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Lesson 7: Sympathy by Charles Mackay all Questions and Answers | SCERT | ENGLISH

Poem Sympathy By Charles Mackay

Sunbeam English Reader Class 8 Chapter 7 Sympathy by Charles Mackay all questions answers

1. Read the poem and choose the correct options to complete the sentences.

a)The poet was in deep sorrow. A proud man came and helped him by

i.    offering him kind words
ii.    ignoring him
iii.    giving him gold
iv.    giving him pleasant company
Answer: (iii) giving him gold 

b)When the poet lay in want and grief, the one who helped him was
i.    a rich man
ii.    a poor man
iii.    a proud man
iv.    a holy man
Answer: (ii) a poor man 

c)    The poor man gave the poet

i.    a cold look
ii.    sympathy
iii.    gold
iv.    not a kind word
Answer: (ii) sympathy 

d)    When the poet’s sorrow passed, he went to the proud man and

i.    gave him back the gold
ii.    ignored him
iii.    didn’t give back the gold
iv.    helped him
Answer: (i) gave him back the gold 

e)    The poet refers to sympathy as ‘heavenly’ because of sympathy
i.    is a feeling found in proud people
ii.    is found only in rich people
iii.    is an ordinary human feeling
iv.    is a blessing from God
Answer: (iv) is a blessing from God 

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2.(a) Here are some questions to help you find out how much you have understood the poem:

i. How did the proud person help the poet when the poet was unhappy?
Answer: The proud person helped the poet with money when he was unhappy.

ii. What did the poor man do when he found the poet lying in pain and sadness?
Answer: When the poet was laying in pain and sadness, the poor man saw him and took care of him. He also offered him food to restore the poet’s health. He took great care of the poet until the poet regained his health.

iii. Why does the poet think that he cannot help the man back in the same way?
Answer: The poet wonders how to repay an act of selfless kindness. He realises that having money to repay a debt is a great thing, but kindness is a heavenly act that cannot be easily repaid.

iv. Why is the poor man’s help greater than gold?
Answer:The poor man’s help greater than gold because his way of help was a heavenly act where the proud man offered him money, but did not offer any words of sympathy.


(v).“Oh, gold is great but greater far
Is heavenly sympathy.”
Why does the poet think so?
Answer: The poet think so because he realises that having money to repay a debt is a great thing,


b)Find in the poem lines that match the meaning of the following sentences.

i) I was sad and unhappy. – I lay in sorrow, deeply distressed.

ii) I was in need and was sad and hurt. – I lay in want, and grief, and pain.

iii) He fed me and took care of me. – He bound my head, he gave me bread, He watched me night and day.

iv) Gold is valuable but sympathy and love are far more valuable. - Oh, gold is great but greater far
Is heavenly sympathy.

c) Make sentences with the following phrases:

i) look were cold: Rich man looks were cold.
ii) night and day: Ram is very hard working he works night and day.
iii) pay him back: He shall pay him back his money.

3. Below are some lines from the poem with some words underlined. Choose the correct meanings of the words from the options given in brackets.

a)    I lay in sorrow, deep distressed (tired/unhappy/angry)
Answer: distressed – unhappy 

b)    He gave me gold (money/jewelry/sheets)
Answer: gold – money 

c)    And blessed his charity (money/kind help/pride)
Answer: charity – kind help

d)    A poor man passed my way (to move past/stopped me)
Answer: passed – to move past

e)    Is heavenly sympathy (selfishness/godly goodness/pride)
Answer: heavenly – godly goodness

f)    Greater far is heavenly sympathy (the feeling of being sorry at another’s sadness/the feeling of pain/a superior feeling)
Answer: sympathy – the feeling of being sorry at another’s sadness

4. Let's have fun with words!
The jumbled words below have been taken from the poem. Spell the word correctly. List their antonyms (if any) alongside. mention whether the words are nouns or adjectives. One has been done for you.

 

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5. As you know, the lines of a poem are not always written like prose. Here are some of the main ideas of the lines of the poem, but in a jumbled order. Rearrange each set of words to get a complete sentence. Remember to start the sentence with a capital letter and end it with a full stop.

