Author: Bhumika Gautam

CHAPTER 5 THE SNAKE AND THE MIRROR Thinking about Language Writing QUESTION-2 Read the description given alongside this sketch from a photograph in a newspaper (Times of India, 4 September 1999). Make up a story about what the monkey is thinking, or why it is looking into a mirror. Write […]

CHAPTER 5 THE SNAKE AND THE MIRROR Thinking about Language Writing QUESTION-1 Try to rewrite the story without its humour, merely as a frightening incident. What details or parts of the story would you leave out? ANSWER: Do it yourself.

CHAPTER 5 THE SNAKE AND THE MIRROR Thinking about Language Dictation QUESTION-6 The following paragraph is about the Indian cobra. Read it twice and close your book. Your teacher will then dictate the paragraph to you. Write it down with appropriate punctuation marks. The Indian cobra is the common name […]

CHAPTER 5 THE SNAKE AND THE MIRROR Thinking about Language Speaking QUESTION-5 Using some of the expressions given above in exercise III, talk about an incident when you were very scared. You may have a competition to decide whose story was the most frightening. ANSWER: Students are advised to try […]

CHAPTER 5 THE SNAKE AND THE MIRROR Thinking about Language IV. Reported questions Report these questions using if/whether or why/when/where/how/which/what QUESTION-4 Remember the italicised verbs change into the past tense. 1. Meena asked her friend, “Do you think your teacher will come today?” 2. David asked his colleague, “Where will […]

CHAPTER 5 THE SNAKE AND THE MIRROR Thinking about Language III. In the sentences given below some words and expressions are italicised. They variously mean that one • is very frightened. • is too scared to move. • is frightened by something that happens suddenly. • makes another feel frightened […]

CHAPTER 5 THE SNAKE AND THE MIRROR Thinking about Language II. Expressions used to show fear QUESTION-2 Can you find the expressions in the story that tell you that the author was frightened? Read the story and complete the following sentences. 1. I was turned ________________. 2. I sat there […]

CHAPTER 5 THE SNAKE AND THE MIRROR Thinking about Language QUESTION-1 I. Here are some sentences from the text. Say which of them tell you that the author: (a) was afraid of the snake, (b) was proud of his appearance, (c) had a sense of humour, (d) was no longer […]

CHAPTER-4 Carbon and its Compounds Short Answer Questions QUESTION-54 SOLUTION a) Ethene is formed when ethanol is heated at 443 K with excess of concentrated sulphuric acid. b) Propanol is treated with alkaline Potassium permanganate or acidified Potassium-di-chromate to obtain propanoic acid.

CHAPTER-4 Carbon and its Compounds Short Answer Questions QUESTION-38 SOLUTION When ethanol reacts with sodium it gives Sodium ethoxide with the liberation of Hydrogen gas.2CH₃- CH₂-OH +2Na——>2 CH₃- CH₂- ONa + H₂