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Text Title /Type/Source Values No.

Skill focus & Sub-skills

Vocabulary focus

Language support

Writing focus

Communication Thinking skill skills A1. Web-diagram : comparison of past and present A3. World without Machines : Imagining the past

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A3. Short forms : A15. Words in A17. Advantages A1. Uses of uses of short different forms : and Computer : group forms and full word formation Disadvantages discussion forms Developing A6. Find a word : paragraphs similar meaning words A10. Phrases : using phrases in sentences A13, A14. Com- pound words : Compound words : formation of words A16. What does it mean ? meaning of words

2.1 A World of Machines Scientific A4. After listening A6. Opposites A9. Comparison A12. Be a poet : A2. Uses of (Poem) attitude comprehension A8. Word register: A10. Exaggeration: expressing Machines : A5. Listen again : true words belonging expressions used feelings through discussion in a and false : listening for to the same field for overstatement poetic lines group comprehension A13. Merits and A7. Reading for com- demerits prehension & Personal response

2.2 Yummy but Harmful! Scientific A3. Reading with a (Magazine report) attitude purpose of scanning : Health care Develop silent reading Awareness A8. Reading compre- regarding hension & personal food response adulteration A9. Function of the Institutes : reading comprehension A14. Dictation : While listening

A4. What do you A12. Joining A13. News story : A1. Sweetmeats : A5. Knowing the mean? Similar sentences : use developing an Group discussion effect : finding the meaning of linkers imaginative A2. Adulteration effect expressions story group discussion A6. Solutions : A7. Similar Finding solutions meaning words A10. Describing words A11 Match verbs and their meanings A2. The Title : reasoning A4. Ways of communication : reasoning A8. Process : logical arrangement of thoughts A9. The effect : understanding cause and effect

2.3 What is Internet ? Computer A5. True and False : (Informative article) literacy Read for comprehen- sion : developing silent reading A7, A12. Reading comprehension and Personal response A11. Read and find : Reading comprehension

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2.1 A World of Machines

A1. Web-diagram
Your teacher will invite one of you to draw the web-diagram on the black board. Discuss with your partner and fill in blank boxes. Develop a small paragraph using the information collected.

The ways of communication in PAST and PRESENT

A2. Uses of Machines

Discuss with your partner the following. Complete the table and report your observations to the class:

Sr
1 2 3 4 5

Machines/instruments/gadgets
iron

Used for
Pressing clothes

Possible danger
Skin burns

A3. World without Machines

You know that before the invention of machines we used to do all those things by ourselves. Think about any machine and imagine what the people used to do in olden days when machines were not there. For example:

When TV was not there! A4. Listen

Listen to the poem carefully and complete the following: 1. Write the names of the machines mentioned in the poem a).b)..c)..d). 2. Write the facilities provided by different machines mentioned in the poem a)..b) 3. The poet a) is happy about the change b) is unhappy about the change c) has no feelings in particular 4. Make a list of the things that the poet dislikes machines,. 5. The poet likes to speak . a) directly b) indirectly on a phone c) by using internet d) voice mail

A5. Listen again

Listen to the poem again. This time your teacher will ask one of you to read the poem. Say whether the following statements are true of false. 1. We live in the world of machines. 2. We have adequate facilities provided by machines. 3. A human touch is always maintained in the world of machines. 4. The poet wants to talk to a person who knows his feelings. 5. The poet wants to go back to the basics.
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A World of Machines

A6. Opposites
Look at the poem and find the opposite meaning words for the following: inadequate X warm X modern X comedy X extinct X

A world of machines is where we live; Its such a tragedy. The human touch is all but gone, Like ancient history. Voice mail, computers and fax machines, E-mail and web-sites galore, If we should survive a thousand more years, Theres bound to be very much more. I want to talk to a person, Someone who knows what I need, Im tired of listening to menus, Just answer the telephone please. Its time we got back to basics, Where people are really in tune. A cold metal box will not be enough To fulfill our need to commune. - David Ronald Bruce Pekrul

Glossary
fax machine: machine that sends and receives documents in electronic form galore: in large quantities menus: list of possible choices commune: share emotions and feelings without speaking

A7. Read the poem again and after discussing with your partner answer the following questions:
I. 1. What is the human touch compared to? 2. Who does the poet want to talk to? 3. Where does the poet want to go back? 4. What is a tragedy? II. 1. What will happen if we survive a thousand more years? 2. What is the poet complaining about? 3. Why does the poet say that its time to get back to basics? 4. What is a cold metal box referred to? III. 1. What, according to you, should be the place of machines in ones life? 2. Why do you think the poet is not happy about the world of machines? 3. How can we change the tragic world into a happy place?

