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AP 10th Class English Workbook Answers Unit 3 Two Stories about Flying
Let’s Begin
I. Read the story, ‘His First Flight’ again. Working in groups of four, answer the following questions selecting the correct option.
Question 1.
The young seagull was afraid of flying because _________.
a) he felt his wings would not support him
b) other bird knew to fly very well
c) the sea was very large
d) his mother and father threatened him
Answer:
a) he felt his wings would not support him
Question 2.
Why did his family taunt him about his cowardice ?
a) He went with his sisters and brothers.
b) He was not listening to them.
c) He was not accepting their request to fly with them.
d) He was not liked by them at all.
Answer:
c) He was not accepting their request to fly with them.
Question 3.
How did the young seagull start flying?
a) His mother showed him the fish and moved away from him to make him fly.
b) His brothers and sisters trained him to fly.
c) He was hungry and he moved to fly in search of food.
d) He did not learn to fly at all.
Answer:
a) His mother showed him the fish and moved away from him to make him fly.
Question 4.
Which of the following statements is not true of the young seagull?
a) He was lazy and did not want to fly.
b) He wanted to fly but was afraid of flying.
c) His mother, father, brothers, and sisters helped him fly.
d) His hunger made him fly.
Answer:
a) He was lazy and did not want to fly.
Question 5.
Say whether the following statements about the seagull are true or false.
a) The young seagull liked to fly with his brothers and sisters. (False)
b) The young seagull was hungry so he started to fly. (True)
c) He was scared of flying first. (True)
d) He flew on his own to get the food. (False)
2. You have another story, ‘The Black Aeroplane’ in the lesson. Read the story again and develop at least five multiple choice questions based on the story. Work in pairs and ask your partner to answer them. The questions may be based on the events, persons, reasons and causes of the events, and results in the story.
Question 1.
The moon was coming up in the east, behind me
a) The narrator was flying towards the east.
b) The narrator was flying towards the south.
c) The narrator was flying towards the north.
d) The narrator was flying towards the west.
Answer:
d) The narrator was flying towards the west.
Choose the right statement.
Question 2.
“I ought to go back to Paris.” Why ?
a) Because he had to attend to an official work.
b) As his wife was sick and he should be beside her.
c) For, weather conditions and fuel position compel him to go back to Paris.
d) Because the voice from the radio advised him to turn back.
Answer:
c) For, weather conditions and fuel position compel him to go back to Paris.
Question 3.
“I was lost int he storm.” This means
a) the speaker was on the sea and was caught in the storm.
b) he was flying and was unable to see the way.
c) he was driving home and the road ahead was damaged in the storm.
d) he was overwhelmed by problems and felt he was lost totally.
Answer:
b) he was flying and was unable to see the way.
Question 4.
“Follow me,” he was saying. Who was “he” ?
a) the man from the control centre
b) another pilot
c) the copilot
d) an airport officer
Answer:
b) another pilot
Question 5.
“She looked at me strangely,” because (Fill in)
a) I looked funny.
b) I asked for some help.
c) I asked her a question that sounded incredible.
d) I behaved in a peculiar way.
Answer:
c) I asked her a question that sounded incredible.
Reading Comprehension
Complete the box narrating the story in the correct sequence.
Answer:
1) Once two women and a man got into a bus and found places to sit.
2) The conductor’s malicious eyes rested on the beady eyed toy dog.
3) The conductor, the resentful employee, with a particular vague grievance against the passangers, wanted to make the most of it.
4) He ordered the woman to take the dog out. Since she refused to get down the conductor stopped the bus abruptly.
5) Two or three passengers got the money back and walked away.
6) The conductor was stubborn and wasn’t willing to start the bus unless his expectations were met.
7) The passengers criticised severely and got down from the bus and went away.
8) The conductor did not give up. He sent the lady with the dog away to the top.
