tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76648432420450214622024-03-16T11:52:54.148-07:00ssc.english143.inThe complete material for class 10 English for Telagana and AndrapradeshHARINATH VEMULAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12906104310758497718noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664843242045021462.post-29232742320247444742020-05-29T00:02:00.003-07:002020-05-29T00:22:41.608-07:00Grammar:: Wit and Humour:: Unit-II The Dear Departed and The Brave Potter<div style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://ssc.english143.in/p/unit-2-reading-b-dear-departed.html" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="51" data-original-width="90" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZuoBd4J5G9g/XsZhDHncpII/AAAAAAAAUso/2izZy1FR7_8-w9pti0La1wtz75lXOZJEACK4BGAsYHg/images.png" /></a></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-left: 20pt; text-indent: -19.85pt;"><b><span style="color: #fc0011; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 125%;">I. Read the following sentences from the play and notice the
underlined words.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 2.35pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -19.55pt;">1.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -19.55pt;">She'll
come fast <u>enough</u> after her share of what our father has left.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 20pt; text-indent: -19.55pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;">2.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;">Mrs.
Slater doesn't have <u>enough</u> money to buy the bureau.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;">In both
the sentences 'enough' is underlined. 'Enough' means 'sufficient'.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 132%; margin: 0in 6pt 0in 20pt; text-indent: 16.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 132%;">In a sentence , 'enough' is used after adjectives, adverbs or verbs as
an adverb, and before nouns as a determiner.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-left: 20pt; text-indent: -19.55pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="color: #fc0011; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 125%;">A.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="color: #fc0011; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 125%;">Now decide whether
'enough' in the following sentences is used as an 'adjective' or an 'adverb'.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 20pt; text-indent: -19.55pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">1.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">This house is not <i>big enough</i> for me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 20pt; text-indent: -19.55pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">2.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">We didn't leave <i>early enough</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 20pt; text-indent: -19.55pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">3.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">I was not <i>trained enough</i> for the game.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 20pt; text-indent: -19.55pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">4.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">Is there <i>enough room</i> for me?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 20pt; text-indent: -19.55pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">5.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">I do not have <i>enough clothes</i> for my journey.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 7.6pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"> </span><b style="text-indent: -19.55pt;"><span style="color: #fc0011; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 126%;">B.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="text-indent: -19.55pt;"><span style="color: #fc0011; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 126%;">Complete the
following sentences using 'enough' / 'not enough' and one of the words given in
the list below.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 6.5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"> </span><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;">fast strong time</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;"> </span><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;">sweet</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;"> </span><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;">money old</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;"> </span><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;">warm</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;"> </span><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;">beds</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;"> </span><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;">hard water</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 20pt; text-indent: -19.55pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">1.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">Harish wants to be a great
wrestler but he is ___________________________ .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 20pt; text-indent: -19.55pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">2.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">I want to sit and watch T.V. but
I just don't have _____________________ .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 20pt; text-indent: -19.55pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">3.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">He tried to win the race but he
came third as he was not ________________ .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 20pt; text-indent: -19.55pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">4.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">This bath is freezing. The water
is ________________________________ .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 20pt; text-indent: -19.55pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">5.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">We had to sleep on the floor as
there were ________________________ .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 20pt; text-indent: -19.55pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">6.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">There is ________________ to make
a cup of tea! What is wrong with the pipes?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 20pt; text-indent: -19.55pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">7.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">If Sujatha does not have
___________________, I can lend her.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 19.45pt; text-indent: -19.45pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">9.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">Vasavi is not
_____________________ to become a member of this club. She must be at least 18
years of age to join. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 19.45pt; text-indent: -19.45pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">10.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">Is this coffee ________________ for you? Would you like some more sugar?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 19.45pt; text-indent: -19.45pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">11.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">Do you think he has studied _____________________ to pass the entrance
exam?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><b><u><font color="#7b1fa2" size="4"> Watch the video lesson to find the complete lesson below</font></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="405" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CHCmnyqKdao" width="720"></iframe><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b><u><font color="#7b1fa2" size="4"><br /></font></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b><u>
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<iframe frameborder="0" height="500" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdo1k0BPcH2OHhGzNbYycMVR4zyufznoYTW0Ls4LMYbTTTdkw/viewform?embedded=true" width="100%">Loading…</iframe>HARINATH VEMULAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12906104310758497718noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664843242045021462.post-32942377933592020282020-05-21T03:56:00.006-07:002020-05-21T04:24:25.404-07:00Learn Vocabulary and Take Test:: The Dear Departed 1 and 2<div style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://ssc.english143.in/p/unit-2-reading-b-dear-departed.html" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="51" data-original-width="90" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZuoBd4J5G9g/XsZhDHncpII/AAAAAAAAUso/2izZy1FR7_8-w9pti0La1wtz75lXOZJEACK4BGAsYHg/images.png" /></a></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 29pt;"><b><span style="color: #fc0011; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16pt;">I. Compound Adjectives<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.3pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fc0011; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Read the following sentences from your text and notice the
underlined words.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.95pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -19.45pt;">1.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -19.45pt;">Henry and
Mrs. Slater stagger in with a pretty, <u>old-fashioned</u> bureau.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.3pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -19.45pt;">2.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -19.45pt;">Mrs.
Slater rose briskly at length in a <u>business-like</u> tone.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.3pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -19.45pt;">3.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -19.45pt;">His
bright eyes twinkle under his heavy, <u>reddish-gray</u> eye brows.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -19.45pt;">4.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -19.45pt;">I’ll not
be quiet. Oh, I call it a <u>double-faced</u> behaviour.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.35pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><o:p> <span> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">The underlined words in the above
four sentences are ‘compound adjectives’ in hyphenated form. A compound
adjective is an adjective that comprises more than one word. Hyphens are used
to link the words together to show that they constitute one adjective.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 5.55pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #fc0011; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 125%;">Make compound adjectives choosing one word from list ‘A’ and
another word from list ‘B’ and fill in the blanks with them.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.4pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<th> List ‘A’ </th>
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<td> clear </td>
<td> last </td>
<td> eg. clear-sighted </td>
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<td> new </td>
<td> sunk </td>
<td></td>
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<td> cold </td>
<td> hair </td>
<td></td>
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<td> four </td>
<td> blood </td>
<td></td>
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<td> curly </td>
<td> day </td>
<td></td>
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<td> well </td>
<td> star </td>
<td></td>
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<td> half </td>
<td> read </td>
<td></td>
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<td> five </td>
<td> lay </td>
<td></td>
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<td> peacock </td>
<td> blue </td>
<td></td>
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<td> long </td>
<td> sight </td>
<td></td>
