Tick the correct answer from the given options:

I [am] Nilofar. I [am] a girl. I study in class VII. There [are] forty students in our class. Some [are] boys and others [are] girls. Sima, Shamim and Rohini [are] my friends. Rohini [is] the best student in our class. She [is] very fond of me.

Join the following sentences with ‘and’ or ‘but’:

• (a) In India summer is hot but winter is cold.
• (b) A mouse is a small animal but an elephant is a large animal.
• (c) I have a pen and a pencil.
• (d) The sun rises in the east but sets in the west.
• (e) My father is tall and lean.
• (f) Bees are small but wasps are big.
• (g) In a cricket match we need a bat and a ball.

Odd one out (Identify and underline the word that does not fit):

• (a) Teacher, student, chalk, tall, duster (বাকিগুলো Noun, এটি Adjective)
• (b) Football, goal, beautiful, field, player (বাকিগুলো খেলার সাথে যুক্ত Noun)
• (c) Books, nice, pen, paper, table (বাকিগুলো পড়ার সামগ্রী / Noun)
• (d) Red, apple, guava, banana, water melon (বাকিগুলো ফলের নাম)
• (e) Rice, wheat, barley, cereals, golden (বাকিগুলো শস্যের নাম)
• (f) Spinach, cabbage, tasty, cauliflower, onions (বাকিগুলো সবজির নাম)

Fill in the blanks by choosing the correct form of verbs (have/has):

• (a) My English textbook has one hundred and thirty eight pages.
• (b) Our class has thirty students.
• (c) My school has a big playground.
• (d) We have a beautiful garden.
• (e) All my friends have some interest in sports.

Fill in the blanks with suitable articles and prepositions:

Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar lived in the nineteenth century India when very few people went to school. He founded a school in Calcutta which was later known as Vidyasagar College. He wrote a Bengali primer which is used even today. We are proud of Vidyasagar for his great work in the field of education.

Underline the correct form of the verbs given in brackets:

• (a) The sun rises in the east.
• (b) When do you go to school?
• (c) Two and two make four.
• (d) The great scholar Bopedev wrote ‘Mugdha Bodh’.
• (e) Robert Bruce fought hard to regain his kingdom.

Write the opposite of the following words:

Make new words by joining ‘-less’ to the words in the given box:

• (a) Water is a colourless liquid.
• (b) Rita was restless as she had fever.
• (c) People often become homeless during a natural calamity.
• (d) A snake is harmless if not disturbed.
• (e) The king became powerless after his brother betrayed him.
• (f) A sentence is meaningless without a verb.

Underline the mistakes and correct them:

Almost two thousand years ago a board-game was played in (at ❌) India. It was called (call ❌) Chaturanga. It was very popular among kings, warriors and scholars. Chaturanga means (mean ❌) four limbs. It represents (represent ❌) the four groups of the army: the warriors who fought on elephants, the cavalry, the charioteers and the infantry. From India the game went to Persia (the Persia ❌) where it was called Shatranj. Some of the words we now use in chess were used (use ❌) in Persia. The term, ‘checkmate’, was earlier called (call ❌) ‘Shah Mat’ or ‘the king is dead’. From Persia, the game went to Europe (the Europe ❌). The game was now called (been ❌) chess.

What do we call the people who live in the following countries?

Make sentences with the following adverbs:

• slowly: The old man is walking slowly.
• fast: The cheetah can run very fast.
• now: We are studying English now.
• often: I often visit my grandparents’ house.
• sometimes: Sometimes I like to be alone.

Write the past forms of the following words:

• put — put
• meet — met
• jump — jumped
• sleep — slept
• cry — cried
• kneel — knelt

Fill in the blanks by choosing the correct form of verbs:

• (a) They are going to school.
• (b) He lives within his means.
• (c) She and her friends went to the picnic yesterday.
• (d) Rahim and I were eating when the bell rang.
• (e) The striker scored a goal in the football match yesterday.

Classify the following nouns in the chart:

Write a short paragraph about Sabeena’s family (Based on the family tree):

Sabeena lives in a happy joint family. The head of her family is her grandfather, Kazi Abdul, and her grandmother is Nargis. They have a son named Kazi Nurul. Kazi Nurul is Sabeena’s father and his wife Shakeela is her mother. Sabeena also has two brothers named Irfan and Imran. They all love each other very much and live together peacefully.

Write a short story using the following hints (The Thirsty Crow):

The Thirsty Crow
Once upon a time, on a hot summer day, a crow became very thirsty. He flew hither and thither looking for water but found none. Suddenly, he saw a pitcher under a tree. He flew down to it with great hope, but alas! The water was at the very bottom, and his beak could not reach it. The clever crow looked around and found some pebbles nearby. He picked up the pebbles one by one and dropped them into the pitcher. Gradually, the water level rose to the top. The crow happily quenched his thirst and flew away.

Moral: Where there is a will, there is a way.