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“I don’t believe in taking the right decisions. I take decisions, I take decisions and then make them right:” One of them make them right. One of Ratan Tata’s inspiring words which made me dream beyond shadows. I feel fortunate that I discovered him in the early stage of my life, and now I am using his teachings to mould my future the way I want. Even though Ratan Tata was born into a very posh family in India, he never took money and power for granted. He graduated from Riverdale country from New York, Ratan Tata began his career in the Tata Group working on the shop floor of Tata Steel. After working for almost 10 years, he was appointed as the director-in-charge of the National Radio and Electronics Company Limited (NELCO) in order to help its struggling finances. He worked hard to build a better consumer electronics division, but the economic recession and union strikes prevented him from achieving success, and this success helped Tata to be appointed as the chairman of the Tata Group of companies. He started with a very basic job in his father’s company, and today he owns a billion-dollar company. The tag of greatness does not come without making any sacrifices, and this tag on Ratan Tata suits to its best. Tata Group launched its passenger car Tata Indica in the year 1998 but Tata Indica was a failure in its first year, and the experiment seemed to be failing. Many people started advising Ratan Tata that he should sell the passenger car business. Ratan Tata also agreed to this, and a proposal was given to Ford; they showed interest too. The three-hour meeting at Ford headquarters in Detroit, chairman of Ford (Bill Ford) said to Ratan Tata, “Why did you enter in the passenger car business when you were not knowing of it. It will be a favour if we buy this business from you.” Ratan Tata decided to move back home. While travelling, he was very tense as the feeling of being insulted was on his mind. After earlier failures, Tata Motors did well with its business of passenger cars but in the same period, Ford did very bad. In 2008 when Ford was on it way of bankruptcy, Tata Group offered Ford to buy its luxury car brand, Jaguar Land Rover. Ford arrived in Mumbai for the meeting. In the meeting, Bill Ford said to Ratan Tata, you are doing a big favour for us by buying-Jaguar-Land Rover is now owned by Tata Group and is currently making profits. |
A1. Rewrite the following sentences as per their occurrence in the extract: (2)
- He was appointed as the Director-in-charge of the National Radio and Electronics Company Limited.
- Tata Group launched its passenger car “Tata Indica” in the year 1998.
- Billi Ford said to Ratan Tata, "You are doing a big favour for us by buying Jaguar-Land Rover."
- He graduated from Riverdale country from New York.
A2. Explain: (2)
The writer says, "I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right."
A3. Give reasons: (2)
Ratan Tata decided to sell his passenger car business.
A4. Personal Response: (2)
Right decision at the right time is important success. Express your opinion.
A5. Grammar: (2)
Do as directed:
- He worked hard building a better consumer electronics division.
(Rewrite the sentence using the infinitive form of the underlined word) - Tata Group launched the passenger car Tata Indica.
(Rewrite it beginning with 'The passenger car Tata Indica......')
A6. Vocabulary:
Give antonyms.
- Profit × ______
- Prevent × ______
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उत्तर
A1.
(d) He graduated from Riverdale country from New York.
(a) He was appointed as the Director-in-charge of the National Radio and Electronics Company Limited.
(b) Tata Group launched its passenger car “Tata Indica” in the year 1998.
(c) Billi Ford said to Ratan Tata, "You are doing a big favour for us by buying Jaguar-Land Rover."
A2. The author is describing his aptitude for making decisions. He is self-assured and has a positive outlook on everything. As a result, he demonstrates his ability to make a strong choice as well as his ability to overcome any obstacles that may arise as a result of that decision.
A3. Ratan Tata decided to sell his passenger car business because it was a failure right in the first year. It incurred loss in the business as the car model Introduced was not liked in the market.
A4. It is critical to make the correct decision at the appropriate time. Such a decision not only saves us a lot of trouble in the future, but it also allows us to seize the best available opportunity to advance in life. Anyone who wants to be successful must remember that an opportunity knows when it appears and must be seized at that moment.
A5.
- He worked hard to build a better consumer electronics division.
- The passenger car Tata Indica was launched by Tata Group.
A6.
