
with the first form of verb, followed by "ing".
 "was"     "not"   negative   tense 
  "ing" verb"were"
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Examples:
1 The peon was not ringing the bell.   
2 We were not cheating.  
3 I was not taking exercise.  
4 We were not travelling together.  
5 I was not going on foot.   
6 You were not walking in the park.  
7 They were not swimming across the river.  

8 We were not working hard. 
9 The merchant was not coming back home.     
10 She was not solving the sum.  
In interrogative sentences "was" or "were" are the opening
words but the question words come before "was" and "were''.
 subject were was  tense

        

Examples:
1 Was the poor girl crying?  
2 Were they performing hujj?     
3 Were the girls making noise? 
4 Were they taking part in the games?  
5 Were the students reading their book?   
6 Was i eating the carrots?  
7 Were the birds chirping?    
8 Were you drawing a cartoon?   
 why, how, where, when what  question words   
  was, weresentence  
9 Who was asking about you?     
10 How was she driving?   
11 When were they passing through the forest?  

12 Why were we wasting our time?    
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3 Past perfect tense:


In indicates that an actionwas completed ( finished or
"perfected") at some point in the past before something else happened.
This tense is formed with the past tense"had" with third form of verb
after subject.

  

 past perfect tense  
        tense  (1)
 
  past simple tense  
  
 3rd form  verb     had   subject  tense  (2)

Examples:
1 The girls had already sung songs.   
2 We had lost the match. 
3 Sabir has plucked flowers. 
  
4 You had watched T.V.  
5 Peon had rung the bell.  
6 My son had gone to school before i came home.
 
 
7 The deer had run before the lion came.
 
 
8 The teams had reached the play field before the referee whistled.
  

In negative sentences we add "not" between "had" and third
form of verb.
  not had tense  
Examples:
1 I had not sold my property.  
     
2 We had not seen him before.   
3 You hsd not killed a snske.      
4 We had not won the match.    
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5 She had not made tea before I said.


 
6 Waseem had not applied for the job.
   
     
7 Sara had not knitted the sweater.    
8 They had not reached home before the sun set.
  
9 The court had not acquitted him till yesterday.

  
 
10 When my friends came I had not gone.
 
  
In interrogative sentences or questions we begin with the
question word or "had" or both .
 had   past perfect tense     tense  

         subject

Examples:
1 Had they already finished their work?
    
2 Had you offered your prayer before the prayer call?
 
    
3 Had the plain taken off before the passengerarrived at the
airport?    
    
4 Had your father gone when you reached home?

   
5 Had the sun risen? 
6 Had the students misbehaved with the teacher before the
headmaster come?
     
7 Who had built such a grand building before Shah Jahan built
Taj Mehal?      

8 Why had the people returned before caravan reached?
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4 Past perfect continuous tense:
We use the past perfect continuous tense to talk about
something which had been in progress up to the past time and there is
mention ofthe point of time or period of time.
In translating sentences relating to past perfect tense we use
''had been'' and first form of verb together with "ing". We also find that
where the time of starting an action is given ,word "since'' is used but
when the duration or span of time is given, word "for" is used.
        tense 

      
      point
   
 
 point of time   (1)
  sentence
  period of time       "since" 
 "for"
  "ing" verb had been  tense (2)
  
Examples:
1 They had been living in Sargodha since last year.

2 She had been written a letter for two hour.   
3 We had been playing the match since evening.
 

4 They had been living in this house since 1980.
  1980
5 He had been wasting his time for one year.
     
6 We had been swimming since 3 o'clock.   
7 You preparing the speech since monday.   
8 He had been planting trees since th 13th.     

9 It had been raining for five days.    
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10 The masons had been contructing the house for ten days.
 
In negative sentences "not" is used between ''had'' and ''been''
with the first form of verb and ''ing''.
 "not""been" "had" tense  

Examples:
1 I had not been sleeping since noon.  
2 We had not been selling books since today.
 
   
3 The friends had not been talking for thirty minutes.
  

4 The hen had not been laying eggs since sunday.
 
  
5 She had not been dusting for one hour.
 
 
6 They hadnot been living in New york for six years.


7 The lion had not been roaring in the Zoo since evening.

     
 
8 She had not been attending the class since March.
   
9 He had not been taking the examination since the 6th.
  
 
10 You had not been doing work two days.
    
in interrogative sentences we simply begin the sentence with
''had'' or the question word followed by ''had''.
sentence hadtense

       
how, when, where, what, why"question words"
 sentence  
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Examples:
1 Had he been waiting for you for one hour?
 

2 Had we been sitting in the garden for one hour?
   
 
3 Had the garden been watering plants since 10 o' clock?
     
 
4 Had a gale been blowing for half an hour?
 

5 Had the girls been taking exercise for 20 minutes?
 
6 Had she been smelling flowers for ten minutes?
 

7 Had they been living in this house since March?
    
8 Why had your friend been cheating you for a week?

        
Future tense:
1 Future indefinite tense:
We use the future indefinite tense to talk about action and
situations in the future.
 future indefinite tense  
   

In this tense after the subject we use will or shall with the first
form of verb.
 
subject  tense 
 tense  (1)
  verbshall will
   willpersons  
 shallwe (2)
Examples:
1 He will tell the lesson daily .  
 