(a) deeply/distressed/was/he
Answer: He was deeply distressed.

(b) heard/a proud man/of/his grief
Answer: A proud man heard of his grief.

(c) looks/cold/were/his
Answer: His looks were cold.

(d) didn't offer/he/a/kindly word
Answer: He didn't offer a kind word.

(e) the gold/him/back/paid/to/he
Answer: He paid the gold back to him.

(f) even/thanked/him/I
Answer: I even thanked him.

(g) gave him/bread/the poor man/and/him/looked after
Answer: The poor man looked after him and gave him bread.

(h) than/the poor man's/is/gold/greater/sympathy
Answer: The poor man's sympathy is greater than gold. 

6. Read the paragraphs and then match them to the appropriate stanzas of the poem:

Stanza 1. 
I lay in sorrow, deep distressed;
My grief a proud man heard;
His looks were cold, he gave me gold;
But not a kindly word.

Answer: Once the poet was full of grief and very depressed. A rich and proud man heard about the poet's problems and came to help him. The proud man offered him money but did not offer him any words of sympathy.

Stanza 2.

 My sorrow passed -  I paid him back
The gold he gave to me;
Then stood erect and spoke my thanks
And blessed his charity.

 When the poet recovered, he went back to the man and repaid all the gold. He also stood straight, offered the man thanks, and blessed him for this help.

Stanza 3. 

I lay in want, and grief, and pain;
A poor man passed my way;
He bound my head, he gave me bread,
He watched me night and day.

The poet was lying in sorrow and in pain. A poor man saw him and took care of him. He also offered him food to restore the poet's health. He took great care of the poet until the poet regained his health.

Stanza 3. 

How shall I pay him back again
For all he did to me?
Oh, gold is great, but greater far
Is heavenly sympathy.

The poet wonders how to repay an act of selfless kindness. He realizes that having money to repay a debt is a great thing , but kindness is a heavenly act that cannot be easily repaid. 

COMPREHENSION

7. (a) Look up the dictionary to find out what is meant by the word ‘values’.
(b) Discuss what is meant by the term ‘human values’.
(c) Make a list of different types of human values. Taking the help of the dictionary, write the meaning of each of the human values you have listed. Also, write at least one stnoonym and antonym for each human value yu have selected. One example has been worked out for you.

8. In groups, turn the theme of the poem “Sympathy” into a story. You can write about four men in a village – one who is very rich, one who is very poor and two who are neither too rich nor too poor.

Hints: One man fell into deep distress (describe the type of distress)
Approached a rich man; rich man gave money.
He repaid the rich man’s when he recovered from his problems.
Later he fell sick; was nursed back to health by a poor man.
Conclusion

9. Let’s learn some grammar:

Read the following sentences
(a) Give me some bread
(b) Take me to the doctor.

 We can say these sentences in a polite way by using could and would as shown below:

(a) (i) Could/would you give me some bread?
(ii) I wonder if you could give me some bread.
(iii) Would you mind giving me some bread?

(b) (i) Could/would you take me to the doctor?
(ii) I wonder if you could take me to the doctor.
(iii) Would you mind taking me to the doctor?

Now let’s practise saying these sentences. Divide the class into two groups and give them names. Let one group ask questions beginning with will/would/can/could. The other group will give answers. 

Sunbeam English Reader Class 8 Chapter 6 A New Day A New Way all Questions Answers

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Lesson 6 | A new day, A new way All questions answers

1.Answer the following question from the lesson:

(a) Why was Seema upset?

Answer: Seema was upset because she needed rupees for her daughter Swati’s school fee and her salary was about to come late of that month.

(b) What did Swati suggest to her mother?

Answer: Swati suggested her mother that they could try the N.G.O. for some help.

(c) What happened when Seema met the lady at the office of the NGO?

Answer: Next Morning Seema met the lady at the office of the NGO. The lady took her to a large room where a group of women were stitching soft dolls. The women wore blue sarees and aprons and had Brave Mothers embossed on their dress.

(d) What did the women of ‘Brave Mothers’ do?

