Revision Lesson
Activity 1
Tick the correct answer from the given options:
I [am/is] Nilofar. I [am/is] a girl. I study in class VII. There [is/are] forty students in our class. Some [is/are] boys and others [am/are] girls. Sima, Shamim and Rohini [am/are] my friends. Rohini [is/are] the best student in our class. She [is/are] very fond of me.
Activity 2
Join the following sentences with ‘and’ or ‘but’. One is done for you:
(a) In India summer is hot. In India winter is cold.
Answer: In India summer is hot but winter is cold.
(b) A mouse is a small animal. An elephant is a large animal.
Answer: A mouse is a small animal but an elephant is a large animal.
(c) I have a pen. I have a pencil.
Answer: I have a pen and a pencil.
(d) The sun rises in the east. The sun sets in the west.
Answer: The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
(e) My father is tall. He is lean.
Answer: My father is tall but he is lean.
(f) Bees are small. Wasps are big.
Answer: Bees are small but wasps are big.
(g) In a cricket match we need a bat. We also need a ball.
Answer: In a cricket match we need a bat and also a ball.
Activity 3
Odd one out:
In each set there is a word that does not fit with rest of the words in the set. Identify and underline the word.
(a) Teacher, student, chalk, tall, duster.
(b) Football, goal, beautiful, field, player.
(c) Books, nice, pen, paper, table.
(d) Red, apple, guava, banana, water melon.
(e) Rice, wheat, barley, cereals, golden.
(f) Spinach, cabbage, tasty, cauliflower, onions.
Activity 4
Fill in the blanks by choosing the correct form of verbs from the given alternatives:
(a) My English textbook has [have/has] one hundred and thirty eight pages.
(b) Our class has [has/have] thirty students.
(c) My school has [have/has] a big playground.
(d) We have [has/have] a beautiful garden.
(e) All my friends have [have/has] some interest in sports.
Activity 5
Fill in the blanks with suitable articles and prepositions:
Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar lived in the nineteenth century India when very few people went to school. He founded a school in Calcutta which was later known as Vidyasagar College. He wrote a Bengali primer which is used even today. We are proud of Vidyasagar for his great work in the field of education.
Activity 6
Underline the correct form of the verbs given in brackets:
(a) The sun [rise/rises/rose] in the east.
(b) When do you [go/goes/went] to school?
(c) Two and two [make/makes/made] four.
(d) The great scholar Bopedev [write/writes/wrote] ‘Mugdha Bodh’.
(e) Robert Bruce [fight/fights/fought] hard to regain his kingdom.
Activity 7
Write the opposite of the following words:
good : bad; fat : thin; wise : foolish; dull : intelligent / bright; old : new / young; warm : cool; kind : cruel; happy : sad; tall : short
Activity 8
Make new words by joining ‘-less’ to the words in the given box and fill in the blanks. One is done for you:
help, harm, rest, power, meaning, colour, home
(a) Water is a colourless liquid.
(b) Rita was restless as she had fever.
(c) People often become homeless during a natural calamity.
(d) A snake is harmless if not disturbed.
(e) The king became powerless after his brother betrayed him.
(f) A sentence is meaningless without a verb.
Activity 9
Your friend has written this passage. But there are mistakes in every line. Underline the mistakes and correct them:
The History of Chess
Almost two thousand years ago a board-game was played in (at) India. It was call Chaturanga. It was very popular among kings, warriors and scholars. Chaturanga means (mean) four limbs. It represented (represent) the four groups of the army: the warriors who fought on elephants, the cavalry, the charioteers and the infantry. From India the game went to Persia where it was called Shatranj. Some of the words we now use (used) in chess were used in Persia. The term, ‘checkmate’, was earlier call ‘Shah Mat’ or ‘the king is dead’. From Persia, the game went to Europe. The game is (was) now called chess.
Activity 10
What do we call the people who live in the following countries? One is done for you:
| Country | Nationality |
| India | Indian |
| Iran | Iranian |
| Italy | Italian |
| Russia | Russian |
| Canada | Canadian |
| America | American |
| China | Chinese |
| Nepal | Nepalese |
| Japan | Japanese |
| Pakistan | Pakistani |
| England | English |
Activity 11
Make sentences with the following adverbs:
slowly: The turtle walks very slowly.
fast: Cheetah can run very fast.
now: I am going to school now.
often: He often comes to our house.
sometimes: Sometimes I play football in the afternoon.
Activity 12
Write the past forms of the following words:
put : put; meet : met; jump : jumped; sleep : slept; cry : cried; kneel : knelt
Activity 13
Fill in the blanks by choosing the correct form of verbs from the given alternatives:
(a) They are going (goes/are going/was going) to school.
(b) He lives (live/lives/have lived) within his means.
(c) She and her friends went (go/went/goes) to the picnic yesterday.
(d) Rahim and I were eating (eat/ate/were eating) when the bell rang.
(e) The striker scored (score/is scoring/scored) a goal in the football match yesterday.
Activity 14
Classify the following nouns in the chart given below:
| Common noun | Proper Noun | Material Noun | Abstract Noun | Collective Noun |
| cow | Vidyasagar | chalk | honesty | fleet |
| girl | Robert Bruce | ring | friendship | herd |
| dog | Rabindranath | truthfulness | class | |
| table | enmity | |||
| television | ||||
| teacher | ||||
| bench | ||||
| football |
Activity 15
Study the family tree of your friend Sabeena carefully. Then write a short paragraph about her family in about sixty words:
Sabeena’s Family Sabeena belongs to a wonderful family. Her grandfather is Kazi Abdul and her grandmother is Nargis. They are the elders of the family. Her father’s name is Kazi Nurul and her mother is Shakeela. Sabeena has two brothers named Irfan and Imran. They all live together happily and love each other very much.
Activity 16
Write a short story in about 60 words using the following hints:
Crow looking for water-thirsty-finds a pitcher-water at the bottom-finds pebbles-drops pebbles-water level rises-quenches thirst
The Thirsty Crow
One hot summer day, a crow was very thirsty. He flew around looking for water. Suddenly, he found a pitcher in a garden. But the water was at the bottom. He could not reach it. He saw some pebbles nearby. He dropped the pebbles into the pitcher one by one. The water level rose up. The crow drank the water and flew away happily.