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Read the information in the table below and answer the following questions. Sl. No Event Year Affected Area 1. Earthquake 2001 Bhuj, Gujarat 2.

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Read the information in the table below and answer the following questions.

Sl. No Event Year Affected Area
1. Earthquake 2001 Bhuj, Gujarat
2. Tsunami 2004 Coastline TN, Kerala, A.P., A&N Islands, Pondicherry
3. Floods July 2005 Maharashtra
4. Earthquake 2008 Kashmir
5. Floods 2008 North Bihar
6. Cyclone 2008 Tamil Nadu
7. Floods 2009 Andhra Pradesh & Karnataka
8. Cyclone 2011 Tamil Nadu/Cuddalore
9. Flash floods June 2013 Uttarkhand
10. Cyclone Oct. 2013 Coastline of Orissa & Jharkhand
11. Floods Dec. 2015 Tamil Nadu/Chennai
12. Cyclone Dec. 2016 Tamil Nadu/Chennai
  1. What kinds of natural disasters have occurred before 2005?
  2. Name the disasters that are common in India.
  3. Mention the states often affected by disasters.
  4. List out the disasters that are common in North India
  5. Write three sentences on your inference about the data given.
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उत्तर

  1. Earthquake and Tsunami have occurred before 2005.
  2. Floods and cyclones are common in India.
  3. Tamil Nadu and Andhra are often affected by disasters.
  4. Earthquakes, floods, and flash floods are common in North India.
  5. Coastal towns in Tamil Nadu, Andhra, and Orissa are often plagued with cyclones and floods. Kashmir and Gujarat were affected by earthquakes about 15 years ago. Cyclones and floods happen often in South India in the coastal belt.
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अध्याय 4.1: Tight Corners - Writing [पृष्ठ १२२]

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अध्याय 4.1 Tight Corners
Writing | Q A) | पृष्ठ १२२

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Imagine that you are Santosh Yadav, or Maria Sharapova. You have been invited to speak at an All India Girls’ Athletic Meet, as chief guest. Prepare a short speech to motivate the girls to think and dream big and make an effort to fulfil their dreams, not allowing difficulties or defeat to discourage them. The following words and phrases may help you.

• self confident/confidence/sure of yourself

• self assured/assurance/belief in yourself

• morale/boost morale/raise morale

• giving somebody a boost/fillip/lift

• demoralising/unsure of yourself/insecure/lack confidence


 It rained so heavily that they could not go for the picnic. (Rewrite: Using ‘too………………to’) 


In the following items, sentence A is complete, while sentence B is not. Complete sentence B, making it as similar as possible to sentence A.  Write sentence B.

(A) He is so old that be cannot remember events of the past.
(B) He is too ............................................................................


Fill in the blank with the suitable word. 

To every one’s surprise, he turned _____________ at the party.


Explain:
‘Some are aglow with the bloom that cleaves
To the limpid glory of new born leaves.’


What tells the reader the serene atmosphere about old Caspar’s home.


Whose family has been referred to earlier in the context?


Explain the use of words like ‘fluttering’ and ‘dancing’ as used by the poet.


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.

According to the poem, how can the free bird be best described ?


Fill in the blank with an appropriate word: 

The poet's mother was stung __________  a scorpion. 


Your uncle has promised to give you a gift of Rs. 1000/-. Write a letter thanking him for the offer, tell him how you plan to spend the money; and why you wish to spend it in this way.


Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: 

Lying in bed, Swami realized with a shudder that it was Monday morning. It looked as though only a moment ago, it had been the last period on Friday; already, Monday was here. He hoped that an earthquake would reduce the school building to dust but that my good building, Albert Mission School, had withstood similar prayers for over a hundred years now.

At nine o'clock, Swaminathan wailed, “I have a headache.”

His mother said, “Why don’t you go to school in a bullock cart?”

“So that I may be completely dead at the other end? Have you any idea what it means to be jolted in a cart?”

“Have you any important lessons today?”

“Important! Bah! That geography teacher has been teaching the same lesson for over a year now. And we have arithmetic, which means for a whole period we are going to be beaten by the teacher............ Important lessons!”

And Mother generously suggested that Swami might stay at home.
At 9:30, when he ought to have been lining up in the school prayer hall, Swami was lying on the bench in Mother’s room.

Father asked him, “Have you no school today?”

“Headache,” Swami replied,

“Nonsense! Dress up and go.”

“Headache.”

“Loaf about less on Sundays, and you will be without a headache on Monday.”

Swami knew how stubborn his father could be and changed his tactics.

“I can’t go so late to class.”

“I agree, but you’ll have to; it is your own fault. You should have asked me before deciding to stay away.”

“What will the teacher think if I go so late?”

“Tell him you had a headache, and so are late.”

“He will beat me if I say so.”

“Will he? Let us see. What is his name?”

“Mr. Samuel.”

“Does he beat the boys?”

“He is very violent, especially with boys who come late. Some days ago, a boy was made to stay on his knees for a whole period in a corner of the class because he came late, and after getting six cuts from the cane and having his ears twisted, I wouldn’t like to go late to Mr Samuel’s class.”

“If he is so violent, why not tell your headmaster about it?”

“They say that even the headmaster is afraid of him. He is such a violent man.”

And then Swami gave a lurid account of Samuel’s violence; how when he started caning, he would not stop till he saw blood on the boy’s hand, which he made the boy press to his forehead like a Vermillion marking. Swami hoped his father would be made to see that he couldn’t go to his class late. But his father’s behaviour took an unexpected turn. He became excited.

“What do these people mean by beating our children? They must be driven out of service. I will see…..”

The result was that he proposed to send Swami late to his class as a kind of challenge. He was also going to send a letter with Swami to the headmaster. No amount of protest from Swami was of any avail: Swami had to go to school.

By the time he was ready, his father had composed a long letter to the headmaster, put it in an envelope, and sealed it.

“What have you written, father?” Swaminathan asked apprehensively.

“Nothing for you. Give it to your headmaster and go to your class.”

Swami’s father did not know the truth—that, actually, Mr. Samuel was a very kind gentleman. 

 

(a) Give the meaning of each of the following words as used in the passage. (3)

One-word answers or short phrases will be accepted.

  1. jolted 
  2. stubborn 
  3. avail 

(b) Answer the following questions briefly in your own words: 

  1. What did Swami wish for on a Monday morning? Why was his wish unlikely to be answered?  (2)
  2. Which sentence tells us that Swami’s father was completely unsympathetic to his son’s headache? (2)
  3. In what way was Swami’s mother’s response different from his father’s? (2)
  4. Why did Swami give a colourful account of Mr. Samuel to his father?  (2)
  5. In what way did Father’s behaviour take an unexpected turn?  (2)
  6. What was Swami finally ordered to do by his father? (2)

(c)

(i) In not more than 60 words, describe how Swami tries to prove that Mr. Samuel is a violent man. (8)
(ii) Give a title to your summary in 3

(c). Give a reason to justify your choice. (2)


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Srinath’s disappointment with Satyajit.


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With whom...
When did it happen...
Why...
Where...


Do you want to try to write your own paragraph now?

Write a paragraph on Palm tree.

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  3. ______
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I can do the sum ________. [easy}


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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.


Imagine someone has invited your family to a programme and you were the only person at home when the invitation was given orally. 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.


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