Answer: The women of ‘Brave Mothers’ was a self-help group. They offer vocational training in a variety of fields like toy making, embroidery, tailoring, culinary arts, mobile phone repairing and many more.

(e) What was Seema interested in doing?
Answer: She was interested in culinary training.

(f) How did the NGO help Seema?

Answer: The lady of NGO appreciated Seema’s confidence and gave her an idea of the business potential in culinary area. Morever she also assured that she would be assigned thirty of their valued customers to her and she would be given a loan amount to set up her own kitchen at home. Based on Seema’s performance, she would be assigned more customers. Since Seema needed money immediately, the lady also assured her that her loan would be sanctioned even before her training.A savings account would be opened in a bank in her name where she would be able to deposit her savings. This is how NGO helped Seema.

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2.Check your Comprehension.

Find out the meanings of the words in italics and select the correct answers from the options.

(a) Seema looked at Swati’s calm and resolute face.

(i) Sad
(ii) Adamant
(iii) Brave
(iv) Determined, firm
Answer - determined, firm

(b) “I would like to choose culinary training as a vocation.”

(i) Tailoring
(ii) Toy making
(iii) Embroidery
(iv) Cooking
Answer - cooking

(c) Her Heart brimmed with new dreams.

(i) lacked
(ii) overflowed
(iii) loaded
(iv) exhausted
Answer - overflowed

3. Here are some more words from the lesson.

Read the words in Column A  and find out their meanings in Column B. Draw lines to match each word with its meaning.

Answer:
(a) Edge - the outside limit of an object, a surface or an area
(b) Adored - loved somebody very much
(c) jotted - wrote something quickly
(d) hugged - put one's arms around somebody to hold them tightly, especially to show deep love or liking
(e) embossed - a raised design on a fabric

4. Sit in groups. Each group will take up one of the following points for discussion. The leader of each group will present the answers to the class on behalf of the group:

(a) What, according to you, are the qualities of a good daughter/good son?
(b) Do you think Swati is a good daughter? Why do you think so?
(c) What are the good qualities you have that match with swati’s? (each member will write his/her good qualities as a daughter/son.)
(d) What will you do to become a better daughter/son?

5. Let’s Learn some grammar:

Look at the underlined words in the following sentences from the lesson.

“Seema Deka drew the window curtains of her living room. Without switching on the light, she sat on the edge of her bed, lost in thought.”

Here are some common types of prepositions. They denote

(a) Place or position:
e.g. in, on, at, over, under, above, below, behind, between, beyond
(i) The book is on the table.
(ii) He is at school now.

(b) Time:
e.g. at, on, in, for, from… to, since, during, till/until
(i) she will go to office in the morning
(ii) She sat there for three hours.

(c) Cause:
e.g. because of, on account of, from, out of, of
(i) The match had to be stopped because of the rain.
(ii) Our school is closed on account of Bihu.

(d) Purpose:
e.g. for
(i) I am waiting for the taxi.

(e) means:
e.g. by, with, on, in
(i) I go to school by bus.
(ii) I will cut the cake with this knife.

Now Fill in the blanks with the correct preposition from the choices given in brackets.

(a) Seema was upset by the information . (with/in/by)
(b) Swati told her about a lady who lived here. (about/of/for)
(c) She asked Seema to see the lady at her office. (on/at/by)
(d) She was the boss of the NGO .(for/by/of)
(e) Swati goes to school by bus . (by/on/with)

6. As you know, there are different ways of presenting the same idea.

Find a sentence in the text that has the same meaning as each of the following statements. The first one has been done for you .

(a) She was very wise of her age, Seema thought .
       She looked so mature, Seema thought.

(b) He had expired a few years ago .
He had passed away a few years ago.

(c) Depending on Seema's success, she would be given more work.
Depending on Seema's performance, she would be given more work.

(d) Her heart was filled with new hopes and desires.
Her heart brimmed with new dreams and the smile around the corner of her lips broadened like a flower in bloom.

9. In the lesson, Swati tells her mother that she would call up the NGO, ‘Brave Mothers’. She would seek help from the representative from the NGO who had visited her school to create awareness on “Entrepreneurship Development and self reliance”.

