Chapter 3 :- Deep Water
Chapter 3 :- Deep Water
Grammar
Vocabulary
-> Fill in the blanks choosing the correct words given in the brackets and write the answers only:
Question 1.
(wits, swallowed, paddle, surface, landed, frightened, tossed, planned)
With that, he picked me up and …1…. me into the deep end. I …..2….. in a sitting position, …3.. water, and went at once to the bottom. I was …4…., but not yet frightened out of my ……5……. On the way down I …..6……; when my feet hit the bottom, I would make a big jump, come to the …..7….. lie flat on it, and ….8……. to the edge of the pool.
Answer:
1. tossed
2. landed
3. swallowed
4. frightened
5. wits
6. planned
7. surface
8. paddle
Question 2.
(strategy, irresistible, thrash, nightmare, throbbed, struck, expending, surface)
I …1…. at the water as I went down, …2…. my strength as one in a …..3….. fights an …4… force. I had lost all my breath. My lungs ached, my head …..5… I was getting dizzy. But I remembered the …6,… -I would spring from the bottom of the pool and come like a cork to the …7… I would lie flat on the water, strike out with my arms, and ……8…… with my legs.
Answer:
1. struck
2. expending
3. nightmare
4. Irresistible
5. throbbed
6. strategy
7. surface
8. thrash
Vocabulary
Choose the correct meanings of the phrases /Idioms and rewrite the sentences:
(1) For my science project I made a volcano In miniature. (as a model, on a small scale, as an experiment)
(2) I would never deprive you of the opportunity to follow your dreams! (keep from getting. help In obtaining. Interfere in accessing)
(3) During the party I went back and forth to the kitchen to gel drinks for the guests. (repeatedly, desperately. willingly)
(4) front sneak up on me like that, you frightened inc out of my wits? (shocked suddenly, made crazy, intelligently)
Answer:
(1) For my science project. I made a volcano on a small scale.
(2) I would never keep you from getting the opportunity follow your dreams!
(3 ) During the party. I went repeatedly to the kitchen to get drinks for the guests.
(4 ) Don’t sneak up on me like that; you shocked me suddenly!
Rectification:
Question 1.
From the beginning, though, I had an aversion from the water when I was in it. This started where I was three or four years old and the waves knocked me down and sweep over me.
Answer:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.
Rectification:
Question 2.
With that, he picked me up but tossed me Into the dip end. I landed In a sitting position, swallowed water, and went at once to the bottom. I was frightened, but not as frightened out of my wits.
Answer:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.
Punctuation
Punctuate the following passage:
Thus piece by piece he built a swimmer and when he had perfected each piece he put them together into an integrated whole in April he said now you can swim dive off and swim the length of the pool, crawl stroke
Answer:
Thus, piece by piece, he built a swimmer. And when he had perfected each piece, he put them together into an integrated whole. In April he said, “Now you can swim. Dive off and swim the length of the pool, crawl stroke.”
Indirect Speech
Convert the following into Indirect Speech:
The chap that threw me in was saying, “But I was only fooling.” Someone said, “The kid nearly died. Be all right now. Let’s carry him to the locker room.”
Answer:
The chap that threw me in was saying in his defence hesitatingly that he had only been fooling. Then someone reported that the kid had nearly died. Then the chap wished to be all right then. He further suggested that they should carry him to the locker room.
Transformation of Sentences
Rewrite as directed:
1. It had happened when I was ten or eleven years old. (Turn into Simple.)
2. He and I stood together in the surf. (Use ‘Not only … but also.)
3. I was frightened, but not yet frightened out of my wits. (Use ‘Though’.)
4. I opened my eyes and saw nothing but water. (Turn into Affirmative.)
5. A great force was pulling me under. (Change the Voice.)
6. Even the screams in my throat were frozen. (Turn into Negative.)
7. I was too tired to jump. (Remove ‘too’.)
Answer:
1. It had happened at my age of ten or eleven.
2. Not only he but I also stood in the surf.
3. Though I was frightened, I was not yet frightened out of my wits.
4. I opened my eyes and saw only water.
5. I was being pulled under by a great force.
6. Even the screams in my throat were not coming out.
7. I was so tired that I could not jump.
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Vocabulary
-> Fill in the blanks choosing the correct words given in the brackets and write the answers only:
Question 1.
(wits, swallowed, paddle, surface, landed, frightened, tossed, planned)
With that, he picked me up and …1…. me into the deep end. I …..2….. in a sitting position, …3.. water, and went at once to the bottom. I was …4…., but not yet frightened out of my ……5……. On the way down I …..6……; when my feet hit the bottom, I would make a big jump, come to the …..7….. lie flat on it, and ….8……. to the edge of the pool.
Answer:
1. tossed
2. landed
3. swallowed
4. frightened
5. wits
6. planned
7. surface
8. paddle
Question 2.
(strategy, irresistible, thrash, nightmare, throbbed, struck, expending, surface)
I …1…. at the water as I went down, …2…. my strength as one in a …..3….. fights an …4… force. I had lost all my breath. My lungs ached, my head …..5… I was getting dizzy. But I remembered the …6,… -I would spring from the bottom of the pool and come like a cork to the …7… I would lie flat on the water, strike out with my arms, and ……8…… with my legs.
Answer:
1. struck
2. expending
3. nightmare
4. Irresistible
5. throbbed
6. strategy
7. surface
8. thrash
-> Choose the correct meanings of the phrases /Idioms and rewrite the sentences:
(1) For my science project I made a volcano In miniature. (as a model, on a small scale, as an experiment)
(2) I would never deprive you of the opportunity to follow your dreams! (keep from getting. help In obtaining. Interfere in accessing)
(3) During the party I went back and forth to the kitchen to gel drinks for the guests. (repeatedly, desperately. willingly)
(4) front sneak up on me like that, you frightened inc out of my wits? (shocked suddenly, made crazy, intelligently)
Answer:
(1) For my science project. I made a volcano on a small scale.
(2) I would never keep you from getting the opportunity follow your dreams!
(3 ) During the party. I went repeatedly to the kitchen to get drinks for the guests.
(4 ) Don’t sneak up on me like that; you shocked me suddenly!
Rectification:
Question 1.
From the beginning, though, I had an aversion from the water when I was in it. This started where I was three or four years old and the waves knocked me down and sweep over me.
Answer: