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Tamilnadu Samacheer Kalvi 6th English Solutions Term 3 Supplementary Chapter 2 Brought to Book

A. Read the story again and fill in the table with the present condition of the characters given below.
Answers:

B. Answer the questions.

Question 1.
Why was Mahesh brought to court?
Answer:
Mahesh was brought to court because he ill-treated the books, notebooks, school bags and the pencil box.

Question 2.
Was Mahesh punished for the ill-treatment of his belongings? Why?
Answer:
Mahesh was not punished for the ill-treatment of his belongings because Ms. English supported him and asked everyone to give him a second chance. She said that he deserved a little consideration.

Question 3.
Why did the fellow brothers of Mr. Geography laugh at him?
Answer:
The fellow brothers of Mr. Geography laughed at him seeing his worst condition.

Question 4.
What made Justice Mathematics turn red with angdr?
Answer:
Mahesh threw the young Master Notebook against the wall, when he failed to solve a problem. Everyone in the court was shocked and started talking at once. This made Justice Mathematics turn red with anger.

Question 5.
How was the court different from other courts?
Answer:
The punishment there is decided by the victims and they decide by majority, if the verdicts are more than one.

Question 6.
Why did they decide to forgive him? Who initiated the suggestion?
Answer:
They decided to forgive him because it was the first offence of Mahesh and they agreed to give him a second chance. This suggestion was initiated by Ms. English.

Question 7.
Was it real or a dream? How could you say?
Answer:
It was a dream, we know this at the end, when Mahesh’s mother shakes him up to get up, as it was late for school.

C. Read the lines and answer the questions.

1. “You have to undo what you have done. Do you understand?”

Question a.
Who said these words to whom?
Answer:
Justice Mathematics said these words to Mahesh.

Question b.
What was he asked to undo?
Answer:
He was asked to rectify or to set right the ill-treatment done to Ms. English.

2. I especially envy my brother, who belongs to Shobitha.

Question a.
Who is envy of whom?
Answer:
Mr. Geography is envy of his brother, who belonged to Shobitha.

Question b.
Why does he envy his brother?
Answer:
He envied his brother because he was neatly covered and handled gently by Shobitha.

3. “I don’t mean to interrupt, You Honour, it is just that I feel that everyone deserves a second chance and, after, all this is Mahesh’s first offense, he deserves a little consideration.”

Question a.
What do these lines tell about the speaker?
Answer:
The speaker is sympathetic and faithful to her owner Mahesh.

Question b.
Who does the word T refer to?
Answer:
The word T refers to Ms. English.

D. Think and Answer.

Question 1.
If you were Ms, English, would you do the same? Why or Why not? Justify your answer,
Answer:
If I were Ms. English, I would do the same because it was the first offence of Mahesh. He should be given another chance to rectify his mistakes and faults. Being a child, he deserves a little consideration. Since he was given a second chance, he realised his mistakes and tried to set them right. The following year, he got the prize for the ‘Best Looked-After Books’.

E. Work in Groups.

Question 1.
Prepare a chart with dos and don’ts of books and class work maintenance. Use your creativity in presenting your ideas. Use short sentences and phrases.
Answer:
Maintenance of Books
Do’s
Sample:

1. Take care of your favourite books by treating it carefully and storing it responsibly.
2. Store your books in a cool and dry atmosphere away from heat resources.
3. Dust your book regularly and put a protective cover on it to be extra careful.
4. Wrap the books in acid-free cloth or purchase a book-storage box.
5. Handle books hygienically.
6. Turn pages carefully.
7. Try to use two hands, while reading.
8. Cover them with brown sheets every two months, and label them neatly.

Don’ts:

1. Don’t touch your book with dirty hands or read it while eating or drinking.
2. Avoid storing books in plastic bags. Books need to breathe and plastic can cause moulding or warping.
3. Remove large or bulky bookmarks.
4. Avoid folding or dog-earing the comers of pages, as they can cause lasting damage.
5. Avoid damage to the binding.
6. Don’t bend paper back covers, while reading. It can be difficult to get them to resume their original shape and it often causes spine damage.

Project

F. Collect any three pictures of your favourite cartoon characters and get them pasted in your class work. Write a few lines about them.
Answer:
1.

Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character and the mascot of The Walt Disney Company. He was created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks in 1928. An anthropomorphic mouse who typically wears red shorts, large yellow shoes, and white gloves, Mickey is one of the world’s most recognizable characters. He appeared in over 130 films. Beginning in 1930, Mickey has also been featured extensively as a comic strip character. 90th Anniversary of Mickey Mouse has been celebrated on November 18, 2018 around the World.

2.

Donald Duck is a cartoon character created in 1934 at Walt Disney Productions. Donald is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor shirt and cap with a bow tie. Donald is most famous for his semi-intelligible speech and his mischievous and temperamental personality. Along with his friend Mickey Mouse, Donald is one of the most popular Disney characters and was included in TV Guide’s list of the 50 greatest cartoon characters of all time in 2002.

3.

Scoobert “Scooby” Doo is the eponymous character and protagonist of the animated television franchise of the same name created in 1969 by the American animation company Hanna-Barbera. Scooby-Doo is a male Great Dane and lifelong companion of amateur detective Shaggy Rogers, with whom he shares many personality traits. He features a mix of both canine and human behaviors, treated by his friends more or less as an equal while speaking in a famous speech impediment. His catchphrase is “Scooby-Dooby-Doo!”

Connecting To Self

Discuss in Class.

Read the following and have a discussion on which of these are fair and ethical to laugh at and which are not. Why?

1. Accidental or embarrassing situations :
We should not laugh at an accidental situation, as people feel embarrassed and feel hurt.

2. Weird behaviour of animals and kids :
The weird behaviour of animals and kids cause laughter to everyone. This is fair and ethical to laugh at because animals and kids do weird things sometimes. They enjoy, when we laugh at them doing these weird things.

3. Culture and religion :
We should not laugh at the culture and religion of others, since this leads to unnecessary arguments and problems.

4. Funny pantomimes and stand up comedies.
This is fair and ethical to laugh at because it is performed for the audience to laugh and enjoy the show.

5. Physical appearance.
We should not laugh at the physical appearance of others because they get hurt and try to be aloof always.

6. Language and dialect.
We should not make fun of others’ language and dialect, because it is not ethical and fair. Language and dialect varies from person to person. No one talks exactly the same at all times.

7. Humorous Movies.
People enjoy going to a humorous movie, as they get relaxed for a few hours from their stressful life. So it is fair and ethical to laugh at these humorous movies.

8. Friendly Imitation and mimicry.
When we watch friendly imitation and mimicry. We can have a hearty laugh at it, because the performance is done to entertain the audience.

Steps to Success

In a certain code ‘extremely’ is written as XKDLDQSWD. Figure out the code and rewrite the following words in the same code.
Answers:

Hint: Write the previous letter of the alphabet given in a word and then write the letters in the reverse order.

Brought to Book Additional Questions

I. Choose the Correct Answers.

Question 1.
‘Let us proceed’, Justice _______ said nodding his head.
(a) Geography
(b) English
(c) Mathematics
(d) Science
Answer:
(c) Mathematics

Question 2.
Her dress was _______
(a) unrecognizable
(b) dirty
(c) stained
(d) wonderful
Answer:
(a) unrecognizable

Question 3.
Tears rolled down Ms. English’s _______
(a) chin
(b) cheeks
(c) nose
(d) eyes
Answer:
(b) cheeks

Question 4.
She told everyone about how Mahesh dropped her _______
(a) carefully
(b) suddenly
(c) abruptly
(d) carelessly
Answer:
(d) carelessly

Question 5.
Mr. Geography stood up shakily and went to the _______.
(a) witness box
(b) Judge
(c) court
(d) school
Answer:
(a) witness box

Question 6.
They looked _______ and the worse for wear.
(a) damaged
(b) battered
(c) worn out
(d) ugly
Answer:
(b) battered

Question 7.
Mahesh _______ him, whenever he got stuck for an answer.
(a) dropped
(b) banged
(c) threw
(d) chewed
Answer:
(d) chewed

Question 8.
He felt really _______ of himself.
(a) ashamed
(b) bad
(c) proud
(d) worried
Answer:
(a) ashamed

Question 9.
Mahesh trembled in his _______
(a) body
(b) shoes
(c) feet
(d) heart
Answer:
(b) shoes

Question 10.
Mahesh looked at her in _______
(a) anxiety
(b) faith
(c) astonishment
(d) admiration

II. Identify The Character / Speaker.

1. ‘How did it happen?’ – Justice Mathematics
2. ‘What do you have to say for yourself?’ – Justice Mathematics
3. ‘My story is quite similar to Ms. English.’ – Mr. Geography
4. ‘I might as well be a sack of cement.’ – Mr. School Bag
5. ‘I also want to say something.’ – The young Master Notebook
6. ‘However, this court is different from – Justice Mathematics
7. ‘I suggest dragging him around the court room, a dozen times will be a good punishment.’ – Mr. School Bag
8. ‘You will be late for school! ’ – Mahesh’s mother
9. He was in bed – Mahesh
10. ‘I don’t mean to interrupt, your Honour.’ – Ms. English

III. Read The Following. State True or False.

1. ‘Everybody disrespected him, even Mahesh
2. Mahesh chewed his nails nervously.
3. The audience was stunned, ill treating a delicate creature like Ms. English!
4. Why had he not listened to his father, who had told him many times to take care of his books.
5. He was otherwise a good boy and even managed to stay within the first ten ranks in class.
6. Ms. Geography envied his brother who belongs to Shobitha.
7. Mahesh withered under his murderous look.
8. Mr. Pencil Box complained that Mahesh cleaned it only once a week.
9. He pointed at his pock-marked body for everyone to see.
10. This did not appeal to all of them.

Answers:

1. False
2. True
3. True
4. False
5. False
6. True
7. True
8. False
9. True
10. False

IV. Read the Given Passage And Answer The Questions.

1. “Well”, sniffed Ms. English, “this boy”, she pointed at Mahesh, “brought me home a few months back, but never bothered to cover me properly with the nice brown paper his father had brought”.

Question a.
Who it referred Hera a* ‘this boy’?
Answer:
Mahesh is referred here.

Question b.
What was the charge made against Mahesh by Ms, English?
Answer:
Mahesh had ill-treated her by not covering the book properly.

Question c.
His father never bothered to cover with brown paper. Is It true or falie?
Answer:
False.

2. The Master Notebook got hold over himself and continued, “It started a few weeks back. Mahesh was solving some problems in Mathematics, one of them was tougher than others and he failed to solve it. Can you imagine how he vented his anger? Well, he threw me against the wall!”

Question a.
Who was thrown against the wall?
Answer:
The Master Notebook was thrown against the wall.

Question b.
Who threw Mm?
Answer:
Mahesh threw him against the wall.

Question c.
Why did he throw the Master Notebook?
Answer:
He threw the Master Notebook because he failed to solve some problems in Mathematics.

3. Yes! There was the battered bag on the floor, the books, half on the floor and others stuffed in the bag. But what was this? The English book was lying near his pillow and seemed to smile at him! Mahesh’s mother was astonished to see him rushing through the chores and then sitting down to glue and cover his English book that very morning! Next year Mahesh Kumar got the prize for the ‘BestLooked-After Books’.

Question a.
Why was Mahesh’s mother astonished?
Answer:
Mahesh’s mother was astonished to see her son rushing through the chores, as he was always lazy.

Question b.
What do you mean by the word’chores’?
Answer:
‘Chores’ means a routine duty or task.

Question c.
Where was the English book?
Answer:
The English book was lying near Mahesh’s pillow.

