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Unit 4 Theory Great Speech of Indian Personality
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Listen to the following speech of
Swami Vivekananda and take notes:
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Unit 3 Theory and Listening
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A. Listen to the following scientific passage and answer the questions given below
Questions:
What are parts of a thunder storm?
Why do we see lightning first and then hear thunder?
_________ is the maximum temperature that lightning
can reach.
Say true or false. The colour of the lightning depends
on temperature and gases in the air.
Name the three types of lightening.
Answers:
Lightning and thunder are parts of a thunderstorm.
Lightning travels through the air faster than sound.
That’s why we see lightning first and then hear thunder.
30000 degrees
True
Forked lightning, sheet lightning and ball lightning are
the three types of lightning.
B. Listen to the following scientific passage and
answer the questions given below:
Questions:
1. What is the event horizon?
What are the most common black holes?
Where do Supermassive black holes exist?
When was the first black hole discovered?
Say true or false: Sagittarius A is a stellar black hole.
Answers:
The boundary of a black hole is called the event
horizon, a point of no return.
Stellar and supermassive black holes are the most
common black holes.
Supermassive black holes exist at the centre of every
large galaxy.
The first black hole was discovered in 1971.
False
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Communicative English II - Unit 2 Theory and Listening
‘The Bangle Sellers’ by Sarojini Naidu
Bangle sellers are we who bear
Our shining loads to the temple fair...
Who will buy these delicate, bright
Rainbow-tinted circles of light?
Lustrous tokens of radiant lives,
For happy daughters and happy wives.
Some are meet for a maiden's wrist,
Silver and blue as the mountain mist,
Some are flushed like the buds that dream
On the tranquil brow of a woodland stream,
Some are aglow wth the bloom that cleaves
To the limpid glory of new born leaves
Some are like fields of sunlit corn,
Meet for a bride on her bridal morn,
Some, like the flame of her marriage fire,
Or, rich with the hue of her heart's desire,
Tinkling, luminous, tender, and clear,
Like her bridal laughter and bridal tear.
Some are purple and gold flecked grey
For she who has journeyed through life midway,
Whose hands have cherished, whose love has blest,
And cradled fair sons on her faithful breast,
And serves her household in fruitful pride,
And worships the gods at her husband's side.
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Read the given poetry lines and answer the following questions:
(stanza 1)
1. Where are the bangle sellers going?
The bangle sellers are going to temple fair.
2. What do you mean by ‘shining loads’?
The phrase ‘shining loads’ refers to bright and colourful bangles
carried by bangle sellers.
3. Who would like to buy the bangles?
Happy daughters and happy wives would like to buy the bangles.
4. Who wrote these lines?
Sarojini Naidu wrote these lines.
5. Describe the appearance of the bangles.
The bangles are delicate, bright and rainbow coloured.
(Stanza 2)
1. Which bangles are suitable for a maiden’s wrist?
Silver and blue bangles are suitable for a maiden’s wrist.
2. What are the comparisons made by the poet in the beginning?
The poet compares the bangles to mountain mist and buds.
3. What are compared to new born leaves?
Bangles shining with light and colour are compared to new born leaves.
4. Where are the poetry lines taken from?
The poetry lines are taken from “Bangle Sellers.”
5. Write down the rhyming words found in these lines.
Wrist-mist, dream-stream, cleaves-leaves are the rhyming words found
in these lines.
(Stanza -3)
1. For whom are the bangles like sunlit corn fields suitable ?
The bangles like sunlit corn fields are suitable for a bride on the day of
her marriage.
2. Why does the poet compare bangles to flame of marriage fire?
The bangles are not only as yellow, orange and red as but also as holy as
the flame of marriage fire. So the poet compares so.
3. How does the poet compare the sound of bangles?
The poet compares that the bangles are tinkling like bridal laughter.
4. What is the implication of bridal tear?
The bridal tear implies the separation of a bride from her parents.
5. Name the rhyming words in the given lines?
Corn-morn, fire-desire, clear-tear are the rhyming words in the given lines.
(Stanza – 4)
1. Which colour bangles are generally suitable for middle aged women?
Purple and golden grey colour bangles are suitable for middle aged women.
2. What do you mean by ‘fruitful pride’?
A middle aged woman has sacrificed a lot for the betterment of
others in the family. Hence her love, care and sacrifice make her have
‘fruitful pride’.
3. What are the three roles played by a middle aged woman?
A middle aged woman has played the role of a loving mother to her sons,
a home maker taking care of household duties and a better half always at
the side of her husband.
4. Write the rhyme scheme used in the given lines.
“Aa bb cc’’ is the rhyme scheme used in the given lines.
5. What are the rhyming words found in the given lines?
Grey-midway, blest-breast, pride-side are the rhyming words in given lines.
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A) Degrees of Comparison:
A degree of comparison refers to a form of adjective or adverb used
to compare a person, place or thing with another or more similar ones.
The three degrees of comparison are positive degree, comparative degree
and superlative degree. Positive degree is told without any comparison
(Uma is a beautiful girl.) Comparative degree makes comparison between
any two. (Uma is a more beautiful than Priya). Superlative degree compares
one thing with many highlighting the greatest or least quality.
(Uma is the most beautiful girl in the class.)
How to Use Degrees of Comparison?
Exercise (textual)
Identify the adjectives in the given lines and use any one of them
in degrees of comparison.
Bangle sellers are we who bear
Our shining loads to the temple fair...
Who will buy these delicate, bright
Rainbow-tinted circles of light?
Lustrous tokens of radiant lives,
For happy daughters and happy wives.
Adjectives in the given lines: shining, delicate, bright, rainbow-tinted,
lustrous and happy
Use of Degrees of Comparison:
1. happy - I am happier than my friends. (comparative degree)
2. delicate - China cups are the most delicate ones. (superlative degree)
3. bright - Stars are bright in the night. (positive degree)
B) Fill in the blanks with suitable forms of adjectives: (General)
Exercise 1:
1. Mobile is ____________ to access the Internet resources. (useful,
more useful, most useful)
2. Sherlock Holmes is ___________ than any other short story.
(interesting, more interesting, the most interesting)
3. Chennai is the ___________ city in Tamil Nadu. (big, bigger, biggest)
4. Gowri is one of the _________ friends I have. (good, better, best)
5. This movie is not as__________ as his previous one.
(successful, more successful, most successful)
Answers: 1. useful, 2. more interesting, 3. biggest, 4. best, 5. successful
Exercise 2:
1. Smoking is __________ to health. ( injurious, more injurious,
most injurious)
2. Your picture is ________ than mine.( small, smaller, smallest)
3. He is as__________ as his friend. (strong, stronger, strongest)
4. English is _________ than any other language to learn.(easy, easier,
easiest)
5. This is the _________ idea you have ever told. (creative, more creative,
most creative)
Answers: 1. injurious, 2. smaller, 3. strong, 4. easier, 5. most creative
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Listening Skill:
Listening to Lyrical Poems and noting down
the Descriptive Adjectives.
Lyrical Poems:
Poems written in 1st person expressing the poet’s feelings and
emotions and accompanied with music are generally known as lyrical
poems. Sonnet, elegy, ode, ballad and dramatic monologue are some
popular forms of lyrical poems. Theyare normally short and follow
meter. Shakespearean sonnets and the odes written by Shelley and Keats
are best examples for lyrical poems.
Descriptive Adjectives:
Adjectives which describe people, places and things are called
descriptive adjectives. They create an image in your mind and tend
to present how somebody or something look like. For example, when we
say - she is tall and had big eyes and long hair, the adjectives tall, big and
long create the picture of a lady in our mind and say, how she appears to
others. Descriptive adjectives also tell us what type person or thing
somebody or something is. In a sentence - she is talkative, short tempered
but fair, we describe what type of person she is. Similarly, by a sentence,
the book is old but useful for researchers, we understand, what type of book
it is through the adjectives –old and useful. In short, any adjective that
modifies a noun describing its quality is called a descriptive adjective.
Hence, most of the adjectives in English will fall into this category since
the main task of adjectives is to describe the quality of a noun. However,
the following limiting adjectives, are not descriptive adjectives:
Demonstrative adjectives (This, that, these, those),
quantifying adjectives(many, some, few, couple, any, all several, one, two,
first, second…) and possessive adjectives(my, your, his, her, our…)
Listening Video -1: Ode On a Grecian Urn by John Keats
Listen to the following lyrical poem and note down
the descriptive adjectives:
Answers:
Descriptive Adjectives in the poem:
heard – sweet – unheard – sweeter –soft –sensual –endeared –
fair – bare – bold
Listening Video -2: I wandered Lonely as a Cloud
by Wordsworth
Listen to the following lyrical poem and note down
the descriptive adjectives:
Answers:
Descriptive Adjectives in the poem:
Golden – milky – never-ending – sprightly – sparkling – gay –
jocund – vacant – pensive – inward
Listening Video -3:
Listen to the following lyrical poem and note down
the descriptive adjectives:
Answers:
Descriptive Adjectives in the poem:
antique – vast – trunkless – halfsunk – shattered – wrinkled – cold –
lifeless – mighty – colossal – boundless – bare – lone – level
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