UNIT - 8 : A Short Monsoon Diary English - UNIT - 8 : A Short Monsoon Diary

All night the rain _____________________ (drum) on the corrugated tin roof. There _____________________ (be) no storm, no thunder, just the steady swish of a tropical downpour. It helps me _____________________ (lie) awake; at the same time, it doesn't keep me from _____________________ (sleep).

The blackest cloud I _____________________ ever _____________________ (see) squatted over Mussoorie, and then it _____________________ (hail) marbles for half an hour. Nothing like a hailstorm _____________________ (clear) the sky. Even as I write, I see a rainbow _____________________ (form).

(tropical. steady. drumming. awake. corrugated, thunder)
All night the rain has been _____________________ on the _____________________ tin roof. There has been no storm, no _____________________ just the _____________________ swish of a _____________________ downpour. It helps me to lie _____________________ at the same time, it doesn't keep me from sleeping.

(climbing, blankets, silent, melancholy, mist, conceal)
The first day of monsoon _____________________ And it's strange how all the birds fall _____________________ as the mist comes _____________________ up the hill. Perhaps that's what makes the mist so _____________________ not only does it _____________________ the hills. It _____________________ them in silence too.

Harry walked through the kitchen and snapped up two cookies on the way. (stole, ate up, grasped quickly)

You must keep the child from her mother until the mother is infection-free. (hold away from, keep in touch, keep alert about)

The bright light suffused the leaves with a golden glow. (saturated with, deprived with, made wet with)

He's my brother, so I support him all the way. (completely, closely, thoughtlessly)

The blackest cloud squatted over the city. (showered over, flew over. settled down over)

Write a notice on behalf of the principal of your school that school will keep closed for three days on account of the heavy storm ‘Vayu', as has been forecast by Government Weather Bureau.

The mist affords a certain privacy.

It blankets them in silence.

Bijju is calling to his sister.

A school boy asked me to describe the hill-station.

A woman is chopping up sticks.

I can hear him running about on the hillside. (Change the Voice.)

The seeds of the cobra lily are turning red, signifying that the rains are coming to end. (Turn into Simple.)

Water drips from a leaking drainpipe. (Turn into Complex.)

It is very lonely, very quiet. (Turn into Exclamatory.)

Not only does the mist conceal the hills. it blankets them in silence too. (Use 'both'.)

'A Rainy Day'

The nephews said. "Sir, the bird's education has been completed."
"Does it hop?" the Raja enquired.
"Never!" said the nephews.
"Does it fly?"
"No."

Prometheus: Zeus must be very angry with me.
Epimetheus: I know, you promised not to steal the fire, and you did.
Prometheus : Mortals needed it. Fire is useful for them.
Epimetheus: Yes, but we must be very careful.