V. Rearrange the Following Jumbled Sentences in the Correct Order.

A.
1. He pushed back the horn rimmed glasses up his nose.
2. Everybody respected him, even Mahesh, so a pin-drop silence fell in the court instantly.
3. He was rapping the hammer for silence in the court.
4. “This has got to stop immediately”, Justice Mathematics said in a stem voice.
5. He glared first at Mahesh and then at the crowd in the court.
Answer:
4, 3,1, 5, 2
4. “This has got to stop immediately”, Justice Mathematics said in a stem voice.
3. He was rapping the hammer for silence in the court.
1. He pushed back the horn rimmed glasses up his nose.
5. He glared first at Mahesh and then at the crowd in the court.
2. Everybody respected him, even Mahesh, so a pin-drop silence fell in the court instantly.

B.
1. They, in turn looked at Mahesh, each and every one of them in terrible anger.
2. He looked at all the bedraggled books and notebooks, pencils and pencil box, and the school bag in the court.
3. However, this court is different from the other courts.
4. Mahesh trembled in his shoes.
5. Here the punishment is decided by the victims and we decide by majority, if the verdicts are more than one.
Answer:
3, 5, 2,1, 4
3. However, this court is different from the other courts.
5. Here the punishment is decided by the victims and we decide by majority, if the verdicts are more than one.
2. He looked at all the bedraggled books and notebooks, pencils and pencil box, and the school bag in the court. •
1. They, in turn looked at Mahesh, each and every one of them in terrible anger.
4. Mahesh trembled in his shoes.

VI. Paragraph Questions.

Question 1.
Why was the audience stunned? Did Mahesh realize his mistake?
Answer:
The audience was stunned as Ms. English was ill-treated by Mahesh. She wore a pretty dress, when she came to his house. But after a few months, her dress was unrecognizable, covered with ink and grease spots, mercilessly dog-eared and her two comers were chewed away. She looked worn out. Tears rolled down her cheeks. She told everyone how Mahesh dropped her carelessly, stuffed her any how in his crammed bag, sometimes next to the lunch box dripping with oil. Mahesh turned red as many pairs of eyes glared at him. He realised his mistake and wondered why he had not listened to his mother, who had told him many times to take care of his books.

Question 2.
What was pathetic about the young Master Notebook? What was the verdict of the Justice Mathematics?
Answer:
A few weeks back, Mahesh was solving some problems in Mathematics. One of them was tougher than others and he failed to solve it. He vented his anger by throwing the notebook against the wall. It was a pathetic situation to Master notebook. Everyone was shocked and they started talking at once. Justice Mathematics became red with anger, as he banged the hammer loudly. He asked the victims to give him the punishment. The Master notebook, Mr. Pencil, Mr. School bag and Mr. Geography suggested different punishments. But they all agreed to a punishment of jumping on Mahesh together, till he yells for mercy. Even Justice Mathematics got up from his chair to join the gang.

Brought to Book Summary

This story ‘Brought to book’ written by Madhumita Gupta insists on the proper maintenance of books and note books by the students. Mahesh dreams that he had been taken to the court to be punished for his ill-treatment of his books and notebooks.

The story begins with Justice Mathematics striking the hammer for silence in the court. He glared at Mahesh and the crowd and called for the first witness. Mahesh chewed his nails nervously. Ms. English, the first witness, complained to him that she wore a pink and grey dress, when she came to the house of Mahesh. But at present, she looked unrecognizable, covered with ink, grease spots, mercilessly dog-eared and the two comers chewed away. She looked worn out and tears rolled down her cheeks. She told the judge that Mahesh brought her home a few months back, but never bothered to cover her properly with the nice brown paper, that his father had brought.

Though he was scolded and punished by his teacher for that, he did not bother to rectify himself. He mined her looks by dropping her carelessly, stuffed her anyhow in his crammed bag and sometimes stuffed her next to the lunch box dripping with oil. Listening to all this, Mahesh got worried and realised his mistake of not listening to his mother’s advice to take care of his books. He was otherwise a good boy and even managed to stay within the first five ranks in class. But he was extremely lazy.

Next Mr. Geography complained that he was in a worse condition than Ms. English. He had no cover, the content page was hanging in and the maps were filled mercilessly with colours. He envied his brother who belonged to Shobitha. She handled him neatly. Mr. Pencil box complained that Mahesh never cleaned it. He sometimes chewed him whenever he got stuck for an answer. The school bag complained about his broken straps and buckles. Master Notebook complained that he threw him against the wall, as he failed to solve a problem in Mathematics. So, finally all of them decided to punish him by thrashing him.

When everyone was almost upon him, Ms. English asked the Justice Mathematics to give Mahesh a second chance because that was his first offence and he deserved a little consideration. The others saw reason and slowly backed off. Suddenly he heard his Mother shouting at him to get up. It was a dream. He got up and covered all his books. The following year, Mahesh Kumar got the prize for the “Best Looked-After books”.

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Tamilnadu Samacheer Kalvi 6th English Solutions Term 3 Supplementary Chapter 1 A Childhood in Malabar: A Memoir

A. Identify the Character/Speaker.

1. ‘Why isn’t the snake coming?”
2. ‘I wonder whether it’s a cyclone.’
3. ‘I want to see Kutti Oppu.”
4. ‘Will the house collapse?”
5. ‘Is she crazy?”

Answers:

1. Kamala Das
2. Ammamma
3. Malathi Kutty
4. Muthassi
5. Muthassi

Identify The Character / speaker : Additional

1. ‘Snakes never come out, when human beings are watching child.’ – Meenakshi Edathi
2. ‘The sound of it scares me.’ – Ammamma
3. ‘Have you closed all the small windows’ Kochu?’ – Muthassi
4. ‘I’ll close them, Amine; I’ll close all of them.’ – Ammamma
5. ‘She’ll come by dusk.’ – Ammamma
6. ‘How can you be so foolish, Bala?’ – Ammaman
7. ‘This rain will never stop.’ – Servant Woman
8. ‘There’s knee-deep water in the yard now. ’ – Sankaran Nair
9. ‘We want to swim.’ – Kamala Das
10. ‘Lie down on this.’ – Sankaran Nair

B. Write True or False

1. Droplets of rain glimmered on Ammamma’s face.
2. Malathi kutty wanted to see Kutti Oppu.
3. Ammayi comforted Malathi Kutty, when she sobbed.
4. The coconut palm crashed down due to heavy rain.

Answers:

1. True
2. True
3. False
4. True

State True or False : Additional

1. Meenakshi Edathi was fair skinned and young.
2. Kamala Das began to feel sleepy after lunch.
3. The seat of the swing that hung from the Ilanji tree fell down.
4. All of them took shelter in the northern room upstairs as Ammaman’s mother instructed them to do.
5. Muthassi suggested that they should chant aksharaslokams.
6. Ammamma gave the children metal dice to play with.
7. The servant took refuge in the make shift toilet adjacent to the room.
8. Two dogs were whining in the eastern yard.
9. Someone seemed to be knocking on the door on the southern side.
10. In a storm like this, how can we make a difference between a man and a dog?

Answers:

1. False
2. True
3. True
4. False
5. False
6. True
7. True
8. False
9. True
10. True

C. Choose the correct answer and write it in the blank.

Question 1.
Meenakshi Edathi was a ________ relative of the Ambazhathel family.
(a) close
(b) distant
(c) real
Answer:
(b) distant

Question 2.
We suddenly heard the sound of the rain from the ________ like a roar
(a) southeast
(b) southwest
(c) northeast
Answer:
(b) southwest

Question 3.
The ________ with four pillars began to overflow.
(a) central hall
(b) southern room
(c) courtyard
Answer:
(a) central hall

Question 4.
________ arrived drenched to the skin.
(a) Ammaman
(b) Cheriamma
(c) Ammayi
Answer:
(c) Ammayi

Question 5.
There was knee-deep water in the ________
(a) courtyard
(b) cowshed
(c) kitchen
Answer:
(a) courtyard

MCQ : Additional

Question 1.
It was someone’s _____ at Ambazhathel
(a) wedding day
(b) birthday
(c) special day
Answer:
(b) birthday

Question 2.
She had only certain trivial duties to _____
(a) carryout
(b) implement
(c) perform
Answer:
(c) perform

Question 3.
She spent her time _____ around the house and compound.
(a) walking
(b) rushing
(c) running
Answer:
(b) rushing

Question 4.
There were _____ servants to Carry out all other tasks.
(a) several
(b) plenty
(c) innumerable
Answer:
(c) innumerable

Question 5.
The wind tore through the coconut palms in the southern compound with a _____ roar.
(a) scaring
(b) frightening
(c) loud
Answer:
(b) frightening

Question 6.
Using all her force, Ammamma _____ the windows shut.
(a) slammed
(b) pulled
(c) made
Answer:
(a) slammed

Question 7.
She said this room had the strongest _____
(a) roof
(b) ceiling
(c) attic
Answer:
(b) ceiling

Question 8.
Ammamma and the grandmothers sat on the rolled up _____ stacked on the floor.
(a) beds
(b) mats
(c) mattresses
Answer:
(c) mattresses

Question 9.
I put my hand into the water in the .
(a) courtyard
(b) kitchen
(c) centre hall
Answer:
(a) courtyard

Question 10.
We spent the whole night in the room.
(a) northern
(b) southern
(c) eastern
Answer:
(b) southern

D. Rearrange the following jumbled sentences in the correct order.

• The dry leaves that had collected around the pond swirled upwards.
• “Branches shook and the seat of the swing fell down from the ilanji tree.
• The wind tore through the coconut palms in the southern compound. .
• Meenakshi Edathi was a dark skinned and middle aged woman.
• Without Meenakshi Elathi, Ambazhathel family could not have existed happily for a single day.

Answer:

• Meenakshi Edathi was a dark skinned and middle aged woman.
• Without Meenakshi Elathi, Ambazhathel family could not have existed happily for a single day.
• The wind tore through the coconut palms in the southern compound.
• The dry leaves that had collected around the pond swirled upwards.
• Branches shook and the seat of the swing fell down from the ilanji tree.

Rearrange the Following Jumbled Sentences : Additional

A.
1. She had only certain trivial duties to perform.
2. She was dark-skinned and middle aged.
3. Meenakshi Edathi was a distance relative of the Ambazhathel family.
4. Being poor, she was dependent on their generosity.
5. She spent her time, rushing around the house and compound.
Answer:
3, 4, 2, 5, 1
3. Meenakshi Edathi was a distance relative of the Ambazhathel family.
4. Being poor, she was dependent on their generosity.
2. She was dark-skinned and middle aged.
5. She spent her time rushing around the house and compound.
2. She had only certain trivial duties to perform.

B.
1. He was shivering in the cold.
2. Poor thing, he must have come out with Balamani Amma’, said Sankaran.
3. Lie down on this.
4. We looked at thumbi and he looked at us.
5. Sankaran spread a gunny bag on the Verandah.
Answer:
2, 4, 1, 5, 3
2. Poor thing, he must have come out with Balamani Amma’, said Sankaran.
4. We looked at thumbi and he looked at us.
1. He was shivering in the cold.
5. Sankaran spread a gunny bag on the Verandah.
3. Lie down on this.

E. Find answer for the questions given below, identify the person and write a character sketch about her,

Question 1.
Who was the important person in the Ambazhathel family?
Answer:
Meenakshmi Edathi was the important person in Ambazhathel family.

Question 2.
Why was she considered an important person?
Answer:
She was the only one, who knew how much paddy should be boiled each time to make enough rice for the household or how many mundus had been given to the washerman or when to give medicine to the children. So she was considered an important person.

Question 3.
How did she spend her time?
Answer:
She spent her time rushing around the house and compound, never stopping to rest. Her face constantly wore an expression that asked for forgiveness. She had certain trivial duties to perform.

