A1. Simple Factual Activities: State whether the following statements are True or False: (i) The spider's webs are delicate as well as weak. (ii) The teamwork and perseverance of ants were impressive. We went to a rocky beach and saw the spread of the majestic ocean and the rocks alongside, carved,sculpted and shaped by the water. Water is so gentle, rock so hard, yet, as the water flows over it every day, for years, the rock gives in. It takes the shape that the water commands. Our problems are so colossal and we are so small, yet if we persist... We saw small bits of grass peeping through the small cracks in a concrete pavement. It left us thinking: however impossible things may look, there is always an opening... We saw a tree bare of all leaves in the cold winter months. We thought its chapter was over. But three months passed, spring set in and the tree was back to its green majesty once again, full of leaves, flowers, birds and life. What if we too had the conviction that, however difficult things are right now, it will not remain so for ever. Remember, this too shall pass. We saw an army of ants lugging a fly which was at least ten times the ant’s size. The ants organized themselves around the fly, lifted it on frail feelers and carried it to quite a distance. Their teamwork and perseverance were impressive. What if we too are consistent, organized, focused...Spider webs are delicate,yet very strong. A rainbow colours the entire sky.Oysters take in a grain of sand they open up with a pearl. Innumerable stars shine across the infinite sky. Clouds take new shapes with every passing moment.The wind makes trees dance with unhindered passion. Water, without hint of ego, changes its form according to the dictates of the sun and the wind. When we see a caterpillar turn into a butterfly, a flower turn into a fruit, we experience the alchemy of nature... we touch it and become gold ourselves. A2. Complex Factual Activities: Mention what you learn from the following: (Νοv. '20) (i) Bits of grass peeping through small cracks... (ii) Tree bare in winter blooms in spring..... A3. Activity based on Vocabulary: Match the words with their meanings: AB(i) Majestic(a) Huge/massive(ii) Persist.(b) Grand(iii) Colossal(c) Firm belief(iv) Conviction(d) Continue A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar: Do as directed: (Nov. '20) (i) It takes the shape of water. (Add a question tag.) (ii) We saw small bits of grass. (Pick out the verb and state whether it is Transitive or Intransitive.) A5. Personal Response: (i) How does nature succeed in its 'Alchemy'?What can it turn a small person into?

A1. Simple Factual Activities: (i) False (ii) True A2. Complex Factual Activities: We learn that: (i) however impossible things may look, there is always an opening (ii) however difficult things are right now, it will not remain so for ever A3. Activities based on Vocabulary: AB(i) Majestic(b) Grand(ii) Persist.(d) Continue(iii) Colossal(a) Huge/massive(iv) Conviction(c) Firm belief A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar: (i) It takes the shape of water, doesn't it? (ii) Saw - verb. It is Transitive'. A5. Personal Response: (i) Nature succeeds in its 'Alchemy' by changing things in a mysterious way. It can turn a small person into anything he/she wishes; one touches nature and becomes gold oneself.<

A1. Simple Factual Activities: State whether the following statem…

A1.Simple Factual Activities:
(i) In the mid-1970's what did the Hawking family do?

Eventually, however, doctors did diagnose Hawking with the early stages of ALS. It was devastating news for him and his family, but a few events prevented him from becoming completely despondent. The first of these came while Hawking was still in the hospital. There, he shared a room with a boy suffering from leukemia. Relative to what his roommate was going through, Hawking later reflected, his situation seemed more tolerable. Not long after he was released from the hospital, Hawking had a dream that he was going to be executed. He said this dream made him realize that there were still things to do with his life.
In a sense, Hawking’s disease helped him become the noted scientist he is today. Before the diagnosis, Hawking hadn’t always focused on his studies. “Before my condition was diagnosed, I had been very bored with life,” he said. “There had not seemed to be anything worth doing.” With the sudden realization that he might not even live long enough to earn his Ph.D, Hawking poured himself into his work and research.
As physical control over his body diminished (he’d be forced to use a wheelchair by 1969), the effects of his disease started to slow down. Over time, however, Hawking’s ever-expanding career was accompanied by an ever-worsening physical state. By the mid-1970s, the Hawking family had taken in one of Hawking’s graduate students to help manage his care and work.He could still feed himself and get out of bed, but virtually everything else required assistance. In addition, his speech had become increasingly slurred, so that only those who knew him well could understand him. In 1985 he lost his voice for good following a tracheotomy. The resulting situation required 24-hour nursing care for the acclaimed physicist.
It also put in peril Hawking’s ability to do his work.

