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प्रश्न
Maintain a record of the trees cut down and the parks demolished in your area or any other act that violates the environment. Write to newspapers reporting on any such acts that disturb you.
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उत्तर
A report must include the following points:
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Writer’s name
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Date, time, and place of the event.
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A brief description of the event/act
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Significance/effect/consequences of the event
(Directions/pointers have been provided for students’ benefit. It is strongly recommended that students collect the data and then prepare the answer based on the data, on their own.)
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Which of these words would you use to describe Santosh Yadav? Find reasons in the text to support your choices, and write a couple of paragraphs describing Santosh’s character
| contented | determined | resourceful | polite | adventurous | considerate |
| weak-willed | fearful |
independent |
pessimistic |
patient | persevering |
What does the tree symbolise in the poem?
What colour bangles are preferred by virgin maidens?
Describe in your own words the poet’s feelings when he sees the host of golden daffodils ?
What do you think is the message of the poem?
Thus I entered, and thus I go!
In triumphs, people have dropped down dead,
"Paid by the world, what dost thou owe
Me?"....God might question; now instead,
'Tis God shall repay: I am safer so.
Read the above lines and answer the question that follow.
Which line is a contrast to the welcome he had received.
Who won the race and how? Explain in about 50 words.
Who was talking to the old man?
Make a critical appreciation of the short story, “A Horse and Two Goats,” by R.K. Narayan.
I have never worn a more ill-fitting suit. (End: …………..ever worn.)
How did the narrator and Lord Otori overpower the intruder?
Fill in each of the numbered blanks with the correct form of the word given in brackets. Do not copy the passage, but write in the correct serial order the word or phrase appropriate to the blank space.
Example:
(0) One morning, I (0) ……. (see) the python curled up on the dressing table.
Answer: saw.
It was (1) ……. (gaze) at its own reflection in the mirror. I (2) ……… (go) for grandfather, but by the time we (3) ……… (return) to the room, the python (4) …….. (move) on. He was seen in the garden, and once the cook saw him, (5) ……… (crawl) up the ladder to the roof. Then we (6) …….. (find) him on the dressing table again, (7) (admire) himself in the mirror. “He’s trying to look better for Aunt Mabel,” I said. I (8) ……. (regret) this remark immediately because grandmother overheard it and held up my pocket money for the rest of the week!
Fill in the blank with an appropriate word:
Ashok leaned ______ the wall tiredly.
Fill in each of the numbered blanks with the correct form of the word given in brackets. Do not copy the passage, but write in correct serial order the word or phrase appropriate to the blank space.
Example:
(0) started
My mother (0)__________ (start) school when she
(1)__________ (be) six and (2)____________ (stop) the
same term. She was unusual in the village as she had a father and brother who (3)_________ (encourage) her to go to school. She was the only girl in a class of boys and claims she was brighter than the boys. But every day she (4)______ (will) leave behind her girl cousins (5) (play) at home and she (6)_________ (envy) them. There (7)_________ (seem) to be no point in. (8)_______ (go) to school just!o end up doing housework.
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Discuss the following in groups of two pairs, each pair in a group taking opposite points of view.
Knowledge about the past is useful to complete our knowledge of the world we live in.
Do you think it is important to preserve languages?
Given below is an interesting combination of words. Explain why they have been used together.
scientific detachment
Below is a topic for essay writing. Follow the steps listed above to write on these topics.
Human Population Grows Up
Write a letter to your friend narrating your experiences in a rescue operation.
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.
Find out different career opportunities in the field of social work.
Collect information of the NGOs working for the underprivileged section of the society.
Multiple Choice Question:
What does the phrase in the extract ‘turned black’ mean here?
Find words in the story, which show things striking violently against each other.
The cobra struck the crow, his snout th___ing against its body.
Write an appreciation of the sonnet. Refer to the points to be covered for appreciation.
- About the poem/poet/title
- Theme
- Poetic devices, language, style
- Special features/novelties/focusing elements
- Values, message
- Your opinion about the poem
Write the appreciation of the poem.
- About the poem/poet/title
- Theme
- Poetic devices, language, style
- Special features/novelties/focusing elements
- Values, message
- Your opinion about the poem
Note down ways in which you can make your life less ordinary in terms of nurturing relationships.
Interpret the following lines in simple English.
Puck: I’ll follow you.
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Discuss the following and write about the following in your own words in 5-6 lines.
What would you do, if something like this happens to you?
Write a character-sketch of the ‘Stranger-man’ using examples from the story to support the following attributes.
- ignorant, innocent, and polite
- calm and cool
- jumps to wrong conclusions
- hasty and unwise at times
Write a letter to your Class Teacher or the Principal of your school to make any one of the two following requests.
You wish to start a news bulletin for your school/ class. It will be a one-page bulletin to be published every week. A different group of students will manage the preparation of the bulletin every time.
Answer the following question :
What are the most savage controversies about?
Write in your own words:-
What are the latest modern methods of depositing money in your own or somebody else’s account?
Create a Personal Particular for your class with support from your teacher and collect personal and educational information.
Expand the theme in a write-up of about 20 lines.
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Look at the picture and write a story.
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If you cut down trees Your children will pay the fees |
Read the jumbled lines from the poem and rearrange them in correct order.
| 1. cinnamon, betel leaves |
| 2. and ginger and garlic” |
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| 4. My mother would say: |
| 5. and get some |
| 6. “Little boy Raj… |
| 7. And so I go to the shops |
| 8. singing all the way |
| 9. tomatoes and pickles” |
| 10. “Sesame seeds, onions |
| 11. I rattle off a list: |
| 12. what I’d want |
| 13. and when Muthu asks me |
| 14. my mother twists my ear |
| 15. and back home |
| 16. ouch! |
Alice follows the strange rabbit because she wants to know a number of things. Re-arrange the words to make the questions that Alice has in her mind, and put a question mark (?).
read he can time the
Alice follows the strange rabbit because she wants to know a number of things. Re-arrange the words to make the questions that Alice has in her mind, and put a question mark (?).
hurry is in a why he
Look at this sentence –
A library is a place where books are kept.
Now fill in the blanks after reading these sentences.
- An ______ is a place where aeroplanes take off and land.
- A ______ is a place where food is cooked.
- A ______ is a place where sick people are taken care of.
- A______is a place where you can buy thing.
- A______ is a place where children study.
Who do you think is the naughtiest child in your class? Describe her/him in five lines.
Add ‘–er’ or ‘–r’ to the doing words below to make new words.
- stiff - ______
- fight - ______
- juggle - ______
- speak - ______
- write - ______
- strange - ______
- dance - ______
- ride - ______
- use - ______
- joke - ______
Make sentences using any two new words which you have learnt in the lesson.
When and how did Bob realise that the tall man was not his friend?
Why didn’t Jimmy Wells, being a cop himself, arrest Bob?
Why was Mary Kom named the ‘Queen of Boxing’ and ‘Magnificent Mary'?
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| A | B |
| 1. pathologist | studies languages and their structure |
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| 3. entomologist | studies the matter that constitutes the earth |
| 4. archaeologist | studies earthquakes |
| 5. sociologist | studies reptiles and amphibians |
| 6. geologist | studies functioning of human society |
| 7. linguist | studies artefacts and physical remains |
| 8. seismologist | studies birds |
| 9. herpetologist | studies insects |
| 10. meteorologist | studies diseases |
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How did the inner room get light?
Why did Leacock visit the studio on Saturday?
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______.
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Write a note (4-5 lines) to pass on the message to the other people in your family. Or, Write an imaginary conversation in which you pass on the message to your parents.
