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Class 7 (Unit 4) Part I

 Unit 4 (Part I)

Reading I (page 36)

Answer the following questions.

a. What festivals are celebrated in your community?

Answer: We celebrate Dashain, Tihar, Holi, Shreekrishna Janmastami, Maghe Sakranti and so on.

b. What do people do at these festivals?

Answer: They sing, dance as well as gather together at these festivals.

c. Which festival do you like most? Why?

Answer: I like Dashain most because all the family members gather and do different activities at Dashain. We also play swing, eat delicious food and wear new clothes too.

Some Festivals of Nepal

 

A.              A. Match the meanings with their corresponding words.

a. two or more things joined together

b. celebrated festival or birthdays etc.

c. give and receive something

d. recall and show respect for someone or something

e. made something look more attractive by putting things on it

f. dead

g. a line of people that move along slowly

h. a member of a religious group of men who live apart in a monastery and who do not marry

Answer:

a. combination

b. observe

c. exchange

d. commemorate

e. decorated

f. deceased

g. procession

h. monk

B. Complete the following sentences with the correct forms of the words you have found in the above task.

a. Look! They are Buddhist …………….. .

b. The …………….. made its way down the hill.

c. I buy you lunch and you fix my computer. Is that a fair ………….. ?

d. His treatment was a …………….. of surgery, radiation and drugs.

e. Do they …………….. Dashain?

f. The family of the …………….. are crying.

g. He is …………….. the car with flowers.

Answer:

a. Look! They are Buddhist monk.

b. The procession made its way down the hill.

c. I buy you lunch and you fix my computer. Is that a fair exchange?

d. His treatment was a combination of surgery, radiation and drugs.

e. Do they observe Dashain?

f. The family of the deceased are crying.

g. He has decorated the car with flowers. (Note: The aux. verb ‘is’ is wrong here so it is replaced with has)

 

C. Answer the following questions.

a. Who celebrates Sonam Lhosar?

b. Why is Gai Jatra celebrated?

c. Who is Yama?

d. What is done with cows at Gai Jatra?

e. What do monks do at Buddha Jayanti?

Answer:

a. Gurung community celebrates Sonam Lhosae.

b. Gai Jatra is celebrated commemorate the death of the people during the year.

c. Yama is the God of death.

d. Cows are decorated and led through the streets and lanes.

e. Monks gather to offer prayers and chants Buddhists mantras.

 

D. Which of the above festivals do you like most? Why?

Grammar I (page 38)

A.    Study the following pictures and read the sentences. What do they mean?


I wish I had more money.                                                                                    

I wish I had more friends

I wish I had a smartphone.                                                                                 

I wish I had curly hair.

B.          Complete the following sentences with the given beginnings.

Example: I don't have a car.

         I wish I had a car.

a. I can't play the piano.

     I wish …………..

b. I'm at work.

     I wish …………..

c. It's winter.

     I wish …………..

d. I'm ill.

     I wish …………..

e. I don't have new shoes.

     I wish …………..

f. I can't afford to go on holiday.

     I wish …………..

Answer:

a. I wish I had a piano.

b. I wish I had leisure.

c. I wish it was summer.

d. I wish I were well.

e. I wish I had new shoes.

f.  I wish I could afford to go on a holiday.

 

C. Complete the sentences using the correct forms of the verbs in the brackets.

a. I wish we ………….. (not have) a test today.

b. I wish these exercises ………….. (not be) so difficult.

c. I wish we ………….. (live) near the beach.

d. Do you ever wish you …………..  (can travel) more?

e. I wish I …………..  (be) better at maths.

f. I wish we …………..  (not have to) wear a school uniform.

g. Sometimes I wish I ………….. (can fly).

h. I wish we ………….. (can go) to Disney World.

Answer:

a. I wish we didn’t have a test today.

b. I wish these exercises were not so difficult.

c. I wish we lived near the beach.

d. Do you ever wish you could travel more?

e. I wish I were better at maths.

f. I wish we did not have to wear a school uniform.

g. Sometimes I wish I could fly.

h. I wish we could go to Disney World.

 

For Unit 3 CLICK HERE.

For remaining exercises CLICK HERE.

For Contents CLICK HERE.

For Unit Five CLICK HERE.



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