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
(i) Make a list of Hawking's physical inabilities after 1963.
A3. Activity based on Vocabulary:
Choose three synonyms for each of the following:
(i) acclaimed :
(a) renowned (b) famous (c) celebrated (d) socialite.
(ii) peril :
(a) unease (b) danger (c) difficulty (d) trouble.
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
(i) Pick out the determiners:
(a) A few events prevented him from becoming completely despondent.
(b) His situation seemed more tolerable.
(ii) The resulting situation required 24-hour nursing care for the acclaimed physicist.
(Underline the words used as adjectives.)
A5. Personal Response:
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Justify your stand/answer by quoting a line from the passage.
(i) Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

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A1.Simple Factual Activities:
(i) The gift Jim had brought for Della was __________ .
(ii) The beautiful present flashed with __________ .

White fingers and nimble tore at the string and paper. And then an ecstatic scream of joy; and then, alas! a quick feminine change to hysterical tears and wails, necessitating the immediate employment of all the comforting powers of the lord of the flat.
For there lay The Combs—the set of combs, side and back, that Della had worshipped long in a Broadway window. Beautiful combs, pure tortoise shell, with jeweled rims—just the shade to wear in the beautiful vanished hair. They were expensive combs, she knew, and her heart had simply craved and yearned over them without the least hope of possession. And now, they were hers, but the tresses that should have adorned the coveted adornments were gone.
But she hugged them to her bosom, and at length she was able to look up with dim eyes and a smile and say: “My hair grows so fast, Jim!”
And then Della leaped up like a little singed cat and cried, “Oh, oh!”
Jim had not yet seen his beautiful present. She held it out to him eagerly upon her open palm. The dull precious metal seemed to flash with a reflection of her bright and ardent spirit.
“Isn’t it a dandy, Jim? I hunted all over town to find it. You’ll have to look at the time a hundred times a day now. Give me your watch. I want to see how it looks on it.”
Instead of obeying, Jim tumbled down on the couch and put his hands under the back of his head and smiled.
“Dell,” said he, “let’s put our Christmas presents away and keep ‘em a while. They’re too nice to use just at present. I sold the watch to get the money to buy your combs. And now suppose you put the chops on.”
The magi, as you know, were wise men— wonderfully wise men—who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were, no doubt, wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of duplication. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts, these two were the wisest. Of all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
Pick out and rewrite the exact sentences which indirectly imply the following :
(i) Della's elated mood underwent a change as she opened her gift.
(ii) Jim wanted to put the Christmas presents away and get back to daily life.
A3. Activity based on Vocabulary:
FIII in the blanks with words from the passage that are the opposites of the underlined words :
(i) Something that is not ______ is ______ .
(ii) Something that is not ______ is ______ .
(iii) Men who are not ______ are ______ .
(iv) Something that is not ______ is ______.
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Add the appropriate Guestion Tags :
(i) Della leaped up, ....... ?
(ii) You'll have to look at the time, ........ ?
(iii) They were expensive combs, ........ ?
(iv) My hair grows so fast, ........ ?.
A5. Personal Response:
(i) Justify the title of the story, 'The Gift of the Magi'.

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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Pick out the statements that are false and write Them correctly:
(i) On the beach, the author found rocks carved and sculpted by the wind.
(ii) The hibiscus flower smiles with the sun and Hances with the wind.
(iii) Rocks take the shape that the water commands.
(iv) Our problems are big and so are we.

To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour

Something, as tiny as a grain of sand, can spark off an idea or imagination of a huge
significance to the world. One can witness and experience the beauty of Heaven in something as small as wild flower and derive joy forever. Only one should have the eyes and time to see it.
Infinity is endless space; but your small palm can hold the destiny of earth through your efforts.Eternity is endless time; but just an hour in your life can make a difference to the world forever.
(Great deeds can surpass the limits of time and space. They never die.)
We instinctively turn to outdoor activities and nature as a way of relaxing and enhancing our well being. Nature soothes and nurtures. Nature fulfils and
motivates. Nature whispers and commands.
Are you listening?
When I do, it leaves me in complete awe.
We have a hibiscus plant in our garden. Every fortnight a flower blooms on it-big, bright and tender. Through the day it smiles with the sun and dances with the wind, but as evening approaches, it starts wilting. The morning after, it withers completely and by evening it falls and becomes one with the earth again. The flower comes to life only for a day, yet it does so in full splendour. What if we too lived our life, however short, to its fullest ?
We went to a rocky beach and saw the spread of the majestic ocean and the rocks alongside, carved, sculpted and shaped by the water. Water is so gentle, rock so hard, yet, as the water flows over it every day, for years, the rock gives in. It takes the shape that the water commands. Our problems are so colossal and we are so small, yet if we persist...

