1What happened in the song? Put these sentences in the correct order: (a) The teacher allowed the student to bring her iPod to the class. (b) She started using the iPod every day. (c) The teacher took the iPod. (d) She played her music.
2Find the words in the story A Lesson from a Son that have these meanings: (a) a person who makes and repairs wooden objects, (b) social recognition by other people, (c) clever, bright, brilliant, (d) strictly, harshly, (e) bring up and care for a child, (f) full of happiness and joy.
3Put the given sentences from the story in the correct order: (a) Velan did not have good relationships with other people because he was a drunkard. (b) There lived a carpenter with his old father and a son. (c) Velan realised his mistake and treated his father well. (d) Velan gave a broken plate to his father. (e) While eating, Kuppan dropped his plate and his son scolded him badly. (f) The boy made a wooden plate for his father.
4How many members were there in Velan's family?
5Why was the grandfather so weak?
6Describe Mithu's character.
7Why was Mithu making a wooden plate?
8What were Velan's childhood days like?
9Did Velan correct his wrong doing in the end? How do you know?
10Do you have a grandfather or a grandmother at home? How does your family treat him or her? Make a list, and write a very short paragraph about how you should treat elderly people in the family.
11Write the words for these sound symbols from the story: /ˈenə(r)dʒi/, /triːtɪd/, /ˈbrəʊkən/, /ˈwʊdn/, /rɪˈspekt/.
12We use past forms of verbs when we tell a story. Write the past forms of the verbs from the story A Lesson from a Son.
13Put the sentences of the lion and mouse story in the correct order to make a new story.
14Develop a story with the help of these clues and give it a suitable title: a farmer with several sons, the sons always quarrel, the farmer is sad, he falls ill and is taken to hospital, dying, he calls all his sons, gives a bundle of sticks to break, all try one by one and cannot break it, the father gives the sticks separately, they break the sticks easily, moral.
15Make at least ten sentences from the table using They, Pasang, Yamuna, The students, A cat and Smith with was or were.
16Put the verbs in the brackets in their correct forms, using was or were and the present participle: (a) John (not play) cricket with his children. He was writing a poem. (b) When I entered the room, my parents (paint) the wall. (c) Kites (not fly) in the sky a few minutes ago. (d) The leader (giving) a speech at this time yesterday. (e) My mother (cook) food in the morning but I was dancing. (f) Children (not do) their homework. They were watching a movie. (g) She (swim) in the pool when I saw her.
17Write at least ten sentences about what was going on when you arrived at your school this morning.
18Look at the picture of the school and guess the answers: (a) Where are these people? (b) What are they doing? (c) What games do you play at school?
19Listen to the audio and tick the right answers: what did the girl make at school besides paper books, what did she use with crayons and paper, what did she do in addition to playing games, who did she play with, and where did the conversation most probably take place?
20Make a list of the activities that you did at school and after school yesterday.
21Find and write the words from A Party in a Restaurant which mean: (a) make it a happy occasion, (b) knew, (c) wait, (d) going to, (e) amounts.
22Answer these questions about A Party in a Restaurant: (a) Where was the restaurant? (b) Why did the writer like the restaurant? (c) Why did he not book a table? (d) Were the tourists already in the restaurant when they arrived? (e) What food did they order, and did they get it? (f) Did the speaker and his friends want to eat an omelette?
23Say why: (a) The writer invited some friends out to supper. (b) He chose that restaurant. (c) The restaurant was full that evening. (d) The writer and his friends were able to get a table after fifteen minutes. (e) The waiter didn't come to their table for nearly an hour. (f) The writer was able to advise his friends about the food. (g) The waiter who took their order came back and apologised.
24Look at the clues and say what they were doing at the given times: (a) Rupal/play chess/last night. (b) Bunu/cut grass/an hour ago. (c) Sukrit/ride a bicycle/when I see him. (d) Mingma/wash dishes/at nine in the morning. (e) Funurbu and his friend/talk on the phone/Saturday evening. (f) They/paint the wall/yesterday. (g) Last month/Paru/visit different places. (h) Gunjana and her family/watch TV/in the evening.
25Arrange the sentences of the Ram and Anu story to make a story.
26Your friend Anjali was going to school yesterday and saw an incident on the way. Write a story based on the six pictures. Use past tense. You may start like this: Yesterday, my friend Anjali was going to school. On the way she saw ...
27Fill in the blanks with the suitable forms of the verbs, using simple past or past perfect: (a) Fred (spend) his holiday in Italy, he wanted to learn Italian. (b) Jill had phoned her dad before she (leave) her office. (c) When she (arrive), the match had already started. (d) Before she (sing) the song, she had played the guitar. (e) They (watch) a video after all the children had gone to bed. (f) After Eric had prepared the delicious meal, he (call) his friends. (g) I (be) very tired as I had studied too much. (h) They had painted their house before they (move) in. (i) After the man had come home, he (feed) the cat.
28Project work: Work in groups of four. Find or create a short story with the help of your teacher. Draw a storyboard that tells the story. Vote which group has the best story.
29Put the six pictures of the boy's day in order and tell the sequence of events to your friends, using past tense. When you listen to the story, assess whether your friend is using the past tense.
30What is the difference between the past continuous tense and the past perfect tense?
31When do we use while and when do we use when in sentences about the past?
32What lesson does the song about the iPod and the story A Lesson from a Son share?