Class 11

Odisha State Board CHSE Odisha Class 11 Approaches to English Book 1 Solutions Unit 1 Text C: Confessions of a Misspent Youth Textbook Activity Questions and Answers.

CHSE Odisha 11th Class Alternative English Solutions Unit 1 Text C: Confessions of a Misspent Youth

Activity – 8

State The Central Idea From The Text:
Answer:
1. The text deals with the worst system of school he was made to carry on his studies. It was the school which was known by Sand and Sea.
2. The writer was enrolled in a small private school in Greenwich village. In this school, there was a tremendous emphasis on art and educational freedom. The students were free not to learn anything that bored them and there were no tests.
3. They learned history by recreating its least important elements but without gaining ‘any knowledge or insight.
4. Their reading lessons were postponed till the third grade as early reading was considered harmful to creative spontaneity.
5. As a result, the students of Sand and Sea committed suicide out of frustration although the writer was fortunate to continue her education and pass her B.A.
6. They came to discover that their early education had gone waste only when they came to the high school. The writer’s mother came to realize his folly and sent her son to a traditional school.

Activity – 9

Understanding The Sequence Of Presentation:
Rearrange the following sentences to that they reflect the sequence in which Wolynski presents her ideas. You can begin with sentence (d) The writer was enrolled in small private school in Greenwich village – which is the first sentence in the sequence,
(a) The students were free not to learn anything that bored them and there were no tests.
(b) One of the students of Sand and Sea committed suicide out of frustration although the writer was fortunate to continue her education and pass her B.A.
(c) Their reading lessons were postponed till the third grade as early .reading was -considered harmful to creative spontaneity.
(d) The writer was enrolled in a small private school in Greenwich village.
(e) As a result, the students of Sand and Sea came to hate intellectuality.
(f) They learned history by recreating its least important elements but without gaining any knowledge Or insight.
(g) In this school, there was a tremendous emphasis on arts and educational freedom.
(h) The writer’s mother came to realise her folly and sent her son to a traditional school.
(i) They came to discover that their early education had gone waste when they came to the high School.
Answer:
The writer was enrolled in . a small private school in Greenwich village. In this school there was a tremendous emphasis on art and educational freedom. The students were flee and not to learn anything that bored them and there were no tests. They learned history by recreating its least important elements, but without, going any knowledge or insight. Their reading lessons were postponed till the third grade as early reading was considered harmful to creative spontaneity etc: As a result, the students of Sand and Sea came to make intellectuality. One of the students of Sand and Sea committed suicide out of instruction although the writer was fortunate to continue her education and pass her B.A. They came to discover that their early education. had gone waste only when they came to the high school. The writer’s mother came to realise her falling and sent her son to a traditional school.

Activity – 10

Comprehension:
Answer the following questions briefly :
(a) What is Wolyuskl’s major criticism of sand and Sea’s emphasis on creativity?
Answer:
Wolynski’s major criticism of Sand and Sea’s emphasis on creativity is that it. attracted great emphasis to arts and educational freedom. Their reading lessons were postponed, till the third grade as early reading was. considered harmful to creative spontaneity. Students were forbidden to be bored or miserable or made to compete with one another. When someone felt bored with math, he was allowed to write short stories in the library. This process shocked the students overall progress.

(b) Wolynski says that she was an example of “educational freedom- freedom .not to learn”. What does she mean?
Answer:
Wolynski says that she was an example of educational freedom, because she was herself, a student of Sand and Sea in which the students were guaranteed optimum liberty. She. when got bored with math was allowed to write stories in the library. She was a direct experience holder of all kinds of the intellectual educational pattern in the school.

(C) What is the basis of contrast between two kinds of education?
Answer:
The traditional pattern of education and the kind of education at Sand and Sea are greatly contrasted. Liberty, in the traditional pattern greatly rested on rationality Freedom was given out with limitation. But, freedom at this school was let loose and students were not found what they did not like. This brought about partial learning neglecting the main motto of education. Students were thrust into uncertainty and frustration.

(d) Does Wolynski explicitly state the points of contrast between the two types of education? If your answer is ’yes’, indicate the paragraph 5 and quote the words which explicitly state these differences. If your answer is ‘no’, say why the author does not explicitly state her points of contrast.
Answer:
Yes, the contrasts are explicit. The paragraph 3 “It was the school policy that we were forbidden to be bored or miserable”… “There were no tests and no hard times”. Paragraph 5- “We did not learn to read until we were in the third grade because early, reading was thought to discourage creative spontaneity. The one thing they taught us very well was to hate intellectuality…” Paragraph-9 – “They (parents) had sent in bright curious children and gotten back, nine years later, helpless adolescents Paragraph-10- Now 1 see my twelve-year-old brother (who is in a traditional school) doing college level math and I know that he knows more about many other things besides math, than I do and I also see traditional education working in the case of my reformed mother. When he was eight so that he wouldn’t become like me. Now, after seven years of real education he is making impressive film documentation for he Project in Bicentennial explicitly edpress the constructing difference.

(e) In paragraph 9 Wolynski admits that she could be accused of overstanding her case. How effectively does she reflect this change?
Answer:
Wolynski admits the fact that she | could be accused of overstating her case for some might say that those who freaked out of Sand and Sea would have freaked out any f where. But she pleads that such accusation does not hold true because when one sees the same bizarre behaviour pattern in succeeding. graduating classes, one can draw certain, terrifying conclusion.

(f) Briefly comment on the effectiveness of Wolynski’s conclusion. Does it accurately sum up her essay, or should she have written a different conclusion?
Answer:
Wolynski supplies a well-knit conclusion with strong effectiveness. The conclusive words run- “And now I have come to see that the real job of a school is to entice the student, into the web of knowledge and then, if he is not enticed to drag him in. 1 wish I had been. “These lines explicitly express .that a student must not be guaranteed freedom to the excess. There must be limitations to it. force and compulsion need be exerted upon the students for better results.

Extra Activity – 10(A)

Question 1.
What does appeal Wolynski’s mother in 1956?
Answer:
The idea of permissive education appeals Wolynski’s mother in 1956. She was a Bohemian and the writer was four years old at that time. She found a small private school in Greenwich village whose beliefs were her and got her child i.e., the writer admitted in this school.

Question 2.
What does the writer say about Sand and Sea in paragraph-1?
Answer:
Sand and Sea in paragraph-1 gives an impression that it was a’ school without pain. It was the kind of school which believed in back to basics which people are truly afraid of. It guarantees freedom-freedom not to learn.

Question 3.
How was the school managed?
Answer:
The school was managed by sixteen teachers out of which fifteen were lady teachers and one teacher. The teacher was teaching science.’They were decent people both young and old. ‘they devoted themselves to cultivate the internal creativity in man. They gave high stress on arts.

Question 4.
What was the pattern of education?
Answer:
Total freedom was given to the students. Reading is not considered important. But other things are considered important. When the students become bored in a subject they change it immediately. The writer was bored in math. He was told to write short stories in the library. No tests were conducted there. They were allowed to go there own way. For this reason, all-round development of the students was not possible. They taught history in a different way The teaching methods were not suitable for human development.

Question 5.
What was the method of doing history?
Answer:
The students of Sand and Sea public school, were taught history in a different method. They were to learn history by recreating its least important elements without acquiring any knowledge from it. They pounded com, made tepees, ate buffalo meat and learnt Indian words. This was all about teaching American history. They made elaborate contumes, clay pots and papier- mache Gods of Greek culture. They were also made maidens and knights in armour like the Middle Age.

Question 6.
What does the writer say about the creative spontaneity?
Answer:
In the Sand and Sea public school, the students spent a lot of time in being creative. Because they were told by their mentors that to be happy in life was to be creative. They did not go to read until they were in the third grade. It is because, early reading was thought to discourage creative spontaneity. They were made to develop a sense of hatred for intellectuality for nine years.

Question 7.
What was the result of the type of schooling at Sand and Sea?
Answer:
The pattern of education at Sand and Sea made the students fall down the hill. they felt a profound sense of abandonment. The parents were also harassed and perplexed. The students were allowed to change their subject again and over again. Their standards diminished. No all round development was possible. The students became underachievers and culturally disadvantaged. Even a student committed suicide out of frustration.

Question 8.
What did the psychologist suggest the writer’s mother?
Answer:
Due to the rough teaching method, the standards of the students of Sand and Sea public school diminished to a great extent. During the Writer’s high school years, the school psychologist puzzled by her lack of real knowledge. He suggested her mother that the writer had to undergo a better of psychological tests to find out the reason why she was blocking out information although she had no information to block.

Question 9.
What does she say about her former classmates?
Answer:
The standards of students of Sand and Sea school reduced unexpectedly. The parents of her former classmates could not find out the reason of this problem! Their children were bright and curious but after nine years, they got back dull and helpless children. They said that those of them who had .freaked out, would have freaked out anywhere. it was surprising that the same bizarre behavior pattern was earmarked in succeeding graduating classes. It was really a very horrifying conclusion.

Question 10.
What does she say about the educational achievements of her younger brother in the traditional schools?
Answer:
The writer’s brother was twelve years old. He was reading in a traditional school. He was capable of doing the college-level math, and knew much more about many other things besides math. His brother who was summarily ranked from Sand and Sea was making impressive film documentaries for a project On the Bicentennial.

Activity – 11

Understanding The Structure Of The Test.
Now, keeping the above sequence in mind notice the pattern the author has used in presenting her thoughts and give an account of the structure of the text on the model presented under discussion of Text-B.

Paragraph No.(s)	Ideas in points
1
2
3 and 4
5 through 7
8
9 and 10
11

Answer:
Paragraph-1
(i) The writer was enrolled in a small private school in Greenwich village.
(ii) The name of the school was Sand and Sea which was run by fifteen women and one man who attached more importance to inborn and natural creativity!

Paragraph-2:
The Sand and Sea school had total 16 teachers out of which 15 were lady teachers and one was science teacher who gave much importance and stress to inborn and natural creativity.

Paragraphs- 3 and 4:
1. The students were free not to learn anything that bored them and there were no tests.
2. They learned history by recreating its least important elements but without gaining any knowledge or insight.
3. In this school, .there was a great emphasis on arts and educational freedom.

Paragraphs- 5 through 7:
1. Their reading lessons were stopped till the third grade, as early reading was accepted harmful to creative spontaneity.
2. They discovered that their early education was wasted only when they came to high school.
3. One of the students of Sand and Sea committed suicide out of frustration although the writer was fortunate to continue to her education and passed.

Paragraph-8:
The school psychologist who was puzzled by the writer’s deprived of real knowledge, suggested that she should undergo a bitterly of psychological tests to find out the reason why she was lacking out of information.

Paragraph 9 and 10:
1. The writer’s mother came, to realize her folly and sent her to; a traditional school, parents sent their bright, curious children to this school and after nine years got back helpless adolescents.
2. The writer’s twelve years and fifteen years old brothers did wonders in the traditional schools.

Paragraph-11:
This paragraph tells about the writer’s conclusion of the text in which she opines that a school has, to attract, the students into the web of knowledge and if they are not enticed, they have to be dragged in.

Activity-12

Grammar:
Go back to Text-C and notice the following sentence in paragraph 1- “And it was the kind of school that the back to basics people feared most. The underlined parts is called a relative clause. A clause is a sentence within a sentence and it is a part of a long sentence. A relative clause modifies as noun phrase. Hence, in (i), the relative clause begins with that which stands for the noun phrase the kind of school’ “that’ is called the relative pronoun. The relative pronouns that being relative clauses are:
who, whom, which, that and whose.
Examples:
1. The girl who loved dancing _________.
2. The clown whom everyone liked __________.
3. The jewels which belonged to the queen ________.
4. The boy whose father is a teacher _________.

Below you have a few phrases. Put them in their appropriate places in the paragraph after adding who/whom/which/that/ whose in form of the phrase. The first one has been done for you.

• was part of a long holiday.
• was again in very, warm and sunny, was both a bathroom and laundry.
• was in the hills.
• the children poured over themselves.
• mothers were carrying large bundles of clothes.
• they had brought with them.

We decided to spend the weekend. which was part of a long holiday, in a small hotel __________ where it would be cooler. We arrived late on Friday evening and sent straight to bed. On the Sunday, morning _________ we went to a nearby pool. It was surrounded by rocks and seemed to be very private. Soon after we arrived, a lot of children came. They were followed by their mothers. The children __________ quickly jumped into the pool. Then their mother threw them some large bottles. The bottles contained some
soapy water __________. Then the matters un did the bundles of cloths __________ and started to wash them and scrub them on the rocks nearby. For being a place of a quiet swim, the pool became a place ___________ The children were very happy and laughed and shouted as they washed their clothes. We sat quietly at the edge of the pool. We didn’t know what to do.
Answer:
We decided to spend the weekend, which was part of a long holiday, in a small hotel which was in the hills where it would be cooler. We arrived late on Friday evening and sent straight to bed. On the Sunday morning when the weather was again very warm and sunny, we went to a nearby pool. It was surrounded by rocks and seemed to be very private. Soon after we arrived, a lot of children came. They were followed by their mothers.’ The children whose mothers were carrying large bundles of clothes quickly jumped into the pool. Then their mother threw them some large bottles. The bottles contained some soapy water which, the children poured over themselves. Then the mothers undid the bundles of clothes which they had brought with them and started to wash them and scrub them on the rocks nearby. For being a place of a quiet swim, the pool became a place which was both a bathroom and laundry. The children were very happy and laughed and shouted as they washed their clothes. We sat quietly at the edge of the pool. We didn’t know what to do.

Extra Activity- 12(A)

VERB+[-ing (enjoy doing/stop doing etc.)] Look at these sentences.
I enjoy dancing.
Would you mind closing the door?
I can suggest going to the cinema.

(i) After enjoy, mind and suggest we use -ing (not to-).
Here are some more verbs that are following by – ing
stop
delay
fancy
consider
admit
miss involve
finish
postpone
imagine
avoid
deny
risk
practice

• Suddenly everybody stopped talking. There was silence.
• I’ll do the shopping when I have finished clearing, to flat.
• He tried to avoid answering my question.
• I don’t fancy join out this evening.
• Have you ever considered going to live in another country.

Note the negative form of not -ing.

• When I’m on holiday, I enjoy not having to get up early

(ii) We also use -ing after:
Give up (- stop)
put off (= postpone)
carry on/go on (= continue)
keep or keep on(=F’ do-.something, continuously or repeatedly)

• Ram has given up smoking.
• We must do something. We can’t go on living like this.
• Don’t keep interrupting, me. while I’m speaking.

(iii) With some verbs: verb+somebody+ (-ing):

• I can’t imagine George; riding a motorbike.
• You can’t stop me. doing what I want.
• Sorry to keep you -waiting so long.

Note the passive form (being done/ seen etc.)

• I don’t mind being kept waiting.

(iv) When one talks about finished action, one can say having done/ stolen/said etc.

• She admitted having stolen the money

(v) After some of the verbs on this page (especially- admit/deny/suggest) you can use that.

• She denied that she had stolen the money or she denied stealing the money.
• I am suggested that we went to the cinema.

Verb+ (-ing)/to… (1) (remember/regret)

(a) When one verb+(-irtg) or verb+to… Compare the sentences in the table below:

Verb- (-ing)	verb – to…
They denied stealing the money.	The decided to steal the money.
I enjoy going out → Often we use –ing action that happen before the first verb or at the same time Stealing ←denied (enjoy going)	I want to go out. Often we use to… for an action that follows the first verb decided to →steal want → to do

(b) Some verbs can be followed by -ing or to -% with a difference of meaning:

Remember	I remember doing something. = I did it and now I remember, this you remember doing something after you have done it.	I remembered to do something. ÷remembered that I had to do something = I remembered that I had to do it and so I did it. You remember to do something before you do it.
	I remember locking the door = I locked it and now I remember this.	I remember to lock the door when I left = I remembered that I had to lock the door and so I locked it.
Regret	I regret doing something = I did it and now I am sorry about it.	I regret to say/to tell you/to inform you = I am sorry that I have to say etc.
	I now regret saying what I said. I should not have said it.	We regret to inform you that we are unable to offer you the job.
Go on	Go on doing something continue doing the same thing. The minister went on the talking for two hours. We must change our ways can’t to on the living like this.	= Go on to do something = do or say something new. After discussing the economy, the minister then went on to talk about foreign policy,

(c) Begin, start, intend, continue, bother.
These verbs can be followed by – ing or to – with little or no difference in meaning. So you can say :

• It has started on meaning or it has started to rain.
• John intends buying a house or John intends to buy
• Don’t bother locking the door or Don’t bother to lock

(d) But we usually do not use -ing after -ing.

• It’s starting -to fain (not it’s starting raining.)

