INTERNATIONAL INDIAN SCHOOL , RIYADH

WORKSHEET - ENGLISH , CLASS-10

TERM –II

FOOTPRINTS WITHOUT FEET

LN. 6 THE MAKING OF A SCIENTIST

SHORT ANSWER TYPE

1. Discuss Ebrights’ works in the light of what you have studied in your science

books.

2.Which project did Albright submit in his eighth grade?

3.’Richard was the focus of his mother’s attention”. Compose a thesis on this.

4. Comment on the role of Mr Weathered in Albright’s life,

Or

Who were the important people in Albright’s life? Why

5. Why did Ebright lose interest in tagging butterflies?

6. Identify four values which Richard Ebright projected as a man of substance.

7. Which project of Ebright won first prize in the county science fair?

8. What all hobbies did Albright develop in kindergarten?

LONG ANSWER TYPE

1.’Success is failure turned inside out’. Prove the above statement with instances

from the journey taken by Richard Albright from losing at the science fair to winning

at the international fair.

2. How does Richard Albright become a scientist?

3.“ Richard Ebright was a successful scientist who gave a new theory of cells to the

scientific world.” Elucidate.

LN. 7 THE NECKLACE

SHORT ANSWER TYPE

1.What, do you think, were the feelings of Madam Forestier when she came to

know that Matilda returned her a diamond necklace in place of an artificial one?

2. Madam Loisel was intoxicated with pleasure at the ball. Give three reasons to

support your Answer.

3. How would you feel if you were in Matilda’s place and had lost somebody’s such

a valuable possession?

4. What changes occurred in Mme Loisel after 10 years?

5. How was Mr Lisle able to arrange 36,000 francs?

LONG ANSWER TYPE

1. Matilda realized that one little act of negligence can lead to total ruin. How

would you prefer to be guided to move on in life?

2. The story The Necklace’ teaches us many lessons which form the crux of

human values. Discuss.

3. ‘The Necklace’ reveals that vanity is evil. It may bring joy for a short period but

ultimately it leads to ruin. If you were placed in a situation similar to that of

Matilda, what would you have done? Write your views.

LN.8 THE HACK DRIVER

SHORT ANSWER TYPE

1.Discuss the character of the young lawyer as depicted in the chapter The Hack

Driver’?

2.The hack driver at New Mullion befriended the lawyer. What did he do after that?

3.Describe the feelings of the young lawyer when he came to know the reality of

the hack driver at last.

4.Why did he consider fleeing to his home town?

5.Why was the narrator disappointed when he got to New Mullion? What was the

only ‘agreeable sight’ about the place?

LONG ANSWER TYPE

1.Draw a character sketch of Oliver Lutkins as told by the hack driver, Bill.

Or

How did the hack driver sketch the character of Lutkins?

2.How were the summons finally served on Lutkins? How did Lutkins and his

mother react on that occasion?

LN.9 BHOLI

SHORT ANSWER TYPE

1.” God cannot be everywhere, so he created Mothers”. Do you think Bholi’s

mother complies with this statement? Give at least three reasons supporting your

answer.

2. What were the two steps taken by Ramlal to persuade Bishamber to marry Bholi?

3. Describe Bholi’s feelings when her teacher assured to make her the most learned

in her village.

4. Give two points to demonstrate that Bholi’s wedding was a grand one.

5. What two actions did Bholi take to stop her marriage to Bishamber?

6. How did Bholi console her father in the end?

7. Draw a conclusion as to why Bholi’s teacher felt like an artist admiring her

masterpiece.

8. What did the Tehsildar suggest to Ramlal?

9. Why do you think Bholi is called Selecta just at the end of a story?

Or

Why was Selecta nicknamed Bholi?

10. Everyone’s first day at school is generally filled with fun, joy and happiness. How

was Bholi’s first day at school?

LONG ANSWER TYPE

1. Although Bholi never got the deserved love, care and acceptance from her

family, she is ready to reciprocate like all daughters in Indian society. Discuss

the character of Bholi in the light of the above-mentioned

2. Bholi challenged the dowry seeker. She used to be a meek girl. What

changed her attitude towards life?

3. Demanding dowry is an evil practice. Describe how Bholi, a dumb cowgirl

fought against this evil.

