AP 10th Class English Workbook Answers Unit 3 Two Stories about Flying

Let’s Begin

I. Read the story, ‘His First Flight’ again. Working in groups of four, answer the following ques ons
selec ng the correct op on.

Ques on 1.
The young seagull was afraid of flying because _________.
a) he felt his wings would not support him
b) other bird knew to fly very well
c) the sea was very large
d) his mother and father threatened him
Answer:
a) he felt his wings would not support him

Ques on 2.
Why did his family taunt him about his cowardice ?
a) He went with his sisters and brothers.
b) He was not listening to them.
c) He was not accep ng their request to fly with them.
d) He was not liked by them at all.
Answer:
c) He was not accep ng their request to fly with them.

Ques on 3.
How did the young seagull start flying?
a) His mother showed him the fish and moved away from him to make him fly.
b) His brothers and sisters trained him to fly.
c) He was hungry and he moved to fly in search of food.
d) He did not learn to fly at all.
Answer:
a) His mother showed him the fish and moved away from him to make him fly.

Ques on 4.
Which of the following statements is not true of the young seagull?
a) He was lazy and did not want to fly.
b) He wanted to fly but was afraid of flying.
c) His mother, father, brothers, and sisters helped him fly.
d) His hunger made him fly.
Answer:
a) He was lazy and did not want to fly.

Ques on 5.
Say whether the following statements about the seagull are true or false.
a) The young seagull liked to fly with his brothers and sisters. (False)
b) The young seagull was hungry so he started to fly. (True)
c) He was scared of flying first. (True)
d) He flew on his own to get the food. (False)
2. You have another story, ‘The Black Aeroplane’ in the lesson. Read the story again and develop at
least five mul ple choice ques ons based on the story. Work in pairs and ask your partner to answer
them. The ques ons may be based on the events, persons, reasons and causes of the events, and
results in the story.

Ques on 1.
The moon was coming up in the east, behind me
a) The narrator was flying towards the east.
b) The narrator was flying towards the south.
c) The narrator was flying towards the north.
d) The narrator was flying towards the west.
Answer:
d) The narrator was flying towards the west.

Choose the right statement.

Ques on 2.
“I ought to go back to Paris.” Why ?
a) Because he had to a end to an official work.
b) As his wife was sick and he should be beside her.
c) For, weather condi ons and fuel posi on compel him to go back to Paris.
d) Because the voice from the radio advised him to turn back.
Answer:
c) For, weather condi ons and fuel posi on compel him to go back to Paris.

Ques on 3.
“I was lost int he storm.” This means
a) the speaker was on the sea and was caught in the storm.
b) he was flying and was unable to see the way.
c) he was driving home and the road ahead was damaged in the storm.
d) he was overwhelmed by problems and felt he was lost totally.
Answer:
b) he was flying and was unable to see the way.

Ques on 4.
“Follow me,” he was saying. Who was “he” ?
a) the man from the control centre
b) another pilot
c) the copilot
d) an airport officer
Answer:
b) another pilot

Ques on 5.
“She looked at me strangely,” because (Fill in)
a) I looked funny.
b) I asked for some help.
c) I asked her a ques on that sounded incredible.
d) I behaved in a peculiar way.
Answer:
c) I asked her a ques on that sounded incredible.

Reading Comprehension

Complete the box narra ng the story in the correct sequence.

Answer:
1) Once two women and a man got into a bus and found places to sit.
2) The conductor’s malicious eyes rested on the beady eyed toy dog.
3) The conductor, the resen ul employee, with a par cular vague grievance against the passangers,
wanted to make the most of it.
4) He ordered the woman to take the dog out. Since she refused to get down the conductor stopped
the bus abruptly.
5) Two or three passengers got the money back and walked away.
6) The conductor was stubborn and wasn’t willing to start the bus unless his expecta ons were met.
7) The passengers cri cised severely and got down from the bus and went away.
8) The conductor did not give up. He sent the lady with the dog away to the top.

Vocabulary

1