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Locate the lines in the text that support the title. 'The Ailing Planet'.
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What does the notice 'The world's most dangerous animal' at a cage in the zoo at Lusaka, Zambia, signify?
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How are the earth's principal biological systems being depleted?
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Why does the author aver that the growth of the world population is one of the strongest factors distorting the future of human society?
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Below is a topic for essay writing. Follow the steps listed above to write on these topics.
Think before you shop
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Discuss in groups of four.
Laws are never respected not enforced in India.
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Discuss in groups of four.
“Are we to leave our successors a scorched planet of advancing deserts, impoverished landscapes and an ailing environment?”
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Discuss in groups of four.
“We have not inherited this earth from our forefathers; we have borrowed it from our children”.
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Discuss in groups of four.
The problems of over population that directly affect our everyday life.
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The phrase 'inter alia' meaning 'among other things' is one of the many Latin expressions commonly used in English.
Find out what these Latin phrases mean.
1.Prima face
2. ad hoc
3. in camera
4.ad infinitum
5.mutatis multanis
6.tabula rasa
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You have not received your Roll Number card for the Class XII examination. Write a letter to the Registrar, Examination Branch, CBSE asking for it.
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Locate the following words in the text and study their connotation.
1. gripped the imagination of
2. dawned upon
3. ushered in
4. passed into current coin
5. passport of the future
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The words ‘grip’, ‘dawn’. ‘usher’, ‘coin’, ‘passport’ have a literal as well as a figurative meaning. Write pairs of sentences using each word in the literal as well as figurative sense.
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Write a letter to the President, Residents’ Welfare Association of your locality suggesting some measures that could be taken for solving the problem of water scarcity and conserving water.
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Make posters to highlight the importance of the Green Movement.
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Maintain a record of the trees cut down and the parks demolished in your area or any other act that violates the environment. Write to newspapers reporting on any such acts that disturb you.
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Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper expressing your views on the deteriorating law and order situation in your city.
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Notice these expressions in the text. Infer their meaning from the context.
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Remove
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slackers
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muck
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kept in
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got carried away
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cut
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sadist
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shrivelled up
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Write a letter to your friend narrating your experiences in a rescue operation.
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Write a letter to the Editor of a magazine describing a dance performance you have seen or an art gallery you have visited.
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