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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
(1) True
(2) True
A2. Complex Factual Activity:
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
(1) folded × unfolded
(2) old × new
(3) outside × inside
(4) distracted × attracted
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar :
(1) (c) Squirrels and many species of birds were attracted by them.
(2) The compound was luxurious with green grass, was it?
A5. Personal Response :
(1) For me mysteries are best. Mysteries are wonderful. They are very exciting, given goose bumps. I get completely involved into it, even I forget my study & hunger. 'What will happen now?" is the continuous question coming into my mind. I start suspecting all the characters & become a hero-a detective & start solving a mystery by myself. Even my friends find me suspicious! Thus I like reading mysterious stories very much.
(1) True
(2) True
A2. Complex Factual Activity:
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
(1) folded × unfolded
(2) old × new
(3) outside × inside
(4) distracted × attracted
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar :
(1) (c) Squirrels and many species of birds were attracted by them.
(2) The compound was luxurious with green grass, was it?
A5. Personal Response :
(1) For me mysteries are best. Mysteries are wonderful. They are very exciting, given goose bumps. I get completely involved into it, even I forget my study & hunger. 'What will happen now?" is the continuous question coming into my mind. I start suspecting all the characters & become a hero-a detective & start solving a mystery by myself. Even my friends find me suspicious! Thus I like reading mysterious stories very much.
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A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Complete the following web:
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
We instinctively turn to outdoor activities and nature as a way of relaxing and enhancing our wellbeing. 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:
The writer explains the contrast features of 'water' and 'rock' in the text. Write all the features of both water and rock in the given table:
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Match the pairs of antonyms.
Complete the following web:
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
We instinctively turn to outdoor activities and nature as a way of relaxing and enhancing our wellbeing. 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:
The writer explains the contrast features of 'water' and 'rock' in the text. Write all the features of both water and rock in the given table:
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Match the pairs of antonyms.
| Words | Antonyms |
| (1) gentle | (a) small |
| (2) colossal | (b) long |
| (3) short | (c) quit |
| (4) persist | (d) hard |
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Frame Wh-questions to get the underlined parts as answers:
(1) The flower comes to life only for a day.
(2) We saw the spread of the majestic ocean.
A5. Personal Response:
(1) Explain the line Nature whispers and commands.'
A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Match the comparisons as given in the passage:
Match the comparisons as given in the passage:
| 'A' | 'B' |
| (1) The Dauphin is | (a) she is |
| (2) Joan of Arc | (b) like a rat in a corner |
| (c) a bit of miracle |
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. Bertran 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 ?
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 able to stop them.
Robert : He beat the English the year before last at Montargis. I was with him. Poulengey : But this time, 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 all right, 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 lastchance. 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 sane 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 ?
A2. Complex Factual Activities:
Answer the following:
(1) What did Robert tell the Steward?
(2) What did Robert accuse Poulengey of?
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
(1) Find out two adjectives and two adverbs from the passage:
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Choose the correct question tag:
(1) The Steward retreats hastily, _______________
(2) You are as mad as she is, _______________
(3) I am not so sure now, _______________
(4) Jack and Dick have offered to go with her, _______________
A5. Personal Response:
(1) What is your opinion about Joan?
A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Name the following:
(1) The greatest personalities from the great land-India.
(2) The American politician, attorney and author mentioned in the speech -e help beggars?
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) We can create knowledge for all that benefits all by _______________.
(2) The mantras that carries a prayer has the potential to _______________.
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Find out the describing words used for the following nouns and make your own sentences using any one combinations:
(1) sacrifice (2) faces
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Name the tense:
(1) The Nobel committee has generously invited ine to present a 'Lecture.'
(2) I am representing the millions of children.
A5. Personal Response:
(1) What do you know about Kailash Satyarthi?
Name the following:
(1) The greatest personalities from the great land-India.
(2) The American politician, attorney and author mentioned in the speech -e help beggars?
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) We can create knowledge for all that benefits all by _______________.
(2) The mantras that carries a prayer has the potential to _______________.
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Find out the describing words used for the following nouns and make your own sentences using any one combinations:
(1) sacrifice (2) faces
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Name the tense:
(1) The Nobel committee has generously invited ine to present a 'Lecture.'
(2) I am representing the millions of children.