Vocabulary
1. Making adverbs: bitterly, imperturbably, violently, and evidently are some words you have come across in the story. These are adverbs. A few words are given below. Make adverbs of these words and use them in sentences of your own. (Take care of the spelling when you convert these into adverbs.)
Answer:
a) Angry – Angrily: Some corporators reacted angrily to the chairman’s remarks.
b) Vague – Vaguely: I can vaguely remember my first day at school.
c) Indignant – Indignantly: He indiginantly rejected the claim.
d) Threatening – Threateningly: The enemy plane came threateningly close.
e) Hurry – Hurriedly: I hurriedly got up and dressed.
2. Now, look at the word given below in italic.
He was immovable.
‘im’ is the prefix added to the word ‘movable’. The prefix’im’ made ‘immovable’ an antohym of ‘movable’. Now, make more words with the prefixim- which are antonyms
Answer
- mobile – immobile
- possible – impossible
- mortal – immortal
- probable – improbable
- mature – immature
- perfect – imperfect
- balance – imbalance
- penetrable – impenetrab
3. In groups of five, create a word-web or collocation chart of words with prefixes’il’ and ‘in’.
| Example: logical – illogical | Example : secure insecure |
| 1. legal – illegal | 1. complete – incomplete |
| 2. literate – illiterate | 2. significant – insignificant |
| 3. legible – illegible | 3. sane – insane |
| 4. legitimate – illegitimate | 4. expensive – inexpensive |
| 5. licit – illtcit | 5. dependent – independent |
Grammar
A. Phrasal verbs
Find out the meaning of the following phrasal verbs and use them appropriately in sentences.
a) walk in
b) walk out
c) take away
d) take up
e) take in
f) take out
g) give away
h) give in
i) give up
j) put in
k) put away
I) put out
Answer:
a) walk in : to enter a room when others there are not expecting one
Mohini walked in the manager’s chamber when he was speaking to their CEO.
b) walk out : to leave a meeting, performance etc suddenly especially in order to show your disapproval
They hinted that they would walk out of the peace talks.
c) take away : to make a feeling, pain etc disappear
They gave me some pills to take away the pain.
d) take up : to start doing something
George takes up his new job next week.
e) take in : to allow someone to stay in your home
He was homeless, so we took him in.
f) take out : to remove something from inside somebody’s body especially a part of it
How many teeth did the dentist take out ?
g) give away : to present something
The Mayor gave away the prizes at the community fair.
h) give in : to admit that you have been defeated by someone or something
The rebels were forced to give in.
i) give up : to stop trying to do something
He gave up smoking.
k) put in : to give a performance of something, especially one of a particular kind
All the actors put in great performances.
k) put away : to save money to spend later
She has a few thousand dollars put away for her retirement.
l) put out: to stop something from burning or shining
Firefighters soon put the fire out.
B. The Passive
Use the words given below and frame sentences using the passive forms of the verbs.
Examples:
- Rice/cuItivate/Gangetic valley and coastal region. (Simple Present)
Rice is cultivated in Gangetic valley and coastal region. - The documents /sign/principal. (Present Perfect)
The documents have been signed bv the principal.
a) Taj Mahal/build/Shah Jahan. (Simple Past)
b) Malaria virus/transmit/female Anopheles mosquito. (Simple Present)
c) The case /solve/police and two persons arrest. (Present Perfect)
d) Many houses /and lives/destroy/the volcanic eruption in Mt. Etna. (Simple Past)
e) The ultraviolet rays/prevent/the ozone layer/entering the earth’s surface. (Simple Present)
f) The field/convert/playground. (Present Perfect)
Answers
a) The Taj Mahal was built by Shah Jahan.
b) Malaria virus is transmitted by female Anopheles mosquito.
c) The case has been solved by police and two persons have been arrested.
d) Many houses and lives were destroyed by volcanic eruption in Mt. Etna.
e) The ultraviolet rays are prevented by the ozone layer from entering the earth’s surface.
f) The filed has been converted into playground.
