Category: Class 8

KSEEB 8th English No Men are Foreign Poem Notes Summary Questions and Answers

Textbook Questions and Answers

l. Answer the following questions and share your responses with your partner.

Question 1.
What does the poet remind us of, in the first line of the poem?
Answer:
The poet reminds us that “no men are strange and no countries are foreign”. He says that we are all ‘one’ though appearances are different.

Question 2.
What, according to the poet are we doing when we hate others?
Answer:
We are betraying, dispossessing and condemning ourselves when we hate others.

Question 3.
What are the two bad effects of war? Read lines from 16 to 19 and answer.
Answer:
Warpollutes not only human mind but also the whole earth. It destroys the man and world. Arms destroy the pure environment in which we live happily.

II. Read and discuss your responses with your partner. Then write.

Question 1.
How do you think we are all treated alike by nature?
Answer:
The land in which we live is the same for all. All of us are using and benefiting from sunlight, air and water. These are the gifts of nature and same to all the people of the world.
Like this, nature treats all alike by providing these gifts for the survival of mankind.

Question 2.
Read the third stanza carefully. What message does the poet want to convey to us?
Answer:
People of other countries are having the same type of eyes and strength. Their strength can be won by love only. We should not try to win them by war. Life is common in every land that all can recognize and understand. The Poet conveys the message of peace and love that wins the hearts of others.

Question 3.
Do you agree with the poet that we should wage no war? How do you justify that?
Answer:
Yes, I agree with the poet that we should not wage a war. We the people are living in different parts of the world. For our betterment we form countries in which we are living. We are having same physical features, common life, using same land, light and water. If we hate each other, there is no peace of life. War kills our own mankind. Innocent people suffer a lot. War pollutes land, air and water which are very necessary for life. War brings untold miseries to humans. So, we should not wage wars.

Question 4.
Some are of the opinion that the poet might have written this poem after witnessing the bad effects of the Second World War. Mention some of the lines in the poem to support that opinion.
Answer:
The poet might have written this poem after witnessing the bad effects of the second world war.
“Beneath all uniforms, a single body breaths”.
“It is ourselves, that we shall disposses, betray, condemn”.
“We who take arms against each other. It is the human earth that we defile, our hells of fire and dust outrage the innocence of air that everywhere our own.
These lines in the poem support that opinion.

Question 5.
Briefly describe how a war spoils everything.
Answer:
Poet describes the bad effects of war and gives us a message of universal brotherhood. War creates hatred among the people. It arrests the peace of life. Love, peace and brotherhood disappear from the minds of the people. Man starts to disposses, betray and condemn other. It spoils the land, air and water in which we live because of using nuclear bombs. War causes destruction of life and property on a very large scale. It brings untold miseries to mankind. War vanishes the idea of universal brotherhood.

Additional Questions with Answers

I. Four alternatives are suggested below each incomplete statement/question. Choose the most appropriate one:

Question 1.
In the poem “No men are Foreign”, poet give us a message about:
a. Internal Peace
b. Peace and love
c. War and peace
d. Universal brotherhood.
Answer:
d. Universal brotherhood.

Question 2.
Beneath all uniforms, a single body breaths. Here ‘uniforms’ means:
a. Clothes
b. Soldiers
c. Same
d. Universe
Answer:
b. Soldiers

Question 3.
“Strength” of others can be conquered by:
a. War
b. Love
c. Hatred
d. force
Answer:
b. Love

Question 4.
Poet says that there is a common in every land that all can recognize and understand. The Common is
a. Work
b. Uniform
c. Life
d. War
Answer:
c. Life

II. Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow:

Question 1.
Remember, no men are strange, no countries foreign
Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes.
a. Who says this?
Answer:
The Poet says this.

b. Who is this remind to?
Answer:
This is reminds us. (reader).

c. What is the meaning of this sentence?
Answer:
All are one though appearances are different.

Question 2.
“They have eyes like ours that wake or sleep, and strength that can be won by love”.
a. Who does ‘t hey’ refer?
Answer:
‘They’ refers to people of other countries.

b. What they have like ours?
Answer:
They have eyes and strength like ours.

c. How can strength be won?
Answer:
Strength can be won by ‘Love’.

Question 3.
“Remember, we who take arms against” each other.
It is the human earth that we defile.
a. Who is the ‘we’?
Answer:
We refers to people of the world.

b. What defiles human earth?
Answer:
War defiles human earth.

c. What does the poet remind us?
Answer:
Poet reminds that we defile the human earth if we engage in wars. We should not take up arms against each other.

III. Answer the following:

Question 1.
What does the poet mean by beneath all uniforms a single body breathes?
Answer:
Poet means that all are one though appearances are different.

Question 2.
Who are brothers?
Answer:
The people of all the countries are brothers.

Question 3.
What does ‘peaceful harvests’ mean?
Answer:
Peaceful harvests means that “to live with no hatred”.

Question 4.
What does the people of other countries aware of?
Answer:
People of other countries are aware of the use of sunlight, air and water which help them to live peacefully.

Question 5.
What is common in every land?
Answer:
Life is common in every land.

Question 6.
What does ‘uniforms’ refer in this poem?
Answer:
‘Uniforms’ refers to soldiers in this poem.

No Men are Foreign Poem Summary in English

In this poem, the poet gives us the message about universal brotherhood.
The Poet reminds us that no men are strange and no countries are foreign. All are one though the appearances are different. The poet says that the people of other countries are our brothers and they walk upon same type of land. We all die on the same kind of earth.

People of other countries also know the value and use of sunlight, air and water. These are same for all. They know the difficulties and sufferings of war. So they like to live in peace not hatred. Their hands, their reading books, their works are not different. All are same.

The Poet reminds us that their eyes, strength and life are same. We can win the strength of the people of other countries only by love. We cannot win them by any other show of strength like war. Life is common in every country. All can recognize and understand the life of others.

The poet reminds us that whenever we are told to hate our brothers from other countries, in truth we dispossess, betray and condemn ourselves only. We should remember that we should not hate people of other countries.

We should not forget that we destroy and pollute our own human earth if we fight against each
other. War creates hatred among the people. It kills the people. It not only pollutes the hearts and minds of the people but also the earth, air and water in which we are living. War destroys peace and brotherhood.

So, the poet says that we should remember to develop peace, harmony and brotherhood. Once again he reminds us that no men are foreign and no countries strange.

No Men are Foreign Poem Summary in Kannada

No Men are Foreign Poem Word in English

• beneath all uniforms a single body breathes = all are one though appearances are different
• peaceful harvests = to live with no hatred
• strength that can be won by love = only love can win over strength, not any another form of strength
• our hells of fire and dust = reference to the evil effects of war
• uniforms = soldiers (poet has soldiers in his mind)
• dispossess = to disown
• betray = to be disloyal
• condemn = to express a strong disapproval of some work
• arms = fire arms
• defile = make something impure
• outrage = a very wrong or cruel act
• starved = to go without food
• long winter = winter which lasts for a long time : here it suggests hardship and suffering
• strange = foreign, unfamiliar
• foreign = belongs to other country, from abroad
• labour = work
• strength = power
• innocence = harmlessness

 8th Standard English Notes

KSEEB 8th English Jamaican Fragment Lesson Notes Summary Questions and Answers

ILA. Your teacher reads a passage. Listen to it. Then answer these questions.

Question 1.
Why do you think Gandhiji was pulled out of the train?
Answer:
Discrimination was made between whites and blacks in South Africa. Black Africans and Asians had no right to travel in first class compartment. But Gandhiji was travelling in a first class compartment. So, he was pulled out of the train.

IRA. Look at the map and the information. Then, answer the questions given below.

e.g. Which is the capital of Jamaica?
Ans: The capital of Jamaica is Kingston.

Question 1.
What is the area of Jamaica?
Answer:
The area of Jamaica is 10, 957 square kilometres (4,230 square miles)

Question 2.
Which are the major towns and cities in Jamaica?
Answer:
Montero Bay and Spanish Town are towns and St. Andrew, and Portmore are the cities of Jamaica.

Question 3.
Name at least two political parties of Jamaica.
Answer:
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and National Democratic Movement (NDM) are the two important parties of Jamaica.

Question 4.
What is the population of Jamaica?
Answer:
The population of Jamaica is 2,447, 000 (1995 estimate)

Question 5.
When was slavery abolished in Jamaica?
Answer:
In 1838, slavery was abolished in Jamaica.

Textbook Questions and Answers

I. Answer the following questions and share your responses with your partner.

Question 1.
Why was the morning walk pleasant to Mr. A. L. Hendricks?
Answer:
The morning walk was pleasant to Mr.Hendricks because he could see on either side red and green – roofed bungalows, green lawns and gardens.

Question 2.
“The exercise is good for me,” says the narrator. What was that exercise?
Answer:
Walking in the morning from his house to the rail track and returning in the evening was the good exercise for the narrator.

Question 3.
What did the narrator notice one morning?
Answer:
One morning, the narrator noticed two boys playing in the garden of a modest cottage.

Question 4.
How did the smaller boy behave while playing with the bigger boy?
Answer:
While playing, the smaller boy walked majestically up and down and shouted in a commanding tone at his bigger playmate every now and then.

II. Answer the following questions and share your responses with your partner.

Question 1.
What sight surprised the narrator the next day?
Answer:
This time, the black boy was commanding, while the little white boy was doing everything. The dark boy was striding imperiously up and down the lawn, while the white boy was walking obediently behind him. This sight surprised the narrator.

Question 2.
What were the two commands given by the black boy to the white boy?
Answer:
“Get me a banana” and “peel it for me!” were the two commands given by the black boy to the white boy.

Question 3.
Why was the white man surprised at the narrator’s outburst?
Answer:
The white man was surprised at the narrator’s outburst because he had known all about the game and the boys were his sons.

Question 4.
Why do you think the narrator smiled at the end?
Answer:
Narrator’s misinterpretation for the game of the two boys was driven away at the end. He felt happy for his country and his countrymen. So he smiled at the end.

III. Some statements are given below. Some are true and some are false. Wrtie ‘T’ or ‘F’ in the box provided against each sentence, accordingly.

Question 1.
The bigger boy was black [ ]
Answer:
True

Question 2.
The black boy ordered the white boy to pick up the stick [ ]
Answer:
False

Question 3.
The white boy sat down on the lawn. [ ]
Answer:
True

Question 4.
The two boys were not dressed a like.[ ]
Answer:
False

Question 5.
The little boys were playing when the narrator passed by in the afternoon. [ ]
Answer:
False

Question 6.
The next day, a man was playing with the boys. [ ]
Answer:
False

Question 7.
The game that the two boys played was the same game the author had played during his childhood. [ ]
Answer:
True

Question 8.
“I know what you are thinking” said the man standing at the gate to the narrator. [ ]
Answer:
False

Question 9.
The father of the boys was white and mother brown. [ ]
Answer:
True

Question 10.
92% of Jamaica is inhabited by the blacks. [ ]
Answer:
False

IV. For each of the statements four alternatives are given as the answers. Choose the best alternative.

Question 1.
The two boys in the story are
(a) good friends
(b) brothers
(c) neighbours
(d) classmates
Answer:
(b) brothers

Question 2.
The commands that the white boy gave to the black boy were
(a) five in number
(b) four in number
(c) three in number
(d) two in number.
Answer:
(c) three in number

Question 3.
The black boy had a mat of coarse hair on his head. Coarse means.
(a) rough
(b) beautiful
(c) nice
(d) long.
Answer:
(a) rough

Question 4.
“Only we grown – ups are silly,” The question tag to this statement is
(a) aren’t we?
(b) isn’t it?
(c) are we?
(d) Is it?
Answer:
(a) aren’t we?

Question 5.
The white boy had hazel eyes. ‘Hazel’ means
(a) reddish brown
(b) pale brown
(c) yellowish brown
(d) bluish brown.
Answer:
(a) reddish brown

V. Read and discuss your responses with your partner. Then write.

Question 1.
What similarities and differences can you make out between the two boys?
Answer:
Both the boys were very young, strong and sturdy. They were dressed in blue shirts and khaki pants. They wore no shoes and their feet were muddy.

One boy was four years old perhaps, but the other was five. The big boy was very dark, with a mat of coarse hair on his head and coal – black eyes. But, the small boy was white, with hazel eyes and light brown hair.

These were the similarities and differences we can make out between the two boys.

Question 2.
What three commands did the small boy give to the big boy?
Answer:
“Pick up that stick!”, “Jump into the flowers!” and “Get me some water!” were the three commands given to the bigger black boy by the smaller white boy.

Question 3.
The author could find no answer to some questions. Which are those questions? [See paragraph 5]
Answer:
“Was it that even as a boy he sensed that in his own country he would be at the white man’s beck and call?”, “could he make a difference between himself and the white boy?”, “could he think that he was going to boss over the black man?”
For these questions, the author could not find any answer.

Question 4.
Why was the narrator surprised the next morning?
Answer:
The next morning the boys were there again. Narrator stopped and looked, just to see what the white boy was making his little servant do. But, that day, the dark boy was commanding, while the little white boy did everything he was told to do. The dark boy was striding imperiously up and down the lawn, while the white boy walked obediently behind him. So the narrator was surprised.

Question 5.
How did the two boys behave while playing?
Answer:
The boys were playing the game of Master and Servant’. They were behaving like a master and servant. One day, the white boy was walking majestically up and down, shouting in a commanding tone at the black boy, as he was the master. Black boy dragged on quietly behind him and did whatever he was told.

The next day, the black boy was commanding the white boy as the master. White boy was doing everything. Dark boy was striding imperiously up and down the lawn, while the white boy walked obediently behind him.

Question 6.
What made the narrator think that the black boy could be the son of a servant or a class-mate of the white boy?
Answer:
The Narrator saw the white boy imposing his will upon the black boy and the black boy submitted. This made the narrator to think that the black boy could be the son of a servant.

But, both the boys being dressed alike in blue shirts and khaki pants, made the narrator to think that the black boy could be a class – mate of the white boy.

Question 7.
What were the two points that the narrator wanted to clarify to the white man?
Answer:
Narrator wanted to clarify to the white man whether the blacks would rule over the whites or the whites rule over the blacks. Only grown ups were silly and had wrong notions by observing the game of the two boys. He tried to clarify to that white man that the boys were playing just a game of Master and Servant only, not realising that both the boys were that man’s sons and he was aware of their games.

Question 8.
The two boys, though brothers, differed in their colour. What might be the reason?
Answer:
The White man was married to a brown woman; because of this interracial marriage, the children born to them differed in their colour though they were brothers.

Question 9.
If you were the white man, how would you react to the narrator’s comment?
Answer:
If I were the white man, I would react in the same way what the white man did. I would tell him that I knew all about the game and the boys were brothers. I would invite the narrator to my home and introduce my family members to him and would tell him about my family.

Jamaican Fragment Lesson Vocabulary in English

VI. Column ‘A’ has the names of Countries. Choose the correct nationality from the list given below and write in column ‘B’.
e.g., America – American

A	B(Answer)
Portugal
Britain
France
Thailand
Sweden
Holland
Switzerland
Greece
Israel
Nepal

Answer:

A	B(Answer)
Portugal	Portuguese
Britain	British
France	French
Thailand	Thai
Sweden	Swedish
Holland	Dutch
Switzerland	Swiss
Greece	Greek
Israel	Israelite
Nepal	Nepalese

V2. Guess and give the meaning of the words underlined, in the table given below.