2 I will get a scholarship.  
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3 Ishall passs the exam.    


4 This hen will lay an eggs daily. 
     
5 They shall wait for the minister.   
6 You will spend money.      
7 You shall obey our order.  
8 We will defeat the enemy.  
9 Flood will come in the rivers in the rainy season.
  
 
10 He shall pay the fine. 
      
In the case of negative sentences ''not'' is used between ''will or
''shall'' and the first form of the verb.
 will not, shall notsubject negativetense
  
Examples:
1 The officer will not worn the peon.   
2 she will not listen to you.  

3 Girls will not dance today.   
4 We shall not waste our time.    
5 They will not forget this story.   
6 He will not favour you.   
7 You will not quarral with him.   
8 She will not backbite me.  
9 I shall not forgive him.   
10 Some servantswill not work hard.   
We begin interrogative sentences or questions with ''will or
''shall'' or some question word followed by "will or shall''.
sentence shall
 will tense

       
Examples:
1 Will you offer fruits to the guests? 
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2 Shall i go to school on foot?   


3 Will the people run after the mad dog?
   
4 Shall we gothere tomorrow?   
5 Will it rain today? 
 
6 Will he ask you this question?   
7 Will you preach Islam?  
8 Will you look after your luggage?     
9 Who will oppose you? 
10 When will you publish your book?       
2 Future continouse tense:
We use the future continuous tense to talk about something
which will be in progress at a time in the future.
      Future continuous tense
We find that in future continouse tense "will be" is followed by
the first form of verb with the addition of 'ing".
 
 will besubjects 
 shall bewetense (1)
 
  "ing" verb (2)
Examples:
1 The sun will be rising.  
2 The dyer will be dying the clothes.     
3 I shall be going to Rawalpindi.  
4 They will be buying the tickets.  

5 The thief will be breaking in to the house.    
6 The farmer will be smoking his pipe.   
7 The boy will be running after a wolf.    
8 you will be living with us.  
9 The moon will be setting. 
 
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10 He will be having a bath in the rain.     


In translating negative sentence "not" is used after "will" that is
before "be''.
  not be will/shall tense
Examples:
1 She will not be laughing.  
2 He will not be joking.   
3 I shall not be sleeping at 12 o' clock.   
4 The dog will not be barking.  
5 He will not be praying now.      
6 They will not be arranging a party.  

7 Afshan will not be cutting the birthday cake.
    
8 The goldsmith will not be making the ornaments.
   
9 She will not be weeping.   
10 He will not be praying now.  
    
In interrogative sentences or questions "will'' or "shall" is used
in the begining of the sentences.
 sentence shall will tense 

        

Examples:
1 Will they be building a wall?    
2 Shall we be seeing the match?   
3 Will you not be tellling a lie? 
4 Will the boy be reading a book?   
 
5 Will she making prepatation for the exam?

6 Shall i be taking a test next month?     
7 Where will you be standing?   
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8 What will she be thinking of? 


9 
Will i be dismounting from the horse?      
10 When will you be going on journey?   
3 Future perfect tense:
We use the future perfect tense to talk about something that
will be completed by a certain time in the future.
     future perfect tense

 
 
We have used "will have" or "shal have" and th third form of
verb in these sentences.
 
            tense  (1)
   tense  
 3rd form verb  shall have
will havesubject (2)

Examples:
1 you will have received the money order.   
2 I shall have completed my drawing.    
3 We shall have taken rest.   
4 They will have reached there by evening.  
5 The guests will have come.  
6 I shall have taken a walk by 9 o' clock.  
7 Children will have eaten sweets.   
8 The rain will have stopped by then.   
  
9 She will have changed the house.  
10 He will have gone to America by October.      
While translating sentences "not" is placed between ''will'' or
''shall'' and "have'.
  not shall or will negativetense  
Examples:
1 The boys will not have pushed the blind man.
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  
 
2 We shall not have finished our dinner by 8.00.
 8
 
 
3 They will not have eaten fruits.  
4 He will not have grown 4 feet by next year.
  
4  
5 You will not have taken bath .  
6 She will not have washed the pots. 
 
7 I shall not have reached the station.  
8 The doctor will not have dressed the injured.
 
9 They will not have bought goats. 


10 The potter will not have fired the pots.  
 
While translating interrogative sentences "will or shall" or
question word followed by "will or shall is used in the begining.
 subject shall or will interrogativetense

        

Examples:
1 Will you have washed your car ?  
2 Will all the birds have flown? 
  

