ALLAMA IQBAL OPEN UNIVERSITY, ISLAMABAD
(Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics)
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Course: Compulsory English II (387)
Level: Intermediate Semester: Autumn, 2013
Total Marks: 100 Pass Marks: 40
ASSIGNMENT No. 1
(Units 1–5)
Q.1 Read Unit 1 to learn how to express your likes and dislikes and then make 10 sentences (at least 3 on each of the following) expressing your likes and dislikes regarding the following: (10)
1. Family members
2. Food items
3. Games
Example: I like my elder sister.
Q.2 Answer the given questions showing your future plans. Read Unit 2 for guidance. (10)
Example: What will you be doing on Monday?
Plan: I will be going to school on Monday.
1. What are you going to do this weekend?
2. With whom will you celebrate your birthday?
3. What are you planning to do for your sister’s birthday?
4. Where will you be this evening?
5. What will you do after the end of 2nd semester?
Q3: Read Unit 3 on how to give instructions and then write down ten sentences giving instructions regarding respect for elders and love and care for youngers following the footprints of the Holly Prophet (PBUH). (10)
Example: Do not disobey you parents. (10)
Q.4 Make a few suggestions (at least 10) to your class fellow who is weak in studies. Read Unit 5 for guidance. (10)
Example: You should work hard to improve.
Q.5 Write a letter to your brother, who lives in hostel, informing him about the affairs in the family at home. (10)
Q.6 Make question sentences using the following points for getting information: (10)
Example: Place of book from mother
Where are my books mother?
1. test score from teacher
2. adress from stranger
3. report from doctor
4. recipe from mother
5. cricket match time from friend
6. dinner time from sister
7. dress design from tailor
8. application process from officer
9. price from shopkeeper
10. book from librarian
Q.7 Write a letter to the editor of a local newspaper asking him to draw the attention of authorities towards the issue of rain damaging the roads of you area. (10)
Q.8 Read Unit 5 to learn how to extend invitations and then:
A) Extend invitations to the following people on the given occasions: (05)
Example: Birthday party - friend
Would you like to go to my cousin’s birthday party with me?
1. classfellow - lecture
2. teacher - tea party
3. brother - cricket match
4. neighbour - dinner
5. sister – walima
B) Accept or reject invitations of the following people to the given occasions: (05)
1. classfellow - lecture
2. teacher - tea party
3. brother - cricket match
4. neighbour - dinner
5. sister – walima
Q.9 Read Unit 5 to learn how to make a curriculum vitae/resume and then make one for yourself. (10)
Q.10 Read the passage and answer the following questions. (10)
Ants are found everywhere in the world. They make their home in buildings, gardens, etc. They live in anthills. Ants are very hardworking insects. Throughout the summers, they collect food for the winter season. Whenever they find a sweet lying on the floor, they stick to the sweet and carry it to their home. Thus, in this way, they clean the floor. Ants are generally red and black in colour. They have two eyes and six legs. They are social insects. They live in groups or colonies. Most ants are scavengers. They collect whatever food they can find. They are usually wingless but they develop wings when they reproduce. Their bites are quite painful.
1. Where do ants live?
2. How do ants clean the floor?
3. Why are ants called social insects?
5. What according to the writer most ants are?
5. When do ants develop wings?
ASSIGNMENT No. 2
(Units 6–9)
Total Marks: 100 Pass Marks: 40
Q.1 There are some habits given bellow. Make sentences by approving or disapproving them according to your own choice. Read Unit 5 for guidance. (10)
Example: Teasing others
I disapprove the people who tease others.
1. Spitting on roads
2. Smoking
3. Talking in classroom
4. Obeying parents
5. Violating traffic rules
6. Reading newspaper
7. Lying for fun
8. Playing football
9. Waking up late
10. Cleaning one’s own room
Q.2 Read the given passage and mark the statement from 1 to 10 in sequence in the space at front as occurred in the paragraph. Read Unit 7 for guidance. (10)
Money causes teenagers to feel stress. It makes them feel bad about themselves and envy other people. My friend, for instance, lives with her family and has to share a room with her sister, who is very cute and intelligent. This girl wishes she could have her own room and have a lot of stuff, but she can’t have these things because her family doesn’t have much money. Her family’s income is pretty low because her father is old and doesn’t go to work. Her sister is the only one who works. Because her family can’t buy her the things she wants, she feels a lot of stress and gets angry sometimes. Once, she wanted a beautiful dress to wear in a college function. She asked her sister for some money to buy the dress. She was disappointed because her sister didn’t have money to give her. She sat in silence for a little while and then started yelling out loud. She said her friends got anything they wanted but she didn’t. Then she felt sorry for herself and asked why she was born into a poor family. Not having money has caused this girl to think negatively about herself and her family. It has caused a lot of stress in her life.
1. The girl wishes to have her own room.
2. She thinks negatively about her family.
3. She asked her sister for some money.
4. Her sister is on job.
5. Money makes people feel bad.
6. My friend has to share a room with her sister.
7. Her sister is very intelligent.
8. Her family does not have much money.
9. She felt sorry for herself.
10. Her sister could not give her money.
Q.3 In Unit 7 we read about words and their synonyms. Find out synonyms of the following words and make sentences using both i.e. the word and its synonym. (20)
Example: Famous, well known
1. He is a very famous man.
2. He is a well known doctor.
1. Big
2. Small
3. Summary
4. Sad
5. Poor
6. Conflict
7. Total
8. Fault
9. Fate
10. Exactly
Q.4 Change the positive sentences in to negative and negative into positive sentences. (20)
Example: He is making fun of you. (Positive) (10)
He is not making fun of you. (Negative)
1. He is working very hard.
2. They did not come yesterday.
3. We had gone to the party.
4. Sana will complete her homework today.
5. I cannot understand her handwriting.
6. You should have come to the class.
7. She is not taking part in the play.
8. My brother has been studying in USA.
9. She will be teaching in the school.
10. Uncle came here.
Q.5 In Unit 8 we learnt how to use prefixes and suffixes. Make appropriate words using the following prefixes and suffixes and use those words in sentences. (10)
Prefixes
1. un
2. dis
3. im
4. ir
5. anti
Suffixes
1. er
2. ly
3. ful
4. ing
5. est
Q.6 Select any one topic from the three given bellow. Write down 10 words using word mapping technique and make sentences using those words. Consult Unit 8 for guidance. (10)
a) book b) computer c) family
Q.7 Define rhyming words and make 10 pairs of rhyming words. (10)
Q.8 Change the following into interrogative sentences. (10)
1. She was listening to music
2. Your cousin broke my mobile.
3. My laptop is damaged.
4. Early morning is good time to study.
5. Ali had been studying and working part-time as well.
6. I have to go.
7. She failed the test.
8. She may leave for Karachi tomorrow.
9. He will be praying in the mosque.
10. I have been studying for two hours.
Q.9 Write down in a paragraph what image is created in your mind from reading the following poem. Take help from Unit 9. (10)
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
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