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A LESSON IN LIFE FROM A BEGGAR

AGILE
LEARNING
D4. Abbreviation game
Divide the class into six teams. Your teacher will write some abbreviations on the blackboard one
by one. Each team will write the complete word in their notebooks in 20 seconds. If the answer
is correct, the team will get two points. The team with the maximum points at the end of fifteen
rounds wins the game.

D5. Words in context
Divide the class into four groups. A student from the first group goes to the front of the class and
sits with her/his back to the blackboard. Your teacher will write a word on the board that all but
the student sitting in the ‘hot seat’ can see. Your group members will then have to help you guess
the word by giving you clues such as the definition of the word, other words that have the same
meaning, opposites of the given word, etc. If the word is guessed within two minutes, your group
scores a point. The process will repeat for other groups. The group with the highest points at the
end of three rounds wins.

D6. Idioms
Divide the class into pairs. Your teacher will place a box in front of the class with some slips in
it. Each slip will have an idiom written on it. Each pair of students will take turns to pick a slip
and enact the idiom in front of the class. The rest of the pairs have to guess the idiom based on
the enactment. If a pair guesses an idiom correctly, it gets two points. The game continues till
all the slips are used up. The pair with the highest score at the end wins. Afterwards, discuss the
meanings of all the idioms as a class.

Grammar

Asking Questions

Read the questions from the story.
What are you doing here?

Who has managed to change you so?
We can use question words like who, whom, whose, what, which, why, when, where, how and so
on to ask questions. The table below shows the uses of these question words.

question use examples
word

who/whom to ask about the name Who is your best friend?
or identity of a person Who is the chief guest?
Whom do we invite?
Who is there?

what to ask for information What’s its name?
What do you call it?
What do you have to say about them?

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