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A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Write if the following statements are True or False: 
(i) Joan is angry when Robert tells her to get out.
(ii) Joan feels that Squire Jack is kind.
(iii) The steward's name is Bertrand de Poulengey.
(iv) Robert thinks that the girl's idea is crazy.

Robert : (Shocked) To free Orleans!
Joan : (Simply) Yes, squire. Three men will be enough for you to send with me. Polly
and Jack have promised to come with me.
Robert : You mean Monsieur de Poulengey?
Joan : Yes, Squire Jack will come willingly.He is a very kind gentleman, and gives
me money to give to the poor. I think John Godsave will come, and Dick the Archer, and their servants, John of Honecourt and Julian. There will be no trouble for you, squire. I have arranged it all. You have only to give the order.
Robert : (To the steward) Is this true about Monsieur de Poulengey ?
Steward : (Eagerly) Yes, sir, and about Monsieur de Metz too. They both want to go with her.
Robert : (Goes to the window, and shouts into the court-yard.) Send Monseiur de Poulengey to me, will you? (He turns to Joan) Get out and wait in the yard.
Joan : (Smiling brightly at him) Right, squire. (She goes out).
Robert : (To the steward) Go with her. Stay within call and keep your eye on her.
I shall have her up here again. (The steward retreats hastily. Bertrand de Poulengey, a French guard, enters, salutes and stands waiting.)
Robert : She says you, Jack and Dick have offered to go with her. What for ? Do
you take her crazy idea of going to the Dauphin seriously ?  

A2. Complex Factual Activities:
Name the persons needed by Joan to free Orleans.
(i) Explain why Joan wanted to meet Captain Squire.
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
(i) Pick out four adverbs of manner from the passage.
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar: 
Make the following sentences affirmative without changing the meaning:

(i) Polly and Jack have promised to come with me.(Rewrite using "that".)
(ii) You have only to give the order. (Rewrite using 'nothing'.) 
A5. Personal Response:
(i) 'I have arranged it all'. What does this statement tell you about Joan?

Answer

A1. Simple Factual Activities:
(i) False
(ii) True
(iii) False
(iv) True
A2. Complex Factual Activities:
(i) Joan needed the following persons to free Orleans: Bertrand de Poulengey, Squire Jack. John Godsave, Dick the Archer, and their servants John of Honecourt and Julian.
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
simply, willingly, eagerly, eagerly, brightly brightly (hastily,seriously).
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
(i) Polly and Jack have promised that they will
(ii) You have to do nothing but give the order.
A5. Personal Response:
(i) It tells us that Joan had good leadership qualities. She had the ability to inspire others and make them do as she wished. She was also a good organiser.

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(ii) has inner strength
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A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
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A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
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A2. Complex Factual Activity:
Pick out and rewrite the exact sentences which indirectly imply the following :
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(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 :
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(iii) Men who are not ______ are ______ .
(iv) Something that is not ______ is ______.
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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, ........ ?.
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(i) Justify the title of the story, 'The Gift of the Magi'.

A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Fill in the blanks with the correct alternatives:
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(ii) All of northern France and some parts of the south-west were under foreign control.

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Robert :
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Robert : This girl is mad. Why didn’t you tell me so, you blockhead?
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Robert : I shall send you back to your father with orders to put you under lock and key.
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A2. Complex Factual Activities:
(i) Joan did not ask for many soldiers from the Captain Squire.
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Write the verb forms of the following words:
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A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar: 
Rewrite the following sentences using 'as well as...':

(i) You have fifty armed soldiers and dozens of strong servants to carry out my orders.
(ii) You are to give me a horse and armour and some soldiers.
A5. Personal Response:
(i) What, according to you, is the steward's opinion about Joan?
A1. Simple Factual Activities:
What/Whom do the underlined pronouns stand for?
(i) Her words have put fire into me.
(ii) 1 feel sure enough to take her to Chinon.
(iii) He beat the English at Montargis.
(iv) I feel like a fool.

