Unit 1 EARLY YEARS

sec A PROBLEM SOLVING

I Extracts:
1. I’ve nothing here to show you, Miss, I did it in my head.
a.Why did jack have nothing to show the teacher?
Jack had nothing to show the teacher because he claimed that he had solved
the sum in his head.
2. I found a way to get Miss Clark to work it out instead.
a.What was the easy way that jack found to solve the sum?
Jack found a way to get miss Clarke to work out the sum for him by giving her
the wrong answer.
3. I think I’ve got the answer, Miss, The answer’s forty-one. The answer’s
nothing like it, Jack, just show me what you’ve done.
a. How did jack get the answer?
Jack got the answer by solving it mentally.
b. How did the teacher want jack to get the answer?
The teacher wanted jack to solve the sum by using abacus.
4. The next day Jack was talking with his dad and with his mum, “so, jack”, they
said, did you find out the answer to that sum?
a. What was jack talking about to his dad and mum?
Jack was talking about the sum that the teacher had given him to solve.
II Answer the following:
1.Jack’s parents knew that he had difficulty in solving a sum. Why do you think
they did not solve the sum?
Jack’s parents did not help him because once he solved the sum by himself, he
would be able to register in his mind and learn.
SEC B Goose Chase
I Extracts
1.‘The next few days, the four of them discusses plans in secret.
a. Who does the four of them refer to ?
The four of them refers to Bina, Nishi, Valerie and Vinita
b. What plans did they discuss?
They discussed to steal the four geese and hide them.
c. Why did they discuss the plans in secret?
They discussed their plans in secret so that no one would know about their
plans.

2. Waddling sedately towards her were four adorable geese named after
famous explorers.
a. What were the names of the geese
The names of the geese were Amundsen, Captain cook, Columbus and Marco
Polo.
b. Who were they named after?
They were named after famous explorers.

3.Sister steele, the warden, noticed her, what is this? She asked Bina, where is
your Blazer?
a. What excuse did bina give for wearing an oversized blazer to school?
Bina said that the lady upstairs had thrown some water over the balcony and
wet her blazer. Hence her mother advised her to wear the oversized blazer.

4.Whatever gave you girls the idea we were going to kill and eat them.
Certainly not.
a. What did sister steele tell the girls about the geese to comfort them?
Sister steele said that those geese belonged to the girls to play and to look
after and not for slaughtering

II Answer the following:

1.What happened when the girls tried to capture the geese?

Bina caught Marco polo and tossed him inside her overcoat. He struggled to
free himself and stuck out conspicuously
Nishi gripped Amundsen tightly
As Valerie and Vinita whirled around the other ducks, Columbus and captain
cook were cackling loudly and they fled to safer pastures

2. Do you think the girls were right in their plans to steal the geese?
Yes, the plan was to steal the geese because their intention was good
Sec C: THE TURNING POINT
I extracts:
1. It was he who sowed the seeds of a vision in my life. He was a very good
teacher and all of us loved to attend his class.

a. Whom did he refer to?

He refers to shri siva subramaniyam Iyer Dr.kalam’s teacher who taught
him in class V
b.Why did the students love to attend his class?
Students loved to attend his class because he was concerned about their
understanding of concepts and taught them real life examples.
2. For me, this incident was not
a.What was the turning point in Dr.Kalam’s life?
The evening on the seashore of Rameswaram that he spent with his
teacher became the turning point in his life
3. That evening the whole class was on the beach.
a.How did the teacher explain a birds flight?
The teacher siva Subramani Iyer drew the attention to the seagulls flying
in a marvelous formation. He made the children look at the birds wings,
how they flapped to generate lift and how they twisted their tails for
changing the direction.
b.What did the students observe?
They observed the aspects of the principles of flight and understood the
dynamics of a bird’s flight with the practical example.
c.What was kalam’s decision?
Kalam decided to study the concept of flight.

II Answer the following:

1.Why did the teacher take the whole class to the seashore? Did it help
them?
The teacher drew a diagram of a bird in flight and explained how it
creates lift. He also explained how it changes direction while flying .
 For twenty five minutes he lectured the class on topics such as lift, drag
and how the birds fly in formations of ten, twenty or thirty

When the teacher came to know that the students did not understand
his lecture on flights, he decided to take them to the seashore to explain
the principles of flight using a practical example.
2.What subjects did kalam study to obtain his goal in life? What was his goal?
When he went to college, he took up physics and then went on to study
engineering at the madras institute of technology. There he took up
aeronautical engineering. He became a rocket engineer, an aerospace
engineer, and a technologist.