1. The stipulated period of twelve years was coming to a close.
2. How can I perform the fire sacrifice?
3. Pandavas wanted to quench their thirst. They went in search of water.
4. After seeing all his brothers lying dead, Yudhisthira was drowned in sorrow.
5. Yaksha was pleased with the answers given by Yudhisthira.
Answer:

1. stipulated	insisted on as a condition of an agreement
2. perform	act to fulfilment
3. quench	satisfy
4. drowned	flooded, drenched
5. pleased	happy, showing satisfaction

V3. Read the following conversation and use the appropriate word from the ones given in brackets.

Patient: Doctor, the wound in my   1    pains me a lot. [heel, heal]
Doctor : Don’t worry, it will   2    up. after treatment, [heel, heal]
You are diabetic and   3    so it may take one   4    [weak, week].
Patient : Excuse me, a word with you doctor. I don’t know whether it is   5   to ask you this question.[fair, fare]
Doctor: Oh! Don’t worry. Tell me what it is.
Patient: I have no money to pay the bus   6    [fair, fare]
I’m sorry doctor. I forgot to tell you that   7    week I   8    your prescription [last, lost].
Doctor: OK. No problem. I’ll give you both.
Answer:

1. – heel
2. – heal
3. – weak
4. – week
5. – fair
6. – fare
7. – last
8. – lost

V4. Fill in the blanks with words that have similar pronunciation as the words underlined.

Question 1.
Papanna and Somanna are good friends. The former is a __________ and the latter is a businessman.
Answer:
farmer

Question 2.
The thief wanted to steal. But the doors were locked. He broke open the lock with a __________ rod.
Answer:
steel

Question 3.
“Come here,” said the teacher. But the student did not __________ .
Answer:
hear

Question 4.
“Mandanna, your answer is quite right. But, for a moment will you keep __________ ?”
Answer:
quiet

Question 5.
Rashmi gave birth to a male child in Bengaluru. Her husband who was in Mysore came to Bengaluru by the __________ train.
Answer:
mail

V5. We can form the opposites by adding prefixes to words: e.g. Important x unimportant

Similarly, add prefixes to the underlined words to get their opposites.

Question 1.
Sunitha is a regular to class, but Sushma is __________ .
Answer:
irregular

Question 2.
Rama Murthy’s answer is correct, but Narayan’s is __________
Answer:
incorrect

Question 3.
Sita’s way of expressing facts is proper, but Lakshmi’s is __________
Answer:
improper

Question 4.
All should respect the National Flag. No one should __________ it.
Answer:
disrespect

Question 5.
The competition was very tough. It was Rahul’s fortune that he won, but it was Sanjay’s __________ that he lost.
Answer:
misfortune

A. Listen and speak

Vowel / a : /
You have learnt to identify the four vowels, namely / i: / as in dream /1 / as in sit, // ae / as in match, and / e / as in net.
Let us try to listen, identify and speak words with another vowel sound.

Task 1. Teacher says these words. Listen and repeat.
part, mask, fast, shark, heart hard, past, art, smart, bark
Can you identify the common sound in all of these words? Yes, it is / a: /

Task 2. Teacher says these sentences and writes them on the board. Listen, and write them in your book and underline the words that have / a: / sound.
He is my father. He works in an art gallery. His master is an old man, past seventy. All the workers there are smart and sincere. Consult a good dictionary to help you identify the sound.

Note: The word ‘all’ does not have the vowel sound / a: /
B. Spoken English
C. Reading
Skimming – noting down only the important points from a text on passage.
Refer text book – Texts A to H.
Read them as fast as you can.
Now match the topics with the texts. Two examples are given.

Topics	Texts
1. an entry in a dairy	C
2. a poem
3. a paragraph from a story
4. a piece of conversation
5. a news report
6. railway timetable	E
7. a paragraph from an essay
8. scoreboard

Answer:

Topics	Texts
1. an entry in a dairy	C
2. a poem	A
3. a paragraph from a story	D
4. a piece of conversation	G
5. a news report	H
6. railway timetable	E
7. a paragraph from an essay	E
8. scoreboard	B

D. Grammar

The Past Tense
Sheela narrates a scene of action to her mother after reaching home.
Sheela: Mom, you see it all happened very quickly. The car came straight on the wrong side in front of the school. It rammed into the back of the school van. The van driver didn’t have any chance to avoid it. It was the car driver’s fault.

Task 1: Study the words underlined above. They are in the past form. They can be changed from past to present. One example is given, Write the others.
e.g. past form    present form
1. happened       happen
Answer:

Past Form	Present Form
1. happened	happen/happens
2. came	come/comes
3. rammed	rams/ram
4. didn’t	doesn’t/don’t
5. was	is

Task 2: Fill in the blanks with the Past Tense form of the verbs choosing from the ones given in brackets, (think, take, be, return, inspire)

Gandhiji   1    to India in 1914. The great World War II had just begun. There   2    wide spread agitations for freedom all over the country. Most of the leaders   3    it the right time to strike. Gandhiji’s presence   4    them a lot. So the freedom struggle    5    a definite shape in that year.
Answer:

1. – returned
2. – were
3. – thought
4. – inspired
5. – took.

Use of the perfect form of the verb:

Task 1. Read the following sentences. Compare the sentence in the box with the sentences in the bubbles. Find out the difference. Underline the different parts.

Now frame similar sentences using the sentence in the box below.

Answer:

1. She has bought a geometry box.
2. He has bought a geometry box.
3. You have bought a geometry box.
4. I have bought a geometry box.

The Past Perfect

Task. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the verbs given in brackets. Follow the example,
e.g., I reached the bus station after the bus _____________ (leave)
I reached the bus station after the bus had left.
Note: One action, that is, bus leaving occurred before another action, that is, my reaching the bus station.
Follow the example to complete the exercise given below.

Question 1.
The doctor arrived after the patient ___________ (die)
Answer:
had died.

Question 2.
When the guest came to the school, the programme ___________ . (already begin)
Answer:
had already begun.

Question 3.
After he ___________ (walk) 5 kms, he complained of a sore foot.
Answer:
had walked

Question 4.
My friend came to meet me yesterday, but I ___________ (be) to Shivamogga, so we could not meet.
Answer:
had been

Question 5.
When the officials came out of the office, the rain ___________ . (not stop yet).
Answer:
had not stopped yet.

E. Writing

Task 1. Match the traffic signs in column B with the rules in column A.

Answer:

1. – c,
2. – e,
3. – d,
4. – a,
5. – b.

Task 2. Look at the following advertisement carefully and answer the questions below.

[Get a T. Shirt worth ₹ 200.00
Free on a purchase worth ₹ 1000.
The offer is From 1st to 15th October 2016. Choose from a wide variety of shirts, trousers, jackets, jeans.
We have everything you want. Hurry!
MEGA GARMENTS
Opp. Cake Cafe, M.G Road, Raichur.]

(a) Write the name of the dealing company.
Answer:
MEGA GARMENTS.

(b) What is the free offer?
Answer:
T.Shirtworth ₹ 200.00

(c) Write the names of dresses on sale.
Answer:
Shirts, trousers, jackets, jeans

(d) How does the dealer try to attract customers with this (advertisement)? Mention one point.
Answer:
By offering a free gift of a T. Shirt worth ₹ 200.00 on a purchase value of ₹ 1000/-

Now, try to write an advertisement on any item of your choice.
Class room activity

Additional Questions with Answers

I. Four alternatives are given for each of the following questions/incomplete statement. Choose the correct . alternative.

Question 1.
The distance that narrator walks everyday from his home to rail track lines is:
a. One and half mile
b. Half a km
c. A half mile
d. Two miles.
Answer:
c. A half mile

Question 2.
Two boys were playing in:
a. the field
b. the garden
c. the road
d. the home
Answer:
b. the garden

Question 3.
Both the boys were dressed in:
a. Khaki shirts and blue pants
b. Blue shirts and khaki pants.
c. Blue shirts and brown pants.
d. Brown shirts and khaki pants.
Answer:
b. Blue shirts and khaki pants.

Question 4.
After commanding, the white boy sat down on the
a. field
b. chair
c. lawn
d. garden
Answer:
c. lawn

Question 5.
The wife of the Whiteman was in colour.
a. white
b. black
c. brown
d. reddish brown
Answer:
c. brown

Question 6.
The walk is pleasant: Here pleasant means:
a. happy
b. unhappy
c. scented
d. difficult
Answer:
a. happy

Question 7.
The story ‘Jamaican Fragment’ brings out the ____________ that almost every person suffers
a. prejudice
b. inequality
c. equality
d. inferiority
Answer:
a. prejudice

Question 8.
I puzzled within myself as I went ____________ the road.
The most appropriate preposition to be filled in the blanks:
a. in
b. down
c. on
d. into
Answer:
b. down

Question 9.
This is Jamaica, I said to my heart: Here ‘Jamaica’ is :
a. Noun
b. Pronoun
c. Adjective
d. Verb
Answer:
a. Noun

Question 10.
Literacy rate of Jamaica:
a. Men 98 % : women 99 %
b. Men 71 % : women 76 %
c. Men 80 % : women 15 %
d. Men 70% : women 98 %
Answer:
a. Men 98 % : women 99 %

II. Answer the following

Question 1.
Who is the writer of the story ‘Jamaican Fragment’?
Answer:
A. L. Hendricks.

Question 2.
Why was the narrator amazed?
Answer:
The narrator was amazed because he had seen a small white boy commanding a bigger black boy.

Question 3.
Why did the narrator think that the black boy was the classmate of white boy?
Answer:
The Narrator thought that the black boy was the classmate of the white boy because both the boys were dressed alike.

Question 4.
On what subject did the narrator think deeply in the evening?
Answer:
He thought deeply in the evening whether the blacks were inferior to whites.

Question 5.
What did the narrator remember?
Answer:
The Narrator remembered a game of ‘Master and Servant’, that he had played as a child.

Question 6.
What game did the boys play every alternative day?
Answer:
‘The Boss and the Slave’.

III. Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow

Question 1.
“Pick up that stick, Jump into the flowers, Get me some water”
a. Who said this?
Answer:
The White boy said this.

b. Who was it said to?
Answer:
It was said to the black boy.

Question 2.
“Could it be that the little boy was a son of a house servant?”
a. Who thought this?
Answer:
Narrator thought like this.

b. Who was the son of a house servant?
Answer:
Black boy.

c. Why did he say so?
Answer:
He said so because black boy was following the orders of white boy very obediently.

d. Do you think that narrator was right in his thought?
Answer:
No, the narrator’s thought was wrong. He misinterpreted what he saw.

Question 3.
“For a whole day I went on asking these questions to myself’.
a. Who is the T?
Answer:
I refers to the Narrator.

b. What was the question he asked himself?
Answer:
The question he asked himself was whether blacks were inferior to whites?

c. What made him to question like this?
Answer:
He had seen the smaller white boy commanding the bigger black boy. So he questioned himself the whole day about that.

Question 4.
“Get me a banana, peel it for me”.
a. Who is the ‘me’?
Answer:
‘Me’ is the black boy.

b. Who was it said to?
Answer:
It was said to the white boy.

c. Why did he command so?
Answer:
As he was playing with the white boy, a game of ‘Boss and the slave’, he commanded so.

Question 5.
“Just yesterday I saw the little white boy commanding the black boy. Only grown ups are silly, aren’t we”?
a. Who is the T?
Answer:
I refers to the narrator.

b. Who was it said to?
Answer:
It was said to the white man.

c. Why did he say?
Answer:
Narrator wanted to clarify the doubts of the white man.

Question 6.
“I know all about the game”.
a. Who does ‘I’ refer?
Answer:
I refer to the white man.

b. What was the game?
Answer:
The two boys were playing the game of ‘Boss and the slave’ changing roles every other day.

c. Who was it said to?
Answer:
It was said to the narrator.

IV. Use the following words in your own sentences.

1. up and down: Move backward and forward, To and fro.
My father used to walk up and down outside the house, whenever he becomes angry.

2. beck and call: Always ready to obey one’s orders immediately.
The king always had servants at his beck and call.

3. drive away: remove, push out.
Teacher drives away the doubts of the students.

4. grown up: Adult persons
Sometimes, grown ups behave in such a silly manner, like children throwing tantnums.

V. Match the following

1. noticed	a. strong
2. Sturdy	b. saw
3. elaborate	c. idea
4. notion	d. long
5. majestic	e. explanation
	f. impressive

Answer:

1. – b
2. – a
3. – d
4. – c
5. – f

VI. Match the following with their opposites.

1. sturdy	a. bigger
2. smaller	b. white
3. black	c. servant
4. equality	d. same
5. boss	e. weak
	f. inequality

Answer:

1. – e
2. – a
3. – b
4. – f
5. – c

VII. Write the opposites of

Question 1.
Plesant × ____________
Answer:
unplesant

Question 2.
good × ____________
Answer:
bad

Question 3.
coarse × ____________
Answer:
smooth, soft

Question 4.
white × ____________
Answer:
non – white, dark

Question 5.
inferior × ____________
Answer:
superior

Jamaican Fragment Lesson Summary in English

The story “Jamaican Fragment” brings out the prejudice that almost every person suffers from when it comes to-the denomination issues like colour, caste and class. A.L. Hendricks is a West Indian writer. He describes his experience and learnings from the incident of two boys playing – Master and Servant’.

The Writer daily walks a half – mile from his home to the railway station and return in the evening. The walk was very pleasant for him because of the good surroundings. Walking was a good experience for him because he learnt something from a little incident.

One morning, he noticed two boys playing in the garden of a modest cottage. One was a strong black boy, about five years old and another was a white boy about four years old. Both were dressed in blue shirts and khaki pants. The little white boy commanded his bigger playmate. The white boy ordered the black boy to pick up a stick, jump into the flowers, get some water etc. The black boy followed his orders very faithfully.

The writer was amazed and puzzled. He asked himself who they were and whether the little boy was the son of a house servant. He misinterpreted that the dark boy might be a neighbour’s child. But, he wondered how it was that the black boy obeyed so faithfully the smaller white boy’s orders.

A number of questions arise in the mind of the writer. Whether the black boy sensed that in his own country, he would be at the white man’s beck and call or whether blacks were inferior to whites ’ as a race. So inferior, that even in their infancy the blacks realized their deficiencies and accepted a position as the white man’s servant? These questions arise in his mind but he cannot find any answer. The whole day, he went on asking these questions to himself. For a whole day his faith in 1 his people was shaken. When he passed by the same place in the afternoon, the little boys were not there.

The next morning the boys were there again, and a man was standing at the gate watching ; them. To his surprise, the dark boy was commanding, while the little white youngster did everything he was told to do.

The Writer understood that it was really a game, a game that he too had played as a boy. Each i boy took by turns every alternate day to be the boss, the other, the slave. He looked at the man standing by the gate. The Writer thought that the white man was wondering if the black race was r superior to the white. He laughed at himself as how silly the grown-ups were to misinterpret a child’s action. Perhaps the white man thought that blacks would rule over the white in the end.

The Writer tried to clarify and drive away all the doubts from his mind.
He told the white man that he may be thinking the blacks would rule over the whites. He told i him not to have such wrong notions, because that was only a game.

The white man was surprised at his outburst. He told the writer that he knew all about the game because the boys were brothers, and his sons. He pointed to the fair brown woman and said that she was his wife.

The Writer smiled and felt proud of his country and his people, and moved to catch his train.

