Let’s March – Textbook Questions and Answers | Class 10 English

Write your contribution as a student to help and make a difference to needy children.

Put a tick (✓) or a cross (✗): A good speech delivered requires the following characteristics.
(1) Well planned and thoughts well-organized. (2) Delivered softly and in a low voice. (3) Speaker need not greet the dignitaries and audience. (4) Language used should be suitable to the audience. (5) Speech should be of a proper duration. (6) Speaker should be passive, and have no facial expressions. (7) Speech should be supported by good examples/episodes/visual aids (where possible). (8) Speaker should switch over from one language to another.

Read the expressions and put the expression numbers in the proper columns (Greeting/Salutation, Introduction, Body of the Speech, Conclusion, Thanking the Audience).
(1) Imagine! After ten years, what will happen? (2) Let me begin, today, by sharing my own experience. (3) Honourable Chief Guest ___, eminent dignitaries, ladies and gentlemen. (4) I don’t understand why we accept this issue so passively. (5) I am Adarsh Birajdar, (designation) standing before you. (6) A renowned personality (name) says “...” (7) Good morning, to one and all present today. (8) I express my deep gratitude to the organisers of this event/function. (9) Let me give you an example. (10) Thank you all for a patient listening and your interest in my talk. (11) You must have noticed that... (12) Before I conclude, I would like you to think over the fact that...

Make a list of as many Indian Nobel Laureates as you can (Name – Nobel Prize for).

What does Satyarthi refuse to accept?

What is the only aim in life for Kailash Satyarthi?

What did millions of individuals demand eighteen years ago?

What matters according to Satyarthi?

Why does the eight year old girl’s question shake Mr. Satyarthi?

What does Satyarthi challenge?

What is your vision of tomorrow?

What rights should every child have, in our times?

What was the response of the boy’s father? What was Satyarthi’s reaction to it?

What was Mr. Satyarthi’s vision as a child?

According to Mr. Satyarthi, who are calling for us?

What does Mr. Satyarthi request the listeners?

Name the following.
(a) The persons to whom Kailash Satyarthi gives the highest credit of his honour
(b) The greatest personalities from the land of Buddha
(c) So called daughters of Kailash Satyarthi
(d) The foreign activists of equal rights, mentioned in the speech

Mention the social issues highlighted by Kailash Satyarthi in his speech. (One is given: Child labour)

Complete the chart: The aim in life of Kailash Satyarthi is that every child should be free ... to ___ (seven items).

Complete the web-chart: What Kailash Satyarthi appeals – Let us ...

Think and give your own response.
(a) How can education help the deprived children and child labourers?

Think and give your own response.
(b) Name any other social activist who has worked/is working earnestly for child-welfare. Write about his/her activities.

Think and give your own response.
(c) What message does the little bird’s story of the forest fire convey to us? Explain.

Think and give your own response.
(d) Besides the political freedom that our nation enjoys, what other freedom should it strive for? Say why.

Think and give your own response.
(e) What is your impression of the acceptance speech given by Kailash Satyarthi when he received the Nobel Prize? Write in 3 to 4 sentences.

Choose the correct option that conveys the exact meaning of the word: divinity

Choose the correct option that conveys the exact meaning of the word: extremist

Choose the correct option that conveys the exact meaning of the word: culminate

Choose the correct option that conveys the exact meaning of the word: exploitation

Choose the correct option that conveys the exact meaning of the word: mortality

Choose the correct option that conveys the exact meaning of the word: dignity

Pick out from the lesson the Noun forms of the following words: (a) dignified (b) pacify (c) pursue (d) ignore (e) poor (f) divine

Pick out from the lesson the Verb forms of: (a) democracy (b) global (c) hindrance (d) resolution (e) liberty (f) service

Use the following words as a noun as well as a verb and make meaningful sentences with each set: march, honour, credit, stitch.

Write a minimum of 4 hidden words of more than 4 letters from ‘intergovernmental’.

Make meaningful sentences by using the following phrases: (a) in the pursuit of (b) be afraid of (c) give up

Pick from the lesson the antonyms of: ignorance, immortality, deny, violence, well-known, slavery

What will you do in the following situations?
(a) If you see a child working in a restaurant
(b) If you find a child working at a construction site
(c) If you find a child working at a brickwork site
(d) If you come across a beggar child

Write any 2 efforts that you can make to enrol deprived children/out-of-school children into a school. (One is given: I will persuade parents of such children to send them to school.)

Say whether the following sentences are Assertive, Imperative, Interrogative or Exclamatory.
(1) The Mantra carries a prayer. (2) Is the world so poor? (3) Kill not your children because of poverty. (4) Let’s walk together. (5) What can one person do? (6) We have made progress. (7) How utterly we have failed our children! (8) What a big challenge it is!

Rewrite the following sentences as Assertive (statements).
(1) Why didn’t you come earlier? (2) How frightened their eyes look! (3) How angry it makes me! (4) Should I accept such shackles of slavery? (5) What can one person do?

Find more sentences in the present perfect tense (have/has + past participle) from the text, besides: We have made progress...; We have prevented millions of child deaths; It has happened.

Find examples of infinitives from the speech and underline them (e.g. Every child is free to grow; I refuse to accept...).

Complete the following sentences with the help of the sentence given.
(a) The biggest challenge knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
(i) No other challenge knocking ... as big as ...
(ii) Fear and intolerance are bigger ...
(b) The Nobel Prize is one of the greatest honours in the world.
(i) Very few honours ...
(ii) The Nobel Prize is greater than ...

Match the sentences in part A with those in part B.
A: (1) He was kidnapped by an extremist militia. (2) The child was forced to kill his friends and family. (3) This can be done by us.
B: (a) They forced the child to kill his friends and family. (b) We can do this. (c) An extremist militia kidnapped him.

Change the following sentences into the passive voice.
1. We can do it. 2. Her angry question still shakes me. 3. Governments must make child-friendly policies. 4. His answer made me angry.

Imagine your school invites Malala to preside over the ‘Children’s Day’ celebration programme. Draft a welcome speech for this guest of honour (greeting and salutation; self introduction and introduction of the topic; a catchy thought to start with; body with examples; conclusion).