A5. Personal Response:
(1) What do you know about Kailash Satyarthi?
A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Say whether the following statements are True or False:
(1) At the age of 17, Dr Stephen Hawking was suffering from an extremely rare disease.
(2) Stephen's teachers liked his handwriting very much.
(3) He got his Ph.D. studying the concept of 'Black Holes'.
(4) At the dismal stage Dr Hawking enjoyed his life the most.
At the age of 17, Stephen started noticing that he was becoming increasingly clumsy and even fell down a couple of times, for no reason. This perplexed him and he went to see his family doctor, who diagnosed him as suffering from an extremely rare disease - ALS or LOU Gehrig's disease that affects the nervous system and eventually weakens all the muscles of the body. Stephen says that even as a child, his muscle co-ordination was nothing to write home about. He recollects that his handwriting would send his teacher into a fit of frenzy. Nor was he inclined towards sports. Nevertheless, this disease came as a bolt from the blue.
How much time he had left on this planet was very uncertain. The prognosis was bad and the doctors said they could not do much. Undaunted, Stephen decided to continue his research and even got engaged to a Jane Wilde. Hawking says that,
ironic as it may sound, it is at this dismal stage, began enjoying life the most. This he says was because he started living life for the moment and continued his doctoral research work with renewed vigour.
In the meanwhile, the disease worked its way into Stephen’s body and left him disabled. He began studying the concept of “Black Holes”, to get his Ph.D. By this time, he was confined to a wheelchair and was rapidly losing control of his hands and
speech. The study of “black holes” sparked his imagination with bright ideas. He made many epochmaking statements that shook established theories.Scientists believe that the universe began with a “Big Bang”. To explain this concept better, Stephen invented what is known as “Lie Algebra”.
A2. Complex Factual Activity:
(1) Complete the following web showing the effects of the disease ALS or LOU on Dr Hawking:
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Match the words in Column 'A' with their meanings in Column 'B':
Say whether the following statements are True or False:
(1) At the age of 17, Dr Stephen Hawking was suffering from an extremely rare disease.
(2) Stephen's teachers liked his handwriting very much.
(3) He got his Ph.D. studying the concept of 'Black Holes'.
(4) At the dismal stage Dr Hawking enjoyed his life the most.
At the age of 17, Stephen started noticing that he was becoming increasingly clumsy and even fell down a couple of times, for no reason. This perplexed him and he went to see his family doctor, who diagnosed him as suffering from an extremely rare disease - ALS or LOU Gehrig's disease that affects the nervous system and eventually weakens all the muscles of the body. Stephen says that even as a child, his muscle co-ordination was nothing to write home about. He recollects that his handwriting would send his teacher into a fit of frenzy. Nor was he inclined towards sports. Nevertheless, this disease came as a bolt from the blue.
How much time he had left on this planet was very uncertain. The prognosis was bad and the doctors said they could not do much. Undaunted, Stephen decided to continue his research and even got engaged to a Jane Wilde. Hawking says that,
ironic as it may sound, it is at this dismal stage, began enjoying life the most. This he says was because he started living life for the moment and continued his doctoral research work with renewed vigour.
In the meanwhile, the disease worked its way into Stephen’s body and left him disabled. He began studying the concept of “Black Holes”, to get his Ph.D. By this time, he was confined to a wheelchair and was rapidly losing control of his hands and
speech. The study of “black holes” sparked his imagination with bright ideas. He made many epochmaking statements that shook established theories.Scientists believe that the universe began with a “Big Bang”. To explain this concept better, Stephen invented what is known as “Lie Algebra”.
A2. Complex Factual Activity:
(1) Complete the following web showing the effects of the disease ALS or LOU on Dr Hawking:
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Match the words in Column 'A' with their meanings in Column 'B':
| Column 'A' | Column 'B' |
| (1) confined | (a) determined despite difficulties |
| (2) undaunted | (b) awkward |
| (3) perplexed | (c) restricted |
| (4) clumsy | (d) worried because of difficulty |
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Change the following sentences as instructed:
(1) He made many epochmaking statements.
(Rewrite the sentence using Present Continuous Tense.)
(2) This disease came as a bolt from the blue.
(Rewrite the sentence using Past Perfect Tense.)
Ans. This disease had come as a bolt from the blue.
