Balbharati solutions for Integrated 8 Standard Part 1 [English Medium] Maharashtra State Board chapter 1.2 - Dick Whittington and his Cat [Latest edition]

Name the world-famous personality who reached great heights despite of humble circumstances.

Name the world-famous personality who reached great heights despite of humble circumstances. 

Name the world-famous personality who reached great heights despite of humble circumstances.

Name the world-famous personality who reached great heights despite of humble circumstances.

Guess the types of hardships they must have faced in their childhood and youth.

What strong qualities possessed by them, could have helped them achieve success and fame, all over?

How do stories/biographies of such famous people help youngsters?

Syllable: A syllable is a unit of pronunciation that has one vowel sound and may or may not have consonant sounds before / after it.

Examples of words having:

One syllable: a, I, see, at, on, man, with, thread.
Two syllables: mother, seated, giraffe, parrot, active, happy.
Three syllables: happiness, wonderful, animal, surprising, adventure, ignorance
More than three syllables: consequently, encouragement, responsibility, identifying, encyclopedia.

Write the names of any 5 of your classmates and list how many syllables each name has. 

Arrange the following set of words in the alphabetical order in your notebook.

ship, small, successful, scoldings, stone, saving, someone, stood, streets, still, screamed, sat, seemed, saint, share.

Remove the Affixes (Prefix and Suffix) and write the Root-word.

1. successful ____________
2. immediately ____________
3. retrace ____________
4. mouser ____________
5. unfriendly ____________
6. fallen ____________
7. unkind ____________
8. wooden ____________
9. luckily ____________
10. belonging ____________

Find from the story one word for the following.

a small room just below a sloping roof ______

Find from the story one word for the following.

a very narrow passage between buildings ______

Find from the story one word for the following.

the highest-ranking officer in the Municipality of a city/town ______

Find from the story one word for the following.

the highest-ranking official who commands a ship ______

Find from the story one word for the following.

any animal that catches mice ______

Find from the story one word for the following.

a low constant sound made by cats ______

Make sentence of your own using the following expression.

overcome:

Make sentence of your own using the following expression.

put up with:

Make sentence of your own using the following expression.

bargain:

Rearrange the following events as they occur in the story. Put the correct number in the boxes.

What decision taken by Dick changed his fortune?

What message does this story bring out for youngsters?

Break the words below into syllables as shown in the first one.

1. belonging: be - long - ing
2. morning: ______
3. unfriendly: ______
4. citizen: ______
5. anything: ______
6. message: ______
7. difficulty: ______
8. mayor: ______
9. captain: ______
10. elected: ______

Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives.

Read the sentences.

1. Yatin is strong.
2. Amit is stronger than Yatin.
3. Pravin is the strongest of all.

In sentence (i) the Adjective 'strong' is in its simple form. It is called Positive Degree.

In sentence (ii) the Adjective 'stronger' refers to a higher degree, when there is a comparison of two nouns. It is called Comparative Degree. (-er is added to the basic Adjective)

In sentence (iii) the adjective 'strongest' refers to the highest degree of comparison of one with more than two nouns. It is called Superlative Degree. (-est is added to the basic Adjective) 

Complete the table of degrees of comparison.

Select any one of the famous personalities mentioned in ‘Warming up 1’ on page no. 5. From the library or internet find out their success story. Write it in your own words in about 20 to 30 lines of your notebook.
Give your write-up a suitable title.