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<br /><br /></div><div><b><font size="4"><u><i>Go through the meanings and take the test:</i></u></font></b></div><div><b><font size="4"><u><i><br /></i></u></font></b></div><div><b><font face="georgia" size="4"><font color="#b51200">Clear-sighted</font> : <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">thinking clearly and sensibly</span></font></b></div><div><b><font face="georgia" size="4"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></font></b></div><div><b><font face="georgia" size="4"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#b51200">New-laid</font></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> : </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">(of an egg) recently laid</span></font></b></div><div><b><font face="georgia" size="4"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></font></b></div><div><b><font face="georgia" size="4"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#b51200">Cold-blooded</font></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> : </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">without emotion or pity; deliberately cruel or callous</span></font></b></div><div><b><font face="georgia" size="4"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></font></b></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b><font face="georgia" size="4"><font color="#b51200">Four-day</font><font color="#222222"> : a period of four days time</font></font></b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b><font face="georgia" size="4"><br /></font></b></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><font color="#b51200">Curly-hair</font><font color="#222222"> : having hair which is curly and twisting</font></b></span></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><br /></b></span></font></div><div><b><font face="georgia" size="4"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><font color="#b51200">Well-read</font><font color="#222222"> : </font></span></font><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">having a lot of knowledge from reading widely; knowledgeable</span></font></b></div><div><b><font face="georgia" size="4"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></font></b></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><font color="#b51200">Half-sunk</font><font color="#222222"> : damaged and not in a working condition</font></b></span></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><br /></b></span></font></div><div><b><font face="georgia" size="4"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><font color="#b51200">Five-star</font><font color="#222222"> : </font></span></font><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">having five stars in a grading system in which this denotes the highest standard</span></font></b></div><div><b><font face="georgia" size="4"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></font></b></div><div><b><font face="georgia" size="4"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#b51200">Peacock-blue</font></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> : </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a greenish-blue colour like that of a peacock's neck</span></font></b></div><div><b><font face="georgia" size="4"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></font></b></div><div><b><font face="georgia" size="4"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#b51200">Long-lasting</font></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> : </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">enduring or having endured for a long period of time</span></font></b></div><div><b><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></font></b></div>
<iframe frameborder="0" height="520" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScMgfxwTji3Z5Jw04nH_6heDwZ-BadRsx6a1LPRYLTYwgeS_Q/viewform?embedded=true" width="100%">Loading…</iframe>HARINATH VEMULAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12906104310758497718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664843242045021462.post-53288100669443912052020-05-18T22:51:00.005-07:002020-05-18T22:56:35.963-07:00Summary:: The Brave Potter<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://ssc.english143.in/p/unit-2-reading-c-brave-potter.html" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="70" data-original-width="208" height="68" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BUTBsFK2mu8/XraGIIhJDEI/AAAAAAAAT2U/i0fnFYRIsI8_mJVZNSjhRpl5mUV_O5GmQCK4BGAsYHg/w200-h68/download.jpg" width="200" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">The Brave Potter<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">(Luck made him General of the Army)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></o:p><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">It is a folk tale that gives a picture of how an ordinary
potter became famous and General of the King’s army.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The narrator narrates two incidents happened simultaneously
and later connects them to lead the story forward.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">One day after a hard day work a potter arrived home and drank
more palm wine to get rid of the tiredness. Soon there was a heavy rainfall and
he wanted to fasten his donkey under the stable. But the donkey ran away
leaving the chains to the tree. The potter went to the forest in search of his
donkey and wanted to punish it when he found it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Meanwhile in the forest a tiger which was old and ran across
the forest for food and tired went to a hut. It crawled under the thatched roof
and settled at the door as it was raining. When a woman’s voice screamed inside
saying it would better to meet a tiger than to meet a leak.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The tiger mistook the word leak as a dangerous creature and
afraid of thinking it might be more dangerous. Soon the tiger fell asleep.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">When the potter reached the hut, he mistook the tiger as his
donkey. He kicked hard scolding the tiger. The suddenly woken up tiger thought
that it might be the leak and started to do as the potter ordered. The potter
rode the tiger home and tied it under the tree where usually he ties his
donkey.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">You may guess that in the morning the people found the tiger
tied and praised the otter as brave potter. But poor potter didn’t understand
how hid donkey became a tiger.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Few years later war broke out between potter’s country and
much stronger enemy. The king with the help of a minister in his court made the
brave potter General of his army.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The potter wanted to learn riding a horse in the
morning.<span> </span>But to his surprise when he was
tied to the horse with some ropes by his wife the horse galloped towards the
enemy’s camp. To let loose from the horse the potter caught a tender tree but
it was uprooted to his hands. Watching this the sentry of the enemy’s camp
shouted to alert the army, “Run away the Tiger General uprooted a tree in one
hand and coming to us. Save your lives.” Immediately the king in the camp wrote
an apology letter leaving in the tent fled away.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Thus an ordinary potter became the Brave Potter by luck.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>HARINATH VEMULAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12906104310758497718noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664843242045021462.post-89351124519138378182020-05-18T22:43:00.005-07:002020-05-19T05:23:19.429-07:00The Brave Potter (Read and Listen to the text)<div class="Section1">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 1pt; text-align: right;"><a href="https://ssc.english143.in/p/unit-2-reading-c-brave-potter.html" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="70" data-original-width="208" height="68" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BUTBsFK2mu8/XraGIIhJDEI/AAAAAAAAT2U/i0fnFYRIsI8_mJVZNSjhRpl5mUV_O5GmQCK4BGAsYHg/w200-h68/download.jpg" width="200" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 1pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #004f20; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><font size="4">The Brave Potter</font></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 1pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><font size="4">Listen to the story part-1 here</font></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><font size="4"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ih7FtPe7l-0/XsNvpUjSsvI/AAAAAAAAUok/hejLh_RoMpg_1RTl23J7mCjuvE6eJXxKgCK4BGAsYHg/hand%2Bmusic%2Bcopy.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="50%" data-original-width="50%" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ih7FtPe7l-0/XsNvpUjSsvI/AAAAAAAAUok/hejLh_RoMpg_1RTl23J7mCjuvE6eJXxKgCK4BGAsYHg/d/hand%2Bmusic%2Bcopy.png" /></a></font></b></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 17.4pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span><i style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Marguerite
Siek has chosen a very well-known Indian folktale for retelling in English.
Children and adults alike are fond of folktales, which are often amusing and
sometimes instructive.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 1pt 6pt 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">It was dark. Thick black clouds
covered the evening sky. The thunder roared and the strong wind shook the
branches and leaves of the trees in the forest. Pit. . . pat . . . pit, drops
of rain fell. Then the lightning flashed and split the black sky with its
blinding light. Soon it was raining heavily.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 1pt 6pt 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">An old tiger ran through the rain
looking for shelter. He was wet and cold and his cave was far away. While
hurrying to his shelter he saw an old hut. With a sigh of relief the tiger
crawled under the thatched roof and lay down by the door. Except for the sound
of the rain all was quiet. Before he could nod off, however, he heard something
heavy being dragged inside the hut. This was followed by the voice of a woman.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 1pt 6pt 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">'Oh, how terrible this leak is!' she
complained. 'How terrible! I would rather meet a tiger in the forest than have
this leak in my house!'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 1pt 6pt 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">'A leak?' the tiger thought. 'What
is a leak? It must be very dangerous and strong or the woman would not be more
frightened of the leak than of me. Am I not rightly called the king of the
forest? Aren't they all afraid of me? I wonder what a leak looks like . . . ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 1pt 6pt 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Soon afterwards the tired tiger fell
asleep. He was suddenly awakened by an angry voice shouting in his ear. He felt
heavy blows fall upon his head and shoulders. 'You horrible beast!' a voice
screamed angrily. 'How dare you run away? How dare you make me walk about in
the middle of the night trying to find you! Be careful, one of these days I'll
kill you! Now, go home!' The old tiger shivered. 'This must be the leak who has
come out of the hut. I'd better do as he says or he will kill me.'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 1pt 6pt 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">So the tiger allowed himself to be
bound around the neck with a thick rope. The mysterious creature then climbed
onto the tiger's back and pulled at the rope. 'Come on, head for home!' shouted
the voice. The tiger felt a sharp kick on his side. The tiger was terrified and
he ran through the dark forest. The creature pulled hard on the rope to tell
him which way to go. At the same time it scolded, cursed and kicked the poor
tiger. Soon they stopped in front of a small hut on the edge of the thick
forest. The creature climbed down from the tiger's back and bound him with an
iron chain to a nearby tree. Then he went inside the hut. The tiger could not
free himself from the chain; so he had to spend a miserable night under the
tree. Who was this creature who was able to capture such a large and dangerous
tiger? Let's find out.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 1pt 6pt 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">On the afternoon of that day, a
potter had arrived home after a hard day's work. He was tired and thirsty. He
had asked his wife for some palm-wine. The more he drank, the better he felt.
When he had drunk all the wine he no longer felt tired. When the storm began
the potter suddenly remembered that he had left his donkey tied under a tree.
He rushed out of his hut to take the animal into the stable. You can imagine
his anger when he discovered that the donkey was not there anymore -- the only
thing left was its chain!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 1pt 6pt 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">'My stupid donkey must have run off
into the forest,' he grumbled. 'When I catch him I'll give him a good beating! <a name="page36"></a>The potter walked through the wet forest. When it became dark
he often stumbled over roots and fallen branches. With each step the potter
felt angrier and angrier with his donkey.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">'When
I catch him, I'll tie him up under the tree all night,' he muttered to himself.
