1Read the four quotations at the start of the unit and discuss what you think they mean.
2Look at the picture of the two insects. What do you think they are doing, and what do you think happens to them when winter comes?
3Choose appropriate words from the box (industry, hilarious, qualm, enticements, obliged, amendments, expostulations) to replace the coloured words in the given sentences.
4Put the given sentences from the story in the correct order.
5Why is Tom described as the 'black sheep' of the Ramsay family?
6What was a respectable profession for Tom?
7Why was George Ramsay staring into space?
8Why did Tom leave his work and wife?
9How did Tom manage his life when he ran out of money in the beginning?
10How did Cronshaw and Tom cheat George?
11What made George realise that his brother would never settle down?
12What is the moral of the story 'The Ant and the Grasshopper'?
13Read the story again and write a brief summary.
14How do you characterise yourself, as the ant or the grasshopper? Rank yourself on the scale from 1 (lazy grasshopper) to 10 (industrious ant).
15The letter 'l' in the word 'qualm' is a silent letter. Underline the silent letter in the given words and pronounce them.
16Have similar conversations to the ones between Maya and Indu, and Rojina and Sandesh, using the clues: hair cut/New Look Salon, shoes mended/Modern Shoe Centre, bicycle repaired/A to Z Repair Centre, dresses sewn/Laxmi Tailor, eyes checked/Bhadgaon Optical Centre, teeth scaled/KMC Dental House. Use have and get.
17Say what you can have or get done at the following places: veterinary's, mechanic's, dry cleaner's, translator's, fortune teller's, beautician's.
18Make as many sentences as you can from the table with Phoolmaya, Santosh, Biraj, I and They, using had, will have, make, gets, has, was made and were made.
19Fill in the gaps with the correct form of have, get or make: the eight sentences from 'Did they ... you give a speech' to 'Suman ... all the Maths problems solved'.
20Rewrite the sentences with have, get or make, following the example: I painted my house last week becomes I had my house painted last week.
21Choose the best alternatives and complete the sentences, from 'Mina got Shambhu ... her suitcase' to 'we were made ... all the theorems'.
22Study the attendance chart. What kind of chart is this, and what data does it represent?
23Put the trend verbs (drop, steady, plummet, climb, maintain, decline, go down, go up, decrease, grow, increase, jump, rise, rocket, fall, plunges, remain, constant) under the headings Upward Trend, Downward Trend and Stable Trend.
24Interpret the bar chart of average daily attendance using appropriate verbs, making comparisons where applicable.
25Look at the picture beside the poem. What do you see in the picture, and how is human life different from the lives of animals?
26Match the words from the poem with their meanings: stare, beneath, woods, enrich, glance.
27Why is our life so miserable, according to the poet?
28What do sheep and cows do in nature?
29What do squirrels do in the woods?
30What magic does Beauty perform?
31What is human life like, if observed carefully?
32How do you spend your leisure time? Write a short paragraph.
33Look at the picture beside the listening task and guess: who is the man on the telephone talking to, and what is he talking about? Think about the title of the unit.
34Listen to the audio and fill in the blanks; then listen again and answer the questions about the lady, her car and the mechanic.
35Imagine you are at a mobile phone service centre to get your mobile repaired. What might you ask the receptionist or engineer?
36Change the twelve given sentences into passive voice, from 'Someone is helping her with the housework' to 'They pay her an excellent salary'.
37Fill in the blanks in the passage about the new sports centre with the correct passive form of the verbs in brackets.
38Write an essay about 'Work and Leisure' in approximately 200 words, using the prompts: differences, similarities, benefits, balance.
39Design and conduct a survey in your locality. Visit at least ten families, collect the data of working people, jobless and the retired, convert it into a pie chart and display it in the class.
40When should you choose the passive voice instead of the active voice?
41Explain the difference between 'I had my photo taken', 'I got my brother to take my photo' and 'She made me take a photo'.