LN.10 THE BOOK THAT SAVED THE EARTH

SHORT ANSWER TYPE

1. How did the children’s book transform his life?

2.Why did Think-Tank react in alarm to the third passage read?

3.Why did Think-Tank send his crew on the earth?

4. How did Think-Tank interpret the poem ‘The Cat and the Fiddle “.

5. How does Think-Tank describe the people on Earth? Why does he command

Noodle to contact the Space probe?

6. What do the historians speak about the books?

7. What does Noodle suggest to Think-Tank about the books?

8. Who was Omega? Why did he try to oat the book?

9. Why books referred to as a man’s best companion? Which book saved the Earth

from Martian invasion?

LONG ANSWER TYPE

1.’Pride has a fall’. Justify this statement giving relevant points from how Think-

Tank reacted to the readings from Mother Goose.

2. Attempt a character-sketch of Noodle highlighting the values projected by him.

3. How did one old book of nursery rhymes save the earth from a Martian invasion?

Or

How do the three nursery rhymes frighten Think-Tank?

FIRST FLIGHT

POEM – ANIMALS

Read the following stanza and answer the questions that follow :

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are

so placid and self-contained,

I stand and look at them long and long.

Questions :

(a) What is the poet’s wish?

(b) How do the animals appear to the poet?

(c) What does he do thereafter?

(d) Who does ‘I’ refer to in the first line?

(e) Name the poem and the poet.

SHORT ANSWER TYPE

1. Why does the poet show a preference for living with the animals?

2. What is the relevance of ‘tokens’ in the poem ‘Animals’? Who brings them to

the poet?

3. Write the central idea of the poem `Animals’.

Q4. What is the theme of the poem ‘Animals’?

Q5.What is the Central Idea of the poem ‘Animals’?

[H.B.S.E. March 2017 (Set-D)]

Q.6. Why does the poet want to live with animals? [S.B.S.E.

March. 2017 (Set-B)]

Q.7. What is the difference between animals and humans regard their attitude to

their condition, sins and God?

Q.8. How are animals different from humans about owning things or kneeling to

one another?

Q9. Why does the poet want to take a turn?

Q10. Why is the poet so much impressed with animals?

Q11. Why do humans keep awake in the dark and weep for their sins while

animals never do such things?

Q12. Why do animals don’t kneel down to their fellow beings or ancestors? How

do humans react to them?

LONG ANSWER TYPE

1.”Human beings are called the most civilised species in the entire world. But

sometimes they lack the values which are better exhibited by the animals.”

Elucidate the statement with reference to the poem, ‘Animals’.

2.What are those ‘tokens’ and how animals have maintained them while humans

have left them long ago?

POEM – THE TREES

Read the following stanza and answer the questions that follow :

The smell of leaves and lichen

still reaches like a voice into the rooms.

My head is full of whispers

which tomorrow will be silent.

Questions :

(a) Where is the poetess sitting at present?

(b) Which smell is reaching her?

(c) What is her head full of?

(d) What will be silent tomorrow?

(e) Name the poem and the poetess.

SHORT ANSWER TYPE

1. What is the central idea of the poem ‘The Trees’?

2. Where are the trees at present? What do their roots, and leaves do?

3. Why is the description of the moon different in the beginning and at the end of

the third stanza?

4. Justify the revolt of the trees and state two values which the man should

possess to stop the revolt.

5. How does the poetess describe the night? How does she feel?

Q.6. What is the theme of the poem ‘The ‘frees’?

LONG ANSWER TYPE

1.How does the poem ‘The Trees’ make a strong plea against deforestation?

2.Explain the phrase “the forest that was empty all these days”. After reading the

poem for whom do you think are the forests needed? Imagine you are a tree in a

forest, who; values would you like the humans to learn from the tree? (100-150

words)

Or

What message does Adrienne Rich want to convey through her .poem, The

Trees’?

POEM- FOG

The fog comes

on little cat feet.

It sits looking

over harbour and city

on silent haunches

and then moves on.

Questions :

(a) How does the fog come?

(b) Where does the fog look and how?

(c) What does the fog do in the end?

(d) For what does ‘it’ stand in the third line?

(e) Name the poem and the poet.