Question 4.
Describe her appearance and qualities.
Answer:
She was dark-skinned and middle aged. She is busy always and never stops to take rest.

Question 5.
How would the days be without her? –
Answer:
The family of Ambazhathel could not have existed happily for a single day without Meenakshi Edathi.

Character Sketch of Meenakshi Edathi

Meenakshi Edathi was a distant relative of the Ambazhathel family. Being poor, she was dependent on their generosity. She was dark-skinned and a middle-aged person. She spent her time, rushing around the house and compound, never stopping to rest. Her face always wore an expression that asked for forgiveness. She had certain trivial duties to perform like welcoming the priest with an offering of paddy, lighting all the lamps at dusk, churning the curd and taking out the butter for children and drawing designs with rice batter on the door on the day of the Nira festival. The Ambazhathel family could not have existed happily for a single day without Meenakshi, as she was the only one, who knew how much paddy should be boiled each time to make enough rice for the members of the household or how many mundus had been given to the washerman or when to give medicine to the children.

F. Think and Answer.

Question 1.
Imagine that you are caught on a stormy day. How will you manage the situation?
Answer:
One day, I was in school. At about 2 p.m., the school gave over, as there was a weather forecast expecting a storm in the evening after 5 p.m. The students were allowed to go home, only after their parents came to pick them up. My mother, due to some problem, came to pick me up only after 4.30 p.m. It was a long way to go to our home. We travelled half way by a bus and then got down to take another bus. By then, the storm had started. The wind blew hard on us. We had to take shelter in a bus terminus. It rained heavily. We couldn’t step out of the bus terminus for nearly two hours. Then we came out. It was still raining. There was water upto our knees. My mother gave a call to my father asking him to come there. He hired a car and picked us up. We reached home safely at 8 p.m.

Project

G. Make a fact file on how do we use these resources in our day-to-day life.

• Solar energy
• Wind energy
• Hydro energy

Answer:
Solar Energy

Many scientist believe that solar energy is the future fuel. To cut down electricity bills, we should use solar energy. You can choose a full solar electrical system and completely remove yourself from the local power supply company. Solar systems can heat the water in your homes to fill your hot-water tank. Almost every electronic device that contains GPS or receives information via satellite such as cell phones, use some of the oldest solar technology around. Satellites that link us to most mass forms of media directly or indirectly use the sun’s rays to power them.

Wind Energy

The earth is a source of many forms of energy such as hydro, biomass, nuclear and geothermal. Wind energy is a source of energy which is free, very abundant and environment friendly. Wind turbines are one of the power generating devices, which utilize wind energy to generate power. This electricity is used to run electric devices and or stored in the batteries. Many countries use wind energy to power a pump water from the ground. The wind energy is also used to power the sailing ships in the sea. A more enjoyable use to wind energy is for sports and activities that rely on the power of wind.

Hydro Energy

Like wind energy, Hydro energy is mostly used for electricity generation and accounts for almost 20% of the total global electricity production. Hydro- power is also used to store energy. Hydro electricity is one of the cheapest and non-polluting sources of power. It is much more reliable than wind and solar power. The most common type of hydro-electric power plant uses a dam on a river to store water in a reservoir. Water released from the reservoir flows through a turbine, spinning it, which in turn activates a generator to produce electricity.

Connecting To Self

H. Fill in the table given below.

I. During winter season many of us fall sick and suffer from cold, cough and fever. Put a (✓) for the things you will do to keep fit.

1. Drink cold water. [×]
2. Eat home-cooked food. [✓]
3. I will visit the doctor. [✓]
4. Never wash my hands. [×]
5. I will take medicine and rest. [✓]

J. Tick the correct word for the given icon.

Answer:

Steps to Success

K. Relate the sentences with weather / climate / season and write the suitable word in the blanks.

1. forecast is useful for farmers, fishermen, and navigators.
2. The _______ of a place is permanent in nature.
3. India has a tropical monsoon _______
4. Spring, Summer, autumn and winter are the four _______
5. Global warming is a change in the world’s _______
6. Satellite photographs help us predict tomorrow’s _______
7. Spring is my favourite _______

Answers:

1. Weather
2. climate
3. climate
4. seasons
5. climate
6. weather forecast
7. season

A Childhood in Malabar: A Memoir Additional Questions

I. Read the Passage and Answer the Questions.

1. It was someone’s birthday at Ambazhathel I’m not sure whose – the day there was a cyclone. Ettan, my elder brother, and I were invited to the feast there that day. Malathikutty took us to the serpent shrine before lunch. We watched Meenakshi Edathi setting out turmeric, milk and bananas for the snakes.

Question a.
Who were invited to the feast?
Answer:
Kamala Das and her elder brother were invited to the feast.

Question b.
Where did Maiathi Kutty take them?
Answer:
She took them to the serpent shrine.

Question c.
What was the feast mentioned here?
Answer:
It was someone’s birthday at Ambazhathel.

2. I began to feel sleepy after lunch. Malathikutty came back with us to Nalapat. Barely an hour after we got home, we heard the sound of the gale. The wind tore through the coconut palms in the southern compound with a frightening roar. The dry leaves that had collected around the pond swirled upwards belligerently. Branches shook.

Question a.
Who came back to Nalapat?
Answer:
Maiathi Kutty came back to Nalapat.

Question b.
When did they hear the sound of a gale?
Answer:
Barely an hour after they got home, they heard the sound of the gale.

Question c.
What had collected around the pond?
Answer:
The dry leaves had collected around the pond.

3. She said this room had the strongest ceiling, The thekkini was flooded and the water that had collected in the sunken courtyard of the nalukettu, the central hall with four wooden pillars, began to overflow. Ammaman and all of us sat on the bed.

Question a.
Whit was flooded with water?
Answer:
Thekkini was flooded with water.

Question b.
How many pillars had the central hall?
Answer:
It had four wooden pillars.

Question c.
What Is nalukettu?
Answer:
Nalukettu is the central hall.

4. Cheriamma suggested that we chant aksharaslokams to forget our fear : each one of us would have to recite a verse and the next person would follow with a verse that began with the first letter of the third line of the quatrain that had just been chanted. No one volunteered, though. So Cheriamma recited from Vallathol’s Imprisoned Aniruddhan.

Question a.
Who suggested to chant aksharaslokams?
Answer:
Cheriamma suggested to chant Aksharaslokams.

Question b.
Did anyone volunteer to chant?
Answer:
No one volunteered to chant the slokams.

Question c.
What did Cheriamma recite?
Answer:
Cheriamma recited from Vallathol’s Imprisoned Aniruddhan.

5. It was the sound of a pleading voice saying ‘Please open the gate’ that actually woke me. A young man stood smiling in the waist-high water at the gate. ‘I’m from Vadekkara. Is everyone here all right? ‘Yes,’ said Ammamma.’ We’ve had no casualties. How did you come, Balan?’ ‘I started out at daybreak and waded through the water’.

Question a.
Prom where did the young man corrti?
Answer:
The young man came from Vadekkara.

Question b.
What was his name?
Answer:
His name was Balan.

Question c.
What is meant by casualty?
Answer:
Casualty means a person who is injured.

II. Paragraph Questions.

Question 1.
what happened as soon as the storm started?
Ans:
When Kamala Das and her elder brother came home, they heard the sound of the gale within an hour. The wind tore through the coconut palms in the southern compound with a frightening roar. The dry leaves that had collected around the pond swirled upwards aggressively. Branches shook and the seat of the swing that hung from the ilanji tree fell down. The lights grew dim. A cocount palm crashed down due to this heavy rain. Thekkini and the central hall were flooded with water.

Question 2.
whit precautions mm taken by the immstes of the Ambeihathel family during the heavy rain?
Answer:
Ammamma asked the children to sit upstairs in the middle room and gave them a metal dice to play with. Since the lights had grown dim, she lit a brass lamp as well. Muthassi called out to Ammamma to close all the small windows immediately. Using all her force, Ammamma slammed the windows shut. She insisted that all of them should say their prayers and sit quietly. They took shelter in the southern room downstairs. They sat on the bed and mattresses. The servant woman took refuge in the makeshift toilet adjacent to the room.

Question 3.
who was knocking on the dour on the southern fide? Why?
Answer:
A dog was knocking on the door on the southern side. Sankaran Nair opened the door. The dog stood on the verandah, dripping wet. He was Thumbi, the black and white pet dog from Ambazhathel. He was fully drenched and shivering in the cold. Sankaran spread a gunny bag on the verandah for Thumbi to lie down and said that we can’t make a difference between a man and dog in a storm like that. Thumbi lay down on the gunny bag and looked contentedly at Kamala and her brother.

A Childhood in Malabar: A Memoir Summary

This story, written by Kamala Das recounts the incident of a stormy day at her grand parents’ house in the village of Kerala. Kamala Das and her elder brother were invited to the feast of someone’s birthday at Ambazhathel. They were taken to the serpent shrine by Malathi Kutty. There, they saw Meenakshi Edathi. She was a distant relative of the Ambazhathel family. She was setting out turmeric, milk and bananas for the snakes.

Being poor, she was dependent on their generosity. A middle aged person, Meenakshi spent her time rushing around the house and compound, doing certain trivial duties. But the family of Ambazhathel could not have existed happily for a single day without Meenakshi, as she was the only one, who knew about the needs of the inmates of the family.

After lunch, they returned home to Nalapat along with Malathi Kutty. Within an hour, they heard the sound of a gale. The wind tore through the cocount palms, dry leaves swirled upwards, branches shook ahd the seat of the swing fell down, due to this gale. Kamala Das’ grandmother, (Ammamma) asked all of them to sit down in the upstairs middle room and gave them a metal dice to play with.

Her father’s mother (Muthassi) ordered to close all the small windows. The sound of the rain was like the roar of a vast crowd of people. Malathi Kutty insisted that she wanted to go to Ambazhathel and see Kutti Oppu. Ammamma tried to comfort her that she will send her as soon as the storm stopped. The backyard was flooded and the water had also collected in the Central Hall. They all sat on their beds and mattresses. Just then, Ammayi arrived, drenched to the skin. Cheriamma suggested that they can chant akshara slokans to forget their fear.

As soon as Ammaman and Ammayi went upstairs, the servant woman started wailing and hitting her head with her hands. She was worried about her family members. Muthassi and Ammamma comforted her and said that she could go home the next day, as soon as the rain stopped. All of them, heard the trees crashing to the ground and a dog whining in the western yard. Sankaran Nair told them that there was knee-deep water in the courtyard.

Thumbi, their pet dog was also drenched and was shivering in the cold. Sankaran spread a gunny bag for Thumbi to lie down. All of them spent the whole night in the southern room. When they woke up, the rain had stopped. A young man from Vadekkara came to check whether all are safe. He told them that he started out at day break and waded through the water. On his way, he saw the collapsed huts and trees, dead fowls and dead goats floating in the water. When Kamala Das enquired the young man whether anyone had sent them Murukkus or dates, her grandmother corrected her saying that was not the time to ask for all those things. Kamala hung her head ashamed.

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Tamilnadu Samacheer Kalvi 7th Science Solutions Term 2 Chapter 6 Digital Painting

Samacheer Kalvi 7th Science Digital Painting Textual Evaluation

I. Choose the correct answer:

Question 1.
Tux paint software is used to
(a) Paint
(b) Program
(c) Scan
(d) PDF
Answer:
(a) Paint

Question 2.
Which toolbar is used for drawing and editing controls in tux paint software?
(a) Left Side: Toolbar
(b) Right side : Toolbar
(c) Middle : Tool bar
(d) Bottom : Tool bar
Answer:
(a) Left Side: Toolbar

Question 3.
What is the shortcut key for undo option?
(a) Ctrl + Z
(b) Ctrl + R
(c) Ctrl + Y
(d) Ctrl+N
Answer:
(a) Ctrl + Z

Question 4.
Tux Math software helps in learning the
(a) Painting
(b) Arithmetic
(c) Programming
(d) Graphics
Answer:
(b) Arithmetic

Question 5.
In Tux Math, Space cadet option is used for
(a) Simple addition
(b) Division
(c) Drawing
(d) Multiplication
Answer:
(a) Simple addition

II. Answer the following Questions:

Question 1.
What is Tux Paint ?
Answer:
Tux Paint is a free drawing program designed for young children.

