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4.4 Unbeatable Super Mom - Mary Kom — My English Coursebook STD 10 — Question

Maharashtra BoardSemi English MediumSTD 10My English Coursebook4.4 Unbeatable Super Mom - Mary Kom10 Marks
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A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Complete the following sentences with the correct alternatives: 
(1) After her victory in the Manipur State, Mary Kom's career started in _______________.
(a) 2001 (b) 2009 (c) 2005 (d) 2000
(2) Mary Kom made her International debut in _______________.
(a) United Kingdom (b) U.S.A (c) United States (d) Manipur

   There had to be one successful story if Indians were to survive in sports and we have that story now. Enough has been said about this great warrior who conquered the world. This warrior is none other than Mary Mangte Kom-the Komqueror and the Komrade. She is famed as a five times World Boxing Champion and the only boxer to win a medal in every one of the six world championships. In the 2012 Olympics, she became the first Indian woman boxer to qualify and win a bronze medal in the 51
kg flyweight category of Boxing.
     Kom was born in Kangthei village, Moirang Lamkhai in Churachandpur district of rural Manipur in eastern India. She came from a poor family. Her parents, Mangte Tonpa Kom and Mangte Akham Kom were tenant farmers who worked in jhum fields.
Kom grew up in humble surroundings, helping her parents with farm related chores, going to school and learning athletics initially and later boxing simultaneously. Her father was a keen wrestler in his younger age.
     She had an eager interest in athletics since childhood and the success of Dingko Singh a fellow Manipuri returned from the 1998 Bangkok Asian games with a gold medal, Kom recollects, had inspired many youngsters in Manipur to try boxing
and she too thought of giving it a try.
     Mary Kom’s career started in 2000 after her victory in the Manipur State women’s boxing championship and the regional championship in West Bengal. In 2001, she started competing at international level. She was only 18 years old when she made her
international debut at the first AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championship in United States, winning a silver medal in the 48 kg weight category. Her greatness is reinforced by the way she apoligized to the whole nation for not being able to win the Gold. She is a legend for sure and an idol for all the sportswomen to look up to.

A2. Complex Factual Activities:
Arrange the following sentences as per their sequence occurred in the passage: 
(a) Mary Kom made her international debut when she was 18 years old.
(b) Dingko Singh won gold medal in 1998 Bangkok Asian games.
(c) Mary Kom started her career after winning Manipur State Women's Boxing Championship.
(d) Mary Kom is a legend for sure.
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Match the following with their opposites:

WordsOpposites
 (1) success (a) young
 (2) winning (b) unable
 (3) old  (c) failure
 (4) able (d) losing

A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Do as directed:
(1) She is a legend for sure.
(a) is she? (b) does she? (c) isn't she? (d) doesn't she?
(2) She was 18 years old. (Frame 'Wh' question to get the underlined part as an answer) 
A5. Personal Response:
(1) What makes the writer call Mary Kom 'a legend'?

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Answer

A1. Simple Factual Activities:
(1) (d) 2000
(2) (c) United States
A2. Complex Factual Activities:
(1) (b) Dingko Singh won gold medal in 1998 Bangkok Asian games.
(2) (c) Mary Kom started her career after winning Manipur State Women's Championship. Boxing
(3) (a) Mary Kom made her international debut when she was 18 years old.
(4) (d) Mary Kom is a legend for sure.
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
(1) success × failure 
(ii) winning × losing
(iii) old × young
(iv) able × unable
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
(1) (c) isn't she?
(2)  How old was she?
A5. Personal Response:
(1) A legend is a famous person, icon or superstar in a particular field. Mary Kom is a famous woman as an Indian boxer. The field is male dominated, but with her efforts and determination. she earned name and fame, so she is a legend not only to the writer but also to all Indians and a real 'torch-bearer' for Indian women.

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A1. Simple Factual Activities:
State whether the following statements are True or False:
(1) Bishamber was a young bridegroom. 
(2) Ramlal had never dreamt that his fourth daughter Bholi would have such a grand wedding.
(3) When Bholi was brought near the sacred fire she was in a red silken bridal dress.
(4) Bholi felt herself lucky to get a well-to-do bridegroom like Bishamber.