A8. Word Register

Find from the poem words related to machine and make a Word Register. Arrange them in alphabetical order. fax machine,,..,.

A9. Comparison
Look at the following lines from the poem and discuss the following questions with your partner. The human touch is all but gone, Like ancient history. = What is compared to what? = What is common between these two?

A10. Exaggeration
Look at the line: If we should survive a thousand more years, Can we survive for thousand years? Why does the poet say so?

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A11. Complete
Read the poem again and complete the following: 1. We live in the world --------------------2. In thousand years ---------------------3. The poet wants to --------------------4. The poet is tired of ---------------5. The poet wants to go ---------------

A12. Be a Poet
According to the poet living in the world of machines is a tragedy. But living in the world of mobile phones/ computers/ vehicles is certainly a boon for us. Try to express your feeling through poetic lines of your own. For example:

World

of

Vehicles

Swiftly I go and swiftly I come from my dear school, The maker of my vehicle is certainly not a fool; I save my energy, I save my time, Moderate use of it is the thing in prime. Now discuss it with your partner. Jot down different words and try to write on A World of Mobile phones A World of Computers To make your attempt a success, here are some hints : = Use ideas from the poem itself = Try to use the pattern of lines = Make use of proper rhyming words, select them, replace them = Also think of any message to add = Try your imagination

A13. Merits and Demerits

Machines have become a part of our life. Enlist the merits and demerits of Using Machines. Later on develop a paragraph.

Using Machines
Merits
Save time and energy

Demerits
Make one dependent

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2.2 Yummy but Harmful

A1. Sweetmeats
Discuss with your partner the following: = The sweetmeats that you like = The reason why you like them = How the readymade sweetmeats are made attractive = The artificial and natural ingredients used = How you select the sweets when you buy them.

A2. Adulteration
Have you heard of adulterated food? You have to be aware of such adulterated food. Form groups of four students each and discuss with your partners the following points. Later on share your ideas with the class: 1. How can you differentiate from the original or natural food and the adulterated one? 2. What is being mixed in to add to the original or natural food? 3. What do you think will be the effect of this on our body? 4. How can we keep a check on this kind of food?

A3. Read the following write up and state whether the following statements are true or false.
1. All children enjoy candy floss. 2. Most youngsters like to have cold drinks. 3. Jam causes irritability among children. 4. Indian Institute of Toxicology Research is at Lucknow. 5. The team observed that the percentage of colours was as per the standard. 6. All the sweetmeats use permitted colours. 7. Around 12 per cent of food products for children contain colours banned by the Government.

A4. What do you mean?

Look at the following words and guess what you mean by them. You may discuss with your partner and write down your responses. Glance through the text again. = yummy food = = markets are flooded = = branded food = = prohibited colours = = overuse = = mouth fresheners = = bakery products =

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Yummy but harmful!

Indian markets are flooded with foods that contain colours beyond permissible limits

A5. Knowing the Effect

Look at the following conditions. Read the text and find the effect: 1. The colours used in food products = 2. Overuse of yellow colour = 3. Use of metanil yellow =

A6. Solutions
1. Glance through the text quickly and f i n d the solutions suggested by the writer 2. Add your own solutions. Discuss with your partner to find one.

A7. Similar meaning words

Glance through the text and find similar meaning words for the following: colours = not allowed = officially allowed = more than usual level = famous and well-known = people with special skill =

Glossary
salivate: produce saliva in mouth toxicology: study of poisons beverages: any type of drink except water flouters: having no respect for law neurotoxic: affecting nervous system

_ Dinsha Sachan (Down to Earth)

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A8. Read the text again and after discussing with your partner answer the following questions.
I. II. III. 1. How much percent of food products contain colours banned by the government? 2. What is the expected limit of food colours? 3. Which state flouts the rules of permissible colour? 1. Which colours impair growth in children? 2. What are the findings of the IITR? 1. Do you think that the title of the write-up is proper? If not, suggest a title. 2. What care will you take after reading this article? 3. Which social problem does the article speak about? 4. How is the technological advancement turning out to be harmful?

