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Discuss in pairs
Choice of diction is very crucial to the communication of meaning.

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Communication through words may be easy but for effective communication emphasis has to be given on the choice of diction. In fact, the impact of any communication depends on the choice of diction. A set of words may convey almost the same meaning but out of these words only a particular word will convey the meaning effectively.

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पाठ 3.5: What is a Good Book? - Talking about the text [पृष्ठ १८०]

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पाठ 3.5 What is a Good Book?
Talking about the text | Q 2 | पृष्ठ १८०

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

B1. What does the poet want us to do in the following situation?                                                   
(a) While struggling ………..
(b) While making money ………
(c) While dreaming ………………
(d) While losing …………..

It's doing your job the best you can,
And being just to your fellow man;
It's making money-but holding friends,
And being true to your aims and ends.

It's figuring how and learning why,
And looking forward and thinking high;
And dreaming a little and doing much,
It's keeping always in closest touch.

With what is finest in word and deed,
It's being through, yet making speed;

It's daring blithely the field of chance,
While making labour a brave romance.

It’s going onward despite defeat
And fighting staunchly, but keeping sweet;
It's struggling on with the will to win,
But taking loss with a cheerful grin.

B2. Achieving Success
Hints given by the poet to become successful are 
(a) Doing your job the best
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)

B3. Poetic Device
Select the appropriate rhyme scheme for the 3rd stanza. 
(1) abab
(2) aabb
(3) aaba


B1. Find reasons
(i) The effect of receding forest …………………………………. .
(ii) The number of animals is reduced because ………………………. .
(iii) Elephants entered the city because…………………… .
(iv) Elephants lived a wary life …………………….. .

On the left bank of the Ganga, where it emerges from the Himalayan foothills, there is a long stretch of heavy forest. There are villages on the fringe of the forest, inhabited by bamboo cutters and farmers, but there are few signs of commerce or pilgrimage. Hunters, however, have found the area an ideal hunting ground during the last seventy years, and as a result, the animals are not as numerous as they used to be. The trees, too, have been disappearing slowly; and, as the forest recedes, the animals lose their food and shelter and move further on into the foothills. Slowly, they are being denied the right to live
Only the elephants can cross the river. And two years ago, when a large area of the forest was cleared to make way for a refugee resettlement camp, a herd of elephants - finding their favourite food, the green shoots of the bamboo, in short supply - waded across the river. They crashed through the suburbs of Haridwar, knocked down a factory wall, pulled down several tin roofs, held up a train, and left a trail of devastation in their wake until they found a new home in a new forest which was still untouched. Here, they settled down to a new life but an unsettled, wary life. They did not know when men would appear again, with tractors,bulldozers and dynamite.

B2. Find out
Mention four things the elephants did when they found shortage of food:
(i)………………
(ii)………
(iii) …………
(iv) ………….

B3.Phrases
Make meaningful sentences by selecting any two of the following phrases:
(i) to make way for
(ii) in short
(iii) on the fringe of.

B4. Language study
Select the proper alternative to make the correct voice:
(i) Hunters have found an ideal hunting ground.
-An ideal hunting ground ........found by hunters. (had been, has been, was)
(ii) They are being denied the right to live.
- The people ........them the right to live. (are denying, were denying, denying)

B5.Personal response
What would be your contribution to protect the natural habitat of animals?


A1. True or False
State whether the following statements are true or false:
(i) A new research suggests that eating healthy food and getting proper sleep helps children to succeed in school.
(ii) Kids in the age group of 6-12 years should get an average sleep of little less than 7 hours.
(iii) Kids should start their day with yogurt, fruits and veggies.
(iv) Children should have consistent sleeping habit.

A new research suggests that eating healthy food and getting proper sleep can help children succeed in school. According to research, when kids go to school without eating breakfast, their cognitive function can be affected.
According to study, kids should start the day with fruits, proteins and whole grains and they should avoid sugary cereals because they cause a sugar high. If the kids do need to eat something prior to dinner, parents should offer healthy choices like yogurt, fruits and veggies or baked chips. Children have also been advised to drink water instead of soda as-it lacks nutritional value. Moreover, research suggests that children need a good night's sleep for theiroverall school performance. It is said that. lack of sleep can lead to problems with attention and memory in the classroom, affect impulse control and mood regulation lead to.
anxiety and even depression.
While kids aged 6-12 years should get nine hours sleep nightly, adolescents from the age of 13 to 18 years should get an average sleep of little more than seven hours per night. However, the research suggests that catching up on lost sleep on the weekend can make matters worse and recommended a consistent bedtime seven days a week.

A2. Find
Fill in the blocks with the following given in the passage:

(i) Two things to be avoided by children:

(ii) Lack of sleep due to mood regulation leads to:

A3. Select
Select the correct word from the brackets and complete the statements given below:
(anxiety, consistent, impulse, attention)
(i) Last minutes study causes......... to the students.
(ii) Stress affects the.............. for a quick action.
(iii) Saina has shown ........... improvement in her performance.
(iv) Students should pay ..............in class.

A4. Language study
(i) Pick out anyone sentence from the passage where a modal auxiliary indicating advice is used.
(ii) Pick out the correct conjunctions from the given sentences: 
(a) Kids should avoid sugary cereals because they cause a sugar high.
(b) It is said that lack of sleep can lead to problems.

A5. Personal response
We should eat healthy food. Explain..


