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प्रश्न
The story revolves around characters who belong to a tribe in Armenia. Mourad and Aram are members of the Garoghlanian family. Now locate Armenia and Assyria on the atlas and prepare a write-up on the Garoghlanian tribes. You may write about people, their names, traits, geographical and economic features as suggested in the story.
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उत्तर
A model answer has been provided for students' reference.
It is strongly recommended that students prepare the answer on their own.
Here are a few words to describe the Garoghlanian tribes:
This entire concept of the existence of this tribe is said to be fictitious. It's said to be formed by William Saroyan in his book “My name is Aram” (1940). The Garoghlanian tribe is Armenian. The culture of these people, known for their honesty, is at the heart of the story. Hospitality is also an important function in the Armenian culture. Social gatherings revolve around large amounts of food. The religion of most Armenian people is Christianity, which is structured around forgiveness of sins and focuses on the spirit of Tolerance.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Answer any four of the following questions in 30-40 words each:
(a) What did Franz wonder about when he entered the class that day?
(b) What shocking experience did Douglas have at YMCA pool?
(c) Why does Kamala Das compare her mother to 'a pale winter's moon'?
(d) What rich bountry has the heaven given us? (A Thing of Beauty)
(e) Why did the Maharaja have to pay a bill of three lakh rupees to the British jewellers?
(f) What problem did Roger Skunk face when he went to play with his friends. How did he solve it?
What do elephants do to prevent water from evaporating ?
Read the text below and summarise it.
The Great Desert Where Hippos Once Wallowed
The Sahara sets a standard for dry land. It’s the world’s largest desert. Relative humidity can drop into the low single digits. There are places where it rains only about once a century. There are people who reach the end of their lives without ever seeing water come from the sky.
Yet beneath the Sahara are vast aquifers of fresh water, enough liquid to fill a small sea. It is fossil water, a treasure laid down in prehistoric times, some of it possibly a million years old. Just 6,000 years ago, the Sahara was a much different place.
It was green. Prehistoric rock art in the Sahara shows something surprising: hippopotamuses, which need year-round water.
“We don’t have much evidence of a tropical paradise out there, but we had something perfectly liveable,” says Jennifer Smith, a geologist at Washington University in St Louis.
The green Sahara was the product of the migration of the paleo-monsoon. In the same way that ice ages come and go, so too do monsoons migrate north and south. The dynamics of earth’s motion are responsible. The tilt of the earth’s axis varies in a regular cycle — sometimes the planet is more tilted towards the sun, sometimes less so. The axis also wobbles like a spinning top. The date of the earth’s perihelion — its closest approach to the sun — varies in cycle as well.
At times when the Northern Hemisphere tilts sharply towards the sun and the planet makes its closest approach, the increased blast of sunlight during the north’s summer months can cause the African monsoon (which currently occurs between the Equator and roughly 17°N latitude) to shift to the north as it did 10,000 years ago, inundating North Africa.
Around 5,000 years ago the monsoon shifted dramatically southward again. The prehistoric inhabitants of the Sahara discovered that their relatively green surroundings were undergoing something worse than a drought (and perhaps they migrated towards the Nile Valley, where Egyptian culture began to flourish at around the same time).
“We’re learning, and only in recent years, that some climate changes in the past have been as rapid as anything underway today,” says Robert Giegengack, a University of Pennsylvania geologist.
As the land dried out and vegetation decreased, the soil lost its ability to hold water when it did rain. Fewer clouds formed from evaporation. When it rained, the water washed away and evaporated quickly. There was a kind of runaway drying effect. By 4,000 years ago the Sahara had become what it is today.
No one knows how human-driven climate change may alter the Sahara in the future. It’s something scientists can ponder while sipping bottled fossil water pumped from underground.
“It’s the best water in Egypt,” Giegengack said — clean, refreshing mineral water. If you want to drink something good, try the ancient buried treasure of the Sahara.
Staff Writer, Washington Post
Notice these expressions in the text. Infer their meaning from the context.
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blow-by-blow account
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morale booster
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relegated to
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political acumen
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de facto
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astute
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doctored accounts
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gave vent to
What do you understand of Einstein’s nature from his conversations with his history teacher, his mathematics teacher and the head teacher?
How do you distinguish between information gathering and insight formation?
‘The Tale of Melon City’ has been narrated in a verse form. This is a unique style which lends extra charm to an ancient tale. Find similar examples in your language. Share them in the class.
Discuss the following in pairs or in groups of four:
Because India's tribal communities are basically bilingual there is a danger of dismissing their languages as dialects of India's major tongues.
Why do you think the poet has used so many 'negatives' to make his statement?
Name the world-famous personality who reached great heights despite of humble circumstances.
Answer in your own words.
What message does the poem convey to all of us?
Say why the speaker of the poem wishes to be a-
hawker
Answer the given question in your own words.
What was the first task given to the Swallow?
‘But the peasant bowed and prayed to God ...........’ What could he have prayed for?
