Unit 2 - 2.2 The Souvenir English - Unit 2 - 2.2 The Souvenir

Fill in the blanks:
1. The second day’s attraction was a ………. on the moon!
2. ………… and her friends had travelled far and wide and had done a lot of sight-seeing.

Choose the correct answer.
In the moon sky the earth looked times bigger than the moon in the earth sky.
(a) Seventy
(b) Thirteen
(c) Seventeen

Complex Factual Questions:
What could be the reason behind the unique seating arrangement?

Complex Factual Questions:
What were the special attractions of the circus?

Complex Factual Questions:
What was the unique feature of the circus?

Pick out compound words from the passage.

Identify the plurals of the following words.
1. friend
2. metre
3. feature
4. tent
5. teacher.

Find the odd man out:
Moon, stars, earth, bright

Pick out a word from the extract which means – ‘not clear’.

It was expected that the students should spend some time for self-study.
(Frame a ‘Wh’ question so as to get the underlined
words as the answer.)

Identify the plurals of the following.
1. company
2. firm
3. family
4. crowd
5. gang

Say whether the following statements are right or wrong.
1. Sayali was travelling in space for the first time.
2. Many changes had occurred on the earth in the hundred years before Sayali’s trip to the moon.
3. There were no old cities left on the earth.
4. Sayali’s mother did not want her to go on the trip.
5. There were no human settlements on the moon.
6. Sayali made a hasty purchase.
7. Sayali did not understand the mistake she had made.

Quote the first words uttered by a human on the moon. Who uttered them and when?

Why had the earrings become so heavy on the earth?

What instructions had she ignored?

Guess the meaning of the following words. Write the smaller and related words that you see within these words.

Formative Assessment:
Prepare a timetable for a trip to the moon. Use your imagination.

Use a prefix to get the opposite of:

Punctuate the following sentences.
1. a Jam packed three day’s programme awaited the children on the moon
2. be careful when you walk dear children don’t run or sprint you will fall
3. she exclaimed hello dear how am i going to wear such heavy earrings
4. everyone was looking forward to this visit to the historical monument it was the oldest place in the history of man on the moon

Imagine you are landing on the moon. What would be your feelings?

What were the two important instructions

Sayali did not understand the mistake she had made.

Sayali made a hasty purchase.

There were no human settlements on the moon.

Sayali’s mother did not want her to go on the trip.

There were no old cities left on the earth.