FLY HIGH (English) - 7

1 Hershey, The Chocolate Man

Intext Questions
Q. What was the idea of Hershey’s mother?
A. The idea of Hershey’s mother was that he should start working in the candy trade.
Q. How did Hershey hit upon a method of making chocolate?
A. With research and hard work, Hershey hit upon a method of making chocolates.
Q. Why did the U.S. government honour Milton Hershey?
A. The U.S. government honoured Milton Hershey for his contribution during World
War II.
Q. What is Hershey’s famous for? [HOTS]
A. The Hershey company, commonly known as Hershey’s, is famous for manufacturing
chocolates in the world. It also manufactures baked products, such as cookies and
cakes and sells beverages like milkshakes, as well as other products.
Competency Based Questionnaire
1. (c) 2. (b) 3. (b)
Grasp the Nettle
I. Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow.
A.1. (b) His mother
2. confectioner 3. False
4. Milton moved to Philadelphia to set up his first candy shop.
5. (a) If you have any idea, let me know.
(b) Rohit is a confectioner who sells ice cakes.
B. 1. (c) His mother’s family
2. New York 3. True
4. Hershey vowed that he would definitely repay the people who loaned him
money, when he succeeded.
II. Tick (✓) the correct option.
1. (c) 2. (b) 3. (c) 4. (c)
III. Fill in the blanks.
1. American 2. printer 3. Great Depression, money
4. U.S. 5. tourist.
IV. Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements.
1. F 2. T 3. F 4. F 5. T
V. Answer the following questions.
1. Taking up one idea and making that idea his life worked for Milton Hershey
because he used the idea wisely and made it better until it turned into a big
story.
2. Hershey’s first job was with a local printer. He was an apprentice to the printer.
3. In 1894, Hershey founded the Hershey Chocolate Company in Lancaster,
Pennsylvania.
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 4. During World War II, Hershey developed a chocolate bar which soldiers could
carry with them easily as emergency food.
5. Having a supportive parent helps one to succeed. This got proven right in
Hershey’s life because his mother gave him idea that he should start working in
the candy trade. She sent him also to a local confectioner so that he could learn
about the confectionery business. He also borrowed some money from his
mother’s family.
6. The instances from the story are :
◆ He built a large factory and housing for his workers close to dairy farms.
◆ Hershey added buildings to his town when money was scarce all around.
◆ His commitment to society was so intense that during World War II, he
developed a chocolate bar which soldiers could carry with them easily as
emergency food.
Vocabulary Bundle
VI. Circle the words which are spelt in American English. Write their British
spellings in the blanks.
1. We practiced for three hours last evening. practised
2. This is a colorful kite, indeed! colourful
3. It is a great honor to participate in this competition. honour
4. The driver forgot to carry his license . licence
5. Death is a leveling experience. levelling
Beyond the Text
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VII. Listen carefully and tick (3) the word that matches the sound referred to.
1. (b), 2. (a), 3. (b), 4. (a), 5. (b), 6. (a), 7. (b), 8. (a).
Reading Time
IX. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
1. (b) Student
2. Guruji asked Aruni to stop the water from entering into the fields.
3. water 4. True 5. pleased
Pen Down
X. Read the following telephonic or face to face conversation between two
persons. There is a message for someone who was not present when the call
was received. Write the message in not more than 50 words. Write the names
also of who gave this message and for whom and who is the writer of this
message.
15th August, 20XX
2:30 pm
Preeti,
I am going to the Kalidas Auditorium with Mrs Goel and Mrs Gupta and will
come late in the evening. The food is kept in the fridge. You just have to heat it.
The house keys are with our neighbour, Mr Alok Garg.
Mother
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2 On Being Sarah
Intext Questions
Q. With which disease did Sarah suffer?
A. Sarah suffered from cerebral palsy.
Q. What did Sarah’s parents expect her?
A. Sarah’s parents expected her not to lead a normal life.
Q. What gave Sarah a new meaning to her life?
A. Learning symbols gave Sarah a new meaning to her life.
Q. Why were the symbols arranged in different categories?
A. The symbols were arranged in different categories to make them easier to use.
Q. What did Sarah’s mother stuck at the top of the board?
A. Sarah’s mother stuck the pictures of her family members along with their names, at
the top of the board.
Q. Which symbols did Sarah like the best?
A. Sarah liked the symbols for NO: –!! and YES: +!! the best.
Q. What about Sarah’s mother was sure?
A. Sarah’s mother was sure of one thing that she didn’t want her to be deprived of any
opportunity.
Competency Based Questionnaire
1. (b) 2. (c)
Grasp the Nettle
I. Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow.
A.1. (b) Sarah
2. symbols 3. True
4. Symbols became Sarah’s tool of communication.
5. The train goes through a tunnel in the mountain.
B. 1. (c) close to 300
2. symbols 3. True
4. One row was left empty in the symbol board for future use.
II. Tick (✓) the correct option.
1. (b) 2. (c) 3. (c) 4. (c)
III. Fill in the blanks.
1. twelve 2. symbols, stamps 3. some body 4. family members
IV. Answer the following questions.
1. Sarah was suffering from cerebral palsy and it was caused by brain damage
before or at the time of birth.
2. The symbols were called the Blissymbols. Sarah used these symbols to express
her thoughts, ask questions and get the answers.
3. Sarah did not feel challenged to learn the symbols because she was very much
determined to learn them. She also thought that she couldn’t speak but she
could see.
4. Sarah’s mother helped her in many different ways. She refused to believe the
doctor who said that Sarah would never learn much. She thought Sarah was
smart and she wanted Sarah to learn. She arranged for Sarah to go to school.
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 She helped Sarah learn Blissymbols by helping her to practise at home. She
talked to Sarah and told her stories to make sure that Sarah did not get
discouraged.
5. The message we get from this story is that we should never give up and find the
way to get out of difficulties and never stop trying.
6. Before Sarah started going to school whenever she tried to talk, only sounds
like ‘Agghh!’ would come out. There had always been so much she wanted to
communicate but like in a bottleneck, the words remained stuck in her brain
due to the lack of an outlet. She cried in frustration. If I were her friend, I
would have tried to teach her that she should have courage, I would have told
her stories of the physically challenged persons who have achieved their goals.
And also I would have given a message to her ‘If there is a will, there is a way’.
Vocabulary Bundle
V. Tick (3) the appropriate words from the brackets to replace the underlined
words in the sentences given below.
1. temporarily 2. literate 3. inevitable 4. frequently
5. oblivious 6. itinerary 7. plagiarism 8. samaritan
9. gullible 10. bail
Beyond the Text
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VI. Your teacher will read out a paragraph. Listen carefully and tick (3) the
correct answers within the brackets.
1. Surdas, 2. musician, 3. since birth, 4. sixth, 5. devotional, 6. Akbar
Reading Time
VIII. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
1. Following are the two advantages of walking:
(a) It can be done at any time and any place.
(b) It can be adjusted to suit individual needs.
2. (b) six
3. hydration
4. False
5. (a) recreation (b) stiff
Pen Down
IX. Imagine it is Sarah’s first day at school. Narrate how she spends her day.
Describe :
◆ She doesn’t feel fear before going to school. She is very excited because she
wants to learn speaking and she is very determined.
◆ She sees many children in school who suffered the same fate as she and with
her teachers she feels very comfortable because her teachers stimulate her
with a sense of purpose and even begin to feel normal learning and growing.
◆ She tries to learn symbols and concentrates only how early she can speak.
◆ She feels very relaxed after coming home.
◆ Yes, she wants to go to school the next day to learn symbols.

