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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Write whether the following statements are True or False: 
(1) To accomplish goals, experts recommend a ten step approach.
(2) The champions have to have the skill and the will
(3) For anyone, setting goal is not easy but challenging.
(4) If we do not take action to achieve goals, we shall not achieve goals.

     Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them- a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. Successful professionals thrive in the same manner. We all have natural talents. If we use that talent to set our goal in life, we can easily get success in life. We shall not achieve our goals if we do not take action to achieve them.
     Setting goals has two valuable assets - a sense of originality and a stepping stone to illuminate the path. Goals put one at the helm of life; pursuing them acknowledges a better future situation. They help to steer a course of life rather than simply drifting along and letting things happen.
     Setting goals may appear easy, but, for some, it is quite challenging. Fear of failure may be avoided in the absence of any goals. After all, one has to decide what one wants to achieve in the end. To accomplish goals, experts recommend a five step approach.
     SMART goals are a methodology of thinking that helps people reach success. SMART stands for specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timebound.

A2. Complex Factual Activities:
Complete the web:
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A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
(1) Pick out any two adverbs from the passage:
(2) Write adjectives of the following words:
(i) Success (ii) Nature
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Underline the gerund/present participles/ infinitives:
(1) Setting goal may appear easy, but it is quite challenging.
(2) After all, one has to decide what one wants to achieve in the end.
A5. Personal Response:
(1) Do you have a goal in your life? What efforts will you make to achieve it?

Answer

A1. Simple Factual Activities:
(1) False
(2) True
(3) True
(4) False
A2. Complex Factual Activities:
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A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
(1) (i) easily (ii) simply
(2) (i) Successful (ii) Natural
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
(1) Setting goal may appear easy, but it is quite challenging.
(2) After all, one has to decide what one wants to achieve in the end.
A5. Personal Response:
(1) Yes, I have decided my goal in my life. I aspire to be a top musician. To achieve my goal, I will keep on trying and going ahead despite difficulties with the help of talent and hard work. I am sure that my faith in God, my perseverance, courage and positive thinking will lead me to success.

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A1. Simple Factual Activities:
State whether you Agree or Disagree with the following statements: 
Statements
(1) The narrator was fifty-five years old when this incident occurred.
(2) Even today, the narrator cannot forget that look in the mother langur's eyes.

    For a few seconds, the mother langur looked straight into my eyes. Even today, I cannot forget that look in her eyes, showering silent gratitude on me for saving her child. I was overwhelmed by the emotion, the sentiment and the way she said thanks to me. There sat a universal mother holding a stricken child in her lap.
    Then, in a flash, she jumped with her baby clinging to her belly and reached our kitchen roof. She surveyed the area for the vicious male langur and then leapt away in the direction opposite to the place of the violent encounter.
    The brief meeting with the mother and the baby langur convinced me that interspecies communication and mutual trust is indeed a reality and should anyone strike the right chord, the relationship hums into action. The mother langur showed me that food was not the only means of communication between man and animal but that there were other means of establishing a bond through trust, compassion and mutual understanding.
     Fifty-five years have passed since that day. I am now seventy years old. But I still fondly remember that ‘encounter of a special kind’.

A2. Complex Factual Activities:
Complete the web:
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A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Find the words from the passage for the following meanings:
(1) held closely
(2) moved downwards
(3) think very deeply
(4) comfort and peace
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Do as directed:
(1) I cannot forget that look in her eyes. (Add a question tag.)
(2) I was overwhelmed by the emotion.
(Write the sentence in Active voice. Begin with The emotion....)
A5. Personal Response:
(1) What opinion do you form about the writer from the story?
A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Complete the following sentences:
(1) Even though we have made progress in the last couple of decades, we are facing _______________ .
(2) _______________ gives a sense of global citizenship among the youth.

     We have made progress in the last couple of decades. We have reduced the number of out-ofschool children by half. We have reduced the number of child labourers by a third. We have reduced child mortality and malnutrition, and we have prevented millions of child deaths.
     But, let us make no mistake, great challenges still remain.
     Friends! The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
     We have utterly failed our children in imparting an education. An education that gives the meaning and objective of life. An education that gives a sense of global citizenship among the youth.
     I am afraid that the day is not very far away when the cumulative result of this failure, will culminate in an unprecedented violence, and that will be suicidal for humankind.
     Rights, security, hope can only be restored through education.
     Young people like Malala ... I’ve started calling her my daughter Malala not just Malala ... So my daughter Malala and other daughters including Kayanat.. in fact.. two Kayanats, and Shazia, and the daughters from Africa, and from all over the world. They are rising up and choosing peace over violence, tolerance over extremism, and courage over fear.
     The solutions are emerging. But these solutions cannot be found in the deliberations in conferences alone, and cannot be found in prescriptions from a distance.
     They lie in small groups and local organisations and individuals, who are confronting with the problem every day. Even if they remain unacknowledged, unrecognised and unknown to the world the solution are with them.

