A1.Simple Factual Activities: Write whether the following statements are True or False: (i) Smita dreamt that she was at the concert. (ii) Anant had said, "The chance of a lifetime the previous evening. (iii) At the end of the concert, the artistes stood and clapped for the audience. (iv) A man with a long moustache was one of the artistes. The next day as Smita and her father were leaving for the concert, her brother smiled and said, ‘Enjoy yourself,’ though the words came out in painful gasps. ‘Lucky you!’ Sitting besides her father in the gallery, Smita heard as in a dream the thundering welcome the audience gave the great master. Then the first notes came over the air and Smita felt as if the gates of a land of enchantment and wonder were opening. Spellbound, she listened to the unfolding ragas, the slow plaintive notes, the fast twinkling ones, but all the while the plan she had decided on the evening before remained firmly in her mind. ‘The chance of a lifetime.’ She heard Anant’s voice in every beat of the tabla. The concert came to an end, the audience gave the artistes a standing ovation. A large moustachioed man having a long moustache, made a long boring speech. Then came the presentation of bouquets. Then more applause and the curtain came down. The people began to move towards the exits. A2. Complex Factual Activity: Arrange the following sentences chronologically according to their occurrence in the passage: (i) The first notes came over the air. (ii) The audience gave the artistes a standing ovation. (iii) The audience gave the great master a thundering welcome. (iv) The ragas unfolded. A3. Activity based on Vocabulary: Pick the odd man out from the following based on the passage and give reasons : (i) sitting, thundering, unfolding, twinkling (ii) slow, boring, plaintive, twinkling A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar: Underline the adverbs : (i) The curtain came down. (ii) The plan she had decided on the evening before remained firmly in her mind. A5. Personal Response: (i) Have you ever attended any concert? How was your experience there?

A1.Simple Factual Activities: (i) False (ii) True (iii) False (iv) False A2. Complex Factual Activity: (iii) The audience gave the great master a thundering welcome. (i) The first notes came over the air. (iv) The ragas unfolded. (ii) The audience gave the artistes a standing ovation. A3. Activity based on Vocabulary: (i) sitting (verball the others are adjectives) (ii) boring (describes the noun 'speech all the others describe the 'ragas') A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar: (i) The curtain came down. (ii) The plan she had decided on the evening before remained firmly in her mind. A5. Personal Response: (i) Yes, I have attended a concert in which A. R. Rahman was the main performer, When I heard the first few notes being sung, I was thrilled. Never before had I heard such music or singing, I lelt as if I were transported to a wonderland where only music reigned. Every beat, every note fllled me with delight. I began wondering if 1 were in heaven!

A1.Simple Factual Activities: Write whether the following stateme…

A1. Simple Factual Activities :
Write whether the following sentences are True or False:
(i) In the beginning, Anil taught Hari to cook and write his name.
(ii) Anil writes for magazines for a living.
(iii) Hari liked working for Anil.
(iv) Anil kept a small bundle of notes in a cupboard.

He took me to his room over the Jumna Sweet Shop and told me I could sleep in the balcony. But the meal I cooked that night must have been terrible because Anil gave it to a stray dog and told me to be off. But I just hung around, smiling in my most
appealing way, and he couldn’t help laughing.
Later, he patted me on the head and said never mind, he’d teach me to cook. He also taught me to write my name and said he would soon teach me to write whole sentences and to add numbers. I was grateful. I knew that once I could write like an educated man there would be no limit to what I could achieve.
It was quite pleasant working for Anil. I made the tea in the morning and then would take my time buying the day’s supplies, usually making a profit of
about a rupee a day. I think he knew I made a little money this way but he did not seem to mind.
Anil made money by fits and starts. He would borrow one week, lend the next. He kept worrying about his next cheque, but as soon as it arrived he would go
out and celebrate. It seems he wrote for magazines a queer way to make a living!
One evening he came home with a small bundle of notes, saying he had just sold a book to a publisher. At night, I saw him tuck the money under the mattress.

A2. Complex Factual Activities:
Complete the following:
(i) Hari was grateful because ............... .
(ii) Hari continued making money ................ .
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
(1) Find from the passage the collocations for the following:
(i) ............. dog (ii) ............. sentences.
(2) Insert the appropriate word/phrase given below, in the sentence that follows:
(flattery, appealing, by fits and starts, dashed to, undetected, spirits rose)
(i) The artist completes his paintings by ................... .
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Pick out the finite verbs from the following sentences and write their tense:
(i) Anil gave it to a stray dog and told me to be off.
(ii) It seems he wrote for magazines a queer way to make a living.
A5. Personal Response:
(i) Anil knew he was being robbed; yet he did not say anything. What would you have done in Anil's place?