- Profit × loss
- Prevent × allow/encourage
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Read the following passage and do the activities:
B1 Match:
Match the areas given in Column ‘A’ with the description of Mehendi design given in Column ‘B’:
| 'A' | 'B" | ||
| (i) | North African | (a) | A mix of Indo-Pakistani and Arabic design |
| (ii) | Indian | (b) | Delicate loops and curves, paisleys, teardrops |
| (iii) | Arabic | (c) | Geometrical images |
| (iv) | South Asian | (d) | Local textiles, paintings, and architecture |
Henna comes from the leaves of the plant Lawsonia inertias. The plant grows in hot and dry climes and is native to North Africa, the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East. The leaves of the plant are dried and crushed to powder. Various additives such as coffee decoction, tea, lime juice, Mehendi and eucalyptus oil are mixed with the henna powder to increase the potency of the dry, this also helps to bind the powder to a paste-like consistency. The mixture is applied through cones in intricate patterns depending on the region of use.
Album of Patterns
Four major styles can be found in the vast dictionary of Mehendi designs. Earlier the application was restricted to hand and feet, but the adoption of Mehendi by different cultures throughout the world has seen experimentation on different body parts including the neck naval and back.
North African patterns rely on geometrical images to trace the shape of hands and feet, Arabic designs borrow heavily from local textiles, paintings, and architecture. These are more spaced out, to allow the design to stand out boldly from the skin parts left untouched by henna. The Indian style comprises of delicate loops and curves, paisleys, teardrops and flowers that give a dainty filigreed glow-like effect. Though intricate patterning is the name of the game today, this trend took off in India only during the 20th century. The patterns preferred by the South Asian countries are mixed with Indo-Pakistani and Arabic design schemes. Chinese and Celtic symbols now find a place in the vast repertoire of Mehendi designs as well.
B2 Complete:
Complete the following and write:
(i) The procedure before applying henna _______
(ii) The reasons for using additives _______
(iii) The suitable climatic conditions for the henna plant _______
(iv) Mehendi is used on _______
B3 Find words:
Look at the following description and find out proper words from the passage and write:
(i) Existing naturally in the place : - n _______
(ii) Consist of something: - c _______
(iii) Delicate decoration made from gold, silver and copper wire: - f _______
(iv) Substance that is added in small quantity : - a _______
B4 Language study:
Fill in the blanks with suitable subordinators given in the box:
| as well as, so that, however, which |
(i) The mixture is applied through cones in intricate patterns _______ depend on the region of use.
(ii) The intricate pattern is the name of the game of today _______, this trend took off in India, recently.
(iii) North African pattern relies on geometrical images ______ they can trace the shape of hands and feet.
(iv) The patterns preferred by the South Asian countries are mixed with Indo-Pakistani _______ Arabic design schemes.
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The author’s experience at Hor was in stark contrast to earlier accounts of the place.
Briefly comment on:
Tsetan’s support to the author during the journey.
Number the points.
Read the text below and summarise it.
The Great Desert Where Hippos Once Wallowed
The Sahara sets a standard for dry land. It’s the world’s largest desert. Relative humidity can drop into the low single digits. There are places where it rains only about once a century. There are people who reach the end of their lives without ever seeing water come from the sky.
Yet beneath the Sahara are vast aquifers of fresh water, enough liquid to fill a small sea. It is fossil water, a treasure laid down in prehistoric times, some of it possibly a million years old. Just 6,000 years ago, the Sahara was a much different place.
It was green. Prehistoric rock art in the Sahara shows something surprising: hippopotamuses, which need year-round water.
“We don’t have much evidence of a tropical paradise out there, but we had something perfectly liveable,” says Jennifer Smith, a geologist at Washington University in St Louis.
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Staff Writer, Washington Post
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Tick the statement that is true.
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What is the poetic technique used by the poet to convey the plaintive theme of the poem?
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Answer in your own words.
Why did she decide to keep her new knowledge ‘a secret’?
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Make a list of the preparations made for an assault on Tiger Hill.