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3 Set Your Standards High
Intext Questions
Q. How should we set our standard?
A. We should set our standard high.
Q. What kind of attitude should we keep?
A. We should keep a winning attitude.
Q. Why is setting goal important in life? [HOTS]
A. Setting goal is important because it provides direction and purpose in life. When we
set goals, we identify what we want to achieve and what we need to do.
Competency Based Questionnaire
1. (b) 2. (c) 3. (a)
Grasp the Nettle
I. Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow.
A.1. (a) high 2. best
3. We should not ever compromise to achieve what we want.
4. False 5. He receives a high salary.
B. 1. (b) destination 2. worry
3. The most important thing is that we should learn from all our experiences.
4. way
II. Fill in the blanks.
1. overselves 2. winning 3. set 4. soar
III. Answer the following questions.
1. The poet is speaking to all of us.
2. The poet thinks that the journey is more important than the destination.
3. Because the most important thing,
Is what you’ve learned along the way.
4. The word ‘clouds’ means that we should set free our dreams like a cloud in the
sky.
Vocabulary Bundle
IV. Match the following words with their synonyms.
1. curious (a) grand
2. magnificent (b) amaze
3. enormous (c) dim
4. faint (d) inquisitive
5. astonish (e) huge
V. Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words given in previous
exercise.
1. All mountaineers agree that the view from the top of a high mountain is
magnificent. One sees vast stretches of ice-capped peaks and the sky.
2. In the faint light of the moon I could not find my friend’s house.
3. The elephant ate 20 kg of bread and sugarcane. After that huge meal, he slept
for an hour.
4. My friends are very curious to look at the planet Mars through a telescope.
5. It is amazing that hibernating animals go without food for four to five months.
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Beyond the Text
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VI. Your teacher will read out a short poem twice for you. Listen carefully and
write pairs of rhyming words in the poem.
1. hill - rill ; 2. be – tree
3. grass – bass ; 4. make – lake
5. crew – do ; 6. here – near
Reading Time
VIII. Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow.
1. mother, her boy
2. The boy didn’t want to go to school.
3. According to the mother, the boy’s presence was necessary at school because he
was the head of the school.
4. False
5. (c) surprise
6. (a) school (b) caught
Pen Down
IX. Write a circular informing the students in your class about a cookery contest.
Include all the necessary details the students need to know.
R.K. INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, GHAZIABAD
CIRCULAR
15 November, 20XX
Cookery Contest
This is to inform you all that a cookery contest is being organised on 25
November, 20XX. Students who want to participate give their names to the
undersigned. Students can select any one of the ingredients mentioned below as
the main ingredient for their signature dish.
• Brown bread • Puffed rice
• Vegetables • Fruits
• Paper plates/tissues/spoons
The dishes will be judged on taste as well as presentation.
Shivika Sharma
(Activity Coordinator)

Real Life Touch

X. Tick (3) the options which show self-confidence in someone.
speaking louder than the others
arguing always
✓ listening to the others carefully
thinking that he or she knows it all

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 ✓ respecting the point of view of the others
imagining that nobody can be more correct than him or her
✓ thinking and analysing clearly before presenting a view or taking a decision
✓ knowing one’s strengths and weaknesses
seeking help when he or she can’t complete a task
✓ having an opinion about things
✓ being polite but firm

Grammar Bunch – 1
I. Put these nouns into the correct columns. Add three more examples to each
category.
COMMON PROPER COLLECTIVE ABSTRACT
athlete Harry Potter swarm determination
telephone Russia regiment history
wheel Antarctica crowd cowardice
blanket Japan staff elegance
juicer Amit galaxy strength
bag Meerut audience stubborness
chair Taj Mahal pile honesty
city class wisdom
childhood
II. Fill in each blank with the right collective noun from the box.
1. bunch 2. fleet 3. band 4. library 5. gang 6. flock.
III. Match the following to form compound nouns. Write the nouns so formed in
the third column.
1. table sports table tennis
2. parent money parent teacher meeting
3. winter homes winter sports
4. old age tennis old age homes
5. chewing knowledge chewing gum
6. pocket strap pocket money
7. general gum general knowledge
8. watch teacher meeting watch strap
IV. Underline the transitive verbs and encircle the intransitive verbs.
1. We saw a green snake in the garden.
2. The snake was creeping along the wall.
3. The monkeys were chattering loudly.
4. They had spotted the snake.
5. The children laughed happily.
6. She settled the cupboard.
7. The footballers ran on to the field.
8. He kicked the ball out of the stadium.

