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ENGLISH PLUS
CORE
TEACHERS' HANDBOOK
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CONTENTS
SECTION A: READING SECTION - C: LITERATURE TEXTBOOK &
♦ Factual Passages Assignments – 1 to 5 ............................. 3 – 4 EXTENDED READING TEXTS
♦ Discursive Passages Assignments – 1 to 5 ........................ 4 – 5 Hornbill — Prose .......................................................... 35 – 46
♦ Literary Passages Assignments – 1 to 5 ............................ 5 – 6 1. The Portrait of a Lady ..................................................... 35
♦ Note-Making & Summarising Assignments – 1 to 5 ........ 6 – 8 2. “We’re Not Afraid to Die... if We Can All Be Together” .38
3. Discovering Tut : the Saga Continues ............................. 40
SECTION - B: WRITING SKILLS & GRAMMAR 4. The Ailing Plant : the Green Movement’s Role .............. 43
Part - I : Writing Skills .................................................... 9 – 30 5. The Browning Version .................................................... 44
♦ Integrated Exercise for Practice ..................................... 9 – 24 Hornbill — Poetry ......................................................... 46 – 48
• Short Composition........................................................... 9 1. A Photograph ................................................................... 46
I. Notice .......................................................................... 9 2. The Voice of the Rain ...................................................... 47
II. Poster.......................................................................... 10 3. Childhood......................................................................... 47
III. Advertisement............................................................ 12 4. Father to Son ................................................................... 48
• Long Composition.......................................................... 13 Snapshots ....................................................................... 49 – 60
I. Business Letters/Placing Orders/Complaints ........... 13
1. The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse ..................... 49
II. Letters to Editor.......................................................... 14
2. The Address ..................................................................... 50
III. Applications for Job................................................... 16
3. Ranga’s Marriage ............................................................ 52
IV. Letters to the School/College Authorities.................. 18
4. Albert Einstein at School ................................................ 54
• Very Long Composition................................................. 19
5. Mother’s Day................................................................... 55
I. Article........................................................................ 19
6. Birth ................................................................................ 57
II. Speech........................................................................ 20
7. The Tale of Melon City ................................................... 58
III. Report......................................................................... 22
IV. Narrative..................................................................... 23 Extended Reading Texts ............................................... 60 – 62
♦ Assignments – 1 to 10 ................................................... 24 – 30 1. The Canterville Ghost ..................................................... 60
2. Up From Slavery ............................................................. 61
Part - II : Grammar ....................................................... 31 – 35
♦ Integrated Exercise for Practice ................................... 31 – 33 Unit Assignments ........................................................... 62 – 68
1. Determiners ..................................................................... 31 Unit Assignment – 1 ............................................................ 62
2. Tenses .............................................................................. 31 Unit Assignment – 2 ............................................................ 64
3. Clauses ............................................................................ 32 Unit Assignment – 3 ............................................................ 65
4. Modals ............................................................................. 32 Unit Assignment – 4 ............................................................ 67
5. Sentence Transformation.................................................. 33
6. Sentence Re-Ordering...................................................... 33 SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT QUESTION PAPERS
7. Error Correction............................................................... 33 ♦ Summative Assessment Paper – 1 ................................ 68 – 72
♦ Assignments – 1 to 10 ................................................... 33 – 35 ♦ Summative Assessment Paper – 2 ................................ 72 – 75
Note: Please note this Teachers’ Handbook contains the Solutions/ Hints for the Assignments/ Worksheets/ Unit Assignments
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SECTION - A: READING
Factual Passages
ASSIGNMENT – 1 2. For the housewife, life in the kitchen of old times
A. 1. (d) they emit their own light at night was an ordeal. The kitchen was like a dungeon
2. (c) Different which kept her captive with chains. Compared to
3. (b) predatory the dungeon, modern kitchen is a place of recreation
4. (a) abdominal organs where coooking is a fun. So life in a kitchen is
5. (d) cold but efficient in terms of energy enjoyable and simple.
6. (c) interesting/attractive 3. With the availability of gadgets, ingredients for
B. 1. The females of the predatory fireflies called photuris delicacies and ‘helping hands’, working women find
versicolon mimic the flash pattern of males of other it simple to try out the most complicated of recipes.
species. They give a single flash and attract the 4. The food processor is the most popular among the
photinus males to their mouth. ladies because it saves her the manual labour of
2. The names other than fireflies are: cutting, chopping and dicing vegetables or grinding
(i) lightning bugs, and the other ingredients.
