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प्रश्न
Form groups and use the following topic for discussion. Take the help of your college library and your teacher.
Need for democracy
उत्तर
Need for democracy
- Democracy is a fair way to put people into power.
- Freedom granted to individuals to live a life of their choice.
- Criticism from opposition to the government in power
- Citizen's right to question every action of a democratic government.
- Disadvantages of other forms of government.
- Citizens of other countries suffering at the hands of supreme authority.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
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.
Pick out two words from the article on folk culture and folklore of Tamil Nadu with which you can form anagrams. Take turns and ask your partner to solve the anagram and come out with the right words.
You are visiting the primary school where you studied classes I to IV, after six years. You get a chance to go to your standard two classrooms and you are permitted to sit at the same place where you used to sit.
What would you remember?
Figures of Speech
| There is alliteration in the line: And I sunned it with smiles. The sound /s/ is repeated in the words ‘sunned’ and ‘smiles’. | Pick out at least two instances of alliteration from the poem. |
Identify the character or speaker of the following line.
Greetings, traveller. You looked tired and cold.
Work in groups of four. Discuss how the story would have been different if.
Pongo had pardoned the narrator after scolding him.
Figures of speech
Assonance: Repetition of similar vowel sounds in the neighbouring words
(e.g.) ‘T is the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy; Pick out one more instance from the poem.
“How many photos have you got?”
He wants to know how many ______.
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.
In if-clauses and time-clauses.
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.
Do you work individually or in pairs?
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 |
Imagine that you are going to interview one of the survivors of the Pan Am Hijack. Discuss with your partner and write down the conversation. Then one of you play the role of the interviewer and other the survivor. You can use the sample questions given below.
- Do you have any information regarding the suspects of the hijack?
- Which countries did the hijackers belong?
- What are the details of the hijacked flight?
- How many passengers were aboard?
- What happened in the last few minutes of the hijack drama?
- Do you have information regarding the victims?
- Was there any recorded communication to/from the plane during the hijacking?
- How many terrorists were there?
- How did you feel when you were in the flight?
- Can you recall Neerja’s role in safeguarding the passengers?
Discuss in groups of five. Make a story about the comic strip. Then share it in the class.
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.”
Change the following into Direct Speech.
I wrote that I would visit him next day.
Look at these images of different kinds of sports. Identify and name as many as you can with your partner.
Describe any one of them to your partner.
- Name of the sport.
- What equipment is used to play the sport?
- What kind of area/ground/field it is played in?
- How is it played?
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.
Pick out the line which tells you about seasons (in Sec II). Which seasons are mentioned?
See how they speak at this situation and practise as if you were in that situation.
Name the character or speaker.
“I am fine. We must wear the space suit.”
Join in either of the following groups and say some valid points to win.
| Group A. | I like to live in the Earth because ______ | |
| Group B. | I like to live in the Mars because ______ |
See how they speak at this situation and practise as if you were in that situation.
I have a robot______ and tall.
What’s your lunch today?
Let us learn to enact the story.
Borrowing a book from public Library.
Describe a few funny things you have seen. Do they make you laugh?
Look at the picture below. In the yellow box there are eight things You can see six of them in the picture. You cannot see the other two. Write down the four things that you can see.
- ______.
- ______.
- ______.
- ______.
When you run fast, what do you feel is happening to your body?
Some letter are missing in each word.
pl ______ se
Some letter are missing in each word.
b ______ p
What is the word that starts with t , rhymes with ‘cease’, and means to playfully make fun of ?
Where did the tip of the tongue touch?
Listen and repeat Ca -t
Did you hear what your tongue did?
Spell these words through hand signs
- Helen
- was
Look at the signs for the letters of the alphabet.
Do you think that –
Do birds have secrets?
Do you think that –
Do you know the secret language of any animal? Tell the class about it.
Have you seen
- a hippopotamus in a hat?
- a hen in a beehive?
- a helicopter with hair?
- a horse drink honey?
Make a story of the poem and share it with your friends. You can change Hiawatha’s name and give the name of your classmate. Start the story which other children can continue. Happy Hiawatha, hungry hippopotamus, high horse, heavy hand.
You could begin like this –
Once upon a time there was a boy called
What is your mother tongue?
Tick (✓) the words which end with the sound id. Say each word aloud
| accepted | |
| answered | |
| irritated | |
| failed | |
| completed | |
| challenged | |
| cried | |
| surprised | |
| find | |
| licked | |
| celebrated | |
| fried |
Pick out the silent letters from these words
| silent letter | |
| hour | |
| knit | |
| wrong | |
| doubt | |
| often | |
| know | |
| night | |
| could | |
| write | |
| knife | |
| high | |
| walk |
What kinds of stories do you like?
Tell the class about your favourite story book. Talk about the character you liked most in the book.
Have you been to another place recently? What is it like? How is it different from your own place?
Tell the class about your ambition in life and the way you are working towards achieving your goal.
Is there a link between intelligence and absent-mindedness? Share your views on this subject, with the class.
As a friend of the narrator, describe how you would have behaved at the auction.
Prepare a formal five minute speech on the topic ‘The Importance of Education’ and deliver it at your 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
Build a conversation for the following situation with a minimum of five exchange.
A salesman and a customer at an electronic shop.
Assertion: The SI system of units is the suitable for measurement.
Reason: The SI unit of temperature is kelvin.
