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प्रश्न
While tribal communities may not seem to possess the scientific temper,there are many ideas from tribal conventions that could enrich modern societies.
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उत्तर
Tribal communities may not seem to possess the scientific temper. However, there are many ideas from tribal conventions that could enrich modern societies. The tribals live close to nature. They treat nature as a living being. They consider it to be the mother who nurtures them. The tribals have a very intimate and positive relation with nature. This positive ideas of the tribals towards ecology can help enrich the modern societies. The tribals are very simple minded. They have not been influenced by evils like consumerism. Some tribal communities follow matrilineal system. Tribal societies do not follow dowry system instead some tribal communities fix a bride price that the groom pays to the bride either in cash or in kind. This can be a lesson for the modern societies.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Far far from gusty waves these children's faces.
Like rootless weeds, the hair torn round their pallor;
The tall girl with her weighed-down head.
(a) Who are these children?
(b) Which figure of speech has been used in the first two lines?
(c) Why is the tall girl's head weighed down?
(d) What does the word, 'pallor' mean?
Big male elephants throw logs at electric fences because
Read the following passage and complete the activities given below :
A1 Find out :
Find from the passage the related words to the sea and write them.
ON FIERCE monsoon nights, about one and a quarter-mile off the Mumbai harbor, there have been occasions when 52-year-old Bikaji Ramchandra Dhuri is the only man on the sea. From the watchtower of the Prongs Reef Lighthouse, which is surrounded on all sides by the Arabian Sea, he has heard the sea rage like a possessed spirit – the darkness dispelled only by the beam of light flung across the waters from the tower he mans.
Dhuri is one of the last breeds of lighthouse keepers on the Indian coast, as a majority of the 182 lighthouses in the country are now unmanned. Built-in 1871, the Prongs Reef lighthouse was modeled on Scotland’s Skerryvore Rocks Lighthouse and is located at a strategic spot on the western coast, marking the entrance to the busy Mumbai Harbour. It was meant to stem the number of shipwrecks off the harbor, which the lone Colaba lighthouse could not illumine on its own. “Even now, during nights, for fishing vessels without any gadgets, it’s the soft light from this tower which directs us to Mumbai,” says Vinayak Koli, a boatsman who helps ferry people and also goes on fishing expeditions.
Throughout the year, Dhuri lives in the lighthouse for 15 days at a stretch, when he is relieved by another keeper. In the monsoon, it becomes his home for three months. “We call it the Kalapana as we are alone in the middle of the sea for days, with basic supplies – and the revolving light that keeps the sea awake,” he says.
A2 Fill in the following information using words from the passage :
(i) The Prongs Reef lighthouse was modeled on _______.
(ii) Dhuri lives in the lighthouse for _______ at a stretch.
(iii) _______ is one of the last breeds of lighthouse keepers on the Indian coast.
(iv) The majority of the _______ lighthouses in the country are now unmanned.
| Violent | Scattered | Place of shelter for ships | Shine light |
A4
A5 Personal Response
Imagine you have to spend a night in a lighthouse. Narrate your experience.
Have you known someone like the author’s grandmother? Do you feel the same sense of loss with regard to someone whom you have loved and lost?
Identify the phrases and lines that indicate distance between father and son.
Notice these expression in the text. Infer their meaning from the context.
swathe
Combine related points.
Is drama a good medium for conveying a social message? Discuss.
There lies a great difference between text book medicine and the world of practising physician. Discuss.
Examine the communication channels in the story between Paul's mother and his uncle.
Explain the line:
'I seemed to detect in myself a sort of sneaking fellow-feeling for the mummy in the museum, and a desire to swap news with him.
How do the patterns of creativity displayed by scientists differ from those displayed by poets?
'Constancy' is the theme of the poem. Indicate the words, phrases, and images that suggest the theme.
Write down any two Slogans on 'Gender Equality'.
Read the poem below and fill in the gaps, choosing appropriate pairs of rhyming words, to make them meaningful.
