HSC STUDENT LIFELINE: practise activity collection

Raja bhagwantrao junior college Aundh

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Activity No 2 on 3.4 Aamchi Mumbai and I

3.4 Aamchi Mumbai and I

Activity No. 2

Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities. (12)

A 1. Global understanding (2)

Read the following sentences and write two correct statements.

1) The Amul hoarding by Wilson College made the narrator happy.

2) The palm trees teach the rigidness and stubbornness.

3) The narrator gives respect to Mumbai.

4) The narrator did not like to sit in the double decker bus .

Extract – Like any other --------- heavy heart.

(Text Page No. 68 and 69)

A2.Interpretation (2)

Write information about any two places of Mumbai from the extract.

A3. Conclusion (2)

The narrator did not find the names of many of her friends who travelled together or met in the lift because -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(Complete the sentence)

A4.Vocabulary. (2)

Homonyms are the words having same spelling and pronunciation but different meanings.

Write example of homonym from the extract. Give different meanings of the word.

A5. Personal Response. (2)

You get information about various places of Mumbai from the extract. Describe with reason where you like to visit the most.

A6. Grammar

Do as directed. (2)

1) Mr. Shanbagh would materialize magically at one’s elbow with a special price.

(Rewrite using used to)

2) I pay tribute to you.

(Change into present perfect tense)

Activity on -To be a Somebody, Remain a Nobody

To be a Somebody, Remain a Nobody

Activity No. 1

Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities. (12)

A1.Complex Factual /Global Understanding (2)

Complete the following statements using correct alternatives:

1. The very process of becoming a -------------may subtly reduce you to a nobody.

i) anybody ii) nobody iii) somebody iv) everybody

2. When you become a somebody, you invite ----------------

i) enemies ii) adulation iii) hatred iv) friends

3. People------------and extol me.

i) help ii) love iii) mistake iv) envy

4. Gandhiji stunned everybody by cleaning up------------

i) house ii) streets iii) conference hall iv) latrines

Extract :- Prominent among------------------------------empire’s decline.

(Text Page No. 22.23)

A 2. Interpretation (2)

Give information about Rahim from the extract.

A 3. Conclusion (2)

Child John does not feel heady about his own achievements. Give its reasons taking the support from the extract.

A 4. Vocabulary. (2)

Make meaningful words from the following scrambled letters.

1) audltaoni

2) poelep

3) gob

4) ayd

A5. Personal Response. (2)

Tell what you learn from this extract.

A6. Grammar

Do as directed. (2)

1) He made no noise about it, but his fame kept spreading.

(Make complex sentence)

2) Did this make the child John feel heady?

(Make assertive sentence)

Activity No. 1 on - 2.2 A Boy With A Mission

2.2 A Boy With A Mission

Activity No. 1

Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities. (12)

A 1. Global Understanding / Complex Factual (2)

Choose the correct alternative and rewrite the sentence.

1) Five dollars would buy almost a month’s /week’s groceries for Earle family.

2) Reubens requested the shopkeeper to hold/ sell the object for him.

3) Reuben decided to earn ten/ five dollars to buy the object.

4) By selling nails/ burlap sacks, Reuben decided to earn money.

Extract – In 1945 in Bay Roberts --------- at the table.

(Text Page No. 32 and 33)

A2.Complete/ Interpretation (2) Complete the following information taking support from the extract.

1) Reuben did not get five dollars from his father because ---------------------------. 2) The shopkeeper was sure to hold the object for Reuben for a while because-----------.

2) A3.Conclusion/ Guessing (2)

Reuben Earl had a strong self-confidence. Justify giving reference from the extract.

A4. Vocabulary. (2)

Insert one letter in each blank place to get meaningful words. Use hints given in the bracket

a)S---r----e---- (Road)

b) P---r---o----e (Motive)

c) D---l----a----s (Currency)

d) A----c----e----t (Very long ago)

A5. Personal Response. (2)

Describe the qualities that you find in the character of Reuben Earl.

A6. Grammar

Do as directed (2)

1) Reuben respectfully touched his worn cap and walked out into the May sunlight.

(Make simple sentence

2) It was a supper time when Reuben got home.

(Change it into simple present tense)

Activity No. 1 on 1.3 The Turning Point of My Life

1.3 The Turning Point of My Life

Activity No.1

Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities. (12)

A1. Complex Factual 2)

Complete the following statement by choosing two correct reasons from the following options given below.

The patients seemed to like the doctor because ----------------------------

1) he was very poor and had cracked boots and frayed cuffs .

2) he had cheerful bedside manner.

3) he had successive ideas of specializing in dermatology, in aural surgery and in pediatrics .

4) he treated every person without caring about fees.

I was 33 at the time, a doctor in the West End of London. I had been lucky in advancing through several arduous Welsh mining assistantships to my own practice — acquired on the installment plan from a dear old family physician who, at our first interview, gazed at my cracked boots and frayed cuffs and trusted me.

I think I wasn't a bad doctor. My patients seemed to like me — not only the nice old ladies with nothing wrong with them, who lived near the Park and paid handsomely for my cheerful bedside manner, but the cabbies, porters and deadbeats in the mews and back streets of Bayswater, who paid nothing and often had a great deal wrong with them.

Yet there was something — though I treated everything that came my way, read all the medical journals, attended scientific meetings, and even found time to take complex postgraduate diplomas —I wasn't quite sure of myself. I didn't stick at anything for long. I had successive ideas of specializing in dermatology, in aural surgery, in pediatrics, but discarded them all. While I worked all day and half of most nights, I really lacked perseverance, stability.

One day I developed indigestion. After resisting my wife's entreaties for several weeks, I went casually to consult a friendly colleague. I expected a bottle of bismuth and an invitation to bridge. I received instead the shock of my life: a sentence to six months' complete rest in the country on a milk diet. I had a gastric ulcer.

The place of exile, chosen after excruciating contention, was a small farmhouse near the village of Tarbert in the Scottish Highlands. Imagine a lonely whitewashed steading set on a rain-drenched loch amid ferocious mountains rising into grey mist, with long-horned cattle, like elders of the kirk, sternly munching thistles in the foreground. That was Fine Farm. Conceive of a harassed stranger in city clothes arriving with a pain in his middle and a box of peptonizing powders in his suitcase. That was I.

Nothing is more agonizing to the active man than enforced idleness. A week of Fyne Farm drove me crazy. Debarred from all physical pursuits, I was reduced to feeding the chickens and learning to greet the disapproving cattle by their Christian names. Casting around desperately for something to do, I had a sudden idea.

A2.Interpretation (2)

The narrator was not satisfied with his life. Write the supportive statements from the extract.

A 3. Conclusion (2)

The narrator consulted his friendly colleague and his decision was a shock for him. Give its reason.

A 4. Vocabulary. (2)

Write words from the extract that can be included in the word register of medical field.

A.Personal Response (2)

The narrator says – ‘Nothing is more agonizing to the active man than enforced idleness’. Give your views on this statement.

A6. Grammar

Do as directed. (2)

1)I didn't stick at anything for long.

(Choose the correct type of above sentence from the following alternatives and write it.)

a) Affirmative sentence

b) Exclamatory sentence

c) Negative sentence

2) I expected a bottle of bismuth and an invitation to bridge.

(Choose the correct use of not only ----but also in the above sentence from the following alternatives and write it.)

a) Not only did I expect a bottle of bismuth but also an invitation to bridge.

b) I not only expected a bottle of bismuth but also an invitation to bridge.

c) I expected not only a bottle of bismuth but also an invitation to bridge.

Expected Answers

A1.

The patients seemed to like the doctor because he had cheerful bedside manner and he treated every person without caring about fees.

A2.

The narrator was not satisfied with his life. The supportive statements from the extract are as follows-

I wasn't quite sure of myself. I didn't stick at anything for long. I had successive ideas of specializing in dermatology, in aural surgery, in pediatrics, but discarded them all. I really lacked perseverance, stability.

A3.

The narrator consulted his friendly colleague and his decision was a shock for him. Its reason was that the narrator never expected a sentence to six months' complete rest in the country on a milk diet as he had a gastric ulcer. In fact he expected a bottle of bismuth and an invitation to bridge. So he was shocked.

A4.

Word register of medical field :- family physician, doctor, patient, dermatology, aural surgery, pediatrics, indigestion, bismuth, gastric ulcer etc.

A5.

The narrator says – ‘Nothing is more agonizing to the active man than enforced idleness’. I fully agree with this view. Idleness is really punishment for the active person. Such person gets happiness and satisfaction when he or she is doing any kind of works. So idleness suffers a lot to such persons.

(Accept any reasonably correct answer)

A6.

1) Negative sentence

2) I expected not only a bottle of bismuth but also an invitation to bridge.

Activity No. 1 on 2.1 - I Ran Into A Stranger

2.1 - I Ran Into A Stranger

Activity No.1

Q.1 (A) Read the given extract and do the activities that follow. (08)

(Extract – I ran into ------------ to abuse.) Text Page No. 29

I ran into a stranger as he passed by,

"Oh, excuse me Please" was my reply.

He said, "Please excuse me too; Wasn't even watching for you."

We were very polite, this stranger and I.

We went on our way and we said good-bye.

But at home a different story is told,

How we treat our loved ones, young and old.