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| Features | Examples / Lines |
| Objects used | |
| Praise/blames | |
| Metaphor | |
| Simile | |
| Personification | |
| Number of lines | |
| Rhyme scheme |
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| Sr. No | Legal Terminology | Description |
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| 2. | Argument | |
| 3. | Consent | |
| 4. | Counsel | |
| 5. | Judgement | |
| 6. | Trial | |
| 7. | Verdict | |
| 8. | Contempt of Court | |
| 9. | Notice | |
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Think deeply and write. Is the poet really discouraging the youth from becoming vets? Explain your response.
Go through the poem and state whether the following statement is true or false.
Planners paint beautiful pictures of the upcoming changes in the city that charm the citizens.
Discuss in your class.
Name some gadgets and appliances that we use in day-to-day life?
Discuss orally in your class.
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England gave Ramanujan great honours.
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Read the description of the Kabaddi match and do the following:
Choose any one event and draw a diagram to show what happened.
What is described in the poem?
What did one of the fluttering creatures do?
Imagine that you wish to organize a cultural event at your college. Prepare your own web-chart to indicate the qualities that you expect to have in a compere.
Comment on the given statement after reading the given dialogue -
And if we get him itself, nothing but abuse on our heads for it from the people, and maybe from our own relations -
you may begin like this
We do not think about society at large _________________________________________________.
Comment on the given statement after reading the given dialogue -
It’s a pity some honest man not to be better of that ________________________________________________.
Find 2/4 expressions of humour from the extract.
Explain the following statement with reference to the context.
And then, once the ring's broken, we'll get to work and show the public every day just how incompetent the Mayor is!
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Who erected the first known veterinary hospitals in the world?
What were the three things that Sushruta discovered?
Write a conversation between a donkey and a horse.
Portia’s suitors chose the gold and silver caskets.
Write the following in short:
What the young lawyer pleaded.
Read the following chains of words:
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- know - knowing - knowingly - unknowingly
- amaze - amazing - amazingly
- possible - impossible - impossibly
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What did Mr. Gizare appreciate the most?
Can you think of a similarity between a raven and a writing desk? Write at least five differences between the two.
Read the following sentence aloud. Write who said it and to whom.
“You have nothing else?”
Write one or two sentences about something beautiful, using your own experience or imagination. Then rearrange the words in the sentences in a poetic form. You may write about a beautiful day, a beautiful night, a stream, a crop standing in a field, a graceful bird or animal, etc.
Find out the following with the help of your teacher and the internet.
Seasonal Rains (monsoon) in India and other countries.
Prepare similar word chains using the following ideas.
wind - breeze __________________.
Write the following:
The sights mentioned in the third stanza.
Complete the following sentence with reference to the passage.
Epics are long poems that ______________________.
Guess the meaning of the following word:
exorbitantly
Write the smaller and related words that you see within this word.
Explain the use of the following property in the development of the play.
An envelope containing the letter
Answer in your own words.
Why does a mother tell Neel about his Grandpa?
Read: ‘The Listeners’ and ‘Someone’ - poems by Walter de la Mare.
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- The creator
- The theme or subject matter
- Type of art
- Individual style
- Presentation techniques
- Its effect on viewers
- Message or interpretation
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| Book Review | Review of a play | Review of a painting |
Read the following from the Language Study pages:
- adjective clause
- adverb clause
- noun clause
Find one example of each from the passages. (Note the linking word when you do that.)
Write the symbol that is used in the poem to represent the following idea.
Equally good options.
‘Unke, Munke, Timpetoo,
I wish, my wish is coming true.’
Try to compose two other funny magical chants that have rhyming lines.
Which of the words and phrases in the poem will you use in a realistic description?
Put a tick mark against the ones you will use.
- little
- shining tail
- golden scale
- cheerful
- grin
- claws
- gently smiling
- jaws
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Describe the following with the help of the (The Twelve Months) story.
Springtime
Describe the following with the help of the (The Twelve Months) story.
Summer
Name the following.
Captain of the Indian Team.
Read the word. Write the words that combine to make it.
gentle-hearted
Describe Gulliver’s walk around the city.
Imagine that you are in a land of tiny people like Lilliput. Write about some of the interesting things you might see there, including animals, houses, plants, vehicles, etc. Find an interesting name for this land.
List all the words and phrases in this story that indicate 'time'.
What methods did Anshuman's parents use to warn Anshuman about his bad habits?
Discuss the following in group.
