Unit 2 -2.5 Let’s March English - Unit 2 -2.5 Let’s March

Imagine your school invites Malala to preside over Children's Day celebration programme. Draft a welcome speech for this guest of honour. Gather information about her from the Internet or your school library. While drafting a speech, the following things should be kept in mind:
(1) Greeting and salutation
(2) Self Introduction and introduction of the topic
(3) A catchy thought/piece of news/short episode to start with
(4) Body of the speech supported with related examples and episodes
(5) Conclusion
(6) Thanking the audience

Complete the word chain using nouns from the lesson :
shackless e e e e e e e...n

Write the present and past participles of a verb where the last letters are doubled:

Write the following words in alphabetical order:
invisibility, innocence, deliberations, expenditure

Identify the type of sentence: We have utterly failed our children in imparting education.

Spot the error and rewrite the correct sentence:

Let us made no mistake, great challenges still remain.

Begin the sentence with: Our inaction...

Prepare a word register of 4 abstract nouns from the lesson.

Use the following word and its homophone in two separate sentences: peace

Analyse the sentence: I refuse to accept that all the laws and constitutions, police and judges, are unable to protect our children.

Use both the given words in a single meaningful sentence: privilege, progress.

Complete the following web chart:

Complete the following web, mentioning the social issues highlighted by Kailash Satyarthi in his speech.

Complete the following:

Fill in the blanks :
(1) Eighteen years ago, millions of individuals demanded _____________________________.
(2) Satyarthi wants to inculcate and transform ______________________________________.

Name the following:
(1) Those considered by Kailash Satyarthi as his daughters: ___________________________.
(2) The biggest challenge knocking on the doors of humankind: ______________.

Complete the chart with the speaker's words:

Complete the following:
(1) Mr Satyarthi's vision as a child was _____________________________________________.
(2) The foreign activists of equal rights mentioned in the speech are ______________________.
(3) Mr Satyarthi requests the listeners to ____________________________________________.
(4) According to Mr. Satyarthi, ____________________________________________________.

What was the response of the boy's father? What was Satyarthi's reaction to it?

Complete the web :

List the examples Kailash Satyarthi gives to show how the world is interconnected.

Pick out from the passage the antonyms of: (1) ignorance (2) violence

Pick out from the passage the verb form of emocracy

Pick out from the passage the noun forms of (1) ignore (2) divine

Choose the correct option which conveys the exact meaning:
(1) divinity:
(a) goodness (b) godliness (c) god-fearing
(2) exploitation :
(a) explosion (b) misuse (c) employment

Pick out from the following the words formed by using a prefix:
(1) illiteracy (2) innovative (3) invest (4) abuse.

Find sentences from the passage that contain infinitives.

Find an example of present perfect tense from the passage:

As a child, I had a vision of tomorrow.

Find sentences from the passage that contain infinitives.
(1).... to put an end to all forms....
(2)... must work together to accelerate action...
(3) I gathered the courage to ask the boy's father.
(4) We are born to work.

Find a sentence in the present perfect tense from the passage:

Write in 3-4 sentences your impression of the acceptance speech given by Kailash Satyarthi when he received the Nobel Prize.

What is your vision of tomorrow?

Do you think that it is possible to stop child labour in our country?

Explain why the eight-year-old girl's question shakes Mr. Satyarthi.

What message does the little bird story of the forest fire convey to us? Explain.