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The criminal received one-third of his pension in advance and left the kingdom. After crossing the frontier, he settled down on a bit of land Later he started market gardening which fetched him good profit and he lived peacefully and well. 

1. explanation 

2. predictions 

3. choice 

4. significance 

5. distractions

1. I like Can nada very much.

2. I thank you for your help.

3. The pen belongs to me.

4. The lady resembles her mother.

5. She likes sweets.

6. My friend drinks milk.

OR

My friend drank milk,

1. beauty 

2. breath 

3. entrance 

4. knowledge 

5. deaf 

6. zeal, zealot, zealousness 

7. familiarity 

8. acceptance 

9. danger

Participation In Games And Sports

Dear students: First of all I would like to congratulate all the winners of our cricket team. Yesterday, our cricket team won the match in the inter-school competition in Jodhpur. I am very happy with my team.
As we all know that sound mind lives in a sound body. In making our body sound, games and sports play a very vital role. They keep us healthy. They not only give us physical fitness but also mental fitness. Games and sports also develop some virtues in us like – discipline, tolerance, leadership skills, punctuality and team spirit etc. We all should participate in games and sports. We can also make a career in this field. It wins name and fame for our nation.

प्रिय छात्रो: सबसे पहले मैं अपनी क्रिकेट टीम के सभी विजेता प्रतिभागियों को शुभकामनाएँ देना चाहूंगा। कल इन्टर-स्कूल प्रतियोगिता, जोधपुर में हमारी टीम ने विजय प्राप्त की अपनी टीम के लिये मैं बेहद खुश हूँ। जैसा – कि हम सभी जानते हैं कि स्वस्थ शरीर में ही स्वस्थ मस्तिष्क का निवास होता है। हमारे शरीर को स्वस्थ बनाए रखने में खेलकूद महत्वपूर्ण भूमिका निभाते हैं। वे हमें स्वस्थ रखते हैं।
वे हमें सिर्फ शारीरिक रूप से ही स्वस्थ नहीं बल्कि मानसिक रूप से भी स्वस्थ रखते हैं। खेलकूद हमारे अन्दर कुछ गुण भी विकसित करते हैं, जैसे – अनुशासन, सहनशीलता, नेतृत्व की क्षमता, समये का पाबन्द होना और समूह की भावना आदि। हम सभी को खेलकूद में भाग लेना चाहिये। हम इस क्षेत्र में अपना कैरियर भी बना सकते हैं। यह हमारे राष्ट्र के लिये शोहरत पाने में भी मदद करते हैं।

1. The furniture cost ten thousand rupees.

2. I am reading a new poem.

3. My hair is black.

4. He took his sheep to graze.

5. The teacher gave me good advice.

6. The thieves escaped before the police arrived.

7. The children were weeping. Their mothers pacified them.

The criminal refused to go away for they had ruined his character and people would turn their backs on him. Besides he had got out of the way of working. He said they might do as they liked, but he would not go away.

1. I am as healthy as you are!

2. Put on the new dress since today is your birthday.

3. Though Rani is allergic to dogs, she has six of them.

4. Besides German, Ruben speaks two languages.

5. If you apply for a loan, you will get it immediately.

1. If you go late, you will miss the trair

2. The cricket team returned to India yesterday.

3. I get up at 6 a.m. or I get up at 6 in the morning

4. Man Is better than animals.

5. He is my best friend.

1. although

2.  Moreover

3. because

4. Meanwhile

5. For instance

6. therefore

7. except

8. as long as

9. thus

10. above all

1. When, for, where, and, so 

2. when, and, while, However

3. and, As, both, and, but, who, after

1. Although we came late, we did not miss the train.

2. They checked the packet twice and then they sealed it.

3. When Sita saw a snake, at once she ran away

4. After Robert completed the project, he submitted it to the teacher.

5. As Yusuf was running high temperature, he could not take part in the competition.

1. Present Continuous 

2. Simple Present 

3. Past Continuous 

4. Simple Past 

5. Present Perfect

1. is born 

2. school-going 

3. works 

4. Drawing 

5. won 

6. started 

7. hopes 

8. will become

Because it is old fashioned.

(c) known to each other.

