Read the passage and answer the questions that follow

There was quite a mumber of good teachers in our school. BD Roy taught us English. He was a small man who took great care to ensure that we pronounced English correctly. One day he told us the story of The Ox and The Frog from Aesop’s fables. Before telling us the story, he taught us how the pronunciation of the depends on whether the following word begins with a towel or a consonant. I fondly remember our head pandit, Bhattacharya Sir, for his excellent handwriting

Activity 1

Tick the correct answers from the given alternatives:

i) Mr. B.D. Roy was the teacher of

a) Mathematics b) English c) Bengali d) Science

ii) The author leamt correct pronunciation from his a) Headmaster b ) Father c) English teacher d) Mother

iii) ‘The Ox and the Frog’ is a tale from a) Panchatantra b) Hitapodesha c) Jataka d) Aesop’s Fables

Activity 2

Fill in the blanks with present continuous tense of the verbs given in brackets:

a) The boy        is drawing       (draw) a picture.

b) They        are playing      (play) in the field.

c) Ranjan      is writing     (write) a letter.

Activity 3 

Identify the Subject and Predicate of the following sentences:

a) The Sun rises in the east.

Subject: The Sun

Predicate: rises in the east.

b) My brother is singing a song,

Subject: My brother

Predicate: is singing a song,

c) It is not easy to get pure drinking water

Subject: It

Predicate: is not easy to get pure drinking water

Activity 4

Write five sentences on My School’.

The name of my school is Kalash High School. They are around 1000 students and 30 teachers in our school. We have a beautiful playground in front of our school. The classrooms of our school are clean. The teachers teach us carefully.