Grade 12 English Unit 19: Migration and Diaspora (with Grammar Solutions)- Language Development

Reading

Dediasporization: Homeland and Hostland

Working with words

A. Find the words from the text that have the following meanings. The first letter of the word has been given.

a. sojourner a person who resides temporarily in a place

b. t……………… existing in or involving different countries

c. remittance a sum of money sent in payment or as a gift

d. a……………… the process of allowing somebody to become a part of a country or community

e. m……………… a name or a word that is not appropriate or accurate

f. c……………… to give somebody an award or a particular honor or right

g. d……………… not active or growing now but able to become active

h. p……………… the act of treating somebody in a cruel and unfair way

C. Write the number of syllables and mark the stressed syllable of the following words.

certificate, holiday, zoology, photographic, geography, curiosity, mechanically, characteristics, examination, negotiation, paraphrase, paradoxically, territoriality

Grammar

Would/Used to

A. Make sentences from the table below using used to / didn’t use to as shown in the example.

Example: She used to travel a lot but now she rarely leaves her town.

Ten Years Ago 

She traveled a lot. 

She was lazy.

She’d got a pet. 

She was a school teacher.

She had got many friends.

She did not read many books.

She did not take coffee. 

She went to parties a lot. 

Now

She drinks coffee.

 She works hard.

She didn’t like junk food. 

She has limited friends.

She is a professor.

She does not attend parties.

Her pet died last year.

She reads a lot of books.

She eats momo and noodles these days.

She rarely leaves her town.

Answer: 

She used to travel a lot, but now she rarely leaves her town.

She used to be lazy, but now she works hard.

She used to have a pet, but she does not have it now. 

She used to be a school teacher, but now she is a professor.

She used to have many friends, but now she has limited friends.

She did not use to read many books, but now she reads a lot of books.

She did not use to drink coffee, but now she drinks it.

She used to go to parties a lot, but now she does not attend parties.

She didn’t use to like junk food, but she eats momo and noodles these days.

B. Study the following sentences and find the differences between them.

a. My grandfather used to smoke but he doesn’t smoke now.

b. I would always talk to my grandfather whenever I had a problem.

Now, complete the sentences with used to or would.

a. My sister used to have short hair when she was young.

b. We …… have lunch in the same school café when I was in middle school.

c. My father …………play badminton before he had a backbone problem.

d. When I was very young, I wouldn't (not) like milk.

e. She …….call me after class for a chat.

f. My mother didn't use to wear glasses when she was at the university.

g. When I was a child, we used to live in a village.

h. On Sundays, My mother would wake up and go to the temple.

i. How many friends did you use to have in class ten?

j. My father would always read me bedtime stories before bed.