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Vocabulary

The parrot, Polynesia, talks. There are other birds that sing, chirp or twitter. Can you identify
what the sounds of some of these birds are called?

A. Match the birds in Column A with their sounds in Column B.

Column A Column B

1. eagles a. gobble

2. pigeons b. scream

3. ravens c. twitter

4. turkeys d. hoot

5. sparrows e. croak

6. owls f. coo
7. larks g. sing

Confusing Words

Look at the following sentences.

Nobody visited Doctor Dolittle except the Cat’s-meat-Man.
Sarah Dolittle could not accept so many animals in the house.

There are some words in the English language that have closely similar pronunciations and
are therefore frequently confused. However, their meanings are distinctly different.

B. Fill in the blanks with the correct op ons from brackets. Use a dic onary to
fi nd the meanings of diffi cult words.

1. Everyone knows the ____________ effects of smoking. (adverse/averse)

2. Magicians actually create ____________. (illusions/allusions)

3. This is the seventh ____________ of the book. (addition/edition)

4. Our teacher speaks with a British ____________. (accent/ascent)

5. There has been a severe ____________ in Tamil Nadu this year. (draught/
drought)

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