Read the following paragraph and frame questions on the italicised phrases.

Anil is in school. I am in school too. Anil is sitting in the left row. He is reading a book. Anil’s friend is sitting in the second row. He is sharpening his pencil. The teacher is writing on the blackboard. Children are writingin their copybooks. Some children are looking out of the window.

(i) _______________________________

(ii) _

(iii) _

(iv) _

(v) _

(vi) _

(vii) _______________________________

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Solution

(i) Where is Anil?

(ii) Where is Anil sitting?

(iii) What is Anil doing?

(iv) Where is Anil’s friend sitting?

(v) Who is writing on the blackboard?

(vi) What are some children doing?

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Q. A student sitting in the last row of the class-room is not able to read clearly the writing on the blackboard.

(I) Name the type of defect he suffering from.

(II) How can these defect by corrected?

Q. Your friend can read a book perfectly well but cannot read the writing on the blackboard unless she sits on the front row in class. Is she short-sighted or long-sighted?

Q. All the classrooms in Ashi's school look like this.

Look carefully and answer.
(a) Which of these is exactly opposite to the blackboard?
• Almirah, windows, notice board, display board
(b) Now look at the school-map again. Guess and mark where would these be:
• Blackboard in III A and VII
• Almirah in IV and X
• Notice board in V and VI B
• Last seat of middle-row in II
• Display board in I.
(c) Can a child sitting in III A see the playground?

Q. The seven boys Sunil, Anil, Harshal, Shubham, Kishore, Ujwal and Omsai are sitting in a row. Harshal is sitting in between Shubham and Sunil. Kishore is in between Ujwal and Omsai. Anil is sitting in between Shubham and Ujwal. Sunil and Omsai are sitting at the two ends. Then Shubham is between which of the two boys?

Q. Look at the following examples.
• I was trying to climb over the fence when the giant saw me.
• The farmer's wife was stroking the cat when her one year-old son entered.

Both the actions were in the past.
When the first one was going on in the past, the second one happened.

1. Match the following and write complete sentences in the lines below.

What was happening?	What happened?
(i) I was writing a letter.	the lights went out.
(ii) Paul was looking out of the window.	the bell rang.
(iii) *He was looking for his dog.	he noticed a lovely butterfly.
(iv) *I was just completing the last answer.	he fell off the ladder.
(v) The man was painting the wall.	I met Arun.
(vi) Amit was doing his homework.	my pen ran out.
(vii) My mother was cooking. dinner.	ma'am said, "Stop writing."

(i) I was writing a letter when ________________________
(ii) _____________________________________________
(iii) *When I met Arun, he was looking for his dog.
(iv) *______________________________________________
(v) ________________________________________________
(vi) _______________________________________________
(vii) _______________________________________________

*Please note that sometimes the order of the sentences changes.

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(i) Where is Anil? (ii) Where is Anil sitting? (iii) What is Anil doing? (iv) Where is Anil’s friend sitting? (v) Who is writing on the blackboard? (vi) What are some children doing?

(i) Where is Anil?

(ii) Where is Anil sitting?

(iii) What is Anil doing?

(iv) Where is Anil’s friend sitting?

(v) Who is writing on the blackboard?

(vi) What are some children doing?