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The story shows how a little girl saved the lives of many tourists when a tsunami struck the beach, thanks to the geography lesson that she had learnt at school. She remembered the visuals of a tsunami and warned her parents.

Do you remember any incident when something that you learned in the Did classroom help you in some way outside the classroom?


Write our experiences in a paragraph of about 90-100 words or narrate it to the a whole class like an anecdote.

For Self-attempt.

I learned in my biology class that if a person faints, there are a few steps that should be taken immediately by people who are near him or her. That includes things like loosening any tight garments they are wearing, splashing water on their faces etc. A few days ago, when I was travelling to a relative’s place, an old man in the bus suddenly fainted. The man sitting next to the old man helped him lie down and I took out my water bottle to splash some cool water on his face. I also noticed that he was wearing loose cotton clothes that did not need any further loosening. After a minute or two, the man regained his senses and I was happy to apply something that I learnt in the classroom to help the old man.


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Study the sentences in the columns A and B.























A



B



Meghna has swept away.



The waves swept Meghna away.



Almas’s grandfather was hit on the head



Something hit Almas’s grandfather on the head.



Sixty visitors were washed away.



The waves washed away the sixty visitors.



No animal carcasses were found.



People did not find any animal carcasses.



Compare the sentences in A to the ones in B. Who is the ‘doer’ of the action in every case? Is the ‘doer’ mentioned in A, or in B?


Notice the verbs in A: ‘was swept away’, ‘was hit’, ‘were washed away’, ‘were found’. They


are in the passive form. The sentences are in the Passive Voice. In these sentences, the


focus is not on the person who does the action. In B the ‘doer’ of he action is named. The


verbs are in the active form. The sentences are in the Active Voice.


Say whether the following sentences are in the Active or the Passive voice. Write A


or P after each sentence as shown in the first sentence.


(i) Someone stole my bicycle.


(ii) The tyres were deflated by the traffic police.


(iii) I found it last night in a ditch near my house.


(iv) It had been thrown there.


(v) My father gave it to the mechanic.


(vi) The mechanic repaired it for me.

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Suppose you are one of the volunteers who went to the Andaman and The Nicobar Islands for relief work after the tsunami. You work in the relief camps, distributing food, water, and medicine among the victims. You listen to the various stories of bravery of ordinary people even as they fight against odds to bring about some semblance of normalcy in their lives. You admire their grit and determination. Write a diary entry.

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Find three or four phrases in stanzas one and two which are likely to occur in a geography lesson.

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Seen from the window of an aeroplane, the city appears

(i) as haphazard as on ground.


(ii) as meat as a map.


(iii) as developed as necessary.


Mark the right answer.