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प्रश्न
Narrate an experience of your own that has helped you to realise that ‘Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.’ Write it in your notebook, in about 20 lines.
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उत्तर
‘Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet’
I can never forget the day when I turned five. I still feel nostalgic when I remember that day, as it is etched in my mind forever. Since it was my birthday, my grandfather wanted to gift me something that was both priceless and timeless. A true farmer at heart, he took me to the corner of our garden and helped me plant a mango sapling. Each year we watched it grow, but I was eager to eat its fruit. My grandfather said that patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. I did not realise its worth till the time my grandfather passed away and the tree bore fruit exactly 12 years later. As I bit into the first ripe mango fresh off the tree, it tasted heavenly, and I relished every bit of its pure sweetness. I also remembered my grandfather’s words, which will serve as a beacon in my life.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Read the following extract carefully and make the notes with the help of the clues given below: (4)
| First encountered: | ___________ in Columbia. |
| Platinum group metals include: | iridium and ______________ |
| Nature: | Similar in many ways, extremely rare. |
| Availability: | _____________barely a gramme of rhodium _ _________________ |
| Distinctive Properties: |
______________________
resistant to chemical attack
durable, long lasting
____________________
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| Platinum group metals used in : |
_______________ ___________________ |
Complete the web.
Discuss in groups why you take notes.
Better notes will help you remember concepts, develop meaningful learning skills, and gain a better understanding of a topic. Discuss in groups of different styles or methods you use in your note-making/taking. For example, to underlining important facts.
Read the following passage carefully and complete the activities.
Occasional self-medication has always been part of normal living. The making and selling of drugs has a long history and is closely linked, like the medical practice itself, with belief in magic. Only during the last hundred years or so, the development of scientific techniques made, diagnosis possible. The doctor is now able to follow up on the correct diagnosis of many illnesses with specific treatment of their causes. In many other illnesses of which the causes remain unknown, he is still limited, as the unqualified prescriber, to the treatment of symptoms. The doctor is trained to decide when to treat symptoms only and when to attack the cause. This is the essential difference between medical prescribing and self-medication.
The advancement in technology has brought about much progress in some fields of medicine, including the development of scientific drug therapy. In many countries, public health organization is improving and people’s nutritional standards have risen. Parallel with such beneficial trends are two which have an adverse effect. One is the use of high-pressure advertising by the pharmaceutical industry which has tended to influence both patients and doctors and has led to the overuse of drugs generally. The other is the emergence of eating, insufficient sleep, excessive smoking, and drinking. People with disorders arising from faulty habits such as these, as well as from unhappy human relationships, often resort to self-medication and so add the taking of pharmaceuticals to the list. Advertisers go to great lengths to catch this market.
Clever advertising, aimed at chronic sufferers who will try anything because doctors have not been able to cure them, can induce such faith in preparation, particularly if cheaply priced, that it will produce-by suggestion-a very real effect in some people. Advertisements are also aimed at people suffering from mild complaints such as simple cold and coughs which clear up by themselves within a short time.
These are the main reasons why laxatives, indigestion-remedies, painkillers, cough-mixtures, tonics, vitamin and iron tablets, nose drops, ointments and many other preparations are found in quantity in many households. It is doubtful whether taking these things ever improves a person’s health, it may even make it worse. Worse, because the preparation may contain unsuitable ingredients; worse because the taker may become dependent on them; worse because they might be taken
excess; worse because they may cause poisoning, and worst of all because symptoms of some serious underlying cause may be asked and therefore medical help may not be sought. Self-diagnosis is a greater danger than self-medication.
Complete the following points with the help of the above text. (Give a suitable title.)
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Make a note in your exercise book about how people amused themselves in earlier times, without TV, internet, or social media for entertainment.
Complete the flow chart. Consider this as an example of Note-Making.
Note down ways in which you can make your life less ordinary in terms of pursuing goals other than material goals.
Note down ways in which you can make your life less ordinary in terms of being a better human being.
Failure is an inescapable part of life and critically important part of any successful life. Describe a transformative failure you faced and how it changed you.