(ii) glow-worms C. 1. Govern 2. Passe
3. They flash light from their abdominal organs. A ASSIGNMENT – 4
chemical known as luciferin produces the light.
A. 1. (b) Reputation of being the nerve centre and back-
Their ‘fire’ is cold but efficient in terms of energy.
office to the world, and its production centre.
4. Glow-worms emit an intense green light when
they are disturbed. This is meant to frighten off the 2. (c) Because of its young population.
predators. 3. (a) a great propensity to consume
C. 1. Generate 2. Predators 4. (a) Growing labour pool and rising consumption
demand.
ASSIGNMENT – 2 5. (b) 0.2%
A. 1. (c) militant group
6. (c) restrictive
2. (b) retired US General
B. 1. An abundant supply of capital is a prerequisite of
3. (b) Haidar al-Abadi
employment creation. In India the foreign investors
4. (a) Syria
face too many bureaucratic hurdles.
5. (c) Middle East
2. Our labour laws basically hinder employment
6. (b) stopping
growth. They are ostensibly designed to protect the
B. 1. The passage discusses the rise of ISIS militant group
labour. As a result, the growth of jobs is discouraged.
in Iraq and Syria.
3. We can ensure that India and its youth attain their
2. The problem has gained substantially in Iraq.
full potential with the help of business pursuits and
3. The goal of the Iraqi Prime Minister was to build a
support given to educational charities.
stable government.
4. The majority of the city’s population fled away 4. If we raise spending in infrastructure and speed up
because the jihadies continued to attack them. privatization, we can address the growing gaps in
C. 1. Substantial 2. Envoy infrastructure.
C. 1. Ostensibly 2. Impede
ASSIGNMENT – 3
A. 1. (b) it has every utensil behind closed doors ASSIGNMENT – 5
2. (c) it takes care of fumes quietly A. 1. (d) one of the most accomplished archers of his
3. (d) an ordeal times.
4. (a) gadgets and ingredients for delicacies are easily 2. (d) always yielded the desired results.
available 3. (b) India’s top batsman.
5. (c) the food processor 4. (c) He was unable to tolerate pressure and politics
6. (d) irritable within.
B. 1. The sleek looking hi-tech electrical chimney takes 5. (d) 210
care of fumes as well as noise. 6. (b) Six
3
B. 1. Dravid’s admirers and fans called him “The Wall : with the devils within. He also thought over all his
Upright and Unbreakable”. previous big games played here.
2. Dravid’s intelligence, charm and good-looking face 4. Like Arjuna, Dravid is also known for unflinching
could have made him prone to vices. But he never focus and unyielding dedication for his skill. The
tried to look beyond the eyes. similar traits have also marked out Dravid for
3. On the eve of the match he used to spend around 30 greatness at the young age.
minutes by the pitch. Here he often tried to discover C. 1. Unravel
the mysteries of the pitch and make friendship 2. Pinnacle
Discursive Passages
ASSIGNMENT – 1 real wrecker of young nerves. According to him
A. 1. (b) Peace and unity examination should have no place in a civilized
2. (c) by believing in themselves. world.
3. (c) spiritual C. 1. Obsolete
4. (c) the integration of mind, body and soul 2. Frantically
5. (d) Mahatma Gandhi ASSIGNMENT – 3
6. (c) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan A. 1. (c) it keeps one healthy
B. 1. The great men spread the message of peace and love. 2. (a) it protects us from diseases
Their arguments inspired the freedom fighters. As 3. (d) we should keep cuts and abrasions covered
a result, they became ardent admirers of India, her 4. (b) it is acidic in nature
people and culture.
