Balbharati solutions for My English Coursebook 10 Standard SSC Maharashtra State Board chapter 4.2 - Bholi [Latest edition]

Various social evils that exist in -

• big cities 
• small towns
• villages.

Very few youngsters like to take up social work as a career. Discuss reasons why they do not take it up seriously.

Adjectives and some Adverbs can be used in three degrees of comparison.
Positive - For example, cold, tall, heavy, fast, beautiful, little
Comparative - For example, colder, taller, heavier, faster, more beautiful, less
Superlative - For example, coldest, tallest, heaviest, fastest, most beautiful, least

Fill in the Table

Pick out Hindi words used in the story written in English. Give their English alternative.

1. Bholi - simpleton
2. __________________
3. __________________
4. __________________
5. __________________

Write three advantages and three drawbacks for each of the following.

After the accident, Juhi’s face was ____________.

It took a long time to straighten the ____________ bundle of wool.

After class, students ____________ out for their lunch- break.

One should never ____________ the disabled people.

Nutan was ______ of her sister, who won the ‘Best Singer’ award.

Corruption is a ____________ act.

We are ____________ seriously about buying a new apartment.

I was ____________ to see a snake in my room.

The story focusses on some social problems and evil practices that are prevailing in the society. Read the text carefully and make a list of all social problems and evil practices. Discuss in the class to find some solutions to these problems. One is done for you.

Fill in the boxes with proper letters so as to find various characters in the story by their specialities. One is done for you.

a. 

b.

c.

d.

e. 

f. 

Glance through the story again and describe Bholi’s character before and after her meeting with the teacher. Complete the table and then write two paragraphs describing the change seen in her character. One is done for you.

Find a synonym from the story for the following word.

Humiliate

Find a synonym from the story for the following word.

Repair

Find a synonym from the story for the following word.

Attracted

Find a synonym from the story for the following word.

Surely

Find a synonym from the story for the following word.

Fortunate

Find a synonym from the story for the following word.

Contentment

Expand the proverb in about 12 to 15 lines, ‘Where there is a will, there is a way.’

Steps:

1. Explanation of the proverb in simple words.
2. Examples/Experiences to prove the proverbs.
3. Conclusion

Read the extract beginning from -
“Her name was Sulekha..... find bridegrooms for them.” Narrate this extract in short, making Sulekha (Bholi) the narrator. Write it in your notebook. Begin with “I was named Sulekha __________________ ”

Interview

Prepare a set of 10-12 questions that you would ask at an interview of a person who has strongly acted against social injustice and has achieved success inspite of a long struggle against so many odds in his/her life. Write them down in your notebook.

Rewrite the following in Indirect speech. Do it in your notebook.

“Put the fear out of your heart and you will be able to speak like everyone else”. Bholi looked up as if to ask, “Really?”

Rewrite the following in Indirect speech. Do it in your notebook.

“Yes, certainly,” his wife said, “Bholi will be lucky to get such a well-to-do bridgeroom.”

Rewrite the following in Indirect speech. Do it in your notebook.

“What will that witless one say? She is like a dumb cow.” May be you are right.” muttered Ramlal.

Rewrite the following in Indirect speech. Do it in your notebook.

“Be a little considerate, please. If you go back, I can never show my face in the village.” “Then out with five thousand.”

Rewrite the following in Indirect speech. Do it in your notebook.

“Pitaji”, Take back your money, I am not going to marry this man.” “Bholi, are you crazy?” shouted Ramlal.

Rewrite the sentence given below as per the given Degree of Comparison without change of meaning.

You are not as young as she is. (Comparative Degree)

Rewrite the sentence given below as per the given Degree of Comparison without change of meaning.

His fourth daughter’s wedding was the grandest of all. (Positive)

Rewrite the sentence given below as per the given Degree of Comparison without change of meaning.

Bholi was younger than all his other daughters. (Superlative)

Correct the error in the following sentence. Focus on verb and subject.

All children, except Bholi, was healthy and strong.

Correct the error in the following sentence. Focus on verb and subject.

Since childhood, everyone will have calling her Bholi.

Correct the error in the following sentence. Focus on verb and subject.

If girls goes to school, who will marry them?

Correct the error in the following sentence. Focus on verb and subject.

New clothes was never made for Bholi.

Correct the error in the following sentence. Focus on verb and subject.

The garland were flung into the fire.

Correct the error in the following sentence. Focus on verb and subject.

Do you wants to hear more?

Correct the error in the following sentence. Focus on verb and subject.

Aren’t that right?

Correct the error in the following sentence. Focus on verb and subject.

I will teaches in the same school.