Hours later, the potter reached the old woman's hut. There he saw an animal sleeping
in front of the door.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">'There he is!' he shouted. 'There he is, the stupid animal!'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">The
drunken potter did not notice the difference between the donkey and a tiger. He
kicked and beat the sleeping tiger. He then jumped onto the frightened animal's
back, rode it home, and then tied it up with the iron chain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Next
morning the villagers who passed the potter's house looked in amazement at the
tiger tied to the tree. Soon the news spread throughout the village that the
potter had caught a tiger and tied it to a tree in his yard. All the villagers
praised his courage. They also thanked him because the tiger had eaten many of
their goats and buffaloes. They had tried to catch him for many years but had
failed. Of course, the potter said that he had done nothing of the sort. He
said that he had only brought his donkey home. He did not understand how a
donkey could change into a tiger! When he saw the tiger, he fainted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Nobody,
however, believed the potter's story. The villagers even praised him for being
modest. Soon the potter became famous. Everybody who met him called him the
brave potter. The simple potter himself never understood why.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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few years later war broke out between the potter's country and a much stronger
neighbour. The king immediately gathered a large army. But he realized that it
was not strong enough to save his country from defeat. He needed a hero to lead
his army. Where could he find such a brave man? The king hurriedly called his
ministers together and asked their advice. One of the ministers remembered the
story of the brave potter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">'Your
Majesty,' the minister said, 'I know someone who can lead our army.' The king
immediately sent a messenger to the potter's house. When the potter realized
that he had been made General of the Army, he became frightened. The king had
ordered him<a name="page37"></a> to go to the palace the next day. How could he,
a poor ignorant potter, become the General of the Army? He had never carried a
sword, nor had he ever ridden a horse.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">'Oh,
I shall die because of that stupid donkey,' groaned the potter to his wife. 'He
has only brought us trouble.'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">The
next day he went with his wife to the capital. The king was pleased to see him
and ordered the potter to lead the army into battle the next day. The enemy
were not far from the gates of the city. A splendid house had been prepared for
the potter and his wife. The horse which would carry him into battle was ready
in the stable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">That
night the potter could not sleep. He was nervous and worried because he did not
know how to ride a horse.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">'If
I fall off, everybody will laugh at me,' he thought. 'I will get up very early
tomorrow and practice riding the horse.' At dawn the potter woke up his wife
and they went to the stable. They saw the beautiful brown horse ready for its
new master. 'Oh, how tall he is!' sighed the potter. 'I shall never be able to
climb onto his back.'<a name="page38"></a> ‘Put this bench beside him’, said his
wife, ‘and use it as a step.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Even
with the help of the bench the potter had much difficulty climbing onto the
horse's back. When he was finally seated, he found that the saddle was very
slippery. 'Please tie my feet to the stirrups, dear wife,' said the potter,
'otherwise I shall certainly fall off.' His wife found some rope and bound her
husband's feet tightly to the stirrups. She then passed the rope underneath the
horse and tied the two stirrups together. She also passed a length of rope
around the potter's waist and tied him to the saddle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">'Now
please tie my hands to his neck,' said the potter. Meanwhile the big brown
horse was impatiently pawing his hooves on the ground. When the potter's wife
tried to pass another rope around its neck, the horse suddenly jumped free. It
galloped out of the stable with the potter hanging like a sack of rice on its
back. Only the ropes kept him from crashing to the ground. The potter held
tightly to the horse's neck and prayed to all the gods to save his life. After
galloping through the quiet streets, the horse crashed through the city gates
and raced across the open fields. It leapt over fences and streams, and began
to head for the enemy's camp. When the potter realized where they were going,
he tried harder than ever to stop the horse. He pulled wildly on the reins but
it was no use; the horse galloped on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">When
they passed a young tree, the potter grabbed a branch. But the horse did not
stop. Instead the tree was pulled out of the ground. A sentry from the enemy
camp saw the potter galloping towards the camp with a tree in one hand and his
reins in the other. 'That must be the General who captured a tiger with his
bare hands,' he thought. 'Now he has uprooted a tree with only one hand! He is
not an ordinary man-he's a giant!' 'Run, run, save yourselves! The famous
Tiger-General is coming at the head of a large army to attack us. He has the strength
of a giant! He has uprooted a tree with one hand!'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">The
frightened soldiers fled. Their king was left by himself in his tent. Hurriedly
he wrote a letter begging for peace and apologizing for attacking the country.
He left this letter in the tent. Then he jumped on his horse and followed his
soldiers. When the potter's brown horse reached the deserted camp it stopped.
With shaking hands the potter untied his feet and fell to the ground. When he
looked around he was surprised to find the camp empty. He looked in the king's
tent and found the letter. The puzzled potter walked back to the city with the
letter in his pocket. He went to his wife and gave her the letter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">'Dear
wife,' he said, 'never in my life will I ride a horse again. Please take this
letter to our king and tell him that the enemy has run away. I am going to
bed.' His wife ran towards the palace with the letter. When the king read the
letter, he was full of praise for his new </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">General.
He asked the potter's wife where her husband was. 'My husband is tired, Your Majesty.
The servants have put him to bed,' answered the wife respectfully. 'Let him
rest today. Tell him to come tomorrow to receive his reward,' the king said.</span></p></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 27pt 6pt 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Next morning the potter went to the
king's palace. He left the brown horse in the stable and walked to the palace
with his wife. The streets were filled with cheering crowds. They had all heard
about his brave action.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">'Look
how humble he is,' they said to each other.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 27pt 6pt 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">'Any other man would ride to the
palace on a horse but he is walking like an ordinary man. He's truly a humble
and brave man.' The king rewarded the potter so well that he did not need to
work again. The country was peaceful for the rest of his life and the potter
never rode a horse again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br />HARINATH VEMULAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12906104310758497718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664843242045021462.post-34286451537646836222020-05-14T04:16:00.002-07:002020-05-14T04:16:32.696-07:00Comprehension Test:: I Will Do It<div style="text-align: right;"><b><a href="http://ssc.english143.in/p/unit-1-reading-c-i-will-do-it.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="54" data-original-width="122" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TUgRUpf5KL4/XrvtGd-2ENI/AAAAAAAAUcY/eZjeZEJ4wX8zRZckTGTECwS0fw4xCpkRQCK4BGAsYHg/back%2Bbutton.jpg" /></a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b><font size="6">Here is a comprehension test do attempt it and get immediate result and feed back.</font></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><font size="4">Here is the quiz: You will get immediate result after submitting the test.</font></b></div></div><div><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="500" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe-MmQ0vpRcm19RSnaRaNo2UQJ0zvH17Tt1RUhMjz2iJFSiDg/viewform?embedded=true" width="640">Loading…</iframe></div>HARINATH VEMULAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12906104310758497718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664843242045021462.post-67417133607567512562020-05-14T03:31:00.002-07:002020-05-14T03:31:49.580-07:00Learn Vocabulary and Take a Test:: I Will Do It<div style="text-align: right;"><b><a href="http://ssc.english143.in/p/unit-1-reading-c-i-will-do-it.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="54" data-original-width="122" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TUgRUpf5KL4/XrvtGd-2ENI/AAAAAAAAUcY/eZjeZEJ4wX8zRZckTGTECwS0fw4xCpkRQCK4BGAsYHg/back%2Bbutton.jpg" /></a></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font color="#7b1fa2" size="4">Soon a video will be available here - ONE WORD SUBSTITUTES</font></b></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 27pt;"><b><span style="color: #fc0011; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16pt;">One-word Substitutes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.3pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b><span style="color: #fc0011; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;">Look at the underlined words in the
following sentences from the lesson.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 137%; margin: 0in 27pt 0in 47pt; text-indent: -19.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 137%;"><span>1.<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 137%;">Today he has become an icon of
simplicity, uncompromising quality and fairness, apart from being a <u>philanthropist</u>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 137%; margin: 0in 27pt 0in 47pt; text-indent: -19.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 137%;"><span>2.<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 137%;">He became a <u>pioneer</u> of
India's software industry and started the Information technology wave.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 137%; margin: 0in 27pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 137%;">What is the meaning of ‘philanthropist’?
A philanthropist is one who devotes his service or wealth for the love of
mankind.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 137%; margin: 0in 27pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 137%;">Who is a pioneer? A pioneer is a
person who is the first to study and develop a particular area of knowledge,
culture, etc. that other people then continue to develop.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 127%; margin: 0in 27pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 127%;">You have observed that the
meaning of a group of words is substituted with a word as in sentences (1) and
(2). Words which replace a group of words or a full sentence effectively
without creating any kind of ambiguity in the meaning of the sentences are
called one word substitutes. The main purpose of using one word substitutes is
to express the idea precisely and accurately.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 127%; margin: 0in 27pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></p><br /></div>
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<td> fatalist </td>
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<td> centenarian </td>
<td> a person who is above hundred years </td>
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<td> omnipresent </td>
<td> one who is present everywhere </td>
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<td> mercenary </td>
<td> a person who can do anything for money </td>
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<td> 5. </td>
<td> misogynist </td>
<td> one who hates women </td>
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<td> 6. </td>
<td> monogamy </td>
<td> a practice of having one wife or husband </td>
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<td> 7. </td>
<td> autobiography </td>
<td> a life history written by oneself </td>
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<td> 8. </td>
<td> biography </td>
<td> a life history written by somebody else </td>
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<td> 9. </td>
<td> honorary </td>
<td> a position for which no salary is paid </td>
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<td> 10. </td>
<td> ambiguous </td>
<td> a sentence whose meaning is unclear </td>
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</table><br /><div><b><u><font size="4">Now take a test by choosing one answer from given options for the word given and get instant result there.</font></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><iframe frameborder="0" height="500" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScW5RM2Vc1qpFgOf3OhX-Og0K6nalI-VCWUefda6aRuk6YtRA/viewform?embedded=true" width="100%">Loading…</iframe></div>HARINATH VEMULAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12906104310758497718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664843242045021462.post-8059864415824369252020-05-14T03:18:00.000-07:002020-05-14T03:18:01.246-07:00Antonyms and Synonyms:: I Will Do It<br /><div style="text-align: right;"><b><a href="http://ssc.english143.in/p/unit-1-reading-c-i-will-do-it.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="54" data-original-width="122" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TUgRUpf5KL4/XrvtGd-2ENI/AAAAAAAAUcY/eZjeZEJ4wX8zRZckTGTECwS0fw4xCpkRQCK4BGAsYHg/back%2Bbutton.jpg" /></a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><b><span> </span>Here is a list of "Antonyms and Synonyms" from the lesson "I Will Do It". You can by heart them and use in your own sentences so that you will get a command over the vocabulary.</b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><b><br /></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font color="#7b1fa2" size="6">Soon a video will be available here</font></b></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>