A9. Function of the Institutes

Glance through the article again and complete the following table. Sr. No. Name of the Institute 1 2 3 Located at Found out Function

A10. Describing words

Glance through the text again and find the words used to describe the following words: = rasgulla = = levels = = foods = = colours =

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A12. Joining sentences

Look at the given sentences and the underline word. Discuss with your partner and note your observations. = Over use of yellow colour in food products can cause irritability in children. = Studies have shown this. = Studies have shown that overuse of yellow colour in food products can cause irritability in children.

Discuss

Now do it for yourself 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Scientists have found it. Food products contain colours beyond permissible levels. Now a days markets are flooded with food products. Food products contain chemical colours. You know it. We are what we eat. The snake was eating a frog. The children saw the snake. The medicine should not be used. The medicine has crossed its expiry date.
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A13. News story

Look at the following news headlines. Select any one and write a brief story imagining what must have happened. Consider: illegal act done, reaction of the people, persons involved, the place where it happened, etc.

Sweetmeat Sellers Held for Food Adulteration

Language support
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A14. Dictation

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Your teacher will dictate a passage of about ten lines from any newspaper in English. Write down the passage in your note-book. If you have made fewer mistakes you are a good listener!

While taking dictation

= = = = = = Listen with concentration Pay attention to the pronunciation Look at the lip movements of the reader Pay attention to the meaning Adjust yourself with the speed of the reader Pay attention to the speed of writing

After taking dictation

= = = = = Compare your write up with the original one Find and count your mistakes Think about the kind of mistakes you made Think why you made them What do you think is the use of such dictation?

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2.3 What is the Internet?

A1.Uses of a computer
Discuss with your partner and write down the different uses of a computer.

A2. The Title

Look at the title of the lesson. It is a question. Discuss with your partner the probable answers to it. After reading the text, check your answer.

A3. Short forms

Look at the following short forms. Discuss their full forms and list them in your notebook. List the other short forms related to the field of computer and write their long forms. PC, CPU, UPS, CD, DVD, VCD, USB

A4. Ways of communication

Look at the following means of communication. Arrange them from the older one to the recent one. 1. telegram, 2.door to door courier, 3. post cards, 4.pigeons, 5. telephone, 6. mobile, 7. internet

A5. True or False

Read the two extracts and put a tick mark ( a ) against the true and a cross () against the false statement. 1. Internet network is connected only in cities. 2. There are powerful connecting cables used. 3. The information is stored in different computers. 4. Internet connection started from 1947. 5. You can connect yourself to other computer by wire.

A6. Find a word

Read both the parts again and find a word for each of the following. The first letter of each word is given for your help as a clue: 1. The process of shortening something = c 2. To exchange information, news, ideas, etc. = c 3. The device on which all the information is stored = s 4. A way of entering or reaching a particular place = a 5. Designed to do only one particular type of work = d

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Discover the uses and potential of the Web

The word Internet is a contraction of the words international and network. It is a vast worldwide network of powerful computer servers which are constantly connected to each other via high-speed communication cables. All the information that is on the Internet is stored on one of these servers. When you connect to the Internet, you connect to just one of these computers, but it is able to give you access to all the files stored on the other servers. Internet connection is also called going online or dialing up.

How it works
Imagine you had two computers in your house that were connected to each other with a cable. You could write a message on one and send it to the other over the cable. You could also use one computer to open a file on the other one. This is exactly how the Internet began way back in the late 1960s. Todays Internet works in the same way except that there are now millions of powerful computers called servers connected together via a dedicated communication network. As an individual computer user, you connect to one of these server computers, then use it as your gateway to the rest of the Internet.

A7. Read and answer

Read both the parts again and after discussing with your partner answer the following questions: I. 1. How is the word internet formed? 2. What is stored on a server? 3. What other terms are used for internet connection? II. 1. How can individual computer user use computer as a gateway? III. 1. Do you think computer can solve all our communication problems? 2. How would you like to use a computer?