Later that day, cooking the evening meal,

My daughter stood beside me very still.

When I turned, I nearly knocked her down.

"Move out of the way," I said with a frown.

She walked away, her little heart was broken.

I didn't realize how harshly I'd spoken.

While I lay awake in bed,

God's still small voice came to me and said,

"While dealing with a stranger, common courtesy you use,

But the children you love, you seem to abuse.

A1. Factual Understanding (2)

Complete the following web describing narrator’s behaviour.

A 2. Poetic Device (2)

1) How we treat our loved ones, young and old.

(See the underlined words and tell the name of the figure of speech used here.)

2) Find and write one example of alliteration from the extract

A3.Personal Response. (2)

Tell what you say to any stranger when you do something wrong with him or her.

A4. Poetic creativity. (2)

While I lay awake in bed,

God’s still small voice came to me and said,

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(Complete the stanza by adding your two lines.

Activity No. 1 on 2.4. Who Was the Happiest Of Them All?

2.4. Who Was the Happiest Of Them All?

Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities. (12)

A 1. Global Understanding / Complex Factual (2)

Choose the correct alternative and rewrite the sentence.

1) Meenu wanted to hear good / bad king’s story.

2) Chandan was the doctor / minister of King Amrit.

3) Chandan believed that the citizens were telling lie / truth to the king.

4) The citizens were allowed to enter royal palace / garden to take anything.

Extract – Meenu was upset --------- left to rot.

(Text Page No. 44 and 45)

A2. Interpretation (2)

Describe the royal garden.

A3. Conclusion / Guessing (2)

1) King Amrit decided to call the citizens because ---------------------------.

2) The people had left the natural fruits and emptied their sacks because------.

A 4. Vocabulary. (2)

write any for words from the extract having one silent letter. Show the silent letter.

(e.g. walk – silent letter ‘l’)

A5. Personal Response. (2)

Explain what you do if you enter in the garden that is described in the extract.

A6. Grammar

Do as directed. (2)

1) There were no poor people to be seen anywhere.

(Make affirmative sentence)

2) He turned back to the court and made a most unusual announcement.

(Rewrite removing ‘and’)

Activity No. 1 on 3.1. Suburbs

3.1. Suburbs

Activity No. 1

Q.1 (A) Read the the extract and do the activities that follow below. (12)

I celebrate the virtues and vices

of suburban middle-class people

who overwhelm the refrigerator

and position colourful umbrellas

near the garden that longs for a pool:

for my middle-class brother

this principle of supreme luxury:

what are you and what am I, and we go on deciding

the real truth in this world.

The truth of that dream we buy on credit

of not going to the office on Saturday, at last,

and the merciless bosses whom the worker

manufacturers in indivisible granaries

where executioners were always born

and grow up and always multiply.

A 1. Factual Understanding (2)

Complete the table

Special features of middle class persons

A2. Poetic Device (2)

I celebrate the virtues and vices.

( (Choose the two figures of speech used here from the given alternatives. Give explaination)

a) Alliteration

b) Personification

c) Paradox

d) Climax

A3. Personal Response (2)

Explain your views about the behaviour of middle class people.

A4. Poetic creation (2)

The truth of that dream we buy on credit

of not going to the office on Saturday, at last,

(Rewrite the lines giving opposite meaning words)

Activity No. 1- One Full, One Half

2.3 One Full, One Half

Activity No. 1

Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities. (12)

A 1. True / False (2)

Read the following sentences and write down true sentences.

1) The narrator called herself a special mother.

2) Chaitanya won the silver medal in a running race.

3) The special school did not give any help to Chaitanya.

4) Chaitanya bought half ticket for himself.

Extract – My own faith --------- sharing.

(Text Page No. )

A2.Findout (2)

Find and write down the achievements of Chaitanya as a sports person.

A3. Suggest (2)

Chaitanya and his mother are special. What does this reference suggests.

A4.Vocabulary. (2)

Write the meanings of the words given below.

(surprised, unlimited, afterwards, vindicated)

Hints :-

1) inexhaustible

2) justified

3) subsequently

4) stupefied

A5. Personal Response. (2)

Explain how you help a handicap person of your age in your neighborhood.

A6. Grammar

Do as directed. (2)

1) He was now a much more confident person. .

(Make exclamatory sentence)

2) We were not sorry or uncomfortable carrying him around.

(Use neither - - - - - nor)

Activity No. 1 on R.R. 3. A Skeleton in the Cupboard

R.R. 3. A Skeleton in the Cupboard

Activity No. 1Q.5 (A) Read the following extract and complete the following activity.

Yes, there was a skeleton in the cupboard, and although I never saw it, I played a small part in the events that followed its discovery. I was fifteen that year, and I was back in my boarding school in Simla after spending the long winter holidays in Dehradun. My mother was still managing the old Green's hotel in Dehra - a hotel that was soon to disappear and become part of Dehra’s unrecorded history. It was called Green’s not because it purported to the spread of any greenery (its neglected garden was chocked with lantana), but because it had been started by an Englishman, Mr. Green, back in 1920, just after the Great War had ended in Europe. Mr. Green had died at the outset of the Second World War. He had just sold the hotel and was on his way back to England when the ship on which he was travelling was torpedoed by a German submarine. Mr. Green went down with the ship.

The hotel had already been in decline, and the new owner, a Sikh businessman from Ludhiana, had done his best to keep it going. But post-War and post-Independence, Dehra was going through a lean period. My stepfather's motor workshop was also going through a lean period -a crisis, in fact – and my mother was glad to take the job of running the small hotel while he took a job in Delhi.

A1- Global Understanding (Setting – Where & When) (2)

State whether the following statements are true or false.

1) The narrator had to stay at Boarding school in Simla.

2) Mr. Green had died at the outset of the First World War.

3) Green's hotel was in Dehra.

4) The narrator’s father took a job in Ludhiana.

A2- Gist writing. (2)

Write a gist of the given extract.

Expected Answers

A1.

1) True

2) False

3) True

4) False

A2.

The narrator knew about the skeleton in the cupboard. He had to stay in the boarding school in Simla. His mother was managing the old Green's hotel in Dehra which was now in bad condition. Its owner Mr. Green was died and had a new owner, a Sikh businessman from Ludhiana. After war, Dehra was going through a lean period. So narrator’s mother was glad to take the job of running the small hotel while his step father took a job in Delhi.

Activity No. 1 on The Girl With an Apple

The Girl With an Apple

Activity No. 1

Q.5 (A) Read the following extract and complete the following activity.

My brothers and I were transported in a cattle car to Germany.

We arrived at the Buchenwald concentration camp one night weeks later and were led into a crowded barrack. The next day, we were issued uniforms and identification numbers.

“Don't call me Herman anymore.” I said to my brother. “Call me 94983.”

I was put to work in the camp’s crematorium, loading the dead into a hand-cranked elevator.

I, too, felt dead. Hardened, I had become a number.

Soon my brothers and I were sent to Schlieben, one of Buchenwald's sub-camps near Berlin.

One morning I thought I heard my mother’s voice.

“Son,” she said softly but clearly, “I am going to send you an angel.”

Then I woke up. Just a dream. A beautiful dream.

But in this place there could be no angels. There was only work. And hunger. And fear.

A couple of days later, I was walking around the camp, around the barracks, near the barbed-wire fence where the guards could not easily see. I was alone.

A1- Global Understanding (Plot) (2)

The plot of the extract deals with the suffering of the narrator. Write two statements from the extract that justifies it.

1)----------------------------------------------------

2)----------------------------------------------------

A2- Converting the extract into dialogue. (2)

Convert the above extract into imaginary dialogue between Harman and his brother.

Expected Answers

A1.

1) I, too, felt dead. Hardened, I had become a number.

2) But in this place there could be no angels. There was only work. And hunger. And fear.

A2.

Herman :- Where are we going brother?

Brother :- We are going to the Buchenwald concentration camp, Harman.

Herman :- Don’t call me Herman anymore. Call me 94983.

Brother :- What work is assigned to you?

Herman :- I have to load the dead bodies into a hand – cranked elevator in camp’s crematorium.

Brother :- It’s horrible.

Herman :- Yes. I too feel dead.

(All were shifted to Schlieben, one of Buchenwald’s sub-camps

near Berlin)

Herman :- Brother, I heard mother’s voice in the morning. She was sending one angel for me.

Brother :- It’s good.

Herman :- I don’t think there will be any angel. This is not the place for an angel. Here is only work, hunger and fear. Nothing else.

Activity No. 2 on 2.1 I Ran Into A Stranger

2.1 I Ran Into A Stranger

Activity No. 2

Q.1 (A) Read the given extract and do the activities that follow.(04)

(Extract – I ran into ---- to abuse.) Text Page No. 30

Look on the kitchen floor,

You'll find some flowers there by the door.

Those are the flowers she brought for you.

She picked them herself: pink, yellow and blue.

She stood quietly not to spoil the surprise,

And you never saw the tears in her eyes."

By this time, I felt very small, and now my tears began to fall.

I quietly went and knelt by her bed;

"Wake up, little girl, wake up," I said.

"Are these the flowers you picked for me?"

She smiled, "I found 'em, out by the tree.

I picked 'em because they're pretty like you.

I knew you'd like 'em, especially the blue."