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A1.Simple Factual Activities:
Write who said to whom:

Statement	Who	To Whom
(a) "The chance of a lifetime."
(b) "This is not the last time they are going to play."

Whenever they came to Bombay they stayed with Aunt Sushila. Her apartment was not big but there was always room for them.
They had come with high hopes in the miracles of modern science. They told themselves that Anant would be cured at the hospital and he would again walk and run and even take part in the forthcoming table-tennis tournament. And, he would play the sitarperhaps be a great sitarist one day. But his condition grew worse with each passing day and the doctors at the cancer hospital said, ‘Take him home. Give him the thing he likes, indulge him,’ and they knew then that the boy had not many days to live. But they did not voice their fears. They laughed and smiled and talked and surrounded Anant with whatever made him happy. They fulfilled his every need and gave him whatever he asked for. And now he was asking to go to the concert. ‘The chance of a lifetime,’ he was saying.
‘When you are better,’ his mother said. ‘This is not the last time they are going to play.’
Smita stood at the window looking at the traffic,her eyes wet with tears. Her mother whispered, ‘But you Smita, you must go. Your father will take you.’
When she was alone with Aunt Sushila, Smita cried out in a choked voice, ‘No, how can I? We’ve always done things together, Anant and I.’
‘A walk in the park might make you feel better,’ said Aunt Sushila and Smita was grateful for her suggestion.
In the park, people were walking, running, playing ball, doing yogic exercises, feeding the ducks and eating roasted gram and peanuts, Smita felt alone in their midst. She
was lost in her thoughts.
Suddenly a daring thought came to her and as she hurried home she said to herself. ‘Why not? There’s no harm in trying it.’
‘It would be nice to go to the concert. I don’t know when we’ll get another opportunity to hear Pandit Ravi Shankar,’ she said to her mother later. And her father agreed to get the tickets.

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
(i) Why was everyone from the family trying to keep Anant happy?
A3. Activity based on Vocabulary:
Write from the passage phrases that mean :
(i) participate
(ii) feeling that something
(iii) express their worries
(iv) a rare opportunity
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
(i) They gave him whatever made him _________ .(happy/happily)
(ii) He ran very ________ . (fast/fastly)
(iii) He would become a ________ sitarist some day. (great/greatly)
(iv) Smita accepted the suggestion ________ .(grateful/gratefully)
A5. Personal Response:
(i) "Two contradietory pictures are depicted in the story. Deseribe them in your words.

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

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

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

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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Fill in the blanks with the correct options from the brackets:
(i) Hari felt very _________ when he returned to the room that night. (nervous/excited)
(ii) Hari slipped the notes under the edge of the ________ . (bed/mattress)
(iii) Hari's heart sank when he thought that his theft had been _________. (undetected/discovered)
(iv) Anil was __________ when Hari returned to the room. (awake/asleep)

Anil’s money. In the morning he would probably have given me two or three rupees to go to the cinema, but now I had it all. I couldn’t cook his meals, run to the bazaar or learn to write whole sentences any more.
I had forgotten about them in the excitement of the theft. Whole sentences, I knew, could one day bring me more than a few hundred rupees. It was a simple matter to steal — and sometimes just as simple to be caught. But to be a really big man, a clever and respected man, was something else. I should go back to Anil, I told myself, if only to learn to read and write.
I hurried back to the room feeling very nervous, for it is much easier to steal something than to return it undetected. I opened the door quietly, then stood in the
doorway, in clouded moonlight. Anil was still asleep.I crept to the head of the bed, and my hand came up with the notes. I felt his breath on my hand. I remained still for a minute. Then my hand found the edge of the mattress, and slipped under it with the notes.
I awoke late next morning to find that Anil had already made the tea. He stretched out his hand towards me. There was a fifty-rupee note between his fingers.
My heart sank. I thought I had been discovered.
“I made some money yesterday,” he explained. “Now you’ll be paid regularly.”
My spirits rose. But when I took the note, I saw it was still wet from the night’s rain.
“Today we’ll start writing sentences,” he said.
He knew. But neither his lips nor his eyes showed anything. I smiled at Anil in my most appealing way. And the smile came by itself, without any effort.

A2. Complex Factual Activities:
(i) What tact had Anil used to change Hari's dishonest ways?
A3. Insert the appropriate word/phrase given below, in the sentence that follows:
(flattery, appealing, by fits and starts, dashed to, undetected, spirits rose)
(i) The crime went ............. for 11 years.
(ii) After the death of my pet dog, my when ............ dad got me a new pup.
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Rewrite using the modal auxiliary 'might'.
(i) He would probably have given me two or three rupees to go to the cinema.
(ii) Whole sentences, I knew, could one day bring me more than a few hundred rupees.
A5. Personal Response:
(i) Why didn't Anil hand Hari over to the police? What effect would it have on Hari?