3 Shall we have reached Lahore by tomorrow noon?


4 Will all the guests have taken their seats?
 
5 Shall i have gone to Paris by the end of this month?

 
6 Will the have deliverd a speach by 30 minutes?

 30

7 Will Saima has made tea for me?  
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8 Will she have fried fish?  



9 Why shall i have fogiven him?  
10 How will the people have put up their demands?

4 Future perfect continuouse tense:
The future perfect continuous tense is used to talk about for
actions which will be in progress over a period of tine that will end in
the future.
In sentences belonging to this tense we use "will or shall" with
"have been" beforre the first form of verbalong with "ing".

    
   tense
  
"ing" verbshall/will have beentense 

Examples:
1 The birds will have been chirping since morning.

  
2 You will have been making mischief for two days.
  
3 It will have been hailing for thirty minutes.
 
30
4 The will have been teaching for one hour.
    
 
5 Sameer will have been leaning the lesson for two hours.
  

6 I shall have been waiting for you since morning.
    
7 He will have been doing home work since noon.
  
 
8 We will have been receiving gils-guid training since 1990.
 
  
 1990
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9 They will have been sowing crops for 15 days.


    
10 Flood will have been coming in the river for many years.
   

In negative sentences "not" is used after "will or shall".
 "not"   shall  will   negative  senences tense  
  have been

Examples:
1 He shall not have been writing the essay since night.
 
2 She will not have been teaching in the school since 2017.
  
  2017
3 They will not have been playing since evening.
 
  
4 He will not have been taking bath for few days.
  
  
5 You will not have been paying rent of the house since May.
    
6 I shall not have been using bicycle since 2019.
 
  2019
7 Freed will not have been going to school since the day before
yesterday.  
 
 
8 The meson will not have been building a hospital for one year.
 

In interrogatieve sentences "will or shall'' are used in the
begining of sentences or the question word is followed by ''will or shall''
before the subject.
  sentence shall or will  tense 

        

Examples:
1 Will they have been mourning his death for ten days?
 
 
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2 Will the farmers have been using machines since July 2018?
  2018  
3 Will you have been talking since morning?
 
 
4 Will she have been sewing clothes since September 2016?
  2016
5 Will the friends have been encouraging him since Sunday?
  
 
    
6 Will your uncle have been remembering you for two years?
 
   
7 Why will you have been discoureging them since Tuesday?
  
 
8 Where will the woodcutter have been looking for his axe for
two days? 
    
9 Will they have been daring to attack the city since June?

  
10 Will she have been writing poem for two years?
  
EXERCISES
''Ex . No 1''
1- Underline the nouns in the following sentences, and
write whether they are common or proper:
1 We are studying in a collage.
2 They are finishing in the sea.
3 Maham is writing a letter.
4 Shabnam lives in Krachi.
5 The birds are in the tree.
6 She likes flowers.
2- Write the correct form of personal pronoun:
1 Your pencil writes better than______.( her,hers )
2 It might have been________.( he, him )
3 Nobody but________ was absent.( she,her )
4 He and _______ are good friends.( I, me )
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5 He lost his bat, and we______ .( our,ours )


6 Can you write English as well as______.( they,them )
7 The books are not_____.( her,hers )
8 The car________ has been stolen is not his.( which,when )
''Ex .No 2''
1- Write the feminines of the following masculines:
Mesculine Feminine Mesculine Feminine
Author Bull
Actor Fox
Uncle Cock
Lion Land Lord
Prince Bridegroom
2- Write down the neuter and common genders
separately.
Cousm Baby Table House
Book Chair Cook Artist
Clerk Thief Servant Teacher
Friend Student Watch Radio
3- Write the masculines of the following feminines:
Masculine Feminine Masculine Feminine
She-wolf Milkmaid
Actress Jenny
Pea hen Monitress
Waitress She-bear
Jewess Nanny goat
Step mother Giantess
"Ex . No 3''
1- Tell the kind of following sentences:
1 How beautiful is your house!___________ .
2 May you go to hall.____________ .
.3 Please help me.____________.
4 They are not working.__________.
5 Is your mother at home?________
6 Go to your class._________.
7 How foolish he is!_______.
8 Is he sick?__________.
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9 Long live Pakistsn.___________.


