Question

Explain the following phrases selected from the story in your own words and work with a partner to make sentences using these phrases:

(a) on approval – on acceptance

(b) a rustic holiday – a vacation to be spent in a village

(c) a double-distilled idiot – very stupid person

(d) a tinge of coldness – a shade of hostility lack of friendliness

(e) making up for lost time – compensate

Answer 1

(a) Seetha went abroad on her dad’s approval.

(b) The students who went on a rustic holiday to Kurangani forest were caught in a forest fire accident.

(c) Some double – distilled idiots ill-treat their parents in old age.

(d) The manager turned down the worker’s plea for a pay hike with a tinge of coldness.

(e) The boy had to study two hours more everyday to make up for the lost time