Confessions of a Misspent Youth Summary in English

Summary (Paragraph 1-2):
The writer’s mother was highly inspired by the idea of permissive education in 1956. At that time, he was only four years old. His mother found a small private school in Greenwich village. The writer called die school “Sand and Sea”. It was a school without pain. Here, there was total educational freedom – the freedom not to learn. There were fifteen lady teachers and one teacher. He was teaching ‘science’. They were giving much stress to cultivate natural creativity in man. They give more stress on arts.

Happiness And Hieroglyphics
Summary (Paragraph 3-4) :
They used to learn various subjects. But they could cancel anyone at any time. It was te policy of the school. It was making the students out of any pressure. They were free from any mental stress. This policy, on the other hand, was creating a competitive mind among themselves. Once the writer was bored with math. So he was permitted to write short stories in the library. One year, the students pounded corn made tepees, ate buffalo meat and learned Indian words. Another year, they made elaborate costumes, clay pots and papier- mache gods. And in still another year they were all maidens and knights in armor like Middle Ages. One year, the writer while building pyramids, did a thirty feet long moral for. which laboriously cupid hieroglyphics on the sheet of brown paper.

Ignorance Is Not Bliss
Summary (Paragraph 5-8) :
The writer and his friends were spending their time to be creative. Their mentos told them that to be happy is to create. They were made not to learn, because early reading could discourage creative spontaneity. Hence, they were forced to be creative for nine years. Much emphasis was provided for forming and reforming interpersonal relationship. When they graduated from Cannot all the happy little children fell down the hill. Both children and their parents felt abandoned. The children though themselves to be under¬achiever and culturally disadvantaged. The school psychologist was puzzled by his lack of actual knowledge. He suggested that the writer should undergo a battery of psychological tests to know the reason why he was lacking of information. The author was often asked by teacher how he had come into the high school. ‘

The Lure Of Learning
Summary (Paragraphs 9-11):
The- parents of the writer’s former classmates were unable to find out the real problems of the system. Parents sending their children who were bright and curious returned back helpless. His twelve years old brother who was reading in a traditional school was far better than him except math.

Outlines of the text-C :

• The writer’s mother was highly inspired by permissive education.
• At that time, he was only four years old.
• His mother admitted him in a small private school.
• It was situated in Greenwich village.
• The writer called the school ‘Sand and Sea”.
• In this school, there was total educational freedom.
• It was the freedom for not to learn.
• There were fifteen lady teachers and one teacher.
• The teacher was teaching them science.
• They were giving much stress to cultivate natural creativity.
• They gave more stress on arts.
• They used to learn various subjects.
• But they could change any subject at any time.
• It was the policy of the school.
• It was making the students free of pressure.
• They were free from any mental stress.
• This policy was creating competitive minds among them.
• Once the writer was bored with math.
• So he was permitted to write short stories in the library.
• They learned different things in different years.
• One year, they pounded corn made tepees, ate buffalo meat and learned Indian words.
• Another year, they made elaborate costumes, clay pots and paper-mache gods.
• Again in one year, they were all maidens and knights in armour.
• Once, the writer while. building pyramids did a thirty feet long mural cupid hieroglyphics on the sheet of brown paper.
• The writer and his friends were spending their time to be creative.
• Their mentos told them that to be happy is to create.
• They were made not to learn.
• Because early reading could discourage creative spontaneity.
• Hence, they were forced to be creative for nine years.
• Much stress was provided for forming and reforming interpersonal relationships.
• All the happy little children fell down to hill.
• Both children and their parents feel abandoned.
• The children thought themselves to be ‘underachievers.
• They became culturally disadvantaged.
• The school psychologist was puzzled by his lack of actual knowledge.
• He suggested the writer to have the psychological tests.
• So that the reason could be found out.
• The teacher often asked how he had come to high school.
• The parents could not find out the real problems.
• The good students returned back helpless.
• His brother was reading in a traditional school. ,
• He was twelve years old.
• His standard was better than the writer

Meanings of difficult words :

example – a person an example; of something.
decent – proper, modest, nice, fairly good.
innate – inborn, a quality from birth, internal.
tremendous – huge, marvelous; astounding, amazing.
stunted – checked the growth or development of.
forbidden – prohibit, not to be done.
least – superlative degree of ’little’ (little-less-least)
pounded – thump, to crush into powder, break to pieces.
tepees – round texts used by Red Indians in America.
elaborate – detail, more illustrated or descriptive.
costumes – dresses, items of dress put on occasion.
armor – a defensive covering worn during fighting.
pegged their horses – pattern with pegs.
a quarrel of blood – blood measuring capacity equal to two points about 1.14 liter.
the Hums – medieval invaders from Central Asia.
mural hieroglyphics – system of writings which uses pictures to represent words.
bliss – blessing, higher happiness, divine happiness.
incurably – that which can’t be cured.
optimistic – hopeful, looking at the brighter side of life.
mentors – person who takes care of the little men.
discourage – make dispirited, unenthusiastic.
creative spontaneity – natural flow of creative work.
continually – again and again, again and over again, continue at a stretch, interpersonal.
relationship – relationship among various kinds of persons.
twist – distort, bend, make deformed.
introverted – being interest in one’s own thoughts and feelings than the things outside oneself,
cowered in the corner – shrank back and crunched in the comer.
sense of abandonment – a feeling of being left completely, alone, a state of loneliness.
flunking out – fail an examination, fail a candidate.
occupational therapy- treatment for helping people to get that their health by giving them special work.
baffle – trouble, bewilder, mentally disturbed.
substantive knowledge – knowledge having an independent existence real or actual
enduring – bearing, tolerating, withstanding putting up with stumbling.
through – speak in a hesitating way with pauses and mistakes.
braked out – became upset and frightened, disturbed.
bizarre – odd, ridiculous, absured, unnatural, yanked (American) taken away suddenly.
bicentennial – celebrating of completion of 200 years after the American declaration of independence.

Odisha State Board CHSE Odisha Class 11 Math Notes Chapter 9 Binomial Theorem will enable students to study smartly.

CHSE Odisha 11th Class Math Notes Chapter 9 Binomial Theorem

Binomial Theorem For Positive Integral Index:
For any a,b ∈ R, and n ∈ N
(a + b)ⁿ = ⁿC₀ aⁿ + ⁿC₁ a^n-1b + ….. ⁿC_n bⁿ

Note:

(a) (a + b)ⁿ = aⁿ + na^n-1 b + \(\frac{n(n-1)}{2 !}\) a^n-2b² ….. + bⁿ
(b) (1 + x)ⁿ = ⁿC₀ + ⁿC₁ x + ⁿC₂ x² + ….. + ⁿC_n xⁿ
(c) (a – b)ⁿ = ⁿC₀ aⁿ – ⁿC₁ a^n-1 b + ⁿC₂ a^n-2b² ….. + (-1)ⁿ bⁿ
(d) (1 – x)ⁿ = ⁿC₀ – ⁿC₁ x + ⁿC₂ x² ….. + (-1)ⁿ xⁿ

Some conclusions from the Binomial theorem:

• There are (n + 1) terms in the expansion of (a + b)ⁿ
• We can write (a + b)ⁿ = \(\sum_{r=0}^n{ }^n \mathrm{C}_r a^{n-r} b^r\) and (a – b)ⁿ = \(\sum_{r=0}^n(-1)^r{ }^n \mathrm{C}_r a^{n-r} b^r\)
• The sum of powers of a and b in each term = n
• As ⁿC_r = ⁿC_n-r (The coefficient of terms equidistant from the beginning and the end are equal).
• (r + 1)^th term (General term)
  = t_r+1 = ⁿC_r a^n-rb^r
• (a + b)ⁿ + (a – b)ⁿ = 2[ⁿC₀aⁿ + ⁿC₂ a^n-2b² + ….]
• (a + b)ⁿ – (a – b)ⁿ = 2[ⁿC₁ a^n-1b + ⁿC₃ a^n-3b³ + ….]
• (middle terms):
  ⇒ If n is even then the middle term = \(t_{\left(\frac{n+2}{2}\right)}=t_{\left(\frac{n}{2}+1\right)}\)
  ⇒ If n is odd there are two middle terms. They are = \(t_{\left(\frac{n+1}{2}\right)} \text { and } t_{\left(\frac{n+3}{2}\right)}\)
• t_r+1 from the end in the expansion of (a + b)ⁿ = t_r+1 from the beginning in the expansion of (b + a)ⁿ.

Binomial Theorem For Any Rational Index:
If n ∈ Q and x ∈ R such that |x| < 1 then (1 + x)ⁿ = 1 + nx + \(\frac{n(n-1)}{2 !} x^2\) + \(\frac{n(n-1)(n-2)}{3 !} x^3+\ldots .\)

Note:

(1) (1 + x)^-1 = 1 – x + x² – x³ + …..
(2) (1 – x)^-1 = 1 + x + x² + …..
(3) (1 + x)^-2 = 1 – 2x + 3x² – 4x³ + …..
(4) (1 – x)^-2 = 1 + 2x + 3x² + 4x³ + …..

Odisha State Board CHSE Odisha Class 11 Math Notes Chapter 8 Permutations And Combinations will enable students to study smartly.

CHSE Odisha 11th Class Math Notes Chapter 8 Permutations And Combinations

Fundamental Principle Of Counting:
(a) Fundamental principle of Multiplication:
If we choose an element from set A with m element and then one element from set B  with n elements, then are total number of ways we can make a choice is exactly mn.

OR

If an event can occur in m different ways, following which another event can occur in n different ways, then the total number of ways in which both the events can occur in succession in mn ways.

(b) Fundamental Principle of addition: If there are two events such that they can be performed independently in m and n different ways respectively, then either of two events can be performed in (m + n) ways.

Note:
(a) Use the multiplication principle if by doing one part of the job, the job remains incomplete.
(b) Use the addition principle if by doing one part of the job, the job is completed.

Factorial Notation:
If n ∈ N then the factorial of n, denoted by n! or ∠n is defined as
n! = n (n – 1). (n – 2) … 3.2.1.

Note:
0! = 1

Properties of Factorial:
(1) Factorial of negative integers is not defined
(2) n! = n(n – 1)!
= n(n – 1) (n – 2)!
= n(n – 1) (n – 2) (n – 3)!
(3) \(\frac{n !}{r !}\) = n(n – 1) (n – 2) ….. (r + 1)
(4) Exponent of a prime number p in n! denoted by
\(\mathrm{E}_p(n !)=\left[\frac{n}{p}\right]+\left[\frac{n}{p^2}\right]+\ldots \ldots\)

Permutation:
Each of the arrangements which can be made by taking some or all objects or things at a time is called a permutation.

(a) Permutation of n different objects:

• Number of permutations of n different objects have taken all at a time = \({ }^n \mathrm{P}_n\) = n!.
• Number of permutations of n different objects taken none at a time = \({ }^n \mathrm{P}_0\) = 1
• Number of permutations of n different objects taken r at a time = \({ }^n \mathrm{P}_r\) = P(n, r) = \(\frac{n !}{(n-r) !}\)

(b) Permutation ofnon-distinct objects:
(1) Number of permutations of n objects taken all at a time of which p objects are of same kind and others are distinct = \(\frac{n !}{p !}\)
(2) Number of permutations of n objects taken all at a time of which p objects are of one kind, q objects are of a second kind and other are distinct = \(\frac{n !}{p ! q !}\)
(3) Number of permutations of n objects taken all at a time in which p₁ objects are of one kind, p₂ are of second kind, p₃ are 3rd kind ….. and
p_n are of nth kind and other are distinct. = \(\frac{n !}{p_{1} ! p_{2} ! \cdots p_{n} !}\)

(c) Restricted permutations:

• Permutation of distinct objects with repetition: The number of permutations of n different things taken r at a time when each thing may be repeated any number of times = n^r
• Number of permutations of n different things taken r at a time when a particular thing is to be always included in each arrangement = r. ^n-1P_r-1.
• Number of permutations of n different things, taken r at the time when p particular are to be always included in each arrangement = P(r – (p – 1) ^n-pP_r-p.
• Number of permutations of n different things taken r at a time, when a particular thing is never taken in each arrangement = ^n-1P_r.
• Number of permutations of n different things taken r at a time, when p particular things never taken in each arrangement = ^n-pP_r.

(d) Circular permutation:
(1) When we do an arrangement of objects along a closed curve we call it the circular permutation.
(2) Number of circular permutations of n distinct objects taken all at a time = (n – 1)!, where clockwise and anti-clockwise orders are taken as different, as arrangements round a table.
(3) Number of circular permutations of n distinct objects taken all at a time, where clockwise and anti-clockwise orders make no difference as beads or flowers in a necklace or garland.
= \(\frac{(n-1) !}{2}\)
(4) Number of circular permutations of n different things taken r at a time where clockwise and anti-clockwise orders are different = \(\frac{\left({ }^n \mathrm{P}_r\right)}{r}\)
(5) Number of circular permutations of n different things taken r at a time where clockwise and anti-clockwise orders make no difference = \(\frac{\left({ }^n \mathrm{P}_r\right)}{2 r}\)

(e) Some more restricted permutations:

• Number of permutations of n different things taken all at a time, when m specified things come together = m!(n – m + 1)!.
• Number of permutations of n different things taken all at a time when m specified things never come together = n!  – m!(n – m + 1)!.

Combinations:
Each of the different selections made by taking some or all objects at a time irrespective of any order is called a combination.

(a) Difference between permutation and combination:

• A combination is a selection but a permutation is not a selection but an arrangement.
• In combination the order of appearance of objects is immaterial, whereas in a permutation the ordering is essential.
• Practically to find permutations of n different objects taken r at a time, we first select objects then we arrange them.
• One combination corresponds to many permutations.

(b) Combinations of n different things taken r at a time:
The number of combinations of n different things have taken r at a time ⁿc_r = C(n, r) = \(\left(\begin{array}{l}
n \\
r
\end{array}\right)=\frac{n !}{r !(n-r) !}\)

(c) Properties of ⁿc_r :
(1) ⁿc_r = ⁿC₀ = 1, ⁿC₁ = n
(2) ⁿC_r = ⁿC_n-r
(3) ⁿC_r + ⁿC_r-1 = ⁿ⁺¹C_r (Euler’s formula)
(4) ⁿC_x = ⁿC_y ⇒ x = y or x + y = n
(5) n. ^n-1C_r-1 = (n – r + 1) ⁿC_r-1
(6) ⁿC_r = \(\frac{n}{r}{ }^{n-1} \mathrm{C}_{r-1}\)
(7) \(\frac{{ }^n \mathrm{C}_r}{{ }^n \mathrm{C}_{r-1}}=\frac{n-r+1}{r}\)
(8) If n is even then the greatest value of ⁿC_r is ⁿC_n/2.
⇒ If n is odd then the greatest value of ⁿC_r is \({ }^n \mathrm{C}_{\left(\frac{n+1}{2}\right)} \text { or }{ }^n \mathrm{C}_{\left(\frac{n-1}{2}\right)}\)

(d) Number of combinations of n different things taken r at a time, when k particular things always occur = ^n-kC_r-k

(e) The number of combinations of n different things, taken r at a time where k particular things never occur = ^n-kC_r

(f) The total number of combinations of n different things taken one or more at a time (or the number of ways of n different things selecting at least one of them) = ⁿC₁ + ⁿC₂ + ⁿC₃ + ….. + ⁿC_n = 2ⁿ -1

(g) The number of combinations of n identical things taken r at a time = 1.

(h) Number of ways of selecting r things out of n alike things where r = 0, 1, 2, 3 ….. n is (n+ 1).

(i) Division into groups:

• The number of ways in which (m + n) different things can be divided into two groups which contain m and n things respectively = \(\frac{(m+n) !}{m ! n !}\) for m ≠ n.
• If m-n then the groups are of equal size. Thus, division can be done in two ways as:
  ⇒ If order of groups is not important: In this case the number of ways = \(\frac{(2 n) !}{2 !(n !)^2}\)
  ⇒ If order of groups is important: In this case the number of ways = \(\frac{(2 n) !}{(n !)^2}\)

(j) Arrangement in groups:

1. The number of ways in which n different things can be arranged into r different groups = ^n+r-1P_n or n! ^n-1C_r-1
2. The number of ways in which n different things can be distributed into r different groups = rⁿ – ^rC₁(r – 1)ⁿ + ^rC₂(r – 2)ⁿ ….. + (-1)^r-1 . ^rC_r-1. (Blank groups are not allowed)
3. The number of ways in which n identical things can be distributed into r different groups where blank groups are allowed
   = ^(n+r-1)C_(r-1)
   = ^(n+r-1)C_n
4. Number of ways in which n identical things can be distributed into r different groups where blank groups are not allowed (each group receives at least one item) = ^n-1C_r-1

(k) Number of divisors:

Odisha State Board CHSE Odisha Class 11 Approaches to English Book 2 Solutions Poem 3 The Fog Textbook Exercise Questions and Answers.

