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Question
Your younger sister wants to eat something tasty. You are telling her the recipe of one such food item. Prepare a dialogue about it.
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Solution
| Me | Hey, I heard you're craving something tasty. How about we bake some chocolate chip cookies? |
| Sister | That sounds great! But, I've never made them before. Is it hard? |
| Me | Not at all! It's pretty simple. First, you need to gather the ingredients. Do you want to write them down? |
| Sister | Yes, let me get a pen. |
| Me | You'll need 1 cup of softened butter, 1 cup of white sugar, 1 cup of packed brown sugar, 2 eggs, 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract, 3 cups of all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoon of baking soda, 2 teaspoons of hot water, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, and 2 cups of chocolate chips. |
| Sister | Got it. What's next? |
| Me | Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C). While it's heating, take a large bowl and cream together the butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until smooth. Then beat in the eggs one at a time, and stir in the vanilla. Dissolve baking soda in hot water and add to the batter along with salt. Finally, stir in flour and chocolate chips. |
| Sister | Okay, I can do that. Then do I just bake it? |
| Me | Almost. Use a small spoon to drop spoonfuls of the dough onto ungreased baking sheets. |
| Sister | How long do they bake? |
| Me | Bake them for about 10 minutes, or until the edges are nicely browned. It's important not to overbake them if you want them chewy. |
| Sister | That sounds easy enough. What do I do after they're baked? |
| Me | Let them cool for a couple of minutes on the baking sheets before transferring them to wire racks to cool completely. |
| Sister | That's it? Then we can eat them? |
| Me | That's it! You'll have delicious homemade chocolate chip cookies. |
| Sister | Yay! Thanks for the recipe. I'm going to try making them right now. |
| Me | You're welcome! Call me if you need any help. Enjoy your baking! |
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Read the passage given below and answer the questions (a), (b) and (c) that follow :
(1) At the Literary Society’s meeting, Isola read out the letters written to her Granny Pheen, when she was but a little girl. They were from a very kind man – a complete stranger. Isola told us how these letters came to be written.
(2) When Granny Pheen was nine years old, her cat died. Heartbroken, sitting in the middle of the road, she was sobbing her heart out.
(3) A carriage, driving far too fast, came within a whisker of running her down. A very big man in a dark coat with a fur collar, jumped out, leaned over Pheen, and asked if he could help her. Granny Pheen said she was beyond help. Muffin, her cat, was dead.
(4) The man said, ‘Of course, Muffin’s not dead. You do know cats have nine lives, don’t you?’ When Pheen said yes, the man said, ‘Well, I happen to know your Muffin was only on her third life, so she has six lives left.’ Pheen asked how he knew. He said he always knew - cats would often appear in his mind and chat with him. Well, not in words, of course, but in pictures.
(5) He sat down on the road beside her and told her to keep still – very still. He would see if Muffin wanted to visit him. They sat in silence for several minutes, when suddenly the man grabbed Pheen’s hand.
(6) ‘Ah – yes! There she is! She’s being born this minute! In a mansion – in France. There’s a little boy petting her, he’s going to call her Solange. This Solange has great spirit, great verve – I can tell already! She is going to have a long, venturesome life.’
(7) Granny Pheen was so rapt by Muffin’s new fate that she stopped crying. The man said he would visit Solange every so often and find out how she was faring.
(8) He asked for Granny Pheen’s name and the name of the farm where she lived, got back into the carriage, and left.
(9) Absurd as all this sounds, Granny Pheen did receive eight long letters. Isola then read them out. They were all about Muffin’s life as the French cat − Solange. She was, apparently, something of a feline musketeer. She was no idle cat, lolling about on cushions, lapping up cream – she lived through one wild adventure after another – the only cat ever to be awarded the red rosette of the Legion of Honour.
(10) What a story this man had made up for Pheen – lively, witty, full of drama and suspense. We were enchanted, speechless at the reading. When it was over (and much applauded), I asked Isola if I could see the letters, and she handed them to me.
(11) The writer had signed his letters with a grand flourish :
VERY TRULY YOURS,
O.F. O’F. W.W.
It was highly possible that Isola had inherited eight letters written by Oscar Wilde, for who else could have had such a preposterous name as Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Willis Wilde.
Adapted from : The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society – By Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
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(1) adventurous
(2) cat-like
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(ii) For each of the words given below, write a sentence of at least ten words using the same word unchanged in form, but with a different meaning from that which it carries in the passage :[4]
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(ii) Who consoled Granny Pheen when she was heart-broken? What did he say about Muffin’s lives?[2]
(iii) What did the man say when Granny Pheen asked him how he knew about cats’ lives?[2]
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