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A1.Simple Simple l Factual Activities:
Complete the following:
(i) Two singers mentioned in the passage are:
(ii) The singer whose song was more advanced was:

I told him I like anything by Bing Crosby. At once, I could hear Bing Crosby’s voice filling the room.
“Now, can you please tell me what you just heard?”, he said.
The simplest answer seemed to be to sing the lines. So I sang it back to him.
He smiled. “You’re not tone-deaf,” he said.
I told him this was one of my favourite songs, something I had heard hundreds of times, so it didn’t really prove anything.
“Nonsense !” said Einstein. “It proves everything! Do you remember your first arithmetic lesson in school ? Suppose, at your very first contact with numbers, your
teacher had ordered you to work out a problem in, say, long division or fractions. Could you have done it ?”
“No, of course not.”
“Exactly! It’s like learning maths. You have to learn addition and subtraction in order to do multiplication and division. Now I’m playing something a little more advanced.”
It was John McCormack singing The Trumpeter. “Sing that back”, he ordered.
And we went on from level to higher level until he was playing just music without words.

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
(i) How did Einstein help the narrator appreciate music?
A3. Activity based on Vocabulary:
Rewrite the sentences inserting the appropriate phrases in their proper form:
(in order to, to get into, to work out)
(i) You should get into Mathematics so that you can work out problems.
(ii) He read the passage two or three times in order to understand it.
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Rewrite using the indirect form of narration:
(i) "Could you have done it?" said Einstein.
(ii) "You are not tone-deaf," he said to me.
A5. Personal Response:
(i) What do you learn from Einstein's treatment of the young man?

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A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Fill in the blanks:
(i) Arjan Singh held the post of AOC for ................ years.
(ii) Arjan Singh took over the reins of the IAF on ................. .

For his role in successfully leading the squadron in combat, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) in 1944. On August 15, 1947, he achieved the unique honour of leading a fly-past of over a hundred IAF aircraft over the Red Fort in Delhi.
After his promotion to the rank of Wing Commander, he attended the Royal Staff College at the UK.Immediately after Indian independence, he commanded Ambala in the rank of Group Captain. In 1949, he was promoted to the rank of Air Commodore and took over as Air Officer Commanding (AOC) of an operational command, which later came to be known as Western Air Command.
Singh had the distinction of having the longest tenure as AOC of an operational base, initially from 1949-1952 and then again from 1957-1961. After his promotion to the rank of Air Vice Marshal, he was appointed as the AOC-in-C of an operational command.
Towards the end of the 1962 war, he was appointed as the Deputy Chief of the Air Staff and he became the Vice Chief of the Air Staff in 1963. He was the overall
commander of the joint air training exercise “Shiksha” held between IAF, RAF (Royal Air Force) and RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force)."
On August 1, 1964, in the rank of Air Marshal, the Marshal of the Air Force Arjan Singh took over reins of IAF, at a time when it was still rebuilding itself and was gearing up to meet new challenges.

A2. Complex Factual Activities:
(i) Describe the uphill task that Singh faced when he took over as Air Marshal.
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:Give the complete forms of the following:
(i) IAF (ii) RAF (iii) AOC (iv) RAAF
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
(i) After his promotion to the rank of Wing Commander, he attended the Royal Staff College at the UK. (Rewrite using the verb form of the underlined word.)
(ii) He was the overall commander of the joint air training exercise 'Shiksha'.(Rewrite using the noun 'command".)
A5. Personal Response:
(i) Describe briefly a brave person whom you have met.

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A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Write True or False for these statements:
(i) Steve Jobs slept in his dorm room.
(ii) Steve took his required courses as a registered student of Reed College.
(iii) During Steve's College days, one had to pay 5 cents deposit for a Coke bottle.
(iv) Steve had comfortable college experiences.

Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months before I really quit.
Looking back, it was one of the best decisions I ever made. I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms. I returned Coke bottles for the 5 cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Here’s one example : Reed College offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Because I had to take a calligraphy class, I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about what makes great typography great.

A2. Complex Factual Activities:
(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?

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A1.Simple Simple l Factual Activities:
Fill in the blanks:
(i) Dr Kalam's message made an Impact on the writer because of its .............. and the ............... it posed became his silent motivation.
(ii) The .............. of .............. lies in the answer to the question 'What can I give?'