A2. Complex Factual Activities:

(1) What are the children's issues highlighted by Kailash Satyarthi in this passage? 
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Choose the correct option and write in front of the given word:
(1) culminate : _______________
(A) destroy (B) succeed (C) rise to a peak
(2) crisis:  _______________
(A) unstable situation(B) problems (C) difficulty
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:

Complete the following sentences with the help of the sentence given below:
The biggest challenge knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
(1) No other challenge knocking _______________ is as big as _______________.
(2) Fear and intolerance are bigger than  ______________________________.
A5. Personal Response:
(1) What efforts will you take to enrol the out-of-school out-of children? 
A1. Simple Factual Activities:
State whether you Agree or Disagree with the following statements:
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Interviewer : Do you think interest in boxing in India will ever go beyond the Olympics ?
Mary Kom : Yes, I am sure that in a few years boxing will be very popular among everyone in India, all the year round.
Interviewer : How aware are Indian women of their nutritional requirements ? Diet and nutrition must’ve been a key factor in your conditioning for the Olympics. Do you think nutrition is a neglected area in Indian sports ?
Mary Kom : The awareness is growing now among the female athletes when it comes to nutritional requirements. Nutrition has definitely been a neglected area in Indian sports. I had to gain 3 kgs since I had to fight in the 51kg event instead of the usual 48kgs that I fight in. So I had to focus on what to eat. I gained weight by eating the right kind of healthy food rather than bad saturated fats.
Interviewer : How big a role did OGQ play in shaping the boxing scene in India for the better ?
Mary Kom : OGQ really played an important part in my success. They helped me out whenever I needed something. They took care of everything, which helped me focus on my boxing and kept me stress - free.
Interviewer : What’s your opinion on the future of Indian boxing ?
Mary Kom : The future is very bright and I am sure many more boxers will get medals for us.
Interviewer : Do you find it difficult to convince your children not to fight when they watch you go out and do it in style all the time ?
Mary Kom : Well, I have twins and yes, sometimes it becomes really difficult to keep them under control.
Interviewer : Will you train your kids to become boxers as well ?
Mary Kom : I haven’t really thought about it. As of now, just let their mother box !
Interviewer : You have broken several stereotypes about the women in India by showing that women can compete with men in any field. But how good are you at the ‘traditional’ feminine activities like cooking ?
Mary Kom : Well, I am good at cooking and other household work too.
Interviewer : Would you be interested in coaching Indian women in boxing one day ?
Mary Kom : Let’s see. In the future, may be yes.
Interviewer : What do you prefer being called -Super Mom or Super Boxer ?
Mary Kom : I love being a mom. That’s the best thing that has ever happened to me. 
Awards and recognitions
• Arjuna Award (Boxing) in 2003
• Padma Shree (Sports) in 2006
• Contender for Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in 2007
• People of the Year - Limca Book of Records in 2007
• CNN-IBN and Reliance Industries Real Heroes Award in 2008
• Pepsi MTV Youth, AIBA in 2008
• ‘Magnificent Mary’, AIBA in 2008
• Felicitation by Zomi Student’s Federation (ZSF) at New Lamka YPA Hall in 2008
• Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 2009
• International Boxing Association’s Ambassador for Women’s Boxing in 2009
• Sportswoman of the year, Sahara Sports Award in 2010.

A2. Complex Factual Activities:
(1) How did Mary Kom increase her weight?
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Write down the full forms of-
(1) OGQ - 
(2) CNN - 
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Identify the tense:
(1) Sometimes it becomes really difficult to keep them under control.
(2) They took care of everything.
A5. Personal Response:
(1) What is Mary Kom more proud of being a boxer or a mother? 
A1. Simple Factual Activities:
State whether you Agree or Disagree with the following statements: 
(1) 'There is always an opening even in impossible things' - we learn it from small bits of grass. 
(2) Our difficult time never changes.
(3) The team work and perseverance of the ants were impressive.
(4) Clouds take new shapes with every passing moment.

