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Question
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Justify your stand/ answer by quoting a line from the text.
Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease
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Solution
No. I do not agree.
The line from the text justifying this stand is Eventually however doctors did diagnose Hawking with the early stages of ALS
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| (2) Beethoven | The great English poet who became blind at the age of 43 years. |
| (3) Stephen Hawking | An American enterpreneur, animator, voice actor, had a learning disability. |
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Make a list of Hawking’s physical inabilities after 1963.
(a) __________________ (d) __________________
(b) _________________ (e) __________________
(c) __________________ (f) __________________
Complete the following web.
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Justify your stand/ answer by quoting a line from the text.
Though Hawking lost control over his body, he writes with a prolific rate with the help of assistants.
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Justify your stand/ answer by quoting a line from the text.
Hawking has written or co-written more than 25 books.
The following incident in Stephen Hawking’s life is given in jumbled order. Arrange the incidents in proper sequence as per their order of occurrence in Hawking’s life.
Hawking’s book ‘The Universe in a Nutshell’ offered an illustrated guide to cosmology’s big theories.
The following incident in Stephen Hawking’s life is given in jumbled order. Arrange the incidents in proper sequence as per their order of occurrence in Hawking’s life.
Hawking published the book ‘A Brief History of Time’ that offered an overview of space and time.
The following incident in Stephen Hawking’s life is given in jumbled order. Arrange the incidents in proper sequence as per their order of occurrence in Hawking’s life.
Hawking was unable to attend a conference in Arizona.
The following incident in Stephen Hawking’s life is given in jumbled order. Arrange the incidents in proper sequence as per their order of occurrence in Hawking’s life.
Hawking was diagnosed with ALS while studying cosmology at the University of Cambridge.
You have come to know from the text that ‘The Theory of Everything’ is a film describing the life and work of Stephen Hawking. Watch the film on the internet and write a complete review of it. You can take the help of the following points while writing the review of the film.
(1) Title
(2) Characters
(3) Story
(4) Dialogues
(5) Picturisation
(6) Music
(7) Special features (if any)
(8) Opinion / Views
(9) Message/Moral values.