Question 2.
What is the use of Text Tool ?
Answer:
Text tool is used to type texts.

Question 3.
What is the Shortcut key for Save option?
Answer:
Ctrl + S

Question 4.
What is Tux Math?
Answer:
Tux Math is an open source arcade – style video game for learning arithmetic.

Question 5.
What is the use of Ranger?
Answer:
Ranger is used to do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to ten.

Samacheer Kalvi 7th Science Digital Painting Additional Questions

I. Choose the correct answer.

Question 1.
Which tool is used to open an existing file
(a) Line
(b) Open
(c) New
(d) Undo
Answer:
(b) Open

Question 2.
What is the shortcut key for printing option?
(a) Ctrl + S
(b) Ctrl + O
(c) Ctrl + P
(d) Ctrl + Y
Answer:
(c) Ctrl + P

Question 3.
In tux paint scout option is used for
(a) Simple addition
(b) Addition and subtraction to ten
(c) Division
(d) Multiplication
Answer:
(b) Addition and subtraction to ten

Question 4.
Which tool is used to cancel a command given earlier.
(a) Quit
(b) magic
(c) eraser
(d) undo
Answer:
(d) undo

Question 5.
Which tool is like a rubber stamps or stickers
(a) text
(b) stamp
(c) eraser
(d) magic
Answer:
(b) stamp

II.Fill in the Blanks

1. When Tux paint first loads, a ________ screen will appear.
2. The ________ tool helps us to draw freehand drawings.
3. The ________ tool is used to draw lines.
4. The ________ tool has a set of special tools.
5. Clicking the ________ button will start a new drawing.

Answer:

1. title / credits
2. paint brush
3. line
4. Magic
5. New

III. Question and answers:

Question 1.
What is the use of shapes tool?
Answer:
Shape tool is used to draw some simple filled and un-filled shapes.

Question 2.
What is play Arcade Game?
Answer:
This option is used to select and play one of the four open ended “arcade style”games.

Question 3.
Which tool is used to closed Tux Paint window?
Answer:
Quit tool is used to close Tux Paint window.

Question 4.
What is the use of selector?
Answer:
Selector display the options associated with the specific tool.

Question 5.
What is help area?
Answer:
Help area is in the bottom of the screen. It provides tips and other information while you draw.

Question 6.
What is magic tool?
Answer:
Magic tool is a set of special tools, selecting one of the ‘magic’ effects from the selector situated in the right side. This tool provides countless number of special visual effects if it is used in various combination with other tools.

IV. Give Long answers:

Question 1.
What are the short keys in computers?
Answer:

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Tamilnadu Samacheer Kalvi 8th Science Solutions Term 1 Chapter 9 Introduction to the Information Age

Samacheer Kalvi 8th Science Solutions Introduction to the Information Age

I. Choose the correct answers

Question 1.
Who is the father of computer?
(a) Martin Luther King
(b) Graham Bell
(c) Charlie Chaplin
(d) Charles Babbage
Answer:
(d) Charles Babbage

Question 2.
Which one of the following is an output device?
(a) Mouse
(b) Keyboard
(c) Speaker
(d) Pendrive
Answer:
(c) Speaker

Question 3.
Which one of the following is an input device?
(a) Speaker
(b) Keyboard
(c) Monitor
(d) Printer
Answer:
(b) Keyboard

Question 4.
Pen drive is ……………. device.
(a) Output
(b) Input
(c) Storage
(d) Connecting cable
Answer:
(c) Storage

Question 5.
Fifth generation computer has ……………… Intelligence.
(a) Transistors
(b) Integrated Circuits
(c) Microprocessor
(d) Artificial Intelligence
Answer:
(d) Artificial Intelligence

II. Match the following

Question 1.

Answer:

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

III. Give short answer

Question 1.
What is a Computer?
Answer:
A Computer is an electronic machine that accepts data, stores and processes data into information.

Question 2.
Name the parts of a computer.
Answer:
Parts of a Computer:

1. Input Unit
2. Central Processing Unit (CPU)
3. Output Unit

Question 3.
What is Hardware and Software?
Answer:
Hardware:

1. Hardware is the parts of a computer which we can touch and feel.
2. Hardware includes Input and Output devices, Cabinet, Hard Disk, Mother Board, SMPS, CPU, RAM, CD Drive and Graphics Card.

Software:

1. Hardware is lifeless without software in a computer.
2. Softwares are programmed and coded applications to process the input information.
3. The software processes the data by converting the input information into coding or programmed language.

Samacheer Kalvi 8th Science Solutions Introduction to the Information Age Additional Questions

I. Choose the correct answer

Question 1.
The main component used for the first generation computers is ……………….
(a) Transistors
(b) Integrated Circuits
(c) Microprocessor
(d) Vacuum Tubes
Answer:
(d) Vacuum Tubes

Question 2.
Artificial Intelligence is the main component of ……………… generation computers.
(a) first
(b) Fifth
(c) Third
(d) Fourth
Answer:
(b) Fifth

Question 3.
Computer performs tasks determined by …………….
(a) Programs
(b) Hardware
(c) Keyboard
(d) Mouse
Answer:
(a) Programs

Question 4.
Light pen is a …………….. device.
(a) Input
(b) Output
(c) Software
(d) None of these
Answer:
(a) Input

Question 5.
……………….. of the mouse is used to move the page up and down.
(a) Scroll Ball
(b) Pointer
(c) Right Click
(d) Left Click
Answer:
(a) Scroll Ball

II. Match the following

Question 1.

Answer:

i. e
ii. c
iii. d
iv. a
v. b

Question 2.

Answer:

i. c
ii. e
iii. a
iv. d
v. b

Question 3.

Answer:

i. c
ii. d
iii. a
iv. b

III. Short Answer

Question 1.
Differentiate input and output device.
Answer:

Question 2.
What is a CPU?
Answer:
CPU is the brain of the Computer. The data is processed in the CPU. Th e CPU has namely three parts.

1. Memory Unit
2. Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)
3. Control Unit.

Question 3.
What is control unit?
Answer:
The control unit controls the functions of all the parts of the computer.

Question 4.
Write a note on arithmetic logic unit.
Answer:
Arithmetic and Logic unit performs all the arithmetic computations like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Question 5.
Write briefly about memory unit.
Answer:

1. The memory unit in the computer saves all data and information temporarily.
2. We can classify memory unit into two types namely primary and secondary memory.
3. Memory can be expanded externally with the help of Compact Disk (CD), Pendrive, etc.

Question 6.
Mention the classification of computers.
Answer:
The computers can be classified based on their design, shape, speed, efficiency, working of the memory unit and their applications.

1. Mainframe Computer
2. Mini Computer
3. Micro or Personal Computer
4. Super Computer

Question 7.
What are the types of software?
Answer:
The software is divided into two types based on the process. They are

1. System Software (Operating System)
2. Application software

Question 8.
Give some information on system software.
Answer:

1. System Software (Operating system) is software that makes the hardware devices to process the inputted data and to display the result on the output devices like Monitor.
2. Without the operating systems, computer cannot function on its own.
3. Some of the popular operating system are Linux, Windows, Mac, Android etc.

Question 9.
Write a note on application software.
Answer:

1. Application software is a program or a group of programs designed for the benefit of end user to work on computer.
2. The application programs can be installed in the hard disk for the usage on a particular computer.
3. This type of application program completes one or more than two works of the end user.
4. The following are the examples of application program : Video player, Audio player, Word processing software, Drawing tools, Editing software, etc.

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Tamilnadu Samacheer Kalvi 6th English Solutions Term 3 Play Chapter 1 The Jungle Book

Listening

Listen to your teacher read a description of the character from the story. Identify the character based on your understanding and write the name in the space provided. Number the characters in sequence as they appear in the story.

Answer:

Speaking

Imagine you are Mowgli. Which animal would you befriend? What kind of adventure would you like in the forest? Make use of the hints below to talk about it.

• Hi, I’m Mowgli, The only human being living in the jungle.
• I have been raised by a pack of wolves, in an Indian forest.
• I go and hunt with my friends for food.
• My close buddy is a bear.
• His name is Baloo.
• He / She guides and accompanies me wherever I go. He comes along with me while I play, hunt and search for food.
• We enjoy loitering in the jungle by going hand in hand all the way.
• The jungle where we live is cool and pleasant.
• On the whole, I am lucky to stay here with my friends and well-wishers.

Reading

Read scene I of the play carefully and answer the questions below.

Question 1.
list the characters that appear in the scene. What human characteristics do they exhibit?
Answer:
The characters that appear in the scene are Tabaqui, (the Jackal), Mother Wolf and Father Wolf. The human characteristics exhibited by these characters are :

1. Father Wolf – responsible
2. Mother Wolf – protective of her cubs
3. Tabaqui – spiteful and cunning

Question 2.
The scene is set inside a thick forest and it is nearing dusk. Relate this time frame with the behaviour of the animals in the forest.
Answer:
Father Wolf takes rest in the day time and gets ready for his hunt. Mother Wolf protects her cubs by dropping them into the mouth of the cave. Tabaqui also hunts for food at that hour of the day. But he is spiteful and cunning.

Question 3.
Dkllhbaqui receive a warm welcome from the pack of wolves? How do you know?
Answer:
No. Tabaqui did not receive a warm welcome from the pack of wolves, as they were uncomfortable.

Question 4.
Tabaqui acts as _____ to the pack of wolves.
(a) a guard
(b) a friend
(c) a messenger
(d) an enemy
Answer:
(c) a messenger

Question 5.
Whom does Mother Wolf talk about? How does she describe him?
Answer:
Mother Wolf talked about Shere Khan. She said that Shere Khan’s mother called him Lungri (the Lame One), as he had been lame in one foot from his birth. That is why he had only killed cattle. As the villagers of Waingunga were angry with him, he had come to Seeonee Hills to make their villagers angry.

Question 6.
Who is about to go on a hunt? Do the wolves panicon his arrival? Explain.
Answer:
Shere Khan is about to go on a hunt. The wolves did not panic on his arrival, and they were brave enough to confront him and set him on fire.

Question 7.
Match the following

Answer:
a. (iii)
b. (iv)
c. (i)
d. (ii)

Writing

Imagine a conversation among your friends about the four characters’ in the play Tabaqui, Shere Khan, Mother Wolf and Father Wolf. Use the hints to write it.

• The character’s entry in the play.
• Compare and contrast their character traits.
• The reaction of the characters on seeing the man cub.

Answer:
In scene one, Mother Wolf and Father Wolf enter. Father Wolf gets ready to hunt and Mother Wolf takes protective measures by dropping the cubs into the mouth of the cave. Tabaqui, the Jackal enters from the downhill towards Father Wolf and asks for a meal. It flatters the cubs of the Wolf and warns everyone about Shere Khan, who is going to hunt among those hills for the next moon.

Father Wolf gets angry on hearing about Shere Khan and his hunt among the hills. But Mother Wolf speaks quietly and tells all what she knows about Shere Khan. Tabaqui, who comes there as a messenger to inform about the hunt of Shere Khan, goes away quietly.