SHORT ANSWER TYPE

1. The poet actually says that the fog is like a cat”, With reference to the

poem, ‘Fog’ explain this statement.

2. How does the poet make the fog like a living creature?

3. How is the fog like a cat? What three things suggest it?

4. How does the poet describe the fog’s movements?

5. How does the poet employ the double imagery of the fog and the cat?

6. Describe the similarities that have been mentioned in the poem between

the fog and a cat.

LONG ANSWER TYPE

1. What metaphor has the poet used in the poem ‘Fog’? Do you think it is

appropriate?

Q2. How does Carl Sandburg describe the arrival, stay and departure of the fog

through the image of a metaphorical cat?

POEM -THE TALE OF CUSTARD THE DRAGON

Belinda lived in a little white house,

With a little black kitten and a little grey mouse,

And a little yellow dog and a little red wagon,

And a real, truly, little pet dragon.

Questions :

(a) Where did Belinda live?

(b) What was the colour of the kitten?

(c) Apart from the kitten which other animals were living with her?

(d) Give a pair of rhyming words.

(e) What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza?

SHORT ANSWER TYPE

1. Why did Belinda cry for help? Who came to her help?

2. How did Belinda’s pets other than Custard face the pirate?

3. How did each of Belinda’s pets react at the sight of the pirate?

4. Give a brief description of the pirate in the poem The Tale of Custard the

Dragon’.

5. Belinda was a sweet little girl who lived in her sweet little white house. Who

else lived with her in that house?

Or

Who all lived in a white house with Belinda?

6. Why did everyone make fun of the dragon?

7. How did they say their admiration for the dragon after the death of the pirate?

8. What did they say about their bravery after the pirate’s death?

9. Who among them was actually brave? How did he show his bravery?

10. How is ‘The Tale of Custard the Dragon’ a ballad?

LONG ANSWER TYPE

1. Why do you think Custard, the dragon, was called a coward? How was

Custard able to save all his house-mates from the pirate? What values

should Belinda have possessed so that Custard too could have been among

her favourites?

2. Describe the fight between the dragon and the pirate.

3. Evaluate Ogden Nash’s ‘The Tale of Custard the Dragon’ as a ballad. What

message does the poet give to the readers in this poem?

POEM- FOR ANNE GREGORY

1.”I heard an old religious man

But yesternight declare

That he had found a text to prove

That only God, my dear,

Could love you for yourself alone

And not your yellow hair.”

(a) What does the old man’s text prove?

(b) What, according to the poet, is more essential in the eyes of God?

(c) What does ‘I’ refer to here?

(d) How is God’s love different from the love of the young lovers?

Or

(a) Only God could love her———-

(b) Whom did he hear?

(c) What evidence does the old man want to give?

(d) What does the colour of hair signify?

SHORT ANSWER TYPE

1. What was not liked by the young men?

2. The young woman’s hair is yellow coloured. She is ready to change her hair

colour to another colour. Why would she want to do so?

3. What is the central idea of the poem ‘For Anne Gregory’?

4. What does the old religious man have to say?

Q.5. What is the central idea of the poem `For Anne Gregory’?

Or

What is the theme of the poem ‘For Anne Gregory’?

Q.6. To whom is the first stanza of the poem addressed? What does the speaker

say to her?

Q.7. What makes a young man not to love the woman referred to in the first

stanza?

Q.8. What does the woman say she can do to make herself more desirable to

young men? What does this show?

Q.9. What does the religious man tell the poet about God’s love for man?

Q10. Why shall a young person never be thrown into despair?

Q11. What are those ‘great honey-coloured ramparts’ at the ears of that young

lady? What is the poetic device used here?

Q12. Why should a young man never love a young woman for ‘herself alone

LONG ANSWER TYPE

Q1. Do we love people because we like their appearances or we are fascinated by

their physical appearances? How does Anne Gregory want to be loved?

Q2. People are not objects. They should be valued for being themselves. What

lesson does the poet want to give to the readers through this poem?

FICTION

Ln.7- GLIMPSES OF INDIAN

PART -1

We kids would be pushed aside with a mild rebuke and the loaves would be

delivered to the servant. But we would not give up. We would climb a bench or

the parapet and peep into the basket, somehow. I can still recall the typical

fragrance of those loaves. Loaves for the elders and the bangles for the children.