5. (c) seeking proper immunisation
2. He presented Indian wisdom as a spiritually
6. (d) poisonous
advanced before the British. He also desired India
B. 1. In case the cut or abrasions is left open, the disease
to believe in herself. Hence, he tried to break the
producing micro-organisms penetrate the body and
British fetters on Indian consciousness.
cause disease. So we should keep cuts and abrasions
3. He dedicated the book, titled ‘Religion and Society’
covered.
to Indian women. In this book, he honoured their
2. Gastric juice is produced by our intestinal tract. It
character.
is acidic in nature. It kills all extraneous organisms
4. He says that India has produced millions of women
which enter our body through food.
who have never found fame. But their daily
existence has helped civilise the race. Their warmth 3. Defensive mechanism is the power of human body
of heart, self-sacrificing zeal, unassuming loyalty to fight against various disease producing agents.
and strength are the glories of this ancient race. 4. We can increase our defensive mechanism by
C. 1. Immortality seeking proper immunisation.
2. Unassuming B. 1. Secrete
2. Toxic
ASSIGNMENT – 2
A. 1. (d) he carried a cane in his hand. ASSIGNMENT – 4
2. (c) a flick of cane on the body. A. 1. (d) The old man had a family.
3. (d) it can be used for other purpose also 2. (d) A genuine person.
4. (b) become more refined 3. (a) the charcoal fire
5. (d) they have to bid for the limited seats 4. (d) Crookedly
6. (d) Out of date 5. (b) Politely
B. 1. The foot-rule has replaced the cane because it can 6. (d) In the rickshaw coolies’ shed.
injure without leaving a mark. B. 1. The old man sold his peanuts in the Landour bazaar.
2. As one progresses to higher classes, the tools of 2. During winter, he slept in the rickshaw coolies’ shed.
torment become more refined. 3. The small boys and the patrons of the cinemas
3. The month of ‘June’ is a state of suffering for bought his peanuts the most.
parents and children because they have to appear 4. The demands for peanuts were the most on cold
for admissions. winter evenings or misty monsoon days.
4. The writer is opposed to examination system. He C. 1. Hunched
calls it the culmination of all sadistic impulses and 2. Immense
Literary Passages
ASSIGNMENT – 1 4. The poem is all about the social condition of
A. 1. (b) eating raw fish and its juice England.
2. (c) they provide vitamin C C. 1. Scourge 2. Tempered
3. (d) he wanted to exist like a shipwrecked sailor ASSIGNMENT – 3
4. (c) he used it as a pointed oar A. 1. (d) a typical land labourer
5. (d) he was trying to rescue his air-filled cushion 2. (a) he carries a huge burden on his shoulders
from sea water.
3. (b) he works along with an ox
6. (c) the soft substance between the skin and bones
4. (c) is a freak of nature
of animal or human bodies
5. (c) to beware of the rebellions
B. 1. Dr Bombard wanted to avoid using the sealed
fishing equipment because he wanted to exist like 6. (d) alliteration
a shipwrecked sailor. B. 1. The poet asks the power of the world to set the things
2. Dr Bombard bent his knife and tied it to the end of right which have been ignored for centuries.
the oar because he wanted to use it as a pointed oar. 2. The poet wants to say that disparity in society
3. Dr Bombard would have drowned because he was must end. Everyone should have an equal right
trying to rescue his air-filled cushion from sea water. to live.
4. Sharks could have attacked and wounded Dr 3. The emptiness of ages in his face signifies the
Bombard. The sword fish could have cut the rubber sufferings he has faced and it also signifies how
raft to pieces very quickly with its vicious sword. deprived he has been of the basic facilities of life.
That would have been the end of the experiment. 4. The silence of the centuries signifies that the
C. 1. Dinghy 2. Flesh labourers have accepted their suffering as a curse
of their fate.
ASSIGNMENT – 2 C. 1. Censure 2. Immemorial
A. 1. (c) a powerful presentation of the working classes
2. (a) they exploit and bring them down ASSIGNMENT – 4
3. (b) a metaphor A. 1. (d) huge tracts of jungles
4. (c) they live off the labour of others 2. (c) they cling to their primitive ways of life
5. (d) they are deprived of the fruit of their labour 3. (a) tribals
6. (a) the top outside floor of a ship 4. (b) shells in their ear lobes and septums
B. 1. The poem conveys that there is great disparity in 5. (d) they use clubs to crack heads
society. 6. (a) to take rest
2. Because they are deprived of every basic facility of B. 1. The native tribals of Brazil inhabit the forbidden
life. zones which are prohibited to outsiders. They
3. It means the people of England must come to their are ignorant about the outside world. These
senses and realise the poor plight of the depressed tribes often indulge in violent warfare among
classes. themselves.