Among the bushes, they see a man-cub-holding on a low branch. Mother Wolf gets excited to have him in their midst. She thinks of rearing him along with her cubs, though Father Wolf was a bit hesitant. Shere Khan and Tabaqui come in search of the baby. They see that the man-cub had gone into the mouth of the cave and asks Father Wolf to give the baby to them. But Father Wolf sternly says that the man-cub belonged to them. When Shere Khan roars angrily at this, Mother Wolf springs forward, facing Shere Khan bravely. She says that the man-cub is hers. He shall live to run and hunt with the pack. In the end, he will hunt Shere Khan. So Shere Khan backs out growling that the man-cub will come to him one day.

Grammar

Let’s Recall

I. Read the situation given. Write the response of the subject in a sentence. Tick the correct box to identify the kind of sentences.
D – Declarative; In – interrogative; E – Exclamatory; Im – Imperative

II. Look at the pictures given below. Arrange the jumbled words into a sentence. Write the sequence of the sentences according to the pictures in the blanks given. Pick the adjectives from the sentences and write them below the picture.

1. order/a yummy, round and big cake/her parents
2. her/a wonderful doll/present/Madhu’s friends/with
3. which falls on Sunday/for her birthday celebration/ Madhu/her close friends/invites
4. welcome/she and her parents/with a broad smile/their/ guests
5. enjoyed the day/felt/happy and/Madhu and her parents
6. the house with colourful balloons/her parents/to decorate/and attractive cartoon
7. pink/Madhu/frock/wears/on her/birthday/a long.

Answer:

1. Madhu invites her close friends for her birthday celebration which falls on Sunday.
2. Her parents decorate the house with colourful balloons and attractive cartoon.
3. Her parents order a yummy, round and big cake.
4. Madhu wears a long, pink frock on her birthday.
5. She and her parents welcome their guests with a broad smile.
6. Madhu’s friends present her with a wonder full doll.
7. Madhu and her parents felt happ and enjoyed the day.

III. Frame as many sentences as possible from the substitution table given below.

Answer:
Example : I enjoy playing badminton and carrom daily.

1. We prefer playing kabaddi and table tennis usually.
2. We love watching cricket and squash often.
3. I hate watching kho-kho and fencing daily.
4. I love coaching hockey or table-tennis generally.
5. I wish playing basketball and chess often.
6. They dislike watching football and fencing sometimes.
7. We enjoy playing badminton or table-tennis everyday.
8. They like watching tennis or squash occasionally.
9. Samritha enjoys watching kabaddi and chess often.
10. Kavish likes playing badminton and table-tennis rarely.
11. Samritha prefers watching kho-kho or fencing daily.
12. Kavish hates coaching basketball or squash sometimes.

IV. Head the sentence, insert appropriate articles In the blanks and circle the noun phrase.

Question 1.
Sujatha is reading _______ interesting story in the library.
Answer:
Sujatha is reading an ( interesting story in the library.

Question 2.
Vishal drew _______ wonderful picture on the board yesterday.
Answer:
Vishal drew a (wonderful picture) on the board yesterday.

Question 3.
Srinath and Sandhya were bored at ________ awful concert.
Answer:
Srinath and Sandhya were bored at an (awful concert)

Question 4.
Purvaja ate _______ salad of raw ve etables for dinner.
Answer:
Purvaja ate a salad of (raw vegetables) for dinner.

Question 5.
Suresh was astonished to see _______ huge statue.
Answer:
Suresh was astonished to see the (huge statue)

Question 6.
The child was playing with _______ yellow balloon.
Answer:
The child was playing with a (Yellow balloon)

V. Complete the dialogue by using suitable adjectives in the blanks.

Sinduja : Hi! Venkat. Hope you received the message about our school’s sports day.
Venkat : Hmmm ..! Yes… I was the first one to enrol my name in the events.
Sinduja : So, tell me for how many events have you enrolled?
Venkat : I have enrolled myself only in a few events.
Sinduja : What are they?
Venkat : As I am tall, I have given my name for long jump and running events.
Sinduja : That’s excellent to hear.
Venkat : What about you, Sinduja?
Sinduja : I have decided to participate in all the events.
Venkat : Hey!! That’s good. Expecting the best from you.
Sinduja : Thank you so much Venkat. Wish you the same. Let’s rock.

Project

Read the story given below and follow the instructions to convert it into a play.
Answer:
Title : Goldilocks and the three bears
Characters :

1. A little girl named Goldilocks
2. Papa bear
3. Mama bear
4. Baby bear
5. Narrator

Scene – I

Narrator : A little girl named Goldilocks went for a walk in the forest. On her way, she came upon a house. She knocked at the door, but no one answered. So she walked right in. She found three bowls of porridge in the kitchen.
Goldilocks : I’m very hungry. Let me taste this porridge from the first bowl.
Narrator : She tasted the porridge from the first bowl.
Goldilocks : ‘Ouch! This porridge is too hot! ’
Narrator : She tasted the porridge from the second bowl.
Goldilocks : This porridge is too cold.
Narrator : She tasted the last bowl of porridge.
Goldilocks : Ahhh, this porridge is just right.
Narrator : She ate it all up happily. She was feeling a little tired. So she walked into the living room where she saw three chairs. She sat in the first chair to rest her feet.
Goldilocks : This chair is too big.
Narrator : She sat in the second chair.
Goldilocks : This chair is too big too!
Narrator : She whined and tried the last smallest chair.
Goldilocks : Ahhh, this chair is just right.
Narrator : But just as she settled down into the chair to rest, it broke into pieces.

Scene – II

Narrator : Goldilocks was very tired by this time. So she went upstairs to the bedroom.She tried all the beds and as the two beds were hard, she choose the smaller bed, which was soft. She laid down on it and at last, she fell asleep. As she was sleeping, the three bears, who lived in that house, came home.
Papa bear : Someone’s been eating my porridge.
Mama bear : Yes, someone had tasted my porridge.
Baby bear : Someone had eaten all my porridge.
Papa bear : Someone’s been sitting in my chair.
Mama bear : Someone’s been sitting in my chair too.
Baby bear : Someone’s been Sitting in my chair and they’ve broken it all to pieces.
Narrator : They decided to look around some more and when they got upstairs to the
bedroom, Papa bear growled.
Papa bear : Someone’s been sleeping in my bed.
Mama bear : Someone has been sleeping in my bed too.
Baby bear : Someone is still sleeping on my bed.
Narrator : Just then Goldilocks woke up and saw the three bears. She screamed.
Goldilocks : Help! Help!

She jumped up and ran out of the room. She ran down the stairs, opened the door and ran away into the forest. And she never returned to the home of the three bears.

The Jungle Book Additional Questions

I. Select The Suitable Synonyms.

Question 1.
tumbling
(a) rolling
(b) screaming
(c) falling down
Answer:
(c) falling down

Question 2.
spiteful
(a) hateful
(b) smiling
(c) sorrowful
Answer:
(a) hatefull

Question 3.
mean
(a) kind
(b) clever
(c) unkind
Answer:
(c) unkinds

Question 4.
Scour
(a) Clean
(b) destroy
(c) burn
Answer:
(c) clean

Question 5.
bucks
(a) leopards
(b) deer
(c) Wolves
Answer:
(b) deer

Question 6.
bewilders
(a) frightens
(b) wakes
(c) confuses
Answer:
(c) confuses

Question 7.
mangy
(a) shabby
(b) weak
(c) tired
Answer:
(a) shabby

Question 8.
howl
(a) shout
(b) the cry of a wolf or dog
(c) sound
Answer:
(b) the cry of a wolf or dog bound

Question 9.
bound
(a) leap
(b) walk
(c) stride
Answer:
(a) leap

Question 10.
fostering
(a) neglecting
(b) taking care of
(c) destroying
Answer:
(b) taking care of

II. Select The Suitable Antonyms.

Question 1.
rest
(a) leisure
(b) sleep
(c) work
Answer:
(c) work

Question 2.
noble
(a) ignoble
(b) gentle
(c) dignified
Answer:
(a) ignoble

Question 3.
dry
(a) wet
(b) warm
(c) arid
Answer:
(a) wet

Question 4.
near
(a) far
(b) close to
(c) next to
Answer:
(a) far

Question 5.
nothing
(a) anything
(b) something
(c) the whole thing
Answer:
(b) something

Question 6.
grateful
(a) thankful
(b) ungrateful
(c) thoughtful
Answer:
(b) ungreateful

Question 7.
fool
(a) wise
(b) idiot
(c) block head
Answer:
(a) wise

Question 8.
never
(a) always
(b) not at all
(c) not ever
Answer:
(a) always

Question 9.
weakest
(a) poorest
(b) cheapest
(c) strongest
Answer:
(c) strongest

Question 10.
louder
(a) stronger
(b) softer
(c) heavier
Answer:
(b) softer

Question 11.
laughed
(a) giggled
(b) smiled
(c) cried
Answer:
(d) cried

Question 12.
bold
(a) brave
(b) bright
(c) timid
Answer:
(c) timid

Question 13.
warm
(a) sunny
(b) cold
(c) pleasant
Answer:
(b) cold

Question 14.
narrow
(a) cramped
(b) broad
(c) tight
Answer:
(b) broad

Question 15.
gravely
(a) seriously
(b) badly
(c) cheerfully
Answer:
(c) cheerfully

III. Choose The Correct Answer

Question 1.
The Scene I opens in the ________ Hills.
(a) Spring down
(b) Seeonee
(c) Jungle
(d) Forest
Answer:
(b) Seeonee

Question 2.
Shere Khan was the tiger, who lived near the Waingunga river ________ miles away.
(a) ten
(b) thirty
(c) twenty
(d) five
Answer:
(c) twenty

Question 3.
I have to kill for ________ these days.
(a) three
(b) five
(c) four
(d) two
Answer:
(d) two

Question 4.
That is why he has only killed ________
(a) horses
(b) cattle
(c) leopards
(d) elephants
Answer:
(b) cattle

Question 5.
Are there not enough ________ and Man and on our ground too!
(a) beetles
(b) spiders
(c) butterflies
(d) bucks
Answer:
(a) beetles

Question 6.
Then there was a howl – an untigerish howl – from ________
(a) Mother Wolf
(b) Father Wolf
(c) Tabaqui
(c) Shere Khan
Answer:
(d) Shere Khan

Question 7.
The fool had no more sense than to jump at a campfire and burned his ________
(a) legs
(b) hands
(c) feet
(d) face
Answer:
(c) feet

Question 8.
They take ________ from the Head of the pack.
(a) orders
(b) food
(c) calls
(d) compliments
Answer:
(a) orders

Question 9.
Each dog barks in his own ________
(a) kennel
(b) yard
(c) place
(d) habitat
Answer:
(b) yard

Question 10.
The cub must be shown to the ________
(a) parents
(b) head
(c) pack
(d) wolves
Answer:
(c) pack

IV. Very Short Answer Questions.

Question 1.
What was the time, when the scene opens?
Answer:
It was seven o’clock in the evening.

Question 2.
How was the nose of Mother wolf?
Answer:
It was a big grey nose.

Question 3.
How many cubs did the Mother wolf had?
Answer:
She had four cubs.

Question 4.
Who was Tabaqui?
Answer:
Tabaqui was a Jackal, the only friend of Shere Khan and also messenger to him.

Question 5.
Where did Shere Khan live?
Answer:
It lived near the Waingunga River, twenty miles away from Seeonee Hills.

Question 6.
By what name does Shere Khan’s call him?
Answer:
Shere Khan’s mother called him Lungri (the Lame One).

Question 7.
Why does she call him so?
Answer:
She called him so because he had been lame in one foot from his birth.

Question 8.
Where was the valley?
Answer:
The Valley was below the Seeonee Hills, and it ran down a little river.

