Class 10 English Main Course Book Unit 1 Health and Medicine Chapter 3 “Whopping Walter” Hudson CBSE

Class 10 English Main Course Book Unit 1 Health and Medicine Chapter 3 “Whopping Walter” Hudson CBSE 

Textual Exercises

Question 1.
You probably know the meanings of the words workaholic and alcoholic. What do you think a foodaholic is ? Walter Hudson was one. How much do you weigh ? Walter Hudson weighed more, much more. This is his obituary.
Answer:

Alcoholic means a person addicted to drinking. Workaholic means a person who is addicted to working, that is, who has made work his addiction. Similarly, a foodaholic is a person who has made eating a habit, a passion of his life.

I weigh about 50 kg.

Question 2.
Copy and complete the following table, using information from the boxes below.
(Draw a X if there is no information to put in certain boxes.)

Year	What happened	Weight

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Question 3.
Find words in the passage from the paragraphs indicated within brackets and complete the following sentences. Use only one word, in its appropriate form, in each blank.

1. Some people are so ________ to their work that they have no time for their family. (para-2)
2. Harshad’s corrupt practices soon gained him ________ in the city. (para-2)
3. When a person is dehydrated, he should be given ________ amounts of fluid. (para-6)
4. He visited various vintage car rallies because he had a ________ for old cars. (para-7)
5. If you over-eat and do not exercise, you will become ________ (para-9)
6. The driver had to ________ the winding road to the mountain top with caution. (para-8)
7. The new literacy programme ________ a 20% increase in the literacy rate over the next two years. (para-11)

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Question 4.
(a) Arrange the following words associated with eating on a scale ranging from ‘peck’ to ‘gorge’. You may add more words to the list given below :

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Question 5.
Have a class discussion…

1. What do you think life was really like for Walter Hudson ? Was he happy ? Did he have many friends ? Think of the things that you do everyday : what things could Walter not do ? Also, what about clothes, chairs, a bed, washing himself…

2. Why do you think he did not go on a serious diet when he was much younger, so that he could live a fuller life ?

3. What advice would you have given Walter on his diet ?

4. Where do you think he got the money from to eat so much food ?

5. Who do you think bought and cooked all the food he ate ? Were they also to blame for Walter’s obesity ?

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Question 6.
The following is an entry in Walter’s diary :

Write the next day’s entry in Walter’s diary. Make up information, in order to make your entry interesting.

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Question 7.
Now, read the following telephone conversation which took place between Radhika and Gaurish. As Gaurish wishes to leave home immediately, he will not be able to meet his parents who have gone to the market. He leaves a message for his parents. Write the message for Gaurish in not more than 40 words.
Answer:

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Fiction

• Chapter 1 Two Gentlemen of Verona
• Chapter 2 Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger
• Chapter 3 The Letter
• Chapter 4 A Shady Plot
• Chapter 5 Patol Babu, Film Star
• Chapter 6 Virtually True

Poetry

• Chapter 7 The Frog and the Nightingale
• Chapter 8 Mirror
• Chapter 9 Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments
• Chapter 10 Ozymandias
• Chapter 11 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• Chapter 12 Snake

Drama

• Chapter 13 The Dear Departed
• Chapter 14 Julius Caesar

NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English First Flight

NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English First Flight (Prose)

• 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

NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English First Flight (Poem)

• Chapter 1 Dust of Snow
• Chapter 2 Fire and Ice
• Chapter 3 A Tiger in the Zoo
• Chapter 4 How to Tell Wild Animals
• Chapter 5 The Ball Poem
• Chapter 6 Amanda
• Chapter 7 Animals
• Chapter 8 The Trees
• Chapter 9 Fog
• Chapter 10 The Tale of Custard the Dragon
• Chapter 11 For Anne Gregory

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• Chapter 1 A Triumph of Surgery
• Chapter 2 The Thief’s Story
• Chapter 3 The Midnight Visitor
• Chapter 4 A Question of Trust
• Chapter 5 Footprints without Feet
• Chapter 6 The Making of a Scientist
• Chapter 7 The Necklace
• Chapter 8 The Hack Driver
• Chapter 9 Bholi
• Chapter 10 The Book that Saved the Earth

CBSE Class 10 English Main Course Book Solutions and Answers

CBSE Class 10 English Main Course Book MCB Solutions and Answers

Unit 1 Health and Medicine

• Health and Medicine Introduction0
• A. Do Indians Get Enough Sleep ?
• B. Laughter – The Best Medicine
• C. “Whopping Walter” Hudson
• D. The World of Sports
• E. Nature’s Medicines

Unit 2 Education

• Education Introduction
• A. My struggle for an Education
• B. Educating the Girl Child
• C. Inclusive Education
• D. Vocational Education

Unit 3 Science

• Science Introduction
• A. Promise for the Future : Renewable Energy
• B. Pluggin into Future
• C. Space Travel
• D. Letters from the planet Aurigae II

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

• Travel and Tourism Introduction
• A. Land of All Seasons
• B. Eco Tourism
• C. The Emerald Islands
• D. Promoting Tourism

Unit 6 National Integration

• National Integration Introduction
• A. Unity in Diversity
• B. Challenges to National Integration
• C. Spirit of Unity
• D. Mile Sur Mera Tumhara

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

CBSE Class 10 English Grammar

A. Resource Material

• Tenses
• Modals
• Active and Passive Voice
• Subject-Verb Concord
• Direct and Indirect Speech
• Clauses
• Determiners
• Prepositions

B. Integrated Grammar

• Gap Filling
• Editing
• Omission
• Sentence Reordering
• Sentence Transformation