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प्रश्न
We all know that blogs can be written on many topics. Your teacher will divide the class into groups and assign a task to every group to make a list of various topics on which blogs are normally written. One is given to you.
- Social Awareness
- _________________
- _________________
- ________________
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उत्तर
- Social Awareness
- Travel
- Education
- Technology
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संबंधित प्रश्न
What were Helen’s memories of Radcliffe?
Answer the following in 30-40 words each:
(a) Why do you think the booking clerk refused to accept the money? Why did the narrator get out so fast?
(b) Why could the Russian research vessel, ‘The Akademik Shokaskiy’ not move any further? What did the captain decide then?
(c) What sort of hunts did the Maharaja offer to organize for the high-ranking British officer? What trait of the officer does it reveal?
(d) What did Jo want the wizard to do when Mommy Skunk approached him?
Answer the following in 120-150 words :
Within a few days of his arrival in Iping, people became suspicious of Griffin. Why?
Answer any three of the following in 30-40 words each:
(a) Why has the poet’s mother been compared to the ‘late winter’s moon’?
(b) The poet says, ‘And yet, for these Children, these windows, not this map, their world.’ Which world do these children belong to? Which world is inaccessible to them?
(c) What was the plea of the folk who had put up the roadside stand?
(d) What will happen to Aunt Jennifer’s tigers when she is dead?
Complete the flow-chart :
Attempt a character sketch of Margot Frank as shown in ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’.
Answer the following question in 30-40 words:
“The sight of the food maddened him.” What does this suggest? (His First Fight)
Notice these expression in the text. Infer their meaning from the context.
billowed
Discuss in groups of four.
The sensitive behaviour of hill-folk.
In which language do you think Bhausahebanchi Bakhar was written?
There are intervals of silence in the interaction between the landlady and the prospective tenant. What are the reasons for this?
Try rewriting the lecture as a formal essay and examine Forster’s statement: 'since the novel is itself often colloquial, it may possibly withhold some of its secrets from the graver and grander streams of criticism’.
Read the following statement and mark those that apply to you.
I make friends easily.
Read the following statement and mark those that apply to you.
I have a small group of close friends and have no wish to interact with anyone else.
Read the poem and fill in the table.
| Time of the day | Location | Poet’s Activity | Hawker’s Activities | Gardener’s Activities | Watchman’s Activities |
| Morning | __________ | __________ | __________ | __________ | __________ |
| Afternoon | __________ | __________ | __________ | __________ | __________ |
| Night | __________ | __________ | __________ | __________ | __________ |
Read the description of the Kabaddi match and do the following:
Choose any one event and draw a diagram to show what happened.
What did one of the fluttering creatures do?
State the difference between drama and novel.
Explain the term plot.
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 admit your mistakes.
Visit a library:
Find more information/stories about scholars of the ancient world - Aryabhatta, Bhaskaracharya, Varahamihira, Charaka, Nagarjuna, Jeevaka.
Write the following in short:
The events at the court.
Read the passage and answer the following:
Who has written the book?
Read the following and observe the use of tenses.
‘Last week I witnessed a strange accident. Let me tell you about it. The signal flashes green. Vehicles start in the opposite direction. They move fast. Suddenly a speeding motorcyclist tries to cut across, from the wrong side. He is about to collide with a loaded truck. He applies the brakes. He falls and slides out with his bike from under the truck. He comes out unscathed on the other side.’
- When an event, which has occurred in the past, is narrated in the Present Tense to create a dramatic effect its Tense is called the ‘Dramatic Present Tense’.
- Now try to relate Jayant’s sci-fi story, in brief, in the dramatic past tense.
Answer the following question and write in short, why the parody sounds funny.
Is the bee a gentle creature? Is the crocodile gentle?
Write in your own words.
How should that person sing?
Fill in the blank choosing the appropriate word/idiom from the lesson.
In the examination, I did not know the answer, so I ______.
Describe the following in one or two lines.
The nest.
In what way can we help to reduce or minimize waste generation?
Discuss the issue in groups of 4 or 5 and note down all good suggestions.
Resolve to follow them yourself. Some have been given below for your reference.
- Don’t waste food.
- Take as much as you want but finish everything that’s on your plate.
- Don’t throw away broken or half-used things. Repair them and use them.
- Avoid things which can be used only once.
For example: thermocol (polysterene) cups, plastic glasses, etc. - Reuse!
- Recycle!
Make a list of the rhyming words in the poem.
Add one more rhyming word of your own to each pair.
How did Helen overcome her handicaps?
Discuss, why it was considered as an adventurous and dangerous thing to travel in those days?
What was Mrs. Krishnan busy with?
Based on your reading, rearrange the following sentences in the correct sequence.
- Since all her methods failed, finally she gave him a pain-killer.
- He told his aunt that Peter had no aunt, so he gave him the medicine.
- The pain-killer triggered adverse reactions on Peter.
- It jumped out of the open window.
- Tom was dull and depressed.
- This incident upset Aunt Polly and she questioned him.
- But, Tom gave that painkiller to the cat Peter.
- So, Aunt Polly tried different types of remedies on him.
How did Hamid’s friends show that they enjoyed eating the sweets?
Tom lay thinking. Presently it occurred to him that he wished he was sick; then he could stay home from school. He examined himself. He found no symptoms or sickness, and he investigated again. This time he felt he had a stomach ache, but it soon grew feeble, and presently died wholly away. He reflected further.
Why did Tom wish that he were sick?
Read these lines and answer the questions given below.
Our lays are of cities whose lustre is shed,
Here ‘Lays’ means______
Identify the speaker/character.
A man fell into the sea. Please save him.
Why did the author leave town?
Who came to India from Portugal in search of pepper?
The boy was so inspired by Mithali that he was happy for his sister to play cricket.
Find out the idiom that relates to ‘whatever the circumstances’, from the first paragraph.
Complete the sentence given below with word/phrase.
The wild dogs came to the spot to catch______.
Complete the sentence given below with word/phrase.
The rains came and poured______.
What should we do to save the Earth?
Did Santhosh enjoy his morning walk? How do you know?
Jaswantgarh is named after the Indian soldier ______.
According to the Indian army, Jaswant is still serving.
It keeps the sack in every little______.
Why did the old man disguise himself as a beggar?
The old man helped ______ and ______.
Look at the picture and Choose the correct word.
Look at the picture and tick choose the correct word.
Uthaman was skilled in _____.
Answer the following yes or no question.
Did all visit the waterfall?
The official was transferred.
Read the passage and colour one bag each time you read.
There lived a poor but an honest farmer in a village. He supported himself, his wife and seven children using his small piece of land.
One day while he was walking in his field, he found a bag of gold.
He took it home and showed it to his wife. His wife told him to keep some of the gold. He told his wife that honesty is the best policy. He tried to find the person who lost it. At last, he found that the owner of the bag and gave it back. The rich man took the bag and thanked him.
Why was his father unable to sleep?
Choose the right word.
“Eat the leaves of the tamarind tree, and you’ll also sing like ______.
Why did he go there?