     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:
(1) What are the alchemies of nature mentioned in the extract? 
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Frame meaningful sentences by using the given words:
(1) impressive
(2) passion
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Identify the tenses:
(1) It will not remain so forever
(2) Ants were lugging a fly.
A5. Personal Response:
(1) Impossible itself says 'I M possible'. Do you agree? Justify your answer by citing some examples from the text and some that you have experienced or heard from someone.
A1. Simple Factual Activity:
State whether the following statements are True or False:
(1) The book is filled with heavy grammar and difficult technical words.
(2) The book circles round the mischief of the kids in a view of the kid.
(3) R. K. Narayan's 'Swami and Friends' is a good read for the kids and teens alike.
(4) Mischievous kids are not as sensitive as other people.

     Significance of the book...
    ‘Swami and Friends’ by R. K. Narayan is not merely an interesting read that could be enjoyed from top to bottom, but the work attributes a lot of literary values even if it is a teen book ‘Swami and Friends’ is a good read for the kids and teens alike. Also the book is widely used in the Asian continent as a study text for the students who study literature as a subject at schools. This does not mean that the book is filled with heavy grammar and technical jargon. Actually the truth is in contrary to this.
     Swami and Friends is written in such simple English it is hard to imagine that it is a work of such a literary genius like R. K. Narayan. The English used in the book is both plain and simple, without any troubling words for the kids. Also the use of simple and short sentences adds to the simplicity of the book.
      It is mentioned in the description that the book is about a mischievous ten year old Indian boy, and some parents may be concerned about the influence this will have on their already mischievous children. But the book is as such, that it encompasses the
mischief of the kids in a view of the kid which is harmless and pure in his perspective. Also amidst all the mischief and naughtiness, we actually find that Swami is a loving and a tender kid who's actually very sensitive. It is also a known fact that mischievous
kids are the most sensitive and loving people of all. And R. K. Narayan does a great job conveying that to all of us.

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
Complete the web:
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A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Find the following from the passage:
(i) Noun forms of : simple, describe, naughty
(ii) Verb forms of : meaning, attribution imagination, loving
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Add question tags:
(1) This does not mean that the book is filled with heavy Grammar.
(2) R. K. Narayan does a great job conveying ving that th to all of us.
A5. Personal Response:
(1) What difference do you find between the children of Swami's days and today's children?
A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Name the following:
(1) The International World Heritage Programme is administered by-
(2) The Nile valley contains many ancient-

     A World Heritage Site is a site determined by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to have significant cultural or natural importance to humanity. As such the sites are protected and maintained by the
International World Heritage Programme which is administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. Because World Heritage Sites are places that are significant culturally and naturally, they vary in type and include forests, lakes, monuments, buildings and cities.
    World Heritage Sites can also be a combination of both cultural and natural areas. For example, Mount Huangshan in China is a site with significance to human culture because it played a role in historical Chinese art and literature. The mountain is also
significant because of its physical landscape characteristics.
     Although the idea of protecting cultural and natural heritage sites around the world began in the early twentieth century, momentum for its actual creation was not until the 1950s. In 1954, Egypt started plans to build the Aswan High Dam to collect and control water from the Nile River. The initial plan for the dam’s construction would have flooded the valley containing the Abu Simbel Temples and scores of ancient Egyptian artefacts. To protect the temples and artifacts, UNESCO launched an international campaign in 1959 that called for the dismantling and movement of the temples to higher ground. The project cost an estimated US $80 million, $40 million of which came from 50 different countries. Because of the project’s success, UNESCO and the
International Council on Monuments and Sites initiated a draft convention to create an international organization responsible for protecting cultural heritage
 
A2. Complex Factual Activity:
(1) Why did UNESCO launch an international campaign in 1959? 
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Find from the passage adjective forms for the following:
(1) culture (2) history (3) nature (4) significance
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
This does not mean that the book is filled with heavy Grammar.Rewrite the following sentences using 'not only ... but also' and 'as well as in two separate sentences:
(1) To protect the temples and artifacts, UNESCO launched an international campaign.
A5. Personal Response:
(1) What are our duties towards preservation of any historical site?
A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Fill in the blanks and complete the sente sentences: 
(1) Mary kom conquered the _______________.
(2) She was the first _______________ woman to qualify in the 51 kg flyweight category.
(3) Since her childhood, Mary Kom had an eager interest in _______________.
(4) The father and mother of Mary Kom were _______________.

   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:
(1) Make a list of achievements of Mary Kom as a boxer.
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Find out antonyms of the following words from the text:"
(1) arrogant ×
(2) disqualify × 
(3) finally ×
(4) defeat ×
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Choose the tail tags given in the brackets and complete the following sentences:
(isn't she?, hadn't he?, weren't they?)
(1) Her parents were tenant farmers in jhum fields,  _______________
(2) She is famed as a five times World Boxing Champion, _______________
A5. Personal Response:
(1) Which is your favourite game? Why do you like it?
A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Who said to whom-
(1) "Now tell me your name."
(2) "Didn't I tell you? Now take this book."