    Thus the years passed.
    The village became a small town. The little primary school became high school. There were now a cinema under a tin shed and a cotton ginning mill. The mail train began to stop at their railway station.
     One night, after dinner, Ramlal said to his wife, “Then, shall I accept Bishamber’s proposal?”
    “Yes, certainly” his wife said. “Bholi will be lucky to get such a well to do bridegroom. A big shop, a house of his own and I hear several thousands in the bank. Moreover, he is not asking for any dowry”.
    “That’s right, but he is not so young, you know -almost the same age as I am- and he also limps. Moreover, the children from his first wife are quite grown up”.
    “So what does it matter ?” his wife replied. “Forty five or fifty-it is no great age for a man. We are lucky that he is from another village and does not know about her pockmarks and her lack of sense. If we don’t accept this proposal, she may remain
unmarried all her life.”
    “Yes, but I wonder what Bholi will say”.
    “What will that witless one say ? She is like a dumb cow.”
    “May be you are right”, muttered Ramlal. In the other corner of the courtyard, Bholi lay awake on her cot, and listened to her parents’ whispered conversation.
     Bishamber Nath was a well - to - do grocer. He came with a big party of friends and relations with him for the wedding. A brass band playing a popular tune from an Indian film headed the procession, with the bridegroom riding a decorated horse. Ramlal was
overjoyed to see such pomp and splendour. He had never dreamt that his fourth daughter would have such a grand wedding. Bholi’s elder sisters who had come for the occasion were envious of her luck.
     When the auspicious moment came the priest said, “Bring the bride”. Bholi, clad in a red silken bridal dress, was led to bride’s place near the sacred fire.
    “Garland the bride,” one of his friends prompted Bishamber Nath.

A2. Complex Factual Activities:
Complete the following web :
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A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Complete the following sentences using the words given in the brackets:
(envious, procession, overjoyed)
(1) Most of the youngsters like to dance in marriage _______________.
(2) He was _______________ to see his friend after a long time.
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Change the following sentences in indirect speech:
(1) "What will that witless one say? She is like a dumb cow". "May be you are right," muttered Ramlal.
(2) "Yes, certainly," his wife said, "Bholi will be lucky to get such a well-to-do bridegroom."
A5. Personal Response:
(1) What is your opinion about Bholi's bridegroom? Should she get married to him?
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A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Complete the following sentences:
(1) Bholi's parents. were eager to accept Bishamber's proposal for marriage because they felt that _______________.
(2) _______________ were envious of her luck.

         Thus the years passed.
    The village became a small town. The little primary school became high school. There were now a cinema under a tin shed and a cotton ginning mill. The mail train began to stop at their railway station.
     One night, after dinner, Ramlal said to his wife, “Then, shall I accept Bishamber’s proposal?”
    “Yes, certainly” his wife said. “Bholi will be lucky to get such a well to do bridegroom. A big shop, a house of his own and I hear several thousands in the bank. Moreover, he is not asking for any dowry”.
    “That’s right, but he is not so young, you know -almost the same age as I am- and he also limps. Moreover, the children from his first wife are quite grown up”.
    “So what does it matter ?” his wife replied. “Forty five or fifty-it is no great age for a man. We are lucky that he is from another village and does not know about her pockmarks and her lack of sense. If we don’t accept this proposal, she may remain
unmarried all her life.”
    “Yes, but I wonder what Bholi will say”.
    “What will that witless one say ? She is like a dumb cow.”
    “May be you are right”, muttered Ramlal. In the other corner of the courtyard, Bholi lay awake on her cot, and listened to her parents’ whispered conversation.
     Bishamber Nath was a well - to - do grocer. He came with a big party of friends and relations with him for the wedding. A brass band playing a popular tune from an Indian film headed the procession, with the bridegroom riding a decorated horse. Ramlal was
overjoyed to see such pomp and splendour. He had never dreamt that his fourth daughter would have such a grand wedding. Bholi’s elder sisters who had come for the occasion were envious of her luck.
     When the auspicious moment came the priest said, “Bring the bride”. Bholi, clad in a red silken bridal dress, was led to bride’s place near the sacred fire.
    “Garland the bride,” one of his friends prompted Bishamber Nath.