10 He sent them a car.__________.
2- Underline the phrases in the sentences:
1 She is going in the park.
2 Put the eggs on th table with care.
3 We met you at that moment.
4 The sun sets in the west.
5 I shall go to the beach.
6 She has a chain of gold.
7 They bought a red car.
8 We shall go to there in evening.
''Ex. No 4''
1- Fill in the helping verbs in the blanks:
1 He_____ gone to the school.
2 I_____ teaching.
3 I_____ not count it.
4 Last week we______ talking about the wheather.
5 Mother_____ at home.
6 She______ buy a book tomorrow.
7 They______ going to school when the storm broke.
8 They______ a calculator.
9 You______ a doctor.
10 Saima______ washing clothes.
2- Write the past and past participle forms of the verbs:
Present Past Participle Present Past Participle
Swing Buy
Dig Think
Drink Speak
Begin Go
Catch Know
Meet Bring
Grow Weep
Wash Jump
Write smell
Take Learn
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''Ex . No 5''
1- Complete the following sentences with suitable adverbs:
1 Tea is______ hot.
2 We walk______.
3 She_______favours me.
4 They______ work hard.
5 ______ tell alie.
6 This apple is______ ripe.
7 The lion was ______ dead.
8 He ______ went with you.
9 Although my mother is old yet she ______ goes for a walk.
10 The story is ______ interesting.
''Ex . No 6''
1- Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions.
1 A pen is to write ______.
2 Please! look ______ the bed.
3 She is suffering ______ Malaria.
4 I shall meet you ______ the corner.
5 They went to Lahore ______ bus.
6 I am late ______ school.
7 Do not sleep ______ the class.
8 The dog is ______ the tree.
9 She was standing ______ the window.
10 The crow is sitting ______ the wall.
11 They came here ______ friday.
12 Allah is kind ______ us.
13 Islamabad is the capital ______ Pakistan.
14 They laughed ______ the beggar.
15 The chicks are ______ the hen.
''Ex . No 7''
 Underline the objectives in the following sentences.
1 This is Pakistani cloth.
2 She is an active lady.
3 Salman is an intelligent boy.
4 I gave her five books.
5 The moon is round.
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6 The woman is healthy.


7 She is a pretty girl.
8 Ali is strong.
9 I don't like that family.
10 The team has had enough practice.
 Supply suitable adjectives in the following sentences.
1 I like ______ shirts.
2 ______ oranges are sour.
3 She is a ______ child.
4 He did not eat ______ bread.
5 A hand has ______ fingers.
6 He is a ______ boy.
7 Prevention is ______ than cure.
8 The water of this well is ______.
9 It is a ______ building.
10 Arif is a ______ driver.
11 I want ______ milk.
12 The dog is a ______ animal.
''Ex . No 8''
 Fill in the blanks with correct conjunctions.
1 He is poor _______ he is honest.
2 It was raining _______ I took an umbrella.
3 Sit here _______ I come back.
4 We can travel by land _______ water.
5 He is _______ a fool _______ knave.
6 Wait here _______ they come back.
7 Please! wait _______ the rain stops.
8 I was hungry, _______ I ate my fill.
9 I cannot attend the party _______ my dress is not suitable.
10 _______ take it _______ leave it.
11 I like _______ stories _______ are interesting.
12 He does not go to school _______ he is ill.
13 You will succeed _______ you work hard.
14 Make preparation for the exam _______ you will fail.
15 I will call you _______ I arrive.
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''Ex . No 9''
 Translate into English: (Simple Present Indefinite Tense)
     
  1
    2
  3
    4
  5
  6
    7
   8
   9
   10
 Translate into English: (Present Continuous Tense)
      1
   2
    3
    4
      5
     
  6
    7

    8
   9
 10
 Translate into English: (Present Perfect Tense)
   1
       2
  3
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    4
     5
   6
      7
      8
  
  9
   10
 Translate into English: (Present Perfect Continuous Tense)
   1
  2
     3
  4
     5
  6
     7
    8
    9
   1990 10
''Ex . No 10''
 Translate into English: (Past Simple Tense)

     1
   2
    3
  4
   5
    6
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
  7
   8
 
   9
  10
 Translate into English: (Past Continuous Tense)

   1
  2
  3
       4
  5
   6
  7
 8
   9
     10
 Translate into English: (Past Perfect Tense)
    1
   2
     3
   4
   
 5
   6
      7
 8
     9
  10
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 Translate into English: (Past Perfect Continuous Tense)


      1
      2
   3
    4
      5
  6
   7
  
   8
    9
     10
''Ex . No 11''
 Translate into English: (Future Inefinite or Simple Tense)
    
 1
   2
    3
 4
    5
   6
    7
      8
    
 9
      10
 Translate into English: (Future Continuous Tense)
    1
  
   2
      3
   4
English Grammar 403 Class 7th

  5
   6
 
   7
   8
   9
   10
 Translate into English: (Future Perfect Tense)
  
 1


    2


    3

 
  4


  5

   6


 
   7

  

   8

  
 9

   
    
   10
 Translate into English: (Future Perfect Continuous Tense)
  
    1

  2
  
 3
 
   4
   5
   6
English Grammar 404 Class 7th

 
  7
    8
  9
    10
''Ex . No 12''
 Change the direct narration into indirect narration:
1 He said to her, "It is your book".
2 She will say, "I am busy".
3 They say, "We shall go to Islamabad tommorrow".
4 Sabeen told her mother, "I have lost my pen".
5 He say to us, "I will not sleep tonight".
6 Saleem will say, "I Learn my lesson".
7 She says, "You waste my time".
8 Sara said, "I have made tea".
9 He said to me, "I did not beat you".
10 I said to her, "Are you knitting my sweater"?
11 The old lady said, "May you live long!".
12 My father said to me, "May God help you!"
13 He said, "Let me play match".
14 She said to me, "I have failed in the examination".
15 We shall say to her, "We play daily".
16 She said to him, "Have you a book"?
17 You said, "She is taking tea".
18 I said, "They have won the match".
19 They said, "He has been sleeping for an hour".
20 I said, "She was making breakast''.


