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प्रश्न
Discuss with your partner the different ideas connoted by the word 'season'.
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उत्तर
- The word ‘season’ could mean the different weather patterns that occur due to the changes in the position of the earth in regard to the sun.
- The word ‘season’ could also mean ‘giving more flavour by adding’ when it is used in the context of food.
e.g. Season the dish with black pepper and oregano. - The word ‘season’ could also refer to the period when a sport is played.
e.g. football season, cricket season, etc. - The word ‘season’ could also mean one set of episodes of a television series.
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Complete the call-outs:
A.1)
Our world is an institution
Of environmental pollution
We choose not to care
For our future generations
And I for one am guilty
For buying the hundreds of electronic gadgets
That attracts the industries to produce like maggots
environmental pollution is at the heart of our planet
The forests are dying
Wildlife is crying
Millions of fish are dying
Mother earth is sighing
Tell me is it right
That we sleep well at night
Replenishing ourselves
For tomorrow’s greedy fight
Overcrowded trains
Overloaded brains
Where is the light? What is our plight?
While the river break their banks
And greedy industries play their polluted pranks.
A.2) Find the examples that show that we do not care for our future generation
A.3) Match:
Match the lines in Column ‘A’ with the figures of speech in Column ‘B’:
| Column ‘A’ | Column ‘B’ | ||
| (i) | Our world is an institution | (a) | Personification |
| (ii) | Mother earth is sighing | (b) | Simile |
| (c) | Metaphor |
Briefly comment on:
The author’s physical condition in Darchen.
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to be wound up
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Interpret these phrases in the context of the essay
- Mist of protection
- At a crossroads
- It came with strings attached
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Read the extract and state whether the following statement is true or false. Correct the false statement.
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Using points from the lesson, give the details of the following in a short paragraph.
The kite Bazar of Ahmedabad.
The last leaf fell off during the rain.
Say where . . . . . . .
______ do squirrels store their food?
How do we realize that animals are not feeling well?
Answer the following question in short.
What do you learn about Pundits of Vijaynagar?
Answer the following question in short.
How did Tenali Raman outwit Pundit Shahane?
Fill in the gap, choosing a word from the bracket to make an appropriate comparison.
(tall / quiet / humble / merry / busy / slippery / fast / sly / slow / big)
as ______ as an elephant
Write about how your family supports you to go to school.
List five of your favourite Hindi or Marathi poems or songs. Try to translate any one of them into English.
Shakespeare’s poetry has come to be valued for its own sake on the stage. Comment with reference to the play ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’
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Try to write interesting time tables for imaginary people or creatures.
Answer the following question and write in short, why the parody sounds funny.
What does the crocodile stand for?
Fill in the table.
| Period | Way of Addressing a Mother | Boy’s Costume | Lady’s Costume | Daily Chores | Games |
| The 1950s | silk saree | ||||
| 1910 | Kurta pajama and cap | ||||
| The 1800s | |||||
| The 1500s | |||||
| 1000 | |||||
| 100 AD | feed poultry tend sheep keep away birds plaster the yard | ||||
| 3000 BC | Chaupar |
Answer in your own words.
What did the ancestor from 1910 wish to do instead of making his bed?
List the phrases which have the expression 'many a ______'.
Make adjectives from the following.
- harm
- continue
- believe
- fear
- thought
- wish
- question
- courage
Who said the following, to whom, and when?
“As you desire, Huzoor.”
Describe the following in one or two lines.
The world around the bird’s nest.
Listen carefully and write all the words correctly.
You are right. Write it down in the right-hand corner.
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What woke up the mother?
Why did Mrs. Jhunjhunwalla buy the painting?
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The parent’s earlier view of the child
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FAG, GAF, HAI, IAH, ______
Read these lines and answer the question given below.
How cheerful he seems to grin
Who does ‘he’ refer to?
Mithali Raj was not encouraged to play cricket by her family members.
Match the planet with its feature.
| 1. | Mars | blue ice giant |
| 2. | Saturn | red storm |
| 3. | Jupiter | red planet |
| 4. | Neptune | ring and moons |
What happened to the two girls at the end of the war?
| Our national emblem is taken from Ashoka’s pillar at Sarnath. It is found on all government documents, coins, currency notes, postcards, and envelopes. It consists of four lions standing back to back but, we can see only three lions at a time. There is a Dharma chakra in the centre of the base plate, with the figure of a bull in the right and that of a horse in the left. The entire structure is sitting on a lotus. The words ‘Sathyameva Jayate’ is written under it in Devanagari script. These words mean, ‘Truth alone Triumphs’. |
- Where is our national emblem taken from?
- Where is our national emblem found?
- What does ‘Sathyameva Jayate’ mean?
- What are the animals found in the emblem?
A robot advised her to______.
What would we do when we are happy or sad?
Fruits and shadows are free under the _______.
How does a friend support us?
Moles bite and ______ the earth worms.
Which quality makes 'world is one and human is one'?
Fill in the blank with rhyming word.
larder- ______
At the end of the festival , Kamali and Senthil saved______.
Leaf cutter ants drink ______.
What would you like to learn in school? why?
Write the correct word.
| rooster, king, hen, tiger, queen, tigress. |
What does the poem tell us to do?
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow
Humans have long been fascinated by fiction. We experience excitement in assigning supernatural power to imaginary characters in fictional stories – and so we have Spider man, Batman, He–man, Titans and many more. The ‘Cyborg’ was an offshoot of such wild imagination of humans to invest our species with superhuman powers. Today, the Cyborg is no more an imaginary organism. We are living in a world where a sizeable population of humans have merged their bodies with technological implants. The term ‘Cyborg’, short for ‘cybernetic organism’, was coined to describe a man, whose body is implanted with technological devices to supplement and substitute body functions.
Cyborgs include people with cardiac pacemakers, contact lenses, bionic ears and eyes, prosthetics and so on. In other words, a cyborg is partly human and partly machine. The technological innovations in the field of medicine and healthcare augment humans with machines, producing a beta version of the human body. The advent of brain machine interfaces is certain to blur the boundary between humans and machines. Scientists are working hard to find a technique for age reversal too. People do not want to die, so mankind is striving to get to the final frontier, which is development of machines and devices that would accord man immortality.
The needs of humans are not limited. As time passes, food habits change, thinking patterns change, and even appearances change. We are about to travel by driverless, fully automated vehicles. Computers and smart phones have become our masters. The more we depend and merge with technological advancements, the more the humanness in us slowly erodes. Intelligence is sought to be infused into machines and robotics are designed in such a way to give man a virtual human companion. The field of artificial intelligence is overtaking the human brain and many fear that it could even harm the human race. Despite certain limitations and potential threats, many believe that cyborgs will be the next step in the evolution of mankind. The amalgamation of man and machine is sure to add a new dimension to the life of mankind and this will prove to be the ‘biggest evolution in Biology’ since the emergence of life, four billion years ago.
Questions:
a) Account for the popularity of characters with supernatural powers.
b) Who is referred to as a ‘Cyborg’?
c) What is expected to happen with the advent of the brain machine interface?
d) The needs of humans are not limited. How is this statement elaborated in the passage?
e) How can a machine turn into a virtual companion for humans?
f) Explain the flipside of the rapid technological advancement.
g) Identify the word in para 1 which means ‘everlasting life’.
h) Which of the following words is synonymous with ‘amalgamation’?
- recreation
- integration
- exploration
- proposition
i) Which of the following options is the antonym of the word ‘advent’?
- drawback
- dispute
- departure
- danger
j) Find out the word which is the antonym of ‘natural’ in para 3.
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 |