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<td>short</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>small, thick, tiny</td>
<td>tall, lengthy</td>
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<td>sharp</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>perceptive, quick-witted, bright, brilliant, lintelligent, smart</td>
<td>dull, normal, stupid, unintelligent</td>
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<td>bright</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>brilliant, sharp, smart</td>
<td>dull, slow, stupid, unintelligent</td>
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<td>senior</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>elder, leading</td>
<td>junior</td>
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<td>difficulty</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>adversity, complication, crisis, hardship, hazard, trouble</td>
<td>advantage, blessing</td>
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<td>unnoticed</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>unseen, ignored, overlooked, undiscovered, unrecognized</td>
<td>noted, noticed, seen</td>
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<td>crowd</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>crew, group, mass, mob, party, people</td>
<td>individual, one, single</td>
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<td>spark</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>flash, flare, gleam, glitter, glow, sparkle</td>
<td>dullness</td>
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<td>faster</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>speedy, brisk, quick, rapid, swift</td>
<td>slow</td>
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<td>avid</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>enthusiastic, eager, keen, zealous</td>
<td>apathetic,quenched disinterested, </td>
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<td>entrance</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>access, entry</td>
<td>exit</td>
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<td>friend</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>acquaintance, ally, buddy</td>
<td>foe, enemy, stranger</td>
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<td>appear</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>arrive, come, emerge</td>
<td>diappear, conceal, abandon, leave</td>
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<td>special</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>distinguished, distinctive, significant, specific, uique, unusual</td>
<td>common, familiar, normal, ordinary, OK</td>
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<td>aspirant</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>applicant, candidate, contestant</td>
<td>amateur</td>
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<td>sleepy</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>quiet, silent</td>
<td>noisy</td>
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<td>ultimate</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>best, greatest, utmost, superlative</td>
<td>inferior, lowest</td>
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<td>aim</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>goal, ambition, aspiration, desire, intent, purpose, target</td>
<td>aimlessness</td>
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<td>struggle</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>cope, strive, tackle, toil, try</td>
<td>idle, neglect</td>
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<td>opposite</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>antithesis, contrary, antonym</td>
<td>same, similarity, likeness</td>
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<td>imply</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>indicate, mean, signify</td>
<td>define, state</td>
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<td>hurt</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>agonized, bruised, tortured</td>
<td>pleased</td>
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<td>excellent</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>superior, wonderful, magnificent, outstanding, exceptional, superb</td>
<td>bad, common, ordinary, poor</td>
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<td>delight</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>enjoyment, happiness, joy, pleasure</td>
<td>discontent, unhappiness, dissatisfaction</td>
</tr>
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<td>thrilled</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>excited, elated</td>
<td>bored</td>
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<td>bitter</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>painful, distressing, cruel, harsh</td>
<td>pleasant</td>
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<td>truth</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>reality, validity, fact</td>
<td>falsehood, flaw</td>
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<td>fond</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>affectionate, adoring, loving</td>
<td>hating</td>
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<td>sorrow</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>grief, agony, misery, mourning, worry</td>
<td>blessing, cheer, happiness, joyfulness, pleasure</td>
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<td>introvert</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>loner, solitary</td>
<td>extrovert</td>
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<td>angry</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>enraged, annoyed, furious</td>
<td>peaceful, calm, cool</td>
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<td>excited</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>eager, thrilled, delighted</td>
<td>unexcited, calm</td>
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<td>aware</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>knowledgeable, awake, mindful</td>
<td>ignorant,unaware</td>
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<td>comfort</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>ease, contentment, amenity</td>
<td>discomfort, discontent, displeaure</td>
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<td>legally</td>
<td>adv</td>
<td>constitutionally, lawfully</td>
<td>illegally, unlawfully</td>
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<td>ethically</td>
<td>adv</td>
<td>decently, properly</td>
<td>unethically</td>
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<td>equally</td>
<td>adv</td>
<td>fairly, evenly, equitably</td>
<td>unequally, unevenly</td>
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<td>uncompromising</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>determined, rigid</td>
<td>flexible, compromising</td>
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</table>HARINATH VEMULAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12906104310758497718noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664843242045021462.post-15561644950227460852020-05-14T03:10:00.002-07:002020-05-21T01:11:50.749-07:00Typical Expressions:: I Will Do It<div style="text-align: right;"><b><a href="http://ssc.english143.in/p/unit-1-reading-c-i-will-do-it.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="54" data-original-width="122" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TUgRUpf5KL4/XrvtGd-2ENI/AAAAAAAAUcY/eZjeZEJ4wX8zRZckTGTECwS0fw4xCpkRQCK4BGAsYHg/back%2Bbutton.jpg" /></a></b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><b><br /></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><b>Watch the video explanation for the typical expressions from "I will do it".</b></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The D-Day came.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It was opposite when it came to food.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">His principle was never to hurt anyone.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">But the circumstances were like that.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The boy had to understand reality.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">His heart sank in sorrow.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">One of them noticed and said, 'You should have made it.'</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">But it is not the institution; ultimately it is you and you alone who can change your life by hard work.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Your best friend is yourself and your worst enemy is yourself.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">He really believes in the motto, "Powered by intellect and driven by values".</div>HARINATH VEMULAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12906104310758497718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664843242045021462.post-16907775336650474062020-05-14T02:57:00.002-07:002020-05-14T02:59:38.569-07:00Grammar:: Attitude is Altitude (Unit-1 Personality Development)(Defining and Non-defining Relative Clause<div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://ssc.english143.in/p/unit-1-reading-attitude-is-altitude.html" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="70" data-original-width="208" height="68" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BUTBsFK2mu8/XraGIIhJDEI/AAAAAAAAT2U/i0fnFYRIsI8_mJVZNSjhRpl5mUV_O5GmQCK4BGAsYHg/w200-h68/download.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><font color="#7b1fa2" size="4"><u><b><br /></b></u></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><font color="#7b1fa2" size="6"><u><b>Soon a Video Lesson available here</b></u></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><font color="#7b1fa2" size="4"><u><b><br /></b></u></font></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.4pt;"><b><span style="color: #fc0011; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16pt;">Defining and Non-defining Relative
Clauses<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 8.9pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Let us read the following sentences.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.35pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -16.9pt;">1.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -16.9pt;">The woman
<u>who taught him surfing</u> had been bitten by a shark.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -16.9pt;">2.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -16.9pt;">Nick, <u>who
was teased and bullied</u>, had an electric wheel chair for mobility…..</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.35pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 21pt;">What difference do you notice
between sentence (1) and (2)? In sentence (1) the relative clause defines </span><b style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 21pt;">the woman.</b><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 21pt;"> It is a Defining Relative
Clause. In sentence (2) the Relative Clause adds extra information about Nick.
This is a Non-defining Relative Clause.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 6.75pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">A
Non-defining Relative Clause is preceded and followed by a comma or a hyphen.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.9pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 21pt;">e.g: The brave 26- year- old --
who is mainly a torso -- plays football and golf, swims and surfs.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b style="text-indent: -19.4pt;"><span style="color: #fc0011; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 125%;">I<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><b style="text-indent: -19.4pt;"><span style="color: #fc0011; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 125%;">Read the text again and identify some more Defining and
Non-defining Relative Clauses.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 2.55pt;"><b><span style="color: #fc0011; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -36.4pt;">1.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -36.4pt;">________________________________________________________</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.3pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -36.4pt;">2.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -36.4pt;">_______________________________________________________</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.3pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -36.4pt;">3.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -36.4pt;">_______________________________________________________</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -36.4pt;">4.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -36.4pt;">_______________________________________________________</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.3pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -36.4pt;">5.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -36.4pt;">________________________________________________________</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.15pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b style="text-indent: -20.4pt;"><span style="color: #fc0011; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">II<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><b style="text-indent: -20.4pt;"><span style="color: #fc0011; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Complete the sentences with Defining or Non-defining Relative
Clauses.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 7.4pt;"><b><span style="color: #fc0011; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -29.4pt;">1.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -29.4pt;">This is the peaceful place
_____________________________________.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -29.4pt;">2.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -29.4pt;">The ‘Mahaprasthanam’ is a popular book
_________________________ .</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -29.4pt;">3.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -29.4pt;">Suresh ___________________________ has left the
school just now.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -29.4pt;">4.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -29.4pt;">Is this the street