A8. Process
You have gone through the process of how internet works. Complete the following flow chart to note the process.

A9. The Effect

Look at the following situations and after discussing with your partner state what will happen as an effect: 1. The server is connected through cables = 2. When you are connected to another server = 3. After getting connected to computers you can = 4. There is no connection established between two computers = 5. The electricity supply is not constant =
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A10. Phrases
Look at the following phrases and use them in the following sentences. connected to, stored on, way back in, rest of, in the same way, link with 1. Now a days everyone wants to get ------ the world through internet. 2. An e-mail that you send to your friend or relative is first --------the server. 3. A computer was invented -------in the late 19th century. 4. An internet brings you ------the world at your doorsteps. 5. Computerised robot works ------as human beings. 6. Internet provides you the ----- the remaining world.

A11. Read and find

Quickly go through the three parts and know the following. Write just in one sentence: The use of the Net = The World Wide Web = The World Wide Web Electronic mail = This is a unique service offered by the Internet. It is a huge collection of pages containing text, graphics and other media, The uses of the Net which you can view via your computers Web There are two main uses of the browser. Anyone with an Internet-connected Internettransferring electronic mail computer can view Web pagesno matter (e-mail) from computer to computer, and where the pages originate from or where the digital publishing on the World Wide viewer is in the world. Web (WWW or Web for short). Because Web pages are also connected by links. the World Wide Web is the part of the These are electronic connections between Internet that you can see on your screen, pages on the same or different Web sites, usually on similar or related subjects. This makes people often use the terms web, and information on the Web more accessible. internet interchangeably. But in fact the

Web is only part of what the Internet has to offer.

Electronic mail
More commonly known as e-mail, electronic mail is the primary means of communicating over the Internet. E-mail can be text-only, or can include attached files such as sounds or images. It is extremely fast transferring information, almost instantaneously.

A12. Read all the three parts again and after discussing with your partner answer the following questions:
I. II. III. 1. Why do people often use the terms web and internet interchangeably? 2. Why is WWW a unique service? 3. Mention the characteristics of e-mail. 1. What is a link? 2. How can you view the web pages? 1. What do you think are the various uses of the net? 2. Have you ever visited any web site? What is your experience?

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A13. Compound words

Look at the words given below. internet e-mail keyboard desktop software hardware

Discuss with your partner how these words are formed. The combination of two words has made the third word possible. For example: international +network = internet. In the same way find the combination of words for the remaining words. = Form some more words of your choice by joining two words.

A14. Form new words

The letter e is used for electronic. You have many words starting with e-. For example e-book, e-booking, e-service, e-trade, etc. List all such words that you see around. = Now imagine and frame more such words that are not heard so commonly.

A15. Words in different forms

Look at the following sentences. Discuss with your partner the words that are in bold. 1. Interchange of electronic data is possible. 2. You can interchange information easily with the help of a PC. 3. Interchangeable data is dangerous to access. 4. People often use the terms web and internet interchangeably. The bold word in sentence 1 shows the act therefore, it is ------The bold word in sentence 2 shows action, therefore it is ------The bold word in sentence 3 describes information, therefore it is ------The bold word in sentence 4 describes the action use, therefore it is -------u Now, complete the following table showing the different forms.

Verb
imagine computer

Noun

Adjective

Adverb

connective originally dedicate communication u Now, use the proper words in blanks to complete the following. Take help of the key provided. 1. When you appear for an interview, keep --------- certificates ready with you. (adjective form) 2. She was not able to distinguish between ---------- and reality. (noun form) 3. The discussion was both ----------and entertaining. (adjective form) 4. He -------- through body language easily. (verb form) 5. ------------ is an electronic machine that can store, organize and find information. (noun form)

Project
Words are in different forms. Collect words that are used in different forms. Put them in a table of columns. Prepare a small notebook to use as a reference book of your own.

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A16. What does it mean?

State what the following things mean. You may refer to the text: u u u u u u World Wide Web means = computer means = e-mail means = internet means = file means = dialing up means =

A17. Advantages and Disadvantages

Now a days computers are used in various fields. However, there are advantages as well as disadvantages of computers. Discuss with your partner and list them. Later on develop two paragraphs.

Advantages
u u u u stores lot of information . .. .

Disadvantages
u u u u rising unemployment .

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