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 V. Underline the subjects of the sentences given below. Encircle the transitive
verbs and put a double line below the objects.
1. Herry caught the ball.
2. He threw the ball to Sunny.
3. The teacher appreciated the good work of her students.
4. The shop assistants helped the customers.
5. The factory owner paid his staff well.
6. I entertained my friends.
7. The students built a model of the Red Fort.
8. We will pass the exam.
4 The Cub
Intext Question
Q. What was the boy’s one of first memories?
A. The boy’s one of first memories was of his father bending down from his great
height to sweep him up into the air. Up he went, gasping and laughing with delight.
Q. Was there anyone in the world as strong or as wise as his father?
A. No one in the world was as strong or as wise as his father.
Q. How did he measure his biceps?
A. He measured his biceps with his mother’s tape measure.
Q. What did his father do?
A. His father put his great thumb into the flexed muscle and pressed.
Q. Why did wrestling distress his mother?
A. Wrestling distressed his mother because he and his father still wrestled occasionally.
Q. What type of the sound was there?
A. There was the sound of the thumps of their bodies upon the rug and of the quick,
hard intake of breath.
Q. Whose eyes had baffled pain?
A. The eyes of boy’s mother had baffled pain.
Q. Why couldn’t he see the stars?
A. He could not see the stars because of the tears that burned his eyes.
Competency Based Questionnaire
1. (b) 2. (a) 3. (c)
Grasp the Nettle
I. Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow.
A.1. (a) His father
2. The boy noticed that his mother’s hand was white and slim and delicate
while his father’s large and square and strong.
3. difference
4. True
5. The sun is gleaming on the water.
B. 1. (b) His mother 2. floor
3. His father’s long legs thrust before him.
4. The boy’s mother said to the boy’s father.
5. She is resentful about being demoted.
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 II. Tick (✓) the correct option.
1. (a) 2. (a) 3. (a) 4. (c)
III. Fill in the blanks.
1. bear 2. biceps 3. teeth 4. restraining
IV. Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements.
1. T 2. F 3. F 4. T
V. Answer the following questions.
1. A young buck measures its strength with the length of its horns. The boy is
compared to a buck because he was growing taller and slimmer like a young
buck with tiny, new horns.
2. When the boy said, “Dad, someday–” he meant someday he would also master
and defeat his father in wrestling.
3. The mother’s concern change later because her husband became old and weak
and her son became young and powerful.
4. The boy surprised on himself when he went out for football in high school
because he realised how much more strength was required to be built by him.
5. Yes, we feel ‘The Cub’ is an effective title because like a cub, the boy learns the
lesson from his father and on growing up, he uses the learned lesson on his
father.
Vocabulary Bundle
VI. Circle words in the wordsearch that can be combined with these words to
form some common phrases. You will have to use ‘and’ or ‘or’.
1. leaps and bounds A L A T E R J
2. thick or thin T H R I F T U
3. sooner or later H A F T E R M
4. to and fro I B R E A K P
5. back and forth N B O U N D S
6. make or break F O R T H K S

Beyond the Text

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VII. Your teacher will read out a short passage about hornbills. Listen carefully
and tick (3) the correct words within the brackets.
1. large, 2. forty, 3. Africa and Asia,
4. brown or black and white, 5. female, 6. both male and female.
Reading Time
IX. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
1. (b) Outside his den
2. The lion couldn’t hunt for his food because he was very, very old and his claws
had fallen out.
3. paw
4. False
5. Magic is nothing but a trick of hands.

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5 Four Priceless Chinese Vases, Smashed
Intext Questions
Q. According to the narrator, what’s the best way to deal with show-offs?
A. According to the narrator, the best way to deal with show-offs is to ignore them.
Q. Who was able to make Krishnadevaraya very happy?
A. The Chinese ambassador was able to make Krishnadevaraya very happy.
Q. To whom did Tenali Raman visit that night?
A. That night, Tenali Raman visited the poor worker in prison.
Q. Why did Rajan nod with a little disappointment?
A. Rajan nodded with a little disappointment because the narrator had snatched the end
of the story from him.
Q. Who was chatting with the narrator?
A. A descendent of the great Tenali Raman was chatting with the narrator.
Q. Who are called archaeologists? What do they do? [HOTS]
A. Archaeologists are persons who study objects of the past. They study the remains of
buildings made of stones and bricks, paintings and sculptures. They also explore and
dig the earth in order to find out tools, weapons, pots, pans, ornaments and coins left
behind from past civilisations.
Competency Based Questionnaire
1. (c) 2. (b) 3. (d)
Grasp the Nettle
I. Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow.
A.1. (c) Archaeologist
2. The archaeologist was showing around some shards of glazed pottery.
3. True 4. China
5. She gave him a withering look.
B. 1. If a clumsy servant waved the duster, nothing would happen.
2. dusted, cleaned 3. False
4. I was summoned by my boss.
II. Tick (✓) the correct option.
1. (a) 2. (b) 3. (c) 4. (a)
III. Fill in the blanks.
1. mama’s, 2. silver goblets, brass statues, 3. five, rubbing, 4. rage.
IV. Answer the following questions.
1. Rajan was telling the story about Tenali Raman and the Chinese vases to the
narrator. He was interrupting the story again and again. But the narrator was
dying to hear the story. So, the narrator found it difficult to ignore Rajan.
2. A week after the vases were presented to the king, the finest of the precious
vases crashed to the ground and broke one morning.
3. One of the vases crashed to the ground and broke. The worker responsible was
called and condemned to be hanged the next day.
4. It would have been a matter of time before the remaining vases broke because
three more persons will lose their life for those Chinese vases.
5. The last wish of the worker was to see the remaining three vases.
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 6. The three remaining vases were brought and carefully placed before the
condemned man as he wished for that. He looked at them for a moment, then
without warning, he lunged forward and kicked all three vases, sending
crashing down.
Vocabulary Bundle
V. Match the following phrases from the story with their meaning.
1. the best way to deal with (a) got extremely angry
2. made himself comfortable (b) as soon as I said something
3. smashed into smithereens (c) the right way to handle something
4. flew into a rage (d) was at ease
5. head would get swollen (e) broke with force into small pieces
6. as soon as the words were (f) he would become proud of himself;
out of my mouth become conceited
VI. Complete the following sentences with the correct phrases given in the
previous exercise.
1. As soon as the words were out of my mouth I realised that I had said
something without thinking that it was hurtful and rude.
2. The best way to deal with a difficult situation is to take advice from an adult.
3. The man flew into a rage when the naughty boys broke the windscreen of his
new car.
4. Dad took his time as we became more and more impatient. After he had made
himself comfortable, he began to tell us how he had been able to get leave and
had finally bought our tickets to Sydney.
5. The cyclonic winds blew the window open and Mom’s jam jars flew off the
window sill and were smashed into smithereens.
6. We were afraid that if we praised him too much, his head would get swollen.
Beyond the Text
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VII. Your teacher will ask some questions. Listen them carefully and tick (3) the
correct answer.
(✓)
1. was rude to them/ignored them.
(✓)
2. shards of glazed pottery/ancient debris.
(✓)
3. shards of pottery/broken pieces of Chinese pottery.
(✓)
4. She had spoken to Rajan/She had accepted a cup of tea from Rajan.
(✓)
5. She was dying to hear his story/She wanted to speak to him.
Reading Time
IX. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
1. The old man and his wife gradually sold all the fine things they had bought just
to keep body and soul together.
2. True 3. friends, neighbours

