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Complete the sentences using the correct compound words given below.


(Cliff-hanger, boat-ride, dance-hall, open-air, fieldtrip, day-dream, won a silver, golden girl, penguin, padmashree, Indian track, walk on a roar)



  1. The boy used to day-dream about being the world’s best bats man.



  2. The children went for a boat-ride in a crocodile infested lake.



  3. The course on social sciences included a field-trip.



  4. The prince led the princess to the dance-hall.



  5. The children were bitten by the mosquitoes in the open-air theatre.



  6. The movie ended with a real cliff-hanger.



  7. She is known as India’s golden-girl.



  8. She was the queen of Indian-track and field events for two decades.



  9. In the Beijing Asian games she won a Silver-Medal.



  10. She was awarded the Arjuna Award in 1983 and the Padmashree in 1985.



  11. You can walk on a road named after her in Cochin.



  12. Her autobiography, Golden-girl was published by Penguin in 1987.



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