‘Turning to me, he asked, ‘What is the reverse of “What can I give ?”
Circumspectly I replied, ‘What can I...take ?’ ‘Yes,’ he said, ‘and that is the thought which is responsible for all the wrong we see around us. We think that we can take from the environment and destroy it indiscriminately; we think of what we can take from other humans, leading us to corruption and inequity. This attitude of taking and taking even
destroys families. To keep this planet liveable and the human race thriving, we have to replace this attitude of ‘what can I take’ with the goodness of ‘what can I give’.
The gravity of the message struck me. This challenge became my silent motivation.
Three years later, in 2012, this idea became a reality as our What Can I Give movement, through which Dr Kalam tried to combat corruption, environmental degradation and social evils.
It is important that we ask ourselves this question for in the answer lies the truth of humanity. So go ahead and question yourself.
What can I give ?
The answers will be astounding.

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
Rearrange the letters to form sensible words:
(i) To keep this planet liveable and the human race thriving, we have to replace this attitude of 'what can I take with the goodness of 'what can I give.
(ii) Dr Kalam tried to combat corruption, environmental degradation and social evils.
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
From the passage write one word for:
(i) without making a difference :
(ii) in a cautious way :
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Write what the underlined auxiliaries indicate:
(i) What can I give?
(ii) We have to replace this attitude ....
A5. Personal Response:
(i) Why is there an urgent need to replace 'What can I take' with 'What can I give'

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A1.Simple Factual Activities:
Say whether the following are True or False:
(i) In Bombay, the family stayed with their aunt.
(ii) The doctors told the family directly that Anant did not have many days to live.
(iii) The family voiced their fears to Anant.
(iv) Anant was well enough to take part in the forthcoming table tennis tournament.

Whenever they came to Bombay they stayed with Aunt Sushila. Her apartment was not big but there was always room for them.
They had come with high hopes in the miracles of modern science. They told themselves that Anant would be cured at the hospital and he would again walk and run and even take part in the forthcoming table-tennis tournament. And, he would play the sitarperhaps be a great sitarist one day. But his condition grew worse with each passing day and the doctors at the cancer hospital said, ‘Take him home. Give him the thing he likes, indulge him,’ and they knew then that the boy had not many days to live. But they did not voice their fears. They laughed and smiled and talked and surrounded Anant with whatever made him happy. They fulfilled his every need and gave him whatever he asked for. And now he was asking to go to the concert. ‘The chance of a lifetime,’ he was saying.
‘When you are better,’ his mother said. ‘This is not the last time they are going to play.’
Smita stood at the window looking at the traffic,her eyes wet with tears. Her mother whispered, ‘But you Smita, you must go. Your father will take you.’
When she was alone with Aunt Sushila, Smita cried out in a choked voice, ‘No, how can I? We’ve always done things together, Anant and I.’
‘A walk in the park might make you feel better,’ said Aunt Sushila and Smita was grateful for her suggestion.
In the park, people were walking, running, playing ball, doing yogic exercises, feeding the ducks and eating roasted gram and peanuts, Smita felt alone in their midst. She
was lost in her thoughts.
Suddenly a daring thought came to her and as she hurried home she said to herself. ‘Why not? There’s no harm in trying it.’
‘It would be nice to go to the concert. I don’t know when we’ll get another opportunity to hear Pandit Ravi Shankar,’ she said to her mother later. And her father agreed to get the tickets.

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
Complete the table:

Smita's mother tries to
Smita's aunt suggests that

A3. Activity based on Vocabulary:
Match the columns:

A	B
(i) choked	(a) exercises
(ii) roasted	(b) thought
(iii) yogic	(c) gram
(iv) daring	(d) voice

A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Frame Yes-No questions to get the sentences as answer :
(i) There's no harm in trying it.
(ii) It would be nice to go to the concert.
A5. Personal Response:
(i) "Two contradietory pictures are depicted in the story. Deseribe them in your words.

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A1.Simple Simple l Factual Activities:
Name the following from the passage:
(i) The great personalities from India:
(ii) The two centres of global peace and brotherhood:

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.
I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children - (gesture to everyone in the audience). I have looked into their frightened and exhausted eyes.I have held their injured bodies and felt their broken spirits.
Twenty years ago, in the foothills of the Himalayas, I met a small, skinny child labourer. He asked me: “Is the world so poor that it cannot give me a toy and a book, instead of forcing me to take a gun or a tool?”
I met with a Sudanese child-soldier. He was kidnapped by an extremist militia. As his first training lesson, he was forced to kill his friends and family. He asked me: “What is my fault?”

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
(i) Make a list of the things that Kailash Satyarthi is not ready to accept:
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
(i) Pick out from the passage the verb form of - hindrance
(ii) Make a meaningful sentence using the phrase 'give up':
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Do as directed:
(i) I have the privilege of working with many courageous people who have the same aim. (Rewrite using the noun form of the underlined word.)
(ii) All the great religions teach us to care for our children. (Frame a Wh-question to get the underlined words as the answer.)
A5. Personal Response:
(i) "Besides the political freedom that our nation enjoys, what other freedom should it strive for? Say why.

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