C. Unscramble the following sentences to make meaningful ones:
a) records/flying/many/who/American aviator/was an/ Amelia Earhart/set
b) the first/across/woman/solo/to fly/the Atlantic Ocean/ she/became
c) a flight/July 1937/the globe/Earhart/disappeared/ to circumnavigate/somewhere over the/Pacific/in/during
d) was never/found/and/she was/officially declared/plane wreckage/lost/at sea/her
e) century/her/disappearance /remains/of the/one of the/greatest/unsolved mysteries/ twentieth
Answers
a) Amelia Earhart who was an American aviator set many flying records.
b) She became the first solo woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
c) During a flight in July 1937 to circumnavigate the globe, Earhart disappeared somewhere over the Pacific.
d) Her plane wreckage was never found and she was officially declared lost at sea.
e) Her disappearance remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century.
Editing
1. Use capital letters, commas, and full stops to edit this paragraph.
In some parts of our country, there are frequent reports about Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) which people claimed to have seen flying in the sky and which are believed to be space ships carrying aliens from other planets some people have given evidences to support their observations they said that they have found mysterious objects in paddy fields. Some others, after seeing a film on space said that they had seen unusual objects flying in the sky. Public panicked there were arguments and discussions all over the country. Police were on red alert Many community centres’ were established people become more vigilant gradually the number of sightings reduced.
Answer
In some parts of our country, there are frequent reports about Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), which people claimed to have seen flying in the sky and which are believed to be space ships carrying aliens from other planets. Some people have given evidences to support their observations.
They said that they have found mysterious objects in paddy fields. Some others, after seeing a film on space, said that they had seen unusual objects flying in the sky. Public panicked. There were arguments and discussions all over the country. Police were on red alert. Many community centres were established. People became more vigicant. Gradually the number of sightings reduced.
Listening
1. Do you like riddles? Riddles make us think and attempt to solve puzzles through various ways and means. Read this riddle out loud and find answers to it. You can also discuss with your Mends. You will notice that we speak out what we think. This is known as Think-aloud protocol. As you solve the riddles, speak out all the ideas that come to your mind to solve it.
Riddle 1
A farmer returns from the market, where he bought a goat, a cabbage and a wolf (what a crazy market). On the way home he must cross a river. His boat is small and won’t fit more than one of his purchases. He cannot leave the goat alone with the cabbage (because the goat would eat it), nor he can leave the goat alone with the wolf (because the goat would be eaten).
How can the farmer get everything on the other side in this river crossing puzzle ?
Answer:
The first step that must be taken is to let the goat go across the river, as any other t actions will result in the goat or cabbage being eaten. When the farmer returns to the original side, he has the choice of taking either the wolf or the cabbage across next.
If he takes the wolf across, he would have to return to get the cabbage, resulting in the wolf eating the goat. If he takes the cabbage across second, he will need to return, to get the wolf, resulting in the cabbage being eaten by the goat. The dilemma is solved by taking the wolf (or the cabbage) over and bringing the goat back: Now he can take the cabbage (or the wolf) over, and finally return to fetch the goat.
Summary of his actions in the following steps:
- Take the goat over
- Return empty-handed
- Take the wolf or the cabbage over
- Return with the goat
- Take whichever wasn’t taken in step 3 over
- Return empty-handed
- Take the goat over.
Riddle 2
Three humans, dne big monkey, and two small monkeys are to cross a river:
a) Only humans and the big monkey can row the boat.
b) At all times, the number of humans on either side of the river must be greater or
equal to the number of monkeys on that side (or else the humans will be killed by the monkeys!).
c) The boat only has room for two (monkeys or humans).
d) Monkeys can jump out of the boat when it’s on the river bank.
How will they cross the river? Help them out.
Answer
First trip : The big monkey and a small monkey cross the river. After dumping the small monkey on the other bank, the big monkey rows back to the first bank.
Status review after the first trip : On the first bank, you have 3 humans and 1 small monkey and on the second bank just 1 small monkey. The big‘monkey has just reached the first bank in the boat.
