Practical English: Learning and Teaching EPP, IIT Kanpur

Assignment 09
Please watch Lesson 9 before attempting this assignment.

I. Make sentences in 14 types, as illustrated in lesson 9, using following

words.
1. behalf 2. deluge 3. demand 4. genus 5. hero 6. menace 7. prefer

8. rebate 9. relent 10. revoke 11. rewind 12. shepherd 13. thesis 14. veto

II. Correct the mistakes, if any, and rewrite the sentences given below.

1. They regarded him as best doctor in town.

2. The ministers are not interested in if the basic needs of the populace are
met, they just want to have a good time.
3. She has sang this song several times.
Practical English: Learning and Teaching EPP, IIT Kanpur

4. The moderator had had enough of the bickering by the end of the
discussion.
5. In none of the books did the author spared his heros from a tragic end.
6. Of the two facts, people are less aware of the former fact than the latter
fact.
7. It is an exaggeration to say that there isn't a honest man in the business.
8. The critic scathingly commented that an eleven year old can write more
coherently than the author.
9. Swami and Friends portray the innocence of childhood through the witty
lens of R. K. Narayan.
10. Politicians must address their voters concerns.
11. The writer does communicate something quite revealing, though.
12. It is important to realize that the totalitarian state's control over thoughts
are not to be taken lightly.
13. I refuse to remaining a prisoner of the lies that we like to tell ourselves.