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प्रश्न
Form groups and use the following topic for discussion. Take the help of your college library and your teacher.
Dictatorship Vs Democracy
उत्तर
Dictatorship Vs Democracy
- explanation of the two terms
- the way two governments function
- examples of countries following each of the two systems
- advantages of democracy over dictatorship
- Situations that justify the need for dictatorship.
APPEARS IN
संबंधित प्रश्न
Summarize to the class in your own words the highly risky and dangerous journey of Tenzing and Hillary from the base to the top of Mt. Everest.
Form groups and use the following topic for discussion. Take the help of your college library and your teacher.
Need for democracy
Form groups and use the following topic for discussion. Take the help of your college library and your teacher.
Qualities of an ideal politician
Deliver a short speech for about five minutes on the following.
Think of a situation where all the trees can speak. What will they talk about?
Work in groups of four. Discuss how the story would have been different if.
Pongo had forgotten to lock the door properly but the narrator only discovered it just before Pongo returned.
Figures of speech
Anaphora: Repetition of a word or a phrase at the beginning of a sequence of sentences, paragraphs, and lines.
(e.g.) How handsome are your gauzy wings, how brilliant are your eyes!
Identify the figures of speech.
”Your eyes are like the diamond bright, but mine are dull as lead!”
Identify the character or speaker of the following line.
‘That is, I believe they do.’
You are the President of GO GREEN, the Environment Club of your school. On the occasion of World Environment Day, you have been asked to address the school on the topic, ‘The Nature of Our Future Depends on the Future of Our Nature’.
Read the clues given below and develop your story. Narrate your story to the class.
Robert Bruce - King - lying on the ground in a dejected mood - failed to defeat his enemies - was thinking of giving up the attempt - saw a spider falling down from the ceiling - the ceiling far away - wondered how it would get there - the spider fell back again - again it tried - again it fell - it made nine such attempts - no success - climbed up once more - at last succeeded in reaching the roof - Bruce imitated its example - he too tried once again - was successful.
I have never visited ______.
“Who took my English book?”
He was curious to know who ______.
“Do you know why she is unhappy?”
He asked me if ______ unhappy.
Read the conversation of the simple machines. Take roles to play. Then discuss in pairs to describe any simple machine. Create your own storyboard and take roles to play.
Jack: Don't you know how simple machines make your life easy?
Jimmy: Um... I don't know what simple machines are.
Jack: Simple machines are mechanical devices for applying force like a wedge or ramp.
Jimmy: Oh! wow! How I did not know this!
Jack: Like the wheels on hospital bed and IV pole. They help you move people faster by reducing the friction.
Jimmy: Is the stick over there that the TV is attached to, is that a simple machine too?
Jack: Yes it is, it's a lever. The wheels on the bus are simple machines, they make the bus move.
Jimmy: What about the doors?
Jack: 'Yeah' the driver pulls a lever and the doors open and you climb up the inclined plane aka the stairs. The cable in the elevator is wrapped around a groove in the wheel and axle, an electric motor pulls the cable, lifting the car between floors.
Jimmy: So the wheels on the rolling chair are too by rolling the chair back instead of lifting the chair back.
Jack: 'Yes' they are, they move the chair and reduce the friction.
Give a review of a book that has interested you a lot.
Read the story board and take roles as pilot and flight attendants to enact the scene.
Inflight Passenger Announcements
Answer the following
Complete this poem on your own with a abab rhyme scheme.
Peas porridge hot,
Peas porridge cold,
__________________
__________________
Take a few minutes and make hints of the picture. Arrange your thoughts. Using the points you write, deliver a small speech focusing on the issue picturized here. Give an interesting and informative speech. Your speech should include the cause and the solution.
Tips for effective speaking
• Organise your points and ideas well.
• Don’t memorise the speech. If you forget a point, it will make you nervous.
• Avoid the things that are of no value or interest to the audience.
• Before you speak, take a deep breath, smile, greet the audience.
• Don’t be nervous about making a mistake.
• Interesting speech makes your mistakes nothing.
Imagine that below are some of the paintings of Jane Eyre. Discuss with your partner and describe the paintings.
Put students into groups of three and let them act as Jane.
Student A: You are Jane. You live with the Reeds. Tell the other students about your life there.
Student B: You are Jane. You have been at Lowood School for a few months. Tell the other students about your life there.
Student C: You are Jane. You are eighteen. You are going to work at Thornfield Hall as a teacher. Tell the other students about your hopes for your life.
