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Read the following statement and mark those that apply to you.
I make friends easily.
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Solution
Yes, this applies to me. I make friends very easily.
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Complete the flow-chart :
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.
Read the text below and summarise it.
The Great Desert Where Hippos Once Wallowed
The Sahara sets a standard for dry land. It’s the world’s largest desert. Relative humidity can drop into the low single digits. There are places where it rains only about once a century. There are people who reach the end of their lives without ever seeing water come from the sky.
Yet beneath the Sahara are vast aquifers of fresh water, enough liquid to fill a small sea. It is fossil water, a treasure laid down in prehistoric times, some of it possibly a million years old. Just 6,000 years ago, the Sahara was a much different place.
It was green. Prehistoric rock art in the Sahara shows something surprising: hippopotamuses, which need year-round water.
“We don’t have much evidence of a tropical paradise out there, but we had something perfectly liveable,” says Jennifer Smith, a geologist at Washington University in St Louis.
The green Sahara was the product of the migration of the paleo-monsoon. In the same way that ice ages come and go, so too do monsoons migrate north and south. The dynamics of earth’s motion are responsible. The tilt of the earth’s axis varies in a regular cycle — sometimes the planet is more tilted towards the sun, sometimes less so. The axis also wobbles like a spinning top. The date of the earth’s perihelion — its closest approach to the sun — varies in cycle as well.
At times when the Northern Hemisphere tilts sharply towards the sun and the planet makes its closest approach, the increased blast of sunlight during the north’s summer months can cause the African monsoon (which currently occurs between the Equator and roughly 17°N latitude) to shift to the north as it did 10,000 years ago, inundating North Africa.
Around 5,000 years ago the monsoon shifted dramatically southward again. The prehistoric inhabitants of the Sahara discovered that their relatively green surroundings were undergoing something worse than a drought (and perhaps they migrated towards the Nile Valley, where Egyptian culture began to flourish at around the same time).
“We’re learning, and only in recent years, that some climate changes in the past have been as rapid as anything underway today,” says Robert Giegengack, a University of Pennsylvania geologist.
As the land dried out and vegetation decreased, the soil lost its ability to hold water when it did rain. Fewer clouds formed from evaporation. When it rained, the water washed away and evaporated quickly. There was a kind of runaway drying effect. By 4,000 years ago the Sahara had become what it is today.
No one knows how human-driven climate change may alter the Sahara in the future. It’s something scientists can ponder while sipping bottled fossil water pumped from underground.
“It’s the best water in Egypt,” Giegengack said — clean, refreshing mineral water. If you want to drink something good, try the ancient buried treasure of the Sahara.
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We 'draw up a deed'. Complete the following phrase with an appropriate word.
________one's word
How is humour employed to comment on the pains that the author took to get his watch set right.
How has the poet brought out her emotional attachment to her mother tongue?
The poetic effect is achieved in the poem through understatement and asides. Discuss this with examples.
Write down in your own words the way Laurie confirmed the names of the March sisters.
Fill in the blank.
The author wanted to grow ______________.
The best punishment is ‘forgiveness’. Discuss the sentence in light of the text you have read. You can make use of the following points.
(a) Forgiveness provides an opportunity to change the behaviour.
(b) Forgiveness leads to repentance.
(c) A person may commit a mistake/crime impulsively or under the force of strong emotions.
(d) ________________________
(e) ________________________
Some poets do not use uniformity in rhyming words, nor a steady rhythm. Such poems with no uniformity in rhyme, rhythm, length of lines or stanzas are called Free Verse. Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Rabindranath Tagore are some famous poets who have composed poems in Free Verse.
A quick glance at the poem ‘Vocation' reveals that the style used by Tagore is Free Verse.
Now turn the pages of your textbook and see if you can find other poems in Free Verse.
Make a list of the preparations made for an assault on Tiger Hill.
Bofors guns _____________.
Study the pictures below and note down the differences.
Find evidence from the lesson and write in your own words.
In Israel, the media have a positive outlook and self-respect.
Answer the given question in your own words.
What was the first task given to the Swallow?
Go through the poem and state whether the following statement is true or false.
Planners make their plans mathematically perfect, at the same time they calculate their profit.
Say WHY. . . . . .
Ramanujan found the number 1729 very interesting.
Write a sentence each about three of your friends. Each time you should say what your friend cannot do, and yet, pay a compliment to your friend.
Write a short note on Emperor Akbar.
Imagine you are the Crane. What actions and words of the Peacock would you not like? Write about it in short.
The man in the moon is mentioned in many nursery rhymes and stories. When people see the spots on the surface of the moon, they imagine that it’s a human face or the figure of a man who lives on the moon. Sometimes, other characters like rabbits are also imagined to live with the man. Here are two nursery rhymes about the man on the moon.
How do the following avoid giving anything to the traveller?
Motiram
(Answer in one or two lines.)
Write any three of the silly remarks made by the characters other than Alice. Write why you think the remark is silly.
Read the passage and answer the following:
Who has written the book?
What do the following events/actions tell us about the characters? Discuss.
Sir Ector kneeled before Arthur.
Correct the following sentence using facts from the passage.
The great heroes avoided one another.
You want to start human settlement somewhere else other than the earth, in the universe. Will you select a star or a planet? Why? What features supporting life will you look for? Try to find answers to such questions and make a presentation using scientific information and your imagination.
Note that most of the time well-known works are parodied, because people can enjoy the parody better when they know the original. Try to find more examples of parodies in English or other languages.
Complete the following diagram.
Find the words that mean the following from the first stanza.
- Gold hammered into a flat, thin shape: ______
- show off proudly: ______
- tilt, move at an angle: ______
- across, especially in a slanting direction: ______
Read the poem and answer the following.
Which strawberries are plump and juicy?
Find out how the following game is played.
Hockey
Which event in the story tells us that the lion was brave?
Read the following lines from the poem and answer the question that follow.
Let me but live my life from year to year,
With forward face and unreluctant soul;
- Whom does the word ‘me’ refer to?
- What kind of life does the poet want to lead?
Look at the following expressions from the text. With the help of your teacher rewrite them in standard English. One has been done for you.
| 1. ‘Musta got away – whatt’d he like? | Must got away - what was he like?’ |
| 2. ‘Looky here, Joe | |
| 3. ‘No sign o’ nothing’ | |
| 4. ‘Back t’ the lines ye goodaam | |
| 5. ‘What was the idea of all them cops tarryhootin’ round the house last night. |
What are the three rules given by the bird?
Complete the following table with information from the anecdote about Mr. Scotti’s short trip.
| Name | Nicholas Scotti |
| Occupation | |
| Reason for his trip | |
| Means of transport | |
| Destination |
What kind of learning brings joy to you?
drenched – thoroughly wet
He is drenched to the skin. ______
Match the rhyming words.
| filth | farmer |
| cook | harm |
| charm | wealth |
| armour | look |
The second daughter ________ the milet to a flock of birds.
What did the first daughter do?
Complete the following sentence using the prepositions from the option.
The summer vacation ends _____ Monday.
Jaswantgarh is named after the Indian soldier ______.
Raju loves______.
Why did the bird catcher need fire?
Identify the character/speaker.
He bought a new fish tank.
Match the rhyming words.
| 1. | flow | know |
| 2. | grow | week |
| 3. | seek | blow |
______was with Robinson.
Name the character or speaker.
"Do you have a fever?"
List the things that humans should save.
Did the seeds given to Ani sprout? why?
Many may lie and______.
What was his dream ?
What is the main idea of the story?
Draw the garden of your dreams.
The rabbit had
The garden Alice saw was
Did the girl buy a picture book?