A2. Complex Factual Activities:
(1) What were the drawbacks of Bishamber as a bridegroom? 
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Find out synonyms from the passage for the following words: 
(1) fortunate
(2) surely
(3) senseless 
(4) jealous 
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Change the following sentences in indirect speech:
(1) "What will that witless one say? She is like a dumb cow". "May be you are right," muttered Ramlal.
(2) "Yes, certainly," his wife said, "Bholi will be lucky to get such a well-to-do bridegroom."
A5. Personal Response:
(1) What is your opinion about Bholi's bridegroom? Should she get married to him?
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A1. Simple Factual Activities:
(1) The garland of marriage was made of _______________.
(a) roses
(b) yellow marigolds
(c) lilies
(2) Bishamber demanded _______________ to get married to Bholi.
(a) two thousand rupees
(b) three thousand rupees
(c) five thousand rupees.

     The bridegroom lifted the garland of yellow marigolds. A woman slipped back the silken veil from the bride’s face. Bishamber took a quick glance. The garland remained poised in his hands. The bride slowly pulled down the veil over her face.
     “Have you seen her ?” said Bishamber to the friend next to him. “She has pockmarks on her face.”
     “So what ? You are not young either.”
     “Maybe. But if I am to marry her, her father must give me five thousand rupees.”
     Ramlal went and placed his turban - his honour - at Bishamber’s feet. “Do not humiliate me so. Take two thousand rupees.”
     “No. Five thousand, or we go back. Keep your daughter.”
     “Be a little considerate, please. If you go back, I can never show my face in the village.”
     “Then out with five thousand.”
     Tears streaming down his face, Ramlal went in, opened the safe and counted out the notes. He placed the bundle at the bridegroom’s feet.
     On Bishamber’s greedy face appeared a triumphant smile. He had gambled and won. “Give me the garland,” he announced.
     Once again the veil was slipped back from the bride face but this time her eyes were not downcast. She was looking up, looking straight at her prospective husband, and in her eyes there was neither anger nor hate, only cold contempt.
      Bishamber raised the garland to place it round the bride’s neck but before he could do so, Bholi’s hand struck out like a streak of lightening and garland was flung into the fire. She got up and threw away the veil.
     “Pitaji” said Bholi in a clear loud voice; and her father, mother, sisters, brothers, relations and neighbours were startled to hear her speak without even the slightest stammer.
     “Pitaji”, take back your money. I am not going to marry this man.”
      Ramlal was thunderstruck. The guests began to whisper, “So shameless! So ugly and so shameless !”
     “Bholi, are you crazy ?” shouted Ramlal. “You want to disgrace your family? Have some regard for out izzat!”
     “For the sake of your izzat,” said Bholi, “I was willing to marry this lame old man. But I will not have such a mean, greedy and contemptible coward as my husband. I won’t, I won’t, I won’t.”
     What a shameless girl! We all thought she was a harmless dumb cow.”

A2. Complex Factual Activities:
Complete the following web :
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A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
(1) garment that covers the head and face
(2) hurt the pride of
(3) joyful and proud especially because of success
(4) related to the future
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Do as directed:
(1) What a shameless girl! (Make it assertive.)
(2) Bishamber raised the garland to place it round the bride's neck. (Frame a wh-question to get the underlined part as an answer)
A5. Personal Response:
(1) What did you learn from Bholi's action of not getting married to Bishamber? 
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A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Choose the correct alternative and complete the following sentences:
(1) Bholi is compared with _______________.
(a) a dumb cow (b) a kind cow (c) a dead cow
(2) _______________ was not ready to get married.
(a) Bishamber (b) Bholi (c) Bholi's friend