CHSE Odisha 11th Class Alternative English Solutions Poem 3 The Fog

Pre-reading Activity
It’s not always that we see the Fog when do we see this phenomenon? Certainly, the fog hits one eye straight and makes us nearly blind. If you happen to be walking through the fog, how would you go ahead? Feel your way through? In a situation like this, do you think a blind man could be a good guide?

Questions For Discussion

Question 1.
How can affect a person’s vision?
Answer:
The thick fog makes a man almost blind. One can see anything. The sight deceived him. It made the boys look like tall men and tall men looked like giants.

Question 2.
What example does the poet offer to illustrate his error of judgement?
Answer:
The street lamps and the lights upon the halted cars whether earthly or heavenly stars are the examples offered to illustrate his error of judgement.

Question 3.
What simile does he use to express how his eyes felt in the Fog?
Answer:
Actually, simile refers to a comparison between two dissimilar objects by means of ‘like’ or ‘as’. The poet’s eyes in the % felt like balls of burning dead.

Question 4.
At what stage of the poem is the poet completely overpowered by the Fog?
Answer:
The poet is completely overpowered by the Fog when he lost all judgement of distance and space.

Question 5.
How does he describe the street scene in the fog?
Answer:
The street lamps and the lights upon the halted cars in the street seemed to be either earth or heavenly stars.

Question 6.
What was the poet’s reaction to the offer of help?
Answer:
When the poet became helpless in the intense fog and unable to feed his way, he asked a person passing by him to tell him the way. The man he asked to was also a blind man to whom the Fog made no difference. The blind man offered to help but the poet felt hesitant about whether to follow him or not.

Question 7.
Do you find the last line of the poem paradoxical? And why?
Answer:
However, the last line of the poem is entirely paradoxical. The line goes  “A blind man led me home”. A man who happens to be blind needs the help of others to be led about. But here the blind man leads a man that is the poet who has eyes. The poet is all of a sudden blinded by the thick Fog. He had not grown accustomed to the blindness and the act of feeling his way. But the blind man had been acquainted with blindness and the act of feeling his way. He, therefore, led the poet home.

Question 8.
In an otherwise dark scene, words like “burning”, come across “lamps and the light” and “heavenly stars”. What purpose do these expressions serve in the poem?
Answer:
The expressions “burning”, “lamps and lights” and “heavenly stars” stand in sharp contrast with the otherwise dark scene in the poem. These expressions are the light-giving sources which are made dim with the thickening fog. The glaze and glamour of these things have been lost in the Fog and they look dim and faint.

Question 9.
If you find yourself in a similar situation, what would you do? Follow the blind man as the poet did? Or wait till the Fog clears.
Answer:
If I find myself in a similar situation, I would do neither of the things the poet did, i.e. not follow the blind man ad the poet did not would wait till the Fog clears. I would try to feel my way in the blinded situation in whatever trouble comes that way. So that it would give the understanding of the troubles of a blind man when he tried to that fog must disappear some time or other, l would not bother about this and continue the process of finding my way home.

Composition

Question 1.
The poem “The Fog” by W.H. Davies describes the narrator’s experience of a fog. The situation is introduced in stanzas its effect on the narrator is described in stanzas 2-4, and in the last two stanzas, the narrator’s problem is resolved. Now write an elaborate note on how ideas are structured ‘in the poem including an analysis of the poetic device used, such as similes, metaphors and paradoxes.
Answer:
In fact, the opening stanza of the poem provides a vista of introductory ideas to the poem. The lines in the stanza reveal the ocular deceptions of an approaching thick Fog. Eyes are blinded by the intense fog on the exterior. It makes the short appear tall and the tali 8iant This stanza is structured with Poetic devices such as metaphors. Metaphors are the means t6 brin8 about the similarity between two dissimilar objects without any use of “like” or “as”. comparative devices.

The last two lines of the first stanza, “it made tall men of boys/and giants of tall men” bring about a comparison between boys looking tall and tall men looking giants. Stanza 2-4 enumerate the effects of fog. They centre around the chilling throat and choking respiratory tract due to intense Fog. He felt nothing in his heart except the presence of his two eyes. The Fog grew thick that the poet was unable to feel his way. He lost all judgement of distance and space. Stanza 4 is structured on a metaphor which is designed to bring about the similarity between dissimilar objects.

The street lamps and the lights upon the halted cars seemed to be either on earth or the heavenly stars. the appearance of a man who happens to be The fifth and sixth stanzas speaks of blindness. He offers him help which the poet hesitatingly accepts. The man tells them to follow him. He followed him where he led him i.e. the poet. They finally reached the poet’s home. The last two stanzas deal with the solution to the problem.

Question 2.
In pairs, write down at least twenty words which you associate with a Fog. Then, using some of these words try to write a short poem describing an experience in a Fog.
Answer:
Air, south, cold, lamps, sun, mist, head, lights, last, smoke, eyes, vehicles, west, silence, moon, celestial, north, dawn? stars, visible. The Poem – In a Foggy Dawn
1. I moved about in a foggy down when the cold air was thick with mist Shrouding the sun in the east Nothing was visible to the eyes.

2. The east, west, north and south Breathing smoke in the silent acres The dying moon, disappearing stars, And other celestial objects.

3. Street lamps, the light of moving vehicles Deemed dim, dusty and dark Making heads heavy and haste To back home for rest.

4. Fingers feel no way at once Feet fed fastened in the Fog. Finding a glowing fire and fresh food. I groped in grief and gloom.

Detailed Summaries

Paraphrase: Stanza – 1
The poet explains the thickener Fog. It intensified and blinded the poet’s sight very soon- made the boys look tall Again the tall men looked like giants. Hence the stanza tells about the unreal and deceptive appearance of the ethereal world.

Stanza – 2:
Actually, the thick and dense Fog hides a billing effect on the human body. It held the speaker’s throat and deposited cough there. So, he coughed and coughed. He felt that nothing was there in his head. He only felt the presence of his two eyes which looked like balls of burning dead.

Stanza – 3:
The thickness of the Fog gradually intensified blackening the atmosphere all around. When it assumed impenetrable darkness, the speaker was unable to make out anything. He could not identify the places and to treed: He lost all judgement of ways distance and space.

Stanza – 4:
The Fog was very thick and dense. So the poet could not perceive anything from a distance. The street lamps and the lights upon the halted cars could either be earth or heavenly stars. It was again a deceptive feature.

Stanza – 5:
The poet was in bewilderment. At that time a man arrived on the spot. He became very close to him. He asked him the way. He told me to follow him. He followed him where he led him.

Stanza – 6:
The man told the poet to take him to confidence to make him reach his home very safely. The poet followed him like a child. The man was none other than a blind man. Both of them were not able to see anything. But the second one was capable of leading the first one as he had grown accustomed to the blindness for a long time.

Notes to the Poet and Poem:

William Henry Davies (1871-1940) is chiefly remembered for expressing natural beauty in his short, simple verses. Important among his volumes of poetry are “The Soul’s Destroyer and other poems” (1907) and “Love Poems” (1930). His poems mainly touch upon “odds and ends of things”.“The Fog” is about one of life’s ironies.

The Fog Summary in English

The narrator of the poem saw the fog grow very thick and dense. It became too thick to make everyone blind that is things were hardly visible. Boys looked like tall men and tall men looked like giants. It gripped his throat and he kept coughing. There was nothing in him except the two little heavy eyes Which continued rolling like two balls of burning bad when they thickened more and more, it assumed darker.

It became so black that he could make out nothing. He was not able to identify the places, he lost his judgement then as to the exact distance and space. The speaker was even unable to make out whether the street lamps and the lights upon the halted cars could be either on earth or be the heavenly stars. Aman passed close by him. He asked him the right way to his house. The man asked to follow him. He followed him where he went. He followed him as a child after his parents. It was a blind man who ultimately led him home.

Analytical outlines of the poem:

• The narrator of the poem saw the Fog.
• It grew very thick and dense.
• It became too thick to make everyone blind.
• It is blind as things were hardly visible.
• So boys looked like tall men.
• The tall men looked like giants.
• It gripped his throat.
• So, he kept coughing.
• There was nothing in him.
• He had only two little heavy eyes.
• These continued rolling like two balls of burning bed.
• The fog thickened more and more.
• It is assumed darker.
• It became too black to make out anything.
• He was not able to identify the places.
• He lost his judgement.
• He could not judge the exact distance and space
• The speaker was even unable to make out the street lamps.
• It also could not make out the lights upon the halted cars.
• They appeared to him like heavenly stars
• A man passed close by him.
• He asked him the right way to his house.
• The man asked to follow him.
• He followed him where he went.
• He followed him as a child after his parents.
• It was a blind man.
• He ultimately led him home.

Meaning Of Difficult Words

ken – a range of knowledge here, sight
clutch – to grasp tightly, to hatch, snatch, to hold.
rapped – knocked sharply, striking.

Odisha State Board CHSE Odisha Class 11 Approaches to English Book 2 Solutions Poem 2 Dog’s Death Textbook Exercise Questions and Answers.

CHSE Odisha 11th Class Alternative English Solutions Poem 2 Dog’s Death

Pre-reading Activity I
Have you ever kept a pet? Why do people keep pets? For companionship? For love? Or for some other benefits? Can you recall some of the happiest moments with your pets? Here is a poem in which Updike remembers his pet. As you read the poem, try to find an answer to the question. What is the most significant thing that the poet remembers about his pet?

Questions And Answers

Question 1.
Why does the poet begin with the pronoun “she”? Would it make any difference, if the poem began with “the dog….”?
Answer:
However, the poet has adopted this technique due to two things. One thing is that the poet has personified the dog as he has attributed human qualities to it.‘Since the dog is treated as a member of the family. It is given a human position. Secondly, the pronoun “she” makes it clear that it is a female dog that is it is a bitch. The poem would have made a lot of difference if it had started with The dog….”

Question 2.
How did the dog win everybody’s appreciation?
Answer:
The dog must have been kicked unseen or brushed by a car. If W&s for young to know much. It was. starting to learn to use the newspapers spread on the kitchen floor. He: therefore, won everyone’s appreciation. It is 4n fact, a good dog.

Question 3.
What could “shy malaise” means?
Answer:
However, “Shy malaise” means bodily disorder without signs of illness. The bodily discomfort is not known to the surface. Suffering is something that is not known to the outward.

Question 4.
What does the poet want to convey when he says “… blood was filling her skin/And her heart was tearing to He down forever”?
Answer:
As the poet and others teased, the dog, got terribly angry. However, it was rational enough to control itself. It is the meaning of the given statement.

Question 5.
How does the poet describe the dying dog?
Answer:
The poet describes that the children were noisily fed on Monday morning. Then they were sent to school. The dying dog crawled beneath the youngest’s bed. It was found that it was twisted and limp but still alive. It was carried to the vets in a car on the poet’s lap. It tried to bite his hand and died. Thus, in this way the dying dog is described by the poet.

Question 6.
What does the expression “her frame” suggest?
Answer:
The expression ‘her frame’ suggests the complete body politic of the dog. The entire body structure of the dog referred to as the ‘frame’ has sunk down owing to diarrhea.

Question 7.
Why did the dog drag herself to a newspaper on Sunday night?
Answer:
However, the dog suffered from severe diarrhea. It had a terrible loose motion which had made it considerably weak and worn out. Unable to walk, it dragged itself across the floor to reach a piece of newspaper spread in a distance so as to pass extra on it and not to make the floor dirty by spilling stool here and there. It, therefore, tried to drag itself to a newspaper on a Sunday night.

Question 8.
In stanza- 4, the third line is; “Though surrounded by love that would have upheld her”. Who was “surrounded”? And by whom?
Answer:
The dog was surrounded by the poet’s family members who were love personified. The whole family had a selfless love for the innocent creature.

Question 9;
Comment on the speaker’s voice in “Dog’s Death”.
Answer:
The speaker seems to be an ardent lover of his pet dog. Her death has brought him unbound sorrows. His intense love for the dog made him write a poem devoted to it. The poem delineates the poet’s profound love which he employs in his poem ‘Dog’s Death”.

Question 10.
Can you suggest an alternative title for the poem?
Answer:
An alternative title may be suggested for the poem. It is “Oh Dog, My Dog !”

Composition

Question 1.
Write an appreciation of the poem beginning with a mention of its theme and then showing, through a stanza-by-stanza analysis, how this theme has been elaborated across the stanzas in a connected way, your appreciation of the poem must include an analysis of the appropriateness and effectiveness of the poetic devices used and must conclude with your personal response to the poem.
Answer:
The poem “Dog’s Death” is undoubtedly the most typical masterpiece of John Updike, an eminent and outstanding American Poet. This autobiographical poem centers around the death of a beloved pet of the poet. The poet is a dog that dies bringing about-an uncompromising sorrow to the poet who feels bereft of his faithful dog. In the first stanza, the poet describes his pet dog which must have been kicked or brushed by a car. It was starting to learn to use the newspaper spread on the kitchen floor and to win.

It was a good dog. In the second stanza, we find the poet and his wife thought her shy malaise was a terrible reaction. The postmortem report revealed that there appeared a crack in its lever. As it was teased with play, blood was ‘feeling her skin and her heart was leaning to ie down forever. In the third stanza, we have, it was Monday morning. The children were noisily fed MD went to school. The dog crawled beneath (the youngest’s childbed. She was found lying disturbed and limp although she was alive. It was carried to the vets on the poet’s lap.

The expression “on my lap” tells that the pet is like i loving child which is carried on the poet’s In the fourth stanza, we find that when ie dog was being carried to the vet’s in a car on the poet’s lap, it tried to bite the poet’s mind and died. The poet patted its warm fur in his wife and called in a voice imperious with ars. But the dog was no more. stance. The concluding stanza tells that the poet id his wife returned home at last and found the frame drawing near to dissolution. While offering from diarrhea, it had dragged itself ross the floor to a newspaper quite tirelessly left on the spot in a little As a matter of fact, we observed that the theme of unfathomable love towards that animal is vehemently treated by the poet almost all the stanzas. The personified session is really the most inspiring and heart-ching.

Question 2.
Suppose your pet is lost and there is little hope of your getting it back. Write a letter to a friend expressing your sentiments for the lost pet, so that you may get over your depression.
Answer:

Mohantypara
Sundargarh
20.07.2016

My Dear Rakesh,
How are you? You’d be surprised to know that the dog you saw last is now no more. You know what a nice animal it is. It used to bark for me; guard for me and even die for me. I’ve told you how it once helped me from imminent death. Its absence causes a serious vacuum that can hardly be filled up. I personally feel bereft of the most living creature which is no longer in life. The sense of loss for the pretty little thing hangs heavy on me. I can’t really withstand the incompressible loss meted out to me. I’d been. closely associated with his pet of mine. since 2010. I do feel its loss every now and then.

Yours ever,
Sukant

Detailed Summaries

Paraphrase: Stanza -1
The day must have been kicked unseen. It must have been brushed by a car. It was starting to learn to use the newspapers spread on the kitchen floor and to win Wetting there. It was, in fact, a good dog.

Stanza – 2
The poet and his wife thought her shy malaise was a terrible reaction. The postmortem report revealed that there appeared a crack in its liver. As it was teased with play, blood was filling her skin and her heart was learning to lie down forever.

Stanza – 3
It was Monday morning. The children were properly fed. Then they went to school. The dog crawled beneath the youngest’s bed. She was found distorted and limp although she was alive. It was parried to the vets on the poet’s lap.

Stanza- 4
car on the poet’s lap to the .vet’s, it tried to bite the poet’s hand and died.’ The poet patted its warm fur. His wife called in a voice imperious with tears. But the dog more. While the dog was being carried in a was no more.

Stanza – 5
The poet and his wife come back home. They found her frame drawing near to dissolution. While suffering front diarrhea, it had dragged itself across the floor to a newspaper quite carelessly left on the spot a little distance.

Notes On The Poet:

John. Updike (born 1932) is known as the chronicles of modem America. His novels such as ‘.Couples’ and the ‘Rabbit’ contemplate on the ‘domestic needs’ and ‘aesthetic-religious desires’ of the average American. He has also tried his hand at sight-verse. Some of his well-known poetry collections are ‘The Carpentered Hen’, ‘Telephone poles’ and ‘Facing Nature’. In ‘Dog’s Death’ the poet pays tribute to the memory of his pet. The appeal of the poem, however, is universal.

Dog’s Death Summary in English

The dog must have been kicked unseen or brushed by a car. He was too young to know much and he was beginning to leaned to use the newspapers, spread on the kitchen floor. It was thought that her shy malaise was a short reaction. The autopsy proved that there was a rupture in its liver. As it was teased sportively, blood was filling her skin and its heart was learning to tie down forever. sent to school on Monday morning, it crept beneath the youngest’s bed.

