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प्रश्न
Certain professionals can be identified by their appearance.
What comes to your mind first when you think of a ‘pilot’ or a ‘traffic policeman’? Discuss in pairs and share your thoughts with the class.
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उत्तर
A pilot controls and steers an airplane. He operates the directional flight controls. He wears a milk-white uniform and golden stripes on his shoulders. He wears a shiny black cap. A traffic policeman wears white stripes on his shoulders in a khaki uniform. In some states, a traffic policeman wears a white and white uniform also. He regulates traffic, fines people who violate traffic rules. He prevents accidents by monitoring over speeding vehicles and by discouraging drunken driving.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Why did Aksionov’s wife stop him from going to the fair?
Why did Aksionov give up sending petitions?
Did the police officer have sufficient evidence to convict Aksionov?
Compare and contrast the main characters, Aksionov and Makar Semyonich, in the story
Why did Aksionov decide not to reveal the truth about Makar Semyonich?
Using the mind map given below, write a brief summary of the story in your own words.
Describe Pi’s struggle to find drinking water.
Why did Pi want to tame Parker?
What saved Pi’s life?
Describe the lifeboat.
Did Pi want Richard Parker to die? Answer, giving reasons.
Sequence the following incidents logically to write the summary of the story ‘Life of Pi’.
- As he looked around, he was shocked to find Richard Parker on board.
- His search for water took him dangerously close to Richard Parker but nothing could stop him – neither Richard Parker nor the hyena.
- Pi left Richard Parker in a jungle and reunited with his family.
- Pi came back to life and his senses after drinking the elixir of life.
- He understood that it was Richard Parker who helped him survive for 227 days.
- He was pinned by weakness having had no food, water, or even sleep for nearly three days.
- Strangely his thirst overpowered his fear of Richard Parker and he went about exploring for freshwater.
- A little later, he succeeded in his search, when he found stacks of cans of drinking water.
- Pi was stranded in the Pacific on a lifeboat.
- Then, he realized that Parker who scared him earlier brought him peace, purpose, and wholeness.
How is Martha’s strong conviction in Baldwin’s integrity revealed?
What was Baldwin’s advice to Gresham?
Why does John turn wild on hearing that Gresham had offered his father money?
What does John consider ‘a technicality’?
How did Martha and John react when they came to know that Baldwin had rejected the generous offer made by Gresham?
Now match the idioms under column A with their meanings in column B:
| A. IDIOMS | B. MEANINGS |
| save one’s skin | a sudden unexpected event or news |
| make both ends meet | to be the most powerful |
| a bolt out of a clear sky | viewed with suspicion and distrust |
| go to grave | to protect oneself from difficulty |
| have the whip hand | manage one’s expenses within one’s income |
| under a cloud | to exit the world |
What happened to Max finally?
How, according to Ausable, had Max entered the room?
How did Ausable outwit Max?
Ausable planned to get rid of Max the very moment he noticed him. Explain with supporting evidence from the story
Given below are pictures of fictitious detective characters in English & Tamil short stories. Match them with the authors who created them.
What makes the earth the one and only living planet?
Why did the children lock Margot in a closet?
Margot could recall what the sun looked like while the other children could not. Why?
How did the children react when the sun came out after seven years?
Now read the sentence below. Complete them appropriately with the word you identified from the grid.
The children are _______ of Margot and ______the door and let her out.
Study the title of the play “Remember Caesar”. Who is Caesar? What is he remembered for? Let us go through the pages of history succinctly to answer the above questions.
- Julius Caesar was a brilliant military general and great Roman monarch.
- He was born on the 13th of July in 100 BC (BCE).
- He created the Julian calendar which is the basis for today’s calendar.
- He was assassinated by a group of Roman senators in 44 BC(BCE).
- The day that Julius Caesar was murdered, 15th March was called the Ides of March in ancient Rome.
