Class 10 English Main Course Book Unit 2 Education Chapter 2 Educating the Girl Child CBSE
Textual Exercises
Question 1.
Working in pairs, answer the following questions :
- Name two states with the lowest female literacy.
- Name two states with the highest female literacy.
- Name two states that rank second in female literacy.
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Question 2.
What do you think are the causes for female illiteracy in India ?
- ……………………………………………………………………….
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Question 3.
Read the following short story The whole world came together
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Question 4.
On the basis of your reading of the story and the discussion between the girls in the following picture, have a whole class discussion on-The Need to Recognize and Empower the Girl Child.
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Question 5.
Read the following extract on Girl Child Education
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Question 6.
On the occasion of Women’s Day, your school Literary Club organizes a Speech Competition on the topic-“Empowering the Girl Child is the Best Way to Empower the Nation.” On the basis of the input given above and your own ideas, draft the speech.
When giving your speech :
- Stand
- Make sure you look at every member of your audience while speaking
- Use questions, so as to involve your audience e.g. “Did you know that ………. ?” “I wonder how many of you are aware ……… ?”
- Speak up so that everyone can hear you
- Pause occasionally
- Don’t talk too fast
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Question 7.
Girls’ Enrolment:
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Question 8.
Did you note that in spite of the Government’s initiatives and provisions made for the girl child, the statistics shown in the enrolment position of girls in primary and upper primary are not very encouraging. Write a letter to the editor of a national daily, expressing your concern about the issue and the need to work on a war footing to counter the problem of poor enrolment of girls.
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Poetry
NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English First Flight
- Chapter 1 A Letter to God
- Chapter 2 Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
- Chapter 3 Two Stories about Flying
- Chapter 4 From the Diary of Anne Frank
- Chapter 5 The Hundred Dresses – I
- Chapter 6 The Hundred Dresses – II
- Chapter 7 Glimpses of India
- Chapter 8 Mijbil the Otter
- Chapter 9 Madam Rides the Bus
- Chapter 10 The Sermon at Benares
- Chapter 11 The Proposal
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Unit 1 Health and Medicine
Unit 2 Education
Unit 3 Science
Unit 4 Environment
- Environment Introduction
- A. Treading the Green Path: Towards Preservation
- B. Heroes of the Environment
- C. Let’s Clean up
- D. A Tale of Three Villages
- E. Geological Heritage
Unit 5 Travel and Tourism
Unit 6 National Integration
CBSE Class 10 English Workbook Solutions and Answers
NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English Workbook
- Unit 1 Determiners
- Unit 2 Tenses
- Integrated Grammar Practice 1
- Unit 3 Subject – Verb Agreement
- Unit 4 Non Finites
- Integrated Grammar Practice 2
- Unit 5 Relatives
- Unit 6 Connectors
- Integrated Grammar Practice 3
- Unit 7 Conditionals
- Unit 8 Comparison
- Integrated Grammar Practice 4
- Unit 9 Avoiding Repetition
- Unit 10 Nominalisation
- Integrated Grammar Practice 5
- Unit 11 Modals-Expressing Attitudes
- Integrated Grammar Practice 6
- Unit 12 Active and Passive
- Integrated Grammar Practice 7
- Unit 13 Reported Speech
- Integrated Grammar Practice 8
- Unit 14 Prepositions
- Integrated Grammar Practice 9
A. Resource Material
B. Integrated Grammar