Small Steps for Big Changes (Section B) Unit 5 - The English Channel Coursebook - Class 8 - English

Fill in the blanks with suitable conjunctions. 

1. You pack the bags ______________ I check the reservations. (while/before) 
2. I wanted to buy grapes ______________ she insisted on buying bananas. (since/whereas) 
3. We reached the theatre late ______________ we couldn’t go in for the show. (but/so) 
4. The children are tired, ______________ they want to continue playing outside. (but/as) 
5. We had to stop the game ______________ it started raining. (when/while) 
6. _____________ we stayed back after school hours, we could not practise for the play. (Yet/Though) 
7. Does he play only the guitar, ______________ is he also a tap dancer? (and/or) 
8. It is a small house, ______________ it is spacious. (and/yet)

Fill in the blanks with the correct correlative conjunction pair. One part of the pair is highlighted. 

1. She is ______________ at home nor here. 
2. He is both hard-working ______________ philanthropic. 
3. We not only like to sketch and draw ______________ to do oil paintings. 
4. She’d rather teach little children ______________ go to an amusement park on a holiday. 
5. They couldn’t decide ______________ to spend the day at home or go outside for a drive. 

Fill in the blanks with suitable compound conjunctions. 

1. I’ll call you ______________ I board the train. 
2. We should not waste paper ______________ trees can be saved. 
3. We arrived at the airport on time ______________ we had left a little late. 
4. He ran around the garden ______________ he was an engine pulling a train. 
5. ______________ the teacher had entered the classroom the students kept talking loudly. 
6. Invitations for the party were sent to Mrs Khanna ______________ the other people in the office. 

Take turns to read a pair of sentences and your partner will reply by joining the sentence with one of the given conjunctions. 
                 although                              as soon as            as though            because               but 
                 ever since                            whether               so that                  till                           when 

1. He is scared. The robbery happened. 
2. I was having a bath. The top went dry. 
3. We left early. We could get good seats. 
4. I wasn’t sure. He was talking to me or not. 
5. She has no teeth. She can chew raw carrots. 
6. I wanted boots. The shop had only shoes and casuals. 
7. I recovered from my illness. I started going for walks. 
8. I decided not to go out play. I had finished my homework. 
9. He was in a jolly mood. He had just received some happy news. 
10. She looked at the statue from all sides. She was seeing it for the first time. 

This paragraph has not been punctuated properly. Underline the error and rewrite the word with the correct punctuation mark and capitalization in the given space. If no punctuation is needed, put a (x). 
 Kailash Satyarthi is an eminent childrens rights activist.                                           ______________
 He is a nobel Peace Prize recipient, founder of Bachpan                                          ______________
 Bachao Andolan and the Kailash Satyarthi Children’s                                                ______________
 Foundation Kailash Satyarthi and his team at Bachpan                                             ______________
 Bachao Andolan have liberated more than 86000                                                      ______________ 
 children in India from child labour and slavery.                                                            ______________
 An incident in Satyarthis childhood occurred on his                                                   ______________
 first day of school, when Satyarth who was still a child                                             ______________
 noticed a boy his age sitting with his father a cobbler,                                              ______________
 outside the premises of the school, mending shoes                                                   ______________
 After asking his teacher why the boy wasn’t in school like him                              ______________
 and being denied the answer Satyarthi questioned his headmaster.                  ______________
 The headmaster informed him that the Cobbler was poor                                      ______________
 and could not send his son to school The headmaster                                              ______________
 said that it was, perfectly normal for poor children to work in                              ______________
 order to survive Unsatisfied with the answer. Satyarthi                                           ______________
 asked the cobbler himself why he didn’t send his son to school.                          ______________
 He was told that certain children are ‘born to work’                                                  ______________
 Satyarthi describes this as the first time, he questioned why                                 ______________
 some children are forced to work at, the cost of their childhood,                        ______________
 freedom education and dreams due to the circumstances                                      ______________
 of their birth. 

Do you think volunteering for one year should be made compulsory for all students whether in school or college? How many hours of volunteer service should they do each week? Should volunteers be given marks for their work to add to their academic scores? How will the volunteers benefit? 

‘This is a joy she will not give up!’ 

1. Who does ‘she’ refer to? 
2. What is the joy she will not give up? 
3. How is she ensuring that her joy remains? 

Why did Saaket and Salil go to various NGOs? Was their experience the same or different from the others? 

What were the boys motivated to do? 

What effect does volunteering have on others, according to Saaket and Salil? 

What was Ananya’s experience in volunteering? Where did she volunteer? 

Based on the chapter, what are the three reasons behind people not volunteering for NGOs? 

Ananaya’ story supports the idea that information and trust and necessary to work as a volunteer. Explain.