Text Book Pg 129 & 130 Exercise-I

1. Will you show me the book?

2. How intelligent are you!
3. You like English, don’t you?
4. Stop the bus for me.
5. It is raining now.
6. What an idea!
7. Was the meal nourishing?
8. Hold me! I am going to faint.
9. The dam burst! Run for your lives.
10. Watch out! A car is coming.
Text Book Pg 130 Exercise-II
Once upon a time, there lived a kangaroo. They were friends. One day the duck asked the kangaroo, “Dear
friend, how do you jump? He kangaroo replied, Ah! It is very easy. Do you love it? The duck said, “Oh is it? I would
like to jump like you, then.” The kangaroo said, “Sit on my back. I will take you round the world.”
Text Book Pg 133 Exercise-I
1. The monsoon failed this year too: and the country is in the grip of famine.
2. I wasn’t just annoyed; I was absolutely furious.
3. Sumit said, “Where are you going?”
4. She worked hard; she failed.
5. 15 August 1947… It was the day on which we got independence.
6. The man said, “I wasn’t wounded.”
7. He wasn’t stupid; just passive.
8. The grand tour usually included: Paris, France, Vienna, Austria, Rome & Italy.
Text Book Pg 133 Exercise-II
A teacher showed three toys to a student and asked, “Can you find out the differences?” after keen
observation the student said, “The first toy has holes in the ears; the second one has holes in the ear and the
mouth; and the third toy has only one hole; that is in one ear.” The teacher was amazed and asked, “What do they
represent?”
Text Book Pg 136 Exercise-I
1. This is my cousin’s car.
2. Gandhiji led the Non-violent Movement.
3. There are forty-six boys in the class.
4. These are my father-in-law clothes.
5. We have semi-skilled workers.
6. I’m a member of the Officer’s club.
7. He wants an up-to-date account.
8. They prefer sugar-free sweet.
Text Book Pg 136 Exercise-II
There was an old owl. Everyday he used to see some incidents happening around him. Yesterday he saw a
boy helping his mother-in-law. Today he saw him shouting at her. The boy’s father-in-law was kind and gentle. The
boy shouted at his father-in-law too. The owl’s curiosity grew more and more to know about the boy.
Text Book Pg 137 Exercise-III
Two weeks ago I was amused when a friend who couldn’t bear to sleep alone, woke me up close to me
midnight at the hotel into which we had checked in. “Can you hire a double room? I’m totally spooked”, she said.

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Text Book Pg 137.138 & 139 Exercise from prescribed prose lessons
1. Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men by the simple
device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
2. If someone maintains that two and two are five or that Iceland is on the equator, you feel pity rather than
anger unless you know so little of arithmetic or geography that his opinion shakes your own country.
3. When I was young, I lived in France, Germany, Italy and the United States.
4. Mahatma Gandhi deplores railways and steam boats, and machinery; he would like to undo the whole of
the Industrial Revolution. You may never have an opportunity of actually meeting anyone who holds this
opinion because, in Western countries most people take advantage of modern techniques for granted.
5. Be very wary of opinions that flatter your self-esteem. Both men and women, nine times out of ten, are
firmly convinced of the superior excellence of their on sex.
6. From the earliest days there had been many notable women in India-poets, scholars, capable
administrators and leaders of religious movements.
7. Women all over India came forward, defying all social taboos, sacrificing physical comforts, and denying
the validity of all restrictions which had been enforced against them, to take up every kind of work
connected with national movement.
8. It was a matter of surprise to the outside world that independent India should have appointed women to
the highest posts so freely, as members of the Cabinet, as Governors of Provinces, as Ambassadors and as
leaders of delegations to international conferences, for in an oriental country such as India, women are
presumed to be held in subjection and therefore al this seemed to be unnatural.
9. Originally, he seems to have been uncertain of the response, or at least of the kind of work that women
could do in the national movement, for though he was passionate believer in the equality of women, he
seems to have been doubtful whether the women of India…
10. What the Gandhian movement did was to release women from the social bondages that custom had
imposed and conservation had upheld.
11. After the city’s rain-fed potholes, the transition to smooth roads within the campus of the Thiagarajar
College of Engineering is more than a treat. The man behind the tar-topped tracks is known as Madurai’s
Plastic Road Man.
12. The day we met Dr. Vasudevan, he was waving special gazette notification of the Ministry of Environment
& Forests dated 4th February, 2011 directing all municipal authorities across the country to “encourage use
fo plastic waste by adopting suitable technology such as in road construction…”
13. Dr. Kalam’s words proved prophetic, with full support from the Collage Correspondent, Dr. Vasudevan laid
the first 60 feet long plastic road within the campus.
14. The Jamshedpur Utilities & Services Company, a Tata enterprise, approached Dr. Vasudevan last November
for using plastic waste in laying roads in Jamshedpur.
15. The view of this world which India has taken is summed up in one compound Sanskrit word,
Sacchidananda. The meaning is that Reality, which is essentially one, has three phases.
16. The first is sat: it is the simple fact that things are, the fact which relates us to all things through the
relationship of common existence. The second is chit: it is the fact that we know, which relates us to all
things through the relationship of knowledge. The third is “ananda” it is the fact that we enjoy, which
unites us with all things through the relationship of love.
17. In kalidasa’s drama Shakuntala, the hermitage, which dominates the play, overshadowing the king’s palace,
has the same idea running through it-the recognition of the kinship of man with conscious and unconscious
creation alike.

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 18. In the western dramas, human characters drown our attention in the vortex of their passions. Nature
occasionally peeps out, but she is almost always a trespasser, who has to offer excuses or bow
apologetically and depart.
19. But in all our dramas, which still retain their fame, such as Mrit-Shakatika, Shakuntala, Uttara-Ramacharita,
Nature stands on her right, proving that she has her great function, to impart the peace of the eternal to
human emotions.
20. Yes, Mrs. Moore! (opens door and talks loudly). Come right in.
21. Yes, it was months and months before he had any sort of a job. I worried a bit, you know I was afraid he
would get so discouraged he would…
22. No firm is going to smile and say, “Forget it my boy…” no, they don’t do things that way these days.
23. Mr. Van King had brought it down to his office, intending to have it re-set.-and put it in his office safe, and
forgot it imagine forgetting a diamond heirloom worth a fabulous fortune!
24. Don’t worry! Not a soul saw us! Wait I’ll get it.
25. Are you sure Jim, that you out it there? Oh, oh…I see (laughs). You have it!
26. Yes! But you keep out of this; you’ll never get the diamond! Jim, poor Larry Wilson was sentenced to ten
years in jail today…stealing.
27. Jim: Ma! You don’t think I stole that diamond?
MA: What else am I to think?
28. Just what are you going to do with the diamond? No. Jim, keep quite a moment. Mrs. Ryan what are you
going to do with that diamond!
29. I promise! But Jim I…I… (tries to cry) I’ll never forget this night, never.

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