Balbharati solutions for My English Coursebook 10 Standard SSC Maharashtra State Board chapter 2.5 - Book Review - Swami and Friends [Latest edition]

Form groups of 3 to 4 and share the following with your groups.

1. Your favourite book
2. Type of book (short stories/ biography/ thriller/adventure/science fiction/historical)
3. Author/Writer
4. Main character
5. Background (Time and place)
6. Problem/dilemma
7. Any special message

You have recently read a short story/novel/drama/science fiction/ghost-story. Write in short 3 of its strong points that made you like the book and 2 or 3 drawbacks it has. Fill them up in the tree - diagram given.

Determiners are words that modify a noun or noun phrase and occur before them in a sentence. Determiners provide a context to the noun they precede. They may be:

Underline only Determiners in the following.

1. My brother bought a few magazines.
2. What is your friend's name ?
3. Which writer was also the President of our country?
4. These are some toys.
5. These toys are new.
6. That doctor is an expert dentist and he has many patients.

Refer to the story ‘The Boy who Broke the Bank’  by Ruskin Bond. Read it carefully and write a Review of the same, keeping the following points in mind.

1. Name of Story and Writer/Author
2. Type of story
3. Background and setting (Time and Place)
4. Main characters
5. Problem faced
6. Language used
7. What you liked about the story
8. What you did not like about it
9. Your general opinion of the story

Look inside your thinking hat. Read the evidence/sentences given below and offer a possible explanation of what happened in this house? Make up some questions to gather more information. Now collect all your evidences and write a story in your notebook. Give a suitable title.

Identify the new words and phrases which seem to be important, in the review. Try to guess their meaning from the context. You can use a dictionary to confirm it. Fill up the table.

Find from the lesson the Noun forms of :

happen ____________

Find from the lesson the Noun form of :

true ____________

Find from the lesson the Noun form of :

simple ____________

Find from the lesson the Noun form of :

conclude ____________

Find Verb forms of :-

hatred ___________

Find Verb form of:-

thought ____________

Find Verb form of :-

meaning ____________

Find Verb forms of:-

improvement ____________

Find Verb forms of:-

description ____________

Find Verb form of:-

attribution ____________

Find Adjective forms of :

talk

Find Adjective forms of :

 interest

Find Adjective forms of :

purity

Find Adjective forms of :

technique

Find Adjective forms of :

literature

Write a complete review on any book that you have read recently. Use the following points for your Book Review.

1. Introduction
2. Selectivity of contents
3. Subject/Title Apporpriacy
4. Sequence of Contents
5. Language Appropriacy/Type
6. Good Points/Novelty in the book.
7. Advantages/Scope of the book. (if any)
8. Demerits/Shortcomings (if any)
9. Message/Opinion/Views (Personal)
10. Conclusion (in short)