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प्रश्न
Look for a story, a poem and a newspaper article on environment conservation and see how the style of each is different from the other.
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उत्तर
1. The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role by Nani Palkhivala (newspaper article)
2. ‘Country Town’ by Judith Wright (poem)
3. 'Environment story for children' by Ninfa Ortiz
(This question is to be answered on the basis of students' own reading, understanding and experience. However, names of a newspaper article, a poem and a story on the conservation of environment have been provided for students' reference)
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संबंधित प्रश्न
He asked. Boy, did he ask! First he asked me for a chance, then he asked nearly all the people he came across if they wanted to buy a telephone system from him. And his asking paid off. As he likes to put it, “Even a blind hog finds an acorn every once in a while.” That simply means that if you ask enough, eventually someone will say ‘yes’.
He cared. He cared about me and his customers. He discovered that when he cared more about taking care of his customers than he cared about taking care of himself, it wasn’t long before he didn’t have to worry about taking care of himself.
Most of all, Cowboy started every day as a winner! He hit the front door expecting something good to happen. He believed that things were going to go his way regardless of what happened. He had no expectation of failure, only an expectation of success. And I’ve found that when you expect success and take action on that expectation, you almost always get success.
Cowboy has made millions of dollars. He has also lost it all, only to get it all back again. In his life as in mine, it has been that once you know and practice the principles of success, they will work for you again and again.
He can also be an inspiration to you. He is proof that it’s not environment or education or technical skills and ability that make you success. He proves that it takes more: it takes the principles we so often overlook or take for granted. These are the principles of that Ya Gotta’s for success.
Question:
(1) What was the cowboy’s motto?
(2) What did the cowboy learn after he lost millions of dollars?
(3) Why did the cowboy firmly believe that asking would pay off?
(4) When you expect success and take action on that expectation you almost always succeed. [Name the part of speech of the underlined words]
(5)
(a) He cared about me and his customers. [Rewrite using ‘not only ……………….but also’’]
(b) Cowboy has made millions of dollars [Add a question tag]
(6) In what way is the cowboy a source of inspiration for you?
Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words:
How do you perceive Dr. Kemp based on his interaction with Griffin ? (The Invisible Man)
Read the extract and do the following activities:
A1 Complete :
| Night |
Morning |
| (i) | (i) |
| (ii) | (ii) |
There was a roaring in the wind all night;
The rain came heavily and fell in floods;
But now the sun is rising calm and bright,
The birds are singing in the distant woods;
Over his own sweet voice the Stock-dove broods;
The Jay makes answer as the Magpie chatters;
And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters
All things that love the sun are out of doors;
The sky rejoices in the morning’s birth;
The grass is bright with raindrops-on the moors
The hare is running races in her mirth;
And with her feet she from the plashy earth
Raises a mist; that, glittering in the sun,
Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.
A2 What do the different birds do? Discuss.
A3 The sky rejoices in the morning’s birth. (Name and explain the figure of speech)
Which language do you think the author and his grandmother used while talking to each other?
Is drama a good medium for conveying a social message? Discuss.
What is the emphasis placed by Ruskin on accuracy?
What do the references to the birds and animals made in the poem suggest?
Discuss the following in pairs or in small groups.
Exceptionally talented people are born so; talent cannot be cultivated
'He is free to play the flute all day as well-fed tigers and fat sheep drink from the same pond
with a full stomach for a common bond.'
What do the phrases 'play the flute all day' and 'a common bond' refer to?
Read the following statement and mark those that apply to you.
I have cordial relationships with all but I cannot connect with anyone.
Read the extract 'Being Neighborly' and complete the following statement:
In order to tidy the room, Jo __________________.
Discuss in your group and write down the most important reason, why Pediatrician and Veterinarians have, a tougher job to diagnose their patients' illnesses.
Write 3 to 4 lines about the following in your own words.
First Cardiac Surgery
Read the following word and use it in a sentence of your own.
Renown
Answer the following question in short.
Why was Tenali Raman taken to the court in a palanquin?
Birbal thought Akbar was greater than God.
Suggest what you would do in the following situation:
You are going through a crisis that is making you short-tempered and impatient, due to which you end up causing harm to your family and friends. They have started complaining about it quite often.
Language Study: Degrees of comparison.
We use different forms of adjectives and adverbs to show comparison. They are known as degrees of comparison.
- Positive: Mangesh was as strong as Ravi.
She is as tall as her sister. - Comparative: Mangesh was stronger than other players.
She is taller than her sister. - Superlative: Mangesh was the strongest player in the team.
Their sister is the tallest amongst the three.
Discuss in groups and think about it.
List a few occasions on which you had become angry. What do you do when you are angry?
Form groups and hold debates on the following topics. Make bulleted lists of points in favour of the topic (pros) and those against it (cons). (3-6 points each)
You should never lose a match.
‘Smart Answers’: Form a large group. Each person asks the next one a question to get him to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’. He/She can use appropriate statements, requests, or even other questions as a response. But if he/she says ‘yes’ or ‘no’, he/she is out. Otherwise, he/she continues the game. Questions cannot be repeated.
Make a chart to show the important points to remember while making a graphic presentation.
Write any three of the silly remarks made by the characters other than Alice. Write why you think the remark is silly.
Find the pairs of rhyming words used at the end of the lines in the poem.
Choose the appropriate phrase to insert in the gap, to make the sentence meaningful. Use the appropriate form of the verb.
