Class: Two
Name: ___________________
Section: _________________
Subject: English
Islamic Alta Vista High School
Read the story “Strong Together” (Story # 14) from Oxford Reading Circle and solve the given
activities.
Activity # 1:
Reading aloud.
up
us
ugly
run
use
tube
huge
tune
ruby
june
super
pull
Activity # 2:
Write “T” for true and “F” for false.
e.g The farmer’s field was right next to the Jungle.
____T_____
1. The farmer had two strong oxen.
__________
2. The lion and owl began to talk.
__________
3. The four oxen were firm friends.
__________
4. There were not many wild animals in the jungle.
__________
Activity # 3:
Answer these questions about the story.
1. Why was the farmer’s house in the middle of the farm?
2. What work did the oxen do on the farm?
3. How were the oxen kept safe?
4. What did the lion and jackal save?
5. Why did the oxen feel sad at the end?
Activity # 4:
Insert the missing letters.
e.g
bellow
i.
l____ ____dly
ii.
gr____ _____t___r
iii.
_____x_____n
iv.
pl____ ____gh
v.
____mm____d___ ____ t_____y
vi.
_____n_____ ____gh
vii.
d____c_____d_____d
ix.
______ir_____t
Activity # 5:
Fill in the blanks.
1. The oxen began to ______________ and ______________ each other.
2. The hungry lion’s stomach ______________.
3. The oxen went up and down the ______________ all day, ____________ water from the well.
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Class: Two
Name: ___________________
Section: _________________
Subject: English
Activity # 6: Why did you like the character of Lion?
Activity # 7:Make sentences with these words.
i.
fence: ____________________________________________________________________
ii.
jungle:____________________________________________________________________
iii.
hungry: ___________________________________________________________________
iv.
delicious: __________________________________________________________________
v.
ground: ___________________________________________________________________
Activity # 8:
Read the story and pick out Nouns and verbs from the story.
Noun
Verb
Noun
Activity # 9:
Select the correct options.
 Quarrel mean:
a. happy
b.
fight
 fence is:
a. line of wooden or metal posts
c. lawn
 link mean:
a. link between things
c. a ring of a chain
 attack:
a. an act of eating b.
act of dancing
 plough mean:
a. mason tool
b.
domestic tool
c.
angry argument
b.
d.
bar
wall
b.
d.
lovely chain
a big chain
Verb
d.
exhaust
c.
an act or the action of attacking
c.
cobbler tool
d. farming tool
Activity # 10: Write genders for the following.
e.g
Words
lion
tiger
ox
Gender
lioness
Words
mouse
dog
horse
Gender
Plural
trees
Singular
key
pencil
cherry
Plural
Activity # 11: Make numbers.
Singular
e.g tree
knife
bush
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Class: Two
Name: ___________________
Section: _________________
Subject: English
Activity # 12: Sort out nouns and write it on the next line.
quickly,
dance,
worked ,
table,
jungle,
tree,
beautiful ,
lovely ,
field , dinner,
computer
ate, lion,
__________________________________________________________________________
Activity # 13: Fill in the blanks by suitable pronouns.
________________ am going with _______________ friend. ______________ ate meal.
_______________ play with _________________ toys. __________________ goes to school.
Activity # 14: Write adjectives according to picture.
_____________________
_______________________
_____________________
_______________________
Activity # 15: Action words are called verb. Look at these actions and write suitable action words.
________________________
________________________
________________________
________________________
Activity # 16: Write antonyms.
Words
Antonyms
e.g
small
big
fast
Words
cold
Antonyms
wrong
finish
Activity # 17: Write synonyms.
e.g
Words
portion
quarrel
Synonyms
part
Words
jungle
Synonyms
near
plough
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Class: Two
Name: ___________________
Section: _________________
Activity # 18: Write full form of these contracted form:
e.g we’re
___We are______
i.
I’ve
ii.
iv.
Subject: English
____________________
you’d
_________________
iii.
They’re ____________________
I’ll
_________________
v.
I’m
_____________________
Activity # 19: Translate into English.
‫۔ اافتق ںیم برتک ےہ۔‬1
‫۔ اسکن وھچےٹ ےس رھگ ںیم راتہ اھت۔‬2
‫۔ اسکن تہب یتنحم اھت۔‬3
‫۔ ولمڑی تہب اچالک یھت۔‬4
‫۔ وسرج رشمق ےس نکلتا ےہ۔‬5
Activity # 20: Make sentences by using the given conjunctions.
(but, and, so, till, because)
i.
________________________________________________________________________
ii.
________________________________________________________________________
iii.
________________________________________________________________________
iv.
________________________________________________________________________
v.
________________________________________________________________________
Activity # 21: Rectify the sentences.
i.
We is going to Lahore. _____________________________________________________
ii.
They lives in hostel.
_____________________________________________________
iii.
I forgets my bag.
iv.
She do not work hard. ______________________________________________________
v.
He did not learnt his lesson. __________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________
Activity # 22: Apply all the rules of punctuation and punctuate this paragraph.
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Class: Two
Name: ___________________
Section: _________________
Subject: English
Once there was a farm very close to a deep dark jungle the farmer who lived there had a small
house in the middle of his land why you may ask did he not be of his land why you many ask did he not
live near the road or near the jungle well it was because there was no road to his farm and the jungle was
deep and dark which frightened him
Activity # 23: Write one word substitutions.
i.
to have an idea without any proof.
___Suspect____
ii.
a piece of information that may not be true.
___________________
iii.
not firmly fixed
___________________
iv.
damaged or injured
___________________
v.
a vehicle with two or four wheels that is pulled by a house
___________________
vi.
an area of land, on it used for growing crops or keeping animals ___________________
Activity # 24: Read the paragraph carefully and answer the questions given below.
Once there lived four oxen in the jungle, Whenever there was any danger, the oxen came together linked
their horns and stood in a line. A hungry lion came there and made a clever plan. He ensured the each oxen
that he is cheated by his brothers. The oxen aparted from one another. The lion attacked them easily one by
one and ate them up.
i.
Where did the oxen lived?
ii.
How did they face danger?
iii.
How did the lion apart the oxen?
iv.
What did the lion do at the end?
Activity # 25: Summarize the story in your own words by using given word bank.
Word bank: Lion, lived, jungle, hungry, want, eat, oxen, linked, horns, frightened , the jackals,
came, thought, clever, plan, waited, oxen came, began to sing, took turn, behind the wall,
started listening, gave, angry, books, quarrel, suspect, stood apart, attack, one by one, ate up.
Activity # 26: Read the story and pick out nouns and verbs.
Verb
Noun
Verb
Noun
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