Look at the sentences below. Notice that the verbs (italicised) are all in their bare form.

• Simple commands:

Stand up!

Put it here!

• Directions: (to reach your home)

Board Bus No.121 and get down at Sagar Restaurant. From there turn right and walk till you reach a book shop. My home is just behind the shop.

• Dos and don’ts:

– Always get up for your elders.

– Don’t shout in class.

• Instructions for making a fruit salad:

Ingredients

Oranges – 2

Pineapple – one large piece

Cherries – 250 grams

Bananas – 2

Any other fruit you like

Wash the fruit. Cut them into small pieces. Mix them well. Add a few drops of lime juice. Add sugar to taste. Now add some cream (or ice cream if you wish to make fruit salad with ice cream.)

1. Now work in pairs. Give

(i) two commands to your partner.

(ii) two do’s and don’ts to a new student in your class.

(iii) directions to get to each other’s houses.

(iv) instructions for moving the body in an exercise or a dance, or for cooking something.

2. The table below has some proverbs telling you what to do and what not to do. Fill in the blanks and add a few more such proverbs to the table.

 

Positive

 

Negative

(i)

Save for a rainy day.

(i)

Don’t cry over spilt milk.

(ii)

Make hay while the sun shines.

(ii)

Don’t put the cart before the horse.

(iii)

__________before you leap.

(iii)

__________a mountain out of a mole hill.

(iv)

__________and let live.

(iv)

__________all your eggs in one basket.

 

(i)

Commands:

(a)

Stand straight!

 

 

(b)

Go and wash your hands!

 

(ii)

Do's :

(a)

Always complete your work on time.

 

 

(b)

Talk politely with everyone.

 

Don'ts :

(a)

Don't come late in class.

 

 

(b)

Don't litter in the school premises..

(iii) Directions:

Board bus no. 26 from the bus stop near our school and get down at Lodhi Colony. From there take a rickshaw for B.K. Dutt Colony and get down in front of shop number 14 in the main market. My house is on the first floor, just above the shop.

(iv) Instructions for making a sandwich:

Ingredients

Bread slices

– 2

Butter

– 2 tsp

Onion

– 1

Cucumber

– 1

Mayonnaise

– 1 tsp

Coriander chutney

– 1 tsp

Peel the onion and cucumber, and cut them in roundels. Take the bread slices and apply butter on them.  Now apply mayonnaise on one slice and coriander chutney on the other slice. Keep onion roundels on the bread slice with mayonnaise followed by cucumber pieces. Cover it with the other bread slice. Cut the sandwich into triangles before serving with tomato ketchup.

(Model answers have been provided for students' reference. It is strongly recommended that students prepare such answers on their own.)

2.

 

Positive

 

Negative

(i)

Save for a rainy day.

(i)

Don’t cry over spilt milk.

(ii)

Make hay while the sun shines.

(ii)

Don’t put the cart before the horse.

(iii)

Lookbefore you leap.

(iii)

Don’t make a mountain out of a mole hill.

(iv)

Live and let live.

(iv)

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

(v)

Mind your own business.

(v)

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

(vi)

Be first at the feast and last at the fight.

(vi)

Don't count the days, make the days count!

 

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