I said, "Daughter, I'm sorry for the way I acted today;

I shouldn't have yelled at you that way."

She said, "Oh, Mom, that's okay. I love you anyway."

I said, "Daughter, I love you too, and I do like the flowers, especially the blue."

A1. Factual Understanding (2)

Complete the following statements by choosing the correct alternative.

1) The daughter bought ---------------- for her mother.

a) leaves b) flowers c) water

2) The mother liked ----------- flowers the most.

a) pink b) yellow c) blue

A2. Poetic Device (2)

1) I felt very small

(Name and explain the figure of speech used here.)

2) Write rhyming words of each stanza.

A3. Personal Response. (2)

Love and forgiveness are the core values for family members to remain attached to each other. Pick up any incident in your life to describe how it helped you understand your family members better.

A 4. Poetic creativity. (2)

Compose four lines of a poem to describe mother.

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Activity No. 2 on R.R. 2. The Girl With an Apple

R.R. 2. The Girl With an Apple

Activity No. 2

Q.5 (A) Read the following extract and complete the following activity.

On the other side of the fence, I spotted someone: a little girl with light, almost luminous curls. She was half hidden behind a birch tree.

I glanced around to make sure no one saw me. I called to her softly in German. “Do you have something to eat?”

She didn’t understand.

I inched closer to the fence and repeated the question in Polish. She stepped forward. I was thin and gaunt, with rags wrapped around my feet , but the girl looked unafraid. In her eyes, I saw life.

She pulled an apple from her woollen jacket and threw it over the fence.

I grabbed the fruit and, as I started to run away, I heard her say faintly, “I’ll see you tomorrow.”

I returned to the same spot by the fence at the same time every day. She was always there with something for me to eat - a hunk of bread or, better yet, an apple.

We didn’t dare speak or linger. To be caught would mean death for us both.

I didn’t know anything about her, just a kind farm girl, except that she understood Polish.

What was her name? Why was she risking her life for me?

Hope was in such short supply, and this girl on the other side of the fence gave me some, as nourishing in its way as the bread and apples.

Nearly seven months later, my brothers and I were crammed into a coal car and shipped to Theresienstadt camp in Czechoslovakia.

“Don’t return,” I told the girl that day. “We’re leaving.”

I turned toward the barracks and didn’t look back, didn't even say good-bye to the little girl whose name I’d never learned, the girl with the apples.

A1- Global Understanding (Theme) (2)

Choose the most appropriate statements related to the theme of the extract.

1) The extract is about the meeting of the narrator and an apple girl.

2) It is about the cruelty of Nazi soldiers.

3) It is about helping of the narrator to the apple girl.

4) It is about the goodness of one person to help other showing courage.

A2- Provide imaginary ending (2)

Write an imaginary different ending for the given extract.

Expected Answers

A1.

1) The extract is about the meeting of the narrator and an apple girl.

2) It is about the goodness of one person to help other showing courage.

A2.

I requested her not to come and ran away. Suddenly, I heard big noise. The earth was trembling. I didn’t know what was happening. I saw the building where we were placed was collapsing. The compound wall and the fence were also collapsed. I realized it’s an earthquake. All were running everywhere. I too started running. I went outside the fence wall. I got clear way as no one was there. I found the apple girl was standing outside. She called me and carried me to her hiding place. I didn’t believe that I had safely rescued from the hell and came to the secured place.

Activity No. 3 on - 1.2 A two Billion Dollar Dream

1.2 A two Billion Dollar Dream

Activity No. 3

Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities. (12)

A 1. Global Understanding (2)

Choose the correct alternative and rewrite the sentence.

1) Within a year, he was selling 100 / 1000 PCs a month.

2) Constant telephone contact with customers kept the company away / close to the market.

3) Today Dell Computer has wholly owned subsidiaries / subsidies in 16 countries, including Japan.

4) Dell, his wife and their two-year-old daughter lead a pretty abnormal / normal life.

Dell still specialized in marketing of stripped-down IBM PCs to which he added custom features. As orders came in, Dell rushed around gathering up the right parts to assemble each order. First-month sales topped $ 180,000; the second, $265,000. Dell barely noticed when the new college year arrived.

Within a year, he was selling 1000 PCs a month. To keep pace, Dell moved to larger quarters and hired more staff. Customers phoned orders, and then the staff assembled the units. Parts were ordered only as needed, keeping inventory and overheads low. Trucks picked up daily that day's production for delivery. It was very efficient—and very profitable.

Just when it seemed the sky was the limit, and sales had topped $3million, the manager that Dell had hired quit. But, as Dell always told himself, "Every time you have a crisis, something good comes out of it." From necessity, he learned accounting basics—experience that would prove invaluable in the years ahead.

Unlike other manufacturers, Deli gave his customers money-back guarantees. He also realized that when a computer is down, the customer wants it back up in working right away. So Dell guaranteed next-day on-site service for his products, and introduced a 24 -hour-a-day phone service for customers to talk directly with computer technicians. Ninety percent of computer technical problems, according to Dell, can be solved over the phone.

Constant telephone contact with customers kept the company close to the market. Customers let Dell Computer know directly what they liked or didn't like about a particular model. "My competitors were developing products and then telling customers what they should want, instead of finding out what the market really wanted and then developing products," Dell says.

By the day Michael Dell would have graduated from college, his company was selling $70 million worth of computers a year. Dell quit dealing in his improved versions of other companies' products, and started designing, assembling and marketing his own.

Today Dell Computer has wholly owned subsidiaries in 16 countries, including Japan. The company has revenues of over $2 billion, employs some 5500 persons, and Dell's personal fortune is between $250 million and $300 million. To encourage even greater productivity, Dell Computer gives its employees awards for ideas worth frying, even if they don't work out. "Our success has forced the giants to become more competitive," Dell says. "That's good for the consumer."

Dell, his wife and their two-year-old daughter lead a pretty normal life. His charity is generous but quiet. He also regularly lectures on entrepreneurship to MBA students at the University of Texas.

Back when his firm was two people in one room, Dell told his friends his dream was to become the world's largest personal-computer maker. He was unrealistic, they said.

"Why would anyone want to be second or third or tenth?" he replied. His message to us all: why not at least try to realize your dream, what deep down you would truly love to achieve?

A2.Complete / Interpretation (2)

Complete the following table.

Works system of Dell company to provide computers to customers

A3.Conclusion/Guessing (2)

Michael Dell applied a new marketing strategy. Describe it giving its references from the extract.

A 4. Vocabulary. (2)

Fill in the blanks with the following words appropriately.

(rushed, charity, quit, dream)

a) Every great ------------ begins with a dreamer.

b) Gandhiji started ----------- India movement in 1942.

c) -----------------begins at home.

d) He --------------- to help the affected persons.

A5. Personal Response. (2)

Michael Dell’s message to us all: why not at least try to realize your dream, what deep down

you would truly love to achieve? Give your views about this message.

A6. Grammar

Do as directed. (2)

1) To keep pace, Dell moved to larger quarters and hired more staff.

(Rewrite using not only ------- but also)

2) It was very efficient—and very profitable.

(Rewrite as an exclamatory sentence)

Expected Answers

Q.1 (A)

A1.

1) Within a year, he was selling 1000 PCs a month.

2) Constant telephone contact with customers kept the company close to the market.

3) Today Dell Computer has wholly owned subsidiaries in 16 countries, including Japan.

4) Dell, his wife and their two-year-old daughter lead a pretty normal life.

A2. Works system of Dell company to provide computers to customers

1) Orders were taken by phone

2) Parts were ordered only as needed

3) the staff

assembled the units

4) Trucks picked

up daily

production for

delivery

A3.

Michael Deli gave his customers money-back guarantees. He also guaranteed next-day on-site service for his products, and introduced a 24 -hour-a-day phone service for customers to talk directly with computer technicians. This new marketing strategy Michael Dell applied.

A4.

a) Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

b) Gandhiji started quit India movement in 1942.

c) Charity begins at home.

d) He rushed to help the affected persons.

A5.

Michael Dell’s message to us all: why not at least try to realize your dream, what deep down you would truly love to achieve? I fully agree with this message. It is essential to try to fulfill our dreams by working hard. We are always ready to do hard work for our goal as it is the goal we love to achieve it.

(Accept any reasonably correct answer)

A6.

1) To keep pace, Dell not only moved to larger quarters but also hired more staff.

2) How efficient and profitable it was!

Activity No. 3 on 2.2 A Boy With A Mission

2.2 A Boy With A Mission

Activity No. 3

Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities. (12)

A 1. True / False (2)

Read the following sentences and write down true sentences.

1) The sack buyer gave two nickels to Reuben.

2) Reuben gave a small almond – shaped brooch to his mother.

3) Before Reuben’s gift, Dora had only one finery her wedding ring.

4) Reuben gave gift to his mother on Father’s day.

Extract – Reuben hid the --------- in the world.

(Text Page No. 33)

A2.Findout (2)

Find and write down the expressions of the mother when she got a gift from her son Reuben.

A3. Suggest (2)

Read the following expression of Lillian and write what it suggests.

His wife of 47 years, Lillian, says, “Reuben has never changed from the loving boy who gave his mother that brooch.”

A 4. Vocabulary (2)

Fill in the blanks with appropriate words given below.

