Class 7 (Unit 3) Part II

 Unit 3 (Part II)

Reading II

Answer the following questions.

a. Have you ever written a letter to the editor?

Answer: No, I haven’t written a letter to the editor.

b. Why is a letter to the editor written?

Answer: Letter to the editor is written to draw the attention of the concerned authority about the burning social issue.

A. Complete the table with the information from the above letter.

Sender's address	Kathmandu
Receiver	Editor of the Rising Nepal
Name of the newspaper	The Rising Nepal
Subject of the letter	Air pollution-a concern
Sender's name	Nitin Rai

B. Answer the following questions.

a. What type of problem is air pollution?

b. What are the major sources of air pollution?

c. What health problems are caused by air pollution?

d. What does the smoke from chimneys contain?

e. How does the smoke from factories pollute the pure air?

f. What according to Nitin is necessary to stop the air pollution?

g. Who according to Nitin should take the responsibility for air pollution?

Answer:

a. It is an environmental pollution.

b. Factories are the major sources of air pollution.

c. Suffocation, breathing problems, lung diseases etc. are caused by air pollution.

d. The smoke from chimneys contains poisonous gases.

e. The smoke from factories pollutes the pure air by the mixture of its poisonous gases.

f. According to Nitin, strict law is necessary to stop the air pollution.

g. According to Nitin, the factory owners should take the responsibility for air pollution.

 

Writing

Is there any public problem in your locality? Write a letter to the editor of a local newspaper about the issue. Take help from the above letter.

Grammar II

A. Study the following sentences.

a. Could you please help me a favour?

b. I've finished my work. Can I go now?

c. Would you like some help?

d. Can I help you?

e. Will you stop talking like that?

f. Would you like some cake?

g. Would you mind closing the window, please?

h. Will you give me a hand?

B. Complete these sentences with correct words.

a. My grandmother is eighty-five, but she ……… still read and write without glasses.

b. ……… I come with you?

c. ……… you help me with the housework, please?

d. There was a time when I ……… stay up very late.

e. You ……… not lose any more weight because you eat a lot.

f. I ……… get you a shawl from Kashmir.

g. ……… you take care of my cow for a day?

h.  ……… you swim when you were 10?

i. He's amazing, he ……… speak five languages.

j. She's seven but she ……… not read yet.  

Answer:

a. My grandmother is eighty-five, but she can still read and write without glasses.

b. Can I come with you?

c. Could you help me with the housework, please?

d. There was a time when I would stay up very late.

e. You can not lose any more weight because you eat a lot.

f. I will get you a shawl from Kashmir.

g. Could you take care of my cow for a day?

h.  Could you swim when you were 10?

i. He's amazing, he can speak five languages.

j. She's seven but she can not read yet.  

Project work

Work in groups of five. Go around different sections at your school: library, staff room, headteacher's room, canteen, etc. Find the requests in notices at those places. If they are in Nepali, translate them into English. Write all the requests on a chart paper. Which of them are applicable to your class?  Write them in another chart paper and paste it on your classroom wall.

 

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