III. Work in Groups
Give reasons for Swami’s decision to leave the school.
1. _______________________________________________________
2. ________________________________________________________
3. ________________________________________________________
I. Pick out words from the story which are synonyms of the following
words and use them in your own sentences.
Word
Synonyms
beat
angry
rascal
humiliation
II. Look at the following phrasal verbs taken from the text. 1. keep away 2. look around 3. look at 4. bring down 5. cut off
these phrases are verbs followed by prepositions or adverbial particles. You
may understand that they are phrasal verbs.
You will notice that the following phrasal verbs ‘keep away’, ‘bring down’ and
‘cut off’ can be split as shown below.
Examples:
1. Keep the flies away.
2. Bring the patient down.
3. Cut it off.
The other two phrasal verbs cannot be split.