Do’s and Don’ts for young children.
Write how the travellers crossed the second gulf.
Which event in the story tells us that the scarecrow was intelligent?
Read the following and say whether the statement tells you about a fact or whether it is imaginary.
There is a man in the Moon.
What is a password?
What happened to the young seagull when it landed on the green sea?
Read the following line from the poem and answer the question that follow.
In the dim past, nor holding back in fear From what the future veils; but with a whole And happy heart, that pays its toll To Youth and Age, and travels on with cheer.
- What does the poet mean by the phrase ‘in the dim past’?
- Is the poet afraid of future?
- How can one travel on with cheer?
____________ had provided Prospero formerly with books and provisions.
What were the various sounds the brothers heard when they went downstairs?
What do you understand by the mother’s act of throwing the shoe?
What did the bird suggest Chulong, in exchange for its freedom?
The weather is always too hot or cold; Summer and winter alike they scold. Nothing goes right with the folks you meet Down on that gloomy Complaining Street.
Pick out the rhyming words and identify the rhyme scheme of the above lines.
Read the data below and answer the following question.
Choose the correct answer.
Percentage of women working in finance is the same as ______.
Hamid thought that his grandma would be pleased if he bought______
Rearrange the jumbled sentences and write them in the correct order.
- But Hamid bought a pair of tongs.
- Granny Ameena felt proud of her grandson.
- Hamid’s friends bought different toys of their choice.
- Hamid proudly compared his tongs with a brave tiger.
- Hamid had less money than his friends.
- Granny Ameena was worried as he had to go to the Eidgah alone.
Usha took shelter in the ______.
What do you infer about speaking with others from this poem?
Identify the character/speaker.
Go to my cottage and fetch my gloves and fan.
Have you ever had a strange dream? Share your dream in the class.
Imagine you are a marketing executive for a company in a specific industry (toothpaste, soup, hair care products, automobiles, etc) and are developing a product with a brand name that refers to a character from the story.
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You can use exciting words, a catchy new slogan and a jingle among other things to promote sales of your item.
ashen – pale
His face was ashen.
Neerja was sent to London based on______.
Turtles come ashore to lay eggs
Grandmother had wanted the peepul tree cut down because______.
When the author returned from England to Dehradun, he found Grandfather's dream had come true because the______.
Who first brought these vegetables to India?
What did she sell to support her family?
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 horses were four and a half inches tall.
Identify the speaker/character.
They somehow managed to put him on the platform.
How does the poet describe the Indian seasons? Write in your own words in about 50 words.
Imagine you are the girl and give a different ending to the story.
What is Amar Jawan Jyoti?
What happened to Dr. Karmugilan in the story?
How should we treat everyone?
Where is Jaswantgarh located?
Name the character or speaker.
"Why don't you do that yourself?"
What did Anitha eat in the expo?
Vicky decided to ______ the robot at the end.
Connect the rhyming words.
| strong | tall |
| call | sack |
| back | along |
Look at the picture and Choose the correct word.
Choose the correct option from the given homophones.
The wind ______off the leaves.
Where did we visit a mermaid?
Write the correct form for the present perfect tense.
They ______ (start) playing.
Some words sound the same but their spelling and meaning are different. Such words are called homophones. There are many homophones.
What was his master’s advice?
Look at the picture and tick Choose the correct word.
Choose the best answer.
The animals ______ the boat.
Choose the best answer.
Suddenly there was a______.
What was the message on the chit?
Robinson named the boy______.
Divide the following word.
butter
Choose and write the adverbs to complete the sentence.
She coloured the picture ____.
Number the pictures in the correct order of the story.
Name the character or speaker.
"Did someone scold you?"
Number the actions of Pandi and Nandhini in order.
Read the advertisement and answer the question given below.
What is the size of the screen?
Where did Kani see the old cracked cup?
What did Kani realize in the story?
What are things that we can save? Why should we save them?
What are the difficulties they faced in India?
Where were they going?
When do you feel proud?
Do you think it is right for the tanker to take water? Why?
Why did the king want a leader who knows to grow a plant?
What does she paint?
How did Miss Sullivan help Helen?
According to Tagore, when will India get the opportunity to win the gift of freedom?