Now work in pairs. Imagine one of you is Swati’s mother and the other is the lady from “Brave Mothers”. Write a telephone conversation between Swati’s mother and the lady. Note down the conversation and enact it before the class.

10. Find out from your teacher/parents/nearest bank/ internet how to open an online bank account. Write out the instructions in clear steps below and tell your classmate how to open the account.

11. Swati’s mother has set up a small catering service with the money taken as loan from the NGO and her personal loan from her bank. She wants her business to grow quickly. So she tells Swati to prepare/write out an attractive advertisement for her business to put in the local newspaper. Working with your partner, prepare the advertisement using chart paper, colour pencils and pictures. The teacher will select the best three advertisements to put up in the class noticeboard and award prizes.

Lesson 5 | Louis Pasteur all questions and answers | Class 8 | SCERT

Louis Pasteur all Questions and answers

Sunbeam English Reader Class 8 Chapter 5 Louis Pasteur all questions answers

Louis Pasteur All questions & answer

1. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS TO CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING:

(a) What happened one day while Louis Pasteur was playing with his friends?

Answer: One day Louis Pasteur was playing with his friend in Abois, a small town in France. Suddenly he saw a man running towards him, the man was very scared. Seeing him Louis Pasteur asked him what the reason was, he told him that a mad wolf from the mountain has bitten someone.

(b) What does rabies cause in human beings?

Answer: Rabies causes inflammation in human beings. Anyone with rabies go mad and die.Human beings or animals get the virus when they are bitten or scratched by animals with rabies.

(c) What experiment did Pasteur conduct on rabbits?

Answer: Louis Pasteur wanted to find a cure for the deadly disease, so he was doing experiments on rabbit and after many years of experimenting on rabits, he finally found the deadly virus that causes rabies.

(d) Who was Pasteur’s first human patient? Was his treatment successful?

Answer: Louis Pasteur’s first human patient was a young school boy, who was bitten by a mad dog while returning from school.
Yes the boy responded to Pasteur’s treatment, the treatment was successful and this new method of treatment of rabies made Pasteur famous all over the world.

(e) Where and when did the French government establish the Pasteur Institute? What is it famous for?

Answer: In 1888, the French Government founded the pasteur institute in Paris. This institute is dedicated and famous for the study of biology,diseases and Vaccines.

2. You must have noticed that the lesson has many words related to diseases. Read the lesson carefully and note down all these words in the word web below. One has been done for you.

        

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3. Here are five friends sharing information about diseases. Complete their dialogues with information from the lesson.

a) Puja, “Beware of animal bites as Human Beings get the virus when they are bitten or scratched by animals with rabies.”

b) Rohan, “Measles is a deadly disease. It can lead to intellectual disability.”

c) Pushpa, “Rubella infection can lead to ear infection or inflammation of the brain.”

d) Juman, “The Anopheles mosquito Cause malaria in humans in endemic areas.”

4. Do you know what a flowchart is? It is a diagram that shows how one thing leads to the next. Read the lesson once again and complete the flowchart to show the chain of events. The first entry has been inserted for you.

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5. Here are some sentences from the lesson.

A Man came running towards Louis Pasteur. The man was very frightened. “What is the matter?” Louis asked him. Someone has been bitten by a mad wolf from the mountain.

Look at the words printed in italics.

Can you recall which grammatical structure is represented by the words in italics? Fill in the blank spaces provided below to give the answer.

The words printed in italics are in the P A S S I V E voice.

By changing the verb forms, the sentence can also be written in the following way:
(a) A mad wolf from the mountain has bitten someone.

This sentence is in the A C T I V E voice. 
Now, read the lesson and find out other sentences in Active voice. Reframe these sentences if necessary. Then convert them into their passive forms.

   
6. (a) Let’s learn some tense forms:

We use the Simple Present tense

(i) to express universal truth:

Animals with rabies grow mad.

(ii) to express habitual or repeated action:

Louis Pasteur plays with his friends. 

(iii) to indicate situations that are permanent:

He works in the institute.

6. (b) We use the Present Continuous tense to express an action that is presently going on: 
He is working on his experiment.