Five  Pounds

c. 30 Hz to 3 KHz 

c. Both a and b 

The all-women’s cycle rally in which 1500 female cyclists participated, had stunned the inhabitants of Pudukkottai on International Women’s Day.

C. equally divided between the electric and magnetic fields

C. the direction of wave propagation

D. none of the above (there is no upper limit)

B. any accelerating charge

b(1)² + a(-1) + 4 = a(-1)² + b

b - a + 4 = +a+b

⇒ 2a = 4

⇒ a = 2

Derivative is continuous

2b(-1) + a = 2a (-1)

−2b+a = −2a

+2b = +3a

b = 3 a/2

b = 3x2/2

⇒ b = 3

Juno the elephant was lonely and tried to make friends with the other animals in the forest. But, the other animals refused to play with Juno because of his size. One day, all the animals were running away from Dera the tiger who was eating everyone he found. Juno went and ‘ gave Dera a swift kick. Dera immediately ran away. Juno was now everyone’s friend.

1. Give two instructions to your classmates.

i. Keep the lunch bag in the side shelf.

ii. Don't drag the tables and chairs.

2. Mention any two of your discontinued habits in the correct tense form.

i. I used to drink coffee in the mornings.

ii. A decade ago, when I was a teenager. 

I cycled my way to school everyday

3. Make any two requests to your classmates or friends.

i. Please give me English Notebook

ii. May I borrow your Geometry Box.

4. Mention any of your two dreams in the correct tense form.

i. I had a dream last night where a snake bit me.

ii. Last week, I dreamt going in a Jet Plane.

1. as well as 

2. but also 

3. or

I did not attend the summer camp because he made me work at home from down to disk.

1. in case 

2. that 

3. Though 

4. or else 

5. nevertheless

The understanding between a driver and a pedestrian is very humorous as when the driver went straight at a pedestrian, he jumped to a side and smiled at the driver and the driver also laughed at him. It was a strange understanding between each other. And the drivers had the habit of overtaking on either side and smile at each other. They don’t get angry but smile. The traffic in Brazilian roads is uninterrupted and so it is very difficult to cross the roads in Brazil.

In the poem ‘Buttoo’, the poet Torn Dutt brings out the contrasting values of loyalty and selfishness. ; Buttoo remains loyal to Dronacharya. He attributes his inspiration and “all my knowledge is from thee”.

On the other hand Guru Dronacharya is selfish. In the first, he declined to teach Buttoo the skill of archery, but when he hears Buttoo attributing his skill to him, he unhesitatingly asks Buttoo’s right thumb as, Gurudakshina.

Drona cunningly manipulates Buttoo’s unwavering faithfullness in him and makes him promise that he would give anything he asks. When Buttoo agrees, Drona demands his right-thumb as Gurudakshina. None – the – less, Drona is compelled to act selfishly because he had promised Arjuna that he would make him the greatest archer.

The wada people were much exploited by the upper caste people. For a pot of water near the well they have to wait for shudra who helps them to bring the water. Even if he doesn’t come they have to wait for whole day. The wada people struggled a lot to get a pot of water and they held movements and agitations. They could take bath just once a week. They have to go for miles to the irrigated canals for a pot of water. When there was a fire in Mallepalle village, they did not have enough water to extinguish the fire.

literacy drive, she wanted to train female literacy activists so that literacy would reach women in the interior. She had realized that the lack of mobility among women played a big role in undermining their confidence. Therefore, she included ‘mobility as a part of the literacy drive. Naturally, literacy activists learned cycling first. This inspired the neo-literates also to learn cycling. This, in turn, inspired every woman in the village to learn cycling. The literates, having become neo-cyclists, encouraged every woman in the district to learn cycling, by organizing ‘cycle training camps’. Thus, Sheela Rani Chunkath became instrumental in ‘cycling’ becoming a social movement in Pudukkottai district. This way Sheela Rani Chunkath should be commended for promoting ‘freedom’ of women by including ‘cycling’ in her literacy project.

that the rivalry between him and Basavaiah had reached a peak’ and that two hundred acres of his land had been forcibly taken away from him and had been even fenced up, Tammanna hit on a plan of annihilating Basavaiah completely. He got all his bitter experiences with Basavaiah composed in the form of ballads and started singing them before the people, announcing to everyone Basavaiah’s cruelty and his meanness. This way his reputation as an artist started spreading fast and critics and scholars of folklore thronged him and translated his songs.