English Grammar 405 Class 7th

"Applications"  
Write an application to the Headmaster/Headmistress for
school leaving certificate.
The Headmaster/Headmistress,
Govt. Boys High School,
A. B. C.
Sir/Madam
Repectfully it is submitted that my father has been transferred
to Karachi. I, there for, request you to be kind enough to grant me a
school leaving certificate. I shall be thankful to you for this kindness.
Yours obediently,
X. Y. Z
March 20,2020
    
            
 
 
      
  
   


  
 
 
Write an application to the Headmaster/Headmistress to
provide new furniture/lack of furniture in classrooms.
To,
The Headmaster/Headmistress,
Govt. High School,
A.B.C
Sir/Madam,
We the students of class 7th would like to complain about the
furniture of our class. The furniture is completely broken.
Therefore it is requested, that new furniture shoukd be
purchased, at the earliest.
Thanking you in anticipation.
We are students of class 7th,
March 20,2020

   
    
    

    
 
    
 
English Grammar 406 Class 7th

Write an application to the headmaster/Headmistress for


remission of fine.
To,
The Headmaster/Headmistress,
Govt. High school,
A. B. C.
Sir/Madam,
It is stated with respect that I am a student of 7th class in your
school. I have always submitted my monthly fee in time. But last month
my father could not pay my fee in time and I have been fined Rs.1000.
Madam/sir, kindly remit my fine. I shall be very thankful to you for this
favour.
Your's obediently,
X. Y. Z.
             
   
   
          
     
     
   1000 
  
  

 
 
Write an application to the Headmaster/Headmistress
To,
The Headmaster/Headmistress,
Govt. High School,
A. B. C.
Sir/Masdam,
With due respect, I state that my elder brother's marriage is
being held on 25th April, 2020. Walima ceremony will be held on 26th
April, 2019. I have to do a lot of work at home. So I cannot attend the
school for four days from 24th April to 27th April.
Thanking you in advance.
Your's obediently,
X. Y. Z.
   2019        
 25    
  

  26   24         2019  26 
     
 

English Grammar 407 Class 7th

Write an application to Tehsil Nazim for the cleanliness of


your Mohalla.
To,
The Tehsil Nazim,
City Government,
A. B. C.
Sir
Respectfully it is submitted that the sanitory condition of our
Mohalla, is not good. The heaps of garbage and dirt are seen every
where. The rainy season has set in . Dirty water is standing in streets.
This water has become the nursery of mosquitoes and flies which may
cause cpidemic diseases. The sweepers do not realize their duty.
Kindly issue the orders to clean my mohalla and direct your
staff to improve the system of cleanliness. We shall be thankful to you.
Your's truly,
Resident,
A. B. C.

       
  
        
      
          
      
  
Write an application to the Headmaster/Headmistress
about the un-availability of syllabus related books in
library.
To,
The Priciple,
Govt High School.
A. B. C.
Respected Sir/Madam,
With due respect, It is stated I am a student of 7th and a
member of its library. I want to inform that collection available at the
library is not enough to fulfil acadmic needs of students
I hope you will look in to the matter and take prompt action.
Your's faithfully,
X. Y. Z.
English Grammar 408 Class 7th

       


     
  
   
   
   
  
 

''Letters'' 

Write a letter to your mother telling her about your


progress in studies:
Examination Hall,
City. A. B. C.
1st May, 2020
Dear Mother,
Assalam-o- Alaikum! May Allah be pleased with you! I
received your kind letter yesterday. I shall so glad to receive it. In this
letter you have asked me about my studies. You will be glad to know
that I did very well in my December test. I secured 800 marks in this
test and got first position in my class. Acting upon your advice, I am
working hard. I hope that I will secure 90% marks in the annual
Examination. I always need your blessings.
With love to all at home.
Your loving son,
X. Y. Z.
    
     
  
 
 
      800           
          
 
    90%
English Grammar 409 Class 7th

Write a letter to your friend requesting him/her to spend


summer holidays with you.
Examination Hall,
City. A. B. C.
1st May, 2020
Dear friend,
I am very glad to inform you that our summer vacations have
started.Surely, your school is also closing on the same day. In your last
letter you promised to come to me during these holidays. Now it is time
to fulfil your promise. We shall have a good time. My parents will be
glad to see you here. Inform me about the exact date of your arrival.
Regards to Uncle and Auntie.
Your's sincerely,
X. Y. Z.
             
              
    
     
        
       

Write a letter to your father for money.
Examination Hall,
City. A. B. C.
1st May, 2020
Dear father,
I hope you will be well. As you know, my examination It at
hand. To get well prepared for the examination, I urgently need some
importent books. I do not have sufficient money to buy them. I need at
least Rs.2000 rupees. Please send me this money as soon as possible.
Please convey my regards to mother and love to doll.
Your's loving son,
X. Y. Z.
   