Question 9.
Who jumped into the wood cutter’s campfire?
Answer:
Shere Khan jumped into the wood cutter’s fire.

Question 10.
What was the baby doing?
Answer:
The baby was pushing his way between the cubs to get close to the warm hide.

V. Short Answer Questions.

Question 1.
As soon as Father Wolf wakes up, what does he do?
Answer:
As soon as Father Wolf wakes up, he releases and spreads out his paws one after the other to make himself ready for the hunt.

Question 2.
Where did Mother Wolf drop her cubs?
Answer:
Mother Wolf dropped her four tumbling and squealing cubs into the mouth of the cave, where they all live.

Question 3.
What does the Jackal say about the young ones of the wolf?
Answer:
It praised them saying that they are beautiful, noble and young, with large eyes.

Question 4.
Where does Shere Khan shift his hunting ground?
Answer:
Shere Khan had shifted his hunting grounds to Seeonee Hills for the next moon.

Question 5.
What was the law of the jungle according to Father Wolf?
Answer:
The law of the jungle, forbids Shere Khan to change his quarters without due warning. ‘

Question 6.
To what did the whine of the Shere Khan had changed?
Answer:
The whine of Shere Khan had changed to a sort of humming purr that seemed to come from every quarter of the compass. ‘

Question 7.
How did the noise of Shere Khan affect the wood cutters and gypsies?
Answer:
The noise of Shere Khan bewildered the wood cutters and gypsies, sleeping in the open and makes them run sometimes into the very mouth of the tiger.

Question 8.
Describe the man-cub who came to the wolf’s cave.
Answer:
The man-cub was a naked baby, who could just walk and looked soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf’s cave at night.

Question 9.
How did Mother Wolf face Shere Khan?
Answer:
Mother Wolf shook herself clear of the cubs and sprang forward. Her eyes were , like the two green moons in the darkness. She faced the blazing eyes of Shere Khan bravely.

Question 10.
What was the name given to the man cub? What does it mean?
Answer:
Mother Wolf named the man-cub as ‘Mowgli’. It means the little frog.

VI. Paragraph Questions and Answers.

Question 1.
What do you know about The Jungle Book*?
Answer:
The Jungle Book was written by Rudyard Kipling. The book has attracted audiences of all ages for its plot structure and characters. Children especially enjoy this story, as it deals with the early childhood of a boy in the midest of wild animals in the forest. It has many episodes such as the acceptance of Mowgli by the pack of wolves, the friendship between Bagheera, the black panther and Mowgli. Bagheera serves as a friend, protector and mentor to the man-cub. It has also episodes of Mowgli’s adventurous trips in the jungle with Baloo, the bear and the fight between Mowgli and the monkey’s gang. Mowgli was forced to leave the jungle. But after sometime, he decides to return to the jungle and lives there.

Question 2.
Explain In detail about the law of the Jungle.
Answer:
The law of the Jungle, which never orders anything without a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man, except when he is killing to show his children how to kill and then he must hunt outside the hunting grounds of his pack or tribe. The real reason for this is that Man-killing means, sooner or later, the arrival of men on elephants with guns and rockets and torches. Then everybody in the jungle suffers. The reasons the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenceless of all living things.

Grammar – Additional

Kinds of Sentences

The sentence is the basic unit of grammar. It must begin with a capital letter and usually end with a full stop. It must make complete sense. It must have a subject and a finite verb. It is of four types.

1. Declarative Sentences
These,are statements. They state facts, report events or describe things.

• P.T. Usha ran the race.
• Birds fly.

2. Interrogative Sentences
These are questions. They begin with words like who, v^tich, what, why, how, where, when etc. We put a question mark at the end.

• Why did it happen?
• Did you do it?
• How are you?

3. Exclamatory Sentences
These express surprise, admiration, sorrow etc.
They close with exlamation marks (!)

• What a fast runner Carl Lewis is!
• Amazing, he got the first prize!
• What a pity, India did not win the World Cup!

4. Imperative Sentences
These give orders.

• Shut the door.
• Clean the room.
• Get me some water.

Noun Phrase

Noun phrase is a noun or any words in the sentence that modify it. Words that can modify nouns include articles, adjectives, participles and possessive pronouns. A noun phrase can be a single word (just the noun) or more than one word.

Eg. (1) a yellow house, (2) the glistening snow.

• Karen lives in the yellow house.
• The glistening snow covered the field.
• The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
• The end of the season is hard for some athletes.
• A sailor’s best friend is a wide open sea.

I. Read the situation given, write the response of the subject in a sentence.

II. Arrange the jumbled words into a sentence and pick out adjectives.

III. Read the sentence, insert appropriate articles in the blanks and circle the noun phrases.

Question 1.
I hope to win _______ first prize.
Answer:
I hope to win the first prize

Question 2.
I tried to solve _______ difficult puzzle.
Answer:
I tried to solve a (diffcult puzzle)

Question 3.
This is _______ amazing story.
Answer:
This is an (amazing story)

Question 4.
He sings _______ melancholic song.
Answer:
He sings a (melancholic song)

Question 5.
The accused refused to answer _______ expected questions.
Answer:
The accused refused to answer the expected questions

Question 6.
We reached _______ shore temple af 10 a.m.
Answer:
We reached the shore temple af 10 a.m.

Question 7.
It was _______ unpleasant experience
Answer:
It was an unpleasant experience

Question 8.
My teacher explained the lesson with _______ beautiful diagram.
Answer:
My teacher explained the lesson with a beautiful diagram

Question 9.
We reached home, after visiting _______ wonderful beach resort.
Answer:
We reached home, after visiting the wonderful beach resort

Question 10.
My mother gave me _______ set of story books as my birthday present.
Answer:
My mother gave me a (set of story books) as my birthday present.

IV. Complete the dialogue by using, suitab’e adjectives in the blanks.

Ravi : I like your new refrigerator.
Mahesh : Why? Is it big?
Ravi : It’s very big and very modern.
Mahesh : I still have my old refrigerator?
Ravi : You do. But it’s very small
Mahesh : Do you want to buy it?
Ravi : Oh no! I would like to buy a new one. But I’ll find out, if anyone wants the old one.
Mahesh : Thank you. It is in good condition as it well maintained.

Textual Activities

Warm Up

Look at the pictures given below and talk about their habitat (living place, food, family, etc, )

Answer:
Every living organism has- a habitat. Habitats vary greatly from organism to organism, because all living things have different needs for survival. A human being needs a beautiful house to live in. He needs good healthy food and a loving family around him. Most people prefer to live in cities.

Animals like Tigers, Lions and Monkeys live in the forests or jungles. They are happy to be in their habitat instead of being caught and kept in zoos. Lions live generally in western India and African Savannah, where the forest is not so dense. These grasslands invite a lot of herbivores to come there and be hunted by the lions. Gorillas thrive in the tropical and sub-tropical forests that run along the equatorial belt. Abundant and green vegetation is the main characteristic of the gorilla habitat. Gorillas form a family of 15-20 consisting of adults and kids and live peacefully.

The Jungle Book Summary

Section I

The Jungle book was written by Rudyard Kipling. Children enjoy this story, as it deals with the early childhood of a boy in the midst of wild animals in the forest. The characters in this story are Father Wolf, Mother Wolf, Tabaqui (the Jackal), Shere Khan (the Tiger), Man’s Cub (Mowgli), Wolf’s Cubs and the Narrator.

The scene opens in the Seeonee Hills. It was seven o’clock in the evening. There were no stars in the sky. It was utter darkness in the forest. Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest and got ready for the hunt. Mother Wolf dropped her four tumbling cubs into the mouth of the cave, where they all live. Father Wolf moved down to spring downhill, where he meets Tabaqui, the jackal. He informed the Father Wolf and the Mother Wolf that Shere Khan had shifted his hunting grounds.

So he had told Tabaqui that he will hunt among those hills for the next moon. Shere Khan was the Tiger, who lived near the Waingunga river, twenty miles away from the Seeonee Hills. Father Wolf got angry and told that he had no right to come there and change his quarters with due warning. Mother Wolf told them that since Shere Khan had been lame in one foot right from his birth, his mother called him Lungri (the Lamd One). The villagers of the Waingunga were angry with him and he had come there to make their villagers angry. She said that they must run away by setting fire on Shere Khan. Hearing this, the Jackal moved away saying that they can hear Shere Khan below in the forest.

Section II

Father Wolf listened to the dry, angry whine of a tiger, who has caught nothing. Father Wolf called Shere Khan a fool to begin a night’s work with that noise. Mother Wolf told him that Shere Khan intends to hunt a man and not any other animal. The whine of the Shere Khan had changed to a sort of humming purr that seemed to come from every quarter of the compass. It was the noise that frightened everyone in the jungle.

Section III

The law of the jungle never orders anything without a reason, forbids every beast to eat man, except when he is killing to show his children how to kill and then he must hunt outside the hunting grounds of his pack or tribe. The purr grew louder and there was an untigerish howl from Shere Khan. He howled because he had burnt his feet, as he accidently jumped into a woodcutter’s campfire. The bushes rustled a little in the forest and so Father Wolf was ready for his leap. When he saw a Man’s cub, he stopped to leap at him. This naked baby looked up into Father’s Wolf’s face and laughed.

The baby pushed his way between the cubs to get close to the warm hide. Mother Wolf was happy to have the man’s cub with them. Shere Khan came to the entrance and asked for the baby. The mouth of the cave was too narrow for a tiger to go into it. The Mother Wolf came forward facing Shere Khan bravely. She said that the Man’s cub belonged to her. He would live with them and in the end would hunt Shere Khan. Father Wolf looked amazed at the courage of Mother Wolf. Shere Khan backed out of the cave growling and insisting that the man club belonged to him.

Section IV

Mother Wolf threw herself down panting among the cubs, and when Father Wolf asks her whether she wanted to keep the Man-cub, she said that she would keep him with her cubs. Shere Khan would have killed him, if she had let him out. She named him as ‘Mowgli’ the little Frog and told him that he had to hunt Shere Khan, as he had hunted him.

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Tamilnadu Samacheer Kalvi 8th Science Solutions Term 2 Chapter 7 Digital Painting

Samacheer Kalvi 8th Science Digital Painting Text Book Exercises

I. Choose the correct answer

Question 1.
Tux paint software is used to ……………..
(a) Paint
(b) Program
(c) Scan
(d) PDF
Answer:
(a) Paint

Question 2.
Which toolbar is used for drawing and editing controls in tux paint software?
(a) Left Side: Toolbar
(b) Right side : Toolbar
(c) Middle : Tool bar
(d) Bottom : Tool bar
Answer:
(a) Left Side : Toolbar

Question 3.
What is the shortcut key for undo option?
(a) Ctrl + Z
(b) Ctrl + R
(c) Ctrl + Y
(d) Ctrl + N
Answer:
(a) Ctrl + Z

Question 4.
Tux Math software helps in learning the ……………….
(a) Painting
(b) Arithmetic
(c) Programming
(d) Graphics
Answer:
(b) Arithmetic

Question 5.
In Thx Math, Space cadet option is used for ………………
(a) Simple addition
(b) Division
(c) Drawing
(d) Multiplication
Answer:
(a) Simple addition

II. Answer the following Questions

Question 1.
What is Tux Paint?
Answer:
Tux Paint is a free drawing program designed for young childreh.

Question 2.
What is the use of Text Tool?
Answer:
Text tool is used to type texts.

Question 3.
What is the Shortcut key for Save option?
Answer:
Ctrl + S

Question 4.
What is Tux Math?
Answer:
Tux Math is an open source arcade – style video game for learning arithmetic.

Question 5.
What is the use of Ranger?
Answer:
Ranger is used to do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to ten.

