Class 8 English Unit 5: Grammar II: Reported Speech 'Imperatives' & Writing: Developing Story

 

Grammar II: Reported Speech: Imperatives

Change the following sentences into reported speech as in the example. (Answers only)

Example: Bring me a glass of cold water.

                My mother told me to bring her a glass of water.  

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a.      She asked me to open the window.

b.     My teacher advised us not to waste our time.

c.      The old man suggested us to speak the truth.

d.     My grandmother told him to avoid eating unhealthy food.

e.      Ranjana requested me to come to her birthday party.

f.       My brother told me to clean the room.

g.     My parents advised us to do everything on time.

h.     The monk advised us to give up bad habits. 

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Writing: A punctuation mark (Answers only)

A.   David didn't really like school but he did enjoy practical subjects where he could use his hands to make things. He also loved biology because he could draw lots of diagrams and do experiments. In fact, his mother once told him that he should become a surgeon.

Note: Give ideas to the students about using capital letters, full stops, commas, apostrophes, etc.

B.    Develop a story with the help of the clues given below. Give a suitable title to the story.

A crow- sticks some peacock feathers – flies to peacocks- claims peacocks as relatives – they drive him away – flies to ducks – ducks also drive him away – crow is left alone – friendless – moral. 

 

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The Crow and the Peacock Feathers

One day, a crow found some beautiful peacock feathers. "If I stick these feathers on myself, I will look like a peacock," he thought. He attached the feathers to his tail and wings and admired himself. The crow flew to the peacocks and said, "Look at me! I am one of you now." But the peacocks saw through his disguise and said, "You are not a peacock. You are just a crow with some peacock feathers." They chased him away.

Feeling rejected, the crow flew to the ducks and said, "Look at my beautiful feathers. I am one of you." But the ducks also saw through his disguise and said, "You are not a duck. You are a crow pretending to be something you are not." They chased him away too. Alone and sad, the crow realized that pretending to be someone else did not make him happy. He missed his old friends and his simple, black feathers. He learned that being true to himself was more important than trying to be someone he was not.

The moral of the story is: "Be yourself. Pretending to be someone else will not bring you true happiness."

Project work

Divide the students into different groups of four or five. Ask them to visit different local shops around their house and listen to how a shopkeeper persuades his / her customers to purchase the items from the shop. Ask them to write in Nepali as they hear and translate them into English with the help of a teacher. Finally, ask them to present them in the class.

Extra bit: Prefixes and Suffixes

Give the idea of prefixes and suffixes to the students with the help of the words given in the text and also ask them to make their own words using the prefixes and suffixes given in the text. 

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