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 4. According to the old man’s wife, friendship is more valuable than any amount
of gold coins.
5. (a) riches (b) realised
Pen Down
X. You have to interview an archaeologist. Prepare a list of five questions that
you would like to ask her/him.
Five questions that could be asked to an archaeologist include :
1. How old is our civilisation?
2. Are you able to read manuscripts written during the Harappa age?
3. What are inscriptions?
4. How can you study the remains of any building?
5. What did people eat in the past?
Real Life Touch
XI. What do you use to do something.
1. news channel on T.V., newspaper
2. fridge
3. looking glass
4. clock, watch
5. stairs, lift

6 The Road Not Taken

Intext Question
Q. Where is the speaker standing?
A. The speaker is standing at the intersection of two roads.
Q. Which road does the speaker choose?
A. The speaker chooses the road which one less travelled on.
Q. How does the outcome of our life depends on the choice we make to reach our
destination? [HOTS]
A. The choice is never easy. Our success or failure depends on the choice that we make.
Mostly, people choose the most popular or frequented paths of life. But some bold
and adventurous people take risks and choose the less frequented path and ways of
life.
Competency Based Questionnaire
1. (b) 2. (d)
Grasp the Nettle
I. Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow.
A.1. The name of the poem is ‘The Road Not Taken’ and the poet is ‘Robert Lee
Frost’.
2. (c) hesitation and thoughtfulness
3. yellow
4. The speaker feels ‘sorry’ because he could not travel both the roads diverging
in the forests before him.
5. True
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 B. 1. The speaker left the first road in the hope that he would travel on it on
another day.
2. equally lay 3. False
4. The speaker doubted if he would ever come back to the same place to walk
on the road that he had left for another day.
5. (a) back, (b) lay
II. Tick (✓) the correct option.
1. (b) 2. (c) 3. (c) 4. (a)
III. Answer the following questions.
1. They were different from each other in a way that the path taken by the poet
was travelled less than the other. It was grassy, beautiful while the other was
worn out by the passers-by.
2. The speaker chose the second road because he thought that the path taken by
him was less travelled and ‘wanted wear’. It was equally fair, grassy and
covered with yellow leaves.
3. No, the speaker does not seem happy about his decision.
4. The difference is that he did not choose that way of life which most people
generally choose to get easy success, fame and money in life. On the other
hand, he chose the road that was ‘less travelled by’. It was certainly risky and
adventurous to choose such a road.
5. I don’t think the speaker might come back to the other road some day.
Vocabulary Bundle
IV. Fill in the blanks using appropriate verbs that would complete the
collocation. You may use a dictionary for help.
1. (a), 2. (c), 3. (b), 4. (a), 5. (c).
Beyond the Text
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V. Your teacher will read out a poem twice for you. Listen carefully and
complete the pairs of rhyming words.
1. roads gods 2. star are
3. made fade 4. sure endure
5. gleam stream 6. again rain
Reading Time
VII. Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow.
1. (b) Stars
2. The stars like little white daisies are the ‘meadow of the night’.
3. a sweet and a fair lady
4. False
5. (a) skies (b) white
Pen Down
VIII. Write about your own experience of having to make a choice :
1. Between two flavours of ice creams, I will choose the one which looks fresh
and yummy.

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 2. Between speaking two languages, I will choose the one whose knowledge I
have better than the other.
3. Between two holiday destinations, I will choose the one where I have never
visited before.

Grammar Bunch – 2
I. Rearrange the words and form sentences. Mention the kinds of sentences so
formed.
2. Come here at once. (Imperative)
3. When is it going to stop raining? (Interrogative)
4. Don’t they want to go swimming this afternoon? (Interrogative)
They don’t want to go swimming this afternoon. (Negative)
5. Isn’t this ice cream delicious? (Interrogative)
This ice cream isn’t delicious. (Negative)
6. The Dal lake often gets a severe frozen in winter. (Affirmative)
7. How many marbles are there in this bag? (Interrogative)
8. It’s magnificent, just look at it. (Affirmative)
Just look at it, is it magnificent? (Interrogative)
II. Match the subjects and predicates and write the sentences so formed, in your
notebook. Underline the subjects and encircle the verbs.
1. The Ganges river is the longest river in India.
2. It flows through the Gangetic plain of North India.
3. It empties its waters into the Bay of Bengal.
4. Millions of Indians depend upon the Ganges for agriculture and for their daily
supply of water.
5. The Ganges rises in the western Himalayas.
6. The Yamuna is the largest tributary of the Ganges.
7. The source of Yamuna lies in the Yamnotri Glacier.
8. The rivers of India provide food, water and livelihood to many Indians.
III. Join each pair of sentences using a word from the box.
2. I admire some students who want to become English teachers.
3. Do you remember his nephew, Watson whom you met a week ago?
4. Neenu was very proud that she was the best.
5. I borrowed a book from library which was full of grammatical mistakes.
6. People laugh at my neighbour whose clothes are old-fashioned.
IV. Use adjective clauses to fill in the blanks.
1. who works in a hospital
2. that my friend organised
3. which famed for its bio-diversity
4. which located in Gujarat
5. which includes term 1 syllabus
V. Underline the adjective phrases in the following sentences. One has been done
for you.
1. He is a man of considerable wealth.
2. Even as a schoolboy, Tendulkar was a player of great promise.

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 3. He is a man without a friend.
4. Gardens with lush green lawns surround the government buildings.
5. He spoke of the night, his house made of wood burned down.
6. Have you ever seen an elephant with a white skin?
7. In a low voice, he narrated of his adventures.
8. A bird in the hand is worth.
9. There I met a girl with blue eyes.
10. He was a young man of great promise.