(tremor, scrubbing, unwrapped, mist)

1) His eyes -----------at the memory of his friend.

2) She was --------------the kitchen range.

3) They -------------- it to see what was there.

4) I hear a -------------in her voice.

A5. Personal Response. (2)

Explain your plan to celebrate this year’s ‘Mother’s Day’.

A6. Grammar

Do as directed. (2)

1) The man went to the window and retrieved Reuben’s treasure.

(Rewrite the sentence removing ‘and’)

2) In 1947, Mark Earl moved to Toronto.

(Frame a wh- que to get the underlined words as answer

Activity No.1 on 3.2 Where Have All the Birds Gone?

3.2 Where Have All the Birds Gone?

Activity No. 1

Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities. (12)

A 1. True / False (2)

Read the following sentences and write down true sentences.

1) The vishu is the new year festival of Kerala.

2) The parrots made holes to the tree trunks.

3) The vishupakshi is a migratory bird.

4) The woodpecker is called a weaver bird.

Extract – It is April --------- to captivate me.

(Text Page No. 54 and 55)

A2.Findout (2)

Find and write down the sights that the narrator enjoyed in his teen age.

A3. Guessing (2)

Guess why vishupakshi is not seen in Kerala.

A4.Vocabulary. (2)

Choose the correct meaning for the words from the given alternatives.

1) Played truant

a) Played a game

b) Stayed away

2) Agrarian

a) Connected with Agra

b) Connected with farming

3) Dangling

a) Hanging freely

b) Drinking freely

4) Outskirts

a) A cloth to wear

b) Outer edges

A5. Personal Response. (2)

Suggest few ways to protect birds.

A6. Grammar (2)

Do as directed.

1 ) How beautiful the sight was!

(Make assertive sentence)

2) Often I have enjoyed the sight of these little birds balancing on the tender stalks.

(Change the voice)

Activity No.1 on 3.3 A Tale for Many Cities

3.3 A Tale for Many Cities

Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities. (12)

A 1. Complex Factual (2)

Complete the information from the extract.

1) The choices to see our cities in 2020 will be ----------or-------------

2) The two key requirements of a city are ----------------and------------

3) -------------------------have reasonably good master plans.

4) --------------must be proactively involved in master plans.

Extract – In just a few--------- facilities too.

(Text Page No. 63 and 64)

A2.Interpretation (2)

Write the ways to make our cities livable.

A3. Guessing (2)

The narrator says we are at a crucial juncture as far as urbanism goes. Guess its reasons.

A4.Vocabulary. (2)

Match the columns.

1) amalgamation a) disorganized

2) chaotic b) realistic

3) surged c) mix or blend

4) pragmatic d) increased

A5. Personal Response. (2)

Write your idea about the changing needs of city people.

A6. Grammar (2)

Do as directed.

1) A city must provide equality and also be sustainable.

(Rewrite using not only -----but also)

2) The first requirement for a city is a pragmatic plan.

(Give the use of the underlined article)

Activity No.1 on 3.4 Aamchi Mumbai and I

3.4 Aamchi Mumbai and I

Activity No. 1

Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities. (12)

A 1. True / False (2)

Read the following sentences and state whether they are true or false. Correct the false sentences.

1) The narrator visited Mumbai during summer.

2) Mr.Shanbagh was the owner of a bookstall.

3) The narrator enjoyed classical music concerts at the Nehru Centre.

4) The narrator did not like sea.

Extract – Like any other --------- heavy heart.

(Text Page No. 68 and 69)

A2.Findout (2)

Find and write information of the following places in one line taking support of the extract.

a) Asiatic Library -------------------------------------------------

b) NCPA -----------------------------------------------------------

c) The Strand bookstore -----------------------------------------

d) Pavements at Fountain ----------------------------------------

A3. Suggest (2)

‘One cannot step into the same river twice’.

The meaning of this expression is ------------------------------------------------------------

(Complete the sentence)

A4.Vocabulary. (2)

Write any two examples of code – mixing.

(Hint – Aamchi Mumbai)

1) -----------------------

2) -----------------------

A5. Personal Response. (2)

Write your impression about Mumbai after reading this extract.

A6. Grammar

Do as directed. (2)

1) I stood trembling outside the imposing RBI building.

(Frame a wh- question to get the underlined word as answer)

2) You seduced me steadily.

(Change the voice)

Activity No.1 on 4.1. Old Women

4.1. Old Women

Activity No. 1

Q.1 (A) Read the the extract and do the activities that follow below. (12)

Old women do not fly on magic wands

nor make obscure prophecies

from ominous forests.

They just sit on vacant park benches

in the quiet evenings,

call doves by their names

and charm them with grains of maize.

Or, trembling like waves

they stand in endless queues in

government hospitals

or settle like sterile clouds

in post offices awaiting mail

from their sons abroad,

long ago dead.

They whisper like drizzles

as they roam the streets

with a lost gaze as though

something they had thrown up

never returned to earth.

They shiver like December nights

in their dreamless sleep

on shop verandahs.

A 1. Complete the web (2)

Complete the web giving expressions that show isolation and loneliness of old women.

A2. Poetic Device (2)

Trembling like waves.

(Name the figure of speech used here and find one more example of the same figure of speech from the extrac

A3. Personal Response (2)

Explain your views about the real condition of old aged persons in your area.

A4. Poetic creation (2)

They shiver like December nights

in their dreamless sleep

on shop verandahs.

(Add your two poetic lines that rhyme with the first two lines)

Hints - The rhyming words for nights - fights, knights, sights, kites etc

The rhyming words for sleep - leap, sheep, peep, heap, creep, deep etc.

Activity No.1 on 4.2. 16 Killed in Haridwar Stampeded

4.2. 16 Killed in Haridwar Stamped No. 1

Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities. (12)

A 1. Global understanding

Rearrange the jumbled order sentences as per the incidents.(2)

1) People started pushing to each other

2) Mahayagya started

3) A woman tripped and fell

4) Suffocation caused due to smoke

Extract – 16 people --------- injured.

(Text Page No.78 )

A2.Findout (2)

Find and write down the four important actions that were taken about the stampede affected persons.

1)----------------

2)----------------

3)----------------

4)----------------

A3. Guessing (2)

Guess the purpose of this text.

--------------------------------------------------

A4.Vocabulary. (2)

Match the words under column ‘A’ with their meanings listed under column

A	B
1) emanating	a) inquiry
2) centenary	b) accident
3) mishap	c) the 100th anniversary
4) probe	d) giving out

A5. Personal Response. (2)

Suggest few precautions to control crowd at the public function.

A6. Grammar

Do as directed. (2)

1) I too fell down and became unconscious.

(Use not only ---but also)

2) District Magistrate Senthil Pandian has ordered a Magisterial probe into the incident.

(Change the voice)

Activity No.2 - 2.4. Who Was the Happiest Of Them All?

2.4. Who Was the Happiest Of Them All?

Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities. (12) A 1. Complex Factual (2)

The incidents narrated in the extract are arranged in a jumbled manner here. Rearrange them in a proper order as they occur.

1) The people left their sacks and swam trough the water.

2) The ragging stream stopped the way of the people.

3) The minister Chandan explained his view about contentment.

4) The people felt ashamed of their behaviour.

Extract – Then with their sacks-------when needed.

(Text Page No. 45 and 46)

A2. Find out (2)

Find out why the young man was not sad for leaving the sack.

A3. Conclusion (2)

All the people had to leave the heavy sacks with valuable things to reach the rear gate of the garden. Give its reasons.

A 4. Vocabulary. (2)

Meanings of words are given in the bracket.

(Meanings- very large rocks, left, walked slowly with heavy steps, uninterested)

Choose the correct meaning for the following words and write it before each word.

1) Unconcerned

2) Boulders

3) Abandoned

4) Trudge

A5. Personal Response. (2)

Explain your views about contentment.

A6. Grammar

Do as directed. (2)

1) There were no poor people to be seen anywhere.

(Make affirmative sentence)

2) He turned back to the court and made a most unusual announcement.

(Rewrite removing ‘and’)

Activity No.2 - 4.1 Old Women

4.1 Old Women

Activity No. 2

Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities. (12)

There are swings still

in their half-blind eyes,

lilies and Christmases

in their failing memory.

There is one folktale

for each wrinkle on their skin.

All dawns pass

leaving them in the dark .

They do not fear death,

they died long ago.

Old women once

were continents.

They had deep woods in them,

lakes, mountains, volcanoes even,

even raging gulfs.

When the earth was in heat

they melted, shrank,

leaving only their maps.

You can fold them

and keep them handy :

who knows , they might help you find

your way home.

A1. Find out (2)

Find out the two expressions that show past happy moments of the old women.

1)---------------------------------------------------------------------------

2)---------------------------------------------------------------------------

A 2. Poetic Device (2)

They do not fear death,

they died long ago.

(Choose the two figures of speech used here from the given alternatives. Give explaination)

a) Alliteration b ) Metaphor c) Antithesis d) Personification

A 3. Appreciation (2)

Write at least four examples of geographical imagery used in this extract.

1)--------------

2)--------------

3)--------------

4)--------------

A 4. Poetic creativity. (2)

Write four poetic lines to describe any old loving person you know.