After this, decide who is the unhappiest of the three ‘Janes’.
Look at the picture. Work in groups and give a short talk about it using the words given below.
- sand
- waves
- when
- as soon as
- collect
- enjoy
- hatchlings
- basket
- boys
- night
- rough sea
- many
- eggs
- incubate
- hatchery
- after
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Volunteers of the Students Sea Turtle Conservation Network (SSTCN) release Olive Ridley hatchlings into the sea. |
Take something from your school bag. Describe it in three sentences. Ask the class to find out the thing you have described.
Change the following into Indirect Speech.
“Are you coming home with me?” he asked.
Change the following into Indirect Speech.
“Hurry up,” he said to his servant, “do not waste time.”
Change the following into Direct Speech.
I told them to be quiet.
Travelling can help a person to understand and appreciate different places. Discuss in groups and talk about the places you have visited recently. Present your experiences to the class.
What happened to the hole in the ground after the rain?
See how they speak at this situation and practise as if you were in that situation.
Name the character or speaker.
“Eat these capsules.”
See how they speak at this situation and practise as if you were in that situation.
Speak and win.
Join any group. Pick and support any one of the characters. Say some sentences for the one you support and say some sentences against another one to win.
| I support the archer ______ |
| I support the old man ______ |
The Maharaja was a wise man and ordered the cook to use the vegetable scraps instead of throwing them away.
- Name some of the things which are thrown away at home or in school.
- Sit in groups of four and think of interesting ways in which they can be made useful.
- Put up your findings on the class board.
Betty bought a bit of butter,
But the bit of butter that Betty bought was bitter.
So Betty bought some better butter,
To make the bitter butter better.
Some letter are missing in each word.
t ______ ch
What is the word that starts with t , rhymes with ‘cease’, and means to playfully make fun of ?
Using sign language make these letters with your hand
‘C’, ‘H’, ‘E’, ‘K’
How do you think you can help children who cannot see?
Look at the signs for the letters of the alphabet.
Do you know any other language? Do you know a joke in English? Tell your friends.
Say the given sentences with different expressions.
- Come and play with me.
- I want to buy things and have fun.
- Come and climb up my trunk and swing from my branches.
- Cut down my trunk.
- I am too old to swing on branches.
- I am too tired to climb.
What kinds of stories do you like?
The word galore means in great numbers. Do you also have a class library or a school library which keeps many books? Can you borrow books?
You are Mani/Megalai of Class XI, President of the English Club of your school. Draft a speech on the topic ‘Reading Maketh a Complete Man’, to be delivered in the school assembly
In groups of five, discuss the following topic taking examples from Mary Kom’s life.
Athletes cannot run with money in their pockets. They must run with hope in their heart and dreams in their head.
The following expressions may help you in connecting ideas and presenting your views to the class.
- In my opinion…
- I wholeheartedly support…
- At the outset, let me say…
- I should like to draw your attention to…
Build a dialogue of 8–10 exchanges between your friend and yourself, on the following situation:
You were to board a train to Delhi. By mistake, you got into the wrong train and fought for your seat there. On realising your mistake, you left the train shamefaced, after creating a commotion there. Role-play this situation before the class.
Now use these ideas and prepare a speech on the topic ‘The importance of developing a positive attitude’ and deliver the speech in the school assembly
You are rushing to attend to an important work and you witness an accident on your way. Will you go to the rescue of the injured person? Share your views with the class.
Every person should take up the responsibility to serve the society in his or her own way. Discuss the various ways in which you can serve the society
Build a conversation for the following situation with a minimum of five exchange.
A salesman and a customer at an electronic shop.
Shakespeare describes the characteristics of the various stages of man. You are in the second stage of life. What do you think of your roles and responsibilities at this stage? Discuss with your partner and share your ideas with the class
‘ A friend in need is a friend indeed’. Does this hold good in all situations? Share your views with your class.
Given below are a few proverb. Prepare a short speech of two minutes on one of the proverb.
Together we can achieve more.
Now it’s your turn to speak against the motion “Wars create more problem than they solve.” Express your views with valid points.
- The Vellore was h held in 1801.
- The family members of Tippu were imprisoned at Vellore Fort after the fourth Mysore war.
- At the time of Vellore revolt, the Governor of Madras was lord William Bentinck.
- The victory of revolt of Vellore against British was one of the significant event in the history of india.
