English Medium Class 9 - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for English - Communicative

You are on the editorial board for the column ‘Your Problems’ in The Teenager magazine. You have received these two letters asking for your advice. (They appear to have come from the same family)

In pairs, decide what advice to give to each of them. Then write one letter each, so that both father and son get a reply from The Teenager. Remember to use some of the language in Question 5. 

Look at the pictures of people talking to each other. With your partners, discuss what they are telling each other. Share your ideas with the class.

Several youngsters have problems in dealing with their parents. With your partner, discuss the difference ln views and complete the table below. Sometimes there may be no contradiction between the two views. 

Copy the worksheet in your notebooks and work in pairs to complete the worksheet to know all about yourself. This will enable you to discover your hidden strengths, work on your weaknesses, and develop your personality. 

Johari Window Work Sheet 

Read the following and share your feelings with the class. 
INTROSPECT: Realise Your Potential. 

Sixteen year old Shreya, a student of XI, angrily outbursts at her parents and says, "No one likes me". 
She has not been able to develop an interest in any activity, be it painting, swimming, games or studying. She is not sure what types of relationships give her comfort. 
She has never had a good friend. She is not clear about her choice of career. 
Shreya is good-looking, as well as physically healthy. During the interview, she was preoccupied with what others think about her. 
When asked to talk about her positive qualities, she thought for a long time but could not list any. Nor was she able to mention her negative aspects. 

                          Self Awareness
Knowing your strengths and weaknesses will help you succeed.
Knowing our helps us in acknowledging our success as well as appreciating our capacity to do something with or without support from others. 
This givee us a sense of well being and we are able to learn new skills and develop assets , thereby developing our confidence. Confident people attract friends and other stable relationships. 
In due course , we are ready to accept various challenges with the right kind of Investment of energy towarde task completion. 
Knowing our weaknesses helps us In accepting our limitations, and developing a willingness to take help when offered and  enabling us to overcome our deficits. 
This paves way to expansion of skills and qualities, which prove useful ln the long run. It is worthwhile to Introspect and reflect so as to realise our potential . This help to bring about a change in us and we are able to meet challenges . 
lf Shreya had introspected or had been helped by her parents or teachers to reflect on herself, she would have understood her positive and negative qualities , her likes , dislike , strengths , weakness , feelings , emotions , outlooks , choices , values and attitude towards life. 
self awareness paves the way to pregress with respect to relationships , academic success , professional and personal fulfillment .

                       Adapted from "The Quest",
                                    The Hindu

The following are the lyrics of a famous song. Complete it by filling in the missing letters (mostly vowels). 

There c_m_s a time. 
When we h __ d a certain call 
When the w __ ld must come t_g_th_r 
As one 
There are p _ _ple d_ing 
Oh and it's time 
To l_nd a h_nd to l_fe 
The gr __ test gift of all 
Wec_n't go on 

Pr_t_nding day by day 
Th_t s_me_ne, somewhere 
Will s __ n make a change 
We are all a p __ t of 
God's gr __ t big f_m_ly 
And thetr_th,youknow 
L_ ve is all we n __ d 
W_  are the world 
We are the ch_ldr_n 
We are the _nes 
To m __ e a br ___ ter day 
So l_t's st __ t g_ving 
There's a ch __ ce we're m_king 
We're s_ving our own l_ves 
It's tr __ wemake a b_tterday 
J_st y __ andme 
W _11, send them your h __ rt 
So they kn__ that s_me_ne cares 
And th __ r lives wll be str_nger 
And fr __ 
As G_d has sh_wn us 
By t __ ning stone to br __ d 
And so we _11 must 
L-nd a h_lping h_nd 
We are the world ... 
We're d_wn and __ t 
And there s __ ms no h_pe at all 
Butify __ justbel __ ve 
There's no w_y we can f_ll 
Ohyes, let's r __ lise 
That ch_nge can only c_me 
When we st_nd t_g_ther 
As one 
We are the world ... 

The song 'We Are the World' has been sung by many famous singers of the West. Do you know why it is called 'We Are the World'? Why was it recorded? What were the singers trying to do? Did they succeed? 

Student/ teacher can sing the song.

Listen to the song and check whether you have guessed right in Question 1.  Listen again until you are ready to sing along with it. 

Listen to the song and check whether you have guessed right in Question 1.  Listen again until you are ready to sing along with it. 

What do the following phrases mean? 
• We are the children 
• There's a choice we're making. 
We're saving our own lives ... 
• Well, send them your heart 
So they know that someone cares ... 
• Change can only come 
When we stand together 
As one ... 

As children of the world, you have a role in helping to solve the problems prevalent in society. In groups or four, prepare a short skit on any one problem and present it in front of the class. 