        
   
       
 
          2000     
   

English Grammar 410 Class 7th

Write a letter to younger brother, advising him to take


part in games.
Examination Hall,
City. A. B. C.
My dear brother,
Assalam-o-Alaikum! I received your letter yesterday. I am very
glad to know of your report. You have got good marks in the
examination. But I find that you are neglecting games these days. It is
not good and desirable. you know better that the health is wealth and a
sound mind is in a sound body. You must take care of your health also.
Exercise and games will keep you healthy. Remember that a sick and
lazy person cannot successful in his life. So, you must take part in your
school games to keep you healthy. I hope you will act upon my advice.
Love to all at home.
Your's affectionately,
X. Y. Z.
                 
       
    
    
 
     
 
  
       
   
 
 
Write a letter to your uncle for a birthday present.
Examination Hall,
City. A. B. C.
1st May 2020
Dear uncle,
Assalam-o-Alaikum! It was great pleasure to have your present
received at home. It is kind of you to remember my birthday. Many
thanks of your kind wishes and present of a wrist watch. It is very
beautiful. It will make me punctual and regular. It will be very useful to
me during the examination days. It will remind me of your love for me.
I will keep It with care. Thank you so much for such a nice gift.
With love to dear aunt and to you.
Your's affectionately,
X. Y. Z.
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         


    

   
     


Write a letter to your mother asking about her health.
Examination Hall,
City.A. B. C.
April 25, 2020
Dear Mother,
It is almost two weeks since I left home but I have not heard
anything from you. Arif 's letter I have come to know that you are
suffering from high blood prressure. I am really worried about your
health. I hope that you are taking precationary measures to keep it
normal. Please inform me about your present condition as early as
possible.
Anxiousely waiting for your reply.
Your's affectionately,
X. Y. Z.
       
   
   
 
  
     
   
 
 
Write a letter to your friend congratulating him/her on
his/her success.
Examination Hall,
City. A. B. C.
30 April, 2020
Dear Aamir,
Kindly accept my hearty congratulation on your brilliant
success in the final examination of 7th class. I am veruy glad to know
that you take 1st position in your class. I am really proud of you.
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Certanly, your success is due to Allah's grace. And It is also because of


your hard work and blessings of your parents.
Congratulating you once again.
Regards your father and mother.
Your's loving friend,
X. Y. Z.
      
      
         
     
    

"Stories"   
1 ''All that glitters is not gold''
A stag was once drinking wa ter at a pool.He saw his
reffelection in the water. He was happy to see his beautiful horns. But
when he saw his lean and thin legs he felt sad. They seemed ugly. He
disliked them. Suddenly he saw a pack of hounds coming towards him.
He ran for his deer life. His legs soon carried him far from the hounds.
But unfortunately, his horns were cought fast in a bush. He tried his
best to freehim self but all in vain. In the meantime, the hounds came
up to him. then he realized that his legs took him away while his
beautiful horns were the cause of his death.
Moral:
All the glitters is not gold.
            
 
   
 

  
    
   
           
           
           
 
             
   

      
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2:"Golden Eggs"
Once aman had a strang hen. It laid a golden egg daily. The
man was very happy. He was greedy also. He wanted to become rich
man. But he was too impatient to wait several months. He decided to
kill the hen in order to get all the goldenn eggs. He killed the hen and
was bitterly disappointed to know that there was only one egg. He
repented over his folly, but it is useless to cry over to spilt milk.
Moral:
i Don't be greedy.
ii A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
 
       
       
 
              
 
       
      
         
    
  
    
   (ii)    (i)  
3:"Grapes are Sour''
Once, a fox was very hungry. He searched for food. At last saw
abunch of grapes hanging from a grapevine. His mouth started
watering.He jumped to get them but all in vain. He jumped again and
again but he could not reache the grapes. At last, he went away
saying,''Those grapes are sour! I do not like to eat them".
Moral:
Grapes are sour.
    
   
   
      
   

           
     
  
 
    
4: ''Try Try Again''
The King Bruce And The Spider
Robert Bruce was the king of Scotland under the rule of
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English King. He wanted to make Scotland a free country. He fought


many battles but was defeated many a by his enemy. He was so
disappointed that he ran away in to a jungle and hid himself in cave.
Meanwhile, he cought sight of a spider . It was hanging by a
silken thread. It tried to reache its web,but slipped and fell down. It
tried again and fell down. It did not lose heart and tried again and again.
After its ninth failure, the King Bruce was curious to know the result of
itstenth attempt. but this time it succeeded. The King stood up and
exclaimed,''Brave!Brave! all honour to those who try, try again. He
came out of the cave and gethered his army. He attacked the English
once again and achieved freedom for his motherland.
Moral: All honour to those who try, try again.
         
