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Answer the following question briefly.
Why did Ali give up hunting?
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Answer the following question briefly.
What impression do you form of the postmaster after reading the story 'The
Letter'?
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Answer the following question briefly.
The postmaster says to Ali, "What a pest you are, brother!" Do you agree with the
statement? Give reasons for your answer.
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Answer the following question briefly.
"Ali came out very slowly, turning after every few steps to gaze at the post office. His eyes were filled with tears of helplessness, for his patience was exhausted, even though he still had faith." Why were Ali's eyes filled with tears of helplessness? What had exhausted his patience but not his faith?
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Answer the following question briefly.
"Tortured by doubt and remorse, he sat down in the glow of the charcoal sigri to
wait." Who is tortured by doubt and remorse? Why? What is he waiting for?
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Now you are going to listen to your teacher read out from page no. 191, an article
about the Joint Family system in India.
As you listen to the passage, complete the boxes given below.

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Copy and complete the following table, using information from the boxes below. (Draw a X if there is no information to put in certain boxes.)

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Tortured by doubt and remorse, the postmaster sits in the glow of a charcoal sigri that night, waiting for news of his daughter. As he sits, he writes his diary. As the postmaster, write a diary entry in about 150 words outlining your feelings about the day's events.
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The postmaster believes that he had seen Ali. What do you think? Discuss with your partner and present your views in front of the class.
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Find word in the passage from the paragraph indicated within bracket and complete the following sentence. Use only one word, in its appropriate form, in each blank.
Some people are so ________ to their work that they have no time for their family. (para-2)
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The postmaster was anxiously waiting for his ailing daughter's news. On not getting any news, he visits his daughter's town. Now create a dialogue between the postmaster and his daughter and enact it.
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Find word in the passage from the paragraph indicated within bracket and complete the following sentence. Use only one word, in its appropriate form, in each blank.
Harshad’s corrupt practices soon gained him ________ in the city. (para-2)
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Find word in the passage from the paragraph indicated within bracket and complete the following sentence. Use only one word, in its appropriate form, in each blank.
When a person is dehydrated, he should be given ________ amounts of fluid. (para-6)
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Find word in the passage from the paragraph indicated within bracket and complete the following sentence. Use only one word, in its appropriate form, in each blank.
He visited various vintage car rallies because he had a ________ for old cars. (para-7)
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Find word in the passage from the paragraph indicated within bracket and complete the following sentence. Use only one word, in its appropriate form, in each blank.
If you over-eat and do not exercise, you will become ________ (para-9)
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Find word in the passage from the paragraph indicated within bracket and complete the following sentence. Use only one word, in its appropriate form, in each blank.
The driver had to ________ the winding road to the mountain top with caution. (para-8)
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Find word in the passage from the paragraph indicated within bracket and complete the following sentence. Use only one word, in its appropriate form, in each blank.
The new literacy programme ________ a 20% increase in the literacy rate over the next two years. (para-11)
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Arrange the following words associated with eating on a scale ranging from ‘peck’ to ‘gorge’. You may add more words to the list given below :

Words : gobble , nibble, bite , hog , feast , gormandize ...............
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Arrange the following words from a similar scale for words that describe a person's build:

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Given below is a list of words related to ghosts and ghost stories with their jumbled up meanings against them. Match the words/expressions with their correct meanings:
| Apparition | a feeling of anticipation or anxiety over a future event |
| Poltergeist | a reanimated corpse that is believed to rise from the grave at night to suck the blood of sleeping people |
| Clairvoyance | a conjurer who expels evil spirits by conjuration |
| Crystal Ball | a spelling board device intended to communicate with and through the spirit world, obtaining answers to questions |
| Eerie | beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation |
| Medium | any of a set of 22 playing cards bearing allegorical representations, used for fortune telling |
| Transmigration | a supernatural appearance of a person or thing, a ghost, spectre or phantom |
| Psychic | so mysterious, strange or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| Ouija Board | the supposed power to see objects or events that cannot be perceived by the senses |
| Exorcist | a person through whom the spirits of the dead are alleged to be able to contact the living |
| Premonition | a globe of quartz crystal in which images, believed to portend the future, are supposedly visible to fortune tellers |
| Paranormal | to pass into another body after death: going from one state of existence or place to another |
| Tarot Card | capable of extraordinary mental processes, such as extrasensory perception and mental telepathy |
| Vampire | German word, meaning "noisy ghost"-a troublesome spirit that announces its presence with unexplainable sounds and the creation of disorder |
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