A5. Personal Response:
(1) What, do you think, are the miseries of a person who is confined to wheelchair?
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?
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:
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.
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.
A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Who said to whom :
(1) "Yes, Aunty, you are right. You all thought I was a dumb-driven cow."
(2) "I will serve you and mother and I will teach in the same school where I learnt so much."
Bholi turned violently on the old woman, “Yes, Aunty, you are right. You all thought I was a dumbdriven cow. That’s why you wanted to hand me over to this heartless creature. But now the dumb cow, the stammering fool, is speaking. Do you want to hear more ?”
Bishamber Nath, the grocer, started to go back with his party. The confused bandsmen thought this was the end of the ceremony and struck up a closing song.
Ramlal stood rooted to the ground, his head bowed low with the weight of grief and shame.
The flames of the sacred fire slowly died down.Everyone was gone. Ramlal turned to Bholi and said, “But what about you, no one will ever marry you now. What shall we do with you ?”
And Sulekha said in a voice that was calm and steady, “Don’t you worry, “Pitaji! In your old age I will serve you and mother and I will teach in the same school where I learnt so much. Isn’t that right, Ma’am ?”
The teacher had all along stood in a corner, watching the drama. “Yes, Bholi, of course,” she replied. And in her smiling eyes was the light of a deep satisfaction that an artist feels when contemplating the completion of her masterpiece.
A2. Complex Factual Activities:
Complete the following:
(1) Beside the humiliation and grief, Ramlal was afraid of Bholi's marriage as he thought that no one would ever marry Bholi.
(2) Bholi told her father in a calm and steady voice that she would serve him and mother in their old age and she would teach in the same school where she learnt so much.
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Complete the following sentences by choosing the words given in the brackets:
(1) We are _______________ seriously about buying a new apartment (completing/contemplating)
(2) She _______________ disagreed with what we said. (slowly/violently)
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Correct the error in the following sentence.Focus on verb and subject:
(1) Do you wants to hear more?
(2) Aren't that right?
A5. Personal Response:
(1) 'The teacher is an artist. Do you agree with the statement? Justify your answer.
Who said to whom :
(1) "Yes, Aunty, you are right. You all thought I was a dumb-driven cow."
(2) "I will serve you and mother and I will teach in the same school where I learnt so much."
Bholi turned violently on the old woman, “Yes, Aunty, you are right. You all thought I was a dumbdriven cow. That’s why you wanted to hand me over to this heartless creature. But now the dumb cow, the stammering fool, is speaking. Do you want to hear more ?”
Bishamber Nath, the grocer, started to go back with his party. The confused bandsmen thought this was the end of the ceremony and struck up a closing song.
Ramlal stood rooted to the ground, his head bowed low with the weight of grief and shame.
The flames of the sacred fire slowly died down.Everyone was gone. Ramlal turned to Bholi and said, “But what about you, no one will ever marry you now. What shall we do with you ?”
And Sulekha said in a voice that was calm and steady, “Don’t you worry, “Pitaji! In your old age I will serve you and mother and I will teach in the same school where I learnt so much. Isn’t that right, Ma’am ?”
The teacher had all along stood in a corner, watching the drama. “Yes, Bholi, of course,” she replied. And in her smiling eyes was the light of a deep satisfaction that an artist feels when contemplating the completion of her masterpiece.
A2. Complex Factual Activities:
Complete the following:
(1) Beside the humiliation and grief, Ramlal was afraid of Bholi's marriage as he thought that no one would ever marry Bholi.
(2) Bholi told her father in a calm and steady voice that she would serve him and mother in their old age and she would teach in the same school where she learnt so much.
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Complete the following sentences by choosing the words given in the brackets:
(1) We are _______________ seriously about buying a new apartment (completing/contemplating)
(2) She _______________ disagreed with what we said. (slowly/violently)
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Correct the error in the following sentence.Focus on verb and subject:
(1) Do you wants to hear more?
(2) Aren't that right?
A5. Personal Response:
(1) 'The teacher is an artist. Do you agree with the statement? Justify your answer.
A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Fill in the blanks:
(1) Ramlal had ________ sons and ________ daughters.
(2) All the children except Bholi were ________ and ________.
Her name was Sulekha but since her childhood everyone had been calling her Bholi the simpleton.