   
   
    
         

    
                
                
              

      
    
      
      
    
     
5: ''Shepherd boy and the wolf''
There was a village near a forest. A shepherd boy used to take
his herd of sheep to the lawns near the forest. One day he fell very
boring. he wanted to have fun. so, he cried a loud as a joke ''Wolf
Wolf''. ''The wolf is carrying away a lamb''.The villagers ran for his help
with sticks and ask, ''where is the wolf''? The boy laughed and replied,
''it was just a fun''. They cursed him. The boy repeated the joke after a
few days. On going to help the boy, they saw no wolf. The villagers
become a ngry. One da y, a wolf really come there. the boy
shouted''Help!Wolf!Help!'' still no one come to his help. The wolf killed
the boy and ate many sheeps.
Moral: Once a liar always liar.
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          
   
            
   
             
          
 
      
         
      
      
  
    
      
6:''The Hare And The Tortise''
Once upon a time a hare and a tortise were friends, live in the
forest. The hare was very proud of the speed his running. The tortise
walked slowly. The hare always made fun of his laziness. One day he
teased the tortise and challenged him to run a race. The hare accepted
the challenge and the race begun. The hare run very fast and soon get
out of sight. After covered half of the distance, he atopped and lay
down under a cool and shady tree to take some rest. He was soon fast
asleep. The tortise walked slowly and steadly. It left behind the sleeping
hare and reached the target. When the hare awoke,he run very fast
towards the post. But hr felt very shame to see the tortise already sitting
there.
Moral:
slow and steady wins the race.
               
    
 
             
      
      
 
           
 
          
   
 
      
     
        
English Grammar 416 Class 7th

"Essays"  
1:''Our Holy Prophet''
The Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW) was born in Makkah.
His father Abdullah (RA)had died a few month before his death. His
mother Amna also passed away in his childhood. He was brought up by
his grand father Hazarat Abdul Mutlib and after his death by his uncle
hazrat Abu talib. He grew up to be an honest and virtuous man. He was
loved and respected by all. He was called ''Sadiq'' and ''Ameen''. Arich
widow of Makkah Hazrat Khadija (R.A) offer to merry him. He married
her when he was twenty five years of age.
At the age of forty he received the first message of Allah. He
proclaimed himself a messanger ofAllah. He asked the Makkans to
believe in the Oneness of Allah,to give up idol worship and evil
ways.At this they become his enemy.They tortured him and the
Muslims so much that they migrated to Madina.
Madina become the centre of Islamic activies. The muslims
began to live and preach Islam freely. The Makkahs could not bear the
progress of Muslims.
Many battles were fought between them. At least the Muslims
were the conquerors. At the fall of Makkah the Muslims overcame the
whole Arabia. Nearly all Arabian Tribes embraced a Islam. Islam began
to spread in other countries as well. The mission of Holy Prophet was
completed. He passed away at the age of 63. He is the last prophet of
Allah.
              
        
          
     
        
     
     
            
 
          
  
 
       
              

English Grammar 417 Class 7th

    


  
 
  
  
      
  
    
   

    
 
 63      
     
        
2-My School
The name of my school is Government High School. It is in the
city. It has a grand building. It has ten rooms and a hall, All the rooms
are decorated with charts. Six hundred boys read in it. There are twenty
teachers in it. All of them are able. They are kind to us. They advise us
to study. There is also a playground in our school. We play games in it.
There are beautiful flowers in it. Our school is very good. I like it very
much.



        
           
         
    
             
 
   
3-My best friend
Ayesha is my best friend. She reads in the 6th class. She is my
class fellow. She is my neighbour also. She is of my age. She is very
punctual. She is a hardworking student. She always stood first in her
class. She wear neat and clean dress. She says her prayers regularly. She
helps the poor. We go to school together. I love her. She loves me. All
the teachers like her very much. All the class fellows also like her. She
is liked for her good manners. I am proud of her friendship. May! She
live long, Amin.
English Grammar 418 Class 7th

 

     
          
              
                 
               
             

                

        
4-Our National Hero (or) Quaid-e-Azam (or)
My Favourite Personality (or) A great Leader
Aperson who serves the people and does a very great thing for
the nation is called a national hero. It is our luck that we have many
heroes. One of these heroes is Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
He won freedom for us from the British rule. He founded of Pakistan.
His father was a trader. He was born in Karachi on December 25, 1876.
He did his matriculation from Pakistan and got higher education from
abroad. He returned from abroad as a Barrister and became a famous
lawyer of India. He struggled for the independence and rights of the
muslims. Pakistan came in to existence on August 14, 1947 as a result
of his countless efforts. He was appointed as the first Governor General
of Pakistan. He endeavoured continuously to builed up the biggest
Islamic state. Hard work effected his health and he passed away on
September 11, 1948. He burried in the heart of Karachi.

  
  
  
   
   
    
 
    
         
       
                   
  25  
    1876 
   
  
  
     
  
   
    
English Grammar 419 Class 7th

       


  
 
    
  
    
 1 9 4 7  1 4 
 
   
  

      1948  11     
 

 
5:''My Hobby''
Hobby means to do something in one's spare time for the sake
of pleasure, happiness and joy. There are so many hobbies such as
painting, photography, gardening etc. My favourite hobby is gardening.
It is a cheap and useful hobby. I have a small garden infront of my
house. I have put a wooden fence around it. I grow there seasonal
flowers and vegetables. There are also some fruit plants in it. Whenever
I have a spare time I go in to my garden and do some work here. I water
the plants daily. I hoe the beds once a week. My friends come and
admire flowers. In the spring my small garden has a variety of flowers.
Beautiful butterflies hover over my flowers. It refreshes the brain and
body. it helps one to study the nature. I love my garden.