Jamaican Fragment Lesson Summary in Kannada

Jamaican Fragment Lesson Word in English

• incident = something that happens
• noticed = saw, observed
• modest = not expensive
• sturdy = strong and firm
• hazel eyes = reddish brown eyes
• conscious = able to see, hear and feel
• elaborate = very detailed and complicated
• majestic = impressive
• commanding = ordering
• amaze = to surprise somebody very much
• impose = to officially enforce
• submit = to agree, to obey
• obvious = easily seen or understood clearly
• infancy = the time when one is a baby
• deficiency = the state of not having enough
• stride = to walk with a long steps
• imperious = expecting, unquestioning obedience from people
• abjectly = desperately, here – obediently
• misinterpret = understand something wrongly
• notion = idea
• outburst = a sudden powerful expression of feeling
• spirit = the life force
• peel = take out the skin
• now and then = sometimes, not very often
• up and down = in one direction and then in the opposite direction.
• at one’s beck = be ready to do what someone asks
• drive away = push out, remove, expel

 8th Standard English Notes

KSEEB 8th English The Little Busy Bee Poem Notes Summary Questions and Answers

IRA Read the following Paragraph

Sir M. Visveswaraya: Sir M. Visveswaraya was the Dewan of Mysuru State. As a student, he earned money by giving tuition to students and paid his school fees. He made a name as Chief Engineer and later as Dewan of Mysuru. He was always busy in some useful work or the other. He used to work for more than ten hours. He was punctual, self disciplined and straightforward. He lived for 101 years. He was awarded the highest honour Bharat Ratna.

Answer the following questions

Question 1.
What time do you get up in the morning?
Answer:
I get up daily at 6.00 O’clock in the morning.

Question 2.
Do you play or study in the morning?
Answer:
I study in the morning.

Question 3.
Are you entirely dependent on your parents for books and paying fees? If not, how do you earn money?
Answer:
(a) Yes, I am entirely dependent on my parents for books and paying my school fees.
(b) No. I earn part of my expenses for books and fees by working at the nearby farm, during the holidays.

Question 4.
How long do you study everyday usually?
Answer:
Usually, I study for two hours in the mornings and two hours in the nights, everyday.

Question 5.
Do you go to school in time?
Answer:
Yes, I go to school in time everyday, as my elder brother drops me at school.

Question 6.
Suppose your teacher is on leave and no other teacher takes your class, how do you spend that time?
Answer:
I spend that time by discussing the interesting topics that are related to my lessons. If given permission, I go to the library and brush up my general knowledge.

Question 7.
You have read the passage. What do you learn from the life of Sir M. Visveswaraya?
Answer:
I have learnt about the importance of punctuality, discipline and hard work from the life of Sir M. Vishveswaraya. These things bring us everlasting rewards in our life.

Text Book Questions and Answers

I. Answer the following questions.

Question 1.
Who is the poet speaking about?
Answer:
Poet is speaking about a ‘Busy Bee’.

Question 2.
Why does the bee sit on the flower?
Answer:
The bee sits on the flower to collect honey.

Question 3.
How does the bee build her ced?
Answer:
Bee builds her cell skillfully and neatly by spreading her wax.

Question 4.
‘I would be busy too’. Who does ‘I’ refer to?
Answer:
‘I’ refers to the poet.

Question 5.
What does ‘sweet food’ mean in the context?
Answer:
Sweet food means Honey.

Question 6.
Who does Satan manage to work through?
Answer:
Satan manages to work through a lazy person.

II. Pick out the best alternative for each of the following statements.

Question 1.
People like the bee because:
(a) it is clever
(b) it sits on the opening flower
(c) it works hard
(d) they get honey from it.
Answer:
c. it works hard

Question 2.
And labours hard to store it well. Here ‘it’ refers to
(a)the bee
(b)the honey
(c) the wax
(d) the flower
Answer:
b. the honey

III. Read and discuss your responses with your partner. Then Write.

Question 1.
Why does the poet call the bee busy?
Answer:
Bee works all through the day without wasting time and collects honey from the flowers and stores it. Hence poet calls the bee busy.

Question 2.
“Let my first years be passed.”
(a) What does ‘first years’ refer to?
Answer:
‘First Years’ refers to early years or boyhood.

(b) How does the poet want to spend his first years?
Answer:
Poet wants to spend his first years in reading books, working and healthy activities.

(c) Why does he want to do so?
Answer:
Satan uses the lazy persons and makes them do some mischief. Therefore the poet wants to be busy not allowing the Satan to mislead him into doing some mischief. He wants to give a good account of himself at the end of the day.

Question 3.
How can you say that the bee is intelligent and clever?
Answer:
Bee builds her cell very skillfully. She spreads her wax so neatly and works hard to fill every cell with honey. It is really a delicate work. So we can say, that the bee is intelligent and clever.

Question 4.
What is admirable about the work of the bee?
Answer:
Bee is busy in work. She makes use of every hour and every day. Hard working, skill and neatness are the admirable points about the work of the bee.

Question 5.
Why does the poet want us to be like the bee?
Answer:
Poet wants us to be like the bee because if we are lazy, Satan will use us and make us do some mischief. If we work like bee, doing some useful work that helps us to say what we have done. We like the bee because it gives honey. In the same way, others should like and remember our useful work.

Question 6.
Why should we not keep ourselves idle? What will happen if we are idle?
Answer:
If we keep ourselves idle, we have to suffer a lot later and we have no records to say what we have done. Satan uses idle persons very quietly and make them do some mischief.

Question 7.
What is the message of the poem?
Answer:
We have to work hard and do some useful work selflessly.

Question 8.
Which lines do you like the best in the poem? Give reasons for your choice.
Answer:
“In work of labour or of skill I would be busy too”. I like these lines. They are the best in the poem, because, bee is very busy in work and works skillfully and neatly. It is a role and live model for me. The character of the bee influences me to be active all through the day and do some useful work.

Question 9.
Pick out the rhyming words in the poem and add more words to each of the rhyming pair.
e. g. play ………. day ………. may
Answer:
play — day — may  too – do
hour — flower — sour, — power
cell — well — sell — fell
skill — still — mill — sill – will

Additional Questions and Answers

I. Four alternatives are given below each question. Pick out the correct ones.

Question 1.
The writer of the poem ‘The little Busy Bee’ is
(a) Visveswaraya
(b) Ben Jonson
(c) Issac Watts
(d) Sir Henry Wotton
Answer:
(c) Issac Watts

Question 2.
Bee builds her cell —
(a) neatly
(b) skillfully
(c) strongly
(d) beautifully
Answer:
(b) skillfully

Question 3.
Poet wants to be like the bee in:
(a) honey
(b) cell
(c) labour or skill
(d) idle hands.
Answer:
(c) labour or skill

Question 4.
Satan injures:
(a) bee
(b) poet
(c) reader
(d) idle hands
Answer:
(d) idle hands

Question 5.
The word that does not Rhyme with skill —
(a) still
(b) kill
(c) mill
(d) sell
Answer:
(d) sell

II. Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow

Question 1.
“In work of labour or of skill I would be busy too”
a. Who does ‘I’ refer to?
Answer:
‘I’ refers to poet.

b. Who is a busy worker?
Answer:
Bee is the busy worker.

c. What is the meaning of ‘skill’?
Answer:
Skill means clever, expertness.

Question 2.
“Let my first years to be passed”
a. Who does ‘My’ refer to?
Answer:
My refers to poet.

b. What does ‘first years’ mean?
Answer:
‘First years’ means early years or boyhood.

c. How does poet spend his first years?
Answer:
Poet spends his first years in reading, working and healthy activities.

III. Answer the following questions

Question 1.
Who does the bee make a good use of?
Answer:
The bee makes good use of each shining hour.

Question 2.
From where does the bee collect honey?
Answer:
The bee collects honey from every open flower.

Question 3.
Who wants to be like busy bee?
Answer:
Poet wants to be like busy bee.

Question 4.
Who finds some mischief for idle hands to do?
Answer:
Satan finds some mischief for idle hands to do.

The Little Busy Bee Poem Summary in English

In this poem, poet tells us about the Busy bee. He asks that we too must be busy and always do useful work.

Poet says that bee is always busy in working and utilizing every shining hour. She collects honey from the flowers everyday. She builds her cell so skillfully. She spreads her wax very neatly and works hard to store it with honey.

Poet wants us to be like a busy bee in work of labour and skill. We have to work hard otherwise Satan misleads an idle person to do some mischief. Poet wants to spend his boyhood days by reading books land working on healthy activities everyday. Spending the time in this fruitful way will help the poet to make a good account of himself.

The Little Busy Bee Poem Summary in Kannada

The Little Busy Bee Poem Word in English

• doth = old form of does
• improve = to make something or someone better
• shining = bright
• gather = collect
• skillful = clever
• cell = a small compartment in a hive
• satan = evil spirit or king of devils
• mischief = injury or damage
• first years = early years
• give account = say what you have done
• at last = at the end of life
• busy = actively employed
• wax = the fat-like yellow substance secreted by bees

 8th Standard English Notes

KSEEB 8th English Sir C.V. Raman Lesson Notes Summary Questions and Answers

ILA. Your teacher reads a passage. listen to it. Then answer the following questions.

Question 1.
Where was Bhaskara born?
Answer:
Bhaskara was born at Bijapur.

Question 2.
Who was his father?
Answer:
Maheshwaropadhyaya was his father.

Question 3.
Why do we, Kannadigas, feel proud of Bhaskara?
Answer:
Bhaskara was a great scientist, mathematician and poet. He was a 1 kannadiga. So we feel proud of Bhaskara.

Question 4.
Who taught him mathematics first?
Answer:
His father was the one who first taught him mathematics.

Question 5.
What is Bhaskara’s invention?
Answer:
Kala Chakra, a time clock is his invention.

IRA. 1. Look at the picture of great scientists given below. Identify them and mention at least one 1 contribution of each of them in the field of science.

Answer:

1. Sir Issac Newton: A Mathematician, astronomer and physicist.
2. Marie Curie: Physicist and chemist.
3. Homi Jehangir Bhabha: Indian nuclear physicist.
4. Dr. Vikram Sarabhai: Indian Scientist and innovator widely regarded as the father of India’s space programme.
5. Jagadish Chandra Bose: Physicist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist.
6. James Watt: Scotish inventor, mechanical engineer and chemist.

IRA 2. Match the names of Scientists from Column ‘A’ with their field of work from Column ‘B’:

A	B
1. Homi Jehangir Bhabha Radioactivity	a.
2. Sir. Isaac Newton Steam engine	b.
3. James Watt Laws of motion	c.
4. Marie Curie Space Science	d.
5. Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Plant Science	e.
6. J.C. Bose Nuclear Physics	f.

Answer:

1. – f,
2. – c,
3. – b,
4. – a,
5. – d,
6. – e

Textbook Questions and Answers

I. Answer the following questions:

Question 1.
Who were Raman’s parents?
Answer:
Chandrashekara Iyer and Parvathi Ammal were the parents of Raman.

Question 2.
Why was Raman not able to attend the school regularly?
Answer:
Raman used to fall sick every now and then. So, he was not able to attend school regularly.

Question 3.
Where did he complete his Inter¬mediate examination?
Answer:
He passed the intermediate examination from Hindu College – High School in Vishakapatna.

Question 4.
What subjects did his relatives advise him to take for B.A?
Answer:
His relatives advised him to take History and Economics as his special subjects for B.A.

Question 5.
Why could not Raman go to the United Kingdom for higher studies?
Answer:
Raman could not go to the United Kingdom for higher studies because his health broke down again.

II. Answer the following questions:

Question 1.
How long did he work at Calcutta University?
Answer:
Raman worked at Calcutta University for fifteen years.

Question 2.
What made Raman give up the highly paid post of Special Accountant General?
Answer:
Raman had a great interest in science. He felt like a fish out of water while he was working as Special Accountant General. So, he gave up the highly paid post of Special Accountant General for the sake of Science and accepted professorship at Calcutta University.

Question 3.
How did the Soviet Union honour him?
Answer:
Soviet Union honoured him by awarding the International Lenin Prize.

III. Answer the following questions.

Question 1.
What makes you think that Raman, even as a boy, had great interest in science?
Answer:
Even as a boy, he had made the model of a dynamo. During his school days, he borrowed science books from college students and read them. This make us think that Raman had great interest in science.

Question 2.
Why did Raman’s relatives ask Raman to take up Arts subjects? How did Raman react to it?
Answer:
Raman used to fall sick every now and then, and he was not able to attend school or college regularly. So his relatives wanted him to give up science and take History and Economics as his special subjects for B.A. Since Raman had made up his mind to study science, he took physics.

Question 3.
What was Raman’s first disappointment in life?
Answer:
After his M.A., Raman wanted to go to the . United Kingdom for higher studies in science. But his health broke down again, and he could not go. This was the greatest disappointment in his life.

Question 4.
Why was Raman not happy with the post of Deputy Accountant General?
Answer:
Raman had a keen interest in Science. It was not possible for a scientist like Raman to put up with the life of a Deputy Accountant General. He felt like a fish out of water in his new post. So, he was not happy.

Question 5.
How can you say that Raman had not lost interest in science when he was the Deputy Accountant General?
Answer:
One day, while returning from his office, Raman saw a banner outside a building on which was printed – The Indian Association of Scientists. At the sight of that banner, Raman got off the moving tram and went to meet the scientists who had gathered in that building.

Sometime later, when he was in Rangoon, Raman learnt that an institution had bought a piece of modern scientific apparatus. He hurriedly put on his clothes and went to have a look at it. This shows that Raman had not lost interest in science when he was the Deputy Accountant General.

Sir C.V. Raman Lesson Vocabulary in English

VI. Fill in the blanks with the words opposite in meaning to the words underlined.

Question 1.
We should neither borrow or ________________
Answer:
lend

Question 2.
Why do you feel old? Feel ________________
Answer:
young

Question 3.
Don’t stand outside. Come ________________
Answer:
inside

Question 4.
Are wealthy people really happy or ________________
Answer:
sad, unhappy

Question 5.
Eat less but work ________________
Answer:
more

V2. The pronunciation of the following pairs of words are almost the same but they differ in meaning. Use each word in the pair in meaningful sentences.

1. break	separate or part by force. She dropped the plate and it broke into pieces.
brake	Device for reducing the speed of a wheel. The driver applied the brake hard as the child ran onto the road in front of him.
2. knew	to be informed of. Every child knows that two and two makes four.
new	Fresh, recent We buy new clothes during festivals.
3. sight	View: Opportunity of seeing The sight of sunset in Augumbe is glorious to see.
site	Place where a building is or will be situated. We can construct a good house in a 30 × 40 feet site. My father had purchased a site at his native place.
4. some	indefinite quantity or number. If you save some money each month, you can go on a holiday.
sum	Arithmetical calculation, total amount The sum of 5 and 3 is 8. My father violated the traffic rules, police caught him and fined a sum of ₹. 100/-
Plays	Dramas Shakespeare wrote many plays.
place	rank or position My sister got the first place in the IAS Examination.

