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ALASKAN GOLD - I & II

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  Alaskan Gold — Part 1 Activity- page- 23 Theme page - 5 synonyms and antonyms of any of the new words Vocabulary and study skills (synonyms) 1. Glimpse - peep/sight/glance 2. Agitated - upset/nervous/disturbed 3. Unbearable - insupportable/unacceptable/intolerable 4. Minimal - least/nominal/minutest 5. Commotion - uproar/stir/disturbance Writer - Amrendra Chakravorty Meanings (12) F rom the story |Remember and answer A.  Complete the table   No Words Who said To whom When 1. His father had come from Spain. Old woman To the narrator After the attack of mad man. 2. Let go, let go, let go of him!   Old artist To the mad man After the attack of mad man. 3. His grandfather was one of the foreigners who had come to Alaska and found gold. Old man To the narrator After the attack of mad man. 4. I’ve seen that man around here for a month now . A man at the harbour To the narrator When the mad man was dragged at harbour.   B.  Answer these questions by selecting th...
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GRAMMAR:TENSES

Time is universally divided into past, present, and future. Tense is a form of the verb that expresses time.  GROUP / TIME P A ST PRESENT FUTURE SIMPLE Subject+V 2 +object Subject+V 1 +s/es+object Subject+will+V 1 +object CONTINUOUS Subject+was/were+V 1 +ing+object Subject+is/am/are+V 1 +ing+object Subject+will be+V 1 +ing+object PERFECT Subject+had+V 3 +object Subject+has/have+V 3 +object Subject+will have+V 3 +object PERFECT  CONTINUOUS Subject+had been+V 1 + ING +object Subject+have/has been +V 1 + ing+ object Subject+will have been +V 1 + ing + object USAGE OF PRESENT TENSE The simple present tense is used (i)   to express universal truths, facts, customs: The sun sets in the west. The earth revolves round the sun. (ii)  to express habitual action: I go to temple daily. My father goes for a walk in the evening. (iii)      to express an action that takes place at present or at the time of speaking: Rita plays near the swings. She sings with gui...
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THE WAY THROUGH THE WOODS

Reference to context  1.   They shut the road through the woods seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again A.  When was the road shut ? Ans. The road was shut 70 years ago. B.  What had happened to the road since it was closed ? Ans.  It has disappeared due to the weather and rain and lack of use.   2.  ‘It is underneath the coppice and heath And the thin anemones…’ a)  What hid under the coppice and heath? Ans. The road was underneath the coppice and heath b)  Who could see that ? Ans. Only the keeper and ghosts could see .   3.‘ You will hear the beat of a horse’s feet, And the swish of a skirt in the dew      Steadily canter through a.  What two sounds does the poet refer to here ? b.  Two sounds  the poet hears are beat of horse’s feet and swish of a skirt in the dew . B. Q1.   Who can see where the old road ran? Ans. The keeper and the ghosts know where the old road ran. Q2. Wh...
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