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The Happy Prince

Activity -10 (b)

Recently you gave up your seat in a crowded bus to an ailing person.Write a letter to your friend describing how you felt after having helped the person.

                                                                                                                                    Amdiha

                                                                                                                                    Purulia

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Dear Anu,

                It is a long time I have not got your letter.How are you ? Now I am going to share with you an exceptional experience.

                Yesterday I was returning from school by a crowded bus.Yet I managed a seat.After a few minutes,I saw an old ailing woman.She was standing with much difficulty.Besides she was trembling.I could not tolerate it.I offered the woman my seat.She feebly uttered words of thankfulness.She also blessed me.Coming back home,I told this to my mother.She was very happy and encouraged me to do like this work in future.

                 No more today .More when we meet.Give my regards to your parents and take my love.

                                                                                                                                    Yours ever,

                                                                                                                                       Bina

Anusua Das

C/O-Binodbihari Das

Machantala

Bankura

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Tales of Childhood

ACTIVITY-1

(4 )   (6)  (3) (5) (2) (1)

ACTIVIYT-2

1. The narrator’s grandfather was a fairly prosperous merchant.
2.    Harold Dahl had lost an arm when he was fourteen.
3.  A shipbroker is a person who supplies a ship with everything it needs.
4.   In the country mansion beside the village of Radyr, there were many acres of farm and woodland and a number of cottages for the staff.

ACTIVITY-3

There were meadows, farm and woodland. The narrator could roam about the place.He could play with the chickens.Besides he could enjoy the woodland ride on the horseback.So he he was very happy there.

ACTIVITY-4

(a)    False      “In 1920, when I was still only three,my mother’s eldest child,my own sister,Astri died from appendicitis.”

(b)   True       “ Astri was far and away my father’s favourite.”

(c)    False      “ …..he himself went doen with pneumonia a month or so……..”

(d)   True      “ She sold the big house and moved to a similar one a few miles away in Liandaff.”

ACTIVITY-5

1. Astri was seven years old when she died.
2. Pneumonia was very dangerous disease because in those days there were no penicillin or any other magical antibiotic.
3. The narrator’s father gave up the fight against the disease because he was eager to join his beloved daughter,Astri in heaven.

ACTIVITY -6

i)                    Cause: One remembers so little about one’s childhood before the age of 7 or 8.

ii)                  Ii) Cause: The narrator’s companionship with Mrs Corfield or Miss Tucker is not as exciting as tricycling

iii)                Effect: the narrator can remember it vividly.

iv)                Effect: It was quite safe for the tiny children to go tricycling on the highway.

ACTIVITY-7

(a) The name of the narrator's first school wa Elmtree House.

(b) The narrator has a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of his shoelaces.

(c) The narrator really enjoyed his journeys to and from the school.he used to race with his eldest sister.Both of them went tricycling at a high speed.They would lean to one side at a corner and take it on two wheels on their way to school.

(d) The narrator did not have much stock of incidents in his memories of konfergarten.But the little he had was enough to show how joyful his childhood days were.

 Lesson-12

Beyond Barriers

Page -124

Write T for true and F for False:

1. Barun read the book in the evening.
2. Kalpana was born in Haryana.
3. She went to the USSR to study the University of Texas.
4. Montu is another name of Kalpana.

Answer the following questions:

1. "It was a wonderful book.Mother"-Who said this?
2. When was Kalpana Chawla born?
3. What was her nickname ?
4. When did she go to school?
5. When did Kalpana die?
6. What was the name of the space shuttle that was lost?