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प्रश्न
Given a chance, any adult would wish to become a child again for many reasons. Fill the boxes with some of what you imagine could be the reasons.
| e.g. I need not worry about project deadlines. | |||
| I can wear my pajamas the whole day. | |||
| I can sleep as long as I like. |
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उत्तर
| e.g. I need not worry about project deadlines. | As man advances in years he ceases to be innocent. | Man doesn’t show his real feelings. | He reveals only that part of his personality that is worthy of acceptance. |
| I can wear my pajamas the whole day. | As everyone involves in a “make-believe” relationship, even good people are forced to wear masks, for the sake of keeping links alive. | The face is no more the index of the mind. It is inscrutable. | Even loud laughter could conceal a plot to topple. |
| I can sleep as long as I like. | People keep on changing their face masks like dresses. | We don’t know who are our real friends. | If we are frank, we gain real enemies and false friends. |
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Read the following extract carefully and present the information in the form of notes with the help of the given clues :
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was the first Vice President and second President of India.
He was a teacher, a philosopher and 'an author. He had introduced the thinking of Western idealist philosophers like Plato, Plontinus, Bergson into Indian thought.
He was born on 5th of September, 1888 in a poor Brahmin family. As his father could not afford his education expenses, Radhakrishnan supported most of his education
through scholarships. He completed his B.A. and M.A. with majors in philosophy. He went on to become a professor of philosophy. He showed that Indian Philosophy, once translated into standard academic jargon, is worthy of being called philosophy by Western standards.
He thus, placed Indian Philosophy on world map.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan had established a strong relationship with the Soviet Union when he w Is appointed as the ambassador to the Soviet Union.
He has been honoured with many awards for his achievements nationally and internationally. He was honoured with the Bharat Ratna in 1954. He is also acknowledged with the Templeton Prize, Peace Prize of German Book Trade, Order of Merit and many other honours.
Title : Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Birth : 5th September, 1888
Qualifications : B.A. ___________
Introduced thinking of : _________,_________and ____ into Indian thought.
Work : Translated_____________ into standard____________
Ambassador : __________________________________
Honours : National___________
International Order of Merit
Identify examples of the following devices in the poem: alliteration, personification, rhyme, rhythm. How do these devices contribute to the overall effect of the poem?
Explain the following:
They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude;
The free bird thinks of another breeze
And the trade winds soft through
The sighing trees
And the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright
Lawn and he names the sky his own.
Read the above lines and answer the question that follow.
What is meant by “free bird thinks of another breeze”?
Which poetic device is used in the line: ‘Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom,’
The best candidate should be appointed________the post.
Join the following sentence to make one complete sentence without using and, but or so.
They bought a new car. They can travel long distances.
Below is a topic for essay writing. Follow the steps listed above to write on this topic.
Fascinating facts about water
What clues did Sherlock Holmes work upon to get at the fact that the story of the three Garridebs was a ruse?
There are certain words that are repeated in the poem. For example, ‘no more’ (Line 7).
Find out other similar expressions.
Explain the effect they have created in the poem.
Use the phrase in a sentence of your own, after finding out its meaning.
streaked over
We add ‘un-’ to make opposites. For example, true — untrue. Add ‘un’– to the word below to make its opposite. Then look up the meaning of the word you have formed in the dictionary.
attended: ____________
Make a short list of things you find difficult to do. For example:
turning a somersault 
threading a needle
Compare your list with the others in the class. Can you explain why you find these things difficult to do?
Give reasons, for us being reluctant to make friends with some strangers, but being comfortable with some, even after meeting them for the first time.
Write your views/opinions in brief on the following topic.
We must always cast our votes.
Why should one learn to tackle one's problems by one’s own self?
Hold a story-telling competition in which each one narrates a folk-tale or fairy-tale.
Read the following Headline and write the dateline, intro, and a short continuing paragraph.
| India’s first ever tourism university to be established by IIHM |
Local Historians
- Ask students to collect stories about their town from older people.
- Ask them to find out how the streets were named.
- Are there any interesting people or legends to which the street names refer?
- Are there any local places in town about which people tell stories?
- Any haunted houses?
- Let students find out when the town was founded and by whom.
- Visit a local historical society to see old photographs or artifacts.
Let students create an original historical fiction:
Describe the town from the point of view of a fictitious citizen who might have lived in the town long ago. Include local issues of the time in the story. Write the story of the town from the fictionalized point of view of a resident who actually lived.
Fill in the blank with choosing the preposition from the option.
He noticed the creeper ______ the foot of the tree.
The word in the sentence is jumbled. Write them in order.
I went the towards footprint large.
Use the following clues to complete the following exercise.
| play | stop | buy | learn | see | meet | learn |
| be | eat | go | travel | start | read | visit |
Write three things you have not done in the last three years.
- I have not played ______
- ____________
- ____________
In a short paragraph write how you can be a good friend.
Explain the following phrase selected from the story in your own word and work with a partner to make sentence using these phrase:
a rustic holiday
Why did Leacock assume that the photographer was praying?
Write a paragraph of about 150 word, on the following topic.
The importance of Good Health
Write a dialogue between a student and teacher on 'Importance of Yoga'.
Write an e-mail to the Principal of a neighbouring school inviting their pupils to attend the classes if they so wish. Give all details of the classes to be held.
You must have seen and liked a play (in any language) on the stage. Write down the following details about it.
- Name of the play
- Important Characters
- Its main theme
- Whether it was a Comedy/Tragedy /Social Theme or any other
- Why you liked it
- The message of the play
- Any other information about the play
- Within one minute, write as many meaningful phrases as possible using the numbers given below. Do not repeat the ideas.
- One: ______
- Two: ______
- Three: ______
- Four: ______
- Five: ______
- Six: ______
- Seven: ______
- Forty: ______
- A hundred: ______
- Try to imagine a situation/context where all the above items fit in. Describe it in 8-10 lines.
- Think of a title for your passage.
- Try to draw a map incorporating your phrases in a meaningful way. (Two examples are given below.) Write a key/index for your map.
