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Read each of the following sentences from the story and tick the word/phrase that gives the correct meaning for the italicized word/ phrase in
the context in which they are used here.
For reasons I have never been able to understand, a sudden demand for tamarind seeds erupted in the market.
Options
came up
blew up
ended
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Solution
came up
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WHERE the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit –
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
— Rabindranath Tagore
- Why does the poet say, ‘Where the mind is without fear’ ?
- What are the narrow domestic walls being referred to ?
- Why are they ‘narrow ’ ?
- How /when does the ‘clear stream of reason’ lose its way ?
- What is the poet’s appeal ?
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'Despite these disadvantages , He possessed great innate wisdom and a true generosity of spirit '. The expression 'these disadvantages ' here refers to
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As children Kalam and his friends did not have any
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'As the new teacher saw it' ( paragraph 6 ) . Which of the following best explains the meaning of this expression?
On the basis of your reading of the passage answer the following question by ticking the most appropriate options. Give reasons for your choice.
Kalam's science techer Sivasubramania was something oa a rebel in the sense that
On the basis of your reading of the passage answer the following question by ticking the most appropriate options. Give reasons for your choice.
"Once you decide to change the system, such problems have to be confronted." Which problems are referred to here?
Complete the following sentence.
An example of the generosity and kindness of Kalam's parents is ......................................................
Complete the following sentence.
The nation should be wary of people like the grade V teacher of the narrator because ...............................................................................................
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Role Play:
Your teacher will divide the class into groups of four and ask them to act out the following roles:
Kalam
Ramanadha Sastry
Aravindan
Shivaprakasan
In your group you should play the role allocated to you by engagmg in a conversation in which the friends
a) Express surprise and joy at meeting each other after nearly fifty years
b) Fondly recall their childhood times
c) Compare the problems facing the country then with the problems she is facing now.
d) Discuss what can be done to rid her of these problems
(Refer to the SWOT analysis of lndia)
After the role play, your teacher will invite some of the groups to share with others what problems they discussed and the solutions they proposed.
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My brother-in-law Jallaluddin would tell me stories about the War which I would later attempt to trace in the headlines in Dinamani.
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The first casualty came in the form of the suspension of the train halt at Rameswaram station.
Read each of the following sentence from the story and tick the word/ phrase that gives the correct meaning for the italicized word/ phrase in the context in which they are used here.
He looked utterly downcast as I shifted to my seat in the last row.
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Then the Second World War was over and India's freedom was imminent.
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Based on your reading of the passage answer the following question :
How can we bind the people of the country and create an emotional bond ?
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How can we attain internal freedom for the people of the country?
Organize a group discussion on the topic : “Destabilizing Forces Within a Country : Challenges to a Nation”.