V3. Fill in the blanks with suitable phrasal verbs or idioms, choosing from the ones given in brackets.
(make up, put up with, give up, put on, a fish out of water, make out, break down)

Question 1.
We usually _____________ cotton clothes during summer.
Answer:
put on

Question 2.
One day, a villager came to me and asked me to read a letter. I tried my best, but could not _____________ what the person had written.
Answer:
make out

Question 3.
Great people/persons have an ocean of patience. They have learnt to _____________ difficulties.
Answer:
put up with

Question 4.
Raju’s health used to _____________ now and then, so, he had to _____________ the highly paid post as Accountant in an office. At first he felt like _____________ .
Answer:
breakdown, give up, a fish out of water

Question 5.
People should _____________ their minds to fight against corruption.
Answer:
make up

V4. Make compound words with the words given in column ‘A’ and ‘B’ and use the same in meaningful sentences of your own:

A	B
1. boy	a. class
2. time	b. post
3. first	c.  male
4. road	d. table.
5. speed	e. map
6. class	f. fast
	g. hood

Answer:

1. boyhood: Ambedkar faced a lot of difficulties in his boyhood days.
2. time table: All the railway stations have their own time table of arrival and departure of trains.
   Teachers follow their time table to go to the class.
3. first-class: I passed seventh standard in first class.
4. road map: We have to study a road map before going on a tour.
5. speed post: We can send the letters by speed post.
6. classmate: One of my classmate is very poor, but he studies well.

V5. Which words/phrases in the text mean more or less the same as the following? Paragraph numbers are given in brackets.
Answer:

1. boyhood	(PI) early days.
2. uncomfortable	(P3) a fish out of water
3. chance	(P3) hopes
4. happily	(P5) gladly
5. not remember	(P6) forget
6. morning food	(P6) breakfast
7. money permitted to be drawn for the expense	(P7) allowance
8. sympathy	(P7) pity

Sir C.V. Raman Lesson Summary in English

V6. Give the negative form of the underlined words: Using a prefix like in, un, dis, im
E.g.: a popular poem an unpopular poem
Answer:

1. an interesting story	an uninteresting story
2. a fortunate thing	an unfortunate thing
3.  a correct answer	an incorrect answer
4. a pure heart	an impure heart
5. a happy day	an unhappy day
6. an honest person	a dishonest person

V7. Fill in the blanks with noun forms of the underlined words:

Question 1.
The Teacher dictates notes.
The Teacher gave us ________________
Answer:
dictation

Question 2.
Admit Suresh to VIII Standard.
Let Suresh get ________________ to VIU Standard.
Answer:
admission

Question 3.
Literates should educate villagers.
Literate should give ________________ to villagers.
Answer:
education

Question 4.
Appoint him.
Give him an ________________
Answer:
appointment

Question 5.
Have you decided where to go?
Have you taken the ________________ where to go?
Answer:
decision

V8. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the words given in brackets:
e.g: Please give your ______________ (accept) within a week.
Please give your acceptance within a week.

Question 1.
The speaker accepted the ______________ (resign) of the legislators.
Answer:
resignation

Question 2.
We should not have too much ______________ (attach) to anything.
Answer:
attachment

Question 3.
The ______________ (discover) of the sea route to India was made by Vasco-da Gama.
Answer:
discovery

Question 4.
The teacher admired the ______________(honest) of Manjula.
Answer:
honesty

Question 5.
Have a ______________ (science) outlook.
Answer:
Scientific

Question 6.
Please don’t cause ______________ (inconvenient) to travellers.
Answer:
inconvenience

Question 7.
Make ______________ (meaning) sentences.
Answer:
meaningful

Question 8.
Why are you afraid of the______________ (examine)?
Answer:
examination

Question 9.
Chemistry is an ______________ (interest) subject.
Answer:
interesting

A. Lisen and speak

Task 2. Your teacher will say and write the following words. Identify the vowel sounds in them and write them in the appropriate column.

flee, catch, tense, spin, sleep, fan, left, mad, scratch, bid, speed, mean, span, dream, sent, please, trim, hid, hatch, split, fresh, den, sea, drench, free, mint, sketch, click.

Answer:

C. Reading Reading Maps:

Task: Look at the map of Srilanka which shows the distribution of Tamilians living there.

Read the map and the information given carefully. Based on them, say whether the following statements are true or false. Write‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false in the boxes accordingly.

Question 1.
Tamilians are over 50% in the northernmost part of Srilanka.
Answer:
True

Question 2.
In Batticola the Tamilians are less than 50%.
Answer:
False

Question 3.
The east coast of Sri Lanka has more Tamilians than its we coast.
Answer:
True

Question 4.
More than 50% of the people in Colombo are Tamilians.
Answer:
False

Question 5.
Only Sinhalese live in Jafna.
Answer:
False

Question 6.
The central part of Srilanka is dense with Tamilians.
Answer:
False

Question 7.
Kandy does not have any sea coast.
Answer:
True

D. Grammar

Task 2. Match the words in column ‘A’ with the words in column ‘B’. Using the appropriate form of verbs, frame sentences. One example is given.
Note: The verbs are given in brackets.
e.g., Vendors sell things on the streets.

A	B
A ship	Sweets
The doctor	Downwards
A dog	In the sky
Birds	at 9:00 in the morning
Vendors	The ball
Children	A cat
A carpenter	On water
Water	Things on the street
Our school	Stools from wood
The goal keeper	The patient

(like, chase, begin, sail, stop, treat, make, sell, fly, flow)
Answer:

• A ship sails on water.
• The doctor treats the patient.
• A dog chases a cat.
• Birds fly in the sky.
• Vendors sell things on the street.
• Children like sweets.
• A carpenter makes stoods from wood.
• Water flows downwards.
• Our school begins at 9.00 in the morning.
• The goal keeper stops the ball.

The Present Continuous or The Present Progressive Form.
Task 3. Look at these pictures. Write what they are doing.

a boy – running (field)
a student – reading (a book)
a girl – eating (a fruit)
a mother – lighting the lamp
a farmer – carrying a bundle.
e.g. Picture 1. A mother is lighting the lamp.
Answer:

• A boy is running in the field.
• A student is reading a book.
• A girl is eating a fruit.
• A mother is lighting the lamp.
• A farmer is carrying a bundle

E. Writing

Framing sentences

Task 1. Frame appropriate phrases with the words from the table given below. Also, build
sentences using the phrase in context.

e.g. Phrase – Slave to money.
Context: Pradeep is a slave to money.
He has become inhuman.
Answer:
1. Phrase: faith in science, faith in you.
Context: I have faith in science. We will find a cure for concern.
I have faith in you. You will do well in the exam.

2. Phrase: Interest to you, interest in dancing.
Context: The subject may be full of interest l to you, but it holds no interest for me.
Kamala has interest in dancing, but no interest in cooking.

3. Phrase: sympathy for the poor.
Context: Many rich people have sympathy for the poor and they help them in their difficulties.

4. Phrase: slave to money:
Context Pradeep is a slave to money.

5. Phrase: passion for dancing, science.
Context: Apoorva has a passion for dancing and wants to become a famous dancer.

Task 2. Rearrange the words into meaningful sentences.
1) from / learn / a little /1 /incident / every.
2) youngster / a / of the two / the bigger / sturdy / was.
3) no shoes / they / and / wore / muddy / their / were / feet.
4) Mahatma Gandhiji / weapon / his / non violence / opted / as far.
5) subject / deeply/ that /1 / the / thought / evening / on.
e.g., 1. I learn a little from every incident.
Answer:

1. I learn a little from every incident.
2. The bigger of the two was a sturdy youngster.
3. They wore no shoes and their feet were muddy.
4. Mahatma Gandhiji opted for nonviolence as his weapon.
5. That evening, I thought deeply on the subject.

Additional Questions with Answers

I. Four alternatives are given below each questions. Choose the correct one:

Question 1.
Chandrashekara Iyer was a professor of:
(a) Physics
(b) History
(c) Economics
(d) Social Science
Answer:
(a) Physics

Question 2.
Raman had his early education in:
(a) Trichy
(b) Madras
(c) Vishakhapatnam
(d) Bengaluru
Answer:
(c) Vishakhapatnam

Question 3.
Raman could not go to England because:
(a) He had no money.
(b) His health broke down again
(c) His father refused to send him.
(d) His relatives asked him to take competitive Exam only.
Answer:
(b) His health broke down again

Question 4.
Raman took a Competitive Examination in Calcutta, in ____________
(a) Physics and Chemistry
(b) History and Economics
(c) Physics
(d) History
Answer:
(b) History and Economics

Question 5.
Raman became the Director of Indian Institute of Science in:
(a) Trichy
(b) Vishakapatna
(c) Bangalore
(d) Madras
Answer:
(c) Bangalore

Question 6.
Raman was awarded for his discovery of the Raman Effect in 1930:
(a) Bharatha Ratna
(b) Knighthood
(c) Nobel Prize
(d) International Lenin Prize
Answer:
(c) Nobel Prize

Question 7.
“Fish out of water” means
(a) Feel uncomfortable
(b) Feels comfortable
(c) Fish coming out of water
(d) Catching the fish
Answer:
(a) Feel uncomfortable

Question 8.
Raman was awarded International Lenin Prize by:
(a) England
(b) India
(c) Soviet Union
(d) America
Answer:
(c) Soviet Union

Question 9.
The word that takes the prefix ‘un’ is
(a) popular
(b) honest
(c) correct
(d) pure
Answer:
(a) popular

Question 10.
Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the word given in bracket:
We should not have too much ______________ (attach) to anything.
(a) attaching
(b) attaches
(c) attachment
(d) attached.
Answer:
(c) attachment

Question 11.
Fill in the blank with the appropriate prepositions:
Raman died ______________ November 21, 1970 ______________ the age of 82.
(a) on, at
(b) in, at
(c) on, of
(d) in in
Answer:
(a) on, at

Question 12.
The meaning of the phrase the ‘put up with’ is
(a) stop
(b) tolerate
(c) wear
(d) uncomfortable
Answer:
(b) tolerate

Question 13.
Raman was a great scientist in :
(a) Physics
(b) Chemistry
(c) History
(d) Botany
Answer:
(a) Physics

II. Answer the following questions:

Question 1.
What made Raman to discover “Raman effect.”?
Answer:
Raman had a lot of curiosity in science. Earlier in his life, while on a voyage to Europe, he saw the wonderful blue of the Mediterranean Sea. This led to his work on the Laws of Light scattering in liquids and it ended in his discovery of the Raman Effect.

Question 2.
How can you say that Raman was kind and sympathetic?
Answer:
When Raman was working as the Deputy accountant General, a villager came to ‘ Raman with some badly burnt hundred rupee notes. Any other person, would have turned the villager away. But Raman took pity on the villager, examined the notes himself and allowed the villager to exchange the burnt note for new ones. This shows that Raman was kind and sympathetic person.

Question 3.
Why did Raman take physics for his higher education?
Answer:
Raman had a keen interest in science. Hence he took physics for his higher studies.

Question 4.
What did Raman’s relatives ask him?
Answer:
Raman’s relatives asked him to give up his study of science, and take a competitive examination in Calcutta, in History and Economics.

Question 5.
Name the posts that Raman served in Calcutta?
Answer:
Raman served as Deputy Accountant General, Special Accountant General for Posts and Telegraphs and Professor at Calcutta University.

III. Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow.

1. “I have admitted you to the Institute because of your character.”
a. Who said this?
Answer:
Raman said this.

b. To whom it was said?
Answer:
It was said to a candidate who was not given admission as he did not do well in the test.

c. Why did Raman gave admission to the Candidate?
Answer:
Raman gave admission to the candidate because of his honesty. That candidate had been given more traveling allowance than what he was eligible for. But he returned the excess amount.

IV. Match the following:

1. sight	Journey by sea
2. secure	Concede
3, give up	Obtain
4. put on	Scene
5. voyage	Wear
	seen

Answer:

1. scene
2. obtain
3. concede
4. wear
5. journey by sea

V. Write the opposites of the following:

Question 1.
borrow × _____________
Answer:
lend

Question 2.
fortunate × _____________
Answer:
unfortunate

Question 3.
regular × _____________
Answer:
irregular

Question 4.
happy × _____________
Answer:
unhappy, sad

Question 5.
accept × _____________
Answer:
reject

Question 6.
forget × _____________
Answer:
remember

Question 7.
liquid × _____________
Answer:
solid

Question 8.
difficult × _____________
Answer:
easy

Question 9.
kind × _____________
Answer:
unkind

Question 10.
honest × _____________
Answer:
dishonest

Sir C.V. Raman Lesson Summary in English

This lesson gives the information about the early life, education and achievements of Sir C. V. Raman, a great scientist. Sir C. Y. Raman was born on 7th Nov, 1888 in Trichy. Chandrashekara Iyer and Parvathi Ammal were his parents. Raman had his early education at the Hindu College High School, Vishakapatnam. He was very much interested in science. Unfortunately, he used to fall sick every now and then. So he was not able to attend school regularly.

He passed Matriculation Examination in I class and passed the Intermediate Exam from Hindu College and joined Presidency college at Madras for his B.A.

His relatives asked him to study History and Economics but Raman took physics and passed his B.A. in first rank. He passed his M.A. (Physics) in January 1907.

Raman could not go to United Kingdom for higher studies because of his ill health. His relatives advised him to give up study of science and take a competitive Exam in History and Economics. He did so and got the first place in the Exam. He was appointed as Deputy Accountant General in 1907 at Calcutta. He was not happy. He felt like a fish out of water in his new post. But he still had hopes of becoming a scientist. Even as Deputy Accountant General, Raman mixed with scientists and took interest in science. He used to meet scientist gatherings and went to the institutions where he could see modem scientific apparatus.

Raman left the job of Special Accountant General for Post and Telegraph when he was offered the post of professor at Calcutta University. He worked for fifteen years in Calcutta University. Later, he became the Director of the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru. The Raman’Research Institute was started in 1948. He became the Director of the Research Institute. He conducted his research in Physics until his death.

Raman was a great scientist. Throughout his life he was intensely attached to science. Like all great scientists, he had a lot of curiosity. This led to his work on the Laws of Light scattering in Liquids and it ended in his discovery of the “Raman Effect.” He was awarded the Nobel Prize for this in 1930.

Raman was a kind man and helped people when they were in difficulty. He showed pity on the poor and respect the honest persons.

Raman received a number of honours and medals like Knighthood, Doctorates, Bharatha Rathna award and International Lenin Prize.

He died on November 21, 1970 at the age of 82.

Sir C.V. Raman Lesson Summary in Kannada

Sir C.V. Raman Lesson Word in Meanings

• borrow = to take or use something that belongs to someone else, usually with their permission:
• secure = obtain :
• in spite of = despite, even though
• put up with = bear, tolerate
• give up = leave, stop, surrender
• history = record of past events
• economics = study of wealth
• hope = expectation, desire
• modern = recent times
• offer = proposal
• accept = agree, receive
• curiosity = desire to know, eagerness
• voyage = Journey by water, A long journey especially by sea or in space
• sight = scene
• liquid = A substance that flows freely. Eg: water, milk or oil:
• put on = wear
• pity = sympathy for another’s distress
• kind = showing concern about the happiness and feelings of others in a gentle manner
• honesty = truthfulness
• character = moral qualities
• honour = high respect
• fish out of water = a person who feels uncomfortable or awkward because he/she feels he/she does not belong to the company he/she is in matriculation equivalent to today’s I year PUC.
• banner = a long piece of cloth with a message on it that is carried between two poles, hung in public places.

 8th Standard English Notes

KSEEB 8th English A Day in the Ashram Lesson Notes Summary Questions and Answers

ILA. Your teacher reads a passage listen to it. Then answer these questions.

