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Tamil Nadu Board 10th Standard English - Prose Unit 1: Book Back Answers and Solutions

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• 1 Mark Questions: Choose the correct answer, Fill in the blanks, Identify the correct statement, Match the following 
• 2 Mark Questions: Answer briefly 
• 3, 4, and 5 Mark Questions: Answer in detail

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Unit 1: His First Flight

Answer the following Questions

1. Why did the seagull fail to fly?
Answer Key:
The young seagull hesitated and feared to fly. He thought that his wings would not support him. Hence the sea gull failed to fly.

2. What did the parents do when the young seagull failed to fly?
Answer Key:
His parents, brothers and sister encouraged and also scolded him. They threatened him to go without food.

3. What was the first catch of the young seagull’s older brother?
Answer Key:
The first catch of the young seagull’s older brother was herring, a type of fish.

4. What did the young seagull manage to find in his search for food on the ledge?
Answer Key:
The young seagull managed to find dried pieces of mackerel’s tail and eggshell.

5. What did the young bird do to seek the attention of his parents?
Answer Key:
The young bird stepped slowly out to the brink of the ledge and standing on one leg with the other leg hidden under his wing, he closed one eye, then the other, and pretended to be falling asleep. He would trot back and forth from one end of the ledge to the other, his long gray legs stepping daintily to seek the attention of his parents.

6. What made the young seagull go mad?
Answer Key:
The sight of food made the young seagull go mad.

7. Why did the young bird utter a joyful scream?
Answer Key:
The seagull was quite hungry and yearned for food. When he saw a piece of fish in the beak of his mother, the sight was quite tempting and suddenly dived at the fish forgetting that he didn’t know how to fly and uttered a joyful scream falling outwards and downwards into space.

8. Did the mother bird offer any food to the young bird?
Answer Key:
No, the mother bird did not offer any food to the young bird.

9. How did the bird feel when it started flying for the first time?
Answer Key:
The bird was seized with fear for a moment and could feel the tips of his wings cut through the air. The next moment he was fearless, though felt a bit dizzy, flapped his wings to soar up and down with a joyous scream.

10. What did the young bird’s family do when he started flying?
Answer Key:
They were flying around him, praising, soaring, and diving together with him.

A. Answer the following questions in a sentence or two.

1. How was the young seagull’s first attempt to fly?
Answer Key:

• The young seagull was very hungry. So he dived at the fish that was in his mother’s beak. But he fell into space and became terribly afraid. His heart stood still. He could hear nothing for just a minute. The next moment he felt his wings spread outwards and began to fly up and down fearless into the sky.

2. How did the parents support and encourage the young seagull’s brothers and sister?
Answer Key:

• The seagull’s parents flew with his brothers and sister. They helped them in the perfect art of flying. They taught them to glide on the waves and dive for fish.

3. Give an instance that shows the pathetic condition of “the young bird”?
Answer Key:

• The young bird, starving for a day, finds a dried piece of mackerel’s tail at the far end of his ledge. He searches in vain the area where he was hatched and gnaws at the dried pieces of eggshell. He is in a pathetic state calling plaintively when he isn’t unable to reach his mother tearing at a piece of fish.

4. How did the bird try to reach its parents without having to fly?
Answer Key:

• The bird walked from one end of the ledge to the other to reach its parents without flying.

5. Do you think that the young seagull’s parents were harsh to him? Why?
Answer Key:

• No, the young seagull’s parents weren’t harsh to him. They were just teaching him a lifetime learning experience which is vital for his survival.

6. What prompted the young seagull to fly finally?
Answer Key:

• The sight of food maddened him and he dived at the fish. This prompted the young seagull to fly finally.

7. What happened to the seagull when it landed on the green sea?
Answer Key:

• When the young seagull landed on the green sea, he completely forgot that he had not always been able to fly and shrieked shrilly, turning his beak sideways and crowed amusedly. He screamed with fright when he dropped his legs to stand on the green sea and sank into it.

B. Answer the questions in a paragraph of 100-150 words. 

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C. Change the parts of speech of the given words in the chart. 

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D. Read the following sentences and change the form of the underlined words as directed.

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E. Use the following words to construct meaningful sentences on your own.

Listening Activity 

F. Here is a travelogue by the students of Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Pattukkottai after their trip to Darjeeling. Listen to the travelogue and answer the following questions.

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Speaking Activity

G. Here is a dialogue between a father and his daughter. Continue the dialogue with at least five utterances and use all the clues given above.   

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Reading Activity

H. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.   

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Writing

I. Prepare attractive advertisements using the hints given below.  

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Report Writing

J. Write a report of the following events in about 100-120 words.  

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Grammar.

A. Complete these sentences using appropriate modals. The clues in the brackets will help you.  

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B. Rewrite the following sentences by rectifying the errors in the use of modals.

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C. Read the dialogue and fill in the blanks with suitable modals.

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D. Read the following dialogues and supply appropriate modals.  

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E. Here are a few sentences already done for you. The clues given would be helpful to make more sentences on your own.  

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F. Change the following sentences to the other voice.  

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G. Change the following into passive voice.   

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H. In the following sentences the verbs have two objects namely Direct and Indirect objects. Change each of the following sentences into two passives using direct object as the subject in one and indirect in the other.  

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I. Rewrite the following passage in passive voice.   

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J. Write a recipe of your favourite dish in passive voice. Remember to list out the ingredients of the dish you have chosen and their quantity. Use simple present tense to write your recipe.   

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K. Write a report of an event held at your school using passive voice. Use simple past tense to narrate the event.   

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