Pran asked me, “ Have you finished reading the newspaper?”Ħ. She asked me, “When are we going to leave?”ĥ. He asked the little boy, “Why are you studying English?”Ĥ. David asked his colleague, “Where will you go this summer?”ģ. Meena asked her friend, “ Do you think your teacher will come today?”Ģ. Remember the italicised verbs change into the past tense.ġ. Report these questions using if/ whetheror why/ when/ where/ how/ which/ what. The boy hid behind the door, not moving a muscle. Paralysed with fear, the boy faced his abductors. Wait until I tell his story - it will make your hair stand on end. (frightened by something that happens suddenly)ĥ. You really gave me a fright when you crept up behind me like that. (so much frightened by something that happens suddenly)Ĥ. He nearly jumped out of his skin when he saw the bull coming towards him. I got a fright when I realised how close I was to the cliff edge. The boy hid behind the door, not moving a muscle.Ģ. Paralysed with fear, the boy faced his abductors.ħ. Wait until I tell his story - it will make your hair stand on end.Ħ. You really gave me a fright when you crept up behind me like that.ĥ. He nearly jumped out of his skin when he saw the bull coming towards him.Ĥ. I got a fright when I realised how close I was to the cliff edge.ģ. I knew a man was following me, I was scared out of my wits. Match the meanings with the words/expressions in italics, and write the appropriate meaning next to the sentence. In the light of the lamp I sat there like a stone image in the flesh. In the light of the lamp I sat there like _.ģ. I was suddenly a man of flesh and blood.Ĭan you find the expressions in the story that tell you that the author was frightened? Read the story and complete the following sentences.ġ. Was it trying to make an important decision about growing a moustache or using eye shadow and mascara or wearing a vermilion spot on its foreheadħ. The fellow had such a sense of cleanliness.! The rascal could have taken it and used it after washing it with soap and water.ġ0. I was after all a bachelor, and a doctor too on top of it!ĩ. I tried in my imagination to write in bright letters outside my little heart the words, 'O God'.Ħ. The arm was beginning to be drained of strength.Ĥ. A little later he says, “I forgot my danger and smiled feebly at myself.” What is the doctor’s opinion about himself when: (i) he first smiles, and (ii) he smiles again? In what way do his thoughts change in between, and why?ģ. “I looked into the mirror and smiled,” says the doctor. Second, he would always keep an attractive smile on his face.ģ. These were:įirst, he decided to shave daily and grow a thin moustache. The doctor took two "important" and "earth-shaking" decisions while he was looking into the mirror. What two “important” and “earth-shaking” decisions did the doctor take while he was looking into the mirror? The sounds stopped suddenly after the doctor heard a dull thud as if a rubber tube had fallen to the ground. It was a snake.Īlso Check: CBSE Class 9 English Syllabus 2020-21Ģ. There was a regular traffic of rats to and from the beam.
Actually, the room in which he lived was full of rats. The doctor heard a familiar sound which he thought to be of rats.