6. (c) Now complete these sentences using the Simple Present or the Present Continuous forms of the verbs in brackets:

(i) We play football in the afternoon. (play)

(ii) The sun rises in the east. (rise)

(iii) Don’t make a noise; the baby is sleeping. (sleep)

(iv) Someone is knocking at the door; can you hear it?  (knock)

(v) The man is running towards the bus. (run)

(vi) The bus usually comes at 8 o’clock. (come)

(vii) He is preparing for an engineering entrance examination. (prepare)

(viii) He is learning German. (learn)

 7. (a) We use the Simple Past tense

(i) to talk about an action that has already taken place, e.g.

This method of treatment of rabies made Pasteur famous all over the world.

(ii) to show a series of completed actions, e.g.

He injected the boy with the virus and kept him under watch.

7. (b) We use the Past Continuous tense:

 (i) to express an action that is presently going on:

to refer to an action that was going on for a certain period of time in the past, e.g.

One day, a boy called Louis Pasteur was playing with his friends.

(ii) to show that something happened while another action was going on, e.g.

Many years later, when he was experimenting on rabbits, he found the deadly virus that causes rabies.

7. (c) Let’s see how much you have understood. Complete these sentences using the Simple Present or the Present Continuous forms of the verbs in brackets:

(i) Louis Pasteur died in 1895. (die)

(ii) Pasteur knew that the mad wolf was suffering from rabies. (suffer).

(iii) When I reached his house, he was having lunch. (have)

(iv) I arrived last evening. (arrive)


(v) The boys were playing football when it suddenly began to rain. (play)


8. Imagine you are the young boy who was bitten by the mad dog. You are telling your friends what happened when you were coming home from school. Fill in the gaps in the passage below with correct forms of the verbs to complete your story.

Yesterday I was returning from school alone.On the way, I saw a group of boys around a dog. The dog seemed to be mad, and the boys were throwing stones at it. This made the dog angry and frightened. The dog began to bark angrily. The boys found this very funny and they hit the dog with a stick. I was standing nearby quietly.  Suddenly the dog rushed at me and bit me.I shouted to the boys to help me. But they ran away. The dog was so angry that it would not let me go of my leg.Finally, three men from a nearby shop came out and chased the dog away. 

9. Here are a few words from the lesson. See if you can match the words to their meanings:


a) Scared – to be frightened of something or afraid that something bad might happen.
b) Scratched – When the skin is cut or damaged slightly with something sharp, such as nails.
c) Ailing – sick and not improving.
d) Virus – A living thing, too small to be seen without a microscope, that causes infectious diseases.
e) Micro-organism – A very small living thing that you can only see under a microscope.

10. Look at the pictures given below. Write sentences in the boxes using words from the lesson to describe the pictures.
A) A mad dog is chasing young boy
B) He was bitten by a mad dog.
C) Doctor injected the boy with the virus and kept him under watch.
D) The boy responded to Doctor’s treatment.

11. Look at the following sentences. They are in Direct Speech. Imagine you are reporting the conversation to someone. Rewrite the sentences in Indirect/Reported Speech. 

  a) “What is the matter?” Louis asked him.
Louis asked him what the matter was.

b) “Can you save my son?” the woman asked Louis.
The woman asked Louis if he could save her son.

c) “I’ll do whatever I can”, said Louis to the boy.
Louis told the boy that he would do whatever he could. 

12. Work in groups. Make a poster (using pictures and captions) to create public awareness of what happens when mosquitoes and animals bite. Remember to mention the (i) Diseases, (ii) Their prevention and (iii) Their cure.

13. Mamu was trying to write about Florence Nightingale for her school magazine on the occasion of World Health Day. Let’s see how prepared to write it:

14. Read the definiton given below:

A Proverb is a well-known phrase or sentence that gives advice or says something that is generally true.

Some Examples of Proverbs are-
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

The most important function of proverbs is to teach people good morals. They often contain advice, with the purpose of teaching wisdom to common people. Since proverbs are usually metaphorical and indirect, they allow writers to express their advice in a less harsh way.