She was the fourth daughter of Numberdar Ramlal. When she was ten months old, she had fallen off the cot on her head and perhaps it had damaged some part of her brain. That was why she remained a backward child and came to be known
as Bholi, the simpleton.
At birth the child was very fair and pretty. But when she was two years old, she had an attack of small pox. Only the eyes were saved. But the entire body was permanently disfigured by deep black pockmarks. Little Sulekha could not speak till she was five and when at last she learnt to speak, she stammered. The other children often made fun of
her and mimicked her. As a result, she talked very little.
Ramlal had seven children, three sons and four daughters and the youngest of them was Bholi. It was a prosperous farmer’s household and there was plenty to eat and drink. All the children except Bholi were healthy and strong. The sons had been sent to
the city to study in schools and later in colleges. Of the daughters Radha, the eldest had already been married. The second daughter Mangla’s marriage had also been settled Ramlal would think of third Champa. They were good looking, healthy girls. And
it was not difficult to find bridegrooms for them.
But Ramlal was worried about Bholi. She had neither good looks nor intelligence.
Bholi was seven years old when Mangla was married. The same year a primary school for girls was opened in their village. The Tehsildar sahib came to perform its opening ceremony. He said to Ramlal, ‘‘As a revenue official you are the representative of the government in the village and so you must set an example to the villagers. You
must send your daughter to school.’’
That night when Ramlal consulted his wife. She cried, ‘‘Are you crazy? If girls go to school, who will marry them?’’
But Ramlal had not the courage to disobey the Tehsildar. At last his wife said, ‘‘I will tell you what to do. Send Bholi to school. As it is there is little chance of her getting married, with her ugly face and lack of sense. Let the teachers at school worry about her.’’
A2. Complex Factual Activities:
Give reasons:
(1) Little Sulekha used to talk very little because - _______________
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Use the following phrases in the following sentences by making certain changes:
(to shout in terror, to pass on, to hand over)
(1) My sister _______________ a letter of apology to her class teacher.
(2) My father had the day off because he didn't want _______________ his flu to everyone in the office."
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Do as directed:
(1) The child was very fair and pretty.
(Choose correct alternative to make it exclamatory.)
(a) What a fair and pretty the child was!
(b) How a fair and pretty the child was!
(c) How fair and pretty the child was!
(2) There was plenty to eat and drink.
(Pick out the infinitive.)
A5. Personal Response:
(1) How do you feel on the first day of your school?
Fill in the blanks:
(1) Ramlal had ________ sons and ________ daughters.
(2) All the children except Bholi were ________ and ________.
Her name was Sulekha but since her childhood everyone had been calling her Bholi the simpleton.
She was the fourth daughter of Numberdar Ramlal. When she was ten months old, she had fallen off the cot on her head and perhaps it had damaged some part of her brain. That was why she remained a backward child and came to be known
as Bholi, the simpleton.
At birth the child was very fair and pretty. But when she was two years old, she had an attack of small pox. Only the eyes were saved. But the entire body was permanently disfigured by deep black pockmarks. Little Sulekha could not speak till she was five and when at last she learnt to speak, she stammered. The other children often made fun of
her and mimicked her. As a result, she talked very little.
Ramlal had seven children, three sons and four daughters and the youngest of them was Bholi. It was a prosperous farmer’s household and there was plenty to eat and drink. All the children except Bholi were healthy and strong. The sons had been sent to
the city to study in schools and later in colleges. Of the daughters Radha, the eldest had already been married. The second daughter Mangla’s marriage had also been settled Ramlal would think of third Champa. They were good looking, healthy girls. And
it was not difficult to find bridegrooms for them.
But Ramlal was worried about Bholi. She had neither good looks nor intelligence.
Bholi was seven years old when Mangla was married. The same year a primary school for girls was opened in their village. The Tehsildar sahib came to perform its opening ceremony. He said to Ramlal, ‘‘As a revenue official you are the representative of the government in the village and so you must set an example to the villagers. You
must send your daughter to school.’’
That night when Ramlal consulted his wife. She cried, ‘‘Are you crazy? If girls go to school, who will marry them?’’
But Ramlal had not the courage to disobey the Tehsildar. At last his wife said, ‘‘I will tell you what to do. Send Bholi to school. As it is there is little chance of her getting married, with her ugly face and lack of sense. Let the teachers at school worry about her.’’