7 The Eyes Have It

Intext Questions
Q. How did the speaker know that the girl wore slippers?
A. The speaker knew that the girl wore slippers from the way they slapped against her
heels.
Q. What did the speaker like about the girl?
A. The speaker liked the sound of the girl’s voice and even the sound of her slippers.
Q. Where was the girl going?
A. The girl was going to Saharanpur.
Q. What did the speaker hear?
A. The speaker heard the panting of the engine and the rumble of the wheels.
Q. Whose voice had the sparkle of a mountain stream?
A. The girl’s voice had the sparkle of a mountain stream.
Q. What did the speaker wonder about the girl’s hair?
A. The speaker wondered if the girl wore a bun in her hair or if it was plaited.
Q. ‘Well, it often happens that people with good eyesight fail to see what is right in
front of them.’ Do you agree with the statement? Give reasons. [HOTS]
A. The statement has some truth to it because people who cannot see have to rely on
their other senses. They notice much more than people with good eyesight because
they are more focused.
Competency Based Questionnaire
1. (b) 2. (d) 3. (c)
Grasp the Nettle
I. Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow.
A.1. (b) Rohana
2. The couple came to see off the girl.
3. anxious
4. False
B. 1. (b) Window
2. He faced towards the window to make a pretence of studying the landscape.
3. engine
4. False
5. We tried to keep up the pretence that everything was fine.
II. Tick (✓) the correct option.
1. (c) 2. (a) 3. (b)
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 III. Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements.
1. F 2. F 3. T 4. T 4. T
IV. Answer the following questions.
1. The woman gave the girl detailed instructions as to where to keep her things,
when not to lean out of the window, and how to avoid sneaking to strangers.
2. The girl was startled when she heard the speaker’s voice because she did not
know anyone else there.
3. The speaker made a mistake when he asked the girl “What is it like outside?”
4. Yes, I think that the speaker often pretendend to be able to see because when
the girl asked that why he didn’t look out of the window, he moved easily along
the berth and felt for the window ledge. He faced towards the window, making
a pretence of studying the landscape.
Vocabulary Bundle
V. Replace the word ‘good’ in these sentences/phrases with other suitable words.
1. He’s expected to have something exciting to tell us.
2. The pleasure of your alluring company.
3. “It’s not fine there,” he said hastily.
4. Whatever it is, it ain’t great to see.
5. Being lucky in stumbling upon such a superior dinner.
Beyond the Text
Ear In
VI. Your teacher will read out descriptions of various plants and trees. Listen
carefully and write their names.
1. Coconut
2. Date
3. Black pepper
4. Pineapple
5. Banana
Reading Time
VII. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
1. (a) In group
2. Gorillas seldom walk on their legs because their legs are weak compared to
their long and very strong arms.
3. True
4. faces, coats
5. (a) strong (b) larger
Pen Down
VIII. How do you think the conversation would have been, had the two of them
found out that they were blind? Imagine that they found this out immediately
after boarding the train. Write a short paragraph to end the story in a
different way.
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 The man and the girl had found out that they both were blind, immediately after
boarding the train. Both of them enjoyed talking to each other. They also shared
their life experiences with each other. The man praised the girl’s sweet voice. The
girl also called him a very charming young man. The girl wished to go to
Mussoorie as she likes to visit there. When the girl’s stoppage came, she said
good-bye and got down from the compartment happily.

8 The Dying Detective

Intext Questions
Q. Where did the landlady meet with Dr Watson?
A. The landlady met with Dr Watson in the streets.
Q. Who is Culverton Smith?
A. Culverton Smith is a planter and a well-known resident of Sumatra.
Q. What did Watson ask Mr Smith at his home?
A. Watson asked Mr Smith at his home that he had come from Mr Sherlock Holmes. He
was dying. He believed that he was the only man in London who could save him.
Q. Who was Victor?
A. Victor was a dead man on the fourth day—a strong, hearty young fellow.
Q. From where does Watson appear in the room?
A. Watson appears from behind the bed head.
Q. On which subject has sometimes Holmes thought of writing an essay?
A. Malingering is a subject upon which Holmes has sometimes thought of writing an
essay.
Competency Based Questionnaire
1. (c) 2. (c) 3. (c)
Grasp the Nettle
I. Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow.
A.1. (b) Landlady
2. three 3. True
4. He wanted to see Dr Watson.
5. Sinking to the window seat, she watched him read the paper.
B. 1. (b) Smith
2. Smith can cure tropical diseases.
3. False
4. Ronit has a little knowledge of customs.
II. Tick (✓) the correct option.
1. (a) 2. (b) 3. (c) 4. (b)
III. Fill in the blanks.
1. keep 2. plantation 3. natural 4. a thousand 5. malingring, essay.
IV. Answer the following questions.
1. For three days, Holmes had been sinking. So, the landlady thought that he was
dying.
2. Sherlock Holmes really wanted Dr Watson to stay away from him because he
had a horrible contagious disease.
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 3. Yes, it seems that Holmes had mentioned his suspicion about Smith to the
police because he had called the police before Smith came there.
4. When Watson told Smith about Holmes, he observed that Smith was surprised
to know about Holmes’ condition.
5. Smith sent a box to Holmes by post. At the sideways of the box, a viper’s tooth
emerges as it opens. Smith had tried to kill Holmes using that device.
6. Yes, Smith had killed Victor Savage in the same way. It was clear to Holmes, by
pretending that Smith had really succeeded in his plan to kill him.
7. Smith tried to murder Sherlock Holmes because Holmes knew that Smith had
killed Victor Savage.
Vocabulary Bundle
V. Use the words from the following sets in sentences of your own to show clear
difference of meanings.
1. boar — A boar was killed by the bullet of the hunter.
bore — I hope you are not getting bored listening to me.
2. bow — She tied the ribbon in a bow.
bow — He shot an arrow from the bow.
bough — A tree bough fell on my car during the windstorm.
3. days — In summer days, we should wear cotton clothes.
daze — A skier dazed by the glare from the snow.
4. present — My father presented a gold chain to my mother.
present — I am very busy at the present moment in my exam preparation.
5. desert — Sahara desert is the largest hot desert in the world.
dessert — We had ice creams and apple pie in dessert.
VI. Some of these words are given below with their letters jumbled up.
Unscramble the letters to form the word.
1. EVIDENCE, 2. RED HERRING, 3. ACCOMPLICE, 4. HUNCH, 5. MOTIVE,
6. SUSPECT.
Beyond the Text
Ear In
VII. Your teacher will read out an extract from the book ‘Little Women’ by Louisa
May Alcott. Listen carefully and fill in the blanks.
1. Christmas, 2. stockings , fireplace, 3. crimson-covered, 4. Meg, 5. book,
6. Amy, little books.
Reading Time
IX. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
1. (c) Both (a) and (b)
2. Chintu monkey stopped on the way to play for some time.
3. ‘Time is Precious’
4. hungry
5. False

