SRINIDHI TENTH ENGLISH

• Prose His First Flight 
• 02 Poem* Life 
•  Supplementary The Tempest 
•  2 Prose The Night the Ghost Got In 
• 30 Poem The Grumble Family
•  45 Supplementary Zigzag 
• 3 Prose Empowered Women Navigating the World 
• Poem* I am Every Woman 84 
• Supplementary The Story of Mulan
• Prose The Attic 
• 94 Poem The Ant and the Cricket  
• Supplementary The Aged Mother 
•  5 Prose Tech Bloomers 
•  Poem* The Secret of the Machines  
• Supplementary A day in 2889 of an American Journalist 
•  6 Prose The Last Lesson 
•  Poem* No Men Are Foreign 
•  Supplementary The Little Hero of Holland 
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• 7 Prose The Dying Detective 189 
• Poem The House on Elm Street 202 
• Supplementary A Dilemma
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•  The young seagull uttered a joyful scream. (adjective) 
• 2. The young seagull screamed with joy. (noun) 
• 3. The young seagull screamed joyfully. (adverb) 
• Set 2 1. The young bird pretended to be falling asleep. (verb) 
• 2. The young bird made a pretension of falling asleep. (noun) 3. The young bird made a pretentious posture of falling asleep. (adjective) 
• Note that in the Set 1, the adjective ‘joyful’ is changed to its noun form ‘joy’ and to its adverb form ‘joyfully’.
• In the Set 2, the verb ‘pretend’ has been transformed to its noun form ‘pretension’ and to its adjective form ‘pretentious’.
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• Two friends share their feelings about brave soldiers.
•  One of them shares her experience of visiting the National War Memorial that has left a deep impact on her. 
• They exchange letters and share their feelings of gratitude for the freedom they enjoy because of the sacrifices made by the brave hearts of the country. 
•  The memorial symbolises the patriotism of the Indian soldiers. 
• Which is this memorial?
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_War_Memorial_(India)
• 1. Where is the National War Memorial located and what is its significance? 
• 2. What is the nation’s highest gallantry award? 
• 3. What do the walls of Chakras portray. 
• 4. Find in the lesson the paragraph/s and the sentence that evoke the feelings given below.
•  (i) feeling of wonder
•  (ii) heartening 
• (iii) sense of motivation 
• (iv) pride 
• (v) visually inspiring
• (vi) sadness
• (vii) gratitude 
• (viii) inspiration
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• 1. Which book does Ananda want to read and why?
•  2. How did Ananda feel after reading about the National War Memorial?
•  3. Why was she reminded of the poem Pushp ki Abhilasha?
•  4. Reading the letter from Soumya, Anada is inspired to act. 
• What actions does she intend to take up.
•  Fill in the table citing the sentences from the text.
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• mobile app  sharing ideas 
• creating a collage
•  joining the army 
• website 
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• 1. Why are war memorials built?
• 2. Why is it our duty to pay homage to our brave soldiers? 
• 3. Why is it a good idea to make a presentation in front of the whole school? 
• 4. Why were the students awestruck and humbled— explain in your own words?
•  5. Complete the table given below. 
• You may have to find the information from the Internet. 
• Names of Wars Dates Soldiers Associated Indo-China War India-Pakistan Wars Kargil War Working with Language 
• 1. Find the odd one out from the words given in the box. 
• 2. Fill in the blanks with appropriate form of the word given in brackets.
•  The Param Vir Chakra signifies the “Wheel of the Ultimate Brave”, and the award is granted for “most conspicuous bravery in the presence of the enemy”. The medal was__________(institute) as a Gallantry Medal with retrospective effect from 15 August 1947 by Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the then President of India. The Medal was______ (design) by Mrs. Savitri Khanolkar. 
• The designer_________(draw) inspiration from Sage Dadhichi, a vedic rishi who_________(make) the ultimate sacrifice by giving up his body so that the gods_______(can) make a deadly weapon________(call) Vajra or Thunderbolt from his spine.
• valiant 
• martyr
•  brave
•  heroic 
• courageous
•  memorial 
• monument
•  statue
•  cenotaph
•  victory 
• gratitude
•  thankfulness 
• appreciation 
• respect 
• gratefulness
• unique
•  simple
•  matchless
•  exclusive one-off
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• The medal is cast in bronze. In the centre, on a raised circle, is the state emblem, _________(surround) by four replicas of Indra’s Vajra are ________(flank). 
• The decoration is suspended from a straight swiveling suspension bar, and is held by a 32 mm purple ribbon.
• 3. Match the following words with their meanings. 