Question 1.
Why did Sangappa feel sad?
Answer:
There were no classes in the Ashram. Students had freedom to go wherever they liked. His son had been sitting on a tree watching the birds singing. He was trying to draw the birds in book. So, Sangappa felt sad that his son was not learning anything worthwhile.

Question 2.
What was his son doing?
Answer:
His son was sitting on a tree watching the birds singing. He was trying to draw the birds in book.

Question 3.
What did the Headmaster say about learning?
Answer:
Head master said that Sangappa’s son was studying nature and he was learning. But kids who are reading books and trying to by heart some questions and answers, were not learning really.

Question 4.
Does learning mean only reading books and preparing for the examination? Share your views with your partners in the class.
Answer:
No, learning means not only reading books and preparing for the examination. Learning means practice and preparing ourselves.

IRA. Some questions are given below. If you agree tick off (Yes). If not tick off (No)

Question 1.
I love to get answers to all the questions by heart.
Answer:
No

Question 2.
We should play in the evenings.
Answer:
Yes

Question 3.
I learn a lot while I am outside the classroom.
Answer:
Yes

Question 4.
Learning must be an enjoyable experience.
Answer:
Yes

Question 5.
Singing, praying, practicing yoga and drawing are also some of the ways of learning.
Answer:
Yes

Textbook Questions and Answers

I. Answer the following questions

Question 1.
Who named the school Shantiniketan?
Answer:
Gurudeva named the school Shantiniketan.

Question 2.
When does the day in Shantiniketan begin?
Answer:
The day in Shantiniketan begins long before sunrise.

Question 3.
What is termed by Gurudeva as, “the darling of our hearts.”?
Answer:
Shantiniketan is termed by Gurudeva as “the darling of our hearts.”

Question 4.
Which phrase is used in paragraph 1 to mean “both the old and the young people”?
Answer:
“Old and young alike” is the phrase used in the 1st paragraph which refers to “both the old and the young people.”

Question 5.
The boys in Shantiniketan get up early in the morning. Who else are the early risers?
Answer:
Choristers also get up early in the morning.

II. Answer the following Questions

Question 1.
What kind of work do the boys practice in the afternoon?
Answer:
Boys practice Handiworks like carpentry, mechanical work, spinning and weaving, drafts, painting and music.

Question 2.
What are Shantiniketan boys famous for?
Answer:
Shantiniketan boys are famous for their sports and games.

Question 3.
How do the boys spend evenings before they go to bed?
Answer:
Boys spend their evenings before they go to bed by telling fairy tales, reciting short dramas, singing Gurudeva’s songs and holding different school gatherings.

Question 4.
Read the second paragraph carefully. What it describes is:
(a) The greatness of the Teachers.
(b) The song of the Choristers.
(c) The lessons taught in the Ashram.
(d) The silent meditation of the inmates.
Answer:
(b) The song of the Choristers.

III. Read and discuss your responses with your partner. Then write

Question 1.
What is the effect of the song of the Choristers on the listeners?
Answer:
One can hear the voices in the distance, drawing nearer and nearer, and then the sound dies away, as the choir passes on to another part of the Ashram, and then again it comes nearer and nearer. The beauty of the sound in the silent morning air and the sense of joy and reverence which it brings, give peace to the soul.

Question 2.
How are the classes held in the afternoon in Shantiniketan?
Answer:
There is no classroom in Shantiniketan. The boys sit with their teachers, in the open air, under trees. A group of eight or ten boys sit round the teacher, asking him questions. Very few books are used. A greater part is carried on through conversation. The boys soon learn to open out all their difficulties to their teachers, and the teachers get keenly interested in the boy’s questions and answers. Classes are thus held in uniqueness in Shantiniketan.

Question 3.
How do the boys spend their evening in Shantiniketan?
Answer:
In the evening at sunset, boys return from the fields and sit down once more, for a short time, to meditate in silence.

Question 4.
How are the classes at Shantiniketan different from the classes in other schools?
Answer:
There are no classrooms in Shantiniketan.The boys sit with their teachers in the open air, under the trees. There are no larger classes. Boys sit round the teacher, asking him questions. Very few books are used. A greater part is carried on through conversation.

The boys soon learn to open out all their difficulties to their teachers, and the teachers get keenly interested in the boys’ questions and answers. It is a residential school. Boys learn to rise early in the morning. It provides a opportunity for the boys to learn freely. Where as in other schools, students sit in the classrooms.

When the teachers are teach most of the students become passive learners. They depend more on books and notes. Students asks the questions rarely to clarify their doubts. Homeworks and punishments are given to the students. There is no complete freedom to the students to learn.

Question 5.
How does Shantiniketan prepare the boys for life?
Answer:
In Shantiniketan, boys are given opportunity to learn vocation of their own taste. Boys practice handwork. Some learn carpentry; others learns mechanical work; practice spinning and weaving, become skilled draftsmen or painters and some learn music.

Boys learn to rise early in the morning. Singing in choir, meditation, sports and games, telling stories, reciting dramas etc. In this way, shantiniketan prepares the boys for life.

IV. The writer has used the phrase “living education” to describe the experience in Shantiniketan. Some features of education are given below. Classify them into categories of living education and unimaginative instruction.

Living Education	Unimaginative instruction
– Open discussion	– punishing learners.
– meditating	– memorizing
– Learning outside	– Dictates notes
– in nature	– students passively listening
– students asking questions to teachers	– bookish learning
-experimenting
-creative thinking
– identifying students’ natural taste.

V. Write a paragraph describing your idea of a good school.

My idea of a good school: A school should be located in natural surroundings. It should have a good laboratory, library and a vast play ground. High standard principles should be maintained. Rules and regulations should be set and followed strictly both by the students and teachers. Teachers should be highly disciplined with mastery over the subjects. They should be a model to the students. They should be kind hearted and sympathetic to the students and correct the students mistakes and guide them properly.

A good school gives importance not only curricular activities but also co-curricular activities. The students who shows interest in sports, singing, dancing, enacting, painting should be encouraged. Teachers should give attention to slow learners. Students should be encouraged to experiments, in their project works, to develop good handwriting and to develop

speaking skills. A good school should transform the students from raw one to refined one, and inculcate culture and patriotism.

VI. Write a few lines about your school using the following clues

• Name of the school
• Location
• School building
• Facilities- about teachers, laboratory, library, sports etc.

Answer:
I am studying in ‘Government High School’, Bellur, in Shimoga District. It is in the lap of the Sahyadris.

It is a tile roofed building with redoxide floor. It is in ‘L’ shape. It is surrounded by forests and hills. One can see the beauty of Malvad region by standing in our school playground.

There are eight teachers in our school. They are benevolent and kind hearted. They teach us well. Our Head master gives for importance for both curricular and co-curricular activities. We have well equipped laboratory and library. We read newspapers and story books. We take reference books to home to do project works. We have a good, big playground. Our P.E. teacher trains us in many games and sports and helps us to participate at Taluk and District level sports competitions I feel proud to study in this school.

A Day in the Ashram Lesson Vocabulary in English

V1. Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with the help of clues given in brackets:

Question 1.
When you blow air into balloon it becomes _____________ and _____________ (big)
Answer:
bigger and bigger,

Question 2.
As the train approaches the station, the sound of its whistle becomes _____________ and _____________ (loud)
Answer:
louder and louder

Question 3.
If you practice harder and harder, you will feel _____________ and _____________ (much) confident to solve the problems.
Answer:
more and more

Question 4.
Man has been constructing _____________ and _____________ (tall) building in the cities.
Answer:
taller and taller

Question 5.
As you move away from a tree it looks _____________ and _____________ (small)
Answer:
smaller and smaller

V2. Fill in the blanks using some and others.

E.g: Some prefer carpentry, others prefer mechanical work.

Question 1.
You can see shining objects in the sky at night. _____________ of them are planets, _____________ are stars.
Answer:
Some, Others.

Question 2.
There are many fruits in the baskets. _____________ of them are mangoes _____________ are bananas.
Answer:
Some, Others.

Question 3.
After the bell, boys _____________ went out to play, _____________ went home.
Answer:
Some, Others.

Question 4.
There are a few books on the table. _____________ of them are text books, _____________ are not.
Answer:
Some, Others.

Question 5.
_____________ of the apples in the basket are good, _____________ are bad.
Answer:
Some, Others.

V3. Fill in the blanks choosing appropriate words from the words given in brackets.

Last _____________ (week, weak) I went to a shop to _____________ (by, buy) a pair of trousers. I bought one and returned home. When I tried to _____________ (wear, ware) it, I found that it was rather _____________ (loose, lose). So I went to the shop in fury. But the shopkeeper was out. So I had to _____________ (wait, weight) for half an hour. When he returned, I shouted at him, “see, how big it is. It fits an elephant.” He replied coolly looking at my pot belly, “Therefore we offered it to you, sir.”
Answer:
week, buy, wear, loose, wait.

V4. Fill in the blanks using antonyms of the word in italics:

Question 1.
Krishna was a rich king, while his friend was a _____________ man.
Answer:
poor

Question 2.
Madanika is tall but her brother is _____________
Answer:
short

Question 3.
Radhika is strong but her sister is _____________
Answer:
weak

Question 4.
Silk is soft: iron is _____________
Answer:
hard

Question 5.
I can remember stories but _____________ lessons.
Answer:
forget

V5. Classify the following into prefixes and suffixes:

re, less, ful, mis, non, anti, ment, able, ish, in, ex, ion, ship, multi, sub, ive. One example for each is given.

prefixes	Suffixes
re, mis, non, anti, in, ex, multi, sub	less, ful, ment, able, ish, ion, ship, ive

V6. Fill in the blanks with appropriate prefixes choosing from the ones given above (V5)

Question 1.
The school _____________ opens on June 1.
Answer:
re

Question 2.
Manish eats meat. He is _____________ vegetarian.
Answer:
non

Question 3.
Terrorists are _____________ social.
Answer:
anti

Question 4.
Bakra Nangal is a _____________ purpose project.
Answer:
multi

Question 5.
Plastic chairs are _____________ expensive.
Answer:
in

V7. Fill in the blanks with appropriate suffixes choosing from the ones given above in V5.

Question 1.
He was comfort _____________ in his seat on the train.
Answer:
less/able

Question 2.
He was acting in a very child _____________ way.
Answer:
ish

Question 3.
She looked at her reflect _____________ in the mirror.
Answer:
ion

Question 4.
India has won the champion _____________ at Sharjah.
Answer:
ship

Question 5.
The rate of employ _____________ in India has been rising steadily.
Answer:
ment.

D. Grammar

Task 1. Read the following passage. Underline the common nouns. Say whether they are countables, that is whether they can be counted one, two etc., or whether they are uncountables, that is, they cannot be counted. List them under different columns. Two examples are given.

There was a merchant in a town. His name was Parashuramappa, He had many friends. They helped him in selling milk all over the town Parashuramappa loved to live in peace. Also, he always spoke the truth. These qualities endeared him to all the people in the locality.
Answer:

Countable Nouns	Uncountable Nouns
Merchant	Milk
Town	Peace
Friends	Truth
People	Qualities
Parashuramappa	Locality

Articles

Task 2. Fill in the blanks using ‘a’, ‘an’ or ‘the’, only where necessary. If no article is necessary write (ø) in blank.

Question 1.
Abdul is ____________ excellent football player. As ____________ student, he won many prizes. Now he has joined ____________ multinational company. ____________ company encourages him to play for ____________ state level tournaments.
Answer:
an, a, a, the, the

Question 2.
____________ Democracy is ____________ best form of government for all. ____________ people have ____________ right to vote. Even in ____________ emergency ____________ people do not lose their ____________ rights, in that form of government.
Answer:
ø, the, the, the, an, ø, ø

Question 3.
____________ Peter lives in ____________ same locality as I do. His father is ____________ Assistant Engineer. He loves ____________ music and ____________ sports. His most favourite sports is ____________ cricket.
Answer:
ø , the, an, ø, ø, ø.

Task 3. Look at the following pairs of sentences. Why is ‘the’ (the definite article) used in some cases but not in others? Discuss with your partner and write the reason.

Task 4. What do you understand after doing these exercises? Answer the following questions by filling in the blanks.

Question 1.
Nouns can be countable or ________________
Answer:
uncountable

Question 2.
Countable can be singular or ________________
Answer:
plural

Question 3.
‘a’, ‘an’ and ________________ are articles.
Answer:
the

Question 4.
‘a’ and ‘an’ are used only with ________________ nouns.
Answer:
countable

Question 5.
‘The’ can be used with both singular and ________________ forms of nouns.
Answer:
plural

Question 6.
‘The’ is called the definite ________________ ; ‘a’ and ‘an’ are called ________________ articles.
Answer:
article, indefinite

Other Determiners: Apart from a/ an/ the some of the other determiners are a few, many, several, a pair of, a piece of, a lot of etc.

Another type of determiners are Demonstratives namely,
this – these                    that – those

Task 5. Frame sentences using the above determiners.
Answer:
a few: A few friends are coming home for tea. Only a few students were awarded distinctions.
many: There are too many mistakes in this essay. Many of the students are from North India.
several: Our Head Master has written several books about India.
a pair of: My father brought a pair of shoes for me.
a piece of: I eat a piece of plum cake every morning.
a lot of: I get a lot of time to do home work.
this: This is a good horse.
these: These are good horses.
that: That’s a nice hat. Look at that man standing there.
those: Those students who failed in the exam will have to take, it again. Those are my neighbour’s daughters going to school.

E. Writing

Choice of words:

Task 6. Read the following descriptions. Substitute each with an appropriate descriptive word from the ones given in brackets below. One example is given.

(punctual, forgetful, flexible, shy, lazy)

Question 1.
He often promises to do things, but half the time he forgets. (____________)
Answer:
forgetful

Question 2.
She is always here on time, (____________)
Answer:
punctual

Question 3.
I don’t think he has done any work since he has been here. (____________)
Answer:
lazy

Question 4.
She finds it difficult to meet people and talk to strangers. (____________)
Answer:
shy

Question 5.
He can work in any department and it doesn’t matter to him if he is on his own or part of a team. (____________)
Answer:
flexible.

Additional Questions with Answers

I. Four alternatives are given below each questions.

Choose the correct one:

Question 1.
Shantiniketan is a school with difference where students learn with great ______________
(a) difficulties
(b) joy
(c) sorrow
(d) interest.
Answer:
(b) joy

Question 2.
Gurudeva named Shantiniketan in his song :
(a) The darling of our mind.
(b) The darling of our home.
(c) The darling of your hearts.
(d) The darling of our hearts.
Answer:
(d) The darling of our hearts.

Question 3.
C. F. Andrews is telling about Ashram to :
(a) Tagore
(b) students
(c) reader
(d) foreigner
Answer:
(c) reader

Question 4.
The First risers in Ashram :
(a) Tagore.
(b) birds.
(c) Choristers.
(d) C.F.Andrews.
Answer:
(c) Choristers.

Question 5.
What brings the sense of joy and reverence and gives peace to the soul.
(a) The sound of choristers song.
(b) Football play.
(c) Singing of birds
(d) sun rising
Answer:
(a) The sound of choristers song.

