Unit – 5
Prose – 5
Tech Bloomers
Synonyms
1. grapple – fight
2. renowned – famous
3. Boon – blessing
4. Amazing – surprising
5. Exhausted – drained
6. Gaze – stare
7. Impact- influence
Antonyms
1. cloistered x opened
2. forward x backward
3. Inclusion x exclusion / seperation
4. Important x unimportant
5. Disability x ability
6. Gaze x blink
7. Enslaved x freed
8. Boon x bane
Short Answers
1. What are the benefits of the internet to the common man?
2. Who is Kim?
3. How does Kim help Alisha?
4. Why is technology important according to David?
5. Name a few Indian innovations which are helpful to the
disabled and make their day to day life easier.
6. How many people in India suffer with disability?
7. What is the future of technology?
8. Which software helps Alisha to overcome her difficulty in
typing?
9. How would you help the people with disabilities in your
neighborhood?
10. Suggest ways of making our society inclusive.
1. Some water, coal, and oil is all we ask,
a) who does ‘we’ refer to?
b) what do they ask for?
2. We were cast and wrought and hammered to design,
We were cut and
filed and tooled and gauged to fit.
a) Whom does ‘we’ refer?
b) How are they made to fit?
3. Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes
Like ours: the
land our brothers walk upon
Is earth like
this, in which we all shall lie.
a) What is found beneath all uniforms?
b) What is same for every one of us?
c) Where are we all going to lie finally?
4. And now, if you will set us to our task,
We will serve you
four and twenty hours a day!
a) Who will serve us the whole day?
b) Can the machine do any work without human being?
c) Who does the pronoun ‘you’ refer to here?
d) Whose task is referred to as ‘our task’ here?
5. But remember, please, the Law by which we live,
We are not built
to comprehend a lie,
a) What does the poet expect us to remember?
b) How are the machines built?
6. We were taken from the ore-bed and the mine,
We were melted in
the furnace and the pit
a) Who does ‘we’ refer to ?
b) Where are they melted?
Prose – 6
The Last Lesson
1. Cranky – strange
2. Chocked – blocked
3. Edge – border
4. Confidence – trust
5. Strange - unusual
Antonyms
1.Chirping x tweeting
2. Commotion x calmness
3. Scold x praise
4. Anxious x calm
5. Tempting x unattractive
6. Unison x disharmony
Short Answers
1. What was Frank sorry for?
2. When and how did M. Hamel bid farewell to the class?
3. Why did Mr.Hamel blame himself?
4. What kind of news was usually put up on the bulletin
board?
5. What was Franz asked to tell? Was he able to answer?
6. Why were the old villagers sitting in the last desk?
7. When and how did M. Hamel bid farewell to the class?
8. How many years had M. Hamel been in the village?
9. What did M. Hamel say about the French language?
Poem - 6
No Men Are Foreign
Based on the understanding of the poem, read the following lines and answer the questions given below.
1. They, too, aware of sun and air and water,
Are fed by peaceful harvests, by war’s long winter starv’d.
a) What is common for all of us?
b) How are we fed?
c) Mention the season referred here?
2. Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes
Like ours: the land our brothers walk upon
Is earth like this, in which we all shall lie.
a) What is found beneath all uniforms?
b) What is same for every one of us?
c) Where are we all going to lie finally?
3. Let us remember, whenever we are told
To hate our brothers, it is ourselves
That we shall dispossess, betray, condemn.
a) Who tells us to hate our brothers?
b) What happens when we hate our brothers?
c) What do we do to ourselves?
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