Unit-2 - Labours And People's Right 2.2 - 2.6

 

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Unit-2 - Labours And People's Right
TEXT BOOK EXERCISE
UNIT 2.2 - 2.6

UNIT 2.2
ORAL COMMUNICATION

UNIT 2.3
LANGUAGE PRACTISE

3 Types of some common irregular verbs

Verbs in which all three parts are the same

Present	Past	Past Participle
Cost	cost	cost
Cut	cut	cut
Hit	hit	hit
Hurt	hurt	hurt
Put	put	put
Read	read	read
Shut	shut	shut
Spread	spread	spread

Verbs in which two parts are the same

Present	Past	Past Participle
Beat	beat	beaten
Become	became	become
Bring	brought	brought
Build	built	built
Burn	burned/burnt	burned/burnt
Buy	bought	bought
Catch	caught	caught
Come	came	come
Dig	dug	dug
Feed	fed	fed
Feel	felt	felt
Fight	fought	fought
Find	found	found
Get	got	got
Have	had	had
Hear	heard	heard
Hold	held	held
Keep	kept	kept
Learn	learned/learnt	learned/learnt
Leave	left	left
Lose	lost	lost
Make	made	made
Meet	met	met
Run	ran	run
Say	said	said
Sell	sold	sold
Send	sent	sent
Sit	sat	sat
Sleep	slept	slept
Spell	spelled/spelt	spelled/spelt
Spend	spent	spent
Stand	stood	stood
Sweep	swept	swept
Teach	taught	taught
Tell	told	told
Think	thought	thought
Understand	understood	understood
Win	won	won

Verbs in which all three types are different

Present	Past	Past Participle
Be (is, am)	was	been
Begin	began/td>	begun
Break	broke	broken
Choose	chose	chosen
Do	did	done
Draw	drew	drawn
Drink	drank	drunk
Drive	drove	driven
Eat	ate	eaten
Fall	fell	fallen
Fly	flew	flown
Forget	forgot	forgotten
Give	gave	given
Grow	grew	grown
Know	knew	known
Ride	rode	ridden
Ring	rang	rung
Rise	rose	risen
See	saw	seen
Shake	shook	shaken
Show	showed	shown
Sing	sang	sung
Speak	spoke	spoken
Steal	stole	stolen
Swim	swam	swum
Take	took	taken
Throw	threw	thrown
Wear	wore	worn
Write	wrote	written

Kinds of Verbs

There are two kinds of verbs:

• Regular and
• Irregular

Most words in the English language are regular, i.e., their past and past participle forms both take ‘ed'.

Example:

• wash - washed — washed
• play — played ~ played
• call ~ called - called

However, there are three types of irregular verbs.

Revision of Present Simple, Continuous, Perfect, and Perfect Continuous

Revision: Present Simple & Present Continuous

Exercise 1:

Use the correct form of the present simple to fill the following blanks. Use the words given below. You can use one word only once. Remember that a verb use with the third person always takes 's' or 'es' in Present Simple.

Build, remember, play, dress, forget, listen, study, get

1. Birds usually build their nests in summer.
2. I always listen carefully to parents advice.
3. He gets up late and dresses quickly for school.
4. We study in the afternoon and play in the evening.
5. My friend forgets name but remembers numbers.

Exercise 2:

Use the correct form of the present Continuous to fill the following blanks. Use the words given below. You can use one word only once. Remember that in the continuous form 'ing' is added to the verb and am / is / are are added before the verb.

Write, sing, rain, make, explain, swim, Enjoy, learn

1. Look! It is raining so hard.
2. We are learning English these days.
3. The birds are singing and farmers are enjoying their songs
4. The teacher is explaining and the students are writing.
5. Some children are swimming in the pond and some are making clay toys.

Exercise 3:

Use the correct form of the Present Simple and Present Continuous to fill the following blanks. Use the words given below. You can use one word only once.

Come, sleep, behave, speak, clean, drink, understand, wash, travel, watch

1. We are travelling to Gilgit tomorrow.
2. My sister behaves nicely with everyone.
3. His brother drinks tea three times a day.
4. Our uncle is coming to our house this weekend.
5. She understands and speaks Persian very well.
6. I clean my room everyday and I also wash my clothes sometimes.
7. My mother usually watches television at this time but today she is sleeping.

Exercise 4:

Work in pairs and fill the blanks in the following paragraph, by using the correct Present Simple and Present Continuous form of the words given below. You can use one word only once. After you have completed, discuss with another pair, and compare your answers.

dress, see, move, set, plan, go, take, enjoy, begin, agree, gather, wait, come, give, shout, know, hire, inform, ask, jump, sit, look, get, reach, tell

The school holidays are beginning tomorrow. The children sit together and plan what to do. They agree to go to the village fair on Saturday.
On Saturday morning, they all get up early, dress quickly and gather outside. They inform their mother that they go to the village fair with their father. As soon as father comes outside, they all shout with joy. The father knows that his children are looking forward to the trip. He hires a carriage and takes them to the fair. As soon as they reach there the children are jumping from the carriage. They move from one stall to another. Their father gives them some money and tells  them to enjoy themselves. After some time, although the father sees that the children are enjoying a lot, he ask everyone to gather together as the sun is setting and their mother is waiting for them to get home.

 

Revision: Present Perfect & Present Perfect Continuous

Exercise 5:

Use the correct form of the present perfect to fill the following blanks. Use the words given below. You can use one word only once. Remember to use 'has' with the third person singular.

Eat, throw, help, go, read, make, apply, complain, climb, complete

1. I have read the book twice already.
2. We have eaten all the mangoes.
3. My brother has applied for a job.
4. They will win this match as already they have made ninety runs.
5. Seema has completed her work as Beena has helped her throughout.

6. We have complained so many times but they have thrown the garbage here again.

7. Tariq’s little sister has climbed up the tree, now he has gone upto get her.

Exercise 6:

Use the correct form of the present Perfect Continuous to fill the following blanks. Use the words given below. You can use one word only once.

Jump, watch, rain, cook, drive, work, plant, talk, chase, sit

1. We have been working since twelve noon.
2. It has been raining for an hour.
3. They have been talking for an hour .
4. I have been driving all morning.
5. She has been cooking food for us without a break while we have been watching this match.
6. My grandmother has been sitting outside and my father has been planting Vegetables.

7. The dog has been chasing the cat and the cat has been jumping all around.

Exercise 7:

Exercise 8:

Exercise 9:

Exercise 10:

Look at the following sentences. Write “S” for simple and “C” for compound sentence, in the answer column. An example has been done for you.
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S.NO.	Sentences	Answer
1.	You have been sleeping since morning.	S
2.	I don’t know the answer.	S
3.	I want to lose weight, yet I eat chocolate daily.	C
4.	Atif is famous, but he is very humble.	C
5.	You may eat a mango or have mango pickle.	C
6.	He is totally dependent on his parents.	S
7.	He was feeling sick, so he went to the doctor.	C
8.	No one is travelling these days.	S
9.	I go to the library, for I love reading.	C
10.	He is rich and he has a good heart.	C

Exercise 11: