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There are different names in different parts of the world for storms, depending on their nature. Can you match the names in the box with their descriptions below, and fill in the blanks? You may use a dictionary to help you.
| gale, | whirlwind, | cyclone, |
| hurricane, | tornado, | typhoon |
1. A violent tropical storm in which strong winds move in a circle:
__ __ c __ __ __ __
2. An extremely strong wind: __ a __ __
3. A violent tropical storm with very strong winds: __ __ p __ __ __ __
4. A violent storm whose centre is a cloud in the shape of a funnel:
__ __ __ n __ __ __
5. A violent storm with very strong winds, especially in the western Atlantic ocean: __ __ r __ __ __ __ __ __
6. A very strong wind that moves very fast in a spinning movement and causes a lot of damage: __ __ __ __ l __ __ __ __
1. Cyclone
2. Gale
3. Typhoon
4. Tornado
5. Hurricane
6. Whirlwind
Match the sentences in Column A with the meanings of ‘hope’ in Column B.
| A | B | ||
| 1. | Will you get the subjects you want to study in college? I hope so. | − | a feeling that something good will probably happen |
| 2. | I hope you don’t mind my saying this, but I don’t like the way you are arguing. | − | thinking that this would happen (It may or may not have happened). |
| 3. | This discovery will give new hope to HIV/AIDS sufferers. | − | stopped believing that this good thing would happen |
| 4. | We were hoping against hope that the judges would not notice our mistakes. | − | wanting something to happen (and thinking it quite possible) |
| 5. | I called early in the hope of speaking to her before she went to school. | − | showing concern that what you say should not offend or disturb the other person: a way of being polite |
| 6. | Just when everybody had given up hope, the fishermen came back, seven days after the cyclone. | − | wishing for something to happen, although this is very unlikely |
| A | B | ||
| 1. | Will you get the subjects you want to study in college? I hope so. | − | wanting something to happen (and thinking it quite possible) |
| 2. | I hope you don’t mind my saying this, but I don’t like the way you are arguing. | − | showing concern that what you say should not offend or disturb the other person: a way of being polite |
| 3. | This discovery will give new hope to HIV/AIDS sufferers. | − | a feeling that something good will probably happen |
| 4. | We were hoping against hope that the judges would not notice our mistakes. | − | wishing for something to happen, although this is very unlikely |
| 5. | I called early in the hope of speaking to her before she went to school. | − | thinking that this would happen (It may or may not have happened.) |
| 6. | Just when everybody had given up hope, the fisherman came back, seven days after the cyclone. | − | stopped believing that this good thing would happen |
Relative Clauses
Join the sentences given below using who, whom, whose, which as suggested.
1. I often go to Mumbai. Mumbai is the commercial capital of India. (which)
2. My mother is going to host a TV show on cooking. She cooks very well. (who)
3. These sportspersons are going to meet the President. Their performance has been excellent. (whose)
4. Lencho prayed to God. His eyes see into our minds. (whose)
5. This man cheated me. I trusted him. (whom)
1. I often go to Mumbai, which is the commercial capital of India.
2. My mother, who cooks very well, is going to host a TV show on cooking.
3. These sportspersons, whose performance has been excellent, are going to meet the President.
4. Lencho prayed to God, whose eyes see into our minds.
5. This man, whom I trusted, cheated me.
Find sentences in the story with negative words, which express the following ideas emphatically.
1. The trees lost all their leaves.
_______________________________________________________________
2. The letter was addressed to God himself.
_______________________________________________________________
3. The postman saw this address for the first time in his career.
_______________________________________________________________
1. The trees lost all their leaves.
Not a leaf remained on the trees.
2. The letter was addressed to God himself.
It was nothing less than a letter to God.
3. The postman saw this address for the first time in his career.
Never in his career as a postman had he known that address.
In pairs, find metaphors from the story to complete the table below. Try to say what qualities are being compared. One has been done for you.
| Object | Metaphor | Quality or Feature Compared |
| Cloud | Huge mountains of clouds | The mass or ‘hugeness’ of mountains. |
| Raindrops | ||
| Hailstones | ||
| Locusts | ||
| An epidemic (a disease) that spreads very rapidly and leaves many people dead. | ||
| An ox of a man. |
| Object | Metaphor | Quality or Feature Compared |
| Cloud | Huge mountains of clouds | The mass or ‘hugeness’ of mountains |
| Raindrops | A curtain of rain | The draping or covering of an area by a curtain |
| Hailstones | The frozen pearls | The resemblance in colour and hardness of a pearl |
| Locusts | A plague of locusts | The consequences (destruction) of plague |
| Locusts | A plague of locusts | An epidemic (a disease) that spreads very rapidly and leaves many people dead |
| Man | An ox of a man | The working of an ox in the fields (hard work) |
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