Section - A: Reading 5
2. Jumi and Jemi belonged to Matis tribe. Their faces 4. (d) work daily
were tattooed. They had adorned themselves with 5. (c) valuable lessons
shells in their ear lobes and septums. 6. (d) Dedicative
3. The Korubu tribals often suffer from malaria. The B. 1. As per the poet, death is not the ultimate goal. Life
other danger, especially for the children, is in the does not end with death.
form of huge anaconda–a large American snake that 2. By working diligently, we can make our lives noble
crushes its victims to death before eating them. and elevated. We can also reach heights. After our
4. The Korubu are called head bashers because they death, our noble deeds may encourage others.
use clubs to crack heads. They prefer the club to the
3. The poet compares this world to a battlefield and a
bow and arrows.
temporary camp for troops. The human beings are
C. 1. Maloca 2. Massive compared with troops.
ASSIGNMENT – 5 4. The poet compares a dejected person with a forlorn
A. 1. (d) spends all his time in sleeping. and shipwrecked brother. Both of them need
2. (c) to make our mind prepared for any fate. encouragement.
3. (d) None of these. C. 1. Mournful 2. Forlorn
Section - A: Reading 7
and man-made causes. Large scale deforestation by dioxide and ultraviolet rays. Titanium dioxide absorbs
timber mafia and inappropriate cropping patterns cause energy from UV band and reacts with water vapours
depletion of precious top soil. Cultivation of potatoes to produce oxygen molecules which break organic
and peas leads to loss of fertile soil while paddy crops matter into carbon dioxide and trace elements. The
cause seepage of water and break the interlocking discovery was made in 1969 in Tokyo University and
system of rocks. Administrative inaction, neglect of tested in Ako central hospital. Adam Hellar of Texas
laws and faulty policies also cause landslide disasters. University claims that glass coated with Titanium
The cultivators should be educated to conserve soil and dioxide removed finger prints in two hours. Self
moisture. Traditional mud and timber houses are safer. cleaning tiles called ‘Neo clean’ are marketed by
Using wire mesh to bind exposed hillside can mitigate Japan’s Toto Corp.
disasters.
ASSIGNMENT – 5
ASSIGNMENT – 4 A. I. Title: Earthquake
A. I. Title: Self Cleaning Materials II. Notes:
II. Notes: 1. Defn. – tremor/shak’g of grnd.
1. Self clg. mats.
2. Types of E’quake
(a) clean dirt, stains
(a) Gentle – unrecog’d
(b) eliminate foul odour & dang. bacteria
(b) Suff. pron’d – gentle alarm
2. Self clg. tiles — pple. of wk.
(c) Severe — eno. dest’n
(a) UV rays → Ti O2
3. Signs of Occurrence
3. Spl. props. of Ti O2
(a) Trembl’g — 1 or more severe shocks- trembl’g
(a) TiO2 makes paint / tooth paste white
(b) Various Noises
(b) ability to break down H2O into H2 and O2
(i) howl’g of storm
(c) abs. energy from UV band + reacts with H2O
vapours → prod. O2 → brk. org. matter → CO2 (ii) growl’g of thunder
+ trace elements (iii) clank’g / clash’g of iron chains
4. Discovery Testing & Research (iv) rumbl’g of heavy wagon on road
(a) dis. — Akira Fujishima (Tokyo Univ.) - 1969 (c) Range — thro’ grd, sea, air – heard at distance
(b) Testg. — Ako Central Hospl. (d) Some e’quakes silent
(c) Adam Heller (Texas Univ.) — TiO2 coated glass 4. Changes in Earth’s Surface
— removed finger prints in 2 hrs. (a) Landslips and cracks - drainage alt’d
5. Marketing (b) E’quake + sea waves - rocks & sand swept inland
(a) Tiles called ‘Neo clean’ (c) Perm’t elev’ns/ depr’ns
(b) Jap. Toto Corp. 5. Origin
Key to Abbreviations (a) mount. region
clg. — cleaning (b) sea
mats. — materials (c) volcanoes
spl. — special 6. Causes
Jap. — Japanese (a) Volcanic action in mount.