__________________________________________ ?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -29.4pt;">5.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -29.4pt;">The express _________________________________ has
just arrived.</span></p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>HARINATH VEMULAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12906104310758497718noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664843242045021462.post-84774709496824752032020-05-13T06:16:00.001-07:002020-05-13T06:16:51.649-07:00Watch Video Lesson:: I Will Do It<div style="text-align: right;"><b><a href="http://ssc.english143.in/p/unit-1-reading-c-i-will-do-it.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="54" data-original-width="122" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TUgRUpf5KL4/XrvtGd-2ENI/AAAAAAAAUcY/eZjeZEJ4wX8zRZckTGTECwS0fw4xCpkRQCK4BGAsYHg/back%2Bbutton.jpg" /></a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Do please watch the glossary video before you watch this video lesson. It would be the best practice to have a look at the glossary before you go to the text comprehension.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><b><font size="4">Now watch the video lesson - "I will do it"</font></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><b><font size="4"><br /></font></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="405" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/M0U6hDn0uwU" width="720"></iframe></div>HARINATH VEMULAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12906104310758497718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664843242045021462.post-87999048019716548872020-05-13T06:06:00.002-07:002020-05-13T06:09:32.128-07:00Glossary Video and Text:: I Will Do It<div><div style="text-align: right;"><b><a href="http://ssc.english143.in/p/unit-1-reading-c-i-will-do-it.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="54" data-original-width="122" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TUgRUpf5KL4/XrvtGd-2ENI/AAAAAAAAUcY/eZjeZEJ4wX8zRZckTGTECwS0fw4xCpkRQCK4BGAsYHg/back%2Bbutton.jpg" /></a></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><b><br /></b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><b>It's a good practice to have a look at the glossary before you read the text or go to the comprehension passage.</b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><font size="4"><br /></font></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><font size="4"> You can watch the video lesson on glossary and get the complete meanings for difficult words in the lesson.</font></b></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>
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<th colspan="3">GLOSSARY according to the context of "I Will Do It"</th>
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<td>Word</td>
<td>Parts of speech</td>
<td>Meaning</td>
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<td>grasp</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>a sudden, short intake of breath</td>
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<td>avid</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>showing great enthusiasm for or interest in</td>
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<td>aspirant</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>a person who aspires, one who seeks or desires a career,advancement, status, etc.</td>
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<td>sleepy</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>quiet / without bustle of activity</td>
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<td>ultimate</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>highest, not subsidiary</td>
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<td>D-Day</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>any day of special significance, as one marking an importantevent or goal</td>
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<td>imply</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>(of words) to signify or mean</td>
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<td>circumstances</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>Usually circumstances. the existing conditions or state of affairssurrounding and affecting an agent</td>
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<td>bitter</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>hard to bear; grievous; distressful</td>
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<td>introvert</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>a shy person</td>
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<td>drizzle</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>to rain gently and steadily in fine drops; sprinkle</td>
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<td>legally</td>
<td>adv</td>
<td>permitted by law, lawfully</td>
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<td>ethically</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>pertaining to,or dealing with morals or the principles of morality;pertaining to right and wrong in conduct</td>
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<td>pioneer</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>one who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise,or progress</td>
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<td>philanthropist</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>one who devotes his sevice or wealth for the love of mankind</td>
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<td>motto</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>a mxim adopted as an expression of the guiding principle of a person, organization, city, etc.</td>
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</table>HARINATH VEMULAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12906104310758497718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664843242045021462.post-32987407371552768372020-05-13T05:56:00.000-07:002020-05-13T05:56:16.842-07:00Summary:: I Will Do It<div style="text-align: right;"><b><a href="http://ssc.english143.in/p/unit-1-reading-c-i-will-do-it.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="54" data-original-width="122" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TUgRUpf5KL4/XrvtGd-2ENI/AAAAAAAAUcY/eZjeZEJ4wX8zRZckTGTECwS0fw4xCpkRQCK4BGAsYHg/back%2Bbutton.jpg" /></a></b></div><div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I WILL DO IT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Life of NR Narayana Murthy)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">This passage or story is a selection
from one of Sudha Murthy’s stories “How I Taught My Grandmother to Read and
other Stories”. In this passage Sudha Murthy, wife of Narayana Murthy, gives a
picture of life history of her husband and how he became the symbol of victory
over difficulties and adversities.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She says that he was short but sharp. He was the brightest
boy in his class i.e. whenever even his seniors got doubts or difficulties they
used to ask Murthy for help. Murthy will be seen glow in his eyes when he was
asked a question related to Physics or Mathematics. He got such a talent and
interest in these two subjects.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She narrated an incident from Murthy’s life. He is a bright
student and wanted to study at an IIT at Madras. He applied for the entrance
test. He appeared the test staying at a relative’s home in Bengalore. You can
expect the result. He got a high rank in entrance test and asked his father,
who is a school teacher that he wanted to pursue his engineering at IIT Madras.
But his father convinced Murthy stating his financial and family position.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Then Murthy decided to do big convincing himself that it is
you, you alone can change your life with hard work. Then he started working
hard and completed his education. He built a team who were equally good and
started an Information Technology Company named INFOSYS. That is the starting
point of technology wave in India. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thus Murthy became a pioneer of India’s software industry. He
shared his wealth among the needy and became a philanthropist.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div>HARINATH VEMULAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12906104310758497718noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664843242045021462.post-77208600422222388822020-05-13T05:52:00.002-07:002020-05-19T05:17:59.746-07:00I Will Do It (Read and Listen)<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 187pt; text-align: left;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><b><a href="http://ssc.english143.in/p/unit-1-reading-c-i-will-do-it.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="54" data-original-width="122" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TUgRUpf5KL4/XrvtGd-2ENI/AAAAAAAAUcY/eZjeZEJ4wX8zRZckTGTECwS0fw4xCpkRQCK4BGAsYHg/back%2Bbutton.jpg" /></a></b></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b><span style="color: #004f20; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 25pt;">I Will Do It</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #004f20; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 25pt;"><br /></span></b>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 137%; margin: 0in 24pt 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 137%;">He was short. He was sharp. He was the brightest boy in his class. His
seniors used to ask him to solve their difficulties in science. He could have
gone unnoticed in a crowd, but once you asked him a question related to Physics
or Maths, there was a spark in his eyes. He could grasp theories of science
faster than the speed of light.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 133%; margin: 0in 24pt 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 133%;">He came from a poor but educated
family. His father was a high-school teacher and an avid reader of English
literature. He, like all the boys in his class, was trying to get admission
into some engineering college. The brighter ones wanted to study in the Indian</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 133%; margin: 0in 24pt 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><a name="page23"></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 133%;">Institutes of Technology, or the IITs. There was an
entrance test for IIT. This boy, along with his friends, applied to appear for
the test. They did not have any special books or coaching. All these IIT
aspirants would sit below the shade of a stone <i>mandap</i> close to Chamundi Hills in the sleepy town of Mysore. He was
the guide for the others. While the others struggled to solve the problems in
the question paper, he would smile shyly and solve them in no time. He sat
alone below a tree and dreamt of studying at IIT. It was the ultimate aim for
any bright boy at that age, as it still is today. He was then only sixteen
years old.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 122%; margin: 0in 28pt 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 122%;">The D-Day came. He came to
Bangalore, stayed with some relatives and appeared for the entrance test. He
did very well but would only say 'OK' when asked. It was the opposite when it
came to food. When he said 'OK' it implied 'bad', when he said 'good' it implied
'OK', when he said 'excellent' it implied 'good'. His principle was never to
hurt anyone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 132%; margin: 0in 28pt 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 40.95pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 132%;">The IIT entrance results came. He
had passed with a high rank. What a delight for any student! He was thrilled.
He went to his father who was reading a newspaper.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;">‘<i>Anna</i>, I have passed the exam.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;">‘Well
done, my boy.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;">‘I want
to join IIT.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;">His
father stopped reading the paper. He lifted his head, looked at the boy and
said with a heavy voice, 'My son, you are a bright boy. You know our financial position.
I have five daughters to be married off and three sons to educate. I am a
salaried person. I cannot afford your expenses at IIT. You can stay in Mysore
and study as much as you want.'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 126%; margin: 0in 28pt 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 39.45pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 126%;">Indeed it was a difficult
situation for any father to say 'no' to his bright son. But circumstances were
like that. It was common then for the man to be the single earning member with
a large family dependent on him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 132%; margin: 0in 27pt 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 38.95pt;"><a name="page24"></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 132%;">His father was sad that he had to
tell the bitter truth to his son. But it could not be helped. The boy had to
understand reality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 132%; margin: 0in 27pt 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 38.35pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 132%;">The teenager was disappointed. It
seemed his dreams had burnt to ashes. He was so near to fulfilling his fondest
hope, yet so far. His heart sank in sorrow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">He did
not reply. He never shared his unhappiness or helplessness with anybody.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">He was an
introvert by nature. His heart was bleeding but he did not get angry with
anybody.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 133%; margin: 0in 27pt 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 133%;">The day came. His classmates were
leaving for Madras (now Chennai). They were taking a train from Mysore to
Madras. They have shared good years in school and college together. He went to
the station to say goodbye and good luck to them for their future life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 123%; margin: 0in 27pt 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 123%;">At the station, his friends were
already there. They were excited and talking loudly. The noise was like the
chirping of birds. They were all excited and discussing their new hostels, new
courses etc. He was not part of it. So, he stood there silently. One of them
noticed and said, 'You should have made it.'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 132%; margin: 0in 27pt 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 132%;">He did not reply. He only wished
all of them. They waved at him as the train slowly left the platform.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 126%; margin: 0in 27pt 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 126%;">He stood there even after he
could no longer see the train or the waving hands. It was the June of 1962 in
Mysore city. Monsoon had set in and it was getting dark. It had started to
drizzle. Yet he stood there motionless.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 126%; margin: 0in 27pt 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 126%;">He said to himself, without anger
or jealousy, 'All students from the IITs study well and do big things in life.