Read the following dialogue

Raghu : I think one of my snakes has escaped.
Sheela : Isn’t it dangerous? You really must stop collecting snakes, Raghu.
Raghu : But I like snakes – they are unusual pets.
Sheela : But I think it’s a dangerous thing to keep such pets.
Raghu : No, they’re not dangerous; they are really… .er… .quite friendly.
Sheela : Huh, snakes require a great deal of careful handling and are still a risk.
Raghu : i don’t mind. What matters is that I like them.
Sheela : Well, quite frankly, I hate them. They are awfully frightening to look at.
Raghu : Look, I am very careful and I handle them very gently. In fact, I don’t have many.
Sheela : Have you ever been bitten?
Raghu : Well, it’s true I’ve been bitten once or twice, but…

You are a friend who has overheard this conversation between Raghu and Sheela. Write to your sister reporting it. Give the conversation an interesting, unexpected or humorous ending. (The first part has been done for you.)

Janpath
5 January 2016
Dear Varsha

As you’re very interested in Raghu and his snakes, I thought I’d tell you about a conversation I heard between him and Sheela.

He told her he thought one of his snakes had escaped and, as usual, she told him to stop collecting them because they were dangerous. (Typical of Sheela, don’t you think?)

                                                                    Pronouns

Direct speech                  indirect speech                       

                               WORDS DENOTING TIME AND POSITION
When the reporting verb is in the past tense, certain words denoting nearness of
time and place are changed into words denoting distance.
It is treated necessary to change the words denoting nearness to words denoting
distance because, when we report the words of a person to somebody, the place
and time of the reporting is changed.
So the reported speech must be in line with the modified time and place.

Based on the information on your completed scorecard, write a short report for the Danapur local newspaper about the Annual Athletic Meet of the school. Remember 'CODER'. Some further advice ... 

• Give an interesting heading 
• By line (who has written the report) 
• Answer the 'WH' questions - Who? Why? When? Where? 
• Overall result 
• Aim of the Meet 

Impressed by your performance on Sports Day, the Chief Guest (an omcial of the Sports Club of India) decides to offer you a sports scholarship. Write an email to a friend about your performance and the scholarship offered. 

Sports Day at school is always great fun. Along with the excitement of the events, there is the added desire to know if your House has won the Sports Championship Cup! 
Teacher/ student can read out the Sports Day commentary and fill in the House positions for each event - 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Then calculate the points to find out which House has won the Sports Championship Cup. 
GOVERNMENT SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL, DANAPUR 
                        ANNUAL ATHLETIC MEET 
                                   SCORECARD 

Read the following sentences. Each sentence has four words underlined. Select one underlined word that is incorrect and write it in the space provided. The first one has been done as an example:

1. The statue of liberty is designed by Fedreric Auguste Barthold.

2. Is was completely in france in july 1884. 

3. The statue was shipped to New York with 350 pieces.

4. She arrieved there on 17 june 1885.

5. The pieces were put together but the opening ceremony took place on 28 Oct 1886.

Choose the right word from the options given below and fill in the blank.

(a) He______________ breakfast yesterday.
(b) There______________orange juice in the refrigerator.
(c) My room can’t be dirty, I ______________it.
(d) Sneha wrote the programme_________ ; she didn’t need anybody’s help.
(e) If you had come to the theatre last night you______________the play.

Rearrange the jumbled words to form meaningful sentences. Rewrite the sentences using appropriate punctuation marks:

(a) in 2004 / the Nobel Peace prize / Dr. Wangari Maathai / was awarded
_______________________________________________

(b) towards sustainable development / the award / was in / her service / recognition of
_______________________________________________

(c) Nairobi’s Uhuni Park / in 1989 / saved / single-handedly / she
_______________________________________________

(d) which is an NGO / she is / the Green Belt Movement / the founder of
_______________________________________________

(f) has earned / Dr. Wangari Maathai / “Tree Mother of Africa” / the title
_______________________________________________

Look at the notes given below and complete the paragraph that follows by choosing the correct option from the choices given.

Kamala Das alias Kamala Suraiyya - famous Indian writer - published auto
biography - My story - translated - foreign languages.

Kamala Das also (a)_______________ is (b)_______________She (c)_____________ ‘My Story’ when she was 42 years old. Her autobiography (d)________________ into many foreign languages.

Now transfer the points from the Johari Window activity work sheet to the table given below. 
• Common points listed by student and his partner in Column A and C - to be put in 'Open Self 
• The qualities pointed out by the other person (not the student himself) - to be put in 'Blind Self 
• The qualities pointed out by the students (Column A) but unknown to other person - to be put in 'Hidden Self 
• Qualities unknown to student and his partner but which might be known to teacher or some body else may be put in 'unknown self 

Read the following passage on New Zealand.
New Zealand is a Mecca for nature lovers. Throughout most of New Zealand's geological history, it was a bird's paradise. The islands were once part of the southern super - continent Gondwana from which they broke off around 80 million years ago before mammals had evolved and spread.

                                                                                          (courtesy: Terra Green Sept 2008 issue 06)

The underlined words express a relationship usually of space or time between the words with which they stand. Such 'Positional' words which are used before nouns (pre-position) are called prepositions.