Activity No.2 :- 2.2 A Boy With A Mission

2.2 A Boy With A Mission

Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities. (12)

A1. Global Understanding / Complex Factual (2)

The incidents narrated in the extract are arranged in a jumbled manner here. Rearrange them in a proper order as they occur.

1) Reuben counted the coins and realized that he needed 20 cents more.

2) Reuben’s school closed for the summer vacation.

3) Reuben did extra chores at home during vacation.

4) Reuben’s school reopened but he was still searching burlap sacks.

Extract – He looked at his mother --------- the day ended.

(Text Page No. 33)

A2.Complete/Interpretation (2) Complete the following information taking support from the extract.

Dora’s chores included -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

A3.Conclusion/Guessing (2)

1) The school closed for the summer vacation and Reuben was more delighted than other students. (Give its reason.)

2) Reuben lied his mother that he spent time for playing because ----------------

(Complete the sentence giving reason)

A4. Vocabulary. (2)

Match the words given under A with their antonym given under B

A B

a) Slim 1) never

b) Highest 2) fat

c) Closed 3) lowest

d) Sometimes 4) opened

A5. Personal Response. (2)

Describe the qualities that you find in the character of Dora Earl.

A6. Grammar

Do as directed. (2)

1) Her chores were never-ending.

(Make affirmative sentence)

2) Reuben wandered the street, diligently searching for his burlap treasures.

(Make compound sentence)

Activity No. 3 on - 1.2 A two Billion Dollar Dream

1.2 A two Billion Dollar Dream

Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities. (12)

A 1. Global Understanding (2)

Choose the correct alternative and rewrite the sentence.

1) Within a year, he was selling 100 / 1000 PCs a month.

2) Constant telephone contact with customers kept the company away / close to the market.

3) Today Dell Computer has wholly owned subsidiaries / subsidies in 16 countries, including Japan.

4) Dell, his wife and their two-year-old daughter lead a pretty abnormal / normal life.

Back when his firm was two people in one room, Dell told his friends his dream was to become the world's largest personal-computer maker. He was unrealistic, they said.

"Why would anyone want to be second or third or tenth?" he replied. His message to us all: why not at least try to realize your dream, what deep down you would truly love to achieve?

A2.Complete / Interpretation (2)

Complete the following table.

Works system of Dell company to provide computers to customers

A3.Conclusion/Guessing (2)

Michael Dell applied a new marketing strategy. Describe it giving its references from the extract.

A 4. Vocabulary. (2)

Fill in the blanks with the following words appropriately.

(rushed, charity, quit, dream)

a) Every great ------------ begins with a dreamer.

b) Gandhiji started ----------- India movement in 1942.

c) -----------------begins at home.

d) He --------------- to help the affected persons.

A5. Personal Response. (2)

Michael Dell’s message to us all: why not at least try to realize your dream, what deep down

you would truly love to achieve? Give your views about this message.

A6. Grammar

Do as directed. (2)

1) To keep pace, Dell moved to larger quarters and hired more staff.

(Rewrite using not only ------- but also)

2) It was very efficient—and very profitable.

(Rewrite as an exclamatory sentence)

Expected Answers

Q.1 (A)

A1.

1) Within a year, he was selling 1000 PCs a month.

2) Constant telephone contact with customers kept the company close to the market.

3) Today Dell Computer has wholly owned subsidiaries in 16 countries, including Japan.

4) Dell, his wife and their two-year-old daughter lead a pretty normal life.

A2.

Works system of Dell company to provide computers to customers
1) Orders were taken by phone	2) Parts were ordered only as needed	3) the staff assembled the units	4) Trucks picked up daily production for delivery

A3.

A4.

a) Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

b) Gandhiji started quit India movement in 1942.

c) Charity begins at home.

d) He rushed to help the affected persons.

A5.

(Accept any reasonably correct answer)

A6.

1) To keep pace, Dell not only moved to larger quarters but also hired more staff.

2) How efficient and profitable it was!

Activity No. 3 on 2.2 A Boy With A Mission

2.2 A Boy With A Mission

Activity No. 3

Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities. (12)

A 1. True / False (2)

Read the following sentences and write down true sentences.

1) The sack buyer gave two nickels to Reuben.

2) Reuben gave a small almond – shaped brooch to his mother.

3) Before Reuben’s gift, Dora had only one finery her wedding ring.

4) Reuben gave gift to his mother on Father’s day.

Extract – Reuben hid the --------- in the world.

(Text Page No. 33)

A2.Findout (2)

Find and write down the expressions of the mother when she got a gift from her son Reuben.

A3. Suggest (2)

Read the following expression of Lillian and write what it suggests.

His wife of 47 years, Lillian, says, “Reuben has never changed from the loving boy who gave his mother that brooch.”

A 4. Vocabulary. (2)

Fill in the blanks with appropriate words given below.

(tremor, scrubbing, unwrapped, mist)

1) His eyes -----------at the memory of his friend.

2) She was --------------the kitchen range.

3) They -------------- it to see what was there.

4) I hear a -------------in her voice.

A5. Personal Response. (2)

Explain your plan to celebrate this year’s ‘Mother’s Day’.

A6. Grammar

Do as directed. (2)

1) The man went to the window and retrieved Reuben’s treasure.

(Rewrite the sentence removing ‘and’)

2) In 1947, Mark Earl moved to Toronto.

(Frame a wh- que to get the underlined words as answer)

Activity No.2 on 1.2 A two Billion Dollar Dream

1.2 A two Billion Dollar Dream

Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities. (12)

A 1. Global Understanding (2)

Read the following sentences related to the events in the story. They are given in a jumbled order. Rearrange the events in a proper sequence.

1) Dell risked all his savings and incorporated Dell Computer Corp on May 3, 1984.

2) Dell placed local advertisements offering his customized computers at 15 percent off retail price.

3) For advertising, Dell grabbed an empty box and on the back sketched the first ad for Dell Computer.

4) The next year Dell enrolled at the University of Texas.

The next year Dell enrolled at the University of Texas. Like most first-year students, he needed to earn spending money. Just about everyone on campus was talking about personal computers. At the time, anyone who didn't have a PC wanted one, but dealers were selling them at a hefty mark-up. People wanted low-cost machines custom-made to their needs, and these were not readily available. Why should dealers get such a big mark-up for so little added value? Dell wondered. Why not sell from the manufacturer directly to the end user?

Dell knew that IBM required its dealers to take a monthly quota of PCs, in most cases more than they could sell. He also knew that holding excess inventory was costly. So he bought dealers' surplus stock at cost. Back in his dormitory room, he added features to improve performance. The improved models found eager buyers. Seeing the hungry market, Dell placed local advertisements offering his customized computers at 15 percent off retail price. Soon he was selling to businesses, doctors' offices and law firms. The trunk of his car was his store; his room took on the appearance of a small factory.

During a holiday break, Dell's parents told him they were concerned about his grades. "If you want to start a business, do it after you get your degree," his father pleaded.

Dell agreed, but back in college he felt the opportunity of a lifetime was passing him by. "I couldn't bear to miss this chance," he says. After one month he started selling computers again — with a vengeance.

The quarter he shared with two roommates was in chaos — boxes piled high, computer boards and tools scattered around. One day his roommates heaped all his equipment into a pile, preventing Dell from entering his room. It was time to come to grips with the magnitude of what he had created. The business was now grossing more than $ 50, 000 a month.

Dell confessed to his parents that he was still in the computer business. They wanted to know how classes were going.

"I have to quit college," he replied. "I want to start my own company."

"What exactly is it that you want to do?" asked his father.

"Compete with IBM," he answered simply.

Now his parents were really worried. But no matter what they said, Dell insisted. So they made a deal: over summer vacation he would try to launch a computer company. If he didn't succeed, it would be back to university.

Dell risked all his savings and incorporated Dell Computer Corp on May 3, 1984. He was 19,

Under a deadline, his pace was frantic. He rented a one-room office on a month-to-month lease and hired his first employee, a 28- year-old manager to handle finance and administration. For advertising, he grabbed an empty box and on the back sketched the first ad for Dell Computer. A friend copied it onto paper and took it to the newspaper.

A2.Complete / Interpretation (2)

Complete the following sentences.

1) The trunk of his car was -------, his room took on the appearance of --------.

2) He rented a one-room office on --------------- and hired his first employee, a 28- year-old manager to handle -----------------------------.

A3. Conclusion / Guessing (2)

Michael Dell became successful to sell his personal computers. Give it’s reasons.

A 4. Vocabulary. (2)

Match the words given under A with their antonyms given under B

A B

1) sell a) wholesale

2) retail b) buy

3)small c) fail

4) succeed d) big

A5. Personal Response. (2)

Tell the things that you learn from Dell’s story.

A6. Grammar

Do as directed. (2)

1) The next year Dell enrolled at the University of Texas.

(Choose the correct wh- question to get the underlined words as answer)

a) Why did Dell enroll the next year?

b) When did Dell enroll the next year?

c) Where did Dell enroll the next yea

2) A friend copied it onto paper and took it to the newspaper.

(Choose the correct simple sentence from the following alternatives)

a) A friend copied it onto paper because he wanted to take it to the newspaper

b) A friend copied it onto paper to take it to the newspaper.

c) When a friend copied it onto paper, he took it to the newspaper.

Expected Answers – Activity :- 2

Q.1 (A)

A 1.