univ. — university
(b) Sea water entg. heated rocks
dang. — dangerous
abs. — absorb (c) Explo’n of expanding vapour
prod. — produce (d) Collapse of under grd. hollows
brk. — break (e) Snap’g of strata
org. — organic 7. Occurrence — cold months/winter
B. Summary 8. Most Dest. E’quakes
Self cleaning smart materials clean off dirt and (i) 1908 — Straits of Messina altered
stains besides eliminating foul odours and dangerous (ii) 1925 — Japan - Upheaval - Towns dest’d -
bacteria because of the interaction between titanium thousands kill’d
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3 : Childhood
DIAGNOSTIC TEST – 1 between their words and deeds. They talked of
Reference to Context (Very Short Answer Questions) love and advised others to love, but they never
acted lovingly.
1. (i) The speaker noticed a wide gulf between what
(ii) When the poet understood the hypocrisy of
adults appeared to be and what they actually were adults, he felt that the innocence of his childhood
in real life. There was apparent contradiction has gone to home untraceable place.
4 : Father to Son
DIAGNOSTIC TEST – 1 The father wants the young man to stick to home turf.
Reference to Context (Very Short Answer Questions) The son, now a young man, seeks fresh avenues and
lives in a world of his own. The father finds it hard to
1. (i) Father is in reflective mood.
adjust to the growing changes.
(ii) They behave and speak like strangers as they don’t
3. Because he cannot live without his son.
understand each other.
(iii) The father has been unable to understand what his DIAGNOSTIC TEST – 2
son loves to do. He is not in a position to advise Reference to Context (Very Short Answer Questions)
him as there is hardly any intimacy between them. 1. (i) The above stanza reveals the lack of understanding.
They speak like strangers, otherwise there is (ii) Father does not know anything about his son
silence around them. The son has his own dreams because there is no communication between them.
and plans which he does not appreciate. They speak like strangers otherwise there is silence
2. (i) Father wants his son to return back home. This around them.
show the love and care of father. (iii) The father is trying to build up a relationship with
(ii) The father expects his son to return penniless. his son from the beginning.
(iii) The father is ready to see his prodigal son because 2. (i) The child is designed as his father.
he wants his son to return back home. (ii) The nature of the father is authoritarian.
Short Answer Questions (iii) Alliteration.
1. Actually, the father-son relationship is non-functional. Short Answer Questions
The father does not understand the aspirations, longings 1. The father is not able to rebuild a cordial relationship
or cravings of the son. They speak like strangers. Their with his son due to lack of understanding and commu-
exchanges, if any, are just formal. Otherwise, silence nication.
surrounds them. 2. He wants his son to return back home. He wants to
2. His lack of understanding on the part of the older forgive him if the son also returns an empty hand.
generation (here, father) is at the root of the problem. 3. They long to forgive each other.
2 : The Address
DIAGNOSTIC TEST – 1 Long Answer Questions
Short Answer Questions 1. The human predicament that follows war is amply
1. Mrs. S was narrator’s mother. In the war in Holland, illustrated through the experience of the narrator.
their house was destroyed. All her belongings were The war had caused many physical difficulties as
lost. The narrator rendered homeless and had to move well as emotional sufferings to her. She had lost her
to another city. dear mother. She went to 46, Marconi Street to see
2. No, we don’t approve. She had taken the things with her mother’s valuable possessions. How greedy and
the promise that she will return them after the war. Now callous human beings can become is exemplified by
she had gone back on her words. the behaviour of Mrs Dorling who refused to recognise
the narrator. The presence of her mother’s possessions
3. The second visit of the narrator to 46, Marconi Street
in strange atmosphere pained her. Now these valuables
was different from the first one in one respect. She was
had lost all their importance for her as they had been
led to the living room, where she could see and touch
separated from her mother. She could get no solace or
some of the things she had wanted so eagerly to see.
comfort from them.
The touch and sight of familiar things aroused memory
of her former life. These objects had now lost their real 2. Mrs. S’s daughter is the nararator in the story. She
value for her since they were severed from their own leaves a very favourable impression on us about her
lives and stored in strange circumstances. She resolved emotional and intellectual qualities. We find her an
to forget these objects, and their past and move on. This intelligent but devoted daughter. She loves and respects
is clear from her decision to forget the address. her mother.