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E Interact

Listening

The following sentences have words that sound alike but are spelt differently and have different
meanings.

The maid made a nasty remark when asked to clean up the mess.
The doctor advised her to go on a diet and wait till her weight came down.

There is an interesting tale about how the squirrel got its beautiful tail.
The nun told them that it was none of their business.

E1 Listen carefully and write suitable words with correct spelling according to the context. The
first sentence has been given as an example.

1. Have you seen any beautiful scene like this before?
2. Have you ________________ hair oil and the ________________ that she has asked for?

3. Is there a ________________ vehicle in front of the ________________ shop?
4. ________________ you like it or not, you have to put up with the unpredictable
________________ in this region.
5. Look at the words given on the ________________ side of the sheet and ________________
them correctly in your notebook.

6. Are you ________________ to talk ________________ in the library?
7. The ________________ that crashed last year fell on this ___________.

8. Look at these ________________ trees. I can’t ________________ to see such cruel trimming of
trees.

9. They ________________ the sound of a ________________ of elephants walking past.
10. Apply some ointment to ________________ the wound on your ________________.

11. Come ________________ to this window to ________________ the sound better.
12. The bank manager gave a ________________ to the ________________ farmer who submitted
all the required documents in time.

Speaking

E2 Play the game of twenty questions on world-famous tourist places.

Student A goes out of the class and student B writes on the board the name of any famous
tourist place. The rest of the class reads the name silently, and then student B erases the name.
Student A can now come in and ask twenty questions one by one to find out the name of the
place. For every question other students will answer only with yes or no. No other clues are to

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