Your grandfather is flying in from Sharjah this afternoon and you need to leave early to pick him up from the airport. Ask permission from your boss.

 A friend says to you 'You look so tired". Give reasons to your friend.

Pick out the correct form of the verbs:

i. In the UK today, the number of women in work reached/has reached nearly 50% of the working population.

ii. In the 1950s and early 1960s, very few women went/have gone out to work.

iii. In those days, husbands often didn't let/haven't let their wives get jobs.

iv. Today the situation changed/has changed a lot.

v. In the 1970s, new laws made/have made employers offer women and men equal pay and conditions.

vi. Several changes in the present law gave/have given women today better conditions than before.

vii. However, women's average salaries at the moment didn't rise/haven't risen to average level of men's salaries.

viii. This is partly because the biggest increase in work for women in the last 20 years was/has been in part-time jobs.

ix. It is also because most of today's women didn't climb/haven't climbed to higher levels of management.

x. Most of the women didn't try/haven't tried to do so either.

You are a group of 4 friends, interested in visiting Lakshadweep. You have seen an advertisement of Sharp Travels on the web. Write an email to them to enquire about a one week trip to Lakshadweep. Ask about the following: 

 Places you should visit
 Accommodation
 Organization of sightseeing
 Total cost per head

As PA to the Director of Education, write an e-mail to all the schools of the State to extend the winter holidays by one week due to the severe cold wave and increasing number of cases of viral fever.

Frame question to which the following may be answers.

(i) My father was a CA.

(ii) The company made a profit of 20 crores in the last year.

iii) I am going to Lucknow in the summer holidays. (Begin with' Were

(iv) He took twenty days' leave last year. (Begin with' How

(v) No, I have never been abroad.

Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb given in brackets.

i. The cars ________ parked on the street ahead. (is/are)

ii. The carpet __________ a lot ofstains. (has/have)

iii. The Trade Union Members' Meeting ________  being held in the Conference Room. (is/are)

iv. Fouteen years _________ a very long time! (is/are)

v. Neither her father nor her mother ________ very tall. (is/are)

vi. Either this woman or that man ___________ stolen the watch. (has/have)

vii. At the party, everyone __________ well dressed. (was/were)

viii. Baked beans and toast _________ my favorite dish for breakfast. (is/are)

ix. Many children __________ injured in the accident. (was/were)

x. Something __________ amiss in this room. (seem/seems)