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THE VILLAGE LIFE IN PAKISTAN

TEXTUAL STUDY

Assure: I assure you to come on time in park.

Fortunately: fortunately tonight the clouds have gone.

Straightforward: Farah is totally a straightforward girl.

Scattered: once you fall and all your money is scattered on the floor.

Dawn to dusk: my body is not made to work dawn to dusk for earning some pennies.

Scorching: I will never come with you to that scorching desert.

TICK THE RIGHT ANSWER

1.

Who is living in Canada?

a) Nadir

b)

Nomi

c) Shahid

2. Shahid writes a letter to Nomi:

a) About the village life in Pakistan

b)

About the city life in England

c) About the village life in Canada.

3. In the village houses are mostly:

a)

Cement-plastered

b)

Un-plastered

c) Mud-plastered

4.

OTAQ is the meeting place for:

a) Men

b) Women

c)

Girls

5. Who are the two important persons of the village?

a) A carpenter and a farmer

b)

A blacksmith and a goldsmith

c)

A school teacher and the Imam

COMPOSITION

1. Write five sentences each about air pollution and a village well.

AIR POLUTION

Air pollution is the most common type of pollution, which is present in our environment. The

air pollution is caused by the cigarette smoke, transport smoke and manufacture smoke etc.

Air pollution is a dangerous health threat for human which may affect our food, lungs and

atmosphere. Now a day the air pollution is increased much that is affecting the ozone layer.

We can overcome air pollution by decreasing the volume of traffic, by transporting in public

buses and by building industries away from the societies.VILLAGE WELL

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The well is an important place in the village from where the farmers get there drinking and

usage water. In leisure time the women come here to discuss their house matters, about the

weather and the activities of running day. Sometimes a bull also pulls water from the well.

The farmers get also water from here for their crops. Usually a village has one or two dry

wells which have been dried a long times ago.

2. Write a paragraph on the farmer working in the fields use the following vocabulary: plough,

shoulder, bullocks, sickle, crop, seed, dawn, dusk.

THE FARMER WORKING IN THE FIELDS

The farmer is working in the fields since the dawn of todays morning. He is walking in front

of a bullock which is shouldering the fields with a plough. The farmer is a hard worker person

who cuts the grown crop by the help of a sickle in the scorching sun. In the seeding season

the farmers by seeds from the city to grow new crops. Mostly farmers work in the fields till

dusk. They live happy life in the village living shoulder to shoulder helping each other in hard

times. The farmer is called to be a model of hard work.

STUDY OF STRUCTURES

1. Used either tooor enoughand the infinitive to express the following ideas:

i) The tea is very hot. I cant drink it.

The tea is too hot to drink.

ii) Our teacher is clever. He can tell you the answer.

Our teacher is clever enough to tell you the answer.

iii) He was very angry. He couldnt speak to me.

He was too angry to speak to me.

iv) The windows were very dirty. We couldnt see through them.

The windows were too dirty to see through them.v)

I think you are very strong. You can lift the box.

I think you are enough strong to lift the box.

vi) He is fine again. He can go out in the sun.

He is fine enough to go out in the sun.

vii) He is very lazy. He cant reach in time.

He is too lazy to reach in time.

viii)

This hat is very big. You can wear it easily.

This hat is big enough that you can wear it easily.

ix) This shirt is very old. I cant wear it.

This shirt is too old that I cant wear it.

x) The grammar is very difficult. You cant understand it.

The grammar is too difficult that you cant understand it.

2. Use early and late as adverbs and adjectives in your own sentences. Make five sentences for

each.

AS ADVERBS

1. I get my breakfast early on Mondays.

2.

I will come a little late tonight.

3. I will reach office early tomorrow.

4. I usually watch movies late at night.

5.

Sana will play tennis early in morning.

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AS ADJECTIVES

1.

Ali is an early jogger.

2. Elsa is a not a late comer.

3. Nomi is an early eater.

4.

Youssef is a late drinker.

5. Rima is not an early prayer.