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S.S.L.C STUDY MATERIAL
National
1) The Dove 2) The Beggar
Essay Writing:
Festivals/Symbols/Integrity:
Maid
Environmental Pollution
1) National festivals are
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Key sentences- 1) Mixing
celebrated to promote
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impurities to nature is
national integrity.
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pollution
2) It is needed because ours is
Essay Writing: Mass Media
2)Man is the main cause for all
a country with many states and
Key Sentences-
sorts of pollution
languages.
1) Mass media is the powerful
3) The rapid growth of
3) The important national
means of communication.
population has added to it.
festivals are Independence
2) Mass media includes Radio,
4) Industries and machines
Day, Republic Day, Gandhi
News papers, T.V. Public
that release smoke and
Jayanthi etc.,
platforms etc.,
harmful chemicals cause all
4) As all other countries we
3) It educates and entertains
types of pollution
have our own national
all sorts of people.
5) The three main pollutions
symbols. They are national
4) It creates awareness among are water, noise and air .
Flag, Emblem, Anthem.
the people.
6) The ill effects of the above
5) These three National
5) It is powerful weapon to
are bad health and making life
Symbols help to identify our
promote business, trade and
miserable.
own country.
commerce.
2 marks
6) The purpose of celebration
6) The role of mass media is
questions(supplementary
national festivals is to develop
important in Democracy.
Reading)
patriotism among the people.
7) Mass media must be free
1) Why did Bhima refuse to
7) It is the duty of every citizen
from all bias.
jump over the monkey’s body?
to protect and preserve the
8) It should help to perform the 2) What efforts did Bhima society.
ideals of freedom struggle.
make to pull the monkey out of its tail? 3) Why did Gandhiji request the headmaster to exempt him from gymnastics? 4) What notion did Gandhiji have about gymnastics and why? 5) Why did Duchess go on strike? 6) Why did Duchess dislike living in the country?
4 mark questions:
2 Mark questions: Prose
2 mark questions: Poetry
Prose.:
1) Why did the postmaster
1) What did the dove grieve
1) Describe Andy’s second
call Andy’s master a goose? for according to Keats?
visit to the post office?
2) How are satellites
2) What did the lords say
2) How can you say that
useful?
about the beggar maid’s
Vikram Sarabhai was an
3) What is ‘Retreat’? Who
beauty?
ideal manager of human
started it?
3) What is the message of
resources?
4) What advice did
the poem “Work is
3) How can we say that
Chandrashekar give to
Worship”
Sarabhai was a kind
youngsters?
4) Why we shouldn’t judge
hearted teacher?
5) How can you say that
the God?
4) Give an instance
Kalpana was unique from
5) What does the poet
to show that Narendra has a other girls?
advise the devotees to do?
powerful concentration of
6) Who according to the
6) What does Gabriel Okara
mind.
author is a civilized person? want to unlearn and
5) What was the Pandit’s
7) What are the signs of
relearn?
problem and how did
civilization according to
7) What are the different
Daksha solve it?
Nehru?
faces the poet wears in the
Poetry:
8) Who created the British a poem ‘Once upon a Time’?
1) Summary of Tartary
sense of defeat and how?
8) What did the neighbors
2) Qualities of mother
9) Who gave the British
ask the miser? What was his
3) Work is worship
sleepless nights and why?
reply?
10) What did the king send Daksha through her father and why?
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Date:
Date: To
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Give one word for the
Name the figures of
Prefixes:- (in, un, dis,
following:
speech:
mis, il, ir, non, anti)
1) A person who leads a
‘IN’ Justice- Injustice
wandering life-
1) I had a dove and the
Glorious- inglorious .
Vegabond.
sweet dove died-
Sincere- insincere
2) Make fun of
Alliteration.
Ability –Inability
someone in order to
2)Sweet little red feet,
Active – Inactive
hurt- Taunt.
why should die?-
Accurate – Inaccurate
3)One who does
Synecdoche.
Complete –Incomplete
something first-
3) As shines the moon
Capable—Incapable
Pioneer.
in clouded skied-
‘DIS’
4)One who has noble
Simile.
Like- Dislike Agree-
aim for future-
4) My mother, black,
Disagree
Visionary.
prolific earth mother-
Belief- Disbelief
5) One who foretells
Metaphor.
Order- Disorder
things by studying
5) A wild bear bearing a Courage –Discourage
star- Astrologer.
little of little ones-
Honor –Dishonor
6) A person who travels Metaphor.
‘UN’
in a spacecraft-
6) She was mean,
Rival- Unrival
Astronaut
crooked, ready to
Happy- Unhappy ,
7) One who studies
scratch like a monkey- Do- Undo
rocks and soil-
Simile.
Geologist.
7) Like a hurt bitch, she Unsuccessful
Successful-
8) One who studies the based her teeth-
Pleasant - Unpleasant
human mind-
Simile.
Fortunate –
Psychologist.
8) A jungle bear has no Unfortunate
9) One who conducts a
need for Gita-
Healthy – Unhealthy
scientific study of the
Metaphor.
Lucky—Unlucky
sun, the moon and the
9) He plans his foot
Wise- Unwise
stars- Astronomer.
steps in the sea-
True –Untrue
10) A person who is
Personification.
‘IR’
skilled in preparing
10) He rides upon a
Relevant- Irrelevant
medicines-
storm-
Regular –Irregular
Pharmacist.
Personification .
Responsible—
11) A building in which 11) He hides a smiling
Irresponsible
monks live-
face- personification.
‘IL’
Monastery
12) And in the evening
Literate –illiterate,
12) A person who has
lamps would shine,
Luck –illuck
been appointed or
yellow as honey, red as ‘NON’
selected to attend a
wine- Simile.
18) Violence –
conference- Delegate. 13) So sweet a face,
Nonviolence
13) People who do
19)Controversial –Non
such angel grace’-
something for the love Simile
controversial
of it- Amateurs.
14) She didn’t even
‘ANTI’
14) Cruel and violent
wear, like a good wife,
Terrorism – Anti
behavior- Barbarism.
Any vermilion on her
terrorism
15) An animal that is
brow’- Simile.
Corruption – Anti
cruel and dangerous-
15) White, and gold,
corruption
Beast.
and green they’d be
‘MIS’
16) Ability to move or
and cluttered thick as
Understand—
think quickly-
seeds ,- Simile
Misunderstand
Agility.
16)With all their
Fortune – Misfortune
17) Something good
conforming smiles Like ‘IM’
mentioned in an
a fixed portrait smile’- Mortal –Immortal
official record-
Simile
Perfect- Imperfect
Citation.
17) ‘My laugh in the
Appear –Disappear
18) A place where
mirror shows’ Only my legal –Illegal
arms are stored-
teeth like a snake’s
Armory.
bare fangs’- Simile
19) Some one who knows a lot about a subject- Scholar. 20) A person who loves money and hates spending it- Miser. Correct form of the
Auxiliary Verbs:-
word:-
1. Have you seen God?
1) arrive- arrival
2. Does God really
honest
2) curious- Curiosity
exist?
3) An honorable 4) A
3) examine-
3. Was it a holiday
university
examination
yesterday?
Articles: 1) A useful
5) An M.P.
2) An
6) A one 4) admit- admission
eyed- man 7) An hour
8) An
M.L.A 9) An M.A.
10) The
4. How did Duchess get
5) correct- correction
her food?
6) announce-
5. Is it a right way to
announcement
speak?
7) appear- appearance 6. Do you know the
most
8) fortune- fortunate
answer?
11) The highest
9) achieve-
7. Did you understand
achievement
the poem?