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9 The Daffodils
Intext Questions
Q. Where are the daffodils?
A. The daffodils are beside the lake and beneath the trees.
Q. How does the poet tell you that he was all alone?
A. The poet tells us that he was all alone as a cloud that floats on high valleys and hills.
Competency Based Questionnaire
1. (c) 2. (b)
Grasp the Nettle
I. Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow.
A.1. (b) lake
2. wandered
3. False
4. The daffodils are fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
5. (a) crowd (b) breeze
B. 1. (c) Daffodils 2. waves 3. False
4. The poet refers to the ‘wealth’ of happiness and gaiety that the beautiful
daffodils brought to him. The wealth was induced by the joyful memory of
the daffodils dancing in the breeze by the lakeside. 5. brought
II. Tick (✓) the correct option.
1. (c) 2. (c) 3. (b) 4. (c)
III. Answer the following questions.
1. In contrast to his own situation, the poet sees a large number of golden
daffodils.
2. The poet personifies the daffodils a human character by referring them a cloud
that dances and flutters in the breeze and tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
3. In lines 3-6, the poet uses ‘a crowd/a host’ that are ‘fluttering and dancing in the
breeze to tell about the large number of daffodils he saw.
In lines 7-8, he uses ‘stars that shine and twinkle’.
In line 9, he uses, ‘stretched in a never - ending line’.
In line 12, he uses ‘tossing their heads in sprightly dance’.
4. The poet kept looking at the daffodils for a long time because he is delighted by
the wonderful sight. He also feels the bliss of solitude, because it is peaceful
and comfortable to be alone sometimes in such a huge open area and seeing the
flowers that seem like happy people, he wants to become a part of them.
Vocabulary Bundle
IV. Match the following simile halves and write the similes in the third column.
1. As quick as lightning 2. As pale as a ghost
3. As hungry as a hippo 4. As obstinate as a mule
5. As sharp as a razor 6. As American as apple pie
7. As clear as crystal 8. As easy as ABC
9. As solid as a rock 10. As tough as old boots
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 V. Fill in the blanks with the following to complete the metaphors in the
sentences given below.
1. apple of his, eye, 2. a stage and all the men, 3. the rock of the family,
4. rolling stone, 5. fairy godmother, 6. a little monkey,
7. are angels, 8. shining stars.
Beyond the Text
Ear In
VI. Your teacher will read out a poem on ‘Flowers’. Listen carefully and write the
pairs of rhyming words.
take - wake passion - compassion
serve - deserve expression - obsession
share - care
Reading Time
VII. Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow.
1. (a) Polythene
2. Polythene come in all colours like red, yellow, green and blue.
3. poisonous 4. True 5. (a) fatal (b) pledge
Pen Down
VIII. Get into pairs and write some diamante poems of your own. Follow the same
pattern. Make a class collection diamante poems.
Puppy
Sweet, young
Running, sleeping, playing
Ball, leash, treats, backyard
Barking, eating, fetching,
Playful, silly
Pup

Grammar Bunch – 3
I. Identify the kind of sentence, the finite verbs and the kinds of clauses in each
sentence.
2. Kind of sentence : compound Finite verbs : came, shattered
Kinds of clauses : independent, independent
3. Kind of Sentence : complex Finite verbs : stop, ran
Kinds of clauses : dependent, independent
4. Kind of sentence : simple Finite verb : continued
Kind of clauses : independent
5. Kind of sentence : simple Finite verb : hit
Kind to clauses : independent
6. Kind of sentence : complex Finite verbs : splashed, landed
Kinds of clauses : independent, dependent
7. Kind of sentence : compound Finite verb : got, yelled
Kinds of clauses : independent, independent

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 8. Kind of sentence : complex Finite verbs : come, will tell,
Kinds of clauses : dependent, independent have gone
II. Join the following simple sentences to form compound sentences. Use each of
the seven coordinating conjunctions at least once.
1. He ran up the stairs and didn’t hold on to the railing, so he fell down.
2. Mom was busy, yet she found time to help me with my homework.
3. Both of these dresses are beautiful, but you can have only one.
4. You can have the red dress or the white one.
5. He put on his raincoat, for it was raining heavily.
6. We didn’t get tickets for the movies nor for the match.
7. We didn’t get tickets for the movie nor for the match, so we stayed at home and
watched the match on TV.
8. They like reading adventure stories and mystery stories but they don’t enjoy
science fiction.
9. I made a cup of soup and also a tomato sandwich, for I was hungry.
10. They were hungry, but they didn’t touch the food on the table nor the food in
the fridge, for they had been told to wait till Mom came home.
III. Join these sentences to form complex sentences.
1. The boy who lives in that mansion, is my friend.
2. He is ill so he cannot attend school.
3. Do you know the reason why Anil has not come for work?
4. Because the child was playing with a knife, she cut her finger.
5. Can you tell me the reason why you refused to do the work?
10 Suvira
Intext Questions
Q. How was the narrator’s second day in the new school?
A. The narrator’s second day in the new school was marked with excitement and
anxiety.
Q. What was there to boost up last minute energy?
A. There were packets of glucose to boost up last minute energy.
Q. Why did the narrator stop for a few minutes?
A. The narrator stopped for a few minutes to catch her breath and watch the 110 metres
hurdles.
Q. Why did the crowd suddenly went crazy?
A. The crowd suddenly went crazy as Suvira closed the gap between her and the
narrator.
Q. How were the narrator’s spikes?
A. The narrator’s spikes were old blunted.
Q. Who was standing on the top step of the victory stand?
A. Both the narrator and Suvira were standing on the top step of the victory stand.
Q. Winning and losing are two sides of the same coin. Explain how playing a game
is more important than winning or losing. [HOTS]
A. Definitely, winning and losing are two sides of the same coin. Playing is more
important than winning or losing. Game unites us. We interact with each other.
Participation acknowledges us our pros and cons. We learn our strengths and
weaknesses. We also learn to learn from our failures and be indifferent in out victory.
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Competency Based Questionnaire
1. (c) 2. (b) 3. (d)
Grasp the Nettle
I. Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow.
A.1. (a) January
2. red
3. True
4. Narrator’s housemates ignored her because she was unknown for them.
5. She laughed to cover her nervousness.
B. 1. (b) Crowd 2. shoulder, shoulder 3. True
4. An old trick in racing is to start slowing down very imperceptibly. When you
cut back on pace and your opponent too takes the pressure off
herself/himself.
5. Kiaan knocked out his opponent in the third round.
II. Tick (✓) the correct option.
1. (c) 2. (b) 3. (a) 4. (d)
III. Fill in the blanks.
1. athletics 2. blue 3. three 4. deathly 5. swiveled.
IV. Answer the following questions.
1. The narrator arrived in the middle of the school term because her father
resigned from his job and decided to change tracks in his career.
2. The narrator’s second day in the new school was marked with excitement
because there were trials taking place for the inter-school athletics meet.
The narrator’s second day in the new school was marked with anxiety because
she freely offered to participate in the 800 metres race.
3. Deepi Gupta told the narrator that the race was extremely tough because Suvira
Mathur of Blue House had never been beaten in 800 metres event.
4. The narrator frowned when she heard the chant of the crowd because there
wasn’t a single voice chanting her name.
5. The narrator slowed down ‘imperceptibly’ and Suvira took the pressure off
herself a bit, but a wildly enthusiastic crowd egging her on and just 300 metres
to go, she began pulling away.
6. Suvira’s shoes were brand new ones with glistening, sharp spikes which sprang
forward, bit into the track and then sprang forward again like a wild, untamable
animal; an animal that was hungry for victory that is hadn’t yet tasted.
The narrator’s shoes were old blunted through use. They had lost most of their
gloss and some of their bite ; a bit like an ageing, gum-jawed lion. But they had
a lot of experience of winning. They had some hunger left in them yet.
Vocabulary Bundle
V. Complete these sentences by filling in the blanks with the phrases given
below.
1. a deathly silence, 2. catch my breath, 3. a fleeting moment,
4. coaxed their cold limbs, 5. like well-oiled machinery, 6. I’m not chicken,
7. flew over, effortlessly, 8. the drumbeat of their hoofs.

