Read the following passage carefully. Based on your reading,
answer the following questions in the space provided.
1. Leander’s victory at Atlanta is significant because
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2. His father’s Olympic triumph in 1972 was different
from his own because it was
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3. Leander gave credit to his coach and his teammate in
doubles for his victory. How did they help him?
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4. If you are required to sum up Leander’s qualities as a
player, which one would you like to highlight and why?
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5. In India, while registering his victories in Davis Cup
one could say that he won because
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6. At Atlanta he won because
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Read the following poem and answer the questions that
follow.
1. Given here are certain ideas from the poem “Where the
mind is without fear” by Rabindranath Tagore. Identify
the lines from the poem that refer to these and write the
lines in the space given below.
(a) Everybody should be able to learn.
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(b) There ought not be a division among people on the
basis of caste, class, creed, religion or any other
such basis.
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(c) People should be honest and speak out their heart.
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(d) Actions should stem from logic and not superstitions
and beliefs, leading to progress
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(e) People to be free of fear and oppression.
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(f) The poet is addressing________________ so that ____
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2. This poem was written by Rabindranath Tagore much
before India attained freedom. What, do you think, is
the significance of these lines in the context of his time?
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Vocabulary
1. Suggest a word for each sentence/phrase correctly.
Refer to the chapter ‘Reach for the Top, Part I’ given in
your textbook, Beehive. The paragraph numbers where
these words are used, are given in brackets.
a) A state of happiness and satisfaction.
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(b) An action or way of behaving that is usual in
tradition.______________________________________(3)
(c) A word or statement that expresses agreement or
confirmation.__________________________________(5)
(d) The ability to withstand hardship or adversity.
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(e) Final stage of something you’ve been working
towards.______________________________________(7)
2. Fill in the blanks using the words given in the box. These
words are taken from the chapter ‘Reach for the Top’ of
your textbook, Beehive. You can refer to a dictionary to
find out the meanings of these words.
prevails, positive, apology, affluent, expedition,
culmination
(a) She wears expensive dresses and jewellery. It seems
she belongs to an_________________ Family.
(b) At present, political turmoil_______________________
in most parts of the world.
(c) Mr Khanna admitted his mistake by writing a letter of_________________________________________ to the
Head of the Department.
(d) The Director was quite____________________________
while addressing his employees.
(e) The result that you see today is a_________________
of years of hardwork and dedication.
(f) School children went on a weeklong______________
during their summer holidays.
3. Playing with the words: How many words can you make
from the words given below?
Vocabulary
4. An idiomatic expression is a group of words with a
special meaning. The individual words in the expression
do not mean what they otherwise stand for.
Example: Maria Sharapova cannot be ‘pigeon-holed’ or
categorised. Her talent, unwavering desire to succeed
and readiness to sacrifice have lifted her to the top of
the world.
Here pigeon-holed does not mean that there is a hole
for the pigeon to its nest. But it means that someone
or something belongs to a particular type or group; is
categorised, especially without knowing much about them.
Now, consult a dictionary and match the following
idiomatic expressions given in Column ‘A’ with their
meanings in Column ‘B’.
Grammar
In the chapter ‘Reach for the Top’ in Beehive, you have read
that two clauses in a sentence have their own subject and
verb or verb phrase. One part of the sentence (or one clause)
tells us why or when something happened.
Examples:
• I read Sherlock Holmes while I was on holiday.
• It was raining heavily when I got home in the evening.
• It was raining heavily when I got home in the evening.
• Can I borrow your book when you have finished it?
1. Match each of the sentence halves given below to make
meaningful sentences.
2. Make one sentence combining the two statements given
below.
Example:
It’s getting dark.
Let’s go home before that.
Let’s go home before it gets dark.
(a) She must clean the room.
I won’t enter the room until this is done
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(b) I will do the cooking.
Then I will come to your house.
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(c) I will go to the library.
Then I will come to your house.
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(c) I will go to the library.
Then I will issue the book for you.
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(d) Evening came.
They rested.
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(d) Evening came.
They rested.
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(e) The salesman came.
Rita was eating her breakfast.
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f) We went to see the play with grandfather.
Do you remember?
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Editing
1. In each of the following sentences you have to remove
or add a word or a phrase to make the sentence
grammatically correct. Write the correct sentences in
the space given below.
(a) Maria Sharapova likes to be dancing, singing and
fashion.
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(b) She has love for pancakes with chocolate spread
and fizzy orange drinks.
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(c) Maria had to be leave her mother behind in Siberia
at age of nine.
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(d) She put with insults and humiliation in order to
realise dream of becoming a tennis star.
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(e) Her dream was to be number one world tennis.
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2. There are spelling errors in the paragraph given here.
Correct the spelling errors and rewrite the paragraph
with appropriate punctuation marks in the given space.
Savitribai Phule
“Awake Arise, and Educate. Smash traditions-Liberate”
First female teacher of Indias first womens school, founder
of the modern Marathi poetry at a time when womens
potential and celibre were underrestimmated she worked for
the uplifftment and educasion of females in the country with
her husbands help. she opened a school for untouchable
girls Orrthodox individuals from the upper cast used to
mock at her eforts and throw stones and dung on her
neverttheless she continued with her teaching the British
govenment honoured her contribution to eduction later on.
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Listening
1. What happened to Hugh Herr at the age of 17?
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2. What happened to both of his legs?
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3. What were the two things he was unable to do with the
prostheses?
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4. Why did he decide to go back to school?
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5. What degrees did he get from MIT and Harvard?
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Speaking
1. In a group of three, read aloud the dialogues. You are
Kiran and your two partners are Sunita and Sarita.
Then fill in the table given below
2. Work in pairs. Imagine you are Sunita. You are trying to
convince your father to let you join the Karate classes.
You can use the given clues for the conversation. Take
turns to be Sunita and her father.
Writing
1. Given below is some information about Saina Nehwal
and Sania Mirza. You can visit your school library and
search the Internet to collect more information and to
find out if it is correct. Write a short motivational article
for your school magazine using these details. The article
can aim towards encouraging girls to take up sports.
3. The chapter ‘Reach for the Top’, Part I ends with the
sentence “Santosh collected and brought down 500
kilograms of garbage from the Himalayas.”
You may have visited different tourist places and picnic
spots. However, the beauty of the Nature is spoiled by
waste and garbage thrown unmindfully by tourists.
As a conscious and responsible citizen of India, write
a letter to the editor of a national newspaper. you may highlight the issue and measures for creating
awareness about curbing environmental pollution.
Discuss with your classmates how ‘Swachch Bharat
Abhiyan’ can be promoted.
Project
1. In January 2018, the President of India awarded 112
amazing “First Ladies” for being first in their respective
fields. Find out the achievements of some of them.
• A class board can be prepared with your contributions.
• Make a collage of the “First Ladies”, their struggle,
endeavour and achievements. Display it in the class.
• Your group can make PowerPoint presentation of their
life, struggle, society, inspiration and achievements.
2. Even now girls have to struggle for getting education and
participating in games. They are victims of child marriage,
harassment, etc. Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao is an initiative
by the Government of India for ensuring survival,
protection and education of the girl child. As a citizen of
India what will be your contribution in promoting girls,
education and safeguarding their interest?
• Prepare posters, write slogans and draw charts to
create awareness in the society.
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Typing by Bhargavjyoti Bora