Samacheer Kalvi 8th Science Digital Painting Additional Questions

I. Choose the correct answer.

Question 1.
Which tool is used to open an existing file?
(a) Line
(b) Open
(c) New
(d) Undo
Answer:
(b) Open

Question 2.
What is the shortcut key for print option?
(a) Ctrl + S
(b) Ctrl + O
(c) Ctrl + P
(d) Ctrl + Y
Answer:
(c) Ctrl + P

Question 3.
In tux paint scout option is used for ………………
(a) Simple addition
(b) Addition and subtraction to ten
(c) Division
(d) Multiplication
Answer:
(b) Addition and subtraction to ten

Question 4.
Which tool is used to cancel a command given earlier?
(a) Quit
(b) magic
(c) eraser
(d) undo
Answer:
(d) undo

Question 5.
Which tool is like a rubber stamps or stickers?
(a) text
(b) stamp
(c) eraser
(d) magic
Answer:
(b) stamp

II. Fill in the Blanks

1. When Tux paint first loads, a ………………… screen will appear.
2. The ………………… tool helps us to draw freehand drawings.
3. The ………………… tool is used to draw lines.
4. ………………… tool has a set of special tools.
5. Clicking the ………………… button will start a new drawing.

Answer:

1. title / credits
2. paint brush
3. line
4. Magic
5. New

III. Question and answers

Question 1.
What is the use of shapes tool?
Answer:
Shape tool is used to draw some simple filled and un-filled shapes.

Question 2.
What is play Arcade Game?
Answer:
This option is used to select and play one of the four open ended “arcade style” games.

Question 3.
Which tool is used to closed Tux Paint window?
Answer:
Quit tool is used to close Tux Paint window.

Question 4.
What is the use of selector?
Answer:
Selector display the options associated with the specific tool.

Question 5.
What is help area?
Answer:
Help area is in the bottom of the screen. It provides tips and other information while you draw.

Question 6.
What is magic tool?
Answer:
Magic tool is a set of special tools, selecting one of the ‘magic’ effects from the selector situated in the right side. This tool provides countless number of special visual effects if it is used in various combination with other tools.

IV. Give Long answers

Question 1.
What are the short keys in computers?
Answer:

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Tamilnadu Samacheer Kalvi 9th English Solutions Supplementary Chapter 7 The Christmas Truce

The Christmas Truce Warm Up: 

Question.
Name one festival which you like the most.
Answer:
The festival which I like the most is Navarathri.

Question.
How do you celebrate that festival?
Answer:
We celebrate the festival by arranging beautiful dolls as Kolu at home.

Question.
A Narrate a memorable incident which happened during that celebration?
Answer:
During a Navarathri Kolu, a press reporter took snaps of our doll arrangement. That week, we received a special prize for best Kolu. Our Kolu picture appeared in the newspaper.

The Christmas Truce Textual Questions

A. Choose the correct answer.

Question 1.
The story is set during the _________.
(a) World War I
(b) World War II
(c) Kargil War
(d) Indo-China War
Answer:
(a) World War I

Question 2.
The story is about the celebration of _________festival.
(a) Deepavali
(b) Pongal
(c) Ramzan
(d) Christmas
Answer:
(d) Christmas

Question 3.
Tom called the incidents happened there as a _________.
(a) fairy tale
(b) poetry
(c) tragedy
(d) comedy
Answer:
(a) fairy tale

Question 4.
The Germans had placed Christmas trees in front of their _________.
(a) houses
(b) trenches
(c) tanks
(d) cars
Answer:
(b) trenches

Question 5.
One of the German soldiers worked as a _________ at Victoria Station.
(a) tea-seller
(b) ticket-checker
(c) porter
(d) shop keeper
Answer:
(c) porter

Additional Questions

Question 1.
It is a ……………….. soldier’s letter to his sister on how all enmity was forgotten.
(a) British
(b) German
(c) Indian
(d) Chinese
Answer:
(a) British

Question 2.
The British soldier was on the battlefields of …………………. .
(a) London
(b) India
(c) France
(d) Germany
Answer:
(c) France

Question 3.
Sniper means ……………. .
(a) Dog
(b) Gunman
(c) Bird
(d) Rifle
Answer:
(d) Rifle

Question 4.
The German’s first trench was only ………………… yards from ours.
(a) hundred
(b) five hundred
(c) fifty
(d) ten
Answer:
(c) fifty

B. Identify the Character, Speaker or both of the following lines.

1. Our first complete silence in months!
2. Come and see! See what the Germans are doing!
3. Hold your fire.
4. You no shoot, we no shoot.
5. My God, why cannot we have peace and all go home? Ans: Older German soldier

Answers:

1. Tom.
2. John.
3. The British Captain.
4. One of the German soldiers.
5. Older German soldier.

Additional Questions:

Question 1.
It is a letter to his sister.
Answer:
British soldier’s sister Janet

Question 2.
It splatters and cakes everything, and constantly sucks at our boots.
Answer:
British Soldier Tom

Question 3.
I grabbed my rifle, stumbled out into the trench, and stuck my head cautiously above the sandbags.
Answer:
Tom

Question 4.
“Christmas trees!”
Answer:
John

Question 5.
Stillenacht, heiligenacht.
Answer:
Carol sung by German soldiers

C. Answer the following question in about 100 -120 words.

Question 1.
Narrate the Christmas celebration as happened in the war field.
Answer:
On Christmas eve, the soldiers had their first good freeze. Everything was tinged white with frost and a bright sun shone. It was perfect Christmas weather. Clusters of tiny lights were shining all along the German line and they had placed Christmas trees, lit by candles, lanterns, like beacons of goodwill. The Germans began singing, “ Stille nacht.” The British applauded the Germans. Both the troops crossed the barbed wires and were in No Man’s Land.

They shared their joy, greeted and wished each other. They exchanged wonderful presents with all that they had, badges, tea, coffee, buttons, knife, etc… The Christmas celebration was wonderful as joy prevailed everywhere and they longed for peace.

D. Think and answer.

Question 1.
Do you envision a similar truce taking place in any wars or fighting today? Explain.
Answer:
Yes. I feel the same enmity is between India and Pakistan borders. Both the countries were united before the British left India. People who lived as brothers and sisters are now partitioned and called different nationalities. The bond of ‘ brotherhood still exists.

Question 2.
Today, much of what we know about the truce comes from soldiers’ postcards home. In the postcard given below, write a short message home, imagine that you took part in the 1914 Christmas Truce.

Answer:
My dear Mom,

It was a wonderful Christmas this year. We had the opportunity of celebrating ‘ with our foes. Sorry, they are our friends now. We crossed boundaries, exchanged gifts and sang Christmas songs.

It’s all like a dream. I couldn’t believe that the Germans would be too kind, lovable. Hope all this truce ends soon. We long for peace.

Yours,
John.

The Christmas Truce by Aaron Shepard About The Author:

Aaron Shepard was bom on October 7th, 1950. He is the award-winning author of Savitri. He is well known for many children’s books. Aaron’s specialty is retelling folktales and ‘. other traditional literature from around the world.

The Christmas Truce Summary:

This story unfolds a Truce of how the foes on a warrior front become friends on a Christmas eve. It is a British soldier’s letter to his sister. A surprised brother writes to his sister something almost like a fairy tale that blended the enemy soldiers to sing carols before the fire on the battlefields of France. After the first battle was over with many dead soldiers on both sides they were waiting for replacements to come from home. It was a terrible wait expecting an artilleiy shell that would explode and kill or maim several men.

The rain played the worst havoc that made the boots stuck to the ground. This was the case for the German soldier separated by fifty yards bordered by no man’s land-yet close enough as their voices could be heard. We hated them as they had killed many of our soldiers. But we almost felt that we had something in common. As we were experiencing a good freeze with little shelling or rifle fire from either sides, the shooting stopped as darkness fell. But, we were informed that there might be a sudden attack by the Germans.

Waking up, I saw an unbelievable sight as the Germans had placed Christmas trees in front of their trenches lit by candles or lanterns. They started singing carols and we too joined them. Though we couldn’t understand their language, the tune of the song made it clear that they were singing carols. Finally we agreed to cross over and join them to celebrate Christmas forgetting that we were in the war zone.

British Khaki and German’s grey mingled over the bonfire. Many knew English as they had worked in England before. Just when we finished and started to go to our spots, an old German soldier clutched my arm and asked why can’t we just have peace and go home. We are just soldiers following orders and protecting our nation. But I hope, a day will come when there will be no wars when such spirit will be felt by world leaders to offer good wishes instead of warnings, gifts in place of retaliations. All nations want peace, though the author wonders if the wanting is quite enough.

The Christmas Truce Glossary:

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Question 1.
Choose the correct answers:

Question (i)
In questions A and B, there are four groups of letters in each set. Three of these sets are like in some way while one is different. Find the one which is different.
A. (a) C R D T (b) A P B Q (c) E U F V (d) G W H X
B. (a) H K N Q (b) I L O R (c) J M P S (d) A D G J
Answer:
A. (a) C R D T (b) A P B Q (c) E U F V (d) G W H X
Hint:
The four groups of letters are
CRDT APBQ EUFV GWHX
The above can be written as

We find that when we take 1st & 3rd letter & 2nd & 4th letter as 2 pairs, the 3rd letter is the next letter alphabetically to the 1st letter.
Similarly the 4th letter is alphabetically the next letter of the 2nd letter.
i.e CD, AB, EF, GH & PQ, UV, WX
Only in CRDT, we have T instead of ‘S’. So,
Answer:
in CRDT ⇒ Option (a)

B. The four groups of letters are
HKNQ ILOR JMPS ADGI
If we notice, we find that 2 letters are missing in the sequence, ie.
H_IJK_LMN_OPQ I_JKL_MNO_PQR
L_KLM_NOP_QRS A_BCD_EFG_HI
We find that only in ADGI, the difference is only one letter between G & I.
Hence it is the odd one out.

Question (ii)
A group of letters are given. A numerical code has been given to each letter. These letters have to be unscrambled into a meaningful word. Find out the code for the word so formed from the 4 answers given.

(a) 2 3 4 1 5 6
(b) 5 6 3 4 2 1
(c) 6 1 3 5 2 4
(d) 4 2 1 3 5 6
Answer:
(b) 5 6 3 4 2 1
hint:
Given code is

Option (a) is 234156. When we substitute number for each letter from code, we get,

Option (b) is 563421, similarly, we get 5 6 3 4 2 1

Option (c) is

Option (d) is

So, only in option b, we get a meaningful word, i.e PENCIL.
Hence, answer is Option (b)

Question (iii)
In questions I and II, there are based on code language. Find the correct answer from the four alternatives given. A
C In a certain code, ‘M E D I C I N E’ is coded as ‘COMPUTER’ written in the same code?
(a) C N P R V U F Q
(b) C M N Q T U D R
(c) R F U V Q N P C
(d) R N V F T U D Q
Answer:
(C) R F U V Q N P C
Hint:
It is given that in a certain code M E D I C I N E is coded as E O J D J E F M When we observe the word & the code, we find that, there is a pattern.