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Little things Little drops of water, Thus the little minutes, Little deeds of kindness, |
(love - above / sand - land / be - eternity)
Fibreglass kites led to creating power - driven aeroplanes.
In Gujarat, the kite - festival is celebrated to welcome the Spring.
You will come across many blogs written by famous personalities on different topics and issues. Read and make a list of at least ten blogs available on the internet. Read and summarise a blog and present it before the class.
| Sr.No. | The topic of the Blog | Name of the Blogger |
| 1. | Don’t teach kids how to read, teach them why. (https://www.teachthought.com/literacy stop-teaching-kids-how-to-read-reading-practice/) | Terry Heick |
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Guess the meaning of the following words and phrases:
untold wealth, closest to the Emperor’s heart, grave offence, banish.
List the four elements of drama.
Draw a diagram to show a volcanic eruption from its description given in this passage. Label the diagram. Show the following in it :
Volcano; earth’s crust; crack in the earth’s crust; hot molten rock; red, hot lava; smoke; ash; burning chunks of rock.
Write a short note on the following:
The living world on Rakata
Discuss the following questions after you have seen a presentation of the ‘ad’.
Will you love your brother or sister only if she’s fair?
Complete the following sentence using your idea:
I can ______.
Write about the various wheel-like objects you see at home, in school, and on the road.
What do the following events/actions tell us about the characters? Discuss.
Sir Ector kneeled before Arthur.
Prepare similar word chains using the following ideas.
wind - breeze __________________.
Complete the following sentence with reference to the passage.
At the back rose the high peak of Mount Ida, from which _______________.
Read the following:
- Charging along like troops in a battle.
- Fly as thick as driving rain.
Using your imagination, write one or two comparisons each with -
- like ______
- as ______ as
Form groups of 5-8. This passage tells us only what the compère says. Try to visualize and write what the other people on the dais must have said in their speeches (Write only the main points.)
- The School Principal
- The Chief Guest
- The Art teacher who offered a vote of thanks
Read the poem again. Does it have a uniform rhyme scheme throughout?
Write down the rhyme scheme of every stanza separately.
- 1st stanza ______
- 2nd stanza ______
- 3rd stanza ______
- 4th stanza ______.
Write in your own words.
How should that person sing?
The table-tennis set was gifted by ______.
Write in your own words.
How does the poet glorify his home in the first stanza?
Find the meaning of the following word.
starlets
Look at the speaker in each picture. Say whether each one is a good speaker. Give reasons for your answer.
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Rewrite the following line in your own words.
'Never one comes flying by
But will flutter down to drink.'
Write what the lark does.
Would you like to be a netizen?
Why did Herman and the author slam the doors?
Why were the policeman prevented from entering grandfather's room?
Read the incident again and answer the following question.
When did the writer remember the fact that he had to buy something for Mr. Gilson?
How did the children react when they met each other at the ruins?
Teach me to appreciate ______.
- nature
- destruction
- small creatures
Geetha madam couldn’t stop the children running out of the train because they ______.
Name the planets the poet flies through.
Where were the boys taken to?
Rearrange the story in order.
- Jaswant stayed back in his post.
- He killed 300 chinese soldiers in the battle.
- He fired weapons from separate points.
- Sela and Nura helped him in the battle.
- Jaswant shot himself to death.
- Chinese soldiers caught the man who supplied food.
- He was awarded the Mahavir Chakra.
Read scene I of the play carefully and answer the questions below.
Tabaqui acts as ______ to the pack of wolves.
Read scene I of the play carefully and answer the question below.
Whom does Mother Wolf talk about? How does she describe him?
Choose the odd one out.
Name the character or speaker.
“How did I win the competition with a single stroke?”
Every ______ they would go fishing.
At the end of the festival , Kamali and Senthil saved______.
Whose word are these? Name the character.
“We do not have money to buy anything.”
What did Bala teach Nithin?
Write the word with same meaning.
purse- ______
______ was helpful for his father to drive out the wild animals.
One day Chris tried to draw a ______.
