Current Affairs 5th Class

Real Life Example              A game of scrabble uses the skills of putting the jumbled alphabets in sequence to make a meaningful word.     Amazing Facts              Some synonyms of jumble are hodgepodge, potpourri, scramble, mishmash, medley etc.              Jumble is a word puzzle with a clue, a drawing illustrating the clue, and a set of words, each of which is ?jumbled? by scrambling its letters to make anagram.     LEARNING OBJECTIVES              This less will help you to:- learn about the meaning of jumbled sentences. understand about the correct usage of words in sequence.     QUICK CONCEPT REVIEW              Jumbled sentences are actually type of language proficiency test question.  In this type of test, words of sentences or few parts of sentences are mixed up or jumbled. You are supposed to rearrange those parts to make the sentence meaningful.             For example: sings/ She/ very/ sweetly.             Answer: She sings very sweetly.              In the example, the words are all mixed up (jumbled). So, we could not make out a clear conclusion for the sentence. But when we have rearranged the words properly we got a clear meaning for the sentence.              Sometimes sentences are divided into phrases. These phrases are jumbled. The person solving it is expected to look at the jumbled phrases, comprehend the meaning implied and put the sentence in order.              In a jumbled sentence, phrases are separated using a slash (/).  How to solve a jumbled sentence?              Step 1: Identify the subject.              Step 2: Identify the action.              Step 3: Make the sentence.              Example: are always / cannot be / people who/ quarrelling / happy             

Identify the subject.             

Identify the action                                         

Make the sentence.               

People who are always quarrelling cannot be happy.     Misconcept/ concept              Misconcept: There is only grammatically correct sentence that can be made from few jumbled words.              Concept: There can be more than one sentence that can be made from jumbled words.              For Example: Lotus/flower/national/India/is/the/of. These jumbled up words can be written as Lotus is the national flower of India is lotus. Both these sentences are grammatically correct.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES              This lesson will help you to: be able to reproduce or report a message, idea or action to a third person without using the exact speech of the speaker. be able to differentiate between speaking directly to a person and to be able to convey an idea message or action to a third person in one's own words.     QUICK CONCEPT REVIEW              As we have grown up we have also improved our language and are talking and exchanging our views with friends and people around us. Now let us also know the correct way to narrate something that has happened to someone else or carry a message forward to another person.              This narration can be of two types: Direct narration or Direct speech and Indirect narration or Reported speech.              When you meet your friend Vanya after the weekend on Monday, and tell her all that you did or whatever happened during the weekend, this is "Direct narration".              For example: "I went to watch cinema with my parents".              "We had ice cream on my way back".              "My cousins Jay and Jiya came to meet me on Sunday".              "Have you completed the Maths assignments"?              These are all examples of Direct speech where you are directly speaking your thoughts to someone in front of you.              Now your teacher has told you to tell your mother that there will be a parent/teacher meet next Saturday or she has asked you to submit the English project by Friday.              How do you say this to your mother? There's a proper way for doing so.   You will say: The teacher said that there will be a parent/teacher meet next Saturday. My teacher has asked me to submit the English project by Friday. This is an example of "Indirect speech" or "Indirect narration" or "Reported speech".              Here, you are reporting a message or thought to someone else and that too without using the exact words of the speaker and in your own words. Well, isn't that interesting!     POINTS TO REMEMBER              In Direct speech we use inverted commas or quotation marks (" ") to quote the exact words of the speaker. The part outside it consists of a subject and a verb that reports the part within. Example: The teacher said "Let's read a new chapter."              Here, the teacher is the subject and said is the reporting verb. Now we also need to keep in mind certain rules while changing from Direct to Indirect or Reported Speech:              (a) The inverted commas are removed.              Reema said, "I'm going to the market." (Direct speech)              Reema said that she was going to the market.              (Indirect speech)             (b) The reporting verb said is used along with the conjunction that. "It's cold", said Mohit. (Direct speech)            Mohit said that it was cold. (Indirect speech)             (c) (i) The present tense verbs in the direct speech change to past more...

Real Life Example        Phrases are quite interesting and they add flavour to our language, but with so many of them existing today, eventually you will run into some that you're not familiar with.   Amazing Facts              William Shakespeare added more phrases and sayings to the English language than anyone else. 135 phrases are coined by him.              If it isn?t Shakespearian and it isn't nautical, there's a good chance it's Biblical. Around 122 phrases come from the book of Bible. LEARNING OBJECTIVES            This lesson will help you to: learn idioms and phrases. Understand their meaning. use them in an effective manner.             Quick Concept Review An Idiom is a combination of words that has figurative or informal meaning that differs from the words' meaning that a dictionary would suggest. For example, an English speaker would understand the phrase "At the drop of hat" to mean Willing to do something immediately ? it drop your hat". In order to understand and use idioms in day-to-day conversational English, one must learn at least the most common of them.   Examples:

• "All ears": Listening intently or awaiting an explanation.
• "From A to Z": Covering a complete range: comprehensively.
• "Couch Potato": A lazy person.
• "Put the cat among the 'pigeons": To create a disturbance and cause trouble.
• "Don't have a cow":  Don't overreact.

  PHRASE              A phrase is a small group of words that adds meaning to a word. In a phrase the main word or the word that is what the phrase is about, is called the head.              For example:              A taste of your own medicine?, this phrase can be used "when someone is mistreated in the same -way as he/she mistreats others."         PROVERB          A proverb is a simple and concrete saying that expresses a truth based on practical experience.                     For example:              A stitch in time saves nine" which means repair something as soon as it is damaged'.                                Another example of proverb is "Don't cross your bridges before you come to them", which means "Don't worry about problems before they arrive." phrase and the person.     SOME COMMONLY USED IDIOMS 1.As a matter of fact actually "As a matter of fact, we have been to the sports stadium many times. 2. As far as to the extent or degree of something             As far as I know, the movie will start in a few minutes.                                                                           3. Back and forth backwards and forwards, first one way and then the other way                                The argument with the lawyer went back and forth before the judge made a decision.                 4. Get rid of (something)              -to give or throw something away, to seller destroy, something, to make a cold or fever disappear                  I bought a new television so I want to get rid of my old one.                                             5. Hang out (somewhere or with someone), to spend more...