A2. Complex Factual Activities:
(i) The writer explains the contrasting features of 'water' and 'rock' in the lesson. Write all the features of both water and rock in the given table.
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
(i) Pick out the examples of concrete nouns from the passage.
Concrete nouns nouns that we can touch or see.
(ii) Pick out the examples of abstract nouns from the passage.
Abstract nouns nouns that we can't touch or see.
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
(i) Choose the correct 'not only ... but also..." form of the sentence:
Natures soothes and nurtures.
(a) Not only nature soothes but nurtures also.
(b) Nature soothes not only but also nurtures.
(c) Nature soothes but also nurtures not only.
(d) Nature not only soothes but also nurtures.
(ii) By evening it falls and becomes one with the earth again. (Rewrite using the -ing form of the underlined word.)"
A5. Personal Response:
(i) How do you deal with difficulties and problems?

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A1.Simple Factual Activities:
Complete the web :

The asparagus appeared. I watched her thrust them down her throat in large mouthfuls. At last, she finished.
“Coffee ?” I said.
“Yes, just an ice cream and coffee,” she answered. I was past caring now, so I ordered coffee for myself and an ice cream and coffee for her.
“You know, there’s one thing I thoroughly believe in,” she said, as she ate the ice cream. “One should always get up from a meal feeling one could eat a little more.”
“Are you still hungry?” I asked faintly.
“Oh, no, I’m not hungry. You see, I don’t eat luncheon. I have a cup of coffee in the morning and then dinner, but I never eat more than one thing for luncheon. I was speaking for you.”
“Oh, I see.” Then a terrible thing happened. While we were waiting for the coffee, the head waiter came up to us bearing a large basket full of huge peaches. But surely peaches were not in season then? Lord knew what they cost! I knew a little later, for my guest going on with her conversation, absent-mindedly took one.

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
(i) 'Then a terrible thing happened.' Describe the narrator's emotions at this point in the story. Why does he not express this emotion?.
A3. Activity based on Vocabulary:
Mateh the columns :

'A'	'B'
(i) bead	(a) peaches
(ii) terrible	(b) mouthfuls
(iii) huge	(c) waiter
(iv) large	(d) thing

A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Rewrite the following in reported speech :
(i) "I'm not in the least hungry," my guest sighed, "but if you insist, I don't mind having some asparagus."
A5. Personal Response:
(i) " 'I was past caring now'. Explain why, in your view, the narrator feels this way.

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A1.Simple Simple l Factual Activities:
Choose the correct alternatives from the given statements:
(i) How can academic brilliance be diminished?
(a) by disturbance and frustration
(b) by going offtrack
(c) by a coating of dust
(d) by losing focus and seriousness
(ii) Who had directly influenced Dr Kalam's beliefs?
(a) Professor Satish Dhawan (b) Srijan
(c) God (d) countless great minds

A few years later, in the early 1980s, Professor Satish Dhawan, the Director of ISRO, under whom Dr Kalam had made his first unsuccessful launch in 1970 and then a successful one in 1980, had provided him with more soul-shaping wisdom.
One day in 2012, we were discussing the number of Ph.Ds Dr Kalam had received. He said to me, ‘Srijan, Professor Dhawan had so many master’s degrees- all from the best institutions, no less-so I asked him how one can become so academically accomplished.He responded saying that academic brilliance is no different from the brilliance of a mirror, which can be diminished by a coating of dust. Only when the dust is removed, does the mirror shine and the reflection becomes clear. We can remove the impurities obscuring our souls by living pure and ethical lives, and by serving humanity. And then God will shine through us.’ These words took me back to my meeting with Dr Kalam after my graduation from IIMA, in 2009. At the time, he had advised me to use my degree and gold medal to transform the society I lived in. Back in the present moment, it suddenly struck me that Dr Kalam’s advice had, in fact, directly resonated from Professor Dhawan’s beliefs. The more I lived and worked with Dr Kalam, the more I realized that through his words of wisdom I was getting to learn from countless great
minds.