[CBSE2014 ]

(a) Who are ‘we’ in the extract?

(b) Why were the children pushed aside?

(c) Which word/phrase in the extract means the same as ‘an expression of

disapproval/a scolding’?

(d) What was there in the basket?

SHORT ANSWER TYPE

Q 1: What are the elders in Goa nostalgic about?

Q 2: Is bread-making still popular in Goa? How do you know?

Q 3: What is the baker called?

Q 4: When would the baker come every day? Why did the children run to meet

him?

Q 7: Who invites the comment — “he is dressed like a pader”? Why?

Q8: Where were the monthly accounts of the baker recorded?

Q9: What does a ‘jackfruit -like appearance’ mean?

LONG ANSWER TYPE

1.After reading the story ‘A Baker from Goa”, do you think our traditions,

heritage, values and practices are the roots that nourish us? Why/why not?

[CBSE 2015]

2.‘During our childhood in Goa, the baker used to be our friend, companion and

guide.’ What does this statement imply in relation tofhe character of the baker?

PART-2

Coorgi homes have a tradition of hospitality, and they are more than willing to

recount numerous tales of valour related to their sons and fathers. The Coorg

Regiment is one of the most decorated in the Indian Army, and the first Chief of

the Indian Army, General Cariappa, was a Coorgi. Even now, Kodavus are the only

people in India permitted to carry firearms without a licence. [CBSE 2013]

(a) What kind of stories are the Coorg people always ready to tell?

(b) What is the special favour granted only to them even now?

(c) Find a word in the extract which means the same as ‘courage and bravery,

usually in war.

(d) Who is free to have a firearm without a licence in India?

SHORT ANSWER TYPE

Q1.From whom have the inhabitants of Coorg descended, as per the legend?

Q 2.How has the Coorgi tradition of courage and bravery recognised in modern

India?

Q 3.Describe the wildlife of Coorg.

LONG ANSWER TYPE

1.The Coorgis are the descendants of the Greeks or the Arabs and are still are able

to maintain their traditional practices. Do you agree that following these practices

today is important? Why or why not?

PART-3

“Chai-garam… garam-chai,” a vendor called out in a high-pitched voice. He came

up to their window and asked,”Chai, sa’ab?” “Give us two cups,” Pranjol said.

They sipped the steaming hot liquid. Almost everyone in their compartment was

drinking tea too.

“Do you know that over eighty crore cups of tea are drunk every day throughout

the world?” Rajvir said. “Whew!” exclaimed Pranjol. “Tea really is very popular.”

(a) How many cups of tea are drunk everyday throughout the world?

(b) Where were Pranjol and Rajvir when this conversation took place?

(c) Find the word in the extract which is an expression of astonishment.

(d) Who was selling the tea and where was he?

SHORT ANSWER TYPE

Q1.Where were Rajvir and Pranjol going and why?

Q 2.What did Rajvir see while looking outside from the train?

Q3.‘This is a tea country now’. Explain this with reference to Assam. [CBSE 2013]

Q 4.In what ways is China related to tea?

Q5.Why did Pranjol’s father say that Rajvir had done his homework before visiting

Assam?

LONG ANSWER TYPE

Q1.According to the text, Assam is said to be ‘tea country’. Do you believe that

Assam has some of the best plantations in the world that makes it a unique

country?

Ln8-MIJBIL THE OTTER

Very soon Mij would follow me without a lead and come to me when I called his

name. He spent most of his time in play. He spent hours shuffling a rubber ball

around the room like a four-footed soccer player using all four feet to dribble the

ball, and he could also throw it, with a powerful flick of the neck, to a surprising

height and distance. But the real play of an otter is when he lies on his back and

juggles with small objects between his paws. Marbles were Mij’sfavourite toys for

this pastime: he would lie on his back rolling two or more of them up and down

his wide, flat belly without ever dropping one to the floor.

(a) How did Mij play with the rubber ball?

(b) What is the real play of the otter?

(c) How did the otter spend most of his time?

(d) What did he look like while playing?

SHORT ANSWER TYPE

1. Describe the havoc created by Mijbil on the aeroplane when it came out of the

box.