[to understand, see the matching shapes]
To get the code from the word, we follow the below steps
1.
swap 1st & last letters, so we get
E [ E D I C I N ] M
2. For the middle letters, replace the letters with their alphabetically next letters, so we get

3. Now we have to reverse the order of the middle letters in the bracket, so we get
E[O J D J E F]M = E O J D J E F M
Thus we get the code.
So similarly, we have to follow the 3 steps to get code, therefore:
for

Step 1: Swap 1 st & last letters, so we get
R [O M P U T E ]C
Step 2: For the middle letters, replace the letters with alphabetically next letters, so we get
R [P N Q V U F] C
Step 3: Reverse the word of letters in the bracket to we get
R [F U V Q N P] C
∴ Ans is R F U V Q N P C ⇒ Option C

Question (iv)
If the word ‘PHONE’ is coded as ‘S K R Q H’, how will ‘R A D I O’ be coded?
(a) S C G N H
(b) V R G N G
(c) U D G L R
(d) S D H K Q
Answer:
(C) U D G L R
hint:
If PHONE is coded as S K R Q H
Find that code for R A D I O

We find that we get the code, by 3rd letter alphabetically so, from P, skipping Q & R, we get S.
Similarly, from H, skipping I & J, we get K
Like wise for R A D I O, skipping the 2 alphabets
From R, skip S & T → U
From A, skip B & C → D

From D skip E & F → G
From I skip J & K → L
From O skip P & Q → R
Answer:
is U D G L R ⇒ Option c

Question 2.
Fill in the blanks (Use Atbash Cipher that is given in code 3)
For this question, we need to use Atbash cipher. For Atbash cipher, first we write the alphabets from A to Z and then in reverse from Z to A below that.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA

Question (i)
G Z N R O = …………
Answer:
TAMIL
Hint:
Now to solve, we look up the corresponding letter from the table to replace in code to get the actual word.
So, for G Z N R O, from table,
for G, it is T
for Z, It is A
for N, it is M
for R, it is I
for O, it is L
So , the actual word is TAMIL

Question (ii)
V M T O R H S = ………
Answer:
ENGLISH
Hint:
V M T O R H S
To solve, we look up the corresponding letter from table to replace in code to get the actual word.
For V, it is E
for M, it is N
for T, it is G
for O, it is L
for R, it is I
for H, it is S
for S, it is H
Therefore we get E N G L I S H = ENGLISH

Question (iii)
N Z G S V N Z G R X H = ………
Answer:
MATHEMATICS
Hint:
Similarly as above for

Question (v)
H X R V M X V = ………..
Answer:
SCIENCE
Hint:

Question (v)
HLXRZO HXRVMX V = ………..
Answer:
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Hint:

Question 3.
Match the following (a = 00 ……… Z = 25)

Answer:
(i) – c
(ii) – d
(iii) – a
(iv) – e
(v) – b
Solution:
Given that the code is

Hint:
(i) Mathematics is

So matching option is c

(ii) addition is

Matching option is d

(iii) Subtraction is

Matching option is a

(iv) multiplication is

Matching option is e, however instead of 25, it should be 08.

(v) division is

Matching option is b

Question 4.
Frame Additive cipher table (key = 4).
Solution:
Step 1 : write all alphabets
Step 2 : Assign numbers to each alphabet starting from 00 till 25.
Step 3 : add key value (here it is 4) to the numbers assigned in step 2 to form cipher table

Question 5.
A message like “Good Morning” written in reverse would instead be “Doog Gninrom”. In the same way decode the sentence given below: “Ot dnatsrednu taht scitamehtam nac eb decneirepxe erehwreve ni erutan dna laer efil.”
Solution:
Given that good morning written in reverse is doog gninrom.
We have to decode the below by reversing, so,
Ot dnatsrednu taht scitamehtam nac eb decneirepxe erehwreve ni erutan dna laer efil.
Answer:
to understand that mathematics can be experienced everywhere in nature and real life.

Question 6.
Decode the given Pigpen Cipher text and compare your answer to get the Activity 3 result.

(i) The room number in which the treasure took place

(ii) Place of the treasure

(iii) The name of the treasure

Solution:
(i) The room in which the treasure took place = 28
(ii) The place of treasure = Chair
(iii) Identity of treasure = Gift voucher.

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Additional Questions and Answers

Exercise 1.1

Question 1.
Express as rupees using decimals.
(i) 4 paise
(ii) 4 rupees 4 paise
(iii) 44 rupees 44 paise
(iv) 50 paise
(v) 625 paise
Solution:
We know that 100 paise = ₹ 1
1 paise = ₹ \(\frac { 1 }{ 100 } \)
(i) 4 paise = ₹ 4 × \(\frac { 1 }{ 100 } \) = ₹ \(\frac { 4 }{ 100 } \) = ₹ 0.04
(ii) 4 rupees 4 paise = ₹ 4 + ₹ 0.04 = ₹ 4.04
(iii) 44 rupees 4 paise = ₹ 44 + 44 paise = ₹ 44 + ₹ \(\frac { 44 }{ 100 } \) = ₹ 44 + ₹ 0.44 = ₹ 44.44
(iv) 625 paise = 600 paise + 25 paise = ₹ 6 + ₹ \(\frac { 25 }{ 100 } \) = ₹ 6 + ₹ 0.25 = ₹ 6.25

Question 2.
Express 7 cm in metre and kilometer.
Solution:
7 cm = \(\frac { 7 }{ 100 } \) m = 0.07 m
7 cm = \(\frac { 7 }{ 10000 } \) km = 0.00007 km

Question 3.
Write the following decimal numbers in the expanded form.
(i) 30.04
(ii) 3.04
(iii) 300.04
Solution:
(i) 30.04 = 3 × 10 + 0 × 1 + 0 × \(\frac { 1 }{ 10 } \) + 4 × \(\frac { 1 }{ 100 } \) = 3 × 10 + \(\frac { 4 }{ 100 } \)
(ii) 3.04 = 3 × 1 + 0 × \(\frac { 1 }{ 10 } \) + 4 × \(\frac { 1 }{ 100 } \) = 3 × 1 + \(\frac { 4 }{ 100 } \)
(iii) 300.04 = 3 × 100 + 0 × 10 + 0 × 1 + 0 × \(\frac { 1 }{ 10 } \) + 4 × \(\frac { 1 }{ 100 } \) = 3 × 100 + \(\frac { 4 }{ 100 } \) = 3 × 100 + \(\frac { 4 }{ 100 } \)

Question 4.
Write the place value of 2 in the following decimal numbers.
(i) 2.47
(ii) 26.89
(iii) 36.28
Solution:
(i) 2.47 Place value of 2 in 2.47 is ones.
(ii) 26.89 Place value of 2 in 26.89 is Tens.
(iii) 36.28 Place value of 2 in 36.28 is tenths

Exercise 1.2

Question 1.
Explain the following as fractions.
(i) Ajar containing 3.6 litres of milk.
(ii) A cup containing 9.63 mg of medicine.
Solution:
(i) 3.6 = 3 + \(\frac { 6 }{ 10 } \) = 3 + \(\frac { 3 }{ 5 } \) = 3 \(\frac { 3 }{ 5 } \) litre of milk
(ii) 9.63 = 9 + \(\frac { 6 }{ 10 } \) + \(\frac { 3 }{ 100 } \) = \(\frac { 900+60+3 }{ 100 } \) = \(\frac { 963 }{ 100 } \) mg of medicine

Question 2.
Convert into decimal.
(i) Three hundred three and nine hundredths.
(ii) Six and fifty five thousands
Solution:
(i) Three hundred three and nine hundredths
= 303 + \(\frac { 9 }{ 100 } \) = 303 + 0 × \(\frac { 1 }{ 10 } \) + 9 × \(\frac { 1 }{ 100 } \) = 303.09

(ii) Six and fifty five thousands
6 + \(\frac { 55 }{ 100 } \) = 6 + \(\frac { 5 }{ 100 } \) + \(\frac { 5 }{ 1000 } \) = 6 + \(\frac { 0 }{ 10 } \) + \(\frac { 5 }{ 100 } \) + \(\frac { 5 }{ 1000 } \) = 6.055

Question 3.
Find the decimal form of (i) 194 + 20 + 3 + \(\frac { 7 }{ 10 } \) + \(\frac { 2 }{ 100 } \)
(ii) 111 + 11 + 1 + \(\frac { 1 }{ 10 } \) + \(\frac { 1 }{ 1000 } \)
Solution:
(i) 194 + 20 + 3 + \(\frac { 7 }{ 10 } \) + \(\frac { 2 }{ 100 } \) = 217 + 7 × \(\frac { 1 }{ 10 } \) + 2 × \(\frac { 1 }{ 100 } \) = 217.72

(ii) 111 + 11 + 1 + \(\frac { 1 }{ 10 } \) + \(\frac { 1 }{ 1000 } \) = 123 + 1 × \(\frac { 1 }{ 10 } \) + 0 × \(\frac { 1 }{ 100 } \) + 1 × \(\frac { 1 }{ 1000 } \) = 123.101

Exercise 1.3

Question 1.
Maya bought 5 kg 300 g bananas and 3 kg 250 kg oranges. Diya bought 4 kg 800 g apples and 4 kg 150 g of mangoes. Who bought more fruits.
Solution:
Total fruits bought by Maya = 5 kg 300 g + 3 kg 250 g = 8 kg 550 g = 8.550 kg
Total fruits Diya bought = 4 kg 800 g + 4 kg 150 g = 8 kg 950 g = 8.950 kg
Comparing the whole number parts, they are equal.
Comparing thet tenths place we get 9 > 5.
∴ 8.950 kg > 8.550 kg
∴ Diya bought more fruits.

Question 2.
Which is greater 28 km or 42.6 km.
Solution:
Comparing the whole number part 42 > 28.
42.6 km is greater than 28 km.

Exercise 1.4

Question 1.
Show that the following numbers in a number line.
(i) 0.2
(ii) 1.8
(iii) 1.1
(iv) 2.6
Solution:

Question 2.
Write the decimal numbers represented by the points A, B, C, D, E and F.
Solution:

A (0.5); B (1.2); C (2.3); D (2.8); E (3.4); F (3.9)

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Tamilnadu Samacheer Kalvi 8th Maths Solutions Term 2 Chapter 4 Information Processing Additional Questions

Question 1.
Find HCF of 52 and 78 using repeated division.
Solution:

26 is the HCF of 52 & 78

Question 2.
Find HCF of 56 & 98 using repeated subtraction method.
Solution:
Let m = 98, n = 56
m – n = 98 – 56 = 42 ; now m = 56 & n = 42
m – n = 56 – 42 = 14 ; now m = 42 & n = 14
m – n = 42 – 14 = 28 ; now m = 14 & n = 28
m – n = 28 – 14 = 14 ; now = 14 & n = 14
∴ HCF of 98 & 56 is 14.

Question 3.
Find the first 10 terms of the Fibonacci series.
Solution:
Let us first write down the first 2 terms which are 1, 1. To find the remaining terms, we use the general formula. F(n) = F(n – 1) + F(n – 2)
∴ F(3) = F(2) + F(1)
F(1) = 1; F(2) = 1
F(3) = 1 + 1=2
F(4) = F(3) + F(2) = 2 + 1 = 3
F(5) = F(4) + F(3) = 2 + 3 = 5
∴ The first 10 terms are; 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8,13, 21, 34, 55

Question 4.
In a particular method of decoding, the word SECRET is written as TFDSFU. What is the cipher text for PASSWORD?
Solution:
Given that SECRET is written as TFDSFU. We notice that every letter is substituted by the next letter alphabetically.
So S is substituted by T
E by F, C by D, R by S E by F, & T by U
∴ for

similarly we have to substitute
∴ The cypher is QBTTXPSE.

Question 5.
Using the Pigpen code, decode the below message

Solution:
The pigpen code is generated by

By taking the outlines corresponding to each letter, we get

∴ The message is THANK YOU

Question 6.
Using the reflection table given below, find the encoded message Reflection table.

Message: PBATENGHYNGVBAF
Solution:
To decode the above message, let us substitute the letters that correspond’to the message from the reflection table. So, we get
P → C
B → O
A → N
T → G
E → R
N → A
G → T
H → U
Y → L
N → A
G → T
V → l
B → O
A → N
F → S
The word is CONGRATULATIONS!