Second trip : The big monkey and one human cross the river and leaving the human on the other bank the big mpnkey returns to the first bank.
Status after the second trip: On the first bank, you have 2 humans and 1 small monkey and on the second bank. 1 human and 1 small monkey. The big monkey has reached the first bank jn the boat.
Third trip : Two humans cross over, one human calmly gets off, outnumbering the lone small monkey on the other bank and second human rows back.
Status after the third trip: On the first bank now you have the big monkey and 1 small monkey. On the opposite bank 2 humans and 1 small monkey with the third human just reaching the first bank in the first bank in the boat.
Fourth trip : The third human ferries the big monkey across, puts him on the other bank and rows back to the first bank.
Status after the fourth trip : On the first bank, the hapless small monkey waits alone, on the second bank 2 monkeys and 2 humans coexist amicably and third human reaching the first bank.
Fifth and last trip : Reaching the first bank, the third human now picks up the small monkey the small monkey lovingly, rows across with him and both get off the boat. Story is over with all being on the second bank.
Writing
Article Writing
1. ‘Rules are meant to be observed in spirit not only in letter’. Explain what you understand by this statement. Write an article in about 120-150 words on how the rules can be effectively implemented in the society and citizens can follow it in the true spirit. You may use any of the ideas given in the box. Follow the stages involved in the process approach to writing.
a) Use it in the context of gender (protection of women’s rights/dowry/female infanticide, etc.).
b) In the context of environment (cutting of trees/poaching/pollution).
c) Smoking in public/following traffic rules, etc. (add cartoons with fun facts, for example parking in front of no parking sign), d) In the context of value and self discipline.
Answer:
Recently the concept ‘The letter versus the spirit of the law (rule)’ has been gaining importance in society. It explains the relationship between the law, social norms and fairness in society. We are going to highlight a scenario in which the letter of the law or the spirit of the law may be breached. We hypothesize that it may be unfair to violate the spirit of the law,, even if the letter of the law has hot been violated.
Even in the context of environment rules are to be observed in spirit but not in letter. Government has brought many rules to demote deforestation. The Forestation Conservation Act of 1980 aimed at slowing dowp the deforestation caused by the .
conversion of forest lands to non-forest purposes. But with a growing population, we are running out of land to grow crops and keep livestock. For building multipurpose irrigation projects forests have to be cut down in large areas of land. In this context the rules against deforestation are to be violated. Rapid industrialisation, agricultural modernatisation, burgeoning population and other factors are combining in many less developed countries, to damage the natural environment so severely.
Economy and Economics are closely related issues. Development is not possible without adequate emphasis on environmental protection. Development and environment are complementary to each other, helping each other to grow and antagonist terms because one hinders and spoils the other. The more the development, the more the degradation of environment.
The more the development, the more the deforestation. But without these industries, there will be no development in means of transportation, revolution, in communication and network. Thus there is a conflict between environmentalists and developers. The developers say there is no development without environmental degradation.
On the other hand, the environmentalists allege that the developers are destroying the environment. Thus in the course of development we should follow the rules of environmental protection in spirit but not in letter. That does not mean we have the right to destroy forests by taking up deforestation measures.
We have to make up the loss of deforestation by means of afforestation or reforestation methods. In short we have to grow what we have cut. Thus the development and environment are balanced and they lead to prosperity of the country.
Question 2.
You have read and experienced how the little seagull learnt to fly and then the story of the mysterious black aeroplane. You have also read the story, ‘All about a dog’. How were these experiences? You may have also experienced some such situations in your life: learning to ride on a bicycle, watching a cat or any other animal trying to jump over the wall, your own bitter experience in a difficult situation, etc. Think of such an experience and write down the points and develop the ideas into an outline. Write your experiences like a short story.
Answer:
Story Writing
I was then a 12 year old boy. I did not know how to ride a bicycle. All my friends, brothers and my cousins can ride a bicycle. Even the little children younger to me can ride a bicycle. Some of my classmates can even ride scooters. This made me shy of myself. My friends and classmates used to make fun of me.