Read the extract and do the activities that follow:
The duke senior and his follower were sitting down to a meal one day when Orlando rushed out from among the trees, his sword in his hand. ‘Stop, and cat no more!’ he cried. The Duke and his friends asked him what he wanted.
‘Food,’ said Orlando. ‘I am almost dying of hunger’. They asked him to sit down and eat, but he would not do so. He told them that his old servant was in the woods, dying of hunger. ‘I will not eat a bite until he has been fed,’ Orlando said.
So the good Duke and his followers helped him to bring Adam to their hiding-place, and Orlando and the old man were fed and taken care of. When the Duke learned that Orlando was a son of his old friend sir Rowland de Boys, he welcomed him gladly to his forest court.
Orlando lived happily with the Duke and his friends, but he had not forgotten the lovely Rosalind. She was always in his thoughts andevery day he wrote poetry about her pinning it on the trees in the forest. ‘These trees shall be my books,’ he said, ‘so that everyone who looks in the forest will be able to read how sweet and good Rosalind is’.
Rosalind and Celia found some of these poems pinned on the trees. At first they were puzzled, wondering who could have written them; but one day Celia came in from a walk with the news that she had seen Orlando sleeping under a tree, and she and Rosalind guessed that he must be the poet. Rosalind was happy to think that Orlando had not forggoten her, because she loved him as much as he loved her.

A1. Complete - (2)
Complete the following sentences:
(i) Rosalind was happy to think _______
(ii) The Duke and his followers helped Orlando to bring _________
(iii) Orlando pinned the poems written about Rosalind on ______
(iv) When the Duke cam to know that Orlando was a son of his old friend, he _________

A2. Write a gist: (2)
Write a gist of the above given extract in about 50 words.


Write a summary of the above passage in about 100 words. 


 What does “this circumstance” refer to?


What impression would you form of a state where the King was 'just and placid'?


'Luck is necessary for success in life'.


How does the connection drawn between the tail and the eyes add to the descriptive detail of the poem?


Explain the significance of the lines ‘I tie this Ridin creeper To fasten your soul to your body.’


What do you understand of the three voices in response to the question 'What does a novel do' ?


Read the extract and state whether the following statement is true or false. Correct the false statement.

The author is an example of ‘reverse migration’.


Pick out words from the poem to fill in the web diagram. They should be related to the theme in the web.


Make a list of the preparations made for an assault on Tiger Hill.

Throughout the last week of June 1999, 18 Grenadiers ____________.


Imagine that you are the peasant. Compose a short prayer to God, after having received the plate of gold. Write it using stylish handwriting.


How do we realize that animals are not feeling well?


Read the expression:

‘the blueprint of our past’s tomorrow’. Consider in a group why the poet has not mentioned ‘the present’. It is because of the planners who have possessed our ‘present’ in order to change ‘our past’ into the ‘future’ they desire. Go through the poem and write the lines which support this thought.

  1. The buildings are in alignment with the roads which meet at desired points.
  2. ____________________________________________
  3. ____________________________________________
  4. ____________________________________________
  5. ____________________________________________
  6. ____________________________________________.

Discuss in your class.

How can we take help of robots in our daily life? 


Discuss with your partner the different ideas connoted by the word 'season'.

  1. _______________________
  2. _______________________
  3. _______________________

Read the passage and answer the following question:

What is 'Param Vir Chakra'? 


Go through the following web that highlights the essential qualities of a compere. Discuss with your partner the essential qualities and also the precautions that a compere should take while compering a program.

Precautions to be taken :

  1. __________________________
  2. __________________________
  3. __________________________
  4. __________________________

Write short note on the following:

The 1883 eruption


How do the following avoid giving anything to the traveller?

Motiram 
(Answer in one or two lines.)


Write a short note on the following:

Utilization of animal by-products in the ancient world.


What themes did the committee identify?


Write a review of your favorite book. Use the following points:

  • Title of the book
  • Author/Authors
  • The central idea or story
  • The important characters 
  • Some special features of the book
  • Why it is your favourite book.

From the play, find all the words that are related to the following:

knowledge and learning

Add other related words you know to the list. 


Form a group of four to six. As a group activity, write a conversation in which a person/a group of person thanks to someone.


Read the word. Write the words that combine to make it.

stepmother 


An announcement can be made in every class, orally. Or, it can be put up on the school notice-board. Discuss and decide what method should be used for the announcement given here.

Oral aanouncement


Guess the meaning of the following word.

pounced


Helen Keller’s life is the story of ______. 


Do you think that the young seagull’s parents were harsh to him? Why?


Who were the inhabitants of the island?


What did the narrator think the unusual sound was?


Who told the children the story about the ghosts on Haunted Hill?


Write the names of the characters in this story.

1. ______ 2. ______ 3. ______


Teach it in accents______ and______.

  1. soft
  2. vain
  3. fear
  4. joy
  5. love
  6. heard
  7. toiled
  8. mild
  9. good
  10. sand
  11. life
  12. harsh

What challenges does Alice face and how does she overcome them?


Read these lines and answer the questions given below.

Where the voice of the wind calls our wandering feet

Whose ‘Wandering feet’ is referred to here?


Mother did not ask for______.


The dry earth soaked up the moisture as a hungry puppy laps up milk. It means______.


Work in pair, find answer for the question and share in the class.

What does the summer bring?


We get water by burning _______.


Vicky wanted a ______ to do all his work.


Vicky's father bought a______ robot


Match the dialogue to the character.

"I will do all the work myself."
"First, you charge my battery."
"I have bought you a robot."

Kaliyan worked in a ______.


What is your hobby?


What will you do if someone ensnares birds?


Did they find a new country?


Meena's village was hit by waves on a______.


Match the rhyming words.

1.  share dare
2. bread rest
3. care needs
4. deeds ahead
5. zest bear

Muthu collected ______ from every house.


Leafcutter ants grow fungus.


Fill in the blank with rhyming word.

anthill- ______


Appa weaves beautiful sarees with______.


Match the rhyming words.

1. earn day
2. fend learn
3. glow end
4. play slow

Where did the rabbit go?


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