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
(i) 1970
(ii) 1980
(iii) 2009
(iv) 2012
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Match the words in column 'A' with their their opposites in column 'B':

'A'	'B'
(i) asked	(a) increased
(ii) obscure	(b) impure
(iii) diminished	(c) clear
(iv) pure	(d) responded

A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
(i) Academic brilliance is no different from the brilliance of a mirror. (Rewrite without 'no'.)
(ii) God will shine through us. (Add a question tag.)
A5. Personal Response:
Write in your own words what the following expressions convey in the context they occur in the text.
(i) Only when the dust is removed, does the mirror shine and the reflection becomes clear.

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A1. Simple Factual Activities:
State whether the following statements are True or False:
(i) The hermit was well known.
(ii) The hermit spoke usually to everyone.
(iii) The hermit dug the ground easily
(iv) The hermit was strong.

Equally varied were the answers to the second question. Some said, the people, the king most needed,were his councillors; others the priests; others the doctors while some said the warriors were the most necessary.
To the third question about what was the most important occupation, some replied that the most important thing in the world was science. Others said it was skill in warfare; and others, again, that it was religious worship. The king was convinced by none of
these answers and gave the reward to none.
He decided, instead to go to a hermit who was widely renowned for his wisdom. The hermit lived in a small hut in a forest which he never left. He spoke only to common folk. So the king put on simple clothes and approaching the hermit’s cell, dismounted his horse and left his bodyguard behind.
When the king arrived, the hermit was digging the ground in front of his hut. He greeted the king but went on digging. The hermit was frail and weak, and each time he struck the ground with the spade and turned over a little earth, he breathed heavily. The king went up to him and said, “I have come to you, wise hermit,to ask you to answer three questions-How can I learn to do the right thing at the right time ? Who are the
people I most need, and to whom should I, therefore,pay most attention? And what affairs are the most aimportant and need my first attention?”
The hermit listened to the king but said nothing. He just spat on his hand and resumed digging. The king watched in silence for a while.

A2. Complex Factual Activities:
State whether you agree/disagree with the following statements: (March 20)
(i) The hermit was strong and agile.
(ii) The king came to the hermit to ask three questions.
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
(i) From the passage, find the collocations for the following:
(a) frail and .................. . (b) simple ................. .
(ii) The following compound words from the passage are spelt in jumbled order.
Rearrange the letters to make them meaningful.
(a) d u b g y r o a d (b) f r a w e r a
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Do as directed: (March 20)
(i) When the king arrived the hermit was digging the ground. (Name and identify the subordinate clause.)
(ii) The hermit listened to the king but said nothing. (Rewrite the sentence beginning Though......)
A5. Personal Response:
(i) The learned people were sometimes divided in their opinions, different people giving quite different answers; at other times, none of them gave an answer. They all suggested ways to look for an answer. Can you point out one example of each?

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A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Fill in the blanks:
(i) Steve designed the ................ computer.
(ii) ................. copied the Macintosh computer.
(iii) It was impossible to connect the dots looking ................ when Steve was in college.
(iv) You can only connect the dots looking ................. .

Ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. If I had never dropped in on that course in college the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or for that matter even proportionally spaced fonts.
And since Windows just copied Mac, it’s likely no personal computer would have them. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very clear looking backwards 10 years later.
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in some things - your gut,destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

A2. Complex Factual Activities:
Say how:
(i) The calligraphy classes helped Steve Jobs after 10 years.
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Use the following idioms/phrases in sentences of your own:
(i) look backwards
(ii) look forward
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Name the tense of the underlined verbs to include Time and Aspect:
(i) We were designing the first Macintosh computer.
(ii) It had made all the difference.
A5. Personal Response:
(i) Write about something which you learned in the past and which has helped you in the present.

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A1.Simple Simple l Factual Activities:
State whether the statements are True or False:
(i) It is necessary for science and faith to function true to their roles.
(ii) Kalam's status as a great scientist is in dispute.
(iii) Both fact and faith are required for a better world.
(iv) There is never any conflict between believers in science and believers in religion.

