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प्रश्न
Bring out the significance of what Leacock was reading at the photographers.
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उत्तर
The poet had to wait. To kill the time, he read Ladies companion for 1912 and the girls’ magazine for 1902 and the infant's journal for 1888. He read the old magazines which were meant for people who lived long ago.
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Fill in each of the numbered blanks with the correct form of the word given in brackets. Do not copy the passage, but write in the correct serial order the word or phrase appropriate to the blank space.
Example :
(0) roamed
Once upon a time, in the days when genies and giants (0) ______ (roam) the land, there (1) ______ (live) a farmer (2) ______ (name) Baba Ayub. He lived with his family in a little village by the name of Maidan Sabz. Because he had a large family to feed, Saba Ayub (3) ______ (see) his days (4) ______ (consume) by hard work. Every day, he (5) ______ (labour) from dawn to sundown, (6) ______ (plow) his field and (7) ______ (turn) the soil and (8) ______ (tend) to his meagre pistachio trees.
The school captain was elected by the students of classes XI and XII.
(Begin: The students ………………….)
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What surprises Abou the next night? What message has the poet conveyed to all of us?
Make a critical appreciation of the short story, “A Horse and Two Goats,” by R.K. Narayan.
The Little Match Girl can be viewed as a work of opposites. Justify.
The delivery boy was requested to bring the parcel the next day. (Rewrite using direct speech)
Every family has a black sheep. (Begin: There is no ………….)
Referring closely to the essay On Going on a Journey, give Hazlitt's views about the manner in which a change of place brings about a.change in ideas, opinions, and feelings.
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Discuss with your partners
The manner you adopt when you talk about a teacher to other teachers.
Multiple Choice Question:
What does ‘We’ here refer to?
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State whether the following statement is true or false. Correct the false statement.
Liberty cannot be divorced from equality.
- Read the first three paragraphs on Page 92. (From......... ‘One morning .............. up to ............ a discussion after hall)
- Re-read the same noting down only important points.
- Rewrite the important points in your own simple language, in your notebook.
- Make certain that your summary is less than half the length of the original passage.
Complete the following and write a paragraph for the given activity.
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| Life on earth began with unicellular I organisms known as protozoa. The following are the stages of evolution of animals. Invertebrates are animals without a backbone, for e.g., a snail. The vertebrates are animals which have a backbone. E.g., Aquatic animals like fish. Animals which: live in water and also on land are called amphibians. E.g. A frog. A few invertebrates are worms and mosquitoes and a few I vertebrates are reptiles. |
Imagine that you are the Captain of your team. A famous cricketer is going to visit your school. You are assigned the task to conduct an interview of that famous cricketer. Frame a set of 10 questions that you will ask the cricketer. Take help of the points given below.
- Early life
- Interest in this field
- Inspiration
- Coaching and guidance
- Achievement/Records
- Future plans
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The first day at school ______
The word in the sentence is jumbled. Write them in order.
footprint to someone this belonged.
Now complete the following, in the same way, using the words easy or strong.
Skipping is ______.
Jumping is ______ than skipping.
Walking is the ______ of all.
Why did Miss Wyatt summon Miss Meadows to her room?
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Preparing your favourite dish
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(You are reminded that you will be rewarded for orderly and coherent presentation of material, use of appropriate style and general accuracy of spelling, punctuation, and grammar.)
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Read the given sentence and underline the no word.
Was Gopal nowhere around?
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