     The bridegroom lifted the garland of yellow marigolds. A woman slipped back the silken veil from the bride’s face. Bishamber took a quick glance. The garland remained poised in his hands. The bride slowly pulled down the veil over her face.
     “Have you seen her ?” said Bishamber to the friend next to him. “She has pockmarks on her face.”
     “So what ? You are not young either.”
     “Maybe. But if I am to marry her, her father must give me five thousand rupees.”
     Ramlal went and placed his turban - his honour - at Bishamber’s feet. “Do not humiliate me so. Take two thousand rupees.”
     “No. Five thousand, or we go back. Keep your daughter.”
     “Be a little considerate, please. If you go back, I can never show my face in the village.”
     “Then out with five thousand.”
     Tears streaming down his face, Ramlal went in, opened the safe and counted out the notes. He placed the bundle at the bridegroom’s feet.
     On Bishamber’s greedy face appeared a triumphant smile. He had gambled and won. “Give me the garland,” he announced.
     Once again the veil was slipped back from the bride face but this time her eyes were not downcast. She was looking up, looking straight at her prospective husband, and in her eyes there was neither anger nor hate, only cold contempt.
      Bishamber raised the garland to place it round the bride’s neck but before he could do so, Bholi’s hand struck out like a streak of lightening and garland was flung into the fire. She got up and threw away the veil.
     “Pitaji” said Bholi in a clear loud voice; and her father, mother, sisters, brothers, relations and neighbours were startled to hear her speak without even the slightest stammer.
     “Pitaji”, take back your money. I am not going to marry this man.”
      Ramlal was thunderstruck. The guests began to whisper, “So shameless! So ugly and so shameless !”
     “Bholi, are you crazy ?” shouted Ramlal. “You want to disgrace your family? Have some regard for out izzat!”
     “For the sake of your izzat,” said Bholi, “I was willing to marry this lame old man. But I will not have such a mean, greedy and contemptible coward as my husband. I won’t, I won’t, I won’t.”
     What a shameless girl! We all thought she was a harmless dumb cow.”

A2. Complex Factual Activities:
(1) What shocked the family members?
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Find out synonyms from the passage for the following words:
(1) humiliate
(2) contempt 
(3) prospective
(4) startled 
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Rewrite the following into indirect speech:
(1) "Be a little considerate, please. If you go back, I can never show my face in the village." "Then out with five thousand."
(2) "Pitaji, take back your money. I am not going to marry this man." "Bholi, are you crazy?" shouted Ramlal.
A5. Personal Response:
(1) What did you learn from Bholi's action of not getting married to Bishamber? 
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A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Make a list of the problems that we are facing and creating violence against children -

     I call upon all the governments, intergovernmental agencies, businesses, faith leaders, workers, teachers and NGOs, and each one of us, to put an end to all forms of violence against children. Slavery, trafficking, child marriages, child labour, sexual abuse, and illiteracy these things have no place in any civilised society.
     Friends, we can do this. Governments must make child - friendly policies, and invest in education and young people. Businesses must be more responsible, accountable and open to innovative partnerships.Intergovernmental agencies must work together to accelerate action. Global civil society must rise above the business-as-usual and fragmented agendas. Faith leaders and institutions, and all of us must stand with our children.
     We must be bold, we must be ambitious, and we must have the will. We must keep our promises. Over fifty years ago, on the first day of my school, I met a cobbler boy, my age sitting outside the gate of my school. I asked my teachers: “Why is he working outside? Why is he not with us in the school?” My teachers had no answer. One day, I
gathered the courage to ask the boys’ father. He said: “Sir, I have never thought about it. We are born to work.”
     His answer made me angry. It still makes me angry.

A2. Complex Factual Activities:
Complete the following sentences :
(1) Government should make _______________.
(2) _______________ and _______________ must stand with our children.
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Find out the describing words used for the following noun and make your own sentences by using any combination:
(1) _______________ agencies
(2) _______________ partnership
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Rewrite as indirect speech:
(1) I asked my teachers, "Why is he working outside? Why is he not with us in the school?"
(2) The boy's father said to the writer, "I have never thought about it. We are born to work."
A5. Personal Response:
(1) Why should the government invest in education and young people?
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A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Complete the following sentences using the information given in the passage:
(1) The langur baby was listless and _______________.
(2) The writer's parents and sisters had come out on the veranda and _______________.

    The changed circumstances and the sudden unexpected attack from unknown quarters forced the langur to drop the baby from the sloping roof over the veranda. The baby was listless and appeared to be dead. As its body started to slide down, the excitement of the pack of dogs grew manifold at the prospect of a good kill and meal. Keeping the dogs at bay with the stick, I managed to catch hold of the baby langur’s tail just as it tipped over the edge of the tiled roof. The baby appeared inert and lifeless. It was indeed a male baby.
   By this time, my parents and sisters had come out on to the veranda and were witnessing my rescue operation. Some of our neighbours had also gathered in the distance.
    I took the baby langur to our backyard and gently laid him on the floor inside the poultry coop. His body was full of deep bite marks and scratches. Blood was oozing from some of the wounds. The baby remained motionless. My father provided first aid to clean the wounds and stop the bleeding. I was relieved to find out that the baby was breathing, even though his breaths were shallow.
   Splashes of cold water made the baby stir and after a few shaky attempts, he sat up. He was in state of shock and started trembling like a leaf in the wind. His two little twinkling eyes welled up with tears and he started to sob with a muffled cry - just like a human child would after experiencing trauma. I offered him a peeled banana which he
accepted with his unsteady hand and began taking hesitant bites.

