Unit-10
THE PIE AND THE TART
Hugh Chesterman
Vocabulary Exercises
Given below are sets of
synonyms (words giving almost the same meaning) One word does not belong to the
set. Identify the odd word in. each set.
1. Absorb, reject, imbibe, assimilate- reject
2. Act, deed, performance, trick- trick
3. Separate, add, attach, affix- separate
4. Order, request, command, instruction- request
5. Climb, mount, fall, ascend- fall
6. Come, depart, arrive, reach- depart
7. Bravery, grit, cowardice, courage- cowardice
8. Adapt, adjust, differ, fit- differ
9. Get, lose, obtain, acquire- lose
10. Award, grant, confiscate, give- confiscate
The words ‘hear’ and
‘here’ are pronounced the same but have different spellings and different
meanings. Such words are called “homophones”.
Write the homophones
of the following words and in pairs read them out to each other.
1. Pale – pail
2. Die – dye
3. Pray – prey
4. Sale – sail
5. Blue – blew
6. Meet – meat
7. Ail – ale
8. Flu – flew
9. Hail – hale
10. Tear – tier
11. Beer – bier
12. Pain – pane
13. Bail – bale
14. Gate – gait
15. Fate – fait
16. Sweet – suite
Grammar Revisited.
Passive Voice
Fill in the blanks with a suitable form of verbs given in brackets.
Experiment in Laboratory:
The burette is filled (fill) with
Potassium Permanganate solution. The initial reading is noted (note). The pipette is washed (wash) and then rinsed with ferrous ammonium
sulphate solution. 20 ml of ammonium sulphate solution is pipetted out (pippet out) into a
clear conical ask. An equal volume of 2 normal dilute sulphuric acid is added, (add). The solution
is titrated (titrate) against the potassium permanganate
solution taken in the burette. The end point is the appearance of a pale
permanent pink colour. The final burette reading is noted, (note). The titrations are repeated
(repeat) for concordant titre values. From the titre value normality of ferrous
ammonium sulphate and volume of ferrous ammonium sulphate is known, (know).
Recipe
The stove is switched
on. Water in a vessel is kept (keep) on the stove for boiling. Meanwhile, coffee powder is put (put) into the coffee filter to get the decoration. The boiled water is poured (pour) into the coffee
filter. The milk is boiled (boil) and when the decoration is ready both are mixed (mix) together. To
this sugar is added (add) and we have hot coffee ready.
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