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प्रश्न
An activity:
Speak fast, think faster! Form groups of 4-6. Discuss each of the following topics. Then each person in the group should choose a topic and speak about it for one minute. Try to say as many sentences as you can in that time
What is not likely to happen or will never happen...
‘It won’t rain in the classroom... I won’t ever see a live dinosaur... The sun will never set in the east...’ etc.
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उत्तर
Example Ideas and Sentences:
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It won’t rain in the classroom:
- It won’t rain in the classroom because there is a roof.
- Even if it rains outside, the classroom stays dry.
- I won’t need an umbrella in here!
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I won’t ever see a live dinosaur:
- Dinosaurs became extinct millions of years ago.
- I might see their skeletons in a museum.
- But I’ll never see one walking in my garden.
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The sun will never set in the east:
- The sun always sets in the west.
- It will never change its direction.
- Even if I wait all day, it won’t set in the east.
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Fish won’t fly in the sky:
- Fish live in water, not in the air.
- Birds fly, but fish swim.
- I’ll never see a fish with wings flying like an eagle.
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The school won’t float in the air:
- Our school is made of bricks and cement, so it’s heavy.
- It won’t fly like a balloon.
- Imagine if we had a floating school—how funny that would be!
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I won’t grow wings like a bird:
- Humans don’t have wings.
- I can fly in a plane but not on my own.
- Growing wings is something I’ll only see in my dreams.
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The ocean won’t turn into chocolate:
- Oceans are full of water, not chocolate.
- If it did, I’d go swimming every day!
- But that’s just a sweet dream.
संबंधित प्रश्न
Read the following passage and complete the activities given below:
Fill in the gap, choosing a word from the bracket to make an appropriate comparison.
as ______ as a worm
Imagine that you wish to organize a cultural event at your college. Prepare your own web-chart to indicate the qualities that you expect to have in a compere.
Discuss and write 1-2 lines about the following.
Yonamine’s fight with Bushi (disguised as a bandit).
Which other things in nature can say –
'For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.'
Show the major events in the story of Pheidippides on a ‘time-line’.
What is meant by being ‘offline’?
Read the lines and answer the questions.
Deep inside the mountain
the adventures hide themselves.
Where do adventures hide?
Write the word with same meaning.
Sink
Read the passage below:
| 1. | Our history makes it evident that the Indian Plastics Industry made a vigorous beginning in 1957 but it took more than 30 years for it to pervade Indian lifestyles. In 1979, "the market for plastics' was just being seeded by the state-owned Indian Petro-Chemicals and it was only in 1994 that plastic soft drink bottles became a visible source of annoyance. |
| 2. | In the same year, people in other cities were concerned about the state of public sanitation and also urged regulatory bodies to ban the production, distribution and use of plastic bags. However, the challenge was greater than it appeared at first. |
| 3. |
The massive generation of plastic waste in India is due to rapid urbanisation, spread of retail chains, plastic packaging from grocery to food and vegetable products, to consumer items and cosmetics. The projected high growth rates of GDP and continuing rapid urbanisation suggest that India's trajectory of plastic consumption and plastic waste is likely to increase.
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| 4. | According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report of 2018, India stands among few other countries like France, Mongolia and several African countries that have initiated total or partial nationallevel bans on plastics in their jurisdictions. On World Environment Day in 2018, India vowed to phase out single-use plastics by 2022, which gave a much needed impetus to bring this change |
| 5. | In this context, thereafter ten states (Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Odisha, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu) are currently sending their collected waste to cement plants for co-processing, twelve other states/UTs are using plastic waste for polymer bitumen road construction and still four other states are using the plastic waste for waste-to-energy plants and oil production. A world of greater possibilities has now opened up to initiate appropriate and concrete actions to build up the necessary institutions and systems before oceans turn, irreversibly into a thin soup of plastic. |
| 6. | However there is no one single masterstroke to counter the challenges witnessed by the staggering plastic waste management in the country. The time is now to formulate robust and inclusive National Action Plans and while doing so, the country will establish greater transparency to combat the plastic jeopardy in a more sustainable and holistic way. |
Based on your understanding of the passage answer any six out of the seven questions given below:
- What does the writer mean by 'visible source of annoyance'?
- Why did people demand a ban on plastics?
- What created a demand for plastics in India?
- With reference to the graph write one conclusion that can be drawn about the production of plastics in 2019 (approximately).
- What does the upward trend of the graph indicate?
- What does the line, oceans turning 'irreversibly into a thin soup of plastic', suggest?
- What step must be taken to combat the challenges of plastic waste management? What will be its impact?