Poulengey : (Slowly) There is something about her. It may be worth trying.
Robert : Oh, come on Polly ! You must be out of your mind !
Poulengey : (Unmoved) What is wrong with it ? The Dauphin is in Chinon, like a rat in a corner, except that he won’t fight. The English will take Orleans. He’ll not be
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Robert : He beat the English the year before last at Montargis. I was with him.
Poulengey : But his men are cowed and now he can’t work miracles. And I tell you that
nothing can save our side now but a miracle.
Robert : Miracles are alright, Polly. The only difficulty about them is that they don’t happen nowadays.
Poulengey : I used to think so. I’m not so sure now.There is something about her. I think the girl herself is a bit of a miracle. Anyhow, this is our last chance.Let’s see what she can do.
Robert : (Wavering) You really think that ?
Poulengey : (Turning) Is there anything else left for us to think? Let’s take a chance. Her words have put fire into me.
Robert : (Giving up) Whew! You’re as mad as she is.
Poulengey : (Obstinately) We want a few mad people now. See where the same ones
have landed us!
Robert : I feel like a fool. Still, if you feel sure... ?
Poulengey : I feel sure enough to take her to Chinon unless you stop me.
Robert : Do you think I ought to have another talk with her ?
Poulengey : (Going to the window) Yes! Joan, come up. (Joan enters)

A2. Complex Factual Activities:
Give reasons:
(i) The Dauphin was not fit to be the king and heir.
A3. Activity based on Vocabulary:
Make sentences of your own using the words/ expressions given below:
(i) cowed (ii) obstinately 
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Make the following sentences Affirmative without changing the meaning:
(i) I am not so sure, now.
(ii) He will not be able to stop them.
A5. Personal Response:
(i)  After talking to Poulengey what change do you notice in Robert?<
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Select the correct alternative and completeate the following:
(i) Wants to do this, so that no one is left behind in any corner of the world : ................ .
(walk together/remember his ancestors)
(ii) Wants to do this, to show respect to his late parents: ............... . (bow to them/speak to them)
(iii) Feels if we do this, our minds will come together: ................. . (smile/speak together)
(iv) Feels this, each time he frees a child from slavery : ............... .(honoured/liberated)

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A2. Complex Factual Activity:

Complete the web-chart:
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A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
(i) Choose the correct meaning of : dignity
(a) self-pride  (b) self-support  (c) self-esteem
(ii) Pick out from the passage the noun forms of the following words:
(a) dignified (b) pursue
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Rewrite the following sentences using 'not only....but also...':
(i) This mantra carries a prayer, an aspiration and a resolve that has the potential to liberate humanity from all man-made crises.
(ii) I bow to my late parents, to my motherland India and to the mother earth.
A5. Personal Response:
(i) Write about the various problems that children are facing today.
A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Fill in the blanks with the correct alternatives:
(i) The .................. is called a 'blockhead' by the squire.(Robert/steward)
(ii) The squire's name is .................... . (Robert/Dauphin)
(iii)The price of a horse is ................... .(17 to 18 francs/sixteen francs)
(iv) The ................. will give the girl whatever she needs to free Orleans. (Dauphin/Squire)

   The war fought between England and France from 1337 to 1453 has come to be known as the Hundred Years War. Joan was a peasant girl born in eastern France, who
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Robert :
I told you to throw the girl out. You have fifty armed soldiers and dozens of
strong servants to carry out my orders. Are they afraid of her ?
Steward : No sir, we are afraid of you, but she puts courage in us. She really doesn’t
seem to be afraid of anything. Perhaps you could frighten her, sir.
Robert : (grimly) Perhaps, where is she now?
Steward : Down in the courtyard, sir.(Robert goes to the window and asks the soldiers to send the girl up.)
(The girl enters. She is a well-built,strong country girl of 17 to 18 years.The squire’s glare neither frightens hernor stops her. She speaks confidently.)
Joan : Good morning, Captain Squire. You are to give me a horse and armour
and some soldiers, and send me to the Dauphin.
Robert : This girl is mad. Why didn’t you tell me so, you blockhead?
Steward : Sir, do not anger her. Give her what she wants.
Robert : I shall send you back to your father with orders to put you under lock and key.
Joan : You think you will, squire. But it won’t happen that way. You said you would
not see me. But here I am.
Robert : So, you are assuming that I’ll give you what you want.
Joan : Yes, squire. (Continues busily) A horse will cost sixteen francs. It is a big amount of money. But I can save it on the armour. I don’t need beautiful armour made to my measure. I can find a soldier’s armour that will fit me well enough. I shall not want many soldiers. The Dauphin will give me, all I need, to free Orleans.

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Give reasons:
(i) Explain why Joan wanted to meet Captain Squire.
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Classify the following words into adjectives and nouns and complete the table given below:
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Make the following sentences affirmative without changing the meaning:

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(ii) Robert accused Poulengey ........................ .

