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| Compulsory English 1-386 |
Compulsory English-1 (386) Level: Intermediate
Semester, Autumn 2020 Passing Marks (Assignment 1): 40
Assignment No. 1
(Unit 1-5)
Q.1 You have read in Unit 1, how to make time schedules. Given below is the time schedule of Mrs. Farhan. Write a complete description of her daily activities using the information given in the table. Follow the example.
Example: Ice-cream I love eating chocolate ice-cream.
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11:00 p.m. to 05:00 a.m. |
Sleep |
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05:00 a.m. to 07:00 a.m. |
Breakfast, prays, Get ready |
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07:30 a.m. to 08:00 a.m. |
Clean home, Travel |
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08:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. |
College work, Tea Break |
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11:00 a.m. to 02:00 p.m. |
Delivers Lecture, Lunch |
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02:00 p.m. to 05:00 p.m. |
Travel home, Cooks Dinner |
Answer:-
Mrs. Farhan's Daily Activities:
Mrs. Farhan sleeps from 11:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. She gets up at about 5:00 a.m. Then she takes bath and says prayer. At about 6:30 a.m. Mrs. Farhan takes breakfast and gets ready for the office. Before leaving she completes her house cleaning work by 7:30 a.m. Then she travels to her college and reaches there well in time. Mrs. Farhan teaches at a college. From 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. she takes her classes. Then at 11:00 a.m. there is a short tea break. Afterwards she again gets busy in delivering lectures to her classes. At about 2:00 p.m. she takes lunch and leaves for home. From 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. she takes rest and then gets ready in cooking dinner.
Q.2 In Unit 2, Section A you are taught how to introduce yourself. Now imagine you are in a party. The host of the party asks you to give introduction of the friend you are with. How would you do that keeping in mind his relation with you and his qualities etc?
Answer-
Dear Imran: Meet my friend waqar. We work in the same office. Waqar is a graduate and belongs to a respectable family. Waqar is a dutiful worker. His father is a small businessman and his mother is a house wife Waqar is a very sincere and co operative fellow. We have been close friends for the last five years. Waqar is a good player of cricket. We have close family relations and we often go on picnics together.
Q.3 In Unit 2, Section B we talked about different types of readings for different purposes. Can you list five types (each) of reading material that you might have read for the following mentioned purposes? Follow the examples.
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For information |
For entertainment |
For home work |
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Example |
A recipe |
A story |
A course book |
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For entertainment |
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A brochure |
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A poem |
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A sign board |
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A novel |
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A dictionary |
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A book review |
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Traffic rules |
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A drama |
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Text material |
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Railway timetable |
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A song |
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A book preface |
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Q.4 In Unit 3, Section A we talked about how to make requests and grant permissions. We also discussed two forms of requests, i.e. requests as orders
and polite indirect requests. Can you change the following direct requests into indirect requests? Follow the example.
Example: Direct Request: Pass the ketchup.
Indirect Request: Could you please pass the ketchup.
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Help her |
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Take me to the airport. |
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Give him the phone, please. |
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Can you drop her? |
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Ice please. |
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Help her |
Would you please help her? |
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Take me to the airport. |
Would it be possible for you to take me to the airport? |
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Give him the phone, please. |
Could you please give him the phone? |
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Can you drop her? |
Could you please drop her at her college? |
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Ice please. |
Can you come for ice cream? It will be my pleasure. |
Q.5 You read in Unit 3, Section B how to guess the meanings of words from the text. Read the following statements and guess the meanings of the words in bold. Also write the dictionary meanings of these words.
1-Mr. Zia is an affable principal because he is pleasantly easy to approach
and always friendly.
2-The servant burnished the silver vase, rubbing hard to bring back the shineJ v 1
3-He languidly put on his jacket as if he had no energy at all.
4-After being ill and unable to eat for three days, Beverly had a voracious appetite.
5-Candles, flashlights and lamps illuminate the room,
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Affable |
Friendly |
Good natured |
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Burnished |
Polished |
Made shiny |
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Languidly |
Weak |
Lacking force |
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Voracious |
Having a huge appetite |
To enlighten |
Q.6 You have learnt in Unit 4 how to describe people. Look at the people in the following photo. Describe each one of them in at least 3 sentences.
Picture-1:
• This is the picture of a young lady.
• She has a smiling, oval face
• She has light brown, curl^
Picture-2:
• This is the picture of a young girl
• She has an oval, cheerful face.
• She has long, black hair.
Picture -3
• This is the picture of a mature lady.
• She may be in her 30s.
• She has ling, stylish hair with smiling face.
Picture-4:
• This is the picture of a middle aged man.
• He has a long face, with black round eyes.
• He has long, black stylish hair.
Picture-5:
• This is the picture of a teenage boy.
• He has long face with black bright eyes.
• He has short, trimmed black hair.
Q.7 Punctuation marks are very much important in English language, as you have read in Unit 4, Section C. Punctuate the following sentences.
1. He is not really nice looking and yet he has enormous charm
2. When I was a child I could watch TV whenever I wanted to
3. It is a fine idea let us hope that it is going to work
4. Mrs Salman who was sitting behind the desk gave me a big smile
5. We believe it or not were cousins
6. I don't like this one said Sara
7. Have you met our handsome new financial director
8. If you are ever in Lahore come and see us
9. Mohammad in the party was cornered superbly
10-Looking straight at her he said I can't help you
Answer:-
1. He is not really nice-looking and yet he has enormous charm!
2. When I was a child, I could watch TV whenever I wanted to.
3. It is a fine idea. Let us hope that it is going to work.
4. Mrs Salman, who was sitting behind the desk, gave me a big smile.
5. We believe it or not were cousins.
6. "I don't like this one", said Sara.
7. Have you met our handsome, new financial director!
8. If you are ever in Lahore, come and see us!
9. Mohammad, in the party, was cornered superbly.
10. Looking straight at her, he said, "I can't help you".
Q.8 Unit 5, Section B teaches you how to do skimming. Read the following passage carefully, skim it and write the gist of the text in your own words.
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne tropical disease caused by the dengue virus. Symptoms typically being three to fourteen days after infection. This may include a high fever, headache, vomiting, muscle and joint pains, and a characteristic skin rash. Recovery generally takes two to seven days. In a small proportion of cases, the disease develops into severe dengue, also known as dengue hemorrhagic fever, resulting in bleeding, low levels of blood platelets and blood plasma leakage, or into dengue shock syndrome, where dangerously low blood pressure occurs. Typically, people infected with dengue virus are asymptomatic (80%) or have only mild symptoms such as an uncomplicated fever. Others have more severe illness (5%), and in a small proportion, it is life threatening. The incubation period (time between exposure and onset of symptoms) ranges from 3 to 14 days, but most often it is 4 to 7 days. Therefore, travelers returning from endemic areas are unlikely to have dengue if fever or other symptoms start more than 14 days after arriving home. Children often experience symptoms similar to those of the common cold and gastroenteritis (vomiting and diarrhea) and have a greater risk of severe complications, though initial symptoms are generally mild but include high fever.
Answer:-
Gist of the Test:-
Dengue is a fever caused by the dengue virus. It may a high fever, headache, vomiting and muscle pain. Normally recovery takes two to seven days but in severe cases it may take more days. People infected with dengue virus are asymptomatic 80% or have only mild symptoms. In a small proportion it may be life threatening. Exposure of dengue symptoms ranges from 3 to 14 days. Children may have symptoms like common cold, vomiting and diarrhea resulting in severe complications.
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