Basavaiah tried to surpass Tammanna’s fame by filling his life with all kinds of material wealth. He got a palatial mansion built for himself. He appointed a number of persons just to praise him and bedecked himself with gold, diamonds and other precious stones. But he was not successful. We can conclude so because the visitors to his house told him that without Basavaiah’s books his house looked dull and empty.

The wrong Man is sent to the worker’s paradise by mistake. The idler is standing by the silent torrent. A girl from the worker’s paradise comes there to fill her pitcher. She sees the idler and pities him. She asks him if he has no work in hand. The idler replies that he doesn’t have even a moment free to spare for work.

“Bare ruined choirs” is compared to the sounds of ‘sweet birds’. During the spring and summer seasons the birds make their nests on the Lush green trees full of leaves. They sit on its branches and sing sweetly. These songs of the birds are similar to the choirs in the church. As winter approaches the trees start shedding leaves and the birds fly away to warm places.

The birds have abandoned the tree similar to the ‘Choir’ of a ruined church. The poet wants his friend to visualize these images and compare them with his approaching old age which compare to the bare trees and a ruined church.

‘When You e Old’ depicts the frustration and anxiety of a sincere 1ove At the same time, it also presents the concern of sincere love for the future predicament of his lady love. The lover’s frustration and anxiety for her future find expression only because his love is genuine and constant. Though she has not responded to his ‘love the lover does not want to give up his attempts to persuade her. He tries to place before her a realistic, projected picture of her future only because he knows that she will be old, infirm and companion less as years roll by. 

Furthermore, the poet seems to understand that she is not a flirt and worldly lady who loves to indulge in pleasures of life but one who has also been looking for someone who really loves her inner self more than her physical charms. Only someone who has a similar state of mind, and beliefs, and who is also yearning for a spiritual union with his lady love alone can write so. From this, one can infer that true love is indestructible and constant. Had the speaker been interested in her physical charms only he would not have bothered to foresee his own future as well as the predicament of his lady love some twenty years hence. Thus it can be argued that the poem ‘When You Are Old’ conveys the message that true love is indestructible and constant and is not influenced by the vicissitudes of fortune.

In the poem ‘Water’, the speaker recalls the ‘role’ played by water as an agent of social change. Incidentally, she uses the context of the poem to highlight the travails and tribulations suffered by the people in wadas, with particular reference to the practice of untouchability in Andhra Pradesh in the pre- and postindependence periods. It Is an age-old practice that the Dalits or the untouchables live In separate colonies situated farther away from other communities and are called ‘wadas’. Whenever the Dalits needed water they used to wait near the pond or tank until a shudra came there and gave them some water. This caused a great deal of humiliation, pain, suffering and anguish to the Dalits.

The speaker describes how an upper caste person poured water from a distance at a higher level into the pot of a wada girl at a lower level and how some water would fall on her body making her feel humiliated. The writer also narrates a heinous incident that happened in Madigapalle in Karamchedu. it so happened that a Dalit boy tried to prevent two upper castes (Kamma) youths from washing their dirty buckets in their drinking water pond. The two upper caste youths tried to attack the boy but a Dalit woman by name Suvartamma came to the boy’s defence lifting her vessel to ward off their attack.

Enraged by this protest by a Dalit woman, the Kamma landlords attacked the Dalit colony. The speaker recalls how her wada people would thirst all day for a glass of water and narrates how people in wadas eagerly look forward to their weekly bathing day as If it was a wondrous festival while the people in the entire village bathed luxuriously twice a day. She also recalls painfully, how in her childhood she used to walk miles and miles to collect water from the big canal and carry back home heavy pots balanced on her head, with the muscles and veins on her necks straining and bursting. Finally, the speaker mentions how several thatched huts in Malapalle (a Dalit colony) were reduced to ashes for want of a pot of water to douse the fire.

These lines are extracted from the poem “Sonnet 73 – That time of the year” by William Shakespeare.

In this poem the speaker invokes a series of Metaphors to characterize the nature of what he perceives to be his oldage. In the first quatrain, he tells the beloved that his age is like ‘that time of the year’ – late autum, when the leaves have almost completely fallen from the trees and the weather has grown cold. The birds which sit on the tree branches singing sweetly have abandoned the branches to go warmer places.