A2. Complex Factual Activities:
Complete the following web and describe the condition of wounded baby langur:
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A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Match the words in column 'A' with their meanings in column 'B':

 Column 'A'Column 'B'
 (1) shaky (a) rose to the surface
 (2) welled up (b) made the sound quieter
 (3) prospect (c) unsteady
 (4) muffled (d) future benefit

A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
(1) He was in a state of shock. (Past Perfect Tense.)
(2) I took the baby langur to our backyard. (Past Perfect Tense.)
A5. Personal Response:
(1) Complete the following :"
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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Who am I? (Identify the character)
(1) I am the washerman's son. - _______________
(2) I am the sweeper. - _______________

    Nathu grumbled to himself as he swept the steps of the Pipalnagar Bank, owned by Seth Govind Ram. He used the small broom hurriedly and carelessly, and the dust, after rising in a cloud above his head settled down again on the steps. As Nathu was
banging his pan against a dustbin, Sitaram, the washerman’s son, passed by.
    Sitaram was on his delivery round. He had a bundle of freshly pressed clothes balanced on his head.
    ‘Don’t raise such dust!’ he called out to Nathu. ‘Are you annoyed because they are still refusing to pay you an extra two rupees a month?’
    ‘I don’t wish to talk about it,’ complained the sweeper-boy. ‘I haven’t even received my regular pay. And this is the twentieth of the month. Who would think a bank would hold up a poor man’s salary? As soon as I get my money, I’m off! Not another week I work in this place.’ And Nathu banged the pan against the dustbin several times, just
to emphasize his point and giving himself confidence.
    ‘Well, I wish you luck,’ said Sitaram. ‘I’ll keep a lookout for any jobs that might suit you.’ And he plodded barefoot along the road, the big bundle ofclothes hiding most of his head and shoulders.
     At the fourth home he visited, Sitaram heard the lady of the house mention that she was in need of a sweeper. Tying his bundle together, he said; ‘I know of a sweeper boy who’s looking for work. He can start from next month. He’s with the bank just now but they aren’t giving him his pay, and he wants to leave.’
    ‘Is that so?’ said Mrs. Srivastava. ‘Well, tell him to come and see me tomorrow.’ 

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
Arrange the following sentences as per their sequence occurred in the passage:
(1) Nathu complained about his irregular pay.
(2) Nathu used the small broom hurriedly.
(3) Sitaram called out to Nathu.
(4) Nathu grumbled as he swept the steps of the bank.
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Cross out the odd man:
(1) sweeper, hooligan, beggar, declare, locker
(2) hurriedly, carelessly, salary, definitely, suddenly
(3) imminent, latest, pavement, awful, shocking
(4) morning, scattering, raising, collecting, shouting
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
(1) He called out to Nathu. (Rewrite the sentence in Past Continuous Tense.)
(2) Mrs Srivastava said, "Tell him to come and see me tomorrow." (Change into indirect speech.)
A5. Personal Response:
(1) What qualities do you find in Sitaram?
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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Complete the following sentences using information in the passage:
(1) He flapped his wings once and _______________.
(2) He turned his beak sideways and cawed _______________.

    Then he completely forgot that he had not always been able to fly, and commended himself to dive and soar and curve, shrieking shrilly.
    He was near the sea now, flying straight over it, facing straight out over the ocean. He saw a vast green sea beneath him, with little ridges moving over it and he turned his beak sideways and cawed amusedly.
    His parents and his brothers and sister had landed on this green flooring ahead of him. They were beckoning to him, calling shrilly. He dropped his legs to stand on the green sea. His legs sank into it. He screamed with fright and attempted to rise again flapping his wings. But he was tired and weak with hunger and he could not rise, exhausted by the strange exercise. His feet sank into the green sea, and then his belly touched it and he sank no farther. He was floating on it, and around him his family was screaming, praising him and their beaks were offering him scraps of dog-fish. He had made his first flight.