1) The next year Dell enrolled at the University of Texas.

2) Dell placed local advertisements offering his customized computers at 15 percent off retail price.

3) Dell risked all his savings and incorporated Dell Computer Corp on May 3, 1984.

4) For advertising, Dell grabbed an empty box and on the back sketched the first ad for Dell Computer.

A2.

1) The trunk of his car was his store; his room took on the appearance of a small factory.

2) He rented a one-room office on a month-to-month lease and hired his first employee, a 28- year-old manager to handle finance and administration.

A3.

Michael Dell added features in the computers to improve performance. The improved models found eager buyers. Seeing the hungry market, he placed local advertisements offering his customized computers at 15 percent off retail price. All these made Michael Dell successful to sell his personal computers.

A 4.

1) sell - buy

2) retail - wholesale

3) small - big

4) succeed - fail

A5.

From the story of Michael Dell, I learn that to become successful businessman there is need

to know what the demand of the customers is. There is also need to supply products according to

the demands, to make improvements as per the need of the customers and to offer concessions.

A6.1) Where did Dell enroll the next year?

2) A friend copied it onto paper to take it to the newspaper.

Activity No.2 on 1.3 The Turning Point of My Life

1.3 The Turning Point of My Life

Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities. (12)

A 1. Complex Factual / Global Understanding (2)

Complete the flow chart describing narrator’s efforts to write a novel.

Narrator decided to write a novel

He bundled up the manuscript, went out and threw it in the ash can.

For years, at the back of my mind, I had nursed the vague illusion that I might write. Often indeed unguarded moments. I had remarked to my wife, "You know. I believe I could write a novel if I had time. At which she would smile kindly across her knitting, murmur, "Do you, clear?" and tactfully lead me back to talk of Johnnie Smith's whooping cough.

Now, as I stood on the shore of that desolate Highland loch I raised my voice in a surge of self-justification. “By Heavens! This is opportunity. Gastric ulcer or no gastric ulcer. I will write a novel." Before I could change my mind I walked straight to the village and bought myself two dozen penny exercise books.

Upstairs in my cold, clean bedroom was a scrubbed deal table and a very hard chair. Next morning I found myself in this chair, facing a new exercise book open upon the table, slowly becoming aware that, short of dog-Latin prescriptions, I had never composed a significant phrase in all my life. It was a discouraging thought as I picked up my pen and gazed out the window. Never mind, I would begin. Three hours later Mrs. Angus, the farmer's wife, called me to dinner. The page was still blank.

As I went down to my milk and junket—they call this "curds" in Tarbert—l felt a dreadful fool. I felt like the wretched poet in Daudet Jack, whose immortal masterpiece never progressed beyond its stillborn opening phrase:" ln a remote valley of Pyrenees...".I recollected, rather grimly, the sharp advice with which my old schoolmaster had goaded me to action. "Get it down!" he had said. "If it stops in your head it will always be nothing. Get it down." And so, after lunch, I went upstairs and began to get it down.

Perhaps the tribulations of the next three months are best omitted. I had in my head clear enough the theme I wished to treat—the tragic record of a man's egoism and bitter pride. I even had the title of the book. But beyond these naive fundamentals I was lamentably unprepared. I had never seen a thesaurus. The difficulty of simple statement staggered me. I spent hours looking for an adjective. I corrected and re- corrected until the page looked like a spider's web, then I tore it up and started all over again.

Yet once I had begun, the thing haunted me. My characters took shape, spoke to me, laughed, wept and excited me. When an idea stuck me in the middle of the night I would get up, light a candle, and sprawl on the floor until I had translated it to paper. At first my rate of progress was some 800 laboured words a day. By the end of the second month it was a ready 2000.

Suddenly, when I was halfway through, the inevitable happened. Desolation struck me like an avalanche. I asked myself: "Why am I wearing myself out with this toil for which I am so preposterously ill-equipped?" I threw down my pen. Feverishly, I read over the first chapters which had just arrived in typescript from my secretary in London. I was appalled. Never, never had I seen such nonsense in all my life. No one would read it. I saw, finally, that I was a presumptuous lunatic, that all I had written, all that I could ever write was effort, sheer futility. Abruptly, furiously, I bundled up the manuscript, went out and threw it in the ash can.

Drawing a sullen satisfaction from my surrender or, as I preferred to phrase it, my return to sanity, I went for a walk in the drizzling rain. Halfway down the loch shore I came upon old Angus, the farmer, patiently and laboriously ditching a patch of the bogged and peaty heath which made up the bulk of his hard-won little croft' As I drew near, he gazed up at me in some surprise: he knew of my -intention and, with that inborn Scottish reverence for "letters", had tacitly approved it. When I told him what I had just done and why, his weathered face slowly changed, his keen blue eyes scanned me with disappointment and a queer contempt. He was a silent man and it was long before he spoke. Even then his words were cryptic.

A 2. Interpretation (2)

The narrator threw his manuscript in the ash can because -----------------------------------------(Complete the statement giving reference from the extract)

A 3. Conclusion (2)

The narrator was engrossed in his writing of a novel. Give supportive statements from the extract to justify this conclusion.

A 4. Vocabulary. (2)

Write homophones for the following from the extract –

1) Wood

2) too

3) won

4) scene

A5. Personal Response. (2)

Give the qualities that are essential to become a good writer.

A6. Grammar

Do as directed. (2)

1) The difficulty of simple statement staggered me.

(Choose the correct passive form of above sentence from the following alternatives)

a) The difficulty of simple statement was staggered to me.

b) I was staggered by the difficulty of simple statement.

c) Me was staggered with the difficulty of simple statement.

2) I had never seen a thesaurus.

(Choose the correct changed tense form of above sentence from the following alternatives)

a) I was never seen a thesaurus.

b) I never seen a thesaurus.

c) I have never seen a thesaurus.

Expected Answers

Q.1 (A)

A 1.

Narrator decided to write a novel

He bundled up the manuscript, went out and threw it in the ash can.

He bought two dozen penny exercise books.

He could not write properly for many days.

He worked hard to write properly.

He was engrossed in his writing of a novel and completed few chapters.

A 2.

The narrator threw his manuscript in the ash can because he thought his writing was not so good. He feared that no one liked it. He was totally depressed and in a fit of anger decided to destroy the writing.

A 3.

The narrator had begun writing and his own work began to haunt him. The characters of his book took shape, spoke to him, laughed, wept and excited him. When an idea stuck him in the middle of the night he would get up, light a candle, and sprawl on the floor until he had translated it to paper.

A 4.

1) would

2) two

3) one

4) seen

A5.

To become a good writer, the qualities that are essential include –

endurance, enriched vocabulary, creative mind, imagination,

keen observation, good Grammar, patience, self-confidence etc.

(Accept any reasonably correct answer)

A6.

1) I was staggered by the difficulty of simple statement.

2) I have never seen a thesaurus.

Activity No.2 on 3.3 A Tale for Many Cities

3.3 A Tale for Many Cities

Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities. (12)

A 1. Complex Factual (2)

Choose the correct alternative and rewrite the sentence.

1) Shanghai has wonderful cycling facilities / footpaths everywhere.

2) New York has actively developed horse riding / cycling facilities in larger parts.

3) CBRI is the research organization for buildings / roads.

4) MMRDA serves in Delhi / Mumbai.

Extract – We don’t have--------- way of life.

(Text Page No. 64 and 65)

A2.Interpretation (2)

Give information of Navdeep Ahuja’s organization.

A3. Guessing (2)

Guess the life in the ideal city of writer’s dream.

A4.Vocabulary. (2)

Match the words in column ‘A’ with their antonyms in column ‘B’

Column A. Column B

1) Enough a) dirty

2) Best b) busy

3) Free c) worst

4) Clean. d) insufficient

A5. Personal Response. (2)

Write your ideas about the changing needs of city people.

A6. Grammar (2)

Do as directed.

1) There is Tokyo, the world's most populous city, which has a metro system used by 80% of its population.

(Rewrite as a simple sentence)

2) It is achievable.

(Rewrite as negative sentence without changing the meaning)

Activity No.2 on 4.2. 16 Killed in Haridwar Stamped

4.2. 16 Killed in Haridwar Stamped

Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities. (12)

A 1. Web

Complete the web giving sequence of events. (2)

Extract – A large --------- and action.

(Text Page No.79 )

A2.Suggest (2)

Write any four precautions that the narrator insists to apply to avoid incidents of stampede.

1)----------------

2)----------------

3)----------------

4)----------------

A3. Guessing (2)

Ideas have floated, but hardly ever implemented.

Guess the meaning behind this expression.

A4.Vocabulary. (2)

Match the words under column ‘A’ with their antonyms listed under column ‘B’

A	B
A same	1 largest
B private	2 goverment
C illogical	3 llogical
D smallest	4 samall

A5. Personal Response. (2)

Suggest few ideas to control crowd imagining yourself as a crowd manager.

A6. Grammar

Do as directed. (2)

1) Police personnel must be trained and sensitised to not only manage large crowds but also distinguish among different types of crowds.

(Rewrite removing - not only ---but also)

2) On Tuesday, 16 persons were killed and 50 injured in a stampede in Haridwar.

