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Creative Activity Write eight words you associate with success. Use the words to write eight lines that mean success to you or how success makes you feel. Arrange your lines - English

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Creative Activity

  • Write eight words you associate with success.
  • Use the words to write eight lines that mean success to you or how success makes you feel.
  • Arrange your lines into a poem.
  • Share your poem with the class and post a copy on the notice board.
Answer in Brief
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Solution

Success

Real success is when you strive
for what you want
when you have that guts to flaunt
Not thinking about the world and wise
when you can alone suffice
With upright will and determination
where finally you reach your destination.
Real success is hard to find. But it's one of a kind.

(OR)

  1. brave
  2. hunt
  3. learn
  4. mistakes
  5. encounter
  6. failure
  7. never
  8. If

Poem

You’ll never be brave.
If you don’t get hurt
you’ll never learn.

If you don’t make mistakes
you’ll never be successful.
If you don’t encounter failure.

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Chapter 5.2: Everest is not the Only Peak - Exercises [Page 159]

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Chapter 5.2 Everest is not the Only Peak
Exercises | Q D. | Page 159

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