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Question
The whole world is happy because children are going to school. Why is it so? Discuss it in the classroom.
Solution
- Education Builds the Future: Schools help children learn the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in life. Educated children grow up to become responsible citizens, leaders, and professionals who can shape a better future for everyone.
- Breaking the Cycle of Poverty: Education gives children from underprivileged backgrounds the chance to improve their lives. With schooling, they can access better jobs and opportunities, helping their families and communities escape poverty.
- Developing Life Skills: School is not just about textbooks! Children learn important life skills like teamwork, problem-solving, creativity, and communication — all of which are essential for building a peaceful and productive society.
- Healthier and Safer Communities: Educated children grow up with better awareness of health, hygiene, and safety. They can make informed choices, promoting healthy living in their families and communities.
- Equality and Empowerment: Education helps bridge gaps in society. When girls and boys both go to school, it promotes gender equality and gives everyone the chance to succeed, regardless of background.
- Creating a Kinder World: Schools teach children empathy, respect, and tolerance. When children from different backgrounds study together, they learn to appreciate diversity and build a more inclusive world.
- Innovation and Progress: Schools inspire young minds to become inventors, scientists, and creators. Many future solutions to the world’s problems will come from children who are learning in classrooms today!
- The Ripple Effect: When children go to school, the benefits spread beyond them. Educated children grow up to become parents, workers, and citizens who help others and contribute to their communities and the economy.
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Read the following passage carefully and do the given activities:
A.1) True or False:
Write the statements and state whether they are true or false:
(i) Those who choose to live well must help others.
(ii) If neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily improve the quality.
(iii) The farmer grew award-winning corn.
(iv) The reporter discovered that the farmer didn’t share his seed corn with his neighbors.
There once was a farmer who grew award-winning corn. Each year he entered his corn in the state fair where it won a blue ribbon. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his sweet corn with his neighbors. “How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?” the reporter asked.
“Why sir”, said the farmer, “didn’t you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn.” He is very much aware of the connectedness of life. His corn cannot improve unless his neighbor's corn also improves. So it is with our lives. Those who choose to live in peace must help their neighbors to live in peace. Those who choose to live well must help others to live well, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches.
The lesson for each of us is this: if we are to grow good corn, we must help our neighbors grow good corn.
A.2) Consequences:
Write the consequences:
(i) The farmer shares the corn.
(ii) The farmer doesn’t share the corn.
A.3) Antonyms:
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(ii) lost x _______
(iii) improve x _______
(iv) inconstantly x _______
A.4) Language study:
(i) We must help our neighbors. (Replace the modal auxiliary showing advice).
(ii) The wind picks up pollen from ripening corn and swirls it field to field. (Use “not only…….. but also” and rewrite)
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