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प्रश्न
Form groups and use the following topic for discussion. Take the help of your college library and your teacher.
Dictatorship Vs Democracy
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उत्तर
Dictatorship Vs Democracy
- explanation of the two terms
- the way two governments function
- examples of countries following each of the two systems
- advantages of democracy over dictatorship
- Situations that justify the need for dictatorship.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Summarize to the class in your own words the highly risky and dangerous journey of Tenzing and Hillary from the base to the top of Mt. Everest.
Form groups and use the following topic for discussion. Take the help of your college library and your teacher.
Qualities of an ideal politician
In his speech, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar has expressed his deep concern over the absence of two things in the then Indian society. Discuss with your partner and complete the web.

You are visiting the primary school where you studied classes I to IV, after six years. You get a chance to go to your standard two classrooms and you are permitted to sit at the same place where you used to sit.
What would you remember?
You are visiting the primary school where you studied classes I to IV, after six years. You get a chance to go to your standard two classroom and you are permitted to sit at the same place where you used to sit.
Share your thoughts with the class.
Deliver a short speech for about five minutes on the following.
Think of a situation where all the trees can speak. What will they talk about?
Work in groups of four. Discuss how the story would have been different if.
Pongo had arrived on the scene before the last orange was eaten.
Identify the character or speaker of the following line.
‘That is, I believe they do.’
Identify the character or speaker of the following line.
‘I done it out of pity for him.’
Imagine you are interviewing an astronaut about his/her experiences in space. Select a partner to be an astronaut and present the interview as a role-play in front of the class.
On the first day of school ______.
While I was ______.
Mock anchoring for annual day celebration.
Read the different verb form where they remain the same in the direct and indirect speech in the following case. Fill in the blank with missing indirect speech.
If the reporting verb is in the present tense.

Review an event which your school has hosted recently.
What qualities do you gain by doing art or craft?
Read the story board and take roles as pilot and flight attendants to enact the scene.
Inflight Passenger Announcements



Imagine that you are going to interview one of the survivors of the Pan Am Hijack. Discuss with your partner and write down the conversation. Then one of you play the role of the interviewer and other the survivor. You can use the sample questions given below.
- Do you have any information regarding the suspects of the hijack?
- Which countries did the hijackers belong?
- What are the details of the hijacked flight?
- How many passengers were aboard?
- What happened in the last few minutes of the hijack drama?
- Do you have information regarding the victims?
- Was there any recorded communication to/from the plane during the hijacking?
- How many terrorists were there?
- How did you feel when you were in the flight?
- Can you recall Neerja’s role in safeguarding the passengers?
Answer the following
Complete this poem on your own with a abab rhyme scheme.
Peas porridge hot,
Peas porridge cold,
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Take a few minutes and make hints of the picture. Arrange your thoughts. Using the points you write, deliver a small speech focusing on the issue picturized here. Give an interesting and informative speech. Your speech should include the cause and the solution.

Tips for effective speaking
• Organise your points and ideas well.
• Don’t memorise the speech. If you forget a point, it will make you nervous.
• Avoid the things that are of no value or interest to the audience.
• Before you speak, take a deep breath, smile, greet the audience.
• Don’t be nervous about making a mistake.
• Interesting speech makes your mistakes nothing.
Imagine that below are some of the paintings of Jane Eyre. Discuss with your partner and describe the paintings.
Work in pairs. Take turns and speak about spices.
| Saritha | Saritha: Hi Divya, how are you? |
| Divya | Hi, I’m fine Saritha. |
| Saritha | What did you have for breakfast? |
| Divya | ______ with onion chutney. |
| Saritha | Do ______ onions ______? |
| Divya | ______ Central Asia. |
| Saritha | Do you know chilli too has come from somewhere else? |
| Divya | Is it from______? |
| Saritha | Yes______right. |
| Divya | Many of the ______ came ______. |
Change the following into Indirect Speech.
He said to me, “Wait until I come.”
Change the following into Direct Speech.
I wrote that I would visit him next day.
Imagine a world with no books, but only e-books. How would you find such a world? Deliver a two-minute talk.
Name the character or speaker.
“Are you alright?”
Name the character or speaker.
“Let me try pulling this lever.”
Pick and support any one of the three daughters. Say some sentences for the one you support and say some sentences against the other two to win.
| I support the first daughter because ....... | I support the second daughter because ....... | I support the third daughter because ....... |
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Imagine you are Mowgli. Which animal would you befriend? What kind of adventure would you like in the forest? Make use of the hints below to talk about it.
- Hi, I’m Mowgli. The only human being living in the jungle.
- I have been raised by a pack of wolves, in an Indian forest.
- I go and hunt with my friends for food.
- My close buddy is a ______.
- His/ Her name is______.
- He/ She guides and accompanies me ______.
- We enjoy loitering in the jungle by ______.
- The jungle where we live is______.
- On the whole, I am ______.
Match the rhyming words.
| 1. | tall | best |
| 2. | song | all |
| 3. | rack | along |
| 4. | rest | sack |
What’s your lunch today?

Read the passage three times and colour a hen for each time.

See how they speak at this situation and practise as if you were in that situation.

Write the full form for the following.
she’ll - ______
Lots of things must have happened in the village when Rip was away. Imagine you are the neighbour who greets Rip after 20 years. One student should act as Rip. Tell Rip about all that had happened in the village after he left.
(Talk about what happened to his family, to his friends, to the other villagers, to the children he played with, the change in the village, etc. your teacher will guide you.)
You may start this way: Guess what happened on the day you left. When you did not come home in the evening, your wife ………
Interview your teacher and get her responses for the following questions.
- Why did you become a teacher?
- How do you come to school every day?
- Do you have any pets?
- What kinds of books do you like to read?
- What are your hobbies?
Using the following clues write about yourself in the space below — name, place you live in, physical features, habits, likes and dislikes, etc.
Some letter are missing in each word.
m ______ t
Now add more words with and and put them inside the bubbles.

Imagine you are Alice and your partner is a rabbit. What would you do?
Listen and repeat Ca -t
Say these words and feel what your tongue does when you say –
toe, top, tie, ten
How do people who cannot see, read?
Do you know any other language? Do you know a joke in English? Tell your friends.
Why should we not cut trees?
Have you been to another place recently? What is it like? How is it different from your own place?
In a group, mime an activity (picnic, fair/mela, cricket match, etc.) which you enjoy. The rest of the class should guess the activity and say whether it is done in a group/alone.
There are many reasons why something happens.
For example
| Event | Reasons |
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You forget to wish your best friend on his/her birthday. He gets very angry. How will you try to pacify him/her? Construct a dialogue of about 4 to 5 exchanges and enact a role play
Is there a link between intelligence and absent-mindedness? Share your views on this subject, with the class.
As a friend of the narrator, describe how you would have behaved at the auction.
Now use these ideas and prepare a speech on the topic ‘The importance of developing a positive attitude’ and deliver the speech in the school assembly
Pair work: Practise the dialogue with another student. Then write a similar dialogue between a student and the class teacher regarding an educational trip.
Build a conversation for the following situation with a minimum of five exchange.
A salesman and a customer at an electronic shop.
How will you organize or plan for a trip or an event? Do you have the habit of preparing a check-list? Discuss.
Now, write a set of 8 to 10 instruction for the following situation.
A mother to her children, on safety measures to be taken before leaving home on vacation.
Everybody enjoys holidays but, when it comes to safety ‘There is no holiday for Safety’. Discuss in groups what safety measures one should take while driving a car/two wheeler.
Assertion: The SI system of units is the suitable for measurement.
Reason: The SI unit of temperature is kelvin.