We often witness conflict between two groups of people - one that believes in science and the other that believes in religion.
Dr Kalam was a great scientist - this is indisputable.But he was also convinced that fact and faith can, together, create a better planet. He once told me, ‘Science and faith must coexist for the human good. Science provides focus-focus helps us solve questions, discover the truth and conceive inventions.Faith provides perspective - perspective helps us see how our creations and discoveries go on to impact a combination vital for the success of societies. Science accelerates progress and faith curbs it within reasonable limitations. If the two function true to their roles, they will work together for the betterment of humanity.’

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
Match the words in Column 'A' with associating words given in Column 'B':

'A'	'B'
(1) Science and faith	(a) Created by fact and faith
(2) Science	(b) Success of societies
(3) Better Planet	(c) Betterment of humanity
(4) Creations and Discoveries	(d) Believers of science and religions
(5) Conflict	(e) Solves questions, discovers truth, conceives inventions

A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
From the passage pick out one word for each of the following:
(i) increase the speed
(ii) point of view
(iii) keeps something within limits
(iv) unable to be challenged or doubted
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions:
(i) Conflict often arises .............. people who believe ........... science and people who believe ........... religion.
A5. Personal Response:
(i) Which, according to you, is more important for our planet to survive - science or religion? Give your reasons in brief.

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A1. Choose the correct alternative:
(i) Which state does Mary Kom belong to?
(a) Mizoram (b) Manipur
(c) Gujarat (d) Assam
(ii) Who inspired Mary Kom to choose Boxing as a career?
(a) Dingko Singh (b) Sushil Kumar
(c) Vijender Singh (d) Adams
(iii) What were her parents?
(a) Teachers (b) Boxers
(c) Tenant farmers (d) Horticulturists
(iv) When did Mary Kom make her International debut in Boxing?
(a) At 20 (b) At 18
(c) At 48 (d) At 38

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, who 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 apologised 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. What difficulties did Mary Kom face in her childhood?
A3. Find out one word for the following from the passage:
(a) shifting cultivation - ......................
(b) strengthened - ......................
(c) first public appearance - ......................
(d) one who makes history - ......................
A4. Do as directed:
(i) She started competing at international level.
(Rewrite using an infinitive.)
(ii) Her father was a keen wrestler.
(Rewrite as an exclamatory sentence.)
A5. 'Sports are Important in our life'. Explain.

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A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Complete the following:
(i) Singh had successfully led ..................... .
(ii) Singh played a major role in transforming the IAF into ................... globally and the fourth biggest in the world.
(iii) Singh was honoured with the rank of Marshal ........................ .
(iv ) Singh's contribution was most outstanding during ....................... .

Air Force Marshal Arjan Singh, an icon of India’s military history, will always be remembered as a war hero who had successfully led a young IAF during the 1965 Indo-Pak war.
The only officer to attain the highest post of Marshal, the Air Force equivalent to the Army’s five star field marshal, Singh was a fearless and exceptional pilot who had flown more than 60 different types of aircraft.
He played a major role in transforming the IAF into one of the most potent air forces globally and the fourth biggest in the world. “His contribution to the Indian Air Force is monumental to the least. The IAF grew with him. He was the epitome of military leadership in classical sense and it is, therefore, not surprising that he was honoured with the rank of Air Force Marshal,” former Vice Chief of IAF Kapil Kak
said.
Singh was honoured with the rank of Marshal on the Republic Day in 2002. Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw and K M Cariappa were the only two army generals honoured with the rank of Field Marshal.
Known as a man of few words, Singh was not only a fearless pilot but also had profound knowledge about air power and applied it in a wide spectrum of areas. Singh had assiduously led the IAF during the 1965 war and denied success to Pakistani Air Force though it was better equipped with American support.“His most outstanding contribution was during that war,” said Kak.

A2. Complex Factual Activities:
(i) Explain why Air Force Marshal Arjan Singh is considered an outstanding military personality.
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
(i) Pick out the adjectives ending in -al' from the extract and give their noun forms:
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
(i) Singh was not only a fearless pilot but had profound knowledge about field power.
(Rewrite without using 'not'.)
(ii) He will always be remembered as a war hero. (Rewrite using 'never'.)
A5. Personal Response:
(i) Would you like to be a part of the IAF? Give reasons for your answer.

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