It was found limp and trusted although alive. While it was being carried in a car to the vet’s on the poet’s lap, it tried to bite his hand and died. The poet stroked its warm fur and his wife called in a voice imperious with tears. They came back home, they found that in the night its body frame was heading towards dissolution. As the children were noisily fed and sportively, blood was filling her skin and its heart was learning to tie down forever. sent to school on Monday morning, it crept beneath the youngest’s bed.

As the children were noisily fed and sent to school on Monday morning, it crept beneath the youngest’s bed. It was found limp and trusted although alive. While it was being carried in a car to the vet’s on the poet’s lap, it tried to bite his hand and died. The poet stroked its warm fur and his wife called in a voice imperious with tears. They came back home, they found that in the night its body frame was heading towards dissolution.

Analytical outlines of the poem

• The dog must have been kicked unseen.
• It must have been brushed by a car.
• it was too young to know much.
• It was beginning to learn to use the newspapers spread on the kitchen floor.
• It was thought that her shy malaise was a shot reaction.
• The autopsy proved that there was a rupture in its liver.
• It was teased sportively.
• Blood was filling her skin. ,
• Its heart was learning to lie down forever.
• It was Monday morning.
• The children were noisily fed.
• They were sent to school. It crept beneath the youngest’s bed.
• It was found limp.
• It was trusted although alive.
• It was being carried in a car to the vets on the poet’s lap.
• It tried to bite his hand.
• At last, it died.
• The poet stroked its warm fur.
• His wife called in a voice imperious with
• They came back home.
• They found that in the night its body frame was heading towards dissolution,

Meaning of difficult words

malaise – bodily discomfort without signs of illness.
autopsy – personal inspection,’ examination of the body in order to know the cause of death
rupture – breaking, a breach, bursting.
imperious – haughty, commanding, imperative, giving orders.
disclosed – revealed, exposed. unclosed,
crawled – moved slowly, crept.
stroked – patted with hands.
stiffening – unbending, not easily moved, to become stiff and tight
diarrhea – an excessive looseness of bowels, an infectious disease of the bowel
dragged – trailed, harrowed, pulled
forcibly, endured – bear firmly, tolerate, withstand.

Odisha State Board CHSE Odisha Class 11 Approaches to English Book 2 Solutions Poem 1 Ecology Textbook Exercise Questions and Answers.

CHSE Odisha 11th Class Alternative English Solutions Poem 1 Ecology

Pre-reading Activity,
The poem you will read presently has the title ‘Ecology’. What does Ecology mean? If you aren’t sure of its meaning, look it up in the glossary following the text of the poem and write its meaning here. Can you now guess what the poem would aim to tell the reader? Write your guess here.

Questions For Discussion

Question 1.
What story does the poem tell us?
Answer:
The poem tells us about saving the ‘ecology’ of Nature. In spite of the recurring migraine of his mother and a line of cousins every year during the flowering season, she was out of temper with a thought of others as to felling the flowering trees.

Question 2.
What is its theme?
Answer:
Its theme is to, help save the environment in the way of saving trees, Therefore, it contributes a lot to the survival of a good environment.

Question 3.
When does the speaker come home in a rage and why?
Answer:
The speaker comes home in a rage when their three red Champak trees start flowering after the first rain. He gets irritated because of the advent of the Champak flowers. causes a pathetic experience for him. It is because they cause a severe migraine in his mother.

Question 4.
How does the poet describe the fragrance of the Champak flowers?
Answer:
The fragrance of the Champak flowers is very sharp and strong. Hence, too much fragrance and smell cause a pinching effect on his mother’s head and automatically causes migraine. No wind could separate the fragrance of a heavy hung yellow pollen fog of a flower.

Question 5.
How are the walls of the black pilloried house .described ‘?
Answer:
However, the poet has personified the walls of the black pilloried house. So, the walls of the black pilloried house are described to have eyes and ears.

Question 6.
When the speaker says “had gone it again” (Stanza-2), what D is its effect? Does this expression convey approval or disapproval?
Answer:
The speaker says it when he comes home in a rage. Its effect is the mother flashing her temper. The expression conveys a sense of disapproval.

Question 7.
How are the words “sift” and “porous” related? What purpose do they serve in the poem?
Answer:
“Sift” means ‘separate’ and “porous” means something having tiny holes. The wind could not separate the fragrance of the Champak flowers. Again the scales, smells, bone creaks, and nightly D visiting voices were porous which never allowed the smells to D rebounce.

Question 8.
What makes the mother “flash” her temper?
Answer:
The flowering Champak trees have severe migraine to the mother with their strong fragrance. It was decided to cut down these trees so as to give a healing touch
to his mother. This makes his mother “flash” her temper, it is because this would disturb the ecology, and her daughter and granddaughters would be deprived of annual flowers.

Question 9.
“But Mother, flashing her temper (like her mother’s twisted silver, grand children’s Knickers wet as the cold pack on her head…”, Explain the comparisons (Similes) in these lines.
Answer:
Grandmother’s silver ornaments, grandchildren’s Knickers, and the wet cold pack on mother’s head herself have some proportions of distortions. When a person gets severely angry he or she looks wry, wreathed, and distorted. Here, the mother’s anger makes her twisted like the things compared above. these lines.

Question 10.
Which stanza do you find the most dramatic in the poem?
Answer:
Stanza 7- “but mother, flashing her temper like her mother’s twisted silver, grand children’s Kunicker’s…..” is found to be dramatic in the poem.

Question 11.
What light does the poem throw on the Mother’s attitude?
Answer:
The mother is entirely aware of ecology which is closely associated with the survival of the animal kingdom. She never wishes and allows the red Champak trees to be cut down in spite of her suffering from severe headaches caused by the strong smell of the flowers of these trees.

Question 12.
How does the speaker’s attitude contrast with that of the mother?
Answer:
The speaker’s attitude was in sharp contrast with that of the mother. The mother wishes for the preservation of the Champak flowers in spite of her terrible suffering from severe migraine caused by the strong smell of the flowers. The speaker, on the other hand, suggested that the trees should be cut down as a remedial measure against his mother’s migraine.

Composition

Question 1.
Examine the appropriateness of the title ‘Ecology’ for the poem.
Answer:
The poem ‘Ecology’ has been composed by A.K… Ramanujan is an eminent and outstanding poet of Anglo-Indian literature. He has composed multifarious volumes of poems. Some of them are ‘Relations’, ‘Second Sight’ etc. Some of the themes of his poetry are fear, despair, the need for familial worth, etc. He provides apt and suggestive titles to his poems. The title ‘Ecology’ of this discussing poem is a typical example of that. It may be a poem, essay, short story, drama, etc. but a suitable and suggestive title automatically drags the attention of the reader and attracts the customers to a shop.

The readers or the customers are automatically mesmerized by it. It makes the reader spelled just like a gorgeous and colorful signboard bound to go through it. Exactly the same has happened in the case of this discussing poem ‘Ecology’ In fact, literally ‘ecology’ means the habitats of living things and their relation to the environment. We always prefer to live in an adequate and good ecology. In this poem, it is used as a contrasting attitude of the mother and the children- towards nature. It highlights the mother’s determination to preserve the Champak trees even though they are the cause of her suffering. However, the poem starts with the narrator’s rage at the advent of the 1st rain.

It has caused the flowering of the three red Champak trees. His rage is due to the sharp and strong, fragrance of the flowers which automatically causes severe migraine in his mother. He is in the mood to cut down. the trees so as to free her from the troubles. But his mother wholeheartedly goes against this decision and is an ardent supporter of ecology. She is well aware of the preservation of trees which are a powerful source of ecological balance. She wants those trees should. be continued in spite of their adverse effect on life.

She does not bother about her migraine. According to her, the felling of trees is anti-ecology. She argues further that despite of all these, the trees provide an annual gift of flowers to her gods, daughters, and granddaughters although they cause a severe migraine to herself. The narrator becomes spellbound by his mother’s assertion about ecology and never proceeds to accept anti¬ ecology. As a matter of fact, judging from all respect, the title of the poem ‘Ecology’ is apt and suggestive. On the other hand, it is inspiring and heart-touching. On the whole, the poet is at his best to provide an apt and suggestive title to the poem.

Question 2.
Read the following poem (‘Night of the Scorpion’) fry Nissim Ezekiels on a similar theme and rate the points of comparison and contrast between ‘Ecology’ and ‘Night.
Answer:
However, A.K. Ramanujan’s ‘Ecology’ and Nissim Ezekiel’s ‘Night of the Scorpion’ have some similar and dissimilar aspects. The poets are having some identical and contrasting features which put these Scorpions’. poems on similar lines.

Points of comparison:
1. Both poems center around one principal character who happens to be a mother.

2. Suffering of the mother is a common feature in both poems. In ‘Ecology’ mother suffers from migraine caused by the strong smell of the Red Champak flowers. Mother wishes to preserve the trees for her children although she suffers, And of a Scorpion’ the sufferin8 of mother has portrayed in the storage vein- The mother suffers from the P0, sonorous stinging of the Scorpion and feels re, axed as the ScorPion has her and has luckily spared her children. The poet depicts the loving heart of a mother for her children.

Points Of Contrast:
There are mothers in both poems, but they are similar but not the same. Mother in ‘Ecology’ and mother in ‘Night of a Scorpion’ is portrayed in slightly different veins
1. Mother in ‘Ecology1 is in favor of providing flowers to her daughters and daughter daughters and is indirectly a staunch supporter of the environment and preservation of natural phenomena. The mother, on the other hand, in ‘Night of Scorpion’ speaks volumes of motherly love and affection for her children.

2. Superstitions beliefs of the villagers and the scientific attitude of the father are just a posed vis-a-vis.
3. Scorpion Stings mother in ‘Night of the Scorpion’ and the Strong smell of the Red Champak trees harms mother’s health causing severe migraine. Both these poems, however, compared and contrasted having a kind of specialty. The two poems bear a mark of likeness and differences, but the play has one thing in common Indianness.

Detailed Summaries

Paraphrase: (Stanzas: 1-2)
Rain comes as usual as a natural process. It provides a special life to dance with joy and joviality. A jovial atmosphere prevails. But this does not happen in the case of the narrator. Rather he is multifarious trees into the first entrance after a long gap. Both plants and human beings are enraged by the advent of rain. It also makes him back home with fury. He guessed that three of their Champak trees had started flowering

(Stanzas: 3-4)
become very beautiful and attractive. They were laden with fresh and delicate flowers which automatically doubled their former beauty. The narrator is not happy at all. These created problems for his mother. The strong fragrance of these flowers brought to her a terrible migraine. It automatically caused painful experiences during the blossoming season. Despite of her suffering/ she had a strong desire to make these flowering trees continue on ecological grounds. But the children were provoked by the presence of such flowers. No wind could separate the heavy hung yellow pollen fog from the Champak to stretching along The three red Champak trees street.

(Stanzas: 5-6)
No door of their black pilloried house could shut out to prevent the sharp and strong smell of the red Champak flowers. The fragrance automatically crept into the room so as not to free herself from the severe migraine she used to suffer due to the deadening smell of these flowers. Scales, bone cracks, smells and nightly voices were porous which never allowed the smell to rebound.

(Stanzas: 7-9)
The poet has used a beautiful comparison. Here the simile is that the mother’s flashing temper against the dangerous proposition of getting rid of the red Champak trees was like his grandmother’s twisted silver and gold. It was also like the children’s knickers. All these ultimately cooled her mother’s head. Her serious disposition was a threat against felling flowering trees, She said that the trees were as old as herself, The tree sprouted from the seed dropped by a passing bird. Hence, the trees were not cut down

(Stanzas: 10-11)
However, the providential dropping of the seed by a passing bird luckily germinated. Gradually, it grew up into a full-grown flowering tree as if to give her Gods, daughters, and daughters, daughters a basketful of annual flowers. They also simultaneously brought the most painful migraine to a line of cousins. All these evoked a special fascination with the flowering red Champak trees. Therefore, the idea of cutting down the trees was ultimately given up.

The Poet :
A.K. Ramanujan (1929-1996) permits his poetry to spring out of “deep inner compulsions”. Fear, despair, and the need for familial warmth are some of the themes of his poetry. His major verse collections are. “The Striders (1966)”, “Relations 1971)”, Selected Poems (1976)” and “Second Sight (1986)”. The Poem

The Poem :
‘Ecology’ expresses the contrasting attitudes of the mother and the children towards nature; it highlights the mother’s determination to preserve the Champak trees even though they are the cause of her suffering.

Ecology Summary in English

Rain comes as Usual as a natural process. It provides a new light to the also overwhelms with joviality and welcomes it wholeheartedly. But such a thing does not happen in the case of the narrator of the poem. He would angrily after the first rain.? Because he could sense it from a distance that their three red Champak trees had pepped multifarious trees of nature. The beautiful and attractive nature not only dances with joy in the coming of the rainy season but the people up int6 a new life- They had 10 stars flowering thereafter.

These fresh flowers caused severe headaches called migraine to his mother. No wind Was able to separate the yellow pollen fog from the fragrance of the flowers of the trees. No door could be shut out from their black pilloried house whose walls could see and hear bone-creaks, nightly visiting voices porous, like them But his mother’s temper which flashed like her twisted silver and grandchildren’s knickers prevented them from cutting down a tree in flower. These trees were as old as herself. The tree gave basketfuls of annual flowers to her daughters and daughter’s daughters. They also simultaneously brought the most painful migraine to a line of cousins of cousins.

Analytica, outlines of the poem

• Rain comes as usual as a natural process.
• It provides a new light to the multifarious trees of nature.
• The beautiful and attractive nature dances with joy.
• It dances with joy by the coming of the rainy season.
• The people also overwhelms with joviality.
• They welcome it wholeheartedly.
• But the narrator does not feel joy.
• He would come angrily after the first rain.
• It is because of the three red Champak trees.
• The trees had pepped into a new life.
• They had to start flowering thereafter.
• These fresh ‘flowers, caused headaches to his mother.
• They caused migraine in his mother.
• No wind was able to separate the yellow pollen fog from the fragrance of the flowers of the trees.
• No door could be shut out from their black pilloried house whose walls could see and hear.
• Scales, smells, bone creaks, and night-visiting voices were porous like them.
• His mother’s temper and grandchildren’s knickers prevented them from cutting down a tree in flower.
• These trees were as old as herself.
• The tree gave basketful of annual flowers to her daughters and daughter’s daughter.
• They also simultaneously brought the most painful’ migraine to a line of cousins.

Meaning of difficult words:

ecology – the study of living things in their surroundings
rage – irritation, strong excited emotion, uncontrollable anger.
Migraine – severe headache
sift – change, here, separate
porous – minute passages, having tiny holes.
scales – small thin flat pieces on the skin as in fish and snakes.
Bone Creaks – sounds made at the bone joints when you move (comparison with the long high noise when a door opens)
flashing – a momentary gleam of light, a sudden burst, a moment, showing something for a short time
twisted – bent in many directions,
providential – foresight, timely care.
dower – gifts, presents on a special occasion.
pollen – fertilizing, dust in flowers, the fine powder produced by flowers which are carried by wind or by insects to other flowers of the same type.

Night Of A Scorpion

Question For Discussion

Question 1.
What happened to the speaker’s mother one night?
Answer:
The speaker’s mother was stung by a scorpion one night.

Question 2.
What made the scorpion venture beneath the sack of rice?
Answer:
The evil scorpion was forced to risk beneath a sack of rice owing to the torrential rain outside.

Question 3.
What did the scorpion do after stinging his father?
Answer:
The scorpion bit the speaker’s mother and all of sudden he disappeared into the rain

Question 4.
What did the villagers do hearing the suffering of the speaker’s mother?
Answer:
The villagers reached there with lanterns and candles in hand and chanted songs to lessen her pain.

Question 5.
What did they say while reciting?
Answer:
They said that the sins of her previous birth might be burned away tonight, her suffering might decrease the misfortunes of her next birth, the sums of evils might be balanced in this unreal world and the poison might purify her flesh of desire and spirit of ambition

Question 6.
What did the poet’s father do in such a situation?
Answer:
The poet’s father who was a skeptic and nationalist used powder, mixture, herb, and hybrid, and even poured a little paraffin upon her bitten toe and put a match to it.

Question 7.
Did his mother get any relief there?
Answer:
Yes, his mother’ got’, tremendous relief there. She regained her usual health after twenty hours of treatment

Question 8.
What did his mother say after her recovery from the ‘ sting of the Scorpion?
Answer:
His mother said, “Thank God, the scorpion picked on me and spared my children.” The expression speaks volumes of motherly love for children. Mothers wished to invite any kind of problem for -the safety of their children.

Paraphrase: (Stanza -1)
The narrator of the poem recalls that night. His mother was stung by a scorpion that night. There was heavy rain falling outside. The torrential rain forced the scorpion to crawl into the house under a sack of rice and released poison into his mother’s blood by stinging her toe.