But it is not the institution; ultimately it is you and you alone who can
change your life by hard work.'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 132%; margin: 0in 27pt 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 132%;">Probably he was not aware that he
was following the philosophy of the Bhagavath Gita: 'Your best friend is
yourself and your worst enemy is yourself.'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 126%; margin: 0in 27pt 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 126%;">Later he worked very hard, and
focused on one thing, never bothering about his personal life or comforts. He
shared his wealth with others. He never used the help of any caste, community or
political connections to go up in life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 132%; margin: 0in 27pt 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 132%;">A son of a school teacher showed
other Indians it was possible to earn wealth legally and ethically. He built a
team of people who were equally good.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 152%; margin: 0in 27pt 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 152%;">He became a pioneer of India's
software industry and started the Information Technology wave. Today he has
become an icon of simplicity, uncompromising quality and<a name="page25"></a> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 152%;">fairness, apart from being a philanthropist. He really believes in the
motto, 'Powered by intellect and driven by values'.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 152%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 132%; margin: 0in 28pt 0in 0.5in; text-indent: 38.3pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 132%;">He is none other than Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy, the founder of
Infosys, a leading IT company in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 352pt;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;">By Sudha
Murthy<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><br />HARINATH VEMULAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12906104310758497718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664843242045021462.post-50776689445077371472020-05-13T05:32:00.001-07:002020-05-13T05:32:26.725-07:00HOW POSITIVE WE ARE? తెలుసుకుందాం! (I will do it - Personality Development)<div style="text-align: right;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="http://ssc.english143.in/p/unit-1-reading-c-i-will-do-it.html"><img border="0" data-original-height="54" data-original-width="122" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-znZYCRYvX8Q/XrvoApI4dsI/AAAAAAAAUb8/EcKWWOwwtPg0O69P7qgJ0MOgWIUqYXeQQCK4BGAsYHg/back%2Bbutton.jpg" /></a></span></div><font size="4"><br /></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4">HOW POSITIVE WE ARE? తెలుసుకుందాం!</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4"><br /></font></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><b>ఈ క్విజ్ మన ATTITUDE గురించి తెలుపుతుంది. ఎన్ని ఎక్కువ POINTS సాధిస్తే అంత ఎక్కువ POSITIVE ATTITUDE ఉన్నట్టు లెక్క. ఇది కేవలం ఒక చిన్న పరీక్ష మాత్రమే. (ఇది కేవలం మనలని మనం తెలుసుకోవడానికి ఒక ప్రయత్నం మాత్రమే మన ATTITUDE కాక పోవచ్చు) ఇది ఎవరినీ ఉద్దశించినది మరియు ఇబ్బంది పెట్టేది కాదు.ఇది ఎవరినీ కించపరచడానికి ఉద్దేశించినది కాదు. దీని ఫలితాలు మీకు మాత్రమే కనిపిస్తాయి. దీని కోసం మీరు ఎలాంటి సమాచారం ఇవ్వవలసిన అవసరం లేదు</b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><b><br /></b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><b>Now attempt these questions to check how positive we are ....</b></font></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><b><u>Typical Expressions - Every Success Story is Also a Story of Great Failures</u></b></font></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4">Failure is the highway to success.</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4">If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4">He remembered his mother's recipe and went out selling.</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4">Successful people don't do great things; they only do small things in a great way.</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4">Learn from your failures and keep moving.</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4">There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burnt up. Thank God we can start anew.</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4">Setbacks are inevitable in life.</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4">Setbacks can act as a driving force and also teach us humility.</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4">Fear and doubt short-circuit the mind.</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4">Motivation comes from the burning desire to achieve a purpose.</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4">A burning desire is the starting point of all accomplishments.</font></div>HARINATH VEMULAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12906104310758497718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664843242045021462.post-11406634645148905782020-05-13T04:16:00.001-07:002020-05-13T04:20:03.887-07:00Antonyms and Synonyms:: Every Success Story is Also a Story of Great Failures<div style="text-align: right;"><b style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://ssc.english143.in/p/unit-1-reading-b-every-success-story-is.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="54" data-original-width="122" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bjeTuOJYunI/XrvJtyFZRwI/AAAAAAAAUSc/lXC3LAxf8RMQR4818YNGvCrPZrWaf1fGwCK4BGAsYHg/d/back%2Bbutton.jpg" /></a></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><b><br /></b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><b><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Here is a list of "Antonyms and Synonyms" from the lesson "Every Success Story is Also a Story of Great Failures". You can by heart them and use in your own sentences so that you will get a command over the vocabulary.</b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><b><br /></b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><font size="4">Soon you will get a video lesson on Antonyms and Synonyms</font></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><font size="4"><br /></font></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><font size="4"><br /></font></b></div>
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<th colspan="4">List of ANTONYMS and SYNONYMS according to the context of "Every Success Story is also a Story of Great Failure"</th>
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<td>Word</td>
<td>Parts of speech</td>
<td>Synonym(s)</td>
<td>Antonym(S)</td>
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<td>nervous</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>fearful, timid, timorous</td>
<td>confident, bold</td>
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<td>success</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>achievement, triumph, accomplishment</td>
<td>defeat, failure, forfeit</td>
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<td>lucky</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>fortunate, opportune</td>
<td>unlucky</td>
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<td>defeat</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>overwhelm, overthrow, downfall</td>
<td>fail, lose, surrender</td>
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<td>sweetheart</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>girlfriend, boyfriend, companion</td>
<td>enemy, foe</td>
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<td>quit</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>abandon, leave, depart, drop, give up</td>
<td>allow, begin, continue</td>
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<td>detour</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>deviation, diversion</td>
<td> </td>
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<td>inventor</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>creator, founder, originator</td>
<td> </td>
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<td>attorney</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>lawyer, advocate, barrister, pleader</td>
<td> </td>
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<td>humiliate</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>embarrass, degrade, demean</td>
<td>encourage, honour, respect</td>
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<td>invention</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>discovery, coinage, design</td>
<td>steal</td>
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<td>wisdom</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>insight, common sense, foresight</td>
<td>ignorance, imprudence</td>
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<td>beatup</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>dilapidated, battered, broken-down, damaged,</td>
<td>OK, good, healthy, repaired</td>
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<td>remember</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>commemorate, recall, recognize, remind</td>
<td>forget</td>
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<td>estimate</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>guess, assess, evaluate, expect</td>
<td>disregard, hesitate</td>
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<td>hard</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>difficult, exhausting</td>
<td>easy, facile</td>
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<td>talent</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>ability, capability, capacity, skill</td>
<td>ignorance,impotence, inability</td>
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<td>partially</td>
<td>adv</td>
<td>incompletely, moderately, partly</td>
<td>completely, totally, wholly</td>
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<td>stupid</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>dull, dumb, foolish, senseless</td>
<td>bright, intelligent, sharp, smart, wise, thoughtful</td>
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<td>reverse</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>opposite, reversal</td>
<td>front, same</td>
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<td>appear</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>arrive, come out</td>
<td>disappear, abandon, conceal, depart, hide</td>
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<td>fire</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>dismiss, discharge, expel</td>
<td>employ, hire</td>
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<td>inevitable</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>imminent, necessary</td>
<td>avoidable, escapable</td>
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<td>humility</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>humbleness, modesty</td>
<td>arrogance</td>
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<td>grief</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>agony, anguish, despair, gloom, misery, mourning, woe, worry, sorrow</td>
<td>blessing, comfort, contentment, peace, pleasure, relief</td>
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<td>courage</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>boldness, braveness, bravery</td>
<td>cowardice, fear, humility</td>
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<td>faith</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>belief, conviction</td>
<td>disbelief, doubt</td>
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<td>victor</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>champ, champion, conqueror, winner</td>
<td>loser</td>
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<td>victim</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>suffere, casuality, martyr</td>
<td>criminal, culprit</td>
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<td>desire</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>ambition, fascination, wish</td>
<td>apathy, disgust</td>
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<td>purpose</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>intention, meaning, aim, ambition, goal, target</td>
<td> </td>
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<td>conceive</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>understand, assume, believe, perceive</td>
<td>neglect</td>
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<td>achieve</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>accomplish, complete, attain</td>
<td>fail, lose, surrender</td>
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<td>secret</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>covert, private, hidden, unrevealed</td>
<td>apparent, open, public, revealed</td>
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<td>surprize</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>amazement, astonishment, awe, bewilderment, miracle, shock, wonder</td>
<td>calmness, expectation</td>
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<td>reply</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>acknowledge, react, respond, retort</td>
<td>question, request</td>
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<td>want</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>desire, need, require, wish</td>
<td>dislike, not want</td>
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<td>starting</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>opening, origin, outset</td>
<td>conclusion, end</td>
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<td>accomplishment</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>achievement, triumph</td>
<td>failure, forfeit</td>
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<td>produce</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>generate, create, form, invent, yield</td>
<td>demolish, destroy</td>
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<td>outclass</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>surpass, beat, excel</td>
<td>fail, lose, surrender</td>
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</table>HARINATH VEMULAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12906104310758497718noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664843242045021462.post-71987690092232777392020-05-13T03:47:00.007-07:002020-05-13T06:10:15.092-07:00Glossary Video and Text :: Every Success Story is Also a Story of Great Failures<div style="text-align: right;"><b style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://ssc.english143.in/p/unit-1-reading-b-every-success-story-is.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="54" data-original-width="122" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bjeTuOJYunI/XrvJtyFZRwI/AAAAAAAAUSc/lXC3LAxf8RMQR4818YNGvCrPZrWaf1fGwCK4BGAsYHg/d/back%2Bbutton.jpg" /></a></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><b>It's a good practice to have a look at the glossary before you read the text or go to the comprehension passage.</b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><font size="4"><br /></font></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><font size="4"> You can watch the video lesson on glossary and get the complete meanings for difficult words in the lesson.</font></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><font size="4"><br /></font></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><font size="4"><br /></font></b></div>