A2. Complex Factual Activities:
Give reasons:
(1) Little Sulekha used to talk very little because - _______________
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Use the following phrases in the following sentences by making certain changes:
(to shout in terror, to pass on, to hand over)
(1) My sister _______________ a letter of apology to her class teacher.
(2) My father had the day off because he didn't want _______________ his flu to everyone in the office."
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Do as directed:
(1) The child was very fair and pretty.
(Choose correct alternative to make it exclamatory.)
(a) What a fair and pretty the child was!
(b) How a fair and pretty the child was!
(c) How fair and pretty the child was!
(2) There was plenty to eat and drink.
(Pick out the infinitive.)
A5. Personal Response:
(1) How do you feel on the first day of your school?
A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Who said to whom?
Who said to whom?
| Sentence | Who said | To whom |
| (1) "Then, what's the secret of your energy?" | ||
| (2) "A beggar changed my life." |
‘Then stay with me tonight,’ she said. ‘Let’s chat. Do you know that, old friends and memories are precious and rare ?’
I couldn’t believe it. Was this really Meena ? I pinched myself hard to be sure it wasn’t a dream. But Meena was really standing there, right in front of me, squeezing my hand, smiling, and yes, she did look happy. In the three years she had been in Bangalore, I had never once seen her smiling like that. A few strands of grey in her hair reminded me that years had passed. There were a few wrinkles in her face, but the truth was that she looked more attractive than ever before.
Finally, I managed to say, ‘No Meena, I can’t stay with you tonight. I have to attend a dinner. Give me your card and I’ll keep in touch with you, I promise.’
For a moment, Meena looked disappointed, ‘Let’s go and have tea at least’, she insisted.
‘But Meena, it’s pouring.’
‘So what ? We’ll buy an umbrella and then go to the Grand Hotel,’ she said.
‘We won’t get a taxi in this rain’, I grumbled.
‘So what ? We’ll walk’.
I was very surprised. This wasn’t the same Meena I had known. Today, she seemed ready to make any number of adjustments.
We reached the Grand Hotel drenched. By then the only thought in my mind was to find out who or what had brought about such a change in the pessimistic Meena I had known. I was quite curious.
‘Tell me Meena, is there a Prince Charming who has managed to change you so ?’
Meena was surprised by my question. ‘No, there isn’t anyone like that’, she said.
‘Then what’s the secret of your energy?’ I asked, like Tendulkar does in the advertisement.
She smiled, ‘A beggar changed my life.’ I was absolutely dumbfounded and she could see it.
A2. Complex Factual Activities:
Choose the correct alternative and complete the following sentences:
(1) The only thought in the writer's mind till they reached the Grand Hotel was _______________.
(a) why the rain was not stopping.
(b) what had brought about such a change in Meena.
(c) how the beggar had changed the entire life of Meena.
(2) The writer wanted to attend _______________.
(a) a marriage party.
(b) a dinner.
(c) a birthday party.
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Find out antonyms for the following from the passage:
(1) lie × _____________
(2) dry × _____________
(3) common × _____________
(4) wrong × _____________.
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Change into indirect speech:
(1) "We won't get a taxi in this rain," I grumbled.
(2) "So what? We'll buy an umbrella and then go to the Grand Hotel," she said.
A5. Personal Response:
(1) What, according to you, is the difference between an optimistic person and a pessimistic person?
A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Complete the following sentences:
(1) Soldiers called Joan _______________.
(2) Joan wanted _______________.
(3) The shortest way to save your skin is to _______________.
(4) According to Joan, their soldiers are always beaten because they fight _______________.
Poulengey : (Going to the window) Yes! Joan, come up. (Joan enters.)
Poulengey : (Gravely) Be seated, Joan.
Robert : What is your name ?
Joan : They always called me Jenny, in Lorraine. Here in France, I am Joan. The soldiers call me the Maid.
Robert : How old are you ?
Joan : Seventeen, so they tell me. It might be nineteen. I don’t remember.
Robert : I suppose you think raising a siege is as easy as chasing a cow out of a meadow. You think soldiering is anybody’s job ?
Joan : I don’t think it can be very difficult if God is on your side.
Robert : (Grimly) Have you ever seen English soldiers fighting? Have you ever seen them plundering, burning, turning the countryside into a desert ? Have you heard no tales of their prince who is the devil himself, or of the English king’s father ?
