Workbook focus · Reading for attitude, context vocabulary and formal letter tone
This workbook guide pairs language practice with the first prose text. Notice how hope, certainty and irony shape the narrator’s situation, then practise using context clues and writing a brief formal response.
Reading for attitude, context vocabulary and formal letter tone
This workbook guide pairs language practice with the first prose text. Notice how hope, certainty and irony shape the narrator’s situation, then practise using context clues and writing a brief formal response.
Choose three words from the chapter that reveal Lencho’s confidence. For each, write a synonym and explain how the word affects tone.
Original practice for this guide; use the NCERT workbook for its complete exercises.
A character describes someone as having “complete faith.” What kind of clue is this?
It is a contextual clue about attitude. The surrounding actions and statements show the person’s belief, so the phrase signals certainty rather than doubt.
Rewrite “Lencho was sure that God would help him” using a suitable adverb.
Lencho firmly believed that God would help him. “Firmly” expresses the strength of his belief without changing the main meaning.
Write one formal sentence requesting assistance after a crop loss.
I request your office to consider providing timely assistance to families whose crops were damaged by the recent hailstorm.