Life is an amalgam of happy and sad moments. Think of such moments in your life, pair with your classmate, and share both the aspects of life.
| Happy Moments | Sad Moments |
| 1. Winning the first prize in a competition | Losing your mobile, bicycle, or wallet |
| 2. | |
| 3. |
Sue and Johnsy were very close friends.
Go through the text again to understand the important features of blogs. Discuss various blogs and their features with your friends.
A blog helps us to express our - ___________.
- Feelings
- _________
- _________
- _________
Answer the following question in short.
Why did Pundit Shahane visit Vijaynagar?
State the difference between poetry and drama.
Show the stages in the process in which Krakatoa collapsed and then Anak Krakatoa formed in the course of volcanic eruptions. Use the flowchart given below.
Present the information in the box ‘My Teacher says’. Translate the box ‘My Teacher says’ into your mother tongue.
Have you seen how wheels move on different surfaces like sand, gravel, grass, or a proper road? What are the differences you see?
Collect as many pictures as you can, or draw diagrams of all the sources you have listed above. Make a scrapbook using them.
Visit a library:
Read the stories of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.
Recite the poem with proper rhythm and intonation.
Imagine you are Malti. Write about any one event in the story from Malti’s point of view.
Colour, sound, and images from nature add to the beauty of a poem: 'Tartary' is a perfect example of the above. Pick outlines that contain –
- Colour
- Sound
- Images from nature
Make a list of your favourite fruits and vegetables and note down the time of the year when they are available in plenty.
Find the meaning of the following word.
delicious
Write any one of these stories, not as told by Gulliver, but by some other person.
Discuss the following in group.
Do people admit that they have bad habits?
Find a word that has a similar meaning.
Sorry
Who were on the ship? How were they related to Prospero?
Answer the following question in about 100-150 word.
Describe the funny incident that caused the confusion in the house.
Read the story again and write how these character reacted in these situation:
It’s Somu’s thoughtless ways that reduce me to tears. Mrs. Krishnan …………………....…..
Dr. Krishnan ……………..…......…….
‘Finally the day had come’. Here the day refers to ______.
Tom lay thinking. Presently it occurred to him that he wished he was sick; then he could stay home from school. He examined himself. He found no symptoms or sickness, and he investigated again. This time he felt he had a stomach ache, but it soon grew feeble, and presently died wholly away. He reflected further.
What did he detect?
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) |
Why does Alice drink from the bottle that says ‘DRINK ME’ and why does she eat from the cake that says ‘EAT ME’?
When should we have courage?
Turtles are sea animals.
Amma bought the vegetables from the______.
Where did Raj’s mother send him?
One of the Lilliputians gave a ten minutes talk in Gulliver’s language.
The girl was badly hurt.
Who sews the cloth?
The hut was very ______.
Choose what the elephant did.
Take out the correct rhyming pair from the poem and match with the given word.
| 1. | tall | |
| 2. | light | |
| 3. | might |
Look at the picture and tick choose the correct word.
Look at the picture and tick choose the correct word.
Will you solve a mystery with friends? Why?
Which disaster had hit the village?
______ lies stretching in the river.
Moles trap worms and store them.
If we didn’t have boundaries, we don’t need _______.
What are the difficulties they faced in India?
The grandmother had kept the plate in memory of her ______.
Why should a fisher wait?
Here is an amazing news item on how the qualities of duty and devotion is not restricted to humans alone but shared by animals. Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.
Caesar, the Hero of Mumbai on 26/11
- Mumbai: Caesar, the last surviving hero of his kind, died of a heart attack on Thursday. Caesar, a Labrador Retriever, was covered with tri-color and given an emotional farewell from the city Police Force. The Mumbai Police Commissioner too marked the passing of the hero with a tweet.
- Caesar, who was 11 years old was the sole survivor among the dogs of Mumbai Police who took part in bomb detection operations during the terrorist attack on Mumbai that began on November 26, 2008. He died of a heart attack at a farm in Virar where he and his three canine buddies had been sent after retirement. During the terror attack in Mumbai, Caesar saved several lives when he sniffed out the hand grenades left by the terrorists at the busy CST railway station.
- Caesar was also a part of the search team at Nariman House, where terrorists were holed up for three days. Earlier he was also pressed into service for bomb search operation after the 2006 serial train blasts and July 2017 blast in Mumbai. The Mumbai police officials also tweeted their grief saying, “Services of retired members of Dog Squad during 26/11 will be unforgettable. We will remember our heroes forever.”
Answer the following questions.
- The Labrador Retriever was covered with tri-color. What does this signify?
- How did Caesar save several lives at the CST railway station?
- Which word in the third paragraph of the passage means the same as ‘forced’?
- “Services of retired members of Dog Squad during 26/11 will be unforgettable”. Mention three services rendered by Caesar.
- Caesar is a Labrador breed of dogs. Name a few other native breeds that are used by the Police Force.
- Try to rewrite the news item in your mother tongue without losing the spirit and flavour of the text. Give a suitable title to the translated version.