The minister ______ his personal body-guards.
Rewrite in your own words.
One event from the story.
Form groups of five. Discuss how you can complete the rest of the story without referring to Part II of the story.
Say whether you agree or disagree.
The wolf could not trace Bertha because she was behind a myrtle bush.
Present Mr. Wilson’s story as it would be shown in a comic strip. Write what picture you will show in each frame along with the dialogues. Write the dialogue with the help of the story. Examples:
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Fill in the blank choosing the appropriate word/idiom from the lesson.
While arguing with his elders he had ______.
What message does the poet wish to convey through this narrative poem, ‘Tansen’?
Make groups. One person in the group chooses an announcement. Everyone in the group reads that announcement silently but carefully and closes their books. Then that person presents the announcement, changing one of the details in the announcement. Others spot the change. For example, you might say ‘red’ key chain instead of ‘blue’ in the last announcement.
Find out how the following game is played.
Badminton
Find two examples of the following from the lesson.
A Command
What mistake did the man in the moon make?
Do you long to be something else? Write about your longing.
Hamid’s heart sank because the price of the tongs was______for him.
At dawn, the______ began to sing.
Fill in the blank
______ is the festival which fills our hearts with delight.
How does Alice feel after all these changes?
ashen – pale
His face was ashen.
What was the reaction of the inhabitants?
Give an example for dazzling light.
Read the questions related to the three sports stars you have read about and tick the appropriate boxes.
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| 1. Who won the Olympic 2016 silver medal in badminton? | |||
| 2. Who is the role model for her siblings? | |||
| 3. Whose mother tongue is Tamil? | |||
| 4. Whose attitude is 'never-say-die spirit'? | |||
| 5. Which player works in the Police Department? | |||
| 6. Which player holds the record for the highest individual score in cricket? |
The land was wet and green.
You don’t need ______ and ______ in the Earth.
What did the hen-pigeon whisper?
Did she give up the fight?
Choose the correct answer.
Who helped Tenzin in learning English words?
Fill in the blank with rhyming word.
tree- ______
The monster tree was protecting the ______.
Why did Jana chase the squirrel?
The merchant paid______ to the boatman.
What will you do if you have a gold plate?
Match the words with similar meaning.
| truck | subway |
| underground | lorry |
| tap | wallet |
| purse | faucet |
A person who overcomes problems, will get ______ at the end.
Pencil asked him to draw ______.
What did Pinocchio say in the end?
Now, read the following biographical extract on Sujatha Rangarajan, a Sciencefiction writer, and answer the questions that follow.
- Sujatha is the allonym of the Tamil author S. Rangarajan and it is this name that is recognised at once by the Tamil SciFi reading community. You might have seen the Tamil movie ‘Endiran’ where the robot Chitti exhibits extraordinary talents in an incredible manner. The robot could excel a human being in any act, beyond one’s imagination. Jeeno, a robotic dog which appeared in Sujatha’s science fiction novel “En Iniya Iyandhira” (My Dear Robot) formed the basis of Chitti’s character. Like Chitti, Jeeno was an allrounder who could cook, clean and fight. High-tech computer technology terms are used in the story. Jeeno, a pet robot, plays an important role throughout the story. As the story proceeds, it behaves and starts to think on its own like a human and instructs Nila, a human being, on how to proceed further in her crises.
- In the preface of ‘En Iniya Iyandhira’, the writer states the reason for his attraction to the genre: “Science gives us the wonderful freedom to analyse thousands and thousands of alternative possibilities. While using it, and while playing with its new games, a writer needs to be cautious only about one thing. The story should draw some parallels or association from the emotions and desires of the present humankind. Only then it becomes interesting. Jeeno, the robot dog, was intelligent. But the character became popular only because of the robot’s frequently displayed human tendencies.” It is no wonder that all his works echo these words and will remain etched in the minds of the readers who enjoy reading his novels to have a wonderful lifetime experience.
- It was Sujatha, who set the trend for sci-fi stories. He had tracked the origin from Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein to his short stories. He has written 50 sci-fi short stories and these were published in various Tamil magazines. His stories have inspired many readers to extend their reading to English sci-fi writers like Isaac Asimov. The themes were bold, even if there was a dependence on a very well-established characterization of English fiction. Sujatha opened up a new world to us with his writings on holograms, computers and works like ‘En Iniya Iyanthira’ inspire many to study computer science.
- He has been one of the greatest writers for more than four decades. He combined reasoning and science in his writings. Being a multifaceted hi-fi and sci-fi humanistic author, he expressed his views distinctively. He was the one who took Tamil novels to the next level. As an MIT alumnus and an engineer at BHEL, he was very good at technology. He could narrate sci-fi stories impressively. His readers always enjoyed reading all his detective and sci-fi novels which featured the most famous duo ‘Ganesh’ and ‘Vasanth’.
- Sujatha has played a crucial role as a playwright for various Tamil movies which have fascinated movie lovers. Hence, it is fathomable that the writer’s perspective of future India enthuses every reader and paves a new way to reading sci-fi stories in English.
A. Answer the following questions in a sentence or two.
- How was Jeeno different from other robots?
- What precaution should one take while writing Science fiction stories?
- What inspired Sujatha’s themes?
- Why were Sujatha’s sci-fi stories impressive?
B. Find words from the passage which mean the same as the following.
- difficult to believe (para 1)
- a style or category of art, music or literature (para 2)
- having many sides (para 4)
- capable of being understood (para 5)