Stanza -2
The dangerous tail of the scorpion parted with its harmful poison into the innocent blood of the speaker’s mother and went out into the rain again. This caused severe pain and his mother suffered from its dangerous spell. The peasants assembled., with their lanterns and candles. They uttered the name of God several times to lessen her pain.

Stanza -3
The village farmers came.to his house with lanterns and candles in hand. They formed shadows which were like bigger scorPion on the walls- They seabed for the scorpion in vain. Because it was not found or had stepped into the rain earlier after stinging his mother’s toe.

Stanza -4
The poison moved upward in mother’s blood with the advance in time. The farmers said their mantras so that the poison might remain stagnant, her previous sins might be burned away the very night, her suffering might decrease the misfortune of her next birth, and the sum of evil might be balanced against the sum of good.

Stanza -5
The village fanners continued so that the poison might purify her flesh of desire and the spirit of ambition, They also sat around mother. The mother sat at the center and they surrounded her on the floor.

Stanza – 6
There earned a peace of understanding on each farmer’s face. The house was crowded with more candles, more lanterns, and more neighbors. There were more and more insects that were attracted by the candle and lantern lights. The rain proved heavier and heavier from time to time. Mother twisted her body in pain on a mat spread on the floor.

Stanza – 7
The speaker’s father was a skeptic and nationalist who did not believe in chanting and used powder, mixture, herb, and hybrid. He also poured a little paraffin on the bitten toe and put a match to it.

Stanza – 8-9
The speaker of the poem watched how his father poured a little paraffin into the bitten toe and put a match to it. The flame went on consuming mother’s flesh. It seemed as if a holy man was performing his rites and sacrifice. After twenty hours the poison was arrested. Mother told and thanked God he have made the scorpion to pick her up and spare her children.

Explanations

Explanation – 1
I remember………………… poison flash,
These lines have been taken from Nissim Ezekiel’s poem ‘Night of the Scorpion’. They speak volumes of the scorpion which ventured into the house. Heavy torrential rain forced it to get into the house creeping under a sack of rice, stinging the mother’s toe, and separating its malicious poison. It again risked into the rain outside

Explanation – 2
Of diabolic…………………………. evil one.
These lines have been extracted from Nissim Ezikiel’s masterpiece ‘Night of the Scorpion’. The poet here tells how the rustic villagers indulge in superstitious ideas at the time when the mother is stung by a scorpion. The scorpion after stinging the mother risked into the rain. Peasants followed thick and fast like swarms of flies and chanted the name of God several times so as to lessen and imitate her pain. This stanza tells about the superstitious belief of the village folk who in spite of taking any medicinal remedial measures, resorted to unscientific approaches to stop the poison from rising in her blood.

Explanation- 3
With candles…………….. their tongues.
These lines comprise a part of the poem ‘Night of the Scorpion’ by Nissim Ezikiel who says that the village people poured in the spot where the speaker’s mother was wreathing in pain. They swarmed the place with their lanterns and candles which cast scorpion-like shadows on the mud-baked wall. They left no stone unturned in searching for the scorpion. But all their endeavor ended in smoke. The poisonous creature was not found as it had fled the place after stinging the speaker’s mother.

They clicked their tongues. Nothing was the result. The stanza gives a realistic picture of village life. When someone is in trouble the whole village responds to it. It stands a sharp contrast to the lifestyle of the city-dwellers who are apathetic’ and un-reciprocal to one another’s weal and woe.

Explanation – 4
With every movement………….they said,
These lines occur in the fourth stanza of Nissim Ezekiel’s poem ‘Night of the Scorpion’. They speak about the serious approaches of the village peasants to the superstitious ideas which have claimed a very powerful place in making treatments of snake bites and scorpion stinging. The village fanners have gathered around mother who was suffering the pain of the poison released by the scorpion in her blood. They said that with every movement that the scorpion made his poison moved into mother’s blood. They chanted mantras so that he might sit still without moving an inch so that the sins of her previous birth might be burned away the very night, The stanza is a mockery of the unscientific approaches to the treatment of scorpion stingings restored to by the rustic people.

Explanation – 5
May your suffering………..sum of good,
These lines have been extracted from the poem ‘Night of the Scorpion’ by Nissim Ezikiel, a poet of international repute. These lines are a continuation of the previous stanza, The approaches of the treatment still continue in this stanza also. The rural folk resumed their saying so that her suffering might mitigate the misfortunes of her next birth. Here the poet notes the belief of the village people in the next birth or rebirth. They again went on, so that the sum total of evil might be balanced in the unreal world against the sum of good and the pain gets mitigated and lessened.

Explanation – 6
Become diminished…………in the center.
These lines have been brought from Nissim Ezekiel’s poem ‘Night of the Scorpion’. This part of the poem constitutes the continuity of the previous stanza. The village people went on with their usual chanting so that the poison might purify modifiers flesh of desire and spirit of ambition. They set around on the floor with mother in the center. This part tells about the innocuous approaches of the village people who never allow any ill will or malice towards no one. They are always the well-wishers who never think of any evil.

Explanation – 7
The peace of understanding……………… groaning on a mat.
These lines are taken from Nissim Ezekiel’s poem ‘Night of the Scorpion’ which gives a realistic picture of the approaches of the village mass when some unnecessary event befalls another. The people ate making a serious treatment of scorpion sting. They muster up around mother and go on chanting ’their usual mantras so as to alleviate her pain. There appears a solemn understanding in each face. The number of people increased from time to time. The people crowded the house with candles and lanterns in their hands. They bring in with them a swarm of insects. Rains assume torrential and heavy With the advance of the night. Mother has no other alternative than twist in pains and pangs.

Explanation – 8
My father……………… match to it.
These lines have been extracted from Nissim Ezikiel’s typical poem ‘Night of the Scorpion’. They represent a change in the treatment of the scorpion sting. The speaker’s father is a skeptic and rationalist who does not believe in chanting the name Of God in neutralizing the poison of the scorpion. What they believe in is the scientific method. He, therefore, uses powder, mixture, herb, and hybrid on the stung part. He even pours a little paraffin and puts a match on the bitter toe so as to burn away the poison of the scorpion released into her blood.

Night Of A Scorpion Summary in English

The narrator of the poem recalls the night when his mother was stung by a Scorpion. The scorpion had been driven by the torrential rain outside, which forced it to crawl beneath a sack of rice. The diabolic trail of the scorpion. mixed .its poison with mother’s blood and the scorpion itself risked into the rain again.’ Village farmers followed thick and fast in order to cure the mother of the terrible pain she was undergoing at that time and chanted the name of God a number of times so as to neutralize its poison. Everybody searched for the scorpion with the candles and lantern but could, not discover the scorpion.

The farmers started musing so that the sins of her previous birth would be burned away the night, they went on saying that her suffering might decrease the misfortunes of her next birth, and they also added that her flesh might. get purified by the poison injected by the scorpion. They also surrounded the speaker’s mother at the center. People reached in large numbers with their lanterns and candles in hand. Mother: was still groaning in pain on a mat The speaker’s father who was a skeptic and rationalist tried ta add power, herb, and hybrid mixture to her stung place. He also paced a little paraffin upon the bitten toe and a match to it. After twenty hours of pain and suffering, the poison was tamed and the mother said nothing but one thing“Thank God, the Scorpion picked on me and spared my children.”

Analytical outlines of the poem:

• The narrator of the poem recalls about one night.
• His mother was stung by a Scorpion that night.
• The scorpion had been driven by the torrential rain outside
• It forced it to crawl beneath a sack of rice.
• The diabolic trail of the scorpion mixed ts Poison with the mother s blood.
• The scorpion itself risked into the rain again
• The village farmer followed thick and fast. in order to cure the mother of the terrible pain
• They chanted the name of God a number of times.
• They did this in order to neutralize its position.
• Everybody searched for the scorpion with the candles and lanterns.
• They could not discover the scorpion
• The farmers started musing.
• The sins of her birth would be turned away the very night.
• Her suffering might decrease the misfortunes of her next birth
• They also, that her flash might be purified by the poison injected by the scorpion
• They also surrounded the speaker’s mother at the center.
• People reached large numbers.
• They reached with their lanterns and candles.
• Mother was still groaning in pain on a mat.
• The speaker’s father was a skeptic.
• He was also a rationalist.
• His father tried to add power, herb, and hybrid mixture to her stung place.
• He also poured a little paraffin upon the bitten toe.
• He also put a match to it.
• The poison was tamed after twenty-four hours.
• She suffered from that pain for twenty hours.
• At last, she thanked God.
• She said that the scorpion biting also spared her children.

Odisha State Board CHSE Odisha Class 11 Approaches to English Book 1 Solutions Unit 4 Text A: That Lean, Hungry Look School Textbook Activity Questions and Answers.

CHSE Odisha 11th Class Alternative English Solutions Unit 4 Text A: That Lean, Hungry Look

Activity – 1
Purpose And Attitude And The Text Type

Question 1.
Which of the following described the writer’s attitude to thin people?
(i) impressed
(ii) complementary
(iii) disapproving
(iv) condemning
(v) approving
(vi) noncommittal
Answer:
(iv) condemning.

Question 2.
Which of the following phrases best expresses the writer’s purpose?
(i) to present objective information
(ii) to present both sides of a controversial issue
(iii) to shock the reader with an unconventional point of view
(iv) to persuade the reader that fat people are better than thin people.
(v) to express his dislike of thin people.
Answer:
(iv) to persuade the reader that fat people are better than people.

Question 3.
Which of the following categories of text type would you say the article belongs to?
(i) informative
(ii) imaginative
(iii) expressing an opinion
(iv) descriptive
(v) narrative
Answer:
(iii) expressing an opinion.

Question 4.
What is the general tone of the article?
(i) ironic
(ii) humorous
(iii) matter of fact
(iv) Passionate
(v) serious
Answer:
(iii) matter of fact.

Activity-3
Getting The Main Ideas Of Paragraphs

Match the paragraph in column A with the titles in column B and then say whether a title refers to thin people or fat people.

Answer:

A	B
1.	(vi) dangerous people.
2.	(v) no absolute truth.
3.	(ix) speedy metabolism
4	(vii) relaxed and fun-loving
5.	(xi) seeing all sides
6.	(xii) life is illogical and unfair.
7.	(i) a long list of logical things
8.	(viii) happiness is elusive.
9.	(iv) muddling through rather than saving time.
10.	(x) not enough time for work.
11.	(iii) love of math and morality.
12.	(ii) loving and accepting

Activity 4
Understanding Patterns Of Comparison And Contrast

There are two important ways of developing a comparison and contrast text, namely (i) the block method and the point-by-point method. In the Block method, you single out one basic way in which the two objects are alike or different. For example, if you are comparing two people at work, the introductory paragraph would tell the reader what your article would be about. The first body paragraph of the article would show something about one person’s approach to work, the following body paragraph would focus on the other person’s approach.

And in the concluding paragraph, you would briefly summarise the topic and give a dominant impression about the similarities and/or differences in the two worker’s approaches to their jobs. However, instead of deciding to compare and contrast the two objects one after another, you may decide not to separate the two objects you are discussing. You may then adopt the point-by-point method and treat’ both objects together as you present each point of comparison or contrast. You may have discovered that both of these methods have been employed in Text A.

a) Which patterns of comparison and Contrast does the writer use in paragraphs 2-5 and paragraphs 8-14?
Answer:
Point-by-point method.

b) Which pattern does she use in paragraphs 6,7,11 and 12?
Answer:
Block method.

c) Which of these two patterns do you find more effective and why?
Answer:
Both these patterns are effective in dealing with a problem. However, the point-by-point pattern is more effective because the comparison and contrast will be clear in the treatment and approach in this pattern.

d) Does the writer state the thesis explicitly? If so, where does she state it?
Answer:
The writer states the thesis of this work of art explicitly. It appears in paragraph -1.

e) How does the conclusion support the thesis? Write a few words on the appropriateness or otherwise of the conclusion.
Answer:
The conclusion almost sums up the nature and pursuit of the thin and fat people described in the previous paragraphs. The concluding paragraph is eloquent of the strong contrasts between fat and thin people.

Section – A
The paragraph below is the beginning paragraph of Text-A. Read it quickly and try to guess what Text-A is about.

Ceasar was right. Thin people need watching. I have been watching them for most of my adult life and 1 do not like what I see. When these narrow fellows spring at me, quiver to my toes. Thin people come in all personalities, most of them menacing. You have got your ‘together’ thin person, your mechanical thin person. Your condescending thin person, your efficiency expert thin person. All of them are dangerous.
Now read Text-A, which is adopt?  from an article in news week in the year 197. in order to check whether your prediction made above is right.

That Lean, Hungry Look Summary in English

According to Ceasar, thin people need watching. The writer has been watching such people for most of his adult life and never likes what he sees. He says when these thin fellows spring at him he trembles to his toes. Thin people come in all personalities and most if they are dangerous. Thin people in the first place are not fun. They have always got to be going something. They make others tired. They get speedily little metabolisms that cause them to burtle briskly. Sluggish, inert, easy-going fat people are preferable to thin ones.

Fat people don’t chattel all day long. Thin people turn mean and hard at a young age because they never learn the value of a hot fudge Sunday for easing tension. They are firm and fresh and dull like carrots. Thin people believe in logic, fat people see all sides. Fat people realize that life is illogical and unfair. They know well that God is not in heaven and all is not right with the world. If God was up there, fat people could leave two doughnuts and a big orange drink the time they wanted it.

Thin people have a long list of logical things they are always spouting off to me. They hold up one finger at a time as they reel off these things. They speak slowly as if to a young child. The list is long and full of holes. They also think these 2,000-point plans lead to happiness. Fat people know happiness is elusive at best and even if ey could get the kind of thin people to talk about, they wouldn’t want it. Fat people see that such programs are too dull, too hard, and too off the mark. They are never better than a whole cheesecake.

However, fat people know all about the mystery of life. They get acquainted with the night, luck, and fate, and play them by ears. The main problem with people is that they oppress. Thin people are downers. They like math and morality and reasoned evaluation of the limitations of human beings. They expound prognosis, probe, and prick. Fat people are friendly and cheerful. Fat people will talk continuously, trade quickly, laugh loudly, gyrate, and gossip. They are generous, giving, and gallant. They are gluttonous, goodly, and great.

Analytical outlines:

• According to Ceasar, thin people need to be watched minutely.
• He has been watching such people for most of his adult life.
• He calls them as narrow fellows.
• When they spring at him, he trembles to his toes.
• They appear in all personalities.
• Most of them are dangerous.
• Thin people in the first place are not having fun.
• They have always got to be doing something.
• Give them a coffee break.
• They will job around the block.
• They make others tired.
• They have got a speedily little metabolism.
• It makes them to burtle briskly.

• They have forever been rubbing their bony hands together.
• They have also been eying new problems to tackle.
• But the fat people are sluggish, inert, easy going.
• So, they are preferable to the thin ones.
• Fat people don’t chartle all day long.
• Thin people turn mean and hard at a young age.
• Because they never learn the value of a hot fudge Sunday for casing tension.
• They are firm and fresh and dull like carrots.
• They go straight to the heart of the matter.
• But fat people let things stay all blurry, hazy, and vague.
• They want to race the truth.
• Fat people know there is no truth.
• Thin people believe in logic.
• Fat people see all sides.
• Fat people realize that life is illogical and unfair.
• They know very well that God is not in heaven.
• They consider all is not right with the world.
• If God was up there, fat people could have two doughnuts and a big orange drink any time they wanted it.
• Thin people have a long list of logical things.
• They are always spouting off to him.
• They hold up one finger. at a time as they reel off these things.
• They speak slowly as if to a young child.
• Their list is long and full of holes.
• They think about 2000-point plans.
• They think it must lead them to happiness.
• Fat people know happiness is elusive at best.

• They don’t want as the thin people talk about it.
• To fat people, such programs are too dull, too hard, and too off the mark.
• They are never better than a whole cheesecake.
• Fat people know all about the mystery of life.
• They get acquainted with might, luck, and fate, and playing them by ears.
• But the main problem with the thin men is that they oppress.
• Their good intentions, bony torsos, tight, ships, neat corners, cerebral machinations, and pet solutions loom like dark clouds over the
• loose, comfortable, spread out, soft world of the fat.
• Thin people are downers.
• They like math and morality.
• They also like reasoned evaluation of the limitations of human beings.
• They have their skinny little acts together.
• They expound prognoses, probes, and prick.
• Fat people are convivial that is jovial.
• They even like irregular people.
• They will come up with a good reason.
• Fat people are generous, giving, and gallant.
• They are also gluttonous, goodly, and great.
• They are friendly and cheerful.
• Fat people will gab, giggle, guffa, gyrate, and gossip.
• They have plenty of room to be free and frank.

