Unit 2: Communication
Full exercise of Free Writing | Language Development | Class 11 English Notes NEB
Ways with words
A. The words in the crossword puzzle are from the text. Find them in the text to solve the puzzle based on the clues given below.
Down
1. to be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion—obsessed
3. to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction—creep
4. orderly, logical, and consistent—coherent
Across
2. to utter rapidly or unintelligibly—babble
5. to insert something between other things—interpose
6. an unreadable handwriting—squiggle
B. Use the following words in sentences of your own.
Massive:
He died from a massive heart attack.
Consciousness:
He moaned with pain before losing consciousness.
Catch-as-catch-can:
We went hitchhiking for a week and lived catch-as-catch-can.
Give up:
I’m too close to my goal to give up now.
Abandon:
As a baby he was abandoned by his mother.
Lousy:
He blamed Shreya for a lousy weekend.
Editing:
He’s editing a book of essays by Ritesh Berlin.
C. Word formation: Adjectives and Adverbs
b. Write the following words in the right columns. Change the adjectives into adverbs and nouns into adjectives.
| Adjectives | Adverbs |
|---|---|
| Careful | Carefully |
| Perfect | Perfectly |
| Automatic | Automatically |
| Certain | Certainly |
| Fair | Fairly |
| General | Generally |
| Proud | Proudly |
| Rapid | Rapidly |
| Proper | Properly |
| Final | Finally |
| Common | Commonly |
| Beautiful | Beautifully |
| Frequent | Frequently |
| Heavy | Heavily |
| Hungry | Hungrily |
| Nouns | Adjectives |
|---|---|
| Rain | Rainy |
| Bush | Bushy |
| Spice | Spicy |
| Snow | Snowy |
| Blood | Bloody |
| Cloud | Cloudy |
| Bag | Baggy |
| Mood | Moody |
| Air | Airy |
| Cream | Creamy |
| Dust | Dusty |
| Ice | Icy |
| Fun | Funny |
| Ease | Easy |
| Hand | Handy |
| Oil | Oily |
| Greed | Greedy |
| Health | Healthy |
| Hill | Hilly |
c. Fill in the gaps with the appropriate adjective or adverb.
i. Pramila is playing quietly (quiet/quietly).
ii. Hari speaks very loudly (loud/loudly).
iii. Mukesh is a careful (careful/carefully) driver.
iv. The test was easy (easy/easily) and we finished in time.
v. He is fitting the automatic (automatic/automatically) door in my house.
vi. My uncle speaks perfect (perfect/perfectly) Chinese.
vii. It was raining very heavily (heavy/heavily).
viii. She looked very calm (calm/calmly), but I am sure she was feeling very nervous.