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Robert : Oh, come on Polly ! You must be out of your mind !
Poulengey : (Unmoved) What is wrong with it ? The Dauphin is in Chinon, like a rat in a corner, except that he won’t fight. The English will take Orleans. He’ll not be
able to stop them.
Robert : He beat the English the year before last at Montargis. I was with him.
Poulengey : But his men are cowed and now he can’t work miracles. And I tell you that
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Robert : Miracles are alright, Polly. The only difficulty about them is that they don’t happen nowadays.
Poulengey : I used to think so. I’m not so sure now.There is something about her. I think the girl herself is a bit of a miracle. Anyhow, this is our last chance.Let’s see what she can do.
Robert : (Wavering) You really think that ?
Poulengey : (Turning) Is there anything else left for us to think? Let’s take a chance. Her words have put fire into me.
Robert : (Giving up) Whew! You’re as mad as she is.
Poulengey : (Obstinately) We want a few mad people now. See where the same ones
have landed us!
Robert : I feel like a fool. Still, if you feel sure... ?
Poulengey : I feel sure enough to take her to Chinon unless you stop me.
Robert : Do you think I ought to have another talk with her ?
Poulengey : (Going to the window) Yes! Joan, come up. (Joan enters)

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Give reasons:
(i) Poulengey, Jack and Dick had offered to accompany Joan.
A3. Activity based on Vocabulary:
Make sentences of your own using the words/ expressions given below:
(i) worth trying (ii)  out of your mind
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Make the following sentences Affirmative without changing the meaning:
(i) I am not so sure, now.
(ii) He will not be able to stop them.
A5. Personal Response:
(i)  After talking to Poulengey what change do you notice in Robert?
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Write True or False for these statements:
(i) Steve Jobs slept in his dorm room.
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(iv) Steve had comfortable college experiences.

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(i) What did Steve Jobs do for two years after he joined Reed College?
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Use the following idioms/phrases in sentences of your own:
(i) drop in
(ii) drop out
(iii) turned out to be
(iv) stumbled into
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Name the tense of the underlined verbs to include time and aspect:
(i) I shall be telling you three stories.
(ii) I slept on the floor.
A5. Personal Response:
(i) What impression of Steve Jobs do you get from this passage?
A1.Simple Simple l Factual Activities:
Go through the given statements and say whether you Agree or Disagree with each of them :
(i) Science and spirituality seek the prosperity of human life. -
(ii) Reverend Pereira absolutely refused to consider Dr Kalam's request.-
(iii) Alternate accommodation was offered only to the fishermen. -
(iv) Everyone present in the church agreed to Reverend Pereira's plea -

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visit the church on a Sunday morning. Dr Sarabhai, his team, and the forever-inquisitive disciple, Dr Kalam, took up the offer.
    At church the next Sunday, the Reverend invited Dr Sarabhai up to the dais after the prayer service.Turning to everyone present, he said, ‘Dear children, here is a scientist, Dr Vikram Sarabhai. What does science do for us ? We benefit from the devices that science has developed to light up our homes. I am able to talk to you using this mic, thanks to technological advancement. Medical science allows doctors to diagnose and treat patients. Science and technology enhance the overall comfort and quality of human life. And what do I do as a preacher ? I pray for you, for your well-being, and for your peace. In short, Vikram and I are doing the same job. Both science and spirituality seek the Almighty’s blessings for the prosperity of the human
mind and body.
   ‘Dear children, Dr Vikram says that, within a year, he wants to build scientific facilities near the sea coast, replacing all the settlements that now stand there. Now,
can you give up your abode? Can I give up my abode ?Can we give up God’s abode for such a great scientific mission ?’ Dr Kalam recalled how he witnessed ‘a pindrop silence for a long moment’. Then everyone got up, and the whole church reverberated with the deafening noise of a collective ‘amen’.
   And so work on the research centre was soon under way. But not without alternate accomodation being offered to the affected fishermen, the church and the Reverend Pereira. 

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
(i) Who said to whom and when?
'Can we give up God's abode for such a great scientific mission?" 
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Write one word for:
(i) one who follows a teacher or a leader
(ii) eager to know everything
(iii) a place of residence
(iv) echoed loudly
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Add question tags:

(i) Vikram and I are doing the same job.
(ii) I am able to talk to you using this mic.
A5. Personal Response:
(i) How did the people respond to the appeal made by Reverend Pereira? Would you give the same response?