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Given below are jumbled sentences. Working in groups, rearrange the words in each sentence to form correct sentences.
You will find that each sentence contains an idiomatic expression that you have come across in the lesson. Underline the idiom and
write down its meaning. Then use your dictionary to check the meaning.
(i) Stop/and tell me/beating about/what you want/the bush.
(ii) don’t pay/If you/ attention/you might/the wrong train/to the announcement/board
(iii) The villagers/tried/the crime/on the young woman/to pin.
(iv) Bepin Babu/orders to/telling people/under/loved/doctor’s/eat early/that he was.
(v) the students/The teacher/his eyebrows/ when/said that/all their lessons/raised/they had revised.
(i) Stop beating about the bush and tell me what you want.
Idiom: Beating about the bush = discuss a matter without coming to the point.
(ii) If you don’t pay attention to the announcement you might board the wrong train.
Idiom: Pay attention: Take notice of someone or something.
(iii) The villagers tried to pin the crime on the young woman.
Idiom: Pin the crime: to accuse someone for the crime.
(iv) Bepin Babu loved telling people that he was under doctor’s orders to eat early.
Idiom: Under doctor’s orders: absolutely essential
(v) The teacher raised his eyebrows when the students said that they had revised all their lessons.
Idiom: Raised his eyebrows = doubting the truthfulness of a situation or statement.
Study the sentences in the columns below:
A | B |
I saw this movie yesterday. | I have seen this movie already |
Bepin Babu worked here for a week last year. | Bepin Babu has worked here since 2003 |
Chunilal wrote to a publisher last week. | Chunilal has written to a publisher |
I visited Ranchi once, long ago | I have visited Ranchi once, before. |
Compare the sentences in the two columns, especially the verb forms.
Answer the following questions about each pair of sentences.
(i) Which column tells us that Bepin Babu is still working at the same place?
(ii) Which column suggests that Chunilal is now waiting for a reply from the publisher?
(iii) Which column suggests that the person still remembers the movie he saw?
(iv) Which column suggests that the experience of visiting Ranchi is still fresh in the speaker’s mind?