Meaning of difficult words:

to goof off – to make a trivial mistake.
to burtle – to move around quickly.
sluggish – moving or reacting more slowly than normal.
chartling – bulging out of amusement.
wizened – small and thin and wrinkled.
shrivel led – dried up and bent, became small.
gooey – sticky, soft, and sweet.
not-fudge sonde- a hot and soft creamy light
brown sweet dish made from the ice-cream, fruits, and nuts.
crunchy – firm and fresh.
nebulous – not clear or exact, fainted.
doughnuts – small and cakes.
elusive – difficult to achieve.
muscled – covered the ground with

decaying leaves to improve its quality.
double-fudged – with two layers of chocolate or cream dressing.
cerebral machination – secret and clever plans made by the brain.
rutabagas – a king of roots.
punch line – the last few words of a joke or story.
dovners – a person who stops your
feeling cheerful or happy.
convivial – friendly and cheerful.
gab – talk continuously.
guffaw – laugh loudly.
gyrate – turn around fast in circles.
giggle – moving from side to side with quick short movements.

Odisha State Board CHSE Odisha Class 11 Approaches to English Book 1 Solutions Unit 3 Text A: The Telephone Textbook Activity Questions and Answers.

CHSE Odisha 11th Class Alternative English Solutions Unit 3 Text A: The Telephone

Activity-1
Text-organization

The following sentences have been removed from the passage. Decide which; paragraph each of them will fit in.
a) The telephone’s actual ring- more perhaps, than any other sound in our daily lives, evokes hope, relief, fear, anxiety, and joy according to our expectations.
b) Or perhaps- again not probably- by magnifying and extending irrational personal conflicts based on voice! contact. It has caused wars.
c) It is small and gentle- relying on how voltage and miniature parts- in times of hugeness and violence.

Answer:
(a) The telephone’s actual ringer more perhaps, than any other sound in our t daily lives, evokes hope, relief, fear, anxiety, joy, according to our expectations. (Paragraph-2)
(b) Or perhaps- again not probably- by magnifying and extending irrational personal conflicts based on voice contact. It has caused wars. (Paragraph-1)
(c) It is small and gentle- relying on how voltage and miniature parts- in times of hugeness and violence. (Paragraph-3)

Activity-2

Understanding The Relation Between The Parts Of The Text:
Complete the sentences below to show your understanding! of how the paragraphs in Text-A are related.
a) The passage as a whole deals with
b) The first paragraph decides
c) In the second the writer tells us about
d) And the concluding paragraph

Answer:
a) The passage as a whole deals with telephones and their uses.
b) The first paragraph decides the Introduction based on cricket.
c) In the second the writer tells us about telephone ringing and its role in hallucination.
d) And the concluding paragraph presents a paradoxical or opposite value.

Activity-3
Comprehension

Answer the following questions as briefly as you can:
Question (a).
Brooks mentions both positive and negative effects of the telephones on our lives. Enumerate the positive effects and the negative „ effects separately.
Answer:
The positive effects mentioned in the passage are:
1. It saves lives by getting rapid ward of illness, injury or famine from remote places.
2. By joining with the elevator, it makes possible the multi story residence or office building.
3. It has made the modem city.
4. It brings about a quantum leap in the speed and ease with information moves from place to place.
5. It accelerates the rate of scientific and technological change and growth in industry.
6. It prevents waging war.

The negative of the telephone are the following:
1. It has crippled the ancient art of letter writing.
2. It has made the waging of war chillingly more efficient.
3. It has extended the scope of human conflicts.
4. It involves personal risk.

Question (b).
How does using the telephone involves personal risk?
Answer:
Using telephone involves a tremendous personal risk because it involves exposure for some to be “hung upon” which happen to be the worst among fears. And some others also dream of a ringing phone and wake up with a heart heavily beating.

Question (c).
A paradox is a seeming contra-diction that is some how true. In what sense is the telephone “a thing of paradox”?
Answer:
Telephone involves contradictory things. It has both the brighter and darker aspect – the positive and negative effects. It is, in one sense, a metaphor for the times that helped to create and in another sense it is their polar opposite.

Extra Activity-3 (A)

Question (a).
In what way does telephone act as a source of active and rapid information?
Answer:
Telephone helps to save lives by obtaining rapid message of illness, injury or famine from distant place.

Question (b).
What does it have do with multi story building?
Answer:
Making conneetion with elevators to. make possible the multistorey buildings- residence or office.

Question (c).
How does it accelerate scientific and technological changes in the industry?
Answer:
A quantum leap in speech and ease has been achieved making information more from place to place. It has greatly accelerated the rate of scientific and technological change and growth in the industry.

Question (d).
How does telephone cripple letter writing?
Answer:
Telephone has crippled the ancient art of letter writing. It makes direct contact ‘ with both the parties at both ends. It marks the spirit of writing one’s mind through letters because it is convenient to establish contact easily and directly. The easy going people resort to the telephone and set aside writing letters.

Activity-4
Understanding The Language Functions

The activity is meant to develop your awareness of the final points of Text-A. Go back to the text after reading each question in the Activity and write your answers.

Question (i).
Brooks uses the first person plural “us” in this except instead of speaking either just about himself or about people in general. Why do you think he does this?
Answer:
The first person narrative is a powerful means of communication that includes people in general and the. another himself. He uses this technique to make communication more effective.

Question (ii).
The essay begins with a question. ’ Would a direct statement be more effective as an introduction? Write a brief justification of your as to this question.
Answer:
Beginning an essay or any other writing makes the literary piece more eye-catching and emphatic. A question sentence at the outset marks prominence and attracts the attention of the readers, Any other statement form wouldn’t have acquired the same effect as a question at the beginning of writing.

Question (iii).
How does the first sentence in paragraph 2 serve as a transition between paragraph-I and 2?
Answer:
Transition implies a change from one condition or set of circumstances to another. The first sentence ¡n paragraph-2 which begins with; “But the question remains unanswered” is quite obvious about the change of immediate context of the previous sentences.

Question (iv).
Identify the phases in the passage that explicitly point to the cause-and-effect connections.
Answer:
(a) Elevator to make possible,
(b) Personal risk because it involves exposure.

Question (v).
Brooks ends this brief introduction to the effect of the telephone with a quotation. Do you think this is an effective conclusion ? Explain.
Answer:
Brooks ends this brief introduction to the effect of the telephone with a quotation, r Using such quotations as a conclusion is likely an effective conclusion

Activity-5
(Understanding the writer’s attitude and, purpose)

Question (a).
Which of the following phrases best expresses Ibe writer’s purpose?
i) It presents objective ‘ information.
ii) to decide a situation and present others’ comment on it.
iii) to persuade the readér that the use of the telephone is an unmixed blessing.
iv) to convince the reader of the Importance of the telephone.
v) to present his personal views is the effects of the telephône.
Answer:
(i) to present objective information.

Question (b).
How would you describe the writer’s attitude towards the telephone? Choose from the following list. critical Indifferent admiring prejudiced approving disapproving condemning.
Answer:
The writer’s attitude is “critical”.

Activity-6
Indicators In Discourse/reference

What do the words ¡n’ italics refer to In the’passage?
a) “…………………….. it uns made possible for better or worse …………………… (lines – 4)
b) “……………………. by so doing, it has played a role…….(lines – 9)
c) it involves exposure ………………………” (lines 2-3)
d) ……………….. in another sense the telephone is their olar opposite.” (lines 3-2) “
Answer:
(a) It = the telephone
(b) so doing = writing letters
(c) it = personal risk
(d) their = the times.

Note
Sentences. in a text do not stand in isolation but -are opposite together with what has gone before and what comes after. One of the important ways in which a writer joins all the sentences together. to make which is one coherent text is a reference. Reference means the use of common words like “he”, “she”, 4bIt. ‘this”, ‘that”, “sà” etc. to refer to people things, or terns of information needlessly; the writer will not repeat a name where “he” or she” will do.

Obviously then to find the meaning of reference word (such as “he” or “she”), it is necessary to, look outside the sentence or the part of the sentence in which it occurs. We have her introduced reference as one of the important ways1 whiçh help tie the text together. Latçr we will look at another important device, of text cohesion, namely, the use of discourse-makers.

Activity-7
Writing A Pamphlet

Write a pamphlet, making an appeal to the people to avoid misusing the telephone. You Cad use the following outlines:
– how some people go on gossiping over the. telephone and keep the lines busy.
– the effects of such irresponsible use of the telephone.
– your suggestions regarding how the misuse of the telephone can be avoided.
– benefits of economical use of the telephone to .oneself and the others.

Answer:
It has become a common feature with some people who go on gossiping over telephones. They consider it as a play thing. They forget that telephone is a means of communication. It acts as a medium for exigencies and messages. Our gossiping over phones is just misusing it. One has just to send messages from a distance. This act of gossiping keeps the lines busy and prevents people with an urgent message from communicating. The lines are engaged and busy. Gossiping without any purpose and pursuit poses two problems.

One financial, the other dislocations. The person who gossips unnecessarily invites unwarranted financial burden to himself and the busy lines owing to his gossip brings about dislocation for others to communicate even urgent messages. An awareness among telephone users is the only powerful way of reducing the instinct for making undue gossips over telephone. Every customer has to be aware of the economical use of the telephone which will enable him to make discreet use’of the telephone. The less you talk, the less you pay. One has to decide what to talk and what to leave out.

The Telephone Summary in English

What does this unit contain?
This unit will present the following four texts, each of them related to some aspects of our living in modern times.
Text-A : The Telephone (John Brooks)
Text-B : Saturday Morning Violence (Nonnanrovisor).
Text-C : New Superstitiohi for old (Margaret Mead).
Text-D : Burnout (A Newspaper article)

The aim of this unit is to help you. practice writing pamphlets and dialogues and develop the following sub-skills of reading:
1. Understanding relations between the parts of a reading text.
2. Recognising indicators in discourse.
3. Understanding the writer’s purpose and attitude; and
4. Identifying the structure of a text in respect of cause-and-effect relationships and the development of arguments.

Section – A
Pre-reading Activity:

The telephone has come almost an indispensable part of modern life. Can you think of three positive effects and three negative effects of the telephone on our lives?

positive effects	Negative effects
1	1
2	2
3	3

Now read the following brief excerpt from the book Telephone the First Hundred Years by John Brook and check whether the writer includes your points about the effects of the telephone on our life.

Text-A
By Johe Brooks Summary
The telephone has saved the lives of people from illness or farming from distance. Joining with the elevator, has made possible the multi-story residence, or office building. It has also made the modern, city possible. It has quickened the rate of scientific and technological changes and growth in the industry. But it has handicapped the ancient art of letter writing. It has played a great role in the social, changes of a country. Waging war has become more efficient for this.

It has also extended the scope of human conflicts since it impartially disseminates the useful knowledge of scientists and the babble of bores, the affection of the affectionate and the malice of the malicious. The use of the telephone also values personal risk for it involves exposure. The telephone is our connecting link with society Marshall Meluhan has said that the telephone creates “a king of extrasensory- perception.”

Analytical outlines of the Text:

• The telephone has saved the life of people.
• It saved people from illness.
• It also saved people from famine from distance.
• They are joined by the elevator.
• It has made possible the multistorey residence or building.
• It has also made the modern city possible.
• It has quickened the rate of scientific changes.
• It has quickened the technology. changes.
• It has also quickened the growth of the industry.
• But it has handicapped the ancient art of letter writing.
• It has played a great role in the social changes of a country.
• Waging war has become more efficient for this.
• It has also extended the scope of human conflicts.
• Since it impartially propagates the useful knowledge of scientists.
• It also propagates the babble of bores.
• It also propagates the affection of the affectionate.
• It also propagates the malice of the malicious.
• The use of telephones also values personal risks.
• It values as it involves exposure.
• The telephone is our connecting link with society.
• Marshal McLuhan has said that the telephone creates, “a kind of extra-sensory perception.”

Meaning of difficult words:
remote – separated, indirect, distant, a long way away.
elevator – a lift in a big building to carry people up and down.
multi-story – many-storeyed, high building with a lot of stories.
quantum leap – a very large improvement
ease – comfort, a happy state of affairs.
accelerated – hasten, the progress of, to increase the speed of, quickened.
crippled – handicapped, disabled, unable to do things.
evanescent – disappear, vanish from sight or memory.
nerve-end – connecting link, bridging gap.
paradox – two apparently contrad¬ictory elements made a paradox of they can be reconceived to give a truth.

Odisha State Board CHSE Odisha Class 11 Math Notes Chapter 6 Complex Numbers and Quadratic Equations will enable students to study smartly.

CHSE Odisha 11th Class Math Notes Chapter 6 Complex Numbers and Quadratic Equations

Unit imaginary number ‘i’.
The unit imaginary number i = √-1
i² = -1
i³ = -i
i⁴ = 1
In general (i)⁴ⁿ = 1, (i)⁴ⁿ⁺¹ = i, (i)⁴ⁿ⁺² = -1, and (i)⁴ⁿ⁺³ = -i.
⇒ If a and b are positive real numbers then
√-a × √-b = -√ab
√a × √b = √ab

Complex Number
General form: = z = a +ib

• a = Real part of (z)  = Re (z)
• b = Imaginary part of (z) = I_m(z)
• a + i0 is purely real and 0 + ib is purely imaginary .
• a + ib = c + id iff a = c and b = d

Complex Algebra
(a) Addition of complex numbers
If z₁ = a + ib and z₂ = c + id then z₁ + z₂ = (a + c) + i(b + d)

Properties:

• Addition is commutative: z₁ + z₂ = z₂ + z₁
• Addition is associative: (z₁ + z₂) + z₃ = z₁ + (z₂ + z₃)
• 0 + i0 is the additive identity.
• -z is the additive inverse of z.

(b) Subtraction of complex numbers:
z₁ = a + ib and z₂ = c + id then z₁ – z₂ = (a – c) + i(b – d)

(c) Multiplication of complex numbers:
z₁ = a + ib and z₂ = c + id then z₁z₂ = (ac – bd) + i(bc + ad)

Properties:

• Multiplication is commutative: z₁z₂ = z₂z₁
• Multiplication is associative: z₁(z₂z₃) = z₁z₂(z₃)
• 1 = 1 + i0 is the multiplicative identity.
• If z = a + ib then the inverse of z.
  z^-1 = \(\frac{1}{a+i b}=\frac{a-i b}{(a+i b)(a-i b)}\)
  = \(\frac{a-i b}{a^2+b^2}=\frac{a}{a^2+b^2}-\frac{i b}{a^2+b^2}\)
• Multiplication is distributive over addition. z₁(z₂ + z₃) = z₁z₂ + z₁z₃

Conjugate and modulus of a complex number:
If  z = a + ib the conjugate of z is \(\bar{Z}\) = a – ib.
⇒ We get conjugate by replacing i by (-i) Modulus of z = a + ib is denoted by |z| and |z| = \(\sqrt{a^2+b^2}\)

Properties Of Conjugate:
(i) \((\overline{\bar{z}})\) = z
(ii) z + \(\bar{z}\) = 2 Re (z)
(iii) z – \(\bar{z}\) = 2i m̂ (z)
(iv) z – \(\bar{z}\) ⇔ z is purely real
(v) Conjugate of real number is itself.
(vi) z + \(\bar{z}\) = 0 ⇒ z is purely imaginary.
(vii) z. \(\bar{z}\) = [Re(z)]² + [m̂(z)]²
= a² + b²
= |z|²
(viii) \(\overline{z_1+z_2}=\overline{z_1}+\overline{z_2}\)
(ix) \(\overline{z_1-z_2}=\overline{z_1}-\overline{z_2}\)
(x) \(\overline{z_1z_2}=\overline{z_1}\overline{z_2}\)
(xi) \(\left(\overline{\frac{z_1}{z_2}}\right)=\frac{\overline{z_1}}{\overline{z_2}}\)

Properties of modulus:
(1) Order relations are not defined for complex numbers. i,e,. z₁ > z₂ or z₁ < z₂ has no meaning but |z₁| < |z₂| or |z₁| > |z₂| is meaningful because |z₁| and |z₂| are real numbers.
(2) |z|  = 0 ⇔ z = 0
(3) |z| = |\(\bar{z}\)| = |-z|
(4) |z| ≤ Re (z) ≤ |z| and -|z| ≤ m̂ (z) ≤ |z|
(5) |z₁z₂| = |z₁| |z₂|
(6) \(\left|\frac{z_1}{z_2}\right|=\frac{\left|z_1\right|}{\left|z_2\right|}\)
(7) |z₁ ± z₂|² = |z₁|² + |z₂|² ± 2 Re (z₁\(\bar{z}_2\))
(8) |z₁ + z₂|² = |z₁ – z₂|² = 2(|z₁|² + |z₂|²)
(9) |z₁ + z₂|² ≤ |z₁| + |z₂|

Square Root Of Complex Number:
Let z = a + ib
Let √z = x + iy

If b > 0 then x and y are taken as same sign.
If b < 0 then x and y are of opposite sign.

