INTERNATIONAL INDIAN SCHOOL RIYADH
FIRST TERM ENGLISH WORKSHEET
ACADEMIC YEAR 2010-2011
CLASS VII
WRITING TASK
1. Your school is organising a dance programme to celebrate its Annual Day. Design a poster announcing the event giving the relevant details in not more than 50 words. Remember to mention the day, date, time, venue and the main attractions. Put the poster in a box.
2. Your cousin Pradesh has failed in the annual examination. Write a letter to him expressing your sympathy and advising him to give up the bad company he has fallen into and to concentrate on his studies for the present. Do not exceed 150 words.
3. Like the coconut tree, the neem is a magical plant. Use the given hints to write a paragraph on the neem tree.
Neem- important plant for pest control-wide range of pests-no need to purify-cheap and easy to produce-leaves-boiled in water make pesticide spray-seeds burnt repel flies and mosquitoes-many active ingredients-difficultfor insects to develop resistance-environmentally polluting.
4. Imagine you are Helen Keller and you have been gifted with sight for three days. Make a diary entry of the events of the second day.
5. Your school is organizing a trip to Ootty. As the Activity in Charge you have been asked to put up a notice informing students of class VII and VIII about the trip. Give all the necessary details and write the notice in not more than 50 words. Put the notice in a box.
SECTION-C-GRAMMAR
CHAPTER-13
SUBJECT- VERB CONCORD
1. Complete the following paragraph with one suitable word in each blank from the options given in the brackets. Write your answers in the answer sheet against the correct blank number.
My family (a) ______(consist, consists, consisting) of five members. Each one of them (b) ______(is, has, have) very kind and helpful. My mother as well as my two sisters, (c) ______(are, is, have) good in household work. I, who (d) ______(am, is, are) the eldest, (e) ______(help, helps, helper) my father in shopping etc. Neither of my sisters (f) ______(is, has, are) arrogant though they both (g) ____ (are, have, has) good in studies. All of us (h) _____(are, were, is) good at sports as well. My family (i) _____ (is, are, has) one of the best families that (j) _____ (has, have, is) ever lived.
11. Edit the following passage given below by choosing from the appropriateoptions .
A book (a)are like a single house. It is a
palace of many (b)room of different sizes
and shapes with different functions to
perform. A good book (c)are an orderly
arrangement of parts. Each major part (d)have
a certain amount of independence and yet
it (e)are also connected with other parts and
it (f)contribute to the whole. As houses
(g)is more or less liveable so books
are more or less readable. The most readable
book, (h)like the most liveable house is an architectural achievement.
A B C D E
1.were 1.rooms 1.has 1.has 1.are
2. is 2. has 2.is 2.had 2.is
3.was 3.have 3.was 3.is 3.was
4. has 4.had 4.were 4. are 4.were
F G H
1. contributes 1.are 1. as
2. contribution 2.have 2.likes
3. contributing 3. is 3.both
4. is contributing 4. was 4.were
CHAPTER 14
TENSES
111. Complete the following paragraph with one suitable word in each blank from the options given in the brackets.
Yesterday I (a) ______(walk, walked, walking) down the road, I (b)______( met, meet, had met) an old friend of mine. He (c) ______(recognise, recognised, is recognising) me at once though I (d) ______(wear, wore, was wearing) a scarf around my face as I (e) ______(suffer, suffered, was suffering) from a bad cold. We (f) ______(were talking, talked, talks) about our good old days. Just then I (g) ______(saw, see, have seen) another friend of mine. He (h) ______(waved, had been waving, waves) to me from other side of the road.
1V. Edit the following passage given below by choosing from the appropriate options.
It is difficult to define luxury. Everybody
(a)condemn luxury and has done so in
all the ages of the world’s history, yet no
Two persons are(b) agree on the exact
meaning of the word. Some (c)gives it a
moral meaning as Burns (d)do, when
he uses the invective luxury’s (e)contagion
weak and vile. There (f)is some moralists
who might (g)called my necktie and
my sports coat a luxury. I however
(h)regarded them as necessities in my life.
A B C D
1.condemned 1. agreed 1. had given 1.does
2.condemnation 2.agreement 2.has given 2.done
3.was condemned 3. agreeable 3.gave 3.do
4. condemns 4. agree 4.give 4.did
E F G H
1. contagion 1.are 1.has called 1.regard
2.contagious 2.was 2.call 2.regarding
3.contagiously 3.were 3.had called 3.has regarded
4.is contagious 4.had 4. calls 4.regards