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What might success mean to the following people? Think about it and write.

A parent

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Raising a healthy, happy child.

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अध्याय 4.1: What is Success ? - Warming up! [पृष्ठ ९५]

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अध्याय 4.1 What is Success ?
Warming up! | Q 2. (h) | पृष्ठ ९५

संबंधित प्रश्न

Complete the table :


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) When she heard the news of her daughter’s result, she was very happy.
(B) On ........................................................................................ 


Is there any significance of the logs of wood in the hands of the six people?


What does the reader learn about the characters of the narrator and the old man, in Ernest Hemingway “Old Man and the Bridge?


Fill in the blank with an appropriate word: 

The poet's mother was stung __________  a scorpion. 


Sergius:

Louka! (she stops and looks defiantly at him) A gentleman has no right to hurt a woman under any ` circumstances. [with profound humility, uncovering his head]  beg your pardon. 

Louka:

That sort of apology may satisfy a lady. Of what use is it to a servant? 

Sergius :

[rudely crossed in his chivalry, throws it off with a bitter laugh, and says slightingly) Oh! Do you wish to be paid for the hurt? [He puts on his shako, and takes some money from his pocket].

Louka :

[her eyes filling with tears in spite of herself] No: I want my hurt made well.

Sergius : [sobered by her tone] I low?

(i) Why does Sergius ask Louka's pardon? 
(ii) Why had he hurt her? 
(iii) Why does Louka remind Sergius that she is a servant? 
(iv) Why do Louka's eyes fill with tears? 
(v) How does Louka want her hurt made well? 
(vi) How does Sergius react to the suggestion 


Write a composition (350 – 400 words) on the following:

All Girls or all-Boys Schools provide a better learning environment than co-educational schools. Express your views either for or against the statement.


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)


Talk with your family members about elderly people who you have been intimately connected with and who are not there with you now.

Write a short description of someone you liked a lot.


Discuss the following in groups of two pairs, each pair in a group taking opposite points of view.

Traditions, rituals, and funerary practices must be respected.


Find out the correlates of Yin and Yang in other cultures.


Give reasons for the following.

Satyajit's feeling that he was an impostor.


Look at these sentences.

  • Deserts are the driest places on earth.
  • Gerbils spend the hottest part of the day in cool underground burrows.

Now form pairs. Ask questions using a suitable form of the word in brackets. Try to answer the questions too.

Do you know

1. Which animal is the _______________________ (tall)?

2. Which animal runs the _______________________ (fast)?

3. Which place on earth is the _______________________ (hot) or the _______________________ (cold)?

4. Which animal is the _______________________ (large)?

5. Which is the ————————————— (tall) mountain in the world?

6. Which is the _______________________ (rainy) place on earth?

7. Which is the ________________________ (old) living animal?

Can you add some questions of your own?


Fill in the blanks in the paragraph below with words from the box.

huge big  foolish interesting tiny unlucky last


There was a ___________ Eid fair in our village. We could buy anything from a
____________ toy to a ____________ camel. I went to the fair on its ___________ day with Uncle and Bhaiya. We went to the Lucky Shop. It was
very____________ . I tried my luck but did not win any prize. Later, Uncle told me that I was more ___________ than___________ .


Imagine that Revathi’s father is abroad on business and she wishes to convey the news of her prize - winning plants. Draft an email for the above subject.

(Use an email format.)


The poet has described two different shades of human feelings by using imagery of various forces of Nature in the poem. Pick out the terms or phrases that describe them. Complete the table given below. One is done for you.

Nature Feelings
Faded forests Sad/gloomy
   
   

Choose the correct alternative for the given line. Focus on the inference of the poet.

‘Earth has not anything to show more fair:’

The line means - _________________.


Imagine that you have parked your vehicle (two-wheeler)/ bicycle inside the school premises. You find it missing in the evening. Write a complaint to the head of the school regarding this issue.


Nalan’s grandfather showed him an old treasure trunk. A road map was stuck on the trunk. It showed the spot where a key was hidden. Look at the road map and write five directions to reach the spot where the key is hidden. Discuss with your partner and compare your directions with those of your classmates.

  1. ____________
  2. ____________
  3. ____________ 
  4. ____________
  5. ____________

Application form annual day participation.


Find one word from the story that means

to be seen nowhere ______.


Imagine you are going on a journey to the centre of the earth. What do you think you will see? What would you feel?


Complete the following stories by using an appropriate word from the box given below –

my, his, he, your

Ram was a farmer. wanted to sell ______ ______ goats and sheep. So he went to the market. There sold all ______ animals to a rich man and got a lot of money. When he was going back to village, three thieves

stopped him. “Stop! Give us all ______ money.” Ram was very clever. He said, “I'll give ______ money to the strongest of you.” On hearing this, the thieves started fighting amongst themselves. Ram slipped away quietly.


State whether the following statement are true or false

Bob wanted to stay for half an hour more than the appointed time.


How did the other Women react to Woman 5?


Write conversation on the following situation.

Between a father and a son on choice of a career


Write the contraction for the following phrase.

have not - ______


Using the given informal letter as a model, write a letter on any one of the topics given below.

Write letter to your father asking permission to go on a educational tour.


Despite being a half monster and half human, Caliban comes across as superior to Stephano and Trinculo. Justify the statement with supporting evidence from the Acts studied in 200-250 words.


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