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<td>nervous</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>highly excitable; unnaturally apprehensive</td>
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<td>quit</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>to give up or resign; let go; relinquish</td>
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<td>defeat</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>to overcome in a contest, election, battle, etc.; prevail over; vanquish</td>
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<td>detour</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>a roundabout or circuitous way or course, especially one used temporarilywhen the main route is closed</td>
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<td>dead-end</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>something that has no exit</td>
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<td>charge</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>to instruct authoritatively, as a judge does a jury</td>
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<td>attorney</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>a lawyer</td>
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<td>fraudulent</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>deceptive, false</td>
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<td>humiliate</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify</td>
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<td>beat-up</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>dilapidated; in poor condition from use</td>
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<td>recipe</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>a set of instructions for making or preparing something, especially a fooddish</td>
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<td>minister (church)</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>a person authorized to conduct religious worship; member of the clergy;pastor</td>
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<td>infest</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>(of insects or animals) be present (in a place or site) in large numbers, typically so as to cause damage or disease</td>
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<td>inspired</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence</td>
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<td>bounceback</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>the act or an instance of bouncing back or recovering</td>
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<td>go up</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>to be consumed by fire</td>
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<td>anew</td>
<td>adv</td>
<td>again / once more / over again</td>
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<td>attitude</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>manner, disposition, feeling, position, etc., with regard to a person or thing; tendency or orientation, especially of the mind</td>
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<td>altitude</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>extent or distance upward; height</td>
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<td>broke</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>lacking money</td>
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<td>fire</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>to terminate an employment contract of an employee especially for cause of misconduct or poor performance</td>
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<td>inevitable</td>
<td>adj</td>
<td>unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary</td>
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<td>setback</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>a check to progress; a reverse or defeat</td>
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<td>humility</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>the quality or condition of being humble; modest opinion or estimate of one'sown importance, rank, etc</td>
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<td>overcome</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>to prevail over (opposition, a debility, temptations, etc); surmount</td>
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<td>stumbling block</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>an obstacle or hindrance to progress, belief, or understanding</td>
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<td>conceive</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>to hold as an opinion; think; believe</td>
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<td>gasp</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>a sudden, short intake of breath</td>
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<td>duck</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>to lower something into water</td>
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<td>turn blue</td>
<td>idiom</td>
<td>oxynated blood is drained i.e., needed oxyzen</td>
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<td>cinch</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>certain to happen</td>
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<td>outclassed</td>
<td>verb</td>
<td>to surpass in excellence or quality, especially by a wide margin; be superior</td>
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<td>short-cut</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>a method, procedure, policy, etc., that reduces the time or energy needed toaccomplish something</td>
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<td>victor</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>a winner in any struggle or contest</td>
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<td>victim</td>
<td>noun</td>
<td>a person who suffers from a destructive or injurious action or agency</td>
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</table>HARINATH VEMULAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12906104310758497718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664843242045021462.post-72053760919809417372020-05-13T03:38:00.001-07:002020-05-13T03:38:21.314-07:00Watch Video Lesson Every Success Story is Also a Story of Great Failures<div style="text-align: right;"><b style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://ssc.english143.in/p/unit-1-reading-b-every-success-story-is.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="54" data-original-width="122" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bjeTuOJYunI/XrvJtyFZRwI/AAAAAAAAUSc/lXC3LAxf8RMQR4818YNGvCrPZrWaf1fGwCK4BGAsYHg/d/back%2Bbutton.jpg" /></a></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Do please watch the glossary video before you watch this video lesson. It would be the best practice to have a look at the glossary before you go to the text comprehension.</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="6">Now watch the Video Lesson </font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="6">Every Success Story is Also a Story of Great Failures</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="6"><br /></font></b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="405" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ublJlkDsYwE?start=1" width="720"></iframe></div>HARINATH VEMULAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12906104310758497718noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664843242045021462.post-20647943468024034792020-05-13T03:30:00.003-07:002020-05-15T22:25:40.407-07:00Summary of Every Success Story is Also a Story of Great Failures<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="http://ssc.english143.in/p/unit-1-reading-b-every-success-story-is.html"><img border="0" data-original-height="54" data-original-width="122" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9UtsiSpGyGw/XrvLnmF-kSI/AAAAAAAAUS4/fsBAtVOxP68eHIQi_s_nBX1GDLfREuP9gCK4BGAsYHg/back%2Bbutton.jpg" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">(A motivational collection of stories)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It is an essay concentrating the
point to motivate us by giving historical examples of the great personalities
and their failure stories faced before their grand success.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> It gives a complete picture of the
failure story of Abraham Lincoln. He failed many a time in different elections,
business and even lost his sweetheart. But finally he became the president of
US.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> Then it narrates the hardships of
Lee De Forest for his triodes tube invention and how he was humiliated and
charged by the attorney claiming him a fraud but where we would be without his
invention. The telecommunications now a day we are enjoying is the gift of
Forest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> This passage gives an incident in
the life of Wright Brothers. They had been questioned their wisdom in an
article but in a week they proved by flying the first flight in the air.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> At the age of 65 Colonel Sanders
with little money started selling recipes of his mother style. He had knocked
more than 1000 doors to get his first order. Now every corner of the world
tastes his recipes in the name of KFC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> This passage illustrates that famous Walt
Disney had faced many rejections in his life. But he had become the famous
cartoonist and introduced the animated movies to the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> It tells the failure stories of
great Thomas Edison. He was rejected by his teacher from the school. But he had
become the light of the world. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> And finally this passage narrates a
story of Socrates. He demonstrates a young man by ducking him in the water the
secret to success.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> Lastly it is said that a burning
desire is the starting point of all accomplishments. Just like a small fire
cannot give much heat, a weak desire cannot produce great results.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>HARINATH VEMULAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12906104310758497718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664843242045021462.post-81482903080614810002020-05-13T03:24:00.003-07:002020-05-16T23:27:57.144-07:00Every Success Story is Also a Story of Great Failures (Listen and Read)<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; text-align: right;"><b style="text-align: left;"></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><b style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://ssc.english143.in/p/unit-1-reading-b-every-success-story-is.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="54" data-original-width="122" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bjeTuOJYunI/XrvJtyFZRwI/AAAAAAAAUSc/lXC3LAxf8RMQR4818YNGvCrPZrWaf1fGwCK4BGAsYHg/d/back%2Bbutton.jpg" /></a></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18pt;">B. Reading</span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -35.95pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #004f20; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 25pt;">Every Success Story </span></b><b><span style="color: #004f20; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 25pt;">Is also </span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -35.95pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #004f20; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 25pt;">a Story of Great Failures</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;"> </span><b style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;"><u><font size="4">Listen to the story while looking at the text</font></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0in 28pt 0in 27pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 140%;"><span> <span> </span></span>Failure
is the highway to success. Tom Watson Sr. said, “If you want to succeed, double
your failure rate.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 149%; margin: 0in 28pt 0in 27pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 149%;"><span> </span><span> </span>If
you study history, you will find that all stories of success are also stories
of great failures. But people don’t see the failures. They only see one side of
the picture and they say that person got lucky: “He must have been at the right
place at the right time.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 133%; margin: 0in 28pt 0in 27pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 133%;"><span> </span><span> </span>Let
me share someone’s life history with you. This was a man who failed in business
at the age of 21; was defeated in a legislative race at age 22; failed again in
business at age 24; overcame the death of his sweetheart at age 26; had a
nervous breakdown at age 27; lost a congressional race at age 34; lost a
senatorial race at age 45; failed in an effort to become vice-president at age
47; lost a senatorial race at age 49; and was elected president of the United
States at age 52.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 64pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">This man was Abraham Lincoln.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 147%; margin: 0in 28pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 147%;">Would
you call him a failure? He could have quit. But to Lincoln, defeat was a detour
and not a dead end.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 145%; margin: 0in 28pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 145%;">In
1913, Lee De Forest, the inventor of the triodes tube, was charged by the
district attorney for using fraudulent means to mislead the public into buying
stocks of his company by claiming that he could transmit the human voice across
the Atlantic. He was publicly humiliated. Can you imagine where we would be
without his invention?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 136%; margin: 0in 28pt 0in 31.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><a name="page14"></a><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 136%;"> New York Times editorial on December 10, 1903,
questioned the wisdom of the Wright Brothers who were trying to invent a
machine, heavier than air, that would fly. One week later, at Kitty Hawk, the
Wright Brothers took their famous flight.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 139%; margin: 0in 28pt 0in 31.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 139%;">Colonel
Sanders, at age 65, with a beat-up car and a $100 cheque from social security,
realized he had to do something. He remembered his mother's recipe and went out
selling. How many doors did he have to knock on before he got his first order?