Pick out the proverbs from the list given below:
(a) A white elephant
(b) Crocodile tears
(c) All that glitters is not gold.
(d) Every clouds has a silver lining.
(e) Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
(f) A Black sheep

Now, read the lessons carefully. Then, using the text as the basis, in groups discuss and prepare a speech on the following proverbs:

Prevention is Better than cure.

Remember to prepare the speech from the perspective of maintaining good health. The group leader or any other member choosen by the group will then present the speech before the class. The class will vote for the bestr speech among the groups. The teacher will suggest necessary improvements to the groups.
The speech voted to be the best by the class will then be made before the nmorning assembly of the school.

15. Prepare a quiz on the lesson Louis Pasteur.

16. Fun with sounds: Practise saying this tongue twister as fast as you can.

Four Frenchmen from France fried forty-five flying fish that fly faster than flat flying fleas.

Now, in pairs, make a tongue twister using information from the lesson, and make your friends say it for fun.

17. Refer to a dictionary or your text and give two examples of adjectives with the following prefixes or suffixes.

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DOKCHORY LEARNS ABOUT THE PANCHYAT CLASS 8 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | SCERT

DOKCHORY LEARNS ABOUT THE PANCHAYAT QUESTIONS ANSWERS

                       

Sunbeam English Reader Class 8 Chapter 4 Dokchory Learns about the Panchayat questions answers

1. Here are some words from the text and their meanings . Test your understanding by matching the words on the left with their meanings on the right

WORDS AND THEIR MEANINGS 

Institutions - an organization or society
Elections    -  the exercise through which we vote for new leaders
Sincerity     -   devotion to a purpose
Differently-abled -having a physical or mental condition that makes it difficult for a person to do all the work that other people do
Schemes  - plans
Substantial - large in size or amount
Rural - relating to a village or the countryside
Tax   - The money citizens of a country have to pay the government to help it do different kinds of work
Quarrel  -  Angry dispute, unfriendly relations with someone
Governance  - Manner of Governing or ruling

2. Complete the following sentences with information from the text:

(a) Dokchory studies in class Eight(viii).
(b) The name of her school is Disangmukh Janajati High School.
(c) Her father's name is Konke Mili.
(d) He works in the Panchayat office.
(e) Dokchory goes to school by Bicycle.
(f) She loves the ride because she gets to know new things every day.
(g) To contest the panchayat elections, one has to be above 21(twenty-one) years old .

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3. Answer the following questions to understand the text better: 

(a) What was the meaning of Panchayat long ago?
Answer: Long ago, Panchayat meant a system of Governance headed by five elderly men called Panch Gramin Pramukh.

 (b) What is the meaning of Panchayat Now?
Answer: The meaning of panchayat now is, a body that is responsible for the development of villages. Unlike the panchayat of long ago nowadays, anyone who is above 21 can contest Panchayat Elections.

(c)What kind of work is done by the Panchayat?
Answer: The Panchayat is a very important institution for social change, the work which is done by the panchayat are builds roads,  repair rural roads, houses for the poor, issue of ration card etc.

(d) Where does the Panchayat get money to perform all its work?
Answer: The Panchayat gets money from taxes on beels, bazaars etc

(e) How did the Panchayat help Dhaniram?
Answer: Panchayat build a house for Dhaniram, in this way panchayat helped Dhaniram.

(f) How did Dhaniram spend the cold December nights?
Answer: The cold December nights was tough for Dhaniram as he has to spends nights on the open verandah of school building.

4. You have just read about the panchayat. Using information from the lesson, fill in the table below:
                            
  THE PANCHAYAT

Meaning: A System of Governance
Minimum Age to Contest: 21 years

Powers Of a Panchayat: Power to raise taxes, plan development schemes and work for local development.

Kind of Work a Panchayat does: It works for the development of village, social change and many more.

Sources of Money: Taxes which is collected from different areas are the sources of money, like taxes on vehicles, river ghats.

5. The morning assembly of Disangmukh Janajati High School begins at 8:45 every day. Each student of the school has to deliver a speech according to a roster prepared by the school authorities.

When Dokchory's turn came, she gave the following speech: 

Good morning!