• (i) territorial integrity 
• (i) celebrated 
• (ii) iconic 
• (ii) engraved
•  (iii) envisioned 
• (iii) grand
• (iv) etched 
• (iv) visualised 
• (v) posthumously
•  (v) a tapering stone piller 
• (vi) awestruck 
• (vi) after death 
• (vii) obelisk 
• (vii) amazed
•  (viii) majestic 
• (viii) never dying flame 
• (ix) interminable flame 
• (ix) very brave
•  (x) valiant 
• (x) safeguarding nation’s borders 
• 4 Complete the story of an unknown soldier. Replace the words from the box with the underlined words given in the text below. touched everyone’s heart, territorial integrity, inspired, fallen soldiers, posthumously, valour, exemplary 
• , exemplary courage, awestruck He was posted at the Indian border to safeguard our national boundary. 
• He had been motivated by the hundreds of stories of the soldiers who had died in action and were celebrated after their deaths for bravery. 
• One night as the war intensified, he was asked to take his platoon to the place of action. 
• He displayed outstanding bravery and led from the front. 
• All the fellow soldiers were amazed at his courage, especially as he made the supreme sacrifice without any hesitation.
•  He too was awarded after he died in the war. 
• His action affected everyone very deeply.
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• As the citizens of a nation, we all must fulfill our duty. 
• Write a letter to your friend describing how do you propose to serve your nation. 
• You can choose from the themes given below:
•  Save the Environment 
• Health and Well-being 
• Helping others 
• Righteous Conduct
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• Meadows have surprises, 
• You can find them if you look; 
• Walk softly through the velvet grass,
•  And listen by the brook.
•  You may see a butterfly 
• Rest upon a buttercup 
• And unfold its drinking straws 
• To sip the nectar up. 
• You may scare a rabbit 
• Who is sitting very still; 
• Though at first you may not see him,
•  When he hops you will.
•  A dandelion whose fuzzy head 
• Was golden days ago
•  Has turned to airy parachutes 
• That flutter when you blow.
• Explore the meadow houses,
•  The burrows in the ground,
•  A nest beneath tall grasses, 
• The ant’s amazing mound.
•  Oh! Meadows have surprises 
• And many things to tell; 
• You may discover these yourself,
•  If you look and listen well. 
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• Read the lines in which the following phrases occur. 
• Then discuss with your partner the meaning of each phrase in its context. 
• (i) velvet grass 
• (ii) drinking straws 
• (iii) meadow houses 
• (iv) amazing mound
• (v) fuzzy head 2. Which line in the poem suggests that you need a keen eye and a sharp ear to enjoy a meadow?
•  Read aloud the stanza that contains this line. 
• 3. Find pictures of the kinds of birds, insects and scenes mentioned in the poem. 4. Watch a tree or a plant, or walk across a field or park at the same time everyday for a week.
•  Keep a diary of what you see and hear. 
• At the end of the week, write a short paragraph or a poem about your experiences. 
• Put your writing up on the class bulletin board.
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• Read the following poem about the world of nature, which is as busy as the world of human beings.
•  Busy World Bees are buzzing, 
• frogs are hopping,
•  Moles are digging. 
• There’s no stopping Vines from climbing,
•  grass from growing,
•  Birds from singing, 
• winds from blowing,
•  Buds from blooming. 
• Bees are humming,
•  Sunbeams dancing, 
• raindrops drumming.
•  All the world is whirling,dizzy, 
• Summertime is very busy!
•  FRANCES GORMAN
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• Delivery Delayed Answer 
• The postman started moving round the tree in circles. The dog followed him, but as he did so, his leash got wrapped around the tree. The postman then safely walked up to the front door.
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• Who are the oldest people you know? 
• What are the oldest things you have (i) in your house, (ii) in your city, town or village?
• How old are they?
•  Have you ever wished that you were older?
• Have you wished that you could grow up in a hurry?
•  Mr Willy Wonka begins by inventing WonkaVite, 
• which makes people younger.
•  But WonkaVite is too strong.
•  So some people disappear,
•  because their age becomes Minus! 
• One person actually becomes minus eighty-seven,
•  which means he’s got to wait eighty-seven years before he can come back.
•  Mr Willy Wonka must invent a new thing... 
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• Mr Wonka said, “So once again I rolled up my sleeves and set to work. 
• Once again I squeezed my brain, searching for the new recipe... I had to create age... to make people old... old, older, oldest... ‘Ha-ha!’ I cried, for now the ideas were beginning to come.
•  ‘What is the oldest living thing in the world? 
• What lives longer than anything else?
• “A tree,” Charlie said. “Right you are, Charlie! 
• But what kind of a tree? 
• Not the Douglas fir.
•  Not the oak.
•  Not the cedar. 
• No, no, my boy.
• It is a tree called the Bristlecone pine that grows upon the slopes of Wheeler Peak in Nevada, U.S.A.