2. What were the guesses made by the Londoners about Mijbil?

3. How was `Mijbil’ a source of amazement on London streets?

4.‘ She was the very queen of her kind’. Explain the reason behind admiration for

the air hostess.

5. Why was the author not allowed to take a flight of British Airways?

6. Why were Maxwell and his friends going to Basra?

7. Give an example from the text to show that Mijbil is an intelligent animal.

8. What happened when Mij disappeared at speed down the aircraft?

Or

What happened when Maxwell opened the box on the plane?

9. Prove that Mijbil loved the water, giving two instances in support of your

answer.

LONG ANSWER TYPE

1. Mijbil did things which demonstrated its personality. Which qualities of the

narrator are shown in his care for Mijbil?

2. Why did Maxwell want to have an otter for a pet? How did he get one?

3. What did Maxwell do to transport Mijbil to England?

4. Describe the relationship between the otter and Maxwell in your own words.

Ln.8- MADAM RIDES THE BUS

After she had enough money saved, her next problem was how to slip out of the

house without her mother’s knowledge. But she managed this without too much

difficulty. Every day after lunch her mother would nap from about one to four

hours or so. Valli always used these hours for her excursion. As she stood looking

from the doorway of her house or sometimes even ventured out into the village;

today these same hours could be used for her first excursion outside the village.

(a) Who does ‘she’ refer to in the passage?

(b) What was her new problem after saving enough money for her bus ride?

(c) When did Valli plan to slip out of the house without her mother’s knowledge?

(d) What Valli normally used to do when her mother had her daily nap?

SHORT ANSWER TYPE

1. How did Valli react when she saw the dead cow by the roadside?

2. What was the most fascinating thing for Valli?

3. Why does Valli refuse to look out of the window on her way back?

4. Why does Valli find information about the bus to the town?

5. Why was the conductor of the bus amused while talking to Valli?

6. Give examples from the text to show that Valli was a meticulous planner.

7. How can you say that the conductor was a good-natured jolly fellow? Support

your answer with examples.

8. What details did Valli pick up about the bus journey? How did she pick up these

details?

Or

What information did Valli collect for her first bus ride?

9. What made Valli sad on her return journey?

LONG ANSWER TYPE

1. Write a character sketch of Valli.

2.” Never mind,” she said, “I can get on by myself.” “You don’t have to help me,”

said Valli to the conductor. She shows extraordinary courage in making the bus

journey all alone. Taking inspiration from Valli’s character, write how the ability

and courage to take risk are essential to fulfilling one’s dream.

Or

Valli nurtures a strong desire to travel by bus and visit the city. She works hard for

it and finally, she is successful. Based on this incident, analyze what values of life

do you need to nurture to attain your goals in life?

3. Valli was so overcome with sadness to see the dead cow that she lost all

enthusiasm. Do you feel the same way? If you feel concerned about the plight of

animals falling prey to the fast-moving traffic, what efforts will you make to make

travelling on roads a safer activity?

4. How did Valli save up money for her first journey? Was it easy for her? Justify.

5. Justify the statement with instances that Valli was a mature girl and ahead of

her age?

6. Valli’s journey to the city is also her induction into the mystery of life and

death. Elaborate.

Ln. 10 –THE SERMON AT BENARES

1.”The Buddha preached his first sermon at the city of Benares, most holy of the

dipping places on the River Ganges; that sermon has been preserved and is given

here. It reflects the Buddha’s wisdom about one inscrutable kind of suffering.”

(a) Name the holiest of the dipping places on the River Ganges where the Buddha

preached his first sermon.

(b) What does Buddha’s first sermon reflect?

(c) What did Gautama do after getting on light emend?

(d) How was he known as then?

SHORT ANSWER TYPE

1. Kisa compared human life to an inanimate object. What is it and why does she

do so?

2. Where and when did Siddhartha become the Buddha?

3. Which people are referred to as “wise” by the Buddha in his sermons?

4. Why was Kisa Gotamis ad?

5. Why was Gautama known as the Buddha?

6. How did the Buddha teach Kisa Gotami the truth of life?

7. Describe the life of Gautama Buddha before enlightenment.

8. To seek peace one has to draw out the arrow of lamentation. State two values

projected through the statement.

