How did he challenge everybody?

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He challenged everybody to name his mother tongue.

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अध्याय 6.2: The Scholar’s Mother Tongue - The Scholar’s Mother Tongue [पृष्ठ १०४]

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Read the following passage and complete the activities given below:

A1. Name the following: With reference to the passage.

(i) Two people who influenced Mashelkar ________.

(ii) The trust which granted a scholarship to Mashelkar _______.

(iii) The Director of the Board of Tata Motors _______.

(iv) Principal Bhave demonstrated _______.

In fact, I remember, my passing the SSC Examination – i.e. 11th standard. Those days it used to be not 10th standard or 12th standard but 11th standard. I stood 11th among 1,35,000 but I was about to leave higher education and find a job. What helped me was the scholarship by Sir Dorab Tata Trust. It was just 60 rupees per month and would you believe that 60 rupees per month from Tatas added so much value to my life that I have been able to stand here today before you to speak to you.

I am on the Board of Tatas now and it is very interesting that the same Bombay House where I used to go to collect that 60 rupees per month now one goes and sits there as a Director on the Board of Tata Motors. The turn that these 40 years have taken is very interesting. It has all been possible because of the chance I got to do higher studies at the insistence of my mother. She gave me the values of my life. She was one of the noblest parents I have met in my life. So, my greatest guru was my mother. My second great guru was Principal Bhave, about whom I made a mention earlier. He taught us Physics. Because it was a poor school, I remember, it had to innovate to convey to the young students the message of Science. I still remember one of the interesting experiences when, on a Friday afternoon, Principal Bhave took us out into the sun to demonstrate to us how to find the focal length of a convex lens. He had a piece of paper here, a convex lens here and he moved it up and down and there was a point when there were a sharp focus and a bright spot on the paper.

He showed the distance between the paper and the lens and said that this distance was the focal length. But then the paper started burning. For some reason, he then turned to me, and said, “Mashelkar, if you focus your energies like this, you can burn anything in the world.”

A2. Supply the information from the passage.

(i) Mashelkar could continue his studies because ________.

(ii) The teaching of Principal Bhave’s experiment was ________.

(iii) Mashelkar considers his mother as the greatest Guru because ________.

(iv) The paper started burning because ________.

A3 Word Register (from the passage)

Prepare a word register for the word Education

A4 Modal Auxiliary

(i) I used to go to collect 60 rupees per month.

(Rewrite the sentence using Modal Auxiliary ‘would’)

(ii) Reported Speech:

Principal Bhave said, “Mashelkar if you focus your energies like this, you can burn anything in the world.”

(How will Mashelkar report this to his friend?)

A5 Personal Response

What is the role played by our parents in shaping our careers?

What is the poetic technique used by the poet to convey the plaintive theme of the poem?

Answer the given question in your own words.

Where was the Happy Prince’s statue located?

Think deeply and write. Is the poet really discouraging the youth from becoming vets? Explain your response.

If you saw someone abusing an animal, what would you do? Write about it in 5 lines.

Think and answer:

Does the last line make you happy or sad? Why?

Find and read other poems of R. L. Stevenson using the internet. Find other rhythmic poems about trains, in English, or other languages.

What is the difference between a 'dream' and a 'daydream'?

____________ raised a dreadful storm.

Why had Prospero raised a violent storm in the sea?

The market was ______ away from the village.

Read the comic strip and answer the following question.

Which website do you often access? Why?

Take a stanza from the poem. Write it in the blanks and find the rhyme scheme.

Lines from the poem	Rhyme scheme (a/b/c/d)

Identify the character/speaker.

Go to my cottage and fetch my gloves and fan.

What did Nilavan see through the window?

Vicky decided to ______ the robot at the end.

Write the rhyming word.

gale

Read the advertisement and answer the question given below.

When does the offer end?

In real, the test is for______.

Say Aloud

dash	bash	splash	cash	trash
steer	tear	clear	deer	dear
shower	power	tower	flower	mower
poked	croaked	soaked	stroked	joked
wept	kept	crept	leapt	slept

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