Question 6.
In Shantiniketan, classes are conducted :
(a) in the classroom
(b) under the trees
(c) in the football ground
(d) beside the building.
Answer:
(b) under the trees

Question 7.
Person whose job is making or repairing wooden objects and structures :
(a) blacksmith
(b) carpenter
(c) weaver
(d) draftsman
Answer:
(b) carpenter

Question 8.
Boys of Shantiniketan are famous for:
(a) cricket
(b) football
(c) sports and games
(d) meditation
Answer:
(c) sports and games

Question 9.
Fairy tales are told :
(a) in the morning
(b) in the evening
(c) at night
(d) in the afternoon
Answer:
(c) at night

Question 10.
Words cannot picture to you the beauty of Shantiniketan. The underlined word is :
(a) noun
(b) verb
(c) adjective
(d) adverb
Answer:
(b) verb

II. Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow :

Question 1.
“If I were to describe to you one day in the Ashram with the boys.”
a. Who says these words?
Answer:
C.F. Andrew says these words.

b. To whom is this said?
Answer:
To the readers.

c. What does Ashram refer?
Answer:
Ashram refers to Shantiniketan.

Question 2.
Our own poet and teacher, whom we call Gurudeva, has named it in his song “The darling of our hearts.”
a. Who says these words?
Answer:
C.F. Andrew says these words.

b. Who is Gurudeva?
Answer:
Rabindranath Tagore is called Gurudeva.

c. What does ‘The darling our hearts refer?
Answer:
Shantiniketan refers to ‘darling of our hearts.’

III. Answer the following questions:

Question 1.
Who founded Shantiniketan?
Answer:
Ravindranath Tagore founded Shantiniketan.

Question 2.
Who sings the morning hymn?
Answer:
Choristers sing the morning hymn.

Question 3.
What does each boy do after an interval?
Ans.
Each boy takes his asan, the square of carpet, into the fields and sits down on it to meditate in his own place alone. Later on, the boys all stand together in the shade of trees and sing their hymn.

Question 4.
What does the boys learn in the afternoon classes?
Answer:
Boys learn handiwork like spinning, weaving, carpentry, mechanical work, painting and music.

Question 5.
For what are Shantiniketan boys famous?
Ans.
Shantiniketan boys are famous for their sports and games.

Question 6.
At what time Shantinikethan boys go to bed at night?
Answer:
Shantiniketan boys go to bed at nine o’ clock.

Question 7.
What does the writer say about the life of Shantiniketan?
Answer:
Writer says that there can be no question as to the happiness of the life of Ashram • boys. Their faces tell the story of their joy and their freedom. There is not freer life in India than the life of the children of Shantiniketan.

Question 8.
Do you like the life of Shantiniketan?
Answer:
Yes, I like the life of Shantiniketan. Because it provides an opportunity to learn from the work of our own interest and it gives a lot of freedom.

IV. Match the following:

1. recitea	a. group of singers singing hyms
2. reverence	b. pray silently
3. choir	c. respect
4. mediate	d. big
5. large	e. sing
	f. small

Answer:
1 – e,
2 – c,
3 – a,
4 – b,
5 – d

V. Write the opposites of

Question 1.
worthy × ______________
Answer:
unworthy

Question 2.
young × ______________
Answer:
old

Question 3.
near × ______________
Answer:
far

Question 4.
happy × ______________
Answer:
sad

Question 5.
joy × ______________
Answer:
sorrow

Question 6.
large × ______________
Answer:
small

Question 7.
rich × ______________
Answer:
poor

Question 8.
tall × ______________
Answer:
short

Question 9.
strong × ______________
Answer:
weak

Question 10.
soft × ______________
Answer:
hard

Question 11.
remember × ______________
Answer:
forget

Question 12.
freedom × ______________
Answer:
slavery (or) confinement

A Day in the Ashram Lesson Summary in English

C. F. Andrews reveals his experience while he stayed in the Ashram. Shantiniketan which was founded by Rabindranath Tagore. It is a school with a difference, where students learn with great joy.

There are no words to describe the beauty of Shantiniketan. Gurudeva has named ‘ Shantiniketan’ in his song “The darling of Our hearts.” The beauty of the Ashram influences the minds of those people who have visited it.

Boys rise up long before sunrise. The choristers are the first to rise, and they go round the Ashram, singing their morning hymn. The sound of singing varies as the singers move along the ashram. The beauty of the sound in the silent morning air and the sense of joy and reverence which it brings, gives peace to the soul.

After an interval, each boy sits down in the field and meditates. Later, before the school work begins, all the boys stand together in the shade of trees and sing their hymn.

School work goes on upto 10.30.A.M. There are no classrooms. The boys sit with their teachers under the trees and ask questions. Very few books are used. A greater part is carried on through conversation. The boys soon learn to open out all their difficulties to their teacher.

They take a break for bathing and lunch. After the meals, at about two O’clock in the afternoon, the classes begin again. The work is chiefly with the hands as well as with the mind. Handiwork is practiced. Boys are given opportunity to practice according to their own taste. Boys give preference to carpentry, mechanical work, spinning, weaving, drafting, painting and music.

There is very little book work in the afternoon. About four O’clock, boys rush into the field to play football. Shantiniketan boys are famous for their sports and games.

In the evening boys sit down once more to meditate. At night, fairy tales are narrated, short dramas are enacted. Gurudeva’s songs are sung and different school gatherings are held. By nine O’clock all retire to rest. The choristers sing their last evening hymns. Writer says that there is a great happiness in the life of the boys and there is no freer life in India than the life of the children at Shantiniketan.

A Day in the Ashram Lesson Summary in Kannada

A Day in the Ashram Lesson Word Meanings

• Gurudeva = Rabindranath Tagore recite
• goves = a group of trees, a small wood
• choir = a group of singers singing hymns:
• hymn = a song of praise to God
• reverence = respect
• peace = state of quietness
• soul = the spiritual part of a person believed to exist after death
• square = having four equal sides and four angles of 90°
• carpet = mat for covering the floor
• shade = Shelter from the light
• few = not many
• carpentry = carpenter’s work
• spinning = The art or occupation of spinning cotton, wool etc., into thread
• weaving = To work at a loom for making cloth
• draftsman = drafter of documents
• meditate = dwell in thought, to think deeply, usually in silence
• fairy tale = story about fairies
• drama = play
• recite = sing (a poem or a story) from memory
• joy = intense gladness
• Choristers = members who sing in the choir of a church.
• amloki = a tree, like a mango tree.

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Pre-Reading Task:

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:

Mace is a simple weapon. It has a heavy wooden or metal shaft, often reinforced with metal, featuring a head made of stones, copper, bronze, iron or steel. It was used in traditional warfare. For example, Bhima and Duryodhana fought with maces in the Mahabharatha war.

Now-a-days, maces are used as symbols of authority in the emblems of a number of government bodies, universities and academic, parliamentary or civic rituals.

The Heavenly Parasol KSEEB Solutions Question 1.
What is a mace?
Answer:
The mace is a weapon.

KSEEB Solutions For Class 8 English Question 2.
What are the features of a mace?
Answer:
A mace has a heavy wooden or metal shaft and a head made of stone, copper, bronze, iron or steel.

The Heavenly Parasol Question Answers KSEEB Solutions Question 3.
What are the uses of a mace?
Answer:
A mace was used in traditional warfare. Nowadays, it is used as a symbol of authority in the emblems.

KSEEB Solutions For Class 8 English First Language Question 4.
What is a ‘Parasol’?
Answer:
It is a light umbrella used to give shade from the sun.

Heavenly Parasol KSEEB Solutions Question 5.
Where is it used?
Answer:
It is used by people all over the world.

The Heavenly Parasol Lesson Pdf KSEEB Solutions  Question 6.
Why is it used?
Answer:
It is used as a protection from the hot sun.

I. Comprehension:

A. Answer the following questions in one or two sentences each:

The Heavenly Parasol Notes KSEEB Solutions Question 1.
What was the name of the beautiful princess of Pragjyotisha?
Answer:
Amritaprabha was the name of the princess of Pragjyotisha.

Class 8 English Chapter 1 The Heavenly Parasol KSEEB Solutions Question 2.
What was arranged for her, when she attained the age of marriage?
Answer:
A ‘Swayamvara’ was arranged for her to choose her husband.

8th Standard English Notes Of Lesson 1 The Heavenly Parasol Question 3.
Who was Meghavahana?
Answer:
Meghavahana was the great grandson of a former king of Kashmir.

KSEEB Solutions For Class 8 English Chapter 1 Question 4.
Why did the priest cry out in surprise?
Answer:
The parasol of Varuna had cast its shadow over Meghavahana. So, the priest cried out in surprise.

Class 8 English The Heavenly Parasol KSEEB Solutions Question 5.
What was the uniqueness of the parasol?
Answer:
The parasol would cast its shadow over a sovereign of the whole world and no one else.

The Heavenly Parasol Lesson Question And Answer Question 6.
Why did the ministers of the Kashmir court make an offer to Meghavahana to be their king?
Answer:
The ministers were dissatisfied with their ruler. The king had devoted himself to a life of prayer and neglected the affairs of the kingdom.

The Heavenly Parasol Summary KSEEB Solutions Question 7.
What was the law imposed by Meghavahana in his kingdom?
Answer:
Meghavahana imposed a law against the killing of living beings.

The Heavenly Parasol Lesson Pdf Download KSEEB Solutions Question 8.
Why did Meghavahana want to conquer the island of Lanka?
Answer:
Meghavahana wanted to conquer the island of Lanka and teach the demons the ways of peace.

8th English The Heavenly Parasol KSEEB Solutions Question 9.
What did Meghavahana witness in the middle of the wood?
Answer:
Meghavahana saw some sort of human sacrifice in progress on the steps of a temple of Chandika.

8th Standard English Notes The Heavenly Parasol Question 10.
Why did the barbarian want to kill an innocent man?
Answer:
The barbarian’s son was ill and dying. The barbarian wanted to kill the man in sacrifice, so that the gods would be pleased and save his son’s life.

The Heavenly Parasol Lesson KSEEB Solutions  Question 11.
How did Meghavahana rescue both the victim and the barbarian’s son?
Answer:
Meghavahana offered his body in sacrifice to Chandika to save the lives of the victim and the barbarian’s son.

The Heavenly Parasol 8th Standard KSEEB Solutions Question 12.
What happened when Meghavahana was about to strike himself?
Answer:
As Meghavahana was about to strike himself, his head was covered with divine flowers of exquisite colour and perfume. Someone held back his arm from killing himself.

Additional Questions:

Question 13.
Who came to the swayamvara of Amritaprabha?
Answer:
Many illustrious suitors came to the swayamvara of princess Amritaprabha.

Question 14.
Why did many illustrious suitors assemble in Pragjyotisha?
Answer:
The suitors had heard tales of Amritaprabha’s beauty. So, they came to Pragjyotisha to win her hand.

Question 15.
What was Meghavahana’s ambition?
Answer:
Meghavahana wanted to conquer other kingdoms and impose the law against killing of living beings on them.

Question 16.
Where did the plaintive call that Meghavahana heard come from?
Answer:
It came from a nearby wood.

Question 17.
What did the barbarian say when Meghavahana offered himself in sacrifice to Chandika?
Answer:
The barbarian could not believe himself. He told Meghavahana that he was a king and his life should be protected at all times. He said that the life of the victim was of no significance and asked Meghavahana not to show any pity or compassion to the victim.

Question 18.
Why had god Varuna come there?
Answer:
God Varuna had come to reclaim his parasol.

Question 19.
Who had taken away god Varuna’s parasol?
Answer:
The parasol was carried away by Bhauma, the father of Meghavahana’s father-in-law.

Question 20.
What powers did the parasol have?
Answer:
The parasol had the powers to put an end to calamities in a land.

Question 21.
What boon did Meghavahana ask Varuna?
Answer:
Meghavahana requested Varuna to help him cross the sea.

Question 22.
Who was the king of Lanka?
Answer:
Vibhishana was the king of Lanka.

Question 23.
How did Meghavahana conquer the island of Lanka?
Answer:
Meghavahana assembled his army on the shore of the sea. The waves of the sea frightened the soldiers. Meghavahana rode on his horse and entered the sea. All at once, the seawater parted and there was a clear path to cross the sea. Meghavahana reached Lanka with his army and won over its king Vibhishana, in friendship.

Question 24.
Why was Amritaprabha confused? What did she ask Meghavahana?
Answer:
Amritaprabha was confused because Meghavahana had returned without the heavenly parasol. The parasol had never left his side till then. She asked him where the parasol was.

Question 25.
What did Meghavahana tell Amritaprabha about the parasol?
Answer:
Meghavahana said that the parasol did not belong to him. It had been returned to its rightful owner. He hoped the divine owner of the parasol would guide him through his life.

B. Answer the following in about 150-200 words each:

Question 1.
Describe the incident of how Meghavahana got the heavenly parasol.
Answer:
Amritaprabha, the princess of Pragjyotisha, was a beautiful young girl. When she attained marriageable age, her father, the king, arranged a swayamvara, so that she could choose her husband. Many famous young men who wanted to marry her assembled in Pragjyotisha. Meghavahana, the prince of Kashmir, also came there. Amritaprabha came into the court where her suitors were sitting. She garlanded Meghavahana. Meghavahana was very happy. He and his bride went near the king to seek his blessings. All of a sudden the heavenly parasol of Varuna appeared beside Meghavahana and cast its shadow over him. The king said that the parasol favoured only the sovereign of the whole world and that he was going to be very famous.

Question 2.
How did Varuna, the Lord of the Seas, test Meghavahana’s nobility of mind?
Answer:
Meghavahana became the king of Kashmir. He passed a law against killing of living beings. Once, on his expedition, he and his army were taking rest in the shadow of the palm groves. He heard the plaintive call of a man.

Meghavahana went in search of the man and came near a Durga temple where a barbarian was about to kill a man. Meghavahana ordered the barbarian to stop and asked him why he was killing the man. The barbarian said that his son was suffering from a fatal disease and was on his death bed. He wanted to kill the victim in sacrifice and appease the gods. He hoped the gods would save his son’s life.

He pleaded with the king to allow him to kill the innocent man to save his son and relatives. Meghavahana decided to save the victim and the dying boy. He asked the barbarian to kill him and offer his body in sacrifice to goddess Durga. When the barbarian refused to kill him, Meghavahana drew out his sword and was about to strike himself. Then, someone held back his hand. He turned round and saw god Varuna appear before him. The ailing boy, the victim and the barbarian had vanished by then. God Varuna said that he had created that illusion to test Meghavahana’s nobility of mind.

II. Read the following statements and answer the questions that follow:

1. “It casts its shade on none else but a sovereign of the whole world… ”

Question a.
Who said this?
Answer:
The king of Pragjyotisha said this.

Question b.
Who was it said to?
Answer:
It was said to Meghavahana.

Question c.
When was it said?
Answer:
When the parasol of Varuna appeared beside Meghavahana and cast its shadow over him.

2. “You wretch You dare to threaten another’s life in my realm.”

Question a.
Who said this?
Answer:
King Meghavahana said this.

Question b.
To whom was it said?
Answer:
It was said to the barbarian.

Question c.
Why was it said?
Answer:
The barbarian was about to kill a man in sacrifice.

3. “If you cannot bring yourself to strike at me, I will use my own sword for the purpose.”

Question a.
Who said this?
Answer:
King Meghavahana said this.

Question b.
Who was the listener?
Answer:
The barbarian.

Question c.
What meaning does this sentence convey?
Answer:
The king asked the barbarian to kill him in sacrifice. The barbarian refused to do so. The king said that he would kill himself with his own sword.

