Balbharati solutions for इंग्लिश कोर्सबूक इयत्ता १० महाराष्ट्र राज्य मंडळ chapter 2.5 - Book Review - Swami and Friends [Latest edition]

Form groups of 3 to 4 and share the following with your groups.

1. Your favourite book
2. Type of book (short stories/biography/thriller/adventure/science fiction/historical)
3. Author/Writer
4. Main character
5. Background (Time and place)
6. Problem/dilemma
7. Any special message

You have recently read a short story/novel/drama/science fiction/ghost-story. Write in short 3 of its strong points that made you like the book and 2 or 3 drawbacks it has. Fill them up in the tree - diagram given.

Determiners are words that modify a noun or noun phrase and occur before them in a sentence. Determiners provide a context to the noun they precede.
They may be:

• Articles - a, an, the
• Demonstratives - this, that, these, those, which etc.
• Possessives - my, your, our, their, his, her etc. my friend’s, her mother’s etc.
• Quantifiers - few, many, much, more, every, each, some etc.
• Numerals - one, four, hundred, first, fourth, hundredth

Underline only Determiners in the following.

My brother bought a few magazines.

Underline only Determiners in the following.

What is your friend’s name?

Underline only Determiners in the following.

Which writer was also the President of our country?

Underline only Determiners in the following.

These are some toys.

Underline only Determiners in the following.

These toys are new.

Underline only Determiners in the following.

That doctor is an expert dentist and he has many patients.

Find out what are ‘spoilers’ in a dictionary.

What is the most striking quality of 10 year old Swami?

What does the review say about R. K. Narayan’s style and language?

What are the two advantages of reading this book?

Refer to the story ‘The Boy who Broke the Bank’ by Ruskin Bond. Read it carefully and write a Review of the same, keeping the following points in mind.

1. Name of Story and Writer/Author
2. Type of story
3. Background and setting (Time and Place)
4. Main characters
5. Problem faced
6. Language used
7. What you liked about the story
8. What you did not like about it
9. Your general opinion of the story

Read the evidence/sentences given below and offer a possible explanation of what happened in this house? Make up some questions to gather more information.

Now collect all your evidences and write a story in your notebook. Give a suitable title.

Identify the new words and phrases which seem to be important, in the review. Try to guess their meaning from the context. You can use a dictionary to confirm it. Fill up the table.

Find from the lesson the Noun form of:

happen

Find from the lesson the Noun form of:

true

Find from the lesson the Noun form of:

simple

Find from the lesson the Noun form of:

conclude

Find verb form of:

hatred

Find verb form of:

thought

Find verb form of:

meaning

Find verb form of:

improvement

Find verb form of:

description

Find verb form of:

attribution

Find Adjective form of:

talk

Find Adjective forms of:

interest

Find Adjective forms of:

purity

Find Adjective forms of:

technique

Find Adjective forms of:

literature

Write a complete review on any book that you have read recently. Use the following points for your Book Review.

1. Introduction
2. Selectivity of contents
3. Subject/Title Apporpriacy
4. Sequence of Contents
5. Language Appropriacy/Type
6. Good Points/Novelty in the book
7. Advantages/Scope of the book. (if any)
8. Demerits/Shortcomings (if any)
9. Message/Opinion/Views (Personal)
10. Conclusion (in short)