9. What sights moved Siddhartha Gautama to seek the path of enlightenment?

10. What did the Buddha preach to the people?

LONG ANSWER TYPE

1.” The life of mortals in this world is troubled and brief and combined with pain.

With this statement of the Buddha find out the moral value that Kisa Gotami

learnt after the house and was unable to get wanted the mustard seeds. table:

grief death of her child.

2.”The world is afflicted with death eaters and d the Buddha. Expand this thought

revising Kisa Gotami’s experience when she a5,” Buddha for a solution.

3. Why did Kisa Gotami understand the message given by the Buddha only the

second time? In what way did the Buddha change her understanding?

Ln.11- THE PROPOSAL

1. It’s cold… I’m trembling all over, just as if I’d got an examination before me. The

great thing is, I must have my mind made up. If I give myself time to think, to

hesitate, to talk a lot, to look for an ideal, or for real love, then I’ll never get

married.

(a) Who is saying, “I’m trembling all over as if I had got an examination before

me”?

(b) What is the great thing that the speaker is talking about?

(c) What state of Loom’s mind does the passage reflect?

(d) Why did Loom not want to wait for real love?

2. “The peasants of your father’s grandfather, as I have already had the honour of

explaining to you, used to bake bricks for my aunt’s grandmother. Now my aunt’s

grandmother, wishing to make them a pleasant…”

(a) Who is the speaker?

(b) What did the peasants do?

(c) Who is the speaker talking to?

(d) Which land was under dispute?

SHORT ANSWER TYPE

1. What do you think would have been Chubukov’s reaction on hearing the reason

for which Lomov had come to his house?

2. What justification did Lomov give to Natalya and Chubukov to prove that he is

the rightful owner of Meadows?

3. Lomov was a quarrelsome person. Justify.

4. There is a certain way in which the characters speak in the play “The Proposal”.

What does it tell us about the Russian men?

5. Describe, in brief, the character of Natalya as sketched in the chapter the

proposal.

6. Lomov went to Chubukov’s house and was seeking permission so that he could

trouble him with a request. What is the trouble that he is talking about?

7. Natalya was not Lomov’s real love. But still, he wanted to marry her. Give two

reasons for his decision.

8. Lomov calls himself a ‘land grabber’. Justify the statement in about 20-25

words.

9. How and why did Lomov come to meet the Chubukov family?

10. How can you say that Natalya was not convinced that Oxen Meadows were

owned by Lomov?

11. What did Natalya say about Guess?

12. What does Chubukov at first suspect that Lomov has come for?

Or

Why was Stephan Chubukov not happy to welcome Lomov in his house?

13. What is the ailment that Lomov is suffering from?

14. What request did Lomov make to Chubukov?

15. Describe Lomov’s first meeting with Natalya.

LONG ANSWER TYPE

1. Neighbours must have a cordial relationship which Lomov and Natalya do not

have. Describe the fight between them.

2. The proposal was forgotten amidst argumentation. Which right approach

should have been followed by both parties?

3.”The way Chubukov, Natalya and Lomov fought over petty issues is against the

behaviour and mannerisms of good neighbours.” Comment. What would you

have done to resolve the issue? (if you were in the place of Chubukov)

4. Why does Lomov think of marrying he should settle into a quiet and regular

Natalya Stepanovna

5. Write a brief character sketch of Lomov.

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WORK SHEET—GRADE 10–ENGLISH 2019-2020

GRAMMAR & WRITING TASKS

I. Fill up the blanks by using the correct tense form of the verbs given in brackets:

(i) A few months ago a young man from Punjab (a)--------(decide) to go to Canada.

He (b)---------------(contact) an agent in Delhi. The agent (c)--------(tell) him that he

would have to pay seven lakh rupees for his journey. The young man agreed to

pay the amount. The agent (d)----------------(demand) some advance which (e)------

(pay) to him. Later the agent (f)---------------(discover) to be a cheat.

(ii) A large number of scientists gathered at Lakpat in Gujarat (a)------------(see) the

view of the last eclipse of the twentieth century. This place (b)---------------

(consider) to be the best as the totality there would be the (c)----------(long). They

(d)------------(go) there to study the phenomenon. But they (e)-------(disappoint)

because the clouds (f)-----------------(block) the clear view of the eclipse.

