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Vocabulary



          A.  Fill in the missing letters.
              1.  A small worker on a farm is a p ____ ____ s ____ ____ t.

              2.  One who lives next to your house is your n ____ ____ ____ hb ____ ____ r.

              3.  The story of a person’s life is called a b ____ ____ g ____ ____ p __ y.

              4.  The head of a state is called the p ____ e ____ ____ d ____ ____ t.

              5.  An area of land used for growing crops is a f ____  ____ m.


          B.  Write the opposites of the following words.

               1.  late       -    ________________                6.  fast       -     ________________

               2.  borrow  -       ________________                7.  poor       -     ________________

               3.  sad        -    ________________                8.  wet        -     ________________
               4.  true       -    ________________                9.  new        -     ________________

               5.  continue -      ________________                10.  day       -     ________________


          C.  Underline the correct form of the word.

              1.  It rained ( heavy / heavily ) last night.

              2.  He returned the money ( prompt / promptly ).

              3.  Soldiers are ( courage / courageous ).

              4.  They reached the shore ( safe / safely ).

              5.  The farmers worked very ( hard / hardly ).



               Grammar Skills



          A.  Combining Sentences with ‘though’.
                ‘Though’ shows that two ideas are opposing each other. It shows that something
              happened inspite of something else.

              Read the sentences below.

              He worked hard. He did not pass the exam.
              They can be combined thus:

              Though he worked hard, he did not pass the exam.

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