This implies that the now the poet is in his old age (Autumn of life) and pretty women have abandoned him similar to the singing birds which have abandoned the trees in autumn.

These lines are taken from the poem ‘Mending wall’ by Robert Frost. The poet Robert Frost is in a mischievions mind because it is spring time. He would always ask his neighbour why they needed a wall between their houses and his neighbour would always reply ‘Good fences make good neighbours’.

But the poet is of the opinion if there are good neighbours then why is there a need for a good fence. He wonders if he could put this notion in his neighbours mind that ‘Why do they make good neighbours if they are not friendly and build a wall to keep away their neighbours.

These lines are extracted from the poem C. L. M by John Masefield. The poet is talking about his mother who is dead and reveals that he longs to see her alive. The poet brings out the sadness of the situation when he says the above lines. If his mother would happen to meet him as a passerby, she, his own mother would be unable to recognize him because he has now grown into an adult.

Kahlil Gibran tells the parents that they are not the owners of their children. He argues that children have come to this earth as Life’s longing for itself and are born as sons and daughters and they are not created by parents. Hence, parents cannot possess their Parents should consider themselves as ‘stewards’ and their role is only stewardship. Gibran wants parents not to look upon their children as their puppets and so not to impose their religion, politics and ideas on the innocent children. Parents may give their own love but not their thoughts, because the children have their own souls. They have the free will to do as they please and have a mind of their own. They are free to think for themselves.

Parents merely act as ‘guiding lights’ for their children. They have the will to act as who they are and lead their own life and not how their parents want them to. The children have their own future, parents belong tà the yesterdays, but children belonging to the tomorrows. We should only give as much love as we can and should let them grow according to their own potential. We may strive to be like them but we should never trust our past on them. We should resist the temptation of making our child a carbon copy of ourselves.

‘hen You e Old’ depicts the frustration and anxiety of a sincere 1ove At the same time, it also presents the concern of sincere love for the future predicament of his lady love. The lover’s frustration and anxiety for her future find expression only because his love is genuine and constant. Though she has not responded to his ‘love the lover does not want to give up his attempts to persuade her. He tries to place before her a realistic, projected picture of her future only because he knows that she will be old, infirm and companion less as years roll by.

Furthermore, the poet seems to understand that she is not a flirt and worldly lady who loves to indulge in pleasures of life but one who has also been looking for someone who really loves her inner self more than her physical charms. Only someone who has a similar state of mind, and beliefs, and who is also yearning for a spiritual union with his lady love alone can write so. From this, one can infer that true love is indestructible and constant. Had the speaker been interested in her physical charms only he would not have bothered to foresee his own future as well as the predicament of his lady love some twenty years hence. Thus it can be argued that the poem ‘When You Are Old’ conveys the message that true love is indestructible and constant and is not influenced by the vicissitudes of fortune.

This question was asked by the blind young man to the new fellow traveller in the story ‘The Eyes are not Here’ written by Ruskin Bond.

The narrator was a blind young man travelling by train to Mussoorie. The story begins when the train reaches Rohana station when a girl, a fellow traveller, gets into the young man’s compartment. The narrator, being a young man, is inquisitive and tries to pick a conversation with the girl. The young man manages to hide the fact that he is blind by making prudent and discrete remarks. Finally the girl gets off at Saharanapur.

By that time the blind man had been fascinated by the sound of her voice and the sound of her slippers and was even tempted to touch her hair, being attracted by the perfume. A man gets into the compartment and finds the young man day – dreaming.

He breaks into his reverie and says that he was sorry that he was not as attractive a travelling companion as the one who had just left. In reply, the narrator says that she was an interesting girl and asks the fellow traveller whether she kept her hair long or short.

As soon as Don Gonzalo enters the park along with Juanito, he discovers that his usual seat has been occupied by three priests. He is annoyed and comments rudely saying that the priests were idling their time away when they should be saying mass in the church. Then, when Juanito suggests that he should sit on the bench where Dona Laura was sitting, Don Gonzalo tells Juanito that he wants a bench to himself. Then Juanito informs him that there is no other bench vacant. Don Gonzalo points at the bench that he usually sat on. When Juanito tells him that there are three priests sitting on that bench, Don asks him to send them away. Later, he comments bitterly saying that the priests were sitting there as if they were glued to the seat. Then he and his servant walk towards the place where the birds are feeding on the bread crumbs.