Multiple Choice Questions:

Four alternatives are given for each of the following questions/ incomplete statements. Choose the most appropriate alternative.

Question 1.
One of the suitors who came to the swayamvara at Pragjyotisha was
A) Varuna
B) Meghavahana
C) a barbarian
D) Vibhishana
Answer:
B) Meghavahana

Question 2.
Amritaprabha was the princess of
A) Lanka
B) Kashmir
C) Mathura
D) Pragjyotisha
Answer:
D) Pragjyotisha

Question 3.
Meghavahana rose to his feet unable to contain his joy because
A) to his surprise, Amritaprabha garlanded him
B) he got hold of the parasol
C) he was made the king of Kashmir
D) the waters parted as soon as he plunged into the ocean
Answer:
A) to his surprise, Amritaprabha garlanded him

Question 4.
The priest cried out in surprise because
A) the parasol of Varuna cast its shadow over the prince
B) Amritaprabha garlanded Meghavahana
C) the couple moved forward to seek the king’s blessings
D) the king stepped down from his throne
Answer:
A) the parasol of Varuna cast its shadow over the prince

Question 5.
The parasol belonged to
A) Bhauma
B) Varuna
C) Vibhishana
D) Meghavahana
Answer:
B) Varuna

Question 6.
The parasol cast its shadow only on
A) kings
B) princes
C) a sovereign of the whole world
D) barbarians
Answer:
C) a sovereign of the whole world

Question 7.
The person on whom the parasol cast its shadow was destined
A) to become the king
B) for glory and brilliance
C) to marry a princess
D) to conquer the island of Lanka
Answer:
B) for glory and brilliance

Question 8.
The ministers of the Kashmir court offered the throne to Meghavahana because
A) they were dissatisfied with their present ruler
B) the ruler had devoted himself to a life of prayer
C) the ruler had neglected the affairs of the kingdom
D) all of the above
Answer:
D) all of the above

Question 9.
Meghavahana wanted to conquer the island of Lanka because
A) he wanted to get the parasol from Vibhishana
B) he wanted, to impose the law against killing of living beings on them
C) he wanted to teach the demons the ways of peace
D) he wanted to become the sovereign of the whole world
Answer:
C) he wanted to teach the demons the ways of peace

Question 10.
The barbarian wanted to kill the man
A) to please the Gods and save his son’s life
B) as he was hungry
C) as he was wandering alone in the forest.
D) because the man’s life was of no significance
Answer:
A) to please the Gods and save his son’s life

Question 11.
The king drew out his sword because
A) he wanted to kill the barbarian
B) he wanted to kill the man.
C) he pitied the victim
D) he wanted to save the victim as well as the barbarian’s son
Answer:
D) he wanted to save the victim as well as the barbarian’s son

Question 12.
As Meghavahana was about to strike himself
A) the parasol saved him
B) someone held back his hand
C) a person of heavenly appearance saved him
D) the barbarian, the victim and the ailing boy vanished
Answer:
B) someone held back his hand

Question 13.
Meghavahana’s arm was held back by
A) Varuna
B) Bhauma
C) Vibhishana
D) Amritaprabha
Answer:
A) Varuna

Question 14.
The parasol of Varuna was carried away by
A) Meghavahana
B) Vibhishana
C) Bhauma
D) Amritaprabha
Answer:
C) Bhauma

Question 15.
Varuna created the illusion because
A) he wanted to get back his parasol
B) he wanted to help Meghavahana reach Lanka
C) he wanted to make Meghavahana the sovereign of the whole world
D) he wanted to test Meghavahana’s nobility of mind
Answer:
D) he wanted to test Meghavahana’s nobility of mind

Question 16.
Varuna promised to help Meghavahana cross over to Lanka by
A) pulling away the water of the ocean
B) using the power of the parasol
C) plunging into the foaming ocean
D) carrying him on his shoulders
Answer:
A) pulling away the water of the ocean

Question 17.
The king of Lanka was
A) Ravana
B) Vibhishana
C) Dushyasana
D) Bhauma
Answer:
B) Vibhishana

Question 18.
Amritaprabha looked around in confusion because
A) the skies darkened suddenly
B) the parasol was still with Meghavahana
C) she was surprised to see him return so soon
D) she did not see the parasol
Answer:
D) she did not see the parasol

Question 19.
Meghavahana was
A) the king of Pragjyotisha
B) the great grandson of a former king of Kashmir
C) the brother of Vibhishana
D) the king of Lanka
Answer:
B) the great grandson of a former king of Kashmir

Question 20.
What was unique about the parasol?
A) It could cast its shadow even from heaven.
B) It belonged to the Gods.
C) It had the power to quell calamities.
D) It would cast its shadow only over a sovereign of the whole world
Answer:
D) It would cast its shadow only over a sovereign of the whole world

Question 21.
In the middle of the wood, Meghavahana witnessed
A) a parasol casting its shadow
B) a sort of human sacrifice
C) an ailing boy
D) a person of heavenly appearance
Answer:
B) a sort of human sacrifice

Question 22.
Meghavahana rescued both the victim and the barbarian’s son by
A) making them disappear
B) taking them to Lanka
C) offering to kill himself in sacrifice
D) using the power of the parasol
Answer:
C) offering to kill himself in sacrifice

Question 23.
Illustrious suitors assembled at Pragjyotisha to
A) win the hand of Amritaprabha
B) see the power of the parasol
C) see the beauty of Amritaprabha
D) see Meghavahana crowned king
Answer:
A) win the hand of Amritaprabha

III. Language Activity:

Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions:

1. Due to heavy rainfall the huge tree fell ………….. and unfortunately Shamu was caught ……………. the tree. (under, down, below)
2. There is a roof us …………. . (above, over)
3. I bought a gift ……………. my brother. (to, for)
4. Sheetal took leave …………….. her office. (of, from)
5. They climbed …………… the stairs, went the ………….. terrace to have a view of the star studded sky. (on, up, above)
6. I have to go to a meeting …………….. 12-30 p.m.(at, on)
7. I cried “Help, Help” when the boy fell ……………… the well. ‘ (down, into)
8. Shika travels …………….. Chandigarh …………. Delhi every week. (on, from, to)
9. My sister’s wedding is Hotel Taj, ……………. Mumbai. (in, on, at)
10. Shashank took an express bus to Mysore, which goes ……………… Mandya. (by, through)

Answers:

1. down, under
2. over
3. for
4. from
5. up, on
6. at
7. into
8. from, to
9. at, in
10. through

IV. Dictionary Use:

A. Choose the appropriate specialists given below in brackets for the following ailments:
[Gynaecologist, Paediatrician, Obstetrician, Dermatologist, Ophthalmologist, Cardiologist, Psychiatrist, Psychologist, Orthopaedician, Physiotherapist]

1. Sheela has got white patches on her skin. She needs to consult a …………….. .
2. Priya cannot see the letters on the board. She has to see an ……………….. .
3. The child is suffering from fever. The parents have to take him to a …………. .
4. Kiran fell from the cycle and his bones got injured. He immediately consulted an ………… .
5. Students are under stress due to their exams. They should have a session with a …………… .
6. My grandfather had a pain in the chest. We took him to a …………….. .
7. This person has really gone mad. He needs the help of a ……………….. .
8. Rohan always suffers from muscle catch and cramps. So, he always visits his ………….. .
9. Ritu introduced me to a ……………… who delivered her baby.
10. A ……………. specialises in treating the ailments of women.

Answers:

1. Dermatologist
2. Ophthalmologist
3. Pediatrician
4. Orthopaedician
5. Psychologist
6. Cardiologist
7. Psychiatrist
8. Physiotherapist
9. Obstetrician
10. Gynecologist

VII. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate word chosen from the brackets:

1. I can’t you from such a distance. Come …….. and tell me. [here, hear]
2. Arjun used …………. formula to solve the [sum, some]
3. Veena has of rupees but still she ……….. peace. [lacks, lakhs]
4. Two years ago, the shop was and so it …………. to exist. [ceased, seized]
5. We should …………. how to say without hurting others. [no, know]

Answers:

1. hear, here
2. some, sum
3. lakhs, lacks
4. seized, ceased
5. know, no.

VIII. Reading Activity:

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:

Alexander Fleming
His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to eke out a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.

The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up at the Scotsman’s sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.

“I want to repay you”, said the nobleman. “You saved my son’s life.” “No, I can’t accept payment for what I did”, the Scottish farmer replied, waving aside the offer. At that moment, the farmer’s own son came to the door of the family hovel.

“Is that your son?” the nobleman asked. “Yes,” the farmer replied proudly. “I’ll make you a deal. Let me take him and give him a good education. If the lad is anything like his father, he’ll grow into a man you can be proud of”, said the nobleman. And that he did.

In time, Farmer Fleming’s son graduated from St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin. Years afterward, the nobleman’s son was stricken with pneumonia. What saved him? Penicillin. The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill. His son’s name? Sir Winston Churchill.

IX. Answer the following as directed:

Question 1.
Find the meanings of the following words: (Take the help of a dictionary)
a) bog
b) muck
c) lad
d) sparse
e) hovel
f) pneumonia.
Answer:
a) bog – an area of wet soft ground
b) muck – dirt or mud
c) lad – boy
d) sparse – thin and scattered
e) hovel – a small house that is not fit to live in because it is damp, dirty, etc.
f) pneumonia – a serious illness affecting the lungs.

Question 2.
Farmer Fleming saved the boy from
Answer:
a slow and terrifying death.

Question 3.
What was the deal made by the nobleman with Farmer Fleming?
Answer:
The nobleman offered to take farmer Fleming’s son and give him a good education.

Question 4.
Farmer Fleming’s son graduated from
Answer:
St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London.

Question 5.
Who was Farmer Fleming’s son?
Answer:
Alexander Fleming was farmer Fleming’s son.

Question 6.
The nobleman’s son suffered from
Answer: pneumonia.

Question 7.
What is the lesson you learn from the story?
Answer:
If you help others someone else will help you. Kindness begets kindness.

Question 8.
The nobleman’s son was (Fill in the blank)
Answer:
Sir Winston Churchill.

X. Fill the missing letters in the adjectives:

Eg: The character of a person who gets angry very fast:

short-tempered

1. The character of a person who always remains calm and poised: c _ _p_s_d
2. The character of a person who is concerned too much with his own needs or wishes: s_ _ f_s_.
3. The character of a person which is compared to a fox: c_n_ _ng
4. The character of a person who is careful and precise in everything: m_t_cu_o_s
5. The character of a person who exhibits very strong emotions or intense enthusiasm for something: p_ss_ _n_t_.

Answers:

1. c o m p o s e d
2. s e l f i s h
3. c u n n i n g.
4. m e t i c u l o u s
5. p a s s i o n a t e

The Heavenly Parasol Summary in English

Amritaprabha was the princess of Pragjyotisha. She was a beautiful young lady. When she attained the age of marriage, the king arranged a swayamvara. She was free to choose her husband. Many suitors, who had heard of her great beauty, came to Pragjyotisha to marry her.

Meghavahana, the prince of Kashmir, also came there. Amritaprabha entered the court hall, had a look at all the suitors and then put the garland around Meghavahana’s neck. He became very happy. Meghavahana and Amritaprabha moved towards the king to take his blessings. The priest cried out in surprise saying that the parasol of Varuna had cast his shadow over the prince. The king also noticed it and said to Meghavahana that he was favoured by the gods. Meghavahana saw by his side, a beautiful, dazzling, white parasol with exquisite decorations that was casting its shadow over him.

The king explained that it was the parasol of Varuna, the god of the seas, and it cast its shadow only on a sovereign of the whole world. The king was sure that Meghavahana was destined to become great and famous. Meghavahana was happy with the good omens. He returned home with Amritaprabha and the heavenly parasol. The then ruler of Kashmir had taken to a life of prayer and neglected the affairs of the kingdom. The ministers requested Meghavahana to become their king for he was brave, famous and good natured. Meghavahana accepted their offer and became the king.

Meghavahana passed a law against the killing of living beings in his kingdom. His ambition was to conquer other kingdoms and impose that law on them also. He set out to fulfil his ambition. Once, he was resting near the sea in the shade of palm groves, with his army. He thought of conquering the island of Lanka and teach the demons the peaceful ways of life. But, he did not know how to cross1 the sea with his army. All of a sudden he heard a cry in the air and a call which said even under the rule of Meghavahana, he was being killed. It seemed to come from a wood nearby. Meghavahana was agitated. He ran towards the wood. He came near a Durga temple and saw some sort of human sacrifice in progress on the steps of the temple. He found a man pleading for mercy and a barbarian standing over him with a raised sword.

Meghavahana ordered him to stop. The barbarian recognised the king and fell at his feet. He said that he was the leader of the barbarians and his son had fallen prey to a deadly disease and was on his death bed. He wanted to kill the man and appease the gods to save his son. He also said, if his son died, the rest of his group would give up their lives. Meghavahana felt sorry for the boy.

The barbarian said that the man was wandering about alone and friendless in the forest. According to the barbarian, the life of the victim was insignificant when compared to the lives of his son and troop members. Meghavahana looked at the terrified man and made his decision. He told the barbarian that he would save his son as well as the victim. He asked the barbarian to kill him and offer his body in sacrifice to the goddess.

The barbarian could not believe his ears. He told Meghavahana that he was the king and his life should be protected at all times. He requested the king to kill the victim as his life was of no value. Meghavahana insisted on being killed to save the lives of the victim and the barbarian’s son. The barbarian hung his head and kept quiet. Meghavahana decided to kill himself. He drew his sword and was about to strike himself with it. Then someone held back his hand. God Varuna appeared before him.

God Varuna praised Meghavahana for his nobility of mind and compassion. He said that he had created that illusion to test Meghavahana. God Varuna said that he hyd come to reclaim his parasol, which was carried away by King Bhauma, the father of Meghavahana’s father-in-law. The parasol had the powers to suppress the calamities in his land. Meghavahana bowed to god Varuna and returned the parasol to him. He requested god Varuna to help him cross the seas and conquer the island of Lanka. God Varuna granted him the boon and promised to pull away the water whenever Meghavahana wanted.

The next day, Meghavahana rode into the sea on his horse. The sea water parted and Meghavahana was able to reach Lanka with his army. He befriended Vibhishana, the king of Lanka, and everything ended peacefully. When Meghavahana returned home, Amritaprabha found the parasol missing. She asked him about it. Meghavahana told her that it was not his at any time, but its owner’s blessings would guide him through his life.

Glossary:

parasol – light umbrella used to give shade from the sun
lure – attract or invite
exquisite – extremely beautiful or deLicate
cast – spread, act of throwing something
sovereign – person hoLding highest power
dazed – confused, surprised, bewildered
portent – sign or warning of an unpleasant future event
impose – try to make somebody to accept
expedition – journey or voyage with a particular aim
weary – tired
wood – small forest
sLain – killed violently
agitation – disturbed state of mind
brandish – dispLay, show
barbarian – primitive, coarse or cruel human being
victim – Living creature killed and offered as religious sacrifice
cringe – move back or Lower ones body in fear
incredulity – showing disbeLief
vanished – disappeared.

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C1. Answer the following questions and share your responses with your partner.

KSEEB Solutions For Class 8 English Question 1.
Who named the school ‘Shantiniketan”?
Answer:
Maharshi Rabindranath Tagore named the school Shantiniketan.

