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3. I love Gouda cheese. It is a Dutch cheese.

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4. Coal is an important mineral. It is often called ‘Black Gold’.
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5. Tagore wrote Gitanjali. He was a composer, writer, dramatist and painter.

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6. Alexander Pushkin wrote many short stories. He was the greatest Russian writer.
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C. Rewrite after joining these pairs of sentences using suitable adverbs or adverbial phrases or
adverb clauses.
1. Children throw water during Holi. It is their intention to do so.

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2. Arjun was obstinate. He refused to eat or drink.

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3. He had been foolish. He had spent all his wealth.
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4. She owned up her mistake. She apologised for it.
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5. I met him last year. We were travelling in the same train.
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6. Satyajit Ray won the Bharat Ratna. He deserved it.

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7. The envelope was open. It was rather suspicious.

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8. The clock was not working. It was unfortunate.
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Listening & Speaking Time Synthesis of Sentences

This is a role-play activity. The teacher will divide the class into four groups. The
main players are group speakers of the four groups and one anchor. Each group will
select a speaker who will speaks out on behalf of the group. The teacher will call out
a student to the front of the class who will play the role of the anchor. (The teacher
will select a student for the anchor’’'s role who is good at communication.) The teacher
will ask the anchor to read the assorted set of sentences given at the end of the book
as Listening and Speaking Text. Then the teacher will ask one of the group speakers
to synthesise those sentences and speak out the combined sentences loudly to the
class. The speaker can also discuss it with his/her group members.

(Refer to the `Listening and Speaking Text® given at the end of the book.)

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