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प्रश्न
Discuss in groups plays or films with a strong message of social reform that you have watched.
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उत्तर
- Taare Zameen Par: It highlights the need to understand children with learning difficulties and shows the importance of patient and supportive teaching.
- Dangal: It challenges gender discrimination and shows that girls can achieve success in sports when given equal opportunities.
- Article 15: It draws attention to caste discrimination and the need for equality and justice.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Answer any two of the following questions in about 30‒40 words:
(a) How does Kamala Das try to put away the thoughts of her ageing mother?
(b) Which is the exotic moment that the poet refers to in 'Keeping Quiet'?
(c) What are the difficulties that aunt Jennifer faced in her life?
What strategy do chimps use to open hard shells and fruits ?
Discuss the following statement in groups of two pairs, each pair in a group taking opposite points of view.
The methods of inquiry of history, science, and philosophy are similar.
What were the voices that Paul heard? Did they lead him to success in the real sense?
The poetic effect is achieved in the poem through understatement and asides. Discuss this with examples.
Comment on the capitalisation of all the words in the line:
'Children Must be Disciplined'.
How does Kumudini Lakhia describe her guru Ramgopal's influence on her?
Comment on the contemporary concern that the poem echoes.
What message does this story bring out for youngsters?
Read the story and complete the following.
When Revathi played her favourite raga, the plants began to move because, ____________.
Little creatures in nature can also be your teachers. Think and write what we can learn from the following.
Bees:
Discuss the activities carried out by a farmer.
Pick out a word from the poem to complete the sentence meaningfully.
Everyone stood ______ (horrified) when the terrible accident took place.
Which two sayings about God are conveyed through the poem 'The Plate of Gold'?
- God helps those, who help themselves.
- God loves those, who love their fellow beings.
- God loves those, who give away their wealth, to please Him.
- Service to mankind is service to God.
Complete the web with the help of adjectives used to describe eyes and nose in all respects. Two are done for you.
Doctors who do special advanced study of specific parts of the body have special terms.
In your group try to match the specialist doctors with who / what they treat.
| Specialists | Who/What they treat | ||
| 1. | Dentist | a. | bone |
| 2. | Cardiologist | b. | brain/with spine |
| 3. | Ophthalmologist | c. | small kids |
| 4. | Orthopedic | d. | teeth |
| 5. | Pediatrician | e. | animals/birds |
| 6. | Neurologist | f. | eye |
| 7. | Veterinarian | g. | heart |
Read the poem and complete the web about the activities the planners do.
Match the terms in ‘A’ with their explanation in ‘B’.
| 'A' | 'B' | ||
| (1) | tooth- extraction | (a) | a cut made for surgery |
| (2) | cardiac | (b) | having length, breadth, and depth |
| (3) | sedative | (c) | plastic surgery |
| (4) | tumor | (d) | related to the heart |
| (5) | incision | (e) | a control unit for a robotic surgery |
| (6) | a console | (f) | removing a decayed tooth |
| (7) | 3-D | (g) | a substance that makes a person sleep |
| (8) | Cushing clip | (h) | an extra growth in the body |
| (i) | a device to stop blood loss in neurosurgery |
Expand the idea inherent in the following proverb :
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread - Alexander Pope.
Write about how your family supports you to go to school.
The word 'Review' is different from summarizing and appeal writing. Choose the correct statements of the following.
Draw a diagram to show a volcanic eruption from its description given in this passage. Label the diagram. Show the following in it :
Volcano; earth’s crust; crack in the earth’s crust; hot molten rock; red, hot lava; smoke; ash; burning chunks of rock.
What is implied in the following phrases or lines?
- A silver house in the lovely sky
- It takes two weeks to build it up
- And two to pull it down.
Discuss the question after you have seen a presentation of the ‘ad’.
What does the ad tell you?
Discuss what makes the following sentences funny.
- Your wasted time will be refunded.
- There was no highway attached to the booth.
Explain the idea of ‘Conservation of Nature through Livelihood’ briefly, using the example given here.
Turn the story into a play as a group activity and present the scenes in the classroom.
Answer in your own words.
What task did Grandpa wish to avoid?
Complete the following phrases with the help of the poem.
- ______ music
- ______ rivers
- ______ breeze
- ______ lake
- ______ citron-trees
Often the brook speaks of itself as if it is human.
For example, 'I bicker down a valley.'
Find two other examples of the human activities of the brook.
Gather more information about cold winters in Russia.
