Listening Comprehension – The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats The Second Coming By William Butler Yeats Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its...
Tenses Exercises — Class 7 1. Simple Present Tense Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb. Riya ________ to school every day. (go) We ________ cricket on Sundays. (play) My father ________ tea every morning. (drink) The sun ________ in the east. (rise) They ________ English at school. (study) 2. Present Continuous Tense Fill in the blanks using am/is/are + V4. I ________ a book now. (read) She ________ dinner. (cook) They ________ football in the park. (play) We ________ for the bus. (wait) The baby ________. (sleep) 3. Present Perfect Tense Fill in the blanks using has/have + V3. I ________ my homework. (finish) She ________ the movie. (watch) They ________ the room. (clean) He ________ his lunch. (eat) We ________ the book. (read) 4. Present Perfect Continuous Tense Fill in the blanks using has/have been + V4. I ________ for two hours. (study) She ________ since morning. (work) They ________ cricket for an hour. (play) He ________ here since 8 a.m. (wait) We _____...