    
       
      
               
 
       
             

            
                 
        
        
   
  
6: "A Picnic Party"
` Going for a picnic is an exciting idea. Last sunday, our family
planned a picnic party. My mother packed lunched and other snackes in
baskets. We reached Lahore fort at about 11o'clock. We chose a shady
place and put our things there. There were lush green lawns and
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beautiful. Old and historical buildings in the fort. Everyone was amazed
while seeing antiques displayed there. Masterpieces of the Mughal
Empire were every where in the fort. Then we had our lunch. After the
lunch we played different games such as hide and seek, running, cricket
and badminton, etc. Everyone of us was very happy that day. We also
took selfies of the happiest day of my life. In the evening, we returned
home happily.

      
     
   
  

 11                
           
       
     

     
        

      
           
 
7: "A Rainy Day/Rainfall"
A rainy day is a day when it rains all day long. I still remember
the day of last June. It was a very hot day. Men, women and children
were feeling very uneasy. Even animals and birds were feeling restless.
At about noon, all of a sudden clouds appeared from the North. They
covered the sky. There was a flash of lighting and clap of thunder.
Large rain drops began to fall. The movement they fell, the dry earth
sucked them. It was followed by a heavy shower. Children came out of
their houses and began playing in the streets. Elders were also happy
and enjoying the rain with pakoras and smosas. The rain continued for
two hours. The streets were flooded but every things looked washed
and clean also. Everyone fell pleasure and thanked Allah Almighty.
            
       
 
         
   
  

                
 
             
                

     
       
English Grammar 421 Class 7th

8: "A Hockey Match''


Hockey is our national game. It is played all over the country.
for a long time our country has been the world champion in this game. I
am very fond of hockey. Yesterday, I witness a very interesting hockey
match which was played between our school team and the team of
Govt. High school. It was played at our school ground. Both the teams
were equally strong and matched. Both the teams enterd the play
ground at 2 P.M. Hundreds of students had come to see the match. the
refree blew the whistle and the game started. Our captain won the toss
and took the side of his choice.The match was not very fast in the
begining. After some time the game become very fast and the teams
were more aggressive in their moves. The opposite team made a good
moves and scored a goal. Their suppoters shouted with joy and clapped
their hands.
After the interval the match started again. Soon our school
team scored a gosl against. The students of our school were very happy.
Our school team pressed the opposite team and made very handsome
moves and scored another goal. Opposite team was unable to score any
more goal till the end. We won the match by one goal. We were happy.
Headmaster and the teachers congratulatd the players. It was a great
match.
 
       
     
     

 
  
       
          
      
        

   
          
   
   
      
   
       
        
  
        
  
   
   
 
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9: ''My village''
My village is situated near Sargodha. It is very beautiful and
old village. The houses of this village are mud houses and bricks of
houses. Most of the villagers are farmers. They grow different crops.
Men and women work in fields. They work from dawn to evening. The
people of my village are very fond of learning. There are two high
schools in my village and for boys and for girls. There is a dispensary
and a small bazar. The atmosphere of my village is very refreshing, neat
and clean. My village produces big crops every year. The people of my
village help one another. They share their problems and happiness.
    
       
          
   
       
       
      
     2      
        
     
 
         
        

  
10: ''A morning Walk''
The morning is the fresh most part of the day. Everytime feel
fresh. Morning walk is a healthy activity. I am very fond of morning
walk. i usually go to the river bank. On my way there is a garden. I sit
for a while in the garden. I take exercise there and inhale fresh air. Then
I walk to the river bank. I listen the music of bird's chirping. There, I
see many people also. Some are swimming in the river and some
laughing and chating there. In the meantime, the sun begins to shine
brightly. the dewdrops shine like pearls on the leaves of grass. I enjoy
the beauty of nature. Then I return home. After the morning walk, We
enjoy freshness the whole day.
              
 
          
 
 
    
  
   
        
     
             
   
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              


   

         


11: A Visit To Zoo


A place where wild animals are kept in cages or enclosures, is
called a Zoo. The people visit Zoo to see these animals. Scientists also
visit Zoo to study these animals. The most famous Zoo of Pakistan is
the Lahore Zoo, One day, I with my parents, visit the Zoo. It is situated
on the mall, It is a part of Jinnah garden. We purchased the tickets and
entered the Zoo. Different types of animals were there. Some animals
were seen on the grass plots. We saw deer, monkeys, lions, bears, stags
and elephants there. Birds like cranes, ducks, and geese were swimming
in the pool. We enjoyed there a lot. We returned in the evening.

 


  
 
         
           


  
      
  
    
     


     
         
 

          

 

  
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