Representation of a complex number:
We represent a complex number in different forms like
(i) Geometrical form
(ii) Vector form
(iii) Polar form
(iv) Eulerian form or Exponential form

(i) Geometrical form:
Geometrically z = x + iy = (x, y) represents a point in a coordinate plane known as Argand plane or Gaussian plane.

(ii) Vector form:
In vector form a complex number z = x + iy is the vector \(\overrightarrow{\mathrm{OP}}\) where p(x, y) is the point in the cartesian plane.

(iii) Polar form:
A complex number z = x + iy  in polar form can be written as z = r(cos θ + i sin θ) where r = \(\sqrt{x^2+y^2}\) = |z| and θ is called the argument and -π < θ ≤ π. Technique to write z = x + iy in polar form.
Step – 1: Find r = |z| = \(\sqrt{x^2+y^2}\)
Step – 2: Find α = tan^-1 \(\left|\frac{y}{x}\right|\)
Step – 3:
θ = α for x > 0, y > 0
θ = π – α for x > 0, y > 0
θ = -π + α for x > 0, y > 0
θ = -α for x > 0, y > 0
Step – 4: Write z = r(cos θ + i sin θ)

(iv) Eulerian form or Exponential form z = r e^iθ, because e^iθ = cos θ + i sin θ where θ is the argument and r is the modulus if z.

Note:
(1) |z₁ z₂ z₃ ….. z_n| = |z₁||z₂| …. |z_n|
(2) arg (z₁z₂ …. Z_n) = arg (z₁) + arg (z₂) + ….. + arg (z_n)
(3) arg \(\left(\frac{z_1}{z_2}\right)\) = arg (z₁) – arg (z₂)
(4) arg \((\bar{z})\) = -arg (z)

Cube Roots Of Unity:
Cube roots of unity are 1, ω, ω² where ω = \(\frac{-1 \pm i \sqrt{3}}{2}\)

Properties of Cube roots of unity:
(i) Cube roots of unity lie on unit circle |z| = 1
(ii) 1 + ω + ω² = 0
(iii) Cube roots of -1 are -1, -ω, -ω²
(iv) 1 + ωⁿ + ω²ⁿ \(=\left\{\begin{array}{l}
0 \text { if } n \text { is not a multiple of } 3 \\
3 \text { if } n \text { is a multiple of } 3
\end{array}\right.\)
(v) z³ + 1 = (z + 1) (z + ω) (z + ω²)
(vi) -ω and -ω² are roots of z² – z + 1  = 0.

De-moivre’s theorem:
(a) (De-moivre’s theorem for integral index)
(cos θ + i sin θ)ⁿ = cos (nθ) + i sin (nθ)

(b) (De-moivre’s theorem for rational index)
cos (nθ) + i sin (nθ) is one of the values of (cos θ + i sin θ)ⁿ

(c) nth roots of unity
nth roots of unity are 1, α, α², α³ …..α^n-1. where α = e^{i\(\frac{2 \pi}{n}\)} = cos \(\frac{2 \pi}{n}\) + i sin \(\frac{2 \pi}{n}\)

Properties:

• 1 + α + α² ….. + α^n-1 = 0
• 1 + α^p + α^2p + ….. + α^(n-1)p \(= \begin{cases}0 & \text { if } p \text { is not a multiple of } n \\ n & \text { if } p \text { is a multiple of } n\end{cases}\)
• 1. α. α² ….. α^n-1 = (-1)^n-1
• zⁿ – 1 = (z – 1) (z – α) (z – α²) …..(z – α^n-1)

Quadratic Equations:
The general form: ax² + bx + c = 0  …(i)
Solutions of quadratic equation(1) are
x = \(\frac{-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4 a c}}{2 a}\)
D = b² – 4ac is called the discrimination of a quadratic equation.
D > 0 ⇒ The equation has real and distinct roots.
D = 0 ⇒ The equation has real and equal roots.
D < 0 ⇒ The equation has complex roots.

Note:
In a quadratic equation with real coefficients, the complex roots occur in conjugate pairs.

Odisha State Board CHSE Odisha Class 11 Approaches to English Book 1 Solutions Unit 1 Text B: Make me a child again, Just for tonight Textbook Activity Questions and Answers.

CHSE Odisha 11th Class Alternative English Solutions Unit 1 Text B: Make me a child again, Just for tonight

Activity – 5

Getting the Main Idea:
Complete the following sentence in your own words to state the central idea of the above selection :
Adults would learn ________________
if they _________________________
and if they ______________________

Activity – 6

Understanding The Title:
Go back to the text and answer the following questions:
(a) Why does the author want to become a child again?
Answer:
Childhood is the best period of learning. Children learn quicker and better than adults. Adults encounter a large number of problems and difficulties in learning. Hence, the author wants to become a child again.

(b) And why “just for tonight”.
Answer:
The author talks about the learning by the adults in the evening colleges at night. Since it is difficult for adults to learn and children are prone to learn things easily, the author wants to become a child again for tonight.

(c) What, according to Stern, are the points of contrast between the learning of children and that of adults?
Answer:
Children:
(1) Children are fast learners.
(2) Children are fast learners.
(3) They have, less responsibilities in life.
(4) They get delight in the discovery of * new words, ideas etc.
(5) In an unhappy situation, children may quickly acquire the habit of lying.
(6) They provide enthusiastic curiosity to both teachers and parents.
(7) They have not too much demands in study.
Adults:
1) Adults are very slow learners.
2) They are timid or fearful to questions.
3) They have much responsibilities in life.
4) They do not have much delight in the discovery of new words, ideas etc.
5) In an unhappy situation, adults may not quickly acquire the habit of lying.
6) They don’t provide enthusiastic curiosity to both teachers and parents.
7) They have too much demands in study.

Extra Activity – 6(A)

Question 1.
How does the writer justify that childhood is such a difficult time of life?
Answer:
In fact, childhood is held as the difficult time of life, for this reason, there are child-guidance associations, child study clinics, child psychologists, child-centered homes and many other institutions for this purpose.

Question 2.
Why does the author say that adults are handicapped as students?
Answer:
The author is of the view that adults are handicapped as students because they are no longer patient listners. They have also forgotten how to make use of their teachers who can give a ready knowledge of tilings.

Question 3.
What views do the evening college administrators put forth?
Answer:
The evening college administrators are of the opinion that adult experience is a priceless commodity in the classroom for both teacher and students. But experience does not only count. Attitude is equally important.

Question 4.
What is the role of motivation in learning?
Answer:
Motivation is a powerful driving force which propel in learning things. Children easily make use of it. But the adult students do not have that motivation in them.

Activity -7

Usage:
(a) Study how the following expressions have been used in Text-B and guess their meanings. The number of the paragraph in which each of these expressions occur is given against each within square brackets.

(i)	afford to	[2]
(ii)	be wedded to	[5]
(iii)	on the other -hand	[6]
(iv)	by and large	[6]
(v)	be equipped with	[7]
(vi)	take pride in	[11]
(vii)	not only…. but…	[11]

Answer:
(i) afford to – spare or find enough time or money for, run a risk by doing something.
(ii) be wedded to – devoted to, unable to give up.
(iii) on the other hand – on the contrary.
(iv) by and large – on the whole, taking everything into consideration.
(v) be equipped with – supply (a person, oneself, a ship, etc.) (with what is need, for a purpose)
(vi) take pride in – having some pride about somebody or something.
(vii) not only but also – both… and

(b) In the conversation between Meera and Sonali below, fill in the blanks with appropriate forms of the suitable expressions from the above list.

Meera: Hi, Sonali, how are you?
Sonali: Hi, I’m fine, how are you?
Meera: Fine, Sonali, are you coming to the Bollywood concert tonight?
Sonali: I’m sorry, I can’t buy a ticket for the concert. I have not got money enough to pay my mess bills for this month.
Meera: Would you mind sharing my complimentary pass? It will admit me you too.
Sonali: Thank you very much for this, friendly gesture. Do you know who will conduct the opera?
Meera: Oh, yes, Haven’t you heard of Pandit Ravi Shankar? The whole country this great Indian musicians accomplishments.
Sonali: Oh, it would be wonderful then. Will it be a botheration for you to pick me up on your way to the concert?
Meera: Not at all it’ll be a pleasure. See you then.
Sonali: Goodbye, Meera.
Answer:
Meera: Hi, Sonali, how are you?
Sonali: Hi, I’m fine, how are you?
Meera: Fine, Sonali, are you coming to the Bollywood concert tonight?
Sonali: I’m sorry, I can’t afford to buy a ticket for the concert. I haven’t got money enough to pay my mess bills for this month.
Meera: Would you mind sharing my complimentary pass? It will admit not only me but also you too.
Sonali: Thank you very much for this friendly gesture. Do you know who will conduct the opera?
Meera: Oh, yes, Haven’t you heard of Pandit Ravi Shankar? The whole country take pride in this great Indian musician’s accomplishments.
Sonali: Oh, it would be wonderful then. Will it be a botheration for you to pick me up on your way to the concert? Meera: Not at all on the other hand it’ll a pleasure. See you then.
Sonali: Goodbye, Meera.

Extra Activity – 7(A)
(a) Question tags are short questions that are tagged with the statements in order to seek opinion from the listener. However, positive statements take negative tags and negative statements take positive tags.

It is hot now, isn’t it?
He is here, isn’t he?
They reached in time, didn’t they?
We made a plan, didn’t we?
It is not hot now, is it?
You are not my friend, aren’t you?

(b) Negative statements without ‘not’.
None of the boys can do it, can they? He saw no one there, did he?

(c) Negativisers (little, few, hardly, scarcely, rarely, seldom, etc.) Sentences with these items are negative in meaning.
Hence, they take positive tags.
Few boys were present, we aren’t they?
He has little knowledge about the matter, hasn’t he?
He has already any money, has he?
Then scarcely comes here, do they?
My friends rarely make a quarrel, do they?
He seldom speaks English, does he?

(d) Imperatives:
Open the door, will you?
Shut your mouth, will you?
Don’t go there, will you?

(e)’Let’ sentence:
Let’s go, shall we?
Let’s dig a well, shall we?

(f) Subject for nobody, somebody, everybody, we use ‘they’ in tag question.
Nobody phoned, did they?
Somebody helped her, didn’t they?
Everybody can’t do it, can they?

(g) ‘I am’ takes a question tag, aren’t I?
I am innocent, aren’t I?
I am happy, aren’t I?
I am regular, aren’t I?

Discussion of Text-B :
Read the Text-B once again this time slowly and notice the pattern Mr. Stem has followed in presenting his central idea which may be stated as follows :

“Adults would learn faster and more easily if they reacted the way children do, and if they had the same purpose and drive that motivated their own learning when they were children.”

You can use the glossary following activity 6 while reading the text slowly to understand how its parts are related. Before preceding further, you must go through Text- B. If you have finished your second reading of Text-B, you can read the following discussion of its structure.

An Overview of the Structure of Text B:
Paragraph (1-2): Two lines from a poem lead to a discussion of childhood and function as a spring bird to the central idea.

Paragraph (3): One part of the central idea is explicitly stated- “adults in evening classes would learn faster and more easily if they reached’ the way children do.”

Paragraph (4): A transition has been affected through an invitation to the reader to notice the difference between the way children learn and they way adults learn.

Paragraph (5-8): First part of the elaboration of the central theme contrast between children and adults in respect of attitudes and habits. ^

Paragraph (9): The last sentence of paragraph-8, is the form of a question and the answer to that question in paragraph 9 serves as transition to paragraph 10.

Paragraph (10-17): Second part of the. elaboration of the .central idea- “adults, if they wish to learn as effectively as the children do, should have the same purposiveness and drive that motivated learning in childhood.”

Paragraph (18-19): The central idea is restated and then to notice the pattern the author is using in presenting his or her thinking

Learning to grasp the structure of a text as you read is not easy. But with every text you practice on, you will become a little surer, a little better, you can test your ability to grasp the central idea of a text and to understand the relationship between its parts when you come to Text-C in the next section.

Section – C

Pre-reading Activity:
Text-C, which follows, is by Mera Welynski, a freelance writer who attended a small private school in New York City. In confessions of ‘Misspent Youth’ an article published in Newsweek magazine in 1976. She contrasts her progressive education with the basic education of traditional schools.

Add question tags to the following statements :
1. Come my boy.
2. He will be late.
3. He had played well.
4. You aren’t busy now.
5. She was dancing fine.
6. He only can do it.
7. Everybody had it.
8. He cut a tree.
9. Pradeep would do it.
10. I have a pen.
11. Shut the door.
12. Few people can do it.
13. He had a bad experience.
14. A few boys were present.
15. There is a cow.
16. He has a long journey to cover.
17. That is mine.
18. It rains in July.
19. Let’s have picnic.
20. Man is mortal.
21. A cow is a domestic animal.
22. He rarely comes here.
23. Come at once.
24. I am not a poet.
25. Please do it.
26. Stop going there.
27. She made all possible.
28. Read every day.
29. You needn’t do it.
30. The place was isolated.
31. He can’t lift it.
32. She is ten years old.
33. You must do it.
34. Nothing went wrong.
35. He hardly drinks tea.
36. He never drinks coffee.
37. He used to wear a coat.
38. Rana does not play cricket.
39. Sita does the work.
40. You’d like a drink.
Answer:

1. Come my boy, will you?
2. He will be late, won’t he?
3. He had played well, hadn’t he?
4. You aren’t busy now, are you?
5. She was dancing fine, wasn’t she?
6. He only can do it, can he?
7. Everybody had it, hadn’t they?
8. He cut a tree, didn’t he?
9. Pradeep would do it, wouldn’t he?
10. I have a pen, haven’t I.
11. Shut the door, will you?
12. Few people can do it, can they?
13. He had a bad experience, didn’t he?
14. A few boys were present, were they?
15. There is a cow, isn’t there?
16. He has a long journey to cover, doesn’t he?
17. That is mine, isn’t that
18. It rains in July, doesn’t it?
19. Let’s have a picnic, shall we?
20. Man is mortal, isn’t he?
21. A cow is a domestic animal, isn’t it?
22. He rarely comes here, doesn’t he?
23. Come at once, will you?
24. I am not a poet, am I?
25. Please do it, will you?
26. Stop going there, will you?
27. She made all possible, didn’t she?
28. Read every day, will you? ,
29. You needn’t do it, need you?
30. The place was isolated, wasn’t it?
31. He can’t lift it, can he?
32. She is ten years old, isn’t she?
33. You must do it, mustn’t you?
34. Nothing went wrong, did it?
35. He hardly drinks tea, does he?
36. He never drinks coffee, does he?
37. He used to wear a coat, did he?
38. Rana does not play cricket, does he?
39. Sita does the work, doesn’t he?
40. You’d like a drink, wouldn’t you?

Make me a child again, Just for tonight Summary in English

“Backward turn backward,
O Time, in your flight.
Make me a child again just for
tonight.”

The above lines appear in Elizabeth Akers Allen’s poem “Rock Me to Sleep, Mother”. Childhood is held at the high esteem as a pivotal period. We have child guidance associations, child study clinics, child psychologists and child centered homes. These can make childhood endurable for infants. Actually, it is true that children usually learn faster than adults. But on the other hand, adults are very careful learners. Of course, they are more frightful than youngsters about asking questions. Adults are also shrouded with responsibilities. This obstructs him from learning. Adults have also a lot of bad habits unconsciously. Some adults have almost a compulsion to be ‘experts’ on every subject and others accept what that ‘experts’ say. Adults are also handicapped as students by the fact that they do not prove patient listeners.

According to evening college administrators, the adults experience in a priceless commodity in the classroom for both teachers and students. But experience is not all. Attitude is as important as experience. on each subject, Mature people need the enthusiasm and self-consciousness of the child in order to capitalize fully in the classroom on their life experience.

However, motivation is another fundamental and essential thing that takes place in learning with children. Children have a natural and built in motivation. They went to communicate and to be communicated with. They want mastery and power. They also want to understand and to be understood. But purpose does not operate in such an automatic and instinctive way wi the adult students in evening classes. If an adult student does not speak English well and he wants a good job, then he should attend an evening college to improve his standard. This can be the actual way for him to fulfill his aim of life in a better and greater way.

Outlines of the passage :

• Childhood is held at the high esteem as a pivotal period.
• We have child guidance associations, child study clinics, child psychologists and child centered homes.
• These can make childhood endurable for infants.
• Actually, children usually learn faster than adults.
• But, adults are very careful learners.
• Again, they are more fearful than youngsters about asking questions.
• Adults are full of responsibilities.
• This disturbs his learning.
• Of course, adults have some bad habits.
• Some adults are compelled to be expert on each subject,
• Adults are not patient listeners.
• According to evening college administrator, the adults experience in a priced commodity.
• But experience is not all in all.
• Attitude is as important as experience.
• Mature people need the enthusiasm and self-consciousness of their child.
• Motivation is another, fundamental and essential thing in learning with children.
• Children have a natural and built-in motivation.
• They want to communicate and to be communicated.
• They want mastery and power.
• They also want to understand and to be understood.
• The purpose operates differently in case of adult students.
• An adult student who does not speak English well and wants a job should attend evening college.
• It can fulfill his aim of life.