(Frame a question to get the underlined words as answer using words – What happened -- )

Activity No.2 - 3.1- Suburbs

3.1. Suburbs

Activity No. 2

Q.1 (A) Read the extract and do the activities that follow below. (12)

We, heroes and poor devils,

the feeble, the braggarts, the unfinished,

and capable of everything impossible

as long as it's not seen or heard

Don Juans, women and men, who come and go

with the fleeting passage of a runner

or of a shy hotel for travelers.

And we with our small vanities,

our controlled hunger for climbing

and getting as far as everybody else has gotten

because it seems that is the way of the world:

an endless track of champions

and in a comer we, forgotten

maybe because of everybody else,

since they seemed so much like us

until they were robbed of their laurels,

their medals, their titles, their names.

A 1. Factual Understanding (2)

Complete the following web giving words that are used to describe the middle class persons.

A2. Poetic Device (2)

If the words are arranged in ascending order of importance, it is the use of Climax.

Search two examples of climax from the extract and write them.

A3. Personal Response (2)

Give you opinion about the life of middle class people in cities.

A4. Poetic creation (2)

And we with our small vanities,

our controlled hunger for climbing

and getting as far as everybody else has gotten

because it seems that is the way of the world:

(Rewrite above lines expressing opposite meaning)

- July 05, 2018

Activity No.3 - 1.3 The Turning Point of My Life

1.3 The Turning Point of My Life

Activity No. 3

Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities. (12)

A 1. Complex Factual / Global Understanding (2)

Read the following statements and write the statements that does not describe the mental anguish of the narrator.

1) I watched his dogged working figure with rising anger and resentment.

2) I was resentful because he had what I had not.

3) I lost myself in the ferociousness of my purpose.

4) I went around the village saying good-bye to the simple folk who had become my friends.

"No doubt you're the one that's right, doctor, and I’m the one that's wrong….” He seemed to look right to the bottom of me. “My father ditched this bog all his days and never made a pasture. I've dug it all my days and I’ve never made a pasture. But pasture or no pasture," he placed his foot dourly on the spade, "I canna help but dig. For father knew and I know that if you only dig enough a pasture can be made here."

I understood. I watched his dogged working figure with rising anger and resentment. I was resentful because he had what I had not: a terrible stubbornness to see the job through at all costs, an unquenchable flame of resolution brought to the simplest, the most arid duties of life. And suddenly my trivial dilemma became magnified, transmuted until it stood as the timeless problem of all mortality – the comfortable retreat, or the arduous advance without prospect of reward,

I tramped back to the farm, drenched, shamed, furious, and picked the soggy bundle from the ash can, I dried it in the kitchen oven. Then I flung it on the table and set to work again with a kind of frantic desperation. I lost myself in the ferociousness of my purpose. I would not be beaten, I would not give in. I wrote harder than ever. At last, towards the end of the third month, I wrote finis. The relief, the sense of emancipation was unbelievable. I had kept my word. I had created a book. Whether it was good, bad or indifferent I did not care. In the days which followed I gradually regained my health, and I began to chafe at idleness. I wanted to be back in harness, I chose a publisher by the simple expedient of closing my eyes and pricking a catalogue with a pin. I dispatched the completed manuscript and promptly forgot about it.

At last the date of my deliverance drew near. I went around the village saying good-bye to the simple folk who had become my friends. As I entered the post office, the post master presented me with a telegram—an urgent invitation to meet the publisher. I took it straight away and showed it, without a word, to John Angus.

The novel I had thrown away was chosen by the Book Society, dramatized and serialized, translated into 19 languages, bought by Hollywood. It has sold millions of copies. It altered my life radically, beyond my wildest dreams... and all because of a timely lesson in the grace of perseverance

But that lesson goes deeper still. Today, when the air resounds with shrill defeatist cries, when half our stricken world is wailing in discouragement: "What is the use…….to work…….to save……to go on living……with Armageddon round the corner?" I am glad to recollect it. The door is wide open to darkness and despair. The way to close that door is to go on doing whatever job we are doing and to finish it.

The virtue of all achievement, as known to my old Scots farmer, is victory over oneself. Those who know this victory can never know defeat.

A2. Interpretation (2)

Describe the popularity of the narrator’s novel giving supporting details from the extract.

A 3. Conclusion (2)

The narrator’s dilemma was ended when he met Angus. Its reasons were ------------(Complete the statement giving reasons)A

4. Vocabulary. (2)

Write antonyms for the following from the extract

1) Right

2) Decreasing

3) Uncomfortable

4) Win

A5. Personal Response. (2)

Describe the qualities that are essential to become successful in life.

A6. Grammar

Do as directed. (2)

1) I had kept my word. I had created a book.

(Join the sentences using not only -----but also)

2) I understood.

(Rewrite using failed to)

Activity No.3 on R.R. 2. The Girl With an Apple

R.R. 2. The Girl With an Apple

Activity No. 3

Q.5 (A) Read the following extract and complete the following activity. (4)

I had to admit, for a blind date this wasn't so bad. Roma was a nurse at a Bronx hospital. She was kind and smart. Beautiful, too, with swirling brown curls and green, almond-shaped eyes that sparkled with life.

The four of us drove out to Coney Island. Roma was easy to talk to, easy to be with. Turned out she was wary of blind dates too! We were both just doing our friends a favor. We took a stroll on the boardwalk, enjoying the salty Atlantic breeze, and then had dinner by the shore. I couldn’t remember having a better time.

We piled back into Sid's car, Roma and I sharing the backseat. As European Jews who had survived the war, we were aware that much had been left unsaid between us. She broached the subject, “Where were you during the war ?” she asked softly.

'The camps,' I said, the terrible memories still vivid, the irreparable loss. I had tried to forget. But you can never forget.

She nodded. “My family was hiding on a farm in Germany, not far from Berlin,” she told me. “My father knew a priest, and he got us Aryan papers.”

I imagined how she must have suffered too, fear, a constant companion. And yet here we were both survivors, in a new world.

“There was a camp next to the farm.” Roma continued. “I saw a boy there and I would throw him apples every day.”

What an amazing coincidence that she had helped some other boy. “What did he look like?” I asked. “He was tall, skinny, and hungry. I must have seen him every day for six months.”

My heart was racing. I couldn't believe it. This couldn’t be. “Did he tell you one day not to come back because he was leaving Schlieben?”

A1- Global Understanding (Character) (2)

State whether the following statements are true or false.

1) Sid was the narrator’s friend.

2) Roma’s family was hiding in America.

3) Roma was a teacher working in Coney Island.

4) The boy narrator was tall, skinny and hungry person.

A2- Provide an imaginary beginning (2)

Write an imaginary beginning paragraph for the given extract.

Expected Answers A1.

1) True

2) False

3) False

4) True

A2.

I was living all alone in my house. I wanted to get married and start a new life. I was still remembering the face of the innocent apple girl who had given me apple at the crucial time. I wanted to meet her again. But I didn’t know where she was. My friend Sid always invited me to go for a blind date. I was not sure about its worth outcome. So I ignored it for many days. Should I go for a blind date? I was just thinking but couldn’t decide what to do.

Activity on -To be a Somebody, Remain a Nobody

To be a Somebody, Remain a Nobody

Activity No. 1

Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities. (12)

A1.Complex Factual /Global Understanding (2)

Complete the following statements using correct alternatives:

1. The very process of becoming a -------------may subtly reduce you to a nobody.

i) anybody ii) nobody iii) somebody iv) everybody

2. When you become a somebody, you invite ----------------

i) enemies ii) adulation iii) hatred iv) friends

3. People------------and extol me.

i) help ii) love iii) mistake iv) envy

4. Gandhiji stunned everybody by cleaning up------------

i) house ii) streets iii) conference hall iv) latrines

Extract :- Prominent among------------------------------empire’s decline.

(Text Page No. 22.23)

A 2. Interpretation (2)

Give information about Rahim from the extract.

A 3. Conclusion (2)

Child John does not feel heady about his own achievements. Give its reasons taking the support from the extract.

A 4. Vocabulary. (2)

Make meaningful words from the following scrambled letters.

1) audltaoni

2) poelep

3) gob

4) ayd

A5. Personal Response. (2)

Tell what you learn from this extract.

A6. Grammar

Do as directed. (2)

1) He made no noise about it, but his fame kept spreading.

(Make complex sentence)

2) Did this make the child John feel heady?

(Make assertive sentence)

Activity No. 1 on ---- 1.2. A two Billion Dollar Dream

1.2 A two Billion Dollar Dream

Activity No. 1

Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities.(12)

A 1. Global Understanding (2)

Read the following extract and say whether the following statements about Michael Dell

are true or false. Correct the false statement, if any.

1) Michael Dell was not able to catch any fish in 1977 in the Gulf of Mexico.

2) Michael Dell has become the fourth – largest manufactures of personal computer at 29.

3) With the $2000 Michael Dell made, he bought his first personal computer.

One afternoon in 1977, as his parents and two brothers fished in the Gulf of Mexico, 12-year-old Michael Dell sat on the beach, painstakingly putting together a trotline — a maze of ropes to which several fish hooks could be attached. "You're wasting your time," the rest of the family called to Michael, as they pulled in fish. "Grab a pole and join in the fun."

Michael kept working. It was dinner time when he finished, and everyone else was ready to call it a day. Still, the youngster cast the trotline far into the water, anchoring it to a stick that he plunged deep in the sand.