A Day In The Ashram KSEEB Solutions Question 2.
When does the day in Shantiniketan begin?
Answer:
The day begins before dawn, when the birds chirps in almoki groves.

8th Standard English Notes Of Lesson 1 KSEEB Solutions Question 3.
What is termed by Gurudeva as, the darling of our hearts’?
Answer:
Shantiniketan is termed as the darling of our hearts by Gurudev.

A Day In The Ashram Question Answer KSEEB Solutions Question 4.
Which phrase used in paragraph 1 means’ both the old and the young people ‘?
Answer:
The phrase ‘old and young alike’ means both the old and the young people in Paragraph 1

A Day In Ashram Lesson Notes KSEEB Solutions Question 5.
The boys in Shantiniketan get up early in the morning . Who else are early risers ?
Answer:
The birds in amloki grooves are the early risers with the boys in Shantiniketan.

C2. Work in pairs, Answer the following questions and share vour responses with vour partners.

A Day In The Ashram Notes KSEEB Solutions Question 1.
What kind of work do the boys practice in the afternoon?
Answer:
The boys in Shantiniketan practice Carpentry, spinning, weaving, drafting, painting music etc in the afternoon. They learn these types of handwork.

A Day In The Ashram Pdf KSEEB Solutions Question 2.
What are Shantiniketam boys famous for.?
Answer:
The Shantiniketan boys are famous for sports and games everywhere.

8th Standard English Notes KSEEB Solutions Question 3.
How do the boys spend their evenings before they go to bed?
Answer:
The boys spend their evening before they go to bed by telling fairy tales, recitation of short dramas, singing of Gurudeva’s songs and gatherings of different schools.

8th English A Day In The Ashram Question Answer KSEEB Solutions Question 4.
Read the second paragraph carefully. What is describes is :
a) the greatness of the teacher
b) the song of the choristers
c) the lessons taught in the Ashram
d) the silent meditation of the inmates
Answer:
b) The song of the choristers

C3. Read and discuss your responses with your partner. Then write.

8th Class English A Day In The Ashram Question Answer KSEEB Solutions Question 1.
What is the effect of the song of the choristers on the listeners?
Answer:
When the Choristers are singing their morning hymns and they go around the Ashram, one can hear the voices. The beauty of the sound in the silent morning air and the sense of Joy and reverence which it brings, give peace to the soul.

KSEEB Solutions For Class 8 English A Day In The Ashram Question 2.
How are classes held in the afternoon in Shantiniketan?
Answer:
in the afternoon, at two o’clock, the afternoon classes begin. Handiwork is practiced. The work is chiefly with hands and the mind. The boys practice handicrafts such as carpentry, mechanics, spinning, weaving, drafting, painting and playing musical instruments. This helps the boys to discover their tastes and talents.

KSEEB 8th English Solutions Question 3.
How do the boys spend their evenings in Shantiniketan?
Answer:
In the evening, the boys return after playing in the field. They meditate for a short time. They take part in cultural activities such as singing songs, reciting and enacting dramas, telling fairy tales, and attending school gatherings.

A Day In The Ashram Question Answer Pdf KSEEB Solutions Question 4.
How are the classes at Shantiniketan different from the classes in other schools?
Answer:
The classes at Shantiniketan is completely different from the classes of other schools. In Shantiniketan, the teaching is student or child-centered. The students sit with their teacher in the open air under the trees. There is no classrooms. The group of 8 to 10 students has one teacher.

Very few books are’ used. Most part of learning is done through conversation. The students could ask questions and clear their doubts. On the contrary in other schools, the teaching is teacher-oriented (centered). One teacher in the class should teach 50 to 60 students, many books and subjects.

Her subjects are compulsory whether the students like or dislike. The answer should be by heart. Handiworks are very less and they were not given much importance. The students do not have freedom.

8th Standard Second Language English Notes Pdf A Day In The Ashram Question 5.
How does Shantiniketan prepare the boys for life?
Answer:
The classes in Shanthinikethan not only CPC Honest Success Series teaches subjects but also handiwork’s. Here the importance is given to the all-round development of the students. The teacher-student relationship is cordial and the teachers find out the student’s talent and encourage them to learn that subject.

Handiwork is also helpful to build their future and succeed in that particular field. If the students learn their talented subjects they would definitely gain skills. It is helpful in their future life. Thus Shantiniketan helps and prepare the students for life.

C4. The writer has used the phrase ‘living education’ to describe the experience in Shantiniketan. Some features of education are given below. Classify them into the categories of ‘living education’ and ‘unimaginative instruction. Discuss in groups.
Answer:

C5. Write a paragraph describing your our idea of a good school.
Answer:
A Good School:
The teachers are pillars for school. They must be educated, kind, learned, disciplined and have lot of patience. They must love their profession and children. Magnificent building, spacious class rooms and big fields are not as much important. The way of teaching should encourage the students creative thinking.

Give importance to boost the children’s talent. The students should have free ness to ask questions. Handiwork’s and games and sports should include in their curriculum. The students should also be obedient, disciplined and love to learn.

Vocabulary:

VI. Observe The use of nearer and nearer in the following example.

e.g. You can hear the voice in the distance, drawing nearer and nearer.

Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with the help of the clues given in brackets.

1. When you blow air into a balloon in becomes ……… and ………. [big]
2. As the train approaches the station, the should of its whistle becomes ……….. and ………. [loud]
3. If you practice harder and harder, you will feel ……… and ……… [much] confident to solve the problems.
4. Man has been constructing ………. and ………. [tall] buildings in the cities.
5. As you move away from a tree it looks ……… and ………… [small]

Answer:

1. bigger, bigger [big]
2. louder, louder [loud]
3. more, more [much]
4. taller, taller [tall]
5. smaller, smaller [small]

V2. Fill in the blanks using some and others.

e.g. Some prefer capentry others prefer mechanical work.

1. You can see shining objects in the sky at night. …….. of them are planets ………. are stars.
2. There are many fruits in the basket. ………. of them are mangoes, ……… are bananas.
3. After the bell, ……….. boys went out to play ………. went home.
4. There are a few books on the table. ……….. of them are text books, ……….. are not.
5. ………. of the apples in the basket are good ………… are bad.

Answer:

1. some, others
2. some, others
3. some, others
4. some, others
5. some, others

V3. Fill in the blanks choosing the appropriate words from the words given in brackets.

Last week [week, weak] I went to a shop to buy [by buy] a pair of trousers. I bought one and returned home. When I tried to wear [wear., ware] it, I found that it was rather loose [loose, lose]. So I went to the shop in fury. But the shopkeeper was out. So I had to wait [wait, weight] for half an hour. When he returned. I shouted at him, “See how big it is. It fits an elephant”. He replied coolly looking at my pot belly, “Therefore we offered it to your, Sir”.

V4. Fill in the blanks using the antonyms of the words underlined.

1. Krishna was a …….. king, while his friend was a ……… man.
2. Madanika is ……… but her brother is ………..
3. Radhika is ……… but her sister is ………..
4. Silk is ……..; iron is ……..
5. I can ……….. stories but ………… lessons.

Answer:

1. rich, poor
2. tall, short.
3. strong, weak
4. soft, hard
5. remember, remember

V5. Classify the following into prefixes and suffixes :

re, less, fill, mis, non, anti, ment, able, ish, in ex, ion, ship, multi, sub, ive.
One example for each is given.

Prefixes	Suffixes
re-mis, non, anti, in ex, multi sub	-less, full, ment, able ish, ion, ship, ive

V6. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate prefixes choosing from the ones given above [V5]

1. The school reopens on ………..
2. Manish eats meat. He is a ………
3. Terrorists are ……… social.
4. BakraNangal is a ………. purpose project.
5. Plastic chairs are ………. expensive.

Answer:

1. June 1
2. non – vegetarian.
3. anti
4. multi
5. in

V7. Fill in the blanks with appropriate suffixes choosing from the ones given above [V5]

1. He was comfort…….. in his seat on the train.
2. He was acting in a very chill…….. way.
3. She looked at her reflect………. in the mirror.
4. India has won the Champion……… at Sharjah.
5. The rate of employ………. in India has been rising steadily.

Answer:

1. table
2. dish
3. ion
4. ship
5. ment

Task 2.
Your teacher will say these words. listen and write them in two different columns a few example are given.

Words with / i: / eg mean, priest, lead, seek, clean, read, speed, meet, breed, sheet, dream, fees, Leed, learn

Words with /i / eg spit, win, fit, mist, kit, grin, mix chit, hid, trim

C. Reading:
Reading warning Sings.

1. Do not use it in a closed room. (3)
2. Do not eat or drink it (2)
3. Do not breathe it in (6)
4. Do not store it in a cupboard. Keep it cool. (4)
5. Do not but in it. (1)
6. Keep it in a place where a child cannot go near it. (5)

D. GRAMMAR
Task 1:
Read the following passage. underline the common nouns. Say whether they are countable, that is whether they can be wanted one, two etc., or whether they are uncountable. that is, they cannot be counted, list them under different columns. Two examples are given.

There was a merchant in a town. His name was Parashuramappa. He had many friends. They helped him in selling milk all over the town. Parashuramappa loved to live in peace. Also, he always spoke the truth. These qualities endeared him to all the people in the locality.

Countable Nouns	Uncountable Nouns
People, merchant, town, friends	milk, peace, truth

Task 2:
Fill in the blanks using ‘a,’ ‘an’ or ‘the’ only

1. Abdul is an excellent football player. As a student, he won many prizes. Now he has joined a .multinational company. The company encourages him to play for the state-level tournaments.

2. Democracy is the best form of government for all the people who have the right to vote. Even in the emergency, the people do not j lose their…. rights, in that form of government.

3. … Peter lives in the same locality as I do. His father is an Assistant Engineer. He loves … music and… sports. His most favorite sports is … is cricket.

Task 3:
Look at the following pairs of sentences. Why is ‘the’ (the definite article) used in some cases but not in others? Discuss with your partner and write the reasons. Answer the following questions by filling in the blanks. :

1. …….. rose is a beautiful flower
2. ……… rose on your coat is fading.
3. Do you have ……. ticket? (The ticket collector to the passenger )
4. Here are ……. tickets
5. It is ……… e-mail
6. I have not yet read …….. e-mail

Answer:

1. A
2. The
3. the
4. the
5. an
6. the

Task 4:
What do you understand after doing these exercises? Answer the following questions by filling in the blanks.

1. Nouns can be countable or Uncountable
2. Countable can be singular or plural.
3. ‘a’, ‘an’ and they are articles.
4. ‘a’, and ‘an’ are used only with countable nouns.
5. ‘The’ can be used with both singular and plural forms of nouns,
6. The is called the definite article, ‘a’ and ‘an’ are called indefinite. Articles.

Answer:

1. Uncountable
2. plural
3. the
4. countable
5. plural
6. article, indefinite

Other Determines
Apart from a / an / the, some of the other determiners are a few, many, several, a pair of, a piece of, a lot of etc.
Another type of determiners are Demonstratives namely
This- these
That- those.

Task 5:
Frame sentences using the above determiners.

1. There are ……… students in the assembly hall.
2.  I have ………. books,.
3. Gopi had ………. paintings.
4. Sindhu purchased ………. of gloves.
5. Ranga tasted ……….. sweet.
6. ……….. people attended the fair.
7. ……… is fruit and ……….. are fruits.
8. ………. is a toy and ……….. are toys.

Answer:

1. a few
2. many
3. several
4. a pair
5. a piece of
6. A lot of
7. This, these
8. That, those

E. Writing:
Choice of words :

Task 1:
Read the following descriptions. Substitute each with an appropriately descriptive word from the ones given in brackets below. One example is given.

1. He often promises to do things, but half the time he forgets ………….
2. She is always here on time ……….
3. I don’t think he has done any work since he has been here, ……….
4. She finds it difficult to meet people and talk to strangers ………..
5. He can work in any department and it doesn’t matter to him if he is on his own or part of a team ………..

Answer:

1. Forgetful
2. punctual
3.  azy
4. shy
5. flexible

A Day in the Ashram Additional Questions and Answers

Question 1.
Who is the author of the lesson ‘A Day in the Ashram’?
Answer:
C. F. Andrews is the author of the lesson ‘A Day in the Ashram’.

Question 2.
What do the choristers of the Ashram do?
Answer:
The choristers go round the Ashram singing hymns.

Question 3.
Why do the boys go into the fields with their asanas?
Answer:
The boys go into the fields to meditate alone in the silence of the morning.

Question 4.
There are no classrooms in Shantiniketan. Where do the boys sit and learn?
Answer:
The boys sit in small groups of eight or ten under the trees with their teachers.

Question 5.
What does C.F. Andrews call the education imparted in the Ashram?
Answer:
C. F. Andrews calls the education imparted in the Ashram “Living education”.

Question 6.
When do the afternoon classes begin?
Answer:
The afternoon classes begin at two o’clock.

Question 7.
Give a list of the handicrafts practiced by the boys.
Answer:

1. Carpentry
2. spinning
3. weaving
4. drafting
5. painting
6. mechanical work
7. playing musical instruments.

Question 8.
When do the boys go to bed?
Answer:
The boys go to bed by nine o’clock at night.

Multiple Choice Questions:

Four alternatives are given for each of the following questions/ incomplete statements. Choose the most appropriate one.

Question 1.
‘A Day in the Ashram’ is written by
A) A.L. Hendricks
B) Charles Dickens
C) C.F Andrews
D) Daniel Miller
Answer:
C) C.F Andrews

Question 2.
Shantiniketan was founded by
A) Rabindranath Tagore
B) C.F Andrews
C) Mahatma Gandhi
D) C.V. Raman
Answer:
A) Rabindranath Tagore

Question 3.
Who has referred to Shantiniketan as ‘The darling of our hearts’?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Rabindranath Tagore
C) C.F. Andrews
D) Sarojini Naidu
Answer:
B) Rabindranath Tagore

Question 4.
In the ashram, what gives peace to the soul?
A) The singing of the birds in the amloki groves
B) The boys meditating in the fields in the morning
C) The beauty of the sound of the choristers singing in the morning
D) The boys standing in the shade of the trees and singing hymns.
Answer:
C) The beauty of the sound of the choristers singing in the morning

Question 5.
A greater part of the teaching in Shantiniketan is carried on through
A) books
B) discussions
C) conversation
D) examinations
Answer:
C) conversation

Question 6.
In the ashram, the boys’ own natural tastes are discovered through
A) singing of hymns
B) the handiwork they practice
C) sports and games
D) reciting of short dramas
Answer:
B) the handiwork they practice

Question 7.
The Shantiniketan boys are famous for
A) sports and games
B) studies
C) discipline
D) knowledge
Answer:
A) sports and games

A Day in the Ashram Summary in English

A day in the Ashram’ is the experience of C. F. Andrews while he stayed in the Ashram known as ‘Shanthiniketan’founded by Rabindranath Tagore, he was famous as ‘Gurudeva’. Shantiniketan was his dream school. He was one of the important educationists. All his ideas are practically applied in this school. It is one of the important internationally popular schools.

1. The beauty of Shantiniketan is not found visibly. Its importance lies in its quality of education and the way of teaching. Irrespective of age all who have visited it, appreciate and feel its inner beauty Gurudeva says that all the students learned here never forgot their student life and they reached a very great height in future life. Our ex-Prime Minister Smt. Indira Gandhi was one of the students of Shantiniketan.

A Day in the Ashram Summary in Kannada

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