Respected Principal, teachers, and my dear friends. I am Dokchory. Today I am here to talk about the Freedom fighter and social reformer of Assam, Chandraprabha Saikiani, she fought to make formal education available for girls.This freedom fighter spread the message of her mission also through a number of books.Apart from this great honour, she nwas also remembered with a commermorative postal stamp in 2002.Her life story is a source of inspiration for all of us.

Imagine that your turn to deliver a speech for the morning assembly is tomorrow. Prepare your own speech using Dokchory's example, and present it in the class. 

-your teacher will ask each student to deliver the speech one by one.


6. Discuss in small groups:

(a) If you want to help the needy, would it be fine to do it immediately? Why or why not?

Answer: Yes, we should help the needy immediately,because if we delay to help them then their situation will get more worst.

(b) How would you like to help a person with special needs? Share your ideas in your group?

Answer: I will help that person giving his/her special needs. Special needs like , clothes, shelter,foods etc


(c) Did Konke Mili Plan the right thing to help Dhaniram ? Give more suggestions.

Answer: Yes he did the right thing. Here I would like to suggest that the panchayat should provide more help to the people like Dhaniram. I mean that they should provide them jobs according to their ability and also build a house and give vocational training too.

7. Dokchory will work for the panchayat when she finishes school. Write a paragraph on what you will do for your village or town when you grow up.

Answer: 

8. In class VII you learnt about reported speech and reporting verbs. In this lesson, we see more of such sentences.

Look at this sentence from the lesson:

The reported clause starts with a ‘wh’ question. Wh words are who, when, whom, whose, what, where, which, why and how. A wh-question is changed into the indirect form by using the question word at the beginning of the reported clause.

e.g. She asked her father What a panchayat was.

Let’s practise changing other question into the reported form:

(a) She said to her father, “what kind of work do you do?”
(b) She said to her father,”Where do you get all the money from?”
(c) She said to her father, “Is that enough to do so much work?”
(d) She asked him, “Why don’t you build a house for Poor Dhaniram?”
(e) She said to him, “What is a panchayat?”




There are other types of imperatives such as negative and emphatic imperatives. For example, the Imperative sentence

(c)  Come in, please.
Can be turned into:

Negative: Don't come in, please.
Emphatic: Do come in, please.

Find out how much you have understood. Change the following Imperative sentences into their negative and Emphatic forms:

(a) Repair the roads.
Negative - Don't repair the roads.
Emphatic - Do repair the roads.

(b) Build a house for Dhaniram.
Negative - Don't build a house for Dhaniram
Emphatic - Do build a house for Dhaniram

(c) Work for local development
Negative - Don't work for local development
Emphatic - Do work for local development

(d) Close the door, please
Negative - Don't close the door, please
Emphatic - Do close the door, please

(e) Please wash your hands.
Negative - please don't wash your hands
Emphatic - please do wash your hands.

9. Say the words in the box aloud:

(a) Panchayat
(b) Child
(c) Dokchory
(d) much
(e) change 
(f) Panch

Answer - Chores , 
Did you notice that they all have the sound ch?

Now, find other words from the lesson which have similar ch sound in them. Write them in your note. Add a few more and practice saying them aloud.

10. Here is a crossword puzzle for you to find out the adjectives in the puzzle to fill up the blanks on the right. One is done for you.


(a) Open Verandah
(b) Elderly grant
(c) rural roads
(d) good institution
(e) important things
(g) social change
(g) bitter questions
(h) Very cold

11. Let's play a game. Look at the following pairs of words quickly. Each pair looks the same, but are different in meaning as well as in spelling. The different meanings are given against each pair. Fill in the blanks by putting in one or two-letter(s) to show the difference in spelling. The one who completes it first will be the winner.

(a) diary: a record  of every day's events or thoughts
     dairy: a place where milk is produced to make different milk products.

(b) Weather: temperature of a place
       Whether: Expressing a doubt

(c) Lake: a large area of water
      Like: Similar to

(d) Wash: to make something clean by using water
       Wish: to want something to happen

(e) New: fresh, not old or used
        Now: The present time