Unit 1: Education and Humanity (Grade 11 Compulsory English Grammar Solutions)- New Course

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A. Find the words from the text which mean the following.

a. a messenger or representative, especially one on a diplomatic mission

b. the state or quality of being worthy of honor or respect

c. harm done to someone in response to harm

d. a person who holds extreme views in political or religious matters

e. sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others

f. a person who is believed to speak for God

g. the study of the nature of knowledge, reality and existence

h. the use of physical force so as to injure, abuse, damage or destroy

i. an unreasonable dislike of a particular group of people or things


Answer Key: 

a. envoy

b. dignity

c. revenge

d. extremists

e. compassion

f. prophet

g. philosophy

h. violence

i.prejudice


B. Match the words on the left with their opposite meanings on the right.

a. honour                 i. kindness

b. innocent             ii. literacy

c. brutality             iii. guilty

d. forgiveness         iv. disgrace

e. illiteracy             v. punishment


Answer Key:

a. disgrace

b. guilty

c. kindness

d. punishment

e. literacy


a. Study the dictionary entry above and answer these questions.

i. What is the headword in the first entry?

ii. How many meanings of the word ‘humanity’ are given?

iii. What do the abbreviations U, OPP, pl, and sth stand for?

iv. What is the British English spelling of ‘humanize’?

v. How is the word ‘humanize’ pronounced?

vi. If we say Every person should have the sense of humanity, which meaning of ‘humanity’ is applied?


Answer Key:

i. humanity

iii. U- uncountable, OPP- opposite, Pl- plural, Sth- something 

iv. humanise


b. Arrange the following words in alphabetical order.

i. advance analysis amuse assure allergy attain aid anxiety acute agreement

ii. smoke small smart speaking smelling smoothly smuggler smashed smearing smallpox

iii. terminal terminate terminology termite terms terrace terrible terribly territory terror


Answer Key:

i. acute, advance, agreement, aid, allergy, amuse, analysis, anxiety, assure, attain

ii. small, smallpox, smart, smashed, speaking, smearing, smelling, smoke, smoothly, smuggler 

iii. terminal, terminate, terminology, terms, terrace, terrible, territory, terror


Grammar

Word classes



governments - noun
temporarily - adverb
affected - verb
and - conjunction
in - preposition
immediate - adjective
the - determiner

B. Classify the underlined words into different word classes.

a. The man who is wearing glasses is my uncle’s friend.
b. I bought a round table in the supermarket.
c. Alas, she is dead.
d. Hari works very hard all the time but his wife is very lazy.
e. I have never been to Japan.


Answer Key:

Who                                                                Pronoun

Is                                                                      Verb

My                                                                   Determiner

Round                                                              Adjective

The                                                                  Determiner

Alas                                                                 Interjection

Hard                                                                Adjective

But                                                                   Conjunction

Wife                                                                Noun

Very Lazy                                                         Adverb

Never been                                                     Adverb

To                                                                    Preposition




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