•  You can find Bristlecone Pines on Wheeler Peak today that are over 4000 years old! 
• This is fact, Charlie.
•  Ask any dendrochronologist you like (and look that word up in the dictionary when you get home, will you please?). 
• So that started me off.
•  I jumped into the Great Glass Elevator and rushed all over the world collecting special items from the oldest living things..
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• l THE TOE-NAIL CLIPPINGS FROM A 168-YEAR-OLD RUSSIAN FARMER CALLED PETROVITCH GREGOROVITCH l
•  AN EGG LAID BY A 200-YEAR-OLD TORTOISE BELONGING TO THE KING OF TONGA l 
• THE TAIL OF A 51-YEAR-OLD HORSE IN ARABIA l THE WHISKERS OF A 36-YEAR-OLD CAT CALL.
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•  THE TAIL OF A 51-YEAR-OLD HORSE IN ARABIA l THE WHISKERS OF A 36-YEAR-OLD CAT CALLED CRUMPETS l
•  AN OLD FLEA WHICH HAD LIVED ON CRUMPETS FOR 36 YEARS 
• l THE TAIL OF A 207-YEAR-OLD GIANT RAT FROM TIBET l 
• THE BLACK TEETH OF A 97-YEAR-OLD GRIMALKIN LIVING IN A CAVE ON MOUNT POPOCATEPETL l 
• THE KNUCKLEBONES OF A 700-YEAR-OLD CATTALOO FROM PERU...
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• 1. Choose the right answer. (i) Mr Willy Wonka is (a) a cook, (b) an inventor, (c) a manager.
•  (ii) Wonka-Vite makes people (a) older, (b) younger. 
• (iii) Mr Wonka wants to invent a new thing which will make people (a) younger,
•  (b) older.
•  2. Can anyone’s age be a minus number? What does “minus 87” mean? 
• 3. Mr Wonka begins by asking himself two questions. What are they?
•  (i) What is ? (ii) What lives ? II “All over the world, Charlie,”
• Mr Wonka went on “I tracked down very old and ancient animals and took an important little bit of something from each one of them — a hair or an eyebrow or sometimes it was no more than an ounce or two of the jam scraped from between its toes while it was sleeping.
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• I tracked down THE WHISTLE-PIG, THE BOBOLINK, THE SKROCK, THE POLLYFROG, THE GIANT CURLICUE, THE STINGING SLUG AND THE VENOMOUS SQUERKLE who can spit poison right into your eye from fifty yards away. But there’s no time to tell you about them all now, Charlie. Let me just say quickly that in the end, after lots of boiling and bubbling and mixing and testing in
• my Inventing Room, I produced one tiny cupful of oily black liquid and gave four drops of it to a brave twenty-year-old Oompa-Loompa volunteer to see what happened.” “What did happen?” Charlie asked. “It was fantastic!” cried Mr Wonka. “The moment he swallowed it, he began wrinkling and shrivelling up all over and his hair started dropping off and his teeth started falling out and, before I knew it, he had suddenly become an old fellow of seventy-five! And thus, my dear Charlie, was Vita-Wonk invented!” ROALD DAHL [from Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator] Working with the Text 
• 1. (i) What trees does Mr Wonka mention? Which tree does he say lives the longest? 
• (ii) How long does this tree live? Where can you find it?
•  2. How many of the oldest living things can you remember from Mr Wonka’s list? (Don’t look back at the story!) Do you think all these things really exist, or are some of them purely imaginary?
•  3. Why does Mr Wonka collect items trom the oldest things? Do you think this is the right way to begin his invention? 
• 4. What happens to the volunteer who swallows four drops of the new invention? What is the name of the invention? ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ _
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• What do you call these insects in your language? cockroach mosquito grasshopper housefly dragon fly ant How do these insects effect your health? Have a discussion in the class. 
• 2. Fill in the blanks in the recipe given below with words from the box.
•  shred cooker times tomatoes half onion oil Easy 
• Palak–Dal INGREDIENTS • One • One cup dal • Two thin green chillies • a teaspoon red chilli powder
• 2. Fill in the blanks in the recipe given below with words from the box. shred cooker times tomatoes half onion oil Easy 
• Palak–Dal INGREDIENTS • One • One cup dal • Two thin green chillies • a teaspoon red chilli powder • Eight small bunches of palak • Two • Salt to taste Wash and cut the vegetables; the palak. Put everything in a pressure . Let the cooker whistle three , then switch it off. Fry a few cumin seeds in and add to the palak–dal.
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• A ‘family tree’ is a diagram that shows the relationship between the different members of a family. Fill in the family tree below with names, ages, and other details you think are relevant (you may even stick photographs, if you have them). Put your family trees up in the class. cbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb