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प्रश्न
You forget to wish your best friend on his/her birthday. He gets very angry. How will you try to pacify him/her? Construct a dialogue of about 4 to 5 exchanges and enact a role play
उत्तर
| Ramesh | Ravi, aren’t you my best friend? |
| Ravi | Why do you doubt it? |
| Ramesh | You didn’t even wish me. Yesterday evening I was waiting for you till 9 pm. |
| Ravi | I’m terribly sorry! I was at the Chepauk stadium watching CSK batting under trying conditions. |
| Ramesh | Oh! when it comes to cricket, you forget even your weekly tests. |
| Ravi | Friend, forgive me. Accept my belated wishes. |
| Ramesh | Okay. Let us forget it and talk about the match. |
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Form groups and use the following topic for discussion. Take the help of your college library and your teacher.
Freedom of speech
In his speech, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar has expressed his deep concern over the absence of two things in the then Indian society. Discuss with your partner and complete the web.
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!
Divide the students into groups of five and conduct a group discussion on the topic "Importance of Mathematics in Our Everyday Life". The teacher will act as a moderator.
Imagine you are going to celebrate your forthcoming birthday at an orphanage/old age home.
Deliver a short speech about your birthday celebration by using the following hints.
- The reasons for choosing an orphanage/old-age home.
- The people who accompany you.
- The food which you are going to offer them.
- The useful gifts/articles which you are going to give them.
- Other events like cake cutting, conducting games, etc.
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.
When I was a little boy ______,
Now I really enjoy ______.
Ms. Pavithra Rao, the squash player who won the gold medal at the recent Asian Games, is holding a press conference. Let the discussion focus more on the strategies that helped her to win.
“Why do volcanoes erupt?”
She wondered why ______.
Read the different verb form where they remain the same in the direct and indirect speech in the following case. Fill in the blank with missing indirect speech.
With modal verbs would, might, could, should, ought to, used to.
A road map is given below. Answer the questions that follow with the help of the road map. Work in pairs and discuss to give directions to get to one place from another.
- You are at the market. You need directions to go to the pharmacy.
- You are in a book shop. Ask your partner to direct you to the Art Gallery.
- Give your partner the directions to go from the Bank to the hotel.
- Direct your partner from the post office to the market.
- Your partner wants to go to the library from school. Give suitable directions.
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.
Do you have art / craft session in your school?
Role-play the conversation in the class.
| Manoj | Hi Priya! How are you? |
| Priya | I am fine, and what about you? |
| Manoj | I am fine too. What are you doing in this early morning? |
| Priya | I am taking care of my garden. |
| Manoj | Oh! What a beautiful garden it is! |
| Priya | It is beautiful as I work every day in it. |
| Manoj | Who helps you in your work? |
| Priya | I have done this. It is my hobby and I have cultivated vegetables. |
| Manoj | Oh! that's nice. How long have you been doing this? |
| Priya | I have been doing this for_____ |
| Manoj | |
| Priya | |
| Manoj | |
| Priya | |
| Manoj |
Read the story board and take roles as pilot and flight attendants to enact the scene.
Figure of speech.
| The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep And miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep. |
Pick out any two lines of repetition from the poem.
Change the following into Indirect Speech.
The poor man exclaimed, “Will none of you help me?”
Change the following into Indirect Speech.
The teacher said to him, “Do not read so fast.”
Change the following into Indirect Speech.
He said to me, “Wait until I come.”
Match the rhyming words.
| 1. | tall | best |
| 2. | song | all |
| 3. | rack | along |
| 4. | rest | sack |
Describe a few funny things you have seen. Do they make you laugh?
Are you afraid of the dark? Why?
What is the word that starts with 'c' , rhymes with ‘near’ and ‘fear’, and means easy to see, hear and understand?
Did you hear what your tongue did?
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
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
Pair work: Practise the dialogue with another student. Then write a similar dialogue between a student and the class teacher regarding an educational trip.
Now, write a set of 8 to 10 instruction for the following situation.
A mother to her children, on safety measures to be taken before leaving home on vacation.
