The Gold Frame - Unit 10
GulMohar: Reader 8
More Reading
Worksheet 1
Read the short humorous text with a twist in the end and answer the questions that follow:
On the right side of the house of a minister there lived a blacksmith, and on the left side, a
carpenter. The blacksmith and the carpenter made noise night and day and the disturbed the
minister. When he could not take it anymore, the minister called the two and demanded that they
move their houses.
One day the blacksmith visited the minister and said, Your Excellency, I am moving my house
today as desired by you.
After a while, the carpenter also paid a courtesy call on the minister saying, Your Excellency, I
am moving my house, too
The minister was relieved to hear this, but pretended to be sorry at losing them as neighbours.
He treated them to good food and sent them off.
But strangely enough, the noise of sawing and hammering continued. The minister was both
surprised and annoyed. He called his servants and ordered them to find out what was going on.
The servants came back with the news that the carpenter and the blacksmith did move houses as
had promised. The carpenter had moved to the blacksmiths house, and the blacksmith to the
carpenters, where they happily continued hammering and sawing night and day.
Questions:
[Link] were the ministers neighbours?
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2. How was the minister disturbed by them?
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[Link] did the minister tell them?
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[Link] did they promise him when they called on him? How did the minister react to this?
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[Link] was the minister annoyed again?
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[Link] did he call the servants?
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[Link] news did they bring?
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Structure and Usage
Worksheet 2
Rewrite the following sentences using the introductory It
1. To know his motive is difficult.
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2. To find a job during these troubled times is difficult.
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3. Playing with fire is dangerous.
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4. Driving fast is not a good practice.
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5. To err is human.
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6. To become a well known writer was his life-long ambition.
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7. Complaining to the manager wont do any good.
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8. Throwing away this opportunity is silly.
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Words in Use
Worksheet 3
Choose the correct word from the box and complete the sentences:
Remember to use the word in its correct form:
transition transistor transplant translate transfuse
transport transfer transact
transmit transit
[Link] soldiers were staying in a ________________ camp.
[Link] T.V. tower ___________ electronic data.
[Link] two men ___________ the business in a clever way.
[Link] clerk was __________ to Andhra Pradesh.
[Link] __________has shrunk the world.
[Link] blood _________ was done to the patient before the surgery.
[Link] poet ______________ all his poems into several foreign languages.
[Link] liver ___________ was successfully done.
[Link] girl listens to devotional songs on the ____________ radio.
10. Any project is bound to have teething problems during the _________ period.
Writing
Worksheet 4
Two days after taking the portrait from Datta, his customer returns as he had detected the
[Link] customer and Datta have heated arguments after which Datta yields.
As Datta, write a diary entry expressing your tense moments and how small you felt about the
whole incident.
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ANSWERS
More Reading
Worksheet 1
[Link] ministers neighbours were a blacksmith and a carpenter.
[Link] and night the blacksmith and the carpenter made noise and disturbed the minister.
[Link] minister asked them to move houses.
[Link] both visited the minister separately and promised to shift house.
He pretended to be sad, gave them good food and sent them off.
[Link] minister was annoyed because he heard the hammering and sawing once again.
[Link] called the servants to find out what went wrong.
[Link] carpenter and the blacksmith did move houses as they had promised. The carpenter moved into the
blacksmiths house and the blacksmith moved into the carpenters house.
Structure and Usage
Worksheet 2
1. It is difficult to know his motive.
2. It is difficult to find a good job during these troubled times.
3. It is dangerous to play with fire.
4. It is not a good practice to drive fast.
5. It is human to err.
6. It was his lifelong ambition to become a well known writer.
8. It wont do any good complaining to the manager.
9. It is silly throwing away this opportunity.
10. It is no fun having so many children to look after.
Words in Use
Worksheet 3
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Writing
Worksheet 4
Open ended exercise