Words meaning :

flight – noun form of fly, here passage of time.
modem standards – something used as a test or measure for qualities or for the required degree of, excellence.
inexcusably – unpardonably, that what can’t be excused.
sentimental – emotional, having to do with feeling.
inaccurate – inexact, improper, inadequate.
carefree – free from, affliction, anxiety, bondage.
solemn – grave, serious-looking,
extreme – highest degree, absolute, entire.
clinics – places were pathological tests and diagnosis of diseases are made.
psychologists – experts in psychology,
people having high proficiency in mental functioning, here of children.
endurable – lasts for a long time, lasting.
infants – children,
soap opera – a television drama serial about the happenings in the lives of a group of people.
scarcely – rarely, hardly, seldom.
Late Victorians – English people living towards the end of Queen Victoria’s reign. That is, in the last quarter of the 19th century, who had strict moral attitudes as well as sentimentality.
faster – quicker, speedier,
adults – grown-ups, mature men and women.
defense mechanism- the way of defending oneself to escape imminent problems.
contemporaries – belonging to the same time.
delight in – taking pleasure in.
curiosity – anxious to learn, inquisitiveness.
enormous – a large number of, plenty of, great deal of.
grasp – understand, comprehend
cautious – needful, careful, meticulous.
timid – coward, afraid, not boold enough
ridiculous – absurd, grotesque, unnatural, mocking.
handicapped – weak and disabled, disadvantaged.
shrugged off – dismiss something as not deserving attention as something trivial.
unconsciously – without awareness or sense.
equipped with – well furnished with, full of.
skeptical – inclined not to believe, in the habit of questioning the truth of claims, statements, etc. opposed to stoic.
oneself – consciousness- not worried about what other people think of oneself.
spontaneity – noun form of ‘spontaneous’, automatic flow.
subtle – delicate, soft, tender.
persuade – to, induce by argument, to convince.
omnipresent – the act of being present everywhere
mockery – jest, joke, ridicule, absurdity, etc.
obvious – clear, terse, succinct.
dissuade – opposed to persuade, distract.
egg-head – a person who is very intelligent and is interested only in theories and books.
cliche – an expression used so often.

Odisha State Board CHSE Odisha Class 11 Approaches to English Book 1 Solutions Unit 1 Text A: Memories of Crossgates School Textbook Activity Questions and Answers.

CHSE Odisha 11th Class Alternative English Solutions Unit 1 Text A: Memories of Crossgates School

Activity – 1

Comprehension:
Look at the passage again and put a tick mark against the correct alternative.
(a) The writer describes the pleasure of school life enjoyed during.
(i) Winter,
(ii) Summer,
(iii) Summer and Winter.
Answer:
Summer (✓)

(b) The phrase ‘taking fee walk’ in line 15 is given within question marks to indicate.
(i) that the writer does not approve of the master’s talking a walk.
(ii) that the mortar was actually keeping watch over the boys on fee pretext of taking the walk.
(iii) fee mortar had gone on a visit to the town on the pretex of taking a walk.
Answer:
That the mortar was actually keeping watch over the boys on fee pretext of taking the walks. (✓)

Activity – 2

Comprehension:
Answer the following question briefly as you can.
(a) At what time of the day did the writer bath in fee sea?
Answer:
In the afternoon of the day, the writer took bath in fee sea.

(b) Did he enjoy swimming among the chalk boulders or have a sense suffering for it? What words in the text tell you the’ answer?
Answer:
The author had a pleasant pain for his swimming among the’ chalk boulder. lt was painful because he was full of cuts when he was back at home. The words – “bathed dangerously” and “covered; with cuts” tell us this answer in the text.

(c) What was the boys’ “special treat” in mid-summer evening?
Answer:
The boy had a “special treat” in mid-summer evenings when they were not driven off to hed arid were allowed to go about the grounds in the long twilight terminating in a drive into the swimming bath at about 9 O’clock.

(d) Who were Orwell’s favourite authors in his boyhood ?”
Answer:
Ian Hay, Thackeray, Kipling and H.GWells were Orwell’s favourite authors in his boyhood.

(e) What are the different kinds of caterpillars ‘ that’ Orwell mentions in the passage?
Answer:
The silky green and purple puss moth, the ghostly green popular lewk, the private hawk are the kinds of caterpillars that Orwell mentions in the passage.

(f) What does Orwell say about his “hopeless love affair”?
Answer:
Orwell had a proud love for cricket till he was eighteen. But he was not cricket till he was eighteen. But he was not at all well at the game. Therefore it was “hopeless Ipye affair- a relentless love without any yield.

(g) What does Orwell learn from his experiences at Crossgates School?
Answer:
Orwell learnt a lot of sweet and bitter experiences at Crossgates school. The childhood days were the formative years when children enjoy moving about scot-free. This experience helps to build up the conviction that the things one wants ‘most are always unattainable.

Activity – 3

Writing:
Write in points, the six pleasures of school life that the writer mentions in the passage.
Answer:
The six pleasures of school life that the writer mentions in the passage are:
(1) Bathing dangerously among the chalk boulder in the sea in the returning afternoon.
(2) Deriving special pleasure from mid summer evenings to move about the grounds in the long twilight and taking a dive into the swimming bath at about 9 O’clock.
(3) Walking early on summer morning and having an hour’s undisturbed reading of his favourite authors like Ian Hary, Thackery, Kipling and H.G Wells.
(4) Devoting to cricket hopelessly because he was not good at this game in spite of his sincere efforts.
(5) Keeping caterpillars and dragging a beg-net along the bottom the dew ponds to collect biological specimens.
(6) Escaping long enough from the master with the illicitly purchased of tiny insects.

Activity – 4

Grammar:
Subject-verb Agreement in ’There’ constructions will you please give Text-A another look to find out how many ‘there….’ sentences are used by the author? Notice that sentence-2 in the text-Sentences on summer afternoons there were wonderful expeditions across the Downs…. is a ‘there…’ sentence. Write the sentence number as well as the ‘there…’ sentence you find in the text.
Answer:
Sentence-3: And there were still more wonderful midsummer evening when as a special treat, we were not driven off to bed as usual but allowed to wander about the grounds in the long twilight, ending up with a plunge into the swimming bath at about 9 O’clock.

Sentence-4: There was the joy of walking early on summer morning and getting in an hour’s undisturbed reading (Ian Hay, Thackery, Kipling and H.G. Wells were, the favourite authors of my boyhood) in the sunlight sleeping dormitory.

Sentence-5: There was also cricket which I was no good act but with which 1 conducted a sort of hopeless love affair upto the age of about eighteen.

Sentence-6: And there was the pleasure of keeping caterpillars-the silky iron and purple puss-math, the ghostly green popular park, the privet hawk, large as one’s third finger specimens of which could be illicitly purchased for sixpence at a shop in the town-and when one could escape long enough from the morter who was “taking the walk” share was the excitement of dredging the dew-ponds on the Downs for enormous newts with orange coloured Bellies.

You can very well notice that the verb ‘there’- sentences is either was or more. As you known the verb in an English sentence agrees with the subject in number and person.

Example:
(1) He was ready.
(2) They were ready,
(3) I am reading English grammar today.
(4) She is writing a letter to his friend now.

The subject ‘he’ in sentence-1 is singular in number and so, a singular verb ‘was’ has been used- The sentence would. be wrong if a ‘plural’ verb, such as were, was used. Also notice that verb ‘were’ in sentence two agrees with the subject they in respect of plurality.

The verbs in sentences (3) and (4), do not differ in number i.e., both of them have singular subjects, but they do differ in person. ‘I’ is a first person pronoun, while ‘she’ is a third-person pronoun. So the difference in the verb ‘am’ and ‘is’ are according to them.

In sentences 1-4, the subject comes before the verb. In these sentences, however,’ there’ comes in the subject position while the real subject (which is .also. known as the postponed subject), occurs after the verb. You can, now look back at your list of these sentences above and notice that the verb after there is ‘was’ or ‘were’ according to whether the postponed subject is singular or plural. Thus, in sentence 2 of the text-Sometimes on summer afternoon, there were wonderful expeditions…. the verb ‘were’ is plural because the postponed subject wonderful expeditions is plural. In sentence 4 of the text-there was the Joy of walking easily the singular verb was agrees with the singular postponed subject the Joy of walking early.

Now fill in each blank in the following letter with an appropriate verb from the following list:
is required
is take
do not object
are
attract
is wanted.

Dated the 11th June 2001
To
The Chairperson.
Bhimpur Municipality,
Bhimpur.
Madam,
I would like to express my concern at the growing number of so-called lottery centres in our town.
There__________ several reasons why I object to these places. Firstly, die operators under the false promise Of an easy fortune, _________quite substantial amounts of money away from the poor people who ate least able to afford it. Secondly, While I __________ to gambling in principle, I feel that this particular kind, where no skill __________ on the part of the betting person, is especially Offensive and deadening to the intellect. Thirdly, these establishments often ____________ undesirable individuals into the neighbourhood. Lastly, die physical appearance of these places is must unattractive, and there __________ almost always a lot of noise around. I hope that the Municipal Council will consider very carefully whether this mindless kind of gambling is what _______________ in this traditionally peaceful town.

Yours faithfully,
Smita Samantray.

Answer:
To
The Chairperson
Bhimpur Municipality,
Bhimpur.
Madam,
I would like to express my concern at the growing number of so-called lottery centres in our town.
There are several reasons why I object to these places. Firstly, the operators under the false promise of an easy fortune, take quite substantial amounts of money away from the poor people who are least able to afford it. Secondly, while I do not object to gambling in principle, I feel that this particular kind, where no skill is required in the part of the betting person, is especially offensive and deadening to the intellect. Thirdly, these establishments often attract undersirable individuals into the neighbourhood. Lastly, the physical appearance of these places is must unattractive, and there is almost always a lot of noise around. I hope that the Municipal Council will consider very carefully whether this mindless kind of gambling is what is wanted in this traditionally peaceful town.

Yours faithfully,
Smita Samantray.

Section- A
Pre-reading Activity:
Before reading the following passage which presents George Orwell’s recollection of his school days, write three main things which you remember about your school days.
(1)
(2)
(3)
Now read Text A below quickly to see what Orwell remembers about his school days.

Section- B
Pre-reading Activity:
The text you are going to read in this section has the title “Make Me a Child Again. Just for Tonight”. Almost every one of us has fond memories of childhood, and therefore wants to become a child again. Can you write below three possible reasons why people want to become children again?
(1)
(2)
(3)

Pre-reading Tips:
In this section, you will read a passage or learning. Your primary aim here is to grasp the central meaning of the passage. To do this rapidly and accurately, you have to adopt aggressive reading. In other words, you must get into the habit of speeding through words and you must try to focus on the broad structure, of the passage while reading.

Try to recognise the author’s pattern of thinking and to realise how the detail serve to highlight the main ideas, but don’t let these details slow you down Skim or Skip whenever you feel, you can safely do so, that is, where, you are reasonably sure that you know what the next sentence or paragraph will contain. In order to detect the author’s pattern of thinking and to understand what, in essence,the author is trying to say, you don’t have to read every single word or every single sentence. By thinking along with the author’s pattern of thinking, you can predict what is likely to come next, and whether it is important, less important or completely unimportant to the central meaning of the text. Now cruise through Text-B with conscious pressure on your speed, with an awareness that you must go first. As average learner on the Alternative English course needs 4 to 6 minutes to complete a quick reading of the passage with the aim of grasping the central idea of the piece.

Extra Activity – 4(A)

A. Make sentences of your own using the following:
horde
expeditions
bath
wander
plunge
ghostly
specimen
illicit
escape
excitement

Answer:
horde – He encountered a horde of critical situations.
expeditions – We pray God before starting our expeditions.
wander – The mad man wanders the whole Say.
bath – We should have our baths before praying God.
plunge – We plunge into a river before swimming.
ghostly – The terrorists made the atmosphere ghostly.
specimen – The bank requires specimen signature before opening an account.
illicit – It is illicit to keep gun without licence.
escape – The criminal made all possible efforts to escape punishment
excitement – One cant act well without excitement.

B. Supply appropriate prepositions in the blanks:

(a) We go by the river __________ summer evenings.
(b) He came back from the forest covered __________ cuts.
(c) We were not driven ___________ to bed as used but allowed to wander __________ the grounds _______the long twilight ending up with a plunge ___________ the swimming bath ____________ 9 O’clock.
(d) There was also cricket which I was no good ‘ but ___________ which I conducted a sort of hopeless love affair ____________ the a sort of hopeless love affair ___________ the age of about eighteen.
(e) This business __________ being out ___________ a walk coming across something _________ fascinating interest and then being dragged __________ it by a yell ___________the mortar, like a dog jerked onwards ___________ die leash, is an important feature ___________ school life.

Answer:
(a) We go by the river on summer evening.
(b) He came back from the forest covered with cuts.
(c) We were not driven off to bed as usual. but allowed to wander about the grounds In the long twilight ending up with a plunge into the swimming bath at about 9 O’clock.
(d) There was also cricket which 1 was no good at but with which I conducted a sort of hopeless love affairs upto the age of about eighteen.
(e) This business of being out for a week coming across something of fascinating interest and then being dogged away from it by a yell from the mortar like a dog jerked onwards by the leash. It is an important feature of school life.

C. Use the following :
cover
finger
treat
purchase
ground
escape
end
master
conduct
walk
Answer:
cover :
(N) The cover of this book is attractive.
(V) They covered the idol with flowers.
treat:
(N) Going on a horse’s back gives a special treat.
(V) They treated their guests with respect.
ground:
(N) Your argument has no ground.
(V) This building grounds on a solid structure.
end:
(N) The play has a tragic end.
(V) The play ends with a tragic note.
finger:
(N) Our fingers are not equal.
(V) He fingers well in typing.
purchase:
(N) Business centres round.
(V) He purchased a car yesterday.
escape:
(N) He had no escape from such a crime.
(V) At last, the criminal escaped from the prison.
Master:
(N) The master scolded his servant for his mistake.
(V) He has mastered English language well.

Memories of Crossgates School Summary in English

However, George Orwell had memories at Crossgates School. They were both sweet and bitter memories. He, very often, had beautiful expeditions to different spots. These were Downs, a vast grassy land, and Beachy Head an attractive spot for summer days. He also took baths in Beachy Head. Sometimes, he returned home with injuries. They also had special pleasure from the midsummer evenings. He also very often wander about in the twilight. He also derived great pleasure by taking a dive into the swimming bath. He had also great mirth of getting up early on summer mornings and also reading Ian Hay. Thacjceran, Kipling and H.G. Wells works. Actually, he was not very good at cricket, but this did not imply that he did not love it. On the other hand, he loved cricket upto eighteen. He also took tremendous joy in the forbidden churphase of tiny insects and ran ‘away from the mortar who was “taking the walk”. He had pleasant experiences in bringing up bag nets to collect newts with dredges. He was also bringing up other biological specimens.

Outlines of the Eassay :

• George Or well had memories at Crossgates School.
• They were both sweet and bitter memories.
• He, very often, had beautiful expeditions to different spots.
• These were Downs, a vast grassy land and Beachy Head, an attractive spot for summer days.
• He also took baths in Beachy Head.
• Sometimes, he returned home with injuries.
• He also had special pleasure from the mid-summer evening.
• He also very often wandered about in the twilight.
• He also derived great pleasure by diving into the summer bath.
• He had also great joy of getting up early on summer mornings.
• He derived great joy by reading land Hay, Thackery, Kipling and H.G Wells works.
• However, he was not very good at cricket.
• This did not imply that he did not love it.
• Actually, he loved cricket upto eighteen.
• He also took tremendous joy in the forbidden purchase of tiny insects.
• He ran away from the mortar who was ‘taking the walk’.
• He had pleasant experiences in bringing up beg nets to collect newts with dredges.
• He was also bringing up other biological specimens.

Word Meaning:
horde – a lot of, a great number, crowd, a group of.
expeditions – journeys, movement, wanderings.
the Downs – vast- grassy land.
treat (n) – joy, pleasure, pleasant experience.
wander – roam, move, travel, go about.
twilight – faint half-light after sunset or before sunrise.
walking – getting up from bed, go without sleep.
illicitly – illegally, unlawfully.
purchased – bought, had or exchanged for money.
escape – run away from free sight of
excitement – stirring up, provocation.
dredging – dragging a bag net along the bottom to collect biological specimens.
depends – small ponds.
enormous – large, huge, very big in size.
newts – small aquatic animals wife a moist skin, short legs a long tail.
yell – sound, shout or noise produces from a.distance.
unattainable – which, can not be obtained easily.