II. Read the dialogues given below and then complete the passage that follows:

(i) Ajay: Where are you going , mother?

Mother: To the market. Will you accompany me?

Ajay: Yes, I will.

Ajay asked his mother (a)--------------. His mother told him that (b)---------------

to the market and asked him (c)----------------. Ajay replies in the affirmative.

(ii) Amit: I saw a baby bird on my way back home. It could not fly.

Sumit: What did you do then?

Amit: I picked up the baby bird and carefully put it back in the nest.

Amit told Sumit (a)-------------on his way back home. It could not fly. Sumit

then enquired (b)--------------. Amit told him (c)--------------and carefully put

that back in the nest.

III. Rearrange the following jumbled – up words to make meaningful sentences:

(i) (a) drink/ water/ should/ unclean/we/not

(b) dirty water/ can/ill/drinking/we/fall/by

(c) a lot/ water/drink/of/should/we/everyday

(ii) (a) the zoo/children/in/many animals/saw

(b) whole zoo/ it/ to see/the/ 4 hours/ took them

(c) orange juice / they/and/drank/tired/got

IV. The following passages have not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write

the incorrect word and the correction against the correct blank number:

Incorrect Correct

(i) Marcopolo was one of a first (a)----------------- -------------

Europeans to exploring China. His (b)------------- -------------

father and uncle ask him to (c)------------ -------------

travel with him from Italy to (d)------------ ------------

China on horseback. He started

his journey on 1271. He claimed in (e)--------------- ------------

their travel book that there he saw (f)-------------- --------------

the huge palace of Kublai Khan.

His travel book latter inspired (g)-------------- ------------

another adventurer, Christopher Columbus.

(ii) Delhi Transport Corporation organize (a) ------------ -------------

the Delhi tour everyday.

This seven-hour-long tour take (b)------------ ---------------

the commuters at places like Red Fort, (c)------------- ---------------

Raj Ghat and Qutab Minar.

The touring starts from the Delhi Transport (d)---------- --------------

Corporation office in Scindia House, picking (e)---------- --------------

up tourists from the inform booth (f)------------- -----------

of Delhi Tourism in Baba Kharag Singh Marg. (g)-------- --------

V. Find the missing word:

Before word after

(i) I was careful behave as well as (a) ------- ------ --

possible to persuade king to (b) -------- ------- ----

give my freedom .Lilliputians (c) -------- -------- -----

soon began to lose fear of me. (d) --------- -------- ---------

They called the mountain man. (e) -------- -------- --------

Sometimes lay down and let (f) --------- -------- ----

them dance on my hand.

Before word after

(iii) If you have a telephone home, you (a)----------- ---------- -----------

will admit it rings when you (b)---------- --------- --------

least want it to ring specially when you asleep, (c)------- -------- --------

or in middle of a meal or when you are (d) -------- -------- ---------

in your bath. Even you don’t want to (e) --------- --------- ----------

attend it, you not ignore it. (f) --------- ---------- ----------

The idiotic bell rings disturbs (g) -------- ----------- -----------

the privacy of house. (h) -------- ----------- -----------

WRITING TASKS

1. Write a letter to thr Editor of a local daily to draw attention to the

inconvenience caused to the commuters due to vendors at the crossing on the

roads. You are Sagarika, a resident of 622, Maple Road, Mumbai.

2. You are Anil/Amita of C-46, Janakpuri, New Delhi. Write a letter to the Chairman

, Municipal Corporation , West Zone, Delhi, complaining about the irregular

supply of water in your area during summer and the problems caused by this.

3. You are Smitha/ Somu, living at L-18 , Salt Lake, Kolkata. Write a letter to the

Director of Education, requesting him to introduce compulsory computer

education in schools.

4. Parents and children often complain of the generation gap that leads to family

and social maladjustments. Write an article in your school magazine titled

‘Bridge the Gap’ in not more than 120 words.

5. Complete the following story in about 80-100 words:

Once upon a time there lived a young boy called Bunty. He came from a very

poor family.One day he left home and came to Mumbai and started polishing

shoes at the Mumbai Central Railway Station------------

6. Write a factual descriptive paragraph about the place you visited recently.

7. You happened to visit the Science City, Gandhinagar as a part of educational trip

of your school. Describe your experience in the form of a diary entry.