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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI 600 034
B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION GENERAL ENGLISH
FOURTH SEMESTER APRIL 2017
EL 4053 FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH
Date: 19-04-2017 Dept. No. Max. 100 Marks
Time: 09:00-12:00
Answer all the following 8x5=40
1. Use your imagination and describe what the water bearer did in The Little Cracked Pot or the village
doe did in The Mountain Buck and the Village Doe in simple past tense.(5 sentences using 5
different Action Words)
2. Write on the capabilities of two politicians or two singers using the modals can,
couldandcouldn't, and the expression 'able to'. expressions in 5 sentences)
3. Use your imagination and frame 5 imperativeexchanges between the potter and the clay. positive
and 2 negative sentences)
4. Describe your brother or cousin in 5 sentences with the help of 5 different adjectives and continue
each sentence after the conjunctions 'because' or sentences)
5. Supply W/H questions for the following replies.
I bought a pen. (What)
Your friend wants to see you. (Whom)
My dad will take you to Delhi. (Where)
Five children are absent from the class today. (How many)
Bush and Clinton drive their cars carefully.
6. Conceive a dialogue between the fox and the vineyard in the form of questions and answers.
7. Join together each of the following pairs of sentences by means of a conjunction.
(Conjunctions: when, if, unless, after, although)
Close the door. You come in.
The son was far away. He could see that his mother was watching him.
You heat ice. It melts.
The frog had climbed many a tree. It was young.
I will not come to meet you. You invite me.
8. Think of 5 recent news items (happened within 3 months) and present them in Reported Speech.
(commands, questions or statements made by different persons)
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I. Answer all the following. 6x5=30
9. Observe any action performed in the following pictures and write it in 10 sentences.(in10 different
tenses)
Or
10. Envisage the Loyola College map and construct 5 meaningful sentences using the prepositions
given in brackets. (towards, around, in front of, beside, behind)
11. Fill in the blanks with prepositions and other necessary parts to bring out the meaning of each
picture given below.
The students are walking road.
The cat is
The girl is writing a pencil.
is thetable.
The teacher
12. Compare different vehicles in terms of their speed making use of all the three degrees of
comparison. sentences)
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13. Construct sentences in simple future tensewith the help of the PM's schedule given below. (Convert
all the following into simple future tense starting each sentence with the subject or 'the
6.00 am arriving at Chennai Airport
6.30 am meeting the governor
7.00 am dining with the governor
8.00 am inaugurating the science expo
9.00 am visiting the CM at Appollo Hospital
10.00 am addressing the press
11.00 am discussing with Mr. O. Panneer Selvam
12.30 pm Greeting the RSS leaders
1.00 pm having lunch with Ms. Thamizhisai
2.00 pm flying back to Delhi
14. Construct sentences with the help ofBe Verbs in present, past and future tenses using your
imagination.
Present Past Future
Virat Kohli He ………………..
now.
10 years ago, he was
not known to us.
After 5 years
…………………….
My friends ……………………. ……………………… ……………………..
II. Answer ALL the following in about 150 words each. 3x10=30
15. Exhibit your knowledge of the story The Lost Son or The Mountain Buck and the Village Doe in the
form of a conversation either between the younger son and his father or between the mountain buck
and the village doe.
16. Sketch an essay on the lessons learnt from any of the following two stories.
The Motivated little Frogor
The Eagle who thought he was a Chicken
17. Rewrite the storyThe Emperor and the Seed orMidas Touch in your own words in correct simple
sentences with a special focus on simple past.
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