Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
How is that day celebrated?
Solution
Activities on a friendship day:
- Cards indicating how one values the other’s friendship are handwritten and exchanged.
- Friends exchange small gifts such as flowers, cakes, chocolates, and friendship bands.
- Call and greet “Happy Friendship Day” or at least SMS the greeting.
- Buy a ticket for a movie to show how one values the other.
- Take a group photograph and upload it on social media.
APPEARS IN
RELATED QUESTIONS
Have you are wondered why soldiers are always clad in green? This is to enable them to camouflage themselves during wartime. Hiding in the jungles, their green attire blends into the surrounding trees and shrubs, making it difficult for the enemies to spot them.
Long before man-made use of camouflaging, insects have already adopted the tactic of disguise to escape from the clutches of their predators. By having body colour close to those of the rocks and dried leaves, they can escape from being pursued by the predators.
Butterflies and moths have developed a variety of camouflage strategies since they are quite defenceless and their predators are abundant. Possessing wings which resemble dried leaves help certain butterflies and moths to hide among heaps of dried leaves when predators are around.
Fortunately, not all insects choose the art of disguise to escape from their predators; otherwise, the world would be so dull and colourless. There are insects which assimilate the bright body colours of bees and wasps to escape from being pursued by their predator. Long ago, birds have already learnt to avoid brilliantly coloured wasps and bees in fear of their painful stings. Hence, over millions of years, many harmless insects have assimilated the bees and wasps by imitating. their bright body colours and shapes. In this way, they appear dangerous and hence ward them off.
The beefy, not only appears like the bumblebee in terms of body colour, even its hums sound similar too. The only difference is that the beefy does not have a stirring and is hence harmless. The hoverfly is another insect which imitates. the body colours of the wasps. Their bodies are striped yellow and black. The only deviations are that hoverflies do not have stings, and they have only one pair of wings each while wasps have two pairs each. These variations are hardly noticed by the predators and hence help them to escape.
A1. Complete the table with the information from the passage : (2)
| Insects | Similarity | Difference |
| Bumblebee - Beefy | ||
| Wasp - Hoverfly |
A2. Complete the tree diagram : (2)
A3. Find out : (2)
‘Nature has given a self-protection mechanism to insects’.
Find out at least two examples from the passage to prove this statement.
A4. Vocabulary - (2)
Find the words from the passage for :
(i) animal or bird that hunts other for food
(ii) to get free from danger
(iii) to prevent something from harming
(iv) to make a copy
A5. Personal response - (2)
‘Soldiers disguise themselves to prevent enemies to spot them’.
Give two more examples when the disguising technique is used by humans.
A6. Grammar - (2)
Rewrite the following sentences in the ways instructed :
(i) They have only one pair of wings.
(Make it negative without changing the meaning)
(ii) Insects have already adopted the tactic of disguise to escape from the clutches of their predators.
(Replace infinitive with gerund and rewrite)
(B) Summary : (3)
Summarise the above extract with the help of the points given and suggest a suitable title.
Camouflage of soldiers and insects - reason and ways for disguising - assimilation of insects - need of imitation.
What could these persons have done?
His tune is heard on the distant hill’. Explain
The free bird thinks of another breeze
And the trade winds soft through
The sighing trees
And the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright
Lawn and he names the sky his own.
Read the above lines and answer the question that follow.
Explain with reference to the context.
What bells are being referred to here? Why are they rung?
What is the theme of the poem? How is it conveyed?
Shakespeare's minor characters play an important part in the development of the plot. What purpose do Dogberry, Verges and the Company of the Watch serve in the play Much Ado About Nothing?
I have never seen a film as bad as this. ·
(Begin: This is ........................................ )
Notice the following sentence patterns.
For song…duly with love returns
Rewrite the above sentences in prose.
How are the earth's principal biological systems being depleted?
Distinguish between the following pairs of sentences.
The team played two matches successively.
Make a short list of things you find difficult to do. For example:
turning a somersault 
threading a needle
Compare your list with the others in the class. Can you explain why you find these things difficult to do?
‘My Favourite Place’
Read again the paragraphs of the story in which the author describes the banyan tree, and what he used to do there. Is there a place in your house, or in your grandparents’ or uncles’ or aunts’ houses, that you specially like? Write a short paragraph about it, saying
- where it is
- what you do there
- why you like it
You may instead write about a place you dislike, or are afraid of.
Write down the significance of the following in the context of 'On to the Summit': Red Scarf.
Colours mentioned in the hexagons given below are associated with something or the other. Discuss with your partner and fill in the blanks.
'The Road Not Taken' (Robert Frost), 'O Captain My Captain' (Walt Whitman), etc. are inspirational poems. Search these poems on the internet and write down your opinion about the poems in your notebook.
“Lend thy ears to all but few thy tongue”…. is a famous quote by William Shakespeare. Justify.
Write at least 5 rhymes from the poem.
Write about a day when you felt very happy. Use the following questions to help you. Think/Recollect a day ____________
Note down the points.
- Do you remember the exact day and date?
- Was it a special occasion or celebration?
- What happened on that day?
- How did you react to the things that happened on that day?
- How did other people react when they saw you were so happy?
- What did you do next ?
- What happened in the end?
- Describe any other emotions you felt that day
Now, with the help of the guidelines write a short paragraph of at least 100 words about that happy day. Give a suitable title for your narrative/write up.
You are a volunteer in your locality to serve people who are affected by floods. How will you caution them to move to a safer place taking only their bare necessities? Describe.
Discuss in groups. Draw the haunted house described in the poem and write a paragraph about it in your own words.
Write an email to your teacher about the interesting English model that you have prepared for the literary fest.
The word in the sentence is jumbled. Write them in order.
I went the towards footprint large.
What was the daily routine of the grandmother at home?
Explain the following phrase selected from the story in your own word and work with a partner to make sentence using these phrase:
on approval
Why had Miss Meadows chosen 'A Lament' as the lesson that particular day?
Now write a short story to explain these proverb.
Actions speak louder than words
What makes you happy?
Do you like to watch plays?
What leads Mathew Arnold to tell his beloved, “Ah, love, let us be true’, in the last stanza of the poem, The Dover Beach? Write your answer in a short paragraph of 100-150 words.
