MOUNT SION SCHOOL REVISION WORK 2020-21 SUBJECT: ENGLISH CLASS : VII GRAMMAR CHECK: SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT The verb in a sentence must agree with its subject in number. This is what is meant by subject-verb agreement. Fill in the blanks in each of the sentences given below with a suitable choice from the words given in brackets. 1. Not one of the teachers____________(was/were) aware that there was a school holiday today. 2. Either my mother or my father____________(is/are) attending the parent-teacher meeting. 3. The dog or the cats___________(is/are) always creating a disturbance. 4. Neither Arti nor Rani____________(want/wants) to see that movie. 5. One of my sisters__________(is/are) performing in the concert tonight. 6. The man, along with all his pet birds, _________(live/lives) across the road. 7. Each member of the team, as well as the captain, ____(want/wants) to win. 8. Every one of those books ________(has/have) been destroyed. 9. Nobody _________(like/likes) vegetables in our home. 10. A bouquet of flowers______________(was/were) presented to the chief guest. Learn the POEM by heart: SEASONS OF LIFE By JOSEPH ANDERSON 1. How like the seasons in our life, We face the sunshine, storms ad strife; 5. Old winter grips with snow and cold, We watch our destined fate unfold As seasons come, so they must go, As now we near our time to go We are enjoined within that flow. And seek life’s final afterglow. 2. In spring we start our journey new, When flowers bloom and skies are blue; The trees are budding, birds will sing, With youth in bloom, it’s always spring. 3. Tis summer soon, we are mature, Face love and kids, home and career; It’s harvest time, success we seek, These sounds of summer leave us weak. 4. Then autumn calls to have its say, The foliage falls, the hair turns grey; The chill descends and soon the frost, We think, perhaps on things we lost. KNOW FOR SURE WITH SIDDHARTHA BASU 1. Considered as one of the greatest film-makers of the 20th century,___________was a Bengali writer and director who brought Indian cinema to world recognition. He holds the record for receiving 32 National Film Awards. He won an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement in 1992. 2. With over 175 films to his credit, ______________has won four National Awards for Best Actro, most by any actor. He was honoured with the Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Vibjushan for his contribution to Indian cinema. 3. A legendary actor of Hindi cinema, _______was fondly known as the ‘king of tragedy’. His birth name is Yusuf Khan. He has won a record eight Filmfare Best Actor Awards and received the Dadasaheb Phalke award in 1995. 4. A leading director of non-mainstream Hindi cinema, _______is considered one of the founders of the movement of realistic and issue-based film-making, also known as parallel cinema. He received two of the highest civilian awards offered by the Indian government, the Padma Shri in 1976 and the Padma Bhushan in 1991. 5. A legendary figure in the Indian film industry, _________ has won three National Film Awards and a record 19 Filmfare awards in five languages including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam. He received the Padma Shri in 1990 and the Padma Bhushan in 2004. 6. One of the leading figures of the New Indian cinema movement of issue-based filmmaking of the 1970s, ____________revolutionized Malayalam cinema. His best known works are Elippathayam (1982), Mathilukal (1990), and Nizhalkkuthu (2002). He has won five National Film Awards for Best Director and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2004. Satyajit Ray, Shyam Benegal, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Amitabh Bachchan, Dilip Kumar, Kamal Hassan .