When Dona Laura angrily asks him to look out, Don asks Laura whether she was speaking to him. Then, when she complains that he had scared the birds away, he answers rudely that he does not care about the birds. But she tells him that she cared for the birds and indirectly tries to make him feel guilty. But he tells her rudely that it is a public park suggesting that she was not right in complaining about him about birds being scared away in a public park. Dona tries to counter him asking why he had complained that the priests had taken his seat.

Feeling discomfited, Don Gonzalo tries to snub her telling her that she was a stranger and was not right in taking the liberty to address him. A little later, Don Gonzalo sits at the extreme end of her bench and prepares himself to read a book by wearing glasses and adjusting his lenses. Dona sympathises with him for having to read with all those glasses.

‘To the Foot from its Child’ narrates the journey of a child’s foot until it becomes an adult foot and beyond until it dies. In the first stanza, there are only two lines which express the innocence of the child and its wishes. The child wants to be a butterfly or an apple, but society is harsh and forces the child to become a responsible adult doing responsible adult things.

In the next stanza, the child’s foot walks in the real world and experiences the harsh realities of life. The words, ‘stones, bits of glass, streets, ladders, paths in the rough surface of the earth’ symbolize the forces in society. When the child’s foot encounters them in a battle, it learns that its role is that of a foot only and it cannot become a butterfly or an apple. The foot is now imprisoned in a shoe, where it grows into an adult. It gets exposed to reality as filtered through the shoe. It suffers loneliness and gradually learns the realities of life groping in the dark like a blind man.

During this life inside the shoe, it loses all the beauty of a child’s foot. Its soft, nice, petal-like toes lose their beauty become hard, callused and look like eyeless reptiles. The ‘foot’, now has grown into an adult foot, keeps on walking, works without respite in fields, markets, mines and ministries. It toils hard giving up all its worldly pleasures and finally dies. It is then buried. But, as it descends into the ground, it loses its human awareness and does not know that it is not even afoot. So, in its spirit, it is like the child’s foot and dreams of becoming a butterfly or an apple.

Thus, the poet depicts his view of life in the metaphor of afoot, with a clear progression from infancy to maturity, to adulthood, old age and finally death.

Borges deñnes ‘blindness’ as a way of life that is not entirely unhappy. He a[so calls it a resource because he believes that all things have been given to us for a purpose and an artist must feel this more intensely. He believes that all that happens to us including humiliations, our misfortunes and our embarrassments are given to us as raw material, as clay so that we may shape our art, eternal work or work that aspires to be so. Therefore, he has taken blindness as a way of life, which is not entirely unhappy. He believes that it is his duty to accept it as far as possible and enjoy it.

The idea of empowering women giving them ‘mobility’ came from Sheela Rani Chunkath, the District Collector of Pudukkottai in 1991. She included ‘mobility’ as a part of the literacy drive so as to facilitate female literacy activists to reach rural women in the interior. Once the literacy activists learned cycling, they taught the neo-literates cycling. Once the neo-literates learned cycling, every other woman in the district volunteered to learn cycling. Later, the Arivoli activists organized a ‘Cycling Training Camp’ and created Master trainers’ who in turn conducted several cycling training camps. This way, in a short period of time, over 100,000 rural women in Pudukkottai district learned cycling. The author opines that ‘cycling’ gave these women freedom, mobility and independence.

Consequently, these women stopped depending on the menfolk to transport their agricultural produce to bus stops. They themselves carried the product and sold them in the neighbouring villages and this way covered a larger area. Secondly, they also took care of the young ones at home and completed household chores in time as a result of the proper utilization of time. They could also fetch water from far off places and cart provisions on their bicycle. Thus, ‘cycling’ empowered rural women in many ways. Furthermore, the ability to carry on all the duties and responsibilities on their own gave the women a sense of achievement and self-respect. Thus, the author who witnessed this silent revolution concludes that the humble vehicle the bicycle has become a metaphor for freedom, in Pudukkottai.