     When the school bell rang. All the girls scurried out of the classroom. But Bholi dared not leave her corner. Her head still lowered. She kept on sobbing.
    ‘‘Bholi.’’
     The teacher’s voice was so soft and soothing! In all her life she had never been called like that. It touched her heart.
    ‘‘Get up.’’ said the teacher. It was not a command, but just a friendly suggestion. Bholi got up.
    ‘‘Now tell me your name.’’
     Sweat broke out over her whole body. Would her stammering tongue again disgrace her? For the sake  of this kind woman. However she decided to make an effort. She had such a soothing voice : she would not laugh at her.
    ‘‘Bh-Bh-Bho-Bho-,’’ she began to stammer.
    ‘‘Well done, well done.’’ The teacher encouraged her. ‘‘Come on now- the full name?’’
    ‘‘Bh-Bh-Bho-Bholi.’’ At last she was able to say it and felt relieved as if it was a great achievement.
    ‘‘Well done.’’ The teacher patted her affectionately and said. ‘‘Put the fear out of your heart and you will be able to speak like everyone else.’’
     Bholi looked up as if to ask. ‘Really?’
    ‘‘Yes, yes, it will be very easy. You just come to school everyday, will you come?’’
     Bholi nodded.
    ‘‘No. say it aloud.’’
    ‘‘Ye-Ye-Yes.’’ And Bholi herself was astonished that she had been able to say it.
    ‘‘Didn’t I tell you? Now take this book.’’
     The book was full of nice pictures and the pictures were in colour dog, cat, goat, house, parrot, tiger and a cow just like Lakshmi. And with every picture was a word in big black letters.
     ‘‘In one month you will be able to read this book. Then I will give you a bigger book, then a still bigger one. In time you will be more learned than anyone else in the village. Then no one will ever be able to laugh at you. People will listen to you with respect and you will be able to speak without the slightest stammer. Understand? Now go
home, and come back early tomorrow morning”
      Bholi felt as if suddenly all the bells in the village temple were ringing and the trees in front of the school house had blossomed into big red flowers. Her heart was throbbing with a new hope and a new life. 

A2. Complex Factual Activities:
(1) How would you describe the teacher's attitude towards Bholi? Give 3 to 4 points.
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Complete the following sentences using the words given in the brackets:
(scurried, affectionately, a great achievement)
(1) After class, the students _______________ out for their lunch-break.
(2) My father always tries to solve my problem _______________.
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Change the voice:
(1) The teacher patted her affectionately. (Begin the sentence with "She....)
(2) The teacher encouraged her. (Begin the sentence with "She....)
A5. Personal Response:
(1) Why does positive encouragement work better than criticism? 
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?
A1. Simple Factual Activities:
(1) Complete the following sentences:
Small groups, local organisations and individuals are  _______________ .
(2) Name the following:
The daughters of Kailash Satyarthi mentioned in this passage: 

     We have made progress in the last couple of decades. We have reduced the number of out-ofschool children by half. We have reduced the number of child labourers by a third. We have reduced child mortality and malnutrition, and we have prevented millions of child deaths.
     But, let us make no mistake, great challenges still remain.
     Friends! The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
     We have utterly failed our children in imparting an education. An education that gives the meaning and objective of life. An education that gives a sense of global citizenship among the youth.
     I am afraid that the day is not very far away when the cumulative result of this failure, will culminate in an unprecedented violence, and that will be suicidal for humankind.
     Rights, security, hope can only be restored through education.
     Young people like Malala ... I’ve started calling her my daughter Malala not just Malala ... So my daughter Malala and other daughters including Kayanat.. in fact.. two Kayanats, and Shazia, and the daughters from Africa, and from all over the world. They are rising up and choosing peace over violence, tolerance over extremism, and courage over fear.
     The solutions are emerging. But these solutions cannot be found in the deliberations in conferences alone, and cannot be found in prescriptions from a distance.
     They lie in small groups and local organisations and individuals, who are confronting with the problem every day. Even if they remain unacknowledged, unrecognised and unknown to the world the solution are with them.

A2. Complex Factual Activities:
Complete the following web stating the sign of progress mentioned by Satyarthi :
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A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:

Find out the describing words used for the following nouns and make your own sentences by using any three combinations:
(1) challenges
(2) organisations
(3) citizenship
(4) groups
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:

(1) Find out and write four sentences from the passage that are in Present Perfect Tense:
A5. Personal Response:
(1) What is the role of education in nation building?