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
(1) What did the young seagull forget? What did he do then? 
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Read the following words and make meaningful sentences of your own by using them:*(1) beckon
(2) curveting
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Do as directed:
(1) He was near the sea now. (Frame a Wh-question to get the underlined as an answer.)
(2) But he was tired and weak with hunger. (Use 'not only but also'.)
A5. Personal Response:
(1) How does your family help you to achieve your goal?
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A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Answer in one word: 
(1) The motherland of Kailash Satyarthi
(2) The country which Iqbal Masih represents
(3) The place where Nobel Prize distribution programme was held
(4) The ancient texts of wisdom

     My dear children of the world ... Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, distinguished members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, dear brother Tom Harkin, brothers and sisters, and my dear daughter Malala.
      From this podium of peace and humanity, I am deeply honoured to recite a mantra from the ancient texts of wisdom, Vedas. This mantra carries a prayer, an aspiration and a resolve that has the potential to liberate humanity from all man-made crises.
      Let’s walk together. In the pursuit of global progress, not a single person should be left out or left behind in any corner of the world, from East to West, from South to North. Let’s speak together, let our minds come together! Learning from the experiences of our ancestors, let us together create knowledge for all that benefits all.
      I bow to my late parents, to my motherland India, and to the mother earth.
      With a warm heart I recall how thousands of times, I have been liberated, each time I have freed a child from slavery. In the first smile of freedom on their beautiful faces, I see the Gods smiling.
      I give the biggest credit of this honour to my movement’s Kaalu Kumar, Dhoom Das and Adarsh Kishore from India and Iqbal Masih from Pakistan who made the supreme sacrifice for protecting the freedom and dignity of children. I humbly accept this award on behalf of all such martyrs, my fellow activists across the world and my countrymen.
      My journey from the great land of Lord Buddha, Guru Nanak and Mahatma Gandhi; India to Norway is a connect between the two centres of global peace and brotherhood, ancient and modern.
      Friends, the Nobel Committee has generously invited me to present a “lecture.” Respectfully, I am unable to do that. Because, I am representing here - the sound of silence. The cry of innocence. And, the face of invisibility. I represent millions of those children who are left behind and that’s why I have kept an empty chair here as a reminder.

A2. Complex Factual Activities:
Complete the following sentences:
(1) The writer humbly accepts this award on behalf of all  _______________.
(2) The journey of the writer, that is India to Norway is a _______________.
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Write the describing words for the following nouns from the passage:
(1) credit
(2) sacrifices
(3) chair
(4) pence
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Make adjectives of:
(1) honour
(2) create
(3) silence
(4) peace
A5. Personal Response:
(1) Suggest any four ways to establish peace in the world.
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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Complete the following sentences with the help of the information from the passage:
(1) Dr. Stephen Hawking was born on _______________.
(2) Courage is the quality _______________.

    Exactly 300 years after the death of the great scientist Galileo, Dr Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford, London on the eighth day of January 1942. Little did his parents know that one day their little boy would be hailed as one of the greatest scientists
of this century. Neither could anybody imagine that his mind would soar up into space like light. More importantly, none could predict that he would be the very epitome of courage.
    Courage is a wonderful thing. It is that quality, which makes people not lose heart when faced with a great calamity. It would not be an exaggeration to say that Dr Stephen Hawking, a living legend of Cosmology, is the very personification of courage
and hope. Except his mind, his whole body is bound to a wheelchair, thanks to a cruel quirk of fate. Yet, he is one of the greatest scientists of this century.
     An average child, Stephen grew up to be a normal teenager, full of mischief and lots of love for music and mathematics. Even though his father wanted him to study medicine, he was bent on studying mathematics. The University of Oxford, at that time, did not have a course in mathematics so he opted to study physics instead. 

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
(1) What do you know about Dr. Stephen Hawking from this passage? 
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Classify the following words into verbs, adjectives and nouns:
whole, know, little, predict, calamity, legend, mind, physics, great, imagine, wonderful, cruel, courage, faced, grew, heart, fate, course.people.
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Make the following sentences exclamatory:
(i) Courage is truly a wonderful thing.
(ii) He was very clumsy.
A5. Personal Response:
(1) Do you think, that courage is a wonderful thing? Why do you think so?
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