The -ing adjectives show the qualities that chess, trekking, or these books have: they cause interest, excitement, or boredom in you. The —ed/—en adjectives show your mental state, or your physical state: how you feel in response to ideas, events or things.

Think of suitable -ing or -ed adjectives to answer the following questions. You may also use words from those given above.

How would you describe
(i) a good detective serial on television?
(ii) a debate on your favourite topic ‘Homework Should Be Banned’?
(iii) how you feel when you stay indoors due to incessant rain?
(iv) how you feel when you open a present?
(v) how you feel when you watch your favourite programme on television?
(vi) the look on your mother’s face as you waited in a queue?
(vii) how you feel when tracking a tiger in a tiger reserve forest?
(viii) the story you have recently read, or a film you have seen?

Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Marriage gifts are meaningless without the sweet bread known as the bol, just as a party or a feast loses its charm without bread. Not enough can be said to show how important a baker can be for a village.

1. What was the role of bread in the life of the Goans?
2. Why is a baker important to the people of the village?
3. Find the word in the passage that means opposite to ‘significant’.

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
The baker and his family never starved. He, his family and his servants always looked happy and prosperous. Their plump physique was an open testimony to this.

1. What does the phrase: “The baker and his family never starved” mean?
2. What proves the baker’s prosperity?
3. Find out a word in the passage that is opposite to ‘thin or slender’.

How do the Goan people react to their colonial past?

Is bread-making still popular in Goa? How do you know?

Why would the baker come everyday? What announced his arrival?

What would the baker do after his musical entry?

How did he treat the kids who surrounded him?

How did the children get along with the baker?

Or

Why would the children run to meet the baker as soon as he arrived?

How do you know the kids were excited about the bread?

‘The tiger never brushed his teeth.’ Why does the author say so?