Joan : You do not understand, squire. Our soldiers are always beaten because they are fighting only to save their skins and the shortest way to save your skin is to run away. But I will teach them all to fight for France. Then, they will drive the soldiers before them like sheep. You and Polly will live to see the day when there will not be a single English soldier on the soil of France.
Robert : (To Poulengey) This may all be nonsense, Polly. But the troops might just be inspired by it though nothing that we say seems to put any fire into them. Even the Dauphin might believe it. And if she can put some fire into him, she can put it into anybody.
Robert : (Turning to Joan) Now you, listen to me and don’t cut in before I have time to think. Your orders are that you are to go to Chinon under the escort of this gentleman and three of his friends.
Joan : (Radiant, clasping her hands) Oh, thank you, squire !
Poulengey : How is she to get into the royal presence ?
Robert : I don’t know. How did she get into my presence ? I will send her to Chinon and she can say I sent her. Then, let come what may. I can do no more.
Joan : And the dress ? I may have a soldier’s dress, squire ?
Robert : Take what you please. I wash my hands off it.
Joan : (Wildly excited by her success) Come, Polly. (She dashes out.)
Robert : (Shaking Poulengey’s hand) Goodbye, old man, I am taking a big chance. Few other men would have done it.
A2. Complex Factual Activities:
(1) What shows Joan was a person of immense faith?
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Find out synonyms:
(1) looting -
(2) seriously -
(3) following -
(4) hayfield -
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Rewrite as affirmative sentences:
(1) I don't remember.
(2) YYou do not understand Squire.
A5. Personal Response:
(1) Do you love your country? Why?
Complete the following sentences:
(1) Soldiers called Joan _______________.
(2) Joan wanted _______________.
(3) The shortest way to save your skin is to _______________.
(4) According to Joan, their soldiers are always beaten because they fight _______________.
Poulengey : (Going to the window) Yes! Joan, come up. (Joan enters.)
Poulengey : (Gravely) Be seated, Joan.
Robert : What is your name ?
Joan : They always called me Jenny, in Lorraine. Here in France, I am Joan. The soldiers call me the Maid.
Robert : How old are you ?
Joan : Seventeen, so they tell me. It might be nineteen. I don’t remember.
Robert : I suppose you think raising a siege is as easy as chasing a cow out of a meadow. You think soldiering is anybody’s job ?
Joan : I don’t think it can be very difficult if God is on your side.
Robert : (Grimly) Have you ever seen English soldiers fighting? Have you ever seen them plundering, burning, turning the countryside into a desert ? Have you heard no tales of their prince who is the devil himself, or of the English king’s father ?
Joan : You do not understand, squire. Our soldiers are always beaten because they are fighting only to save their skins and the shortest way to save your skin is to run away. But I will teach them all to fight for France. Then, they will drive the soldiers before them like sheep. You and Polly will live to see the day when there will not be a single English soldier on the soil of France.
Robert : (To Poulengey) This may all be nonsense, Polly. But the troops might just be inspired by it though nothing that we say seems to put any fire into them. Even the Dauphin might believe it. And if she can put some fire into him, she can put it into anybody.
Robert : (Turning to Joan) Now you, listen to me and don’t cut in before I have time to think. Your orders are that you are to go to Chinon under the escort of this gentleman and three of his friends.
Joan : (Radiant, clasping her hands) Oh, thank you, squire !
Poulengey : How is she to get into the royal presence ?
Robert : I don’t know. How did she get into my presence ? I will send her to Chinon and she can say I sent her. Then, let come what may. I can do no more.
Joan : And the dress ? I may have a soldier’s dress, squire ?
Robert : Take what you please. I wash my hands off it.
Joan : (Wildly excited by her success) Come, Polly. (She dashes out.)
Robert : (Shaking Poulengey’s hand) Goodbye, old man, I am taking a big chance. Few other men would have done it.
A2. Complex Factual Activities:
(1) What shows Joan was a person of immense faith?
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Find out synonyms:
(1) looting -
(2) seriously -
(3) following -
(4) hayfield -
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Rewrite as affirmative sentences:
(1) I don't remember.
(2) YYou do not understand Squire.
A5. Personal Response:
(1) Do you love your country? Why?