Pearl School, Al Dafna, Qatar

(Under the Supervision of Ministry of Education and Higher Education)

Academic Year 2022 - 2023

ASSIGNMENT
Name: _______________________ Subject: ENGLISH

Class/ Sec: VI Month: October

Grade & Signature: _____________ Date of submission: 06.11.2022

SECTION -A (READING)

I. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
There were other boys in Manjur village, but Bisnu was the only one who went to
school. The other boys worked in the farms. Bisnu had set his heart on receiving a
good schooling. He walked to school every day.

A colony of langoors lived in the forest. They usually remained on trees but came
down to the ground only to play. They leapt from tree to tree with great agility.

They had grown used to seeing Bisnu walk on the path and did not fear him. They did
not go near the town because the boys threw stones at them. Two paths led to the
town and at the junction of the two paths, Sarru used to wait for him. Sarru came from
a small village which was about three miles from Bisnu’s village and closer to the town.
They often met at this spot, keeping each other company for the remaining two miles.

“There was a panther in our village last night,” said Sarru.

This information did not excite Bisnu. Panthers were common in the hills and did not
usually pose a problem except during the winter months, when their natural prey was
scarce.
“Wasn’t that the one that left the shikaris wounded?”
“It could be the same. It has a bullet in its leg. These hunters are the people who cause
all the trouble. They think it’s easy to shoot a panther. It would be better if they missed
altogether, but they usually wound it.”
“And then the panther becomes too slow to catch the barking-deer and start preying
on our animals. We are lucky that it didn’t become a man-eater. Do you remember the
man-eater six years ago? I was very young then. My father told me all about it.”
“What happened to it?”
“I don’t know. Some say it poisoned itself when it ate the headman of the village.”
Bisnu laughed. “No one liked the old villain.” They linked arms and scrambled up the
stony path to school.
Choose the correct option.
a. What did the other boys of Manjur village do instead of going to school?
i. played in the river
ii. ran across the fields
iii. worked in the farms
iv. collected wood from the forest
b. Bisnu had set his heart on ________________.
i. receiving good schooling
ii. learning new tricks
iii. working on farms
iv. earning money
c. A colony of ________________ lived in the forest.
i. ants
ii. bees
iii. langoors
iv. bats
d. Why did the animals not go near the town?
i. They were afraid of the boys who threw stones at them.
ii. They were afraid of the loud noise in the town.
iii. The weather was very hot and humid.
iv. There was no water available in the town.
e. Sarru’s village was about ___________ miles away from Bisnu’s village.
i. two
ii. three
iii. four
iv. five
f. How many miles further was the school from the place where the boys met?
i. one mile
ii. two miles
iii. three miles
iv. four miles
g. Why did the news of the panther in Sarru’s village not excite Bisnu?
i. He saw a panther around his village every day.
ii. He was not afraid of panthers.
iii. He knew Sarru was lying.
iv. Panthers were common in the hills.
h. When do the panthers cause a problem?
i. during heavy rains
ii. when the water is scarce
iii. when the prey is scarce
iv. when the climate is too hot
i. How did the boys come to know that the panther was the one that was wounded by
the shikaris?
i. The panther had a wound on his back.
ii. The panther’s tail looked stained in blood.
iii. The panther was crying in pain and despair.
iv. The panther had a bullet in its leg.
j. The wounded panthers are too slow to catch the barking-deer so
they___________.
i. prey on the village animals
ii. prey on humans
iii. stay near the village
iv. lurk in the dark
k. According to Sarru, what happened to the man-eater panther?
i. The hunters killed it.
ii. It died of old age.
iii. It poisoned itself.
iv. It drowned in the river.
 l. Find out the word from the passage which means the same as ‘ability to move
quickly and easily’.
i. agility
ii. junction
iii. scarce
iv. pose

SECTION - B (WRITING & GRAMMAR)

II. Write an e-mail to the General Manager of the Supermarket seeking permission to
display the notice and requesting a sponsorship for the event.
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III. Identify the finite and non-finite verbs.

1. They brought us some homemade cookies.

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2. Getting down from his caravan, A. R. Rahman waved to his fans.
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3. My parents have decided to move to New Zealand by the end of this year.
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4. Waking up from my nap, I realized I was late to pick up my son from school.
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5. Gowri figured out a way to combine both our choices and set up a themed party.
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IV. Identify the transitive and intransitive verbs.

1. I like all of Katy Perry’s songs.

2. New Delhi is the capital of India.

3. Billie Eilish is a singer.

4. Will built a doll house for his eight-year-old daughter.

5. I ate a sandwich for breakfast.

6. All of them danced at my wedding party.

7. The mosquito bat does not seem to be working.

8. No tomato is ripe.

9. Sherin bought a phone for her mother.

10. The teapoy broke all of a sudden.