What did Gopal Bhand say he was doing?
Find out how rice is cultivated. Describe the process with the help of pictures or diagrams.
Read the word. Write the words that combine to make it.
springtime
Read the word. Write the words that combine to make it.
gentle-hearted
What did Anshuman’s father compare bad habits to?
Find a word that has a similar meaning.
unfair
Rearrange the following sentences in a coherent order.
- He ordered Ariel to torment the inmates of the ship.
- Miranda was attracted by Ferdinand and had more concern towards him.
- Prospero and Miranda came to an island and lived in a cave.
- Prospero forgave them and restored his dukedom, Milan.
- He raised a violent storm in the sea to wreck the ship of his enemies.
- Prospero wanted to test Ferdinand and gave a severe task to perform.
- Using his powers, Prospero released the good spirits from large bodies of trees.
- The King of Naples, and Antonio the false brother, repented the injustice they had done to Prospero.
- Ariel was instructed to bring Ferdinand, the prince of Naples to his cave.
- Ferdinand was the second human whom Miranda had seen after her father
What happened when Somu left Zigzag with the Krishnans?
Fill in the table
| Problems Faced By Mr. Fogg And His Team | Solution |
| The train stopped in the middle of the forest. | |
| They couldn’t hire the elephant. | |
| They were in need of an elephant driver. |
Read the line and answer the question.
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over
What does the poet want to do after his voyage is over?
Neerja had a sour marriage due to______.
Find out the idiom that relates to ‘whatever the circumstances’, from the first paragraph.
When did the richest farmer get upset? Why?
They all stood around the little jewel of blue means______.
Work in pair, find answer for the question and share in the class.
Name the seasons mentioned in the poem?
Work in pair, find answer for the question and share in the class.
Which word refers to ‘rain’?.
Why did the family move to Patna?
Flag day is observed on the _________.
What was the lesson learnt by Uthaman?
Write the rhyming word.
goat
What was the reason behind Nandhini’s dullness?
Meena met the official after ______ years.
Kamali gave her savings to______.
What does Amma often say?
The merchant paid______ to the boatman.
Match the rhyming words.
| 1. | earn | day |
| 2. | fend | learn |
| 3. | glow | end |
| 4. | play | slow |
Read the following information given in the table below and answer the questions.
| A nice choice from Chennai to the National capital | |||
| RAJADHANI EXPRESS TIMETABLE | |||
| Shortest Route between Chennai and Hazrat Nizamuddin 8 Halts & 324 intermediate stations in between | |||
| Station Name | Departs | Day | Speed |
| Chennai Central | 06.05 | 1 | 75 |
| Vijayawada | 11.55 | 1 | 76 |
| Warangal | 14.40 | 1 | 77 |
| Balharshah | 18.00 | 1 | 78 |
| Nagpur | 20.45 | 1 | 74 |
| Bhopal | 02.10 | 2 | 89 |
| Jhansi | 05.31 | 2 | 99 |
| Gwalior | 06.32 | 2 | 85 |
| Agra Cantt | 07.57 | 2 | 76 |
| Hazrat Nizamudin | 10.25 | 2 | - |
a) The number of stations between Chennai Central and Hazrat Nizamudin is______.
- five
- ten
- eight
- eleven
b) The train is expected to reach ______ around 8.45 PM
- Warangal
- Vijayawada
- Bhopal
- Nagpur
c) Between ______ the train runs at its maximum speed.
- Bhopal and Gwalior
- Bhopal and Jhansi
- Bhopal and Hazarat Nizamudin
- Bhopal and Agra
d) Almost ______ the train reaches Vijayawada.
- the day after
- around early morning
- late night
- around noon
e) People prefer the Rajadhani Express to travel from Chennai to reach the capital because ______.
- it reaches the destination on the same day
- the charge is reasonable.
- the train halts at ten stations.
- it is the shortest route from Chennai to New Delhi.
f) The destination of Rajadhani express is______.
- Hazarat Nizamudin.
- New Delhi junction.
- Old Delhi.
- Rajkot.
Which of the following should one avoid while using social media? Tick against the correct options.
Match the following items from column-A with those column-B:
| Column 'A' | Column 'Non-Textual' |
| (a) Geoffrey Chaucer | (i) Trinidad |
| (b) Daniel Defoe | (ii) Wuthering Heights |
| (c) V.S. Naipaul | (iii) Robinson Crusoe |
| (d) Emile Bronte | (iv) The Canterbury Tales |