They used to humiliate me for not learning how to ride a bicycle. Some of my friends used to suggest me that I should learn riding a bicycle as early as possible. They used to encourage me by saying that it is not a hard task. They promised me they would help me to learn to ride a bicycle.
But 1 am afraid of riding bicycle. I had a feeling that I would fall down and incur injuries. I am afraid of heavy vehicles such as lorries, buses and cars. I would be scared of speeding vehicles. I would always have a feeling they might hit me or run over me. I am not confident of myself.
But one day during summer holidays, my friends forced me to learn riding a bicycle. They threatened that they would cease to be my friends if I didn’t learn how to ride. They gave me confidence by citing so many examples. They told me how even small birds could fly great heights if they were scared of falling down from such great heights. Even animals and birds threw their little offsprings out of huts and dwellings and forced them to fly and run on their own.
Thus they tried to build confidence in me. They tried to explain to me how difficult it would be if we don’t know how to ride a bicycle / vehicle. In this world of dash and dart the life will be impossible without knowing how to drive. There words soothened my fear. I gathered confidence from their words. 1 expressed my acceptance finally. Three of my friends made me learn how to get on and off the bicycle. They made me wear knee and elbow pads.
They selected a flat, smooth, comfortable and low traffic area. They brought a cycle with training wheels. The seat of the cycle is very low so that I was able to balance by stopping myself with my feet. Very soon I was able to learn pedalling, dismount the bike, how to balance, how to change directions etc. Three days continuously they helped me to learn cycling. Day by day I perfected cycling. On the third day I was able to ride on my own. Now I can ride the bicycle with a lot of precision and perfection.
Project
Go around your neighbourhood and talk to people, particularly elders, and collect riddles and puzzles in their languages.
- Ask them how and why such riddles could have emerged.
- Collect at least 10-15 riddles and write them in an order with information.
- Find out more about the riddle.
- Present it to the class as a chart and oral presentation.
1. There is only one word in the dictionary that’s spelled wrong. What is it ?
Answer: The word‘wrong’. It’s the only word that spelled WRONG.
2. I have a tail and a head, but no body. What am I ?
Answer: A coin.
3. Two fathers and 2 sons spent the day fishing, but only caught 3 fish. This was enough ‘for each of them to have one fish. How is this possible ?
Answer: There were only three people fishing. There was one father, his son and his son’s son. This means there were 2 fathers and two sons.
4. How many months of the year have 28 days ?
Answer: All the 12 months. Every month has at least 28 days.
5. A man who was Outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat, didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?
Answer: He was bald.
6. A man dies of old age on his 25th birthday. How is this possible ? .
Answer: He was born on February 29. Every fourth year only he will get a birthday. That means that he died at the age of 100.
7. I am light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
Answer:
Breath.
8. What three numbers, none of which is zero, give the same result whether they are added or multiplied ?
Answer:
One, two and three [1 + 2 + 3 = 6; 1 x 2 x 3 = 6]
9. Three doctors said that Bill was their brother. Bill says he has no brothers. How many brothers does Bill actually have ?
Answer:
None. He has three sisters.
10. A man died on the same day on which he was born. But he was 22 years old when he died. How was it possible ?
Answer:
He was born on the same day of Vikram era and died on the same day of the Saka era. The difference between the two eras is 22 years. Vikram era was started in 56 A.D. and the Saka era was started in 78 A.D.
11. What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 2/4 goat ?
Answer: Chicago
12. A tree doubled in height each year until it reached its maximum height over the course of ten years. How many years did it take for the bee to reach half its maximum height?
Answer: 9 years.
13. I am tall when I am young, and I’m short when I am old. What am I ?
Answer: Candle.
14. Where is the only place where today comes before yesterday ?
Answer: In the dictionary.
15. What’s always found on the ground but never gets dirty ?
Answer: A shadow