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 VI. Write a complete sentence in answer to each of these riddles. Here, in the
wrong order, are short answers to help you.
1. A pair of crows has four legs and flies in the air.
2. Silence is broken if we name it.
3. A sponge holds water though it is full of holes.
4. A chair has four legs but never walks.
5. Your breath cannot be held for long, though it is as light as air.
6. The road runs from London to Glasgow without moving.
7. An egg is most useful when broken.
8. A match has a head but no face.
9. A bed had one head, one foot and four legs.
10. Its tail always comes after a dog.
11. A potato has eyes but no head.
12. Rosemary
Beyond the Text
Ear In
VII. Listen carefully. What feeling/emotion does each sentence show? Tick (4) the
right options.
1. sadness, 2. nervousness, 3. admiration,
4. determination, 5. longing, 6. gladness.
Reading Time
IX. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
1. (a) Draw
2. Jim discovered eight types of snails and six different ladybirds so far.
3. key, cleaned 4. False 5. (a) indoors (b) draw
Pen Down
X. What does the story tell you about Suvira? Write a short pen-picture of the
girl with examples from the story.
Suvira is a cheerful girl. She holds the Delhi Inter School record for the 800
meters. She is dressed in blue t-shirt and white shorts as she is put in Blue House.
She has long, dark, musclar legs which ripples every time she moves. She has a
friendly - enough face which flashes smiles to everyone but when she moves, she
is like a well- oiled machinery.
XI. Write the diary-entry you think the unknown girl writes, describing her day;
her feelings at the beginning; during the race and at the end of the race.
Monday, 15 January, 20XX
9 : 30 P.M.
Dear Diary,
My second day in the new school was marked with excitement and anxiety. There
were trials taking place for the inter-school athletics meet. I sat in a corner, by
myself, shaking my legs to keep off the mid-January chill. I wore a red t-shirt and
white shorts because I was put into Red House. But my housemates pretty much
ignored me. I cursed myself for having been stupid enough to volunteer to
participate in the 800 metres. It was just the silly kind of thing I land up doing to

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 myself. A girl named Deepi Gupta, told me that I had an impossibly tough race
ahead. She told me about a girl named Suvira Mathur that she holds the Delhi inter
school record for the 800 metres. I eyed at the said Ms Mathur.
Then the 800 metres race was annouced. I picked lane three which was right next
to Suvira Mathur. As the race started, I was out of my blocks almost immediately,
racing away. After sometime, my ears began to absorb a throbbing sound : a sort
of pulsing. It was Suvira.
I crossed the finish line. She crossed the finish line. We were standing there
together on the top step of the victory stand where both of us were used to
standing alone. She turned to me and smiled as she was genuinely happy. Then we
joined hands and raised them to acknowledge the cheering of our school.

11 The Dynamite Merchant

Ready to Go
1. Economic Sciences 2. Chemistry 3. Literature
4. Peace 5. Physics 6. Physiology or Medicine
Intext Questions
Q. Where was Alfred Bernhard Nobel born?
A. Alfred Bernhard Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden.
Q. How much time did Alfred spend studying chemistry in Paris?
A. Alfred spent a year studying chemistry in Paris.
Q. Which invention made Nobel wealthy?
A. The invention of dynamite made Nobel wealthy.
Q. Who was Bertha Kinsky?
A. Bertha Kinsky, a Bohemian noblewoman, was one of the world’s leading pacifists.
Q. Do you know the factors that we need to consider in conducting research? Write
about them. [HOTS]
A. These factors are : the research goal, the scope of the study, sample size, type of data,
time and user-friendliness to the subjects. Other factors are research approach, safety
and security of a researcher, the need for triangulation and theoretical framework.
Competency Based Questionnaire
1. (a) 2. (c) 3. (c)
Grasp the Nettle
I. Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow.
A.1. (c) third
2. After failing in business in Stockholm, Immanuel Nobel took his family to St
Petersburg, Russia.
3. False
4. self- educated
5. An inventor puts his heart and soul in the invention.
B. 1. (b) Five
2. Alfred invented a blasting cap made of fulminate of mercury, an explosive
salt, to fire a charge of nitroglycerin.
3. chemistry
4. False
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 II. Tick (✓) the correct option.
1. (b) 2. (a) 3. (c) 4. (c)
III. Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements.
1. T 2. F 3. T 4. F 5. F
IV. Answer the following questions.
1. Four inventions of Nobel are :
(i) A blasting cap (ii) Dynamite
(iii) Blasting gelatin (iv) Ballistite
2. Bertha Kinsky influenced Nobel through her letters that she wrote him over
several years. She enlarged on his ideas for world peace.
3. Alfred was successful after resuming the experiments on nitroglycerin. He
invented a blasting cap made of fulminate of mercury, an explosive salt, to fire
a charge of nitroglycerin. The cap was a significant historical development.
4. After a year of setting up a small factory in Sweden to make nitroglycerin, a
terrific explosion destroyed the factory and killed five people, including
Alfred’s younger brother, Emil. Therefore, the Sweden government did not
permit Alfred Nobel to rebuild his factory.
5. To rebuild the factory and determined to make the explosive safer to handle,
Nobel moved the factory to a barge.
6. Nobel was determined to find a solution to carry nitroglycerin as in 1866, after
disastrous explosions at world ports. Many nations forbade their vessels to
carry nitroglycerin. He achieved his objective by mixing nitroglycerin with a
special sand to make a sort of clay which he patented as ‘dynamite’.
Vocabulary Bundle
V. Here are some sentences about love and appear as examples in a dictionary.
Which meanings do they exemplify? Match each sentence in A with its
general meaning in B.
A B
1. → (e)
2. → (b)
3. → (a)
4. → (c)
5. → (f)
6. → (d)
Beyond the Text
Ear In
VI. Your teacher will read out some information about the Mars Exploration
Rovers. Listen carefully and answer the following questions in not more than
three words.
1. Mobile robots 2. Spirit and opportunity 3. Six wheels
4. A microscope 5. Three cameras 6. Samples of Sand
7. Spirit
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Speak Out
VII. Get into groups of four.
Health : The inventions of X-ray and ultra-sound machines have enabled us to
diagnose the diseases inside our body so that proper treatment can be given to
cure such diseases.
Reading Time
VIII. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
1. (a) admiration
2. (d) the practice of doing part time jobs along with studies.
3. The author is describing in the last line about some of the richest people in the
world who started working early in their childhood.
4. big, small
5. False 6. dignity
Pen Down
IX. Following are the factors that are important to make scientific achievements
possible.
(i) perseverance (ii) hard work (iii) intelligence
(iv) intuition (v) curiosity (vi) imagination
(vii) patience (viii) resources and money (ix) faith in God