Over dinner his family teased young Michael about coming away empty-handed. But afterwards Michael reeled in his trotline, and on the hooks were more fish than the others had caught all together!

Michael Dell has always been fond of saying, "If you think you have a good idea, try it!" And today, at 29, he has discovered the power of another good idea that has helped him rise in just a few years from teen to tycoon. He has become the fourth- largest manufacturer of personal computers in America and the youngest man ever to head Fortune 500 corporation.

Growing up in Houston, Texas, Michael and his two brothers were imbued by their parents, Alexander and Lorraine — he an orthodontist, she a stockbroker with the desire to learn and the drive to work hard. Even so, stories about the middle boy began to be told early.

Like the time a saleswoman came asking to speak to "Mr. Michael Dell" about his getting a high-school equivalency diploma. Moments later, eight-year-old Michael was explaining that he thought it might be a good idea to get high school out of the way.

A few years later Michael had another good idea, to trade stamps by advertising in stamp magazines. With the $2000 he made, he bought his first personal computer. Then he took it apart to figure out how it worked.

In high school Michael had a job selling newspaper subscriptions. Newlyweds, he figured, were the prospects, so he hired friends to copy the names and addresses of recent recipients of marriage. These he entered into his computer, then sent a personalized letter offering each couple a free two - week subscription.

This time Dell made $ 18,000 and bought an expensive BMW car. The car salesman was flabbergasted when the 17-year-old paid cash.

A2.Complete / Interpretation (2) Complete the following sentences.

1) A trotline is ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

2) Over dinner his family teased young Michael because --------------------------------------

A3. Conclusion / Guessing (2)

At 29, Michael Dell changed from teen to tycoon. Justify giving references from the extract.

A 4. Vocabulary. (2) Match the words in 'A' with their meanings in 'B'

(A) (B)

1) Maize a) greatly surprised

2) Imbued b) network

3) Recipients c) filled with a quality

4) Flabbergasted d) receivers

A5. Personal Response. (2)

Michael Dell has always been fond of saying, "If you think you have a good idea, try it!" Give your views on this principle.

A6. Grammar

Do as directed. (2)

If you think you have a good idea, try it.

(Search and write the correct use of ‘Unless’ for above sentence from the following alternative)

a) Unless you do not think you have a good idea, try it.

b) Unless you think you have a good idea, do not try it.

c) Unless you think you have a good idea, try it.

1) Michael kept working.

(Search and write its correct negative form without changing the meaning from the following alternatives)

a) Michael continued working.

b) Michael did not keep working.

c) Michael did not stop working.

Activity Sheets on 1.1 The Person I am Looking For

1.1.The Person I am Looking For

Activity No. 1

Q.1 (A) Read the extract and do the activities that follow below. (8)

If you do not get lowered in your own eye

While you raise yourself in those of others

If you do not give in to gossips and lies

Rather heed them not, saying, 'Who bothers?'\

You may be the person I am looking for.

If you crave not for praise when you win

And look not for sympathy while you lose

If cheers let not your head toss or spin

And after a set-back you offer no excuse.

You may be the person I am looking for.

A 1. Factual Understanding. (2)

Complete the following table giving two qualities from both stanzas that the poet desired to have.

Stanza 1	Stanza 2

Stanza 1Stanza 2

A2. Poetic Device (2)

If you crave not for praise when you win

And look not for sympathy while you lose

See the underlined words and tell the name of the figure of speech used here.

Find out one example of this kind of figures of speech from the extract.

A3. Personal Response. (2)

Give other qualities that are also essential, according to you, to become an ideal person.

A4. Poetic creativity. (2)

Write the opposite meaning lines of the following.

If you accept counsel without getting sore

And re-assess yourself in the light thereof

If you pledge not to be obstinate any more

And meet others without any frown or scoff.

You may be the person I am looking for.

Activity No. 2

Q.1 (A) Read the extract and do the activities that follow below. (8)

If you accept counsel without getting sore

And re-assess yourself in the light thereof

If you pledge not to be obstinate any more

And meet others without any frown or scoff.

You may be the person I am looking for.

If you have the will to live and courage to die

You are a beacon-light for people far and wide

If you ignore the jeers and, thus, expose the lie

‘That virtue and success do not go side by side.’

You are the person I am looking for.

A1. Factual Understanding. 2)

Read the following statements. Write any two correct statements that show the qualities of an ideal person.

1) Always ignore gossips and lies.

2) Crave for praise when win.

3) Remain obstinate in life.

4) Become a guide for all people.

A2. Poetic Device (2) The camel is the ship of the desert’. Here camel is indirectly compared with the ship. Tell the name of the figure of speech used here.

Find out one example of this kind from the extract. Explain it.

A3. Personal Response. (2)

‘That virtue and success do not go side by side.’

Express your views about the idea expressed in this line.

A4. Poetic creativity. (2)

Rewrite following the lines inserting similar alternative words for the underlined words.

If you crave not for praise when you win

And look not for sympathy while you lose

If cheers let not your head toss or spin

And after a set-back you offer no excuse.

You may be the person I am looking for.

Activity No. 3

Q. 1 (A) Read the extract and do the activities that follows (8)

If you crave not for praise when you win

And look not for sympathy while you lose

If cheers let not your head toss or spin

And after a set-back you offer no excuse.

You may be the person I am looking for.

If you accept counsel without getting sore

And re-assess yourself in the light thereof

If you pledge not to be obstinate any more

And meet others without any frown or scoff.

You may be the person I am looking for.

A1. Factual Understanding. (2)

A2. Poetic Device (2)

Write the rhyming pairs of each stanza. Write the rhyme scheme of the poem.

A3. Personal Response. (2)

The poet is searching for an ideal person. Give its reasons.

A4. Poetic creativity. (2)

Rewrite following lines replacing with the words given below appropriately.

If you accept counsel without getting sore

And re-assess yourself in the light thereof

If you pledge not to be obstinate any more

And meet others without any frown or scoff.

You may be the person I am looking for

(advice, judge, promise, join

Expected Answers

Activity No. 1

(Note that – There are expected answers but any other reasonably correct answers should be accepted)

A 1.

Stanza 1Stanza 2

Earn respect

Do not expect sympathy

Neglect gossips and lies

Do not give excuses for failure

A 2.

Figure of speech – Antithesis

Another example from the extract -

If you do not get lowered in your own eyes

While you raise yourself in those of others

Or you have the will to live and courage to die

A3.

According to me, the qualities like honesty, sincerity, forgiveness, kindness, patriotism, humanity, brotherhood, compassion etc. are also essential to become an ideal person.

(Accept any reasonably correct answer)

A4.

If you do not accept counsel without getting sore

And do not re-assess yourself in the light thereof

If you pledge to be obstinate any more

And meet others with any frown or scoff.

You may not be the person I am looking for.

Acitivity No. 2

A 1.

1) Always ignore gossips and lies.

2) Become a beacon-light for people far and wide

A2.Poetic Device

Figure of speech – Metaphor

Another example from the extract –

You are a beacon-light for people far and wide

Explanation :- Beacon light is indirectly compared with a guide

A3.Personal Response

People feel that if you are honest and virtuous, you will not succeed. I do not agree with this. I firmly believe that good ultimately wins over evil, so those who are good will certainly succeed.

(Accept any reasonably correct answer)

A4.

Rewrite following the lines inserting similar alternative words for the underlined words.

If you desire not for praise when you succeed

And look not for pity while you fail

If cheers let not your head toss or spin

And after a set-back you offer no reasons.

You may be the person I am looking for.

(Accept any reasonably correct answer)

Acitivity No. 3

A1.

A 2.

Rhyming pairs of each stanza.

1) win – spin, lose – excuse

2) sore – more, thereof – scoff

Rhyme scheme of the first stanza – a b a b c

Rhyme scheme of the first stanza – d e d e f

A 3.

The poet is searching for an ideal person because there is, perhaps, a serious lack of people with the qualities described in the poem. He also wants the readers to assess their own personality traits and see if they possess these qualities.

A 4.

If you accept advice without getting sore

And judge yourself in the light thereof

If you promise not to be obstinate any more

And join others without any frown or scoff.

You may be the person I am looking for.

Activity No.2 - 3.2. Where have all the birds gone?

3.2 Where Have All the Birds Gone?

Activity No. 2

Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities. (12)

A 1. Complex Factual (2)

Rearrange the following sentences as per the sequence of events.

1) The narrator gave milk and banana to the parrot.

2) The narrator brought the chick at home.

3) The parrot stopped coming to the narrator.

4) Other parrots accompanied narrator’s parrots every evening.

Extract – One of the--------- tak.. tak... tak.

(Text Page No. 55 and 56)

A2.Findout (2)

Find out how the narrator saved the life of the chick.

A3. Guessing (2)

Guess why birds are not seen in writer’s area now.

A4.Vocabulary. (2)

Make at least two new words using letters from the given words.

a) Fortunately

b) Disappearing

c) Stationary

d) Intimate

A5. Personal Response. (2)

Suggest some ways to protect trees.

A6. Grammar (2)

Do as directed.

1) I brought it home.

(Rewrite as present perfect continuous tense)

2) If I was not home someday, he would not come down.

(Rewrite using unless)

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