It is estimated that he had knocked on more than a thousand doors before he got
his first order. How many of us quit after three tries, ten tries, a hundred
tries, and then we say we tried as hard as we could?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 134%; margin: 0in 28pt 0in 29pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 134%;">As
a young cartoonist, Walt Disney faced many rejections from newspaper editors,
who said he had no talent. One day a minister at a church hired him to draw
some cartoons. Disney was working out of a small mouse infested shed near the
church. After seeing a small mouse, he was inspired. That was the start of
Mickey Mouse.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 31.5pt; text-indent: 29pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Successful people don't do great things; they only do small
things in great way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 123%; margin: 0in 28pt 0in 29pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 123%;">One
day a partially deaf four year old kid came home with a note in his pocket from
his teacher, "Your Tommy is too stupid to learn, get him out of the
school." His mother read the note and answered, "My Tommy is not
stupid to learn, I will teach him myself." And that Tommy grew up to be
the great Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison had only three months of formal
schooling and he was partially deaf.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 137%; margin: 0in 24pt 0in 29pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 137%;">Henry
Ford forgot to put the reverse gear in the first car he made.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 142%; margin: 0in 27pt 0in 28pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><a name="page15"></a><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 142%;">Do
you consider these people failures? They succeeded in spite of problems, not in
the absence of them. But to the outside world, it appears as though they just
got lucky.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 126%; margin: 0in 27pt 0in 28pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 126%;">All
success stories are stories of great failures. The only difference is that
every time they failed, they bounced back. This is called failing forward,
rather than backward. You learn and move forward. Learn from your failure and
keep moving.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 122%; margin: 0in 27pt 0in 28pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 122%;">In
1914, Thomas Edison, at age 67, lost his factory, which was worth a few million
dollars, on fire. It had very little insurance. No longer a young man, Edison
watched his lifetime effort go up in smoke and said, "There is great value
in disaster. All our mistakes are burnt up. Thank God we can start anew."
In spite of the disaster, three weeks later, he invented the phonograph. What
an attitude!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 64pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Below are more examples of the failures of successful
people:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 132%; margin: 0in 27pt 0in 58pt; text-indent: -22.6pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 132%;">1.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 132%;">Thomas Edison failed approximately
10,000 times while he was working on the light bulb.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 58pt; text-indent: -22.6pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">2.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Henry Ford was broke at the age of
40.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 58pt; text-indent: -22.6pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Lee Iacocca was fired by Henry Ford
II at the age of 54.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 132%; margin: 0in 27pt 0in 58pt; text-indent: -22.6pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 132%;">4.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 132%;">Young Beethoven was told that he had
no talent for music, but he gave some of the best music to the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 126%; margin: 0in 27pt 0in 28pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 126%;">Setbacks
are inevitable in life. A setback can act as a driving force and also teach us
humility. In grief you will find courage and faith to overcome the setback. We
need to learn to become victors, not victims. Fear and doubt short-circuit the
mind.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 132%; margin: 0in 27pt 0in 28pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 132%;">Ask
yourself after every setback: What did I learn from this experience? Only then
you will be able to turn a stumbling block into a stepping stone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 137%; margin: 0in 27pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 137%;">The
motivation to succeed comes from the burning desire to achieve a purpose.
Napoleon Hill wrote, "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe
the mind can achieve."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 0.4pt; margin-left: 27pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 132%; margin: 0in 27pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 132%;">A
young man asked Socrates the secret to success. Socrates told the young man to
meet him near the river the next morning. They met. Socrates asked the young
man to walk with him towards the river. When the water got up to their neck,
Socrates took the young man by surprise and ducked him into the water. The boy
struggled to get out but Socrates was strong and kept him there until the<a name="page16"></a> boy started turning blue. Socrates pulled his head out of the
water and the first thing the young man did was to gasp and take a deep breath
of air. Socrates asked, “What did you want the most when you were there?” The
boy replied, "Air." Socrates said, “That is the secret to success.
When you want success as badly as you wanted the air, then you will get it.
There is no other secret”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 132%; margin: 0in 27pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 132%;">A burning desire is the starting point of all accomplishments. Just like a small fire cannot give much heat, a weak desire cannot produce great results.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span> </span><span> </span></span></p>HARINATH VEMULAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12906104310758497718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664843242045021462.post-83709079276654017792020-05-12T04:31:00.007-07:002020-05-14T22:44:45.867-07:00Typical Expressions - Attitude is Altitude<div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://ssc.english143.in/p/unit-1-reading-attitude-is-altitude.html" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="70" data-original-width="208" height="68" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BUTBsFK2mu8/XraGIIhJDEI/AAAAAAAAT2U/i0fnFYRIsI8_mJVZNSjhRpl5mUV_O5GmQCK4BGAsYHg/w200-h68/download.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4"><br /></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"> <b><u>Watch the Video explaining the meaning for all the typical expressions from the story below. </u></b><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="405" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/q_K2NxN_Mo8?start=5" width="720"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u><font color="#9c27b0" size="4"><br /></font></u></b></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span> I call it my chicken drumstick.</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span> I'd be lost without it.</span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span> Nick and his parents spent many years asking why this cruel trick would happen to them.</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span> I felt cold and bitter.</span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><span> I fest there was no purpose when you lack purpose and strength. It is hard to hold on.</span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><span><span> Nick managed to pull through to become an international symbol of triumph over adversity.</span><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><span><span><span> I decided to be thankful for what I do have, not get angry about what I don't.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><span><span><span><span> The challenges in our lives are there to strengthen our convictions. There not there to run us over.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> If I fail I try again and again and again. </span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> The human spirit can handle much worse than we realize.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>HARINATH VEMULAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12906104310758497718noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664843242045021462.post-71649241448516470162020-05-12T03:53:00.004-07:002020-05-15T22:25:07.845-07:00Attitude is Everything (A Listening Passage - Audio)<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 127%; margin-right: 2pt; text-align: right; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; line-height: 127%;"><a href="http://ssc.english143.in/p/unit-1-reading-attitude-is-altitude.html" style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-indent: 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="70" data-original-width="208" height="68" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BUTBsFK2mu8/XraGIIhJDEI/AAAAAAAAT2U/i0fnFYRIsI8_mJVZNSjhRpl5mUV_O5GmQCK4BGAsYHg/w200-h68/download.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 127%; margin-right: 2pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 127%; margin-right: 2pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; line-height: 127%;"><b style="font-size: 17.3333px; text-indent: 0px;">Listen to the Story - Attitude is Everything</b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 127%; margin-right: 2pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 127%;">There was a farmer in Africa who
was happy and content. He was happy because he was content. He was content
because he was happy. One day a wise man came to him and told him about the
glory of diamonds and the power that goes along with them. The wise man said,
"If you had a diamond the size of your thumb, you could have your own
city. If you had a diamond the size of your fist, you could probably own your
own country." And then he went away. That night the farmer couldn't sleep.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 2.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 133%; margin-right: 2pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 133%;">He was unhappy and he was
discontent. He was unhappy because he was discontent and discontent because he
was unhappy. The next morning he made arrangements to sell off his farm, took
care of his family and went in search of diamonds. He looked all over Africa
and couldn't find any. He looked all through Europe and couldn't find any. When
he got to Spain, he was emotionally, physically and financially broke. He got
so disheartened that he threw himself into the Barcelona river and committed
suicide.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 2.05pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"> </span></p>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;">Back
home, the person who had bought his farm was watering the camels at a stream
that ran through the farm. Across the stream, the rays of the morning sun hit a
stone and made it sparkle like a rainbow. He thought it would look good on the
mantel piece. He picked up the stone and put it in the living room. That
afternoon the wise man came and saw the stone sparkling. He asked, "Is Hafiz
back?" The new owner said, "No, why do you ask?" The wise man
said, "Because that is a diamond. I recognize one when I see one."
The man said, “No, that's just a stone I picked up from the stream. Come, I'll
show you. There are many more.” They went and picked some samples and sent them
for analysis. Sure enough, the stones were diamonds. They found that the farm
was indeed covered with acres and acres of diamonds.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span>
HARINATH VEMULAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12906104310758497718noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664843242045021462.post-23473716433235403712020-05-11T06:12:00.018-07:002020-05-15T22:24:47.794-07:00Unit-1 Vocabulary:: Attitude is Altitude (Personality Development)<div style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://ssc.english143.in/p/unit-1-reading-attitude-is-altitude.html"><img border="0" data-original-height="70" data-original-width="208" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JkfejGR4wWg/XraG2iO-WqI/AAAAAAAAT2o/ijcIg925V8ggOyGjgJ503A-ZzLvx2fLZwCK4BGAsYHg/download.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4"><br /></font></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><font size="2">1)<u> Select the qualities of Nick Vujicic:</u></font></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>
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2) Write an example sentence from the text for each attribute of Nick Vujicic:<div>
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3. Select the word or expression which is nearest in meaning to the word in bold in each sentence given in the quiz:
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4. Read the following description about persons and fill in the blanks with the words that match with these descriptions in the quiz:<div><br /></div><div><iframe frameborder="0" height="500" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdmag5rMdgtnP8w_tMR65gNTa2CsGU0r37L5CXLcjCrjkymRw/viewform?embedded=true" width="100%">Loading…</iframe></div>HARINATH VEMULAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12906104310758497718noreply@blogger.com0