12 No Men Are Foreign

Intext Questions
Q. Where shall we all lie at the end of our life?
A. We shall all lie at the end of our life in the earth.
Q. How can strength be won?
A. Strength can be won by love.
Q. Whom do we hate when we hate others?
A. When we hate others, we hate our brothers.
Q. ‘Are fed by peaceful harvest, by war’s long winter starv’d.’ Explain the line in
your own words? [HOTS]
A. The poet says that we all do farming during the time of peace, when there is no war.
We live a relaxed life and eat the things given to us by nature. The way we starve
during wars and winter time is the same for those belonging to other countries.
Competency Based Questionnaire
1. (b) 2. (d) 3. (a)
Grasp the Nettle
I. Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow.
A.1. (c) body
2. All the people in the world are referred to as ‘our brothers’ in the extract.
3. brothers
4. False
B. 1. We damage the purity of earth by taking arms against each other.

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 2. The poet wants us to remember that all the people of the world are our
brothers. No men are foreign and no countries are strange in the world.
3. men
4. False
II. Answer the following questions.
1. The poet means by uniforms in the poem the various dresses that people of
various countries wear but beneath them, the human body is same.
2. The poet suggests that nobody is different and peculiar. No country is foreign.
A single body breathes beneath all uniforms. Moreover, the land is the same
everywhere.
3. The poet says that it is the same land on which we walk and after our death
would be buried in the same earth.
4. Sometimes some selfish people instigate the innocent to harm others. They do it
for their own benefit. The common or ordinary man does not understand their
tricks and starts hating his fellow human beings. The poet says that one should
not follow anybody’s advice without brooding over it. The poet repeatedly says
that there is no difference in them and the foreigners. The people of the entire
world are the same.
Vocabulary Bundle
III. Tick (3) the alliterative phrases.
1. (3), 4. (3), 5. (3), 7. (3).
IV. Match these phrases with their meanings.
1. (d), 2. (c), 3. (b), 4. (a).
Beyond the Text
Ear In
V. Your teacher will read out a poem for you. Listen carefully and fill in the
blanks.
Awake, awake O Bravo where you slept?
Our home burning, many a times we wept
When darkness becomes bright, humanity left
Ah! Doom of the day we accepted and kept
Save save innocent must be saved
Tears, cries and blood what we have paved
Shame shame our feeling has been lost
Deaf, dumb and blind, we are paying the cost.
Reading Time
VII. Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow.
1. The eyes are compared to the window to the soul.
2. God has given us eyes to appreciate his work and do what we can.
3. smile, anger
4. True
5. (a) appreciate
(b) distress

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Pen Down
VIII. Paraphrase the first fourteen lines of the poem.
No men are strange and no countries are foreign in the world. No one is different
for other. Under all uniforms, we have body which breathes similarly. The land on
which a man of other country walks is similar to ours. It is the same earth in which
we all will get buried after death. The other people are also aware of sun, air and
water. These are life sources for them too. They also fed by peaceful harvest. They
have also starved by long winter’s war. Their hands are similar to our hands and in
their lines we read. Their labour is not different from ours. We should remember
that other people too have eyes which similar to us, which wake or sleep similar to
us. They all have strength, which can be won by love. There is a common life for
all human beings. This is a very simple fact and we all can realise that we all
human beings share equal things. Few people tell us to hate other people who do
not belong to our community and fight against them. But, it is our duty that we
should deny such ideas, we should condemn it.

Grammar Bunch – 4
I. Change the following sentences from the active to the passive voice.
1. Our tickets were booked at the hotel by the travel agent.
2. The tickets will be sent us tomorrow by him.
3. The plane is flown by the pilot.
4. The co-pilot was asked to fly the plane for a while by him.
5. The meals are served to the passengers during the flight by the stewardess.
6. The luggage have been put into the overhead bins by the passengers.
7. An announcement had just been made by the pilot when suddenly there was a
loud sound.
8. A trolley was being pushed by the stewardess when the plane shook violently
due to turbulence.
II. Rewrite this conversation in reported speech.
The interviewer asked the young man what he knew about pasteurisation.
The young man’s uninterested response was something to do with milk.
The interviewer said joyfully that he was selected for a scholarship in dairy
engineering.
Kurien said excitedly that he didn’t know anything about dairy engineering.
The interviewer responded if he wanted to study abroad, that was the scholarship
that was available.
Verghese Kurien told himself that it seemed he had no other option.
III. Rewrite these sentences in direct speech. Replace the verb told with other
verbs.
1. Verghese Kurien said to the interviewer, ‘‘I want to study Metallurgy and
Nuclear Physics’’.
2. The government official said to Kurien, ‘‘You have to work in a government
creamery in Anand’’.
3. Tribhuvandas Patel said to Kurien, ‘‘I am the leader of the farmers’’.
4. The farmers said to Pestonjee, ‘‘You are not paying us enough for our
produce’’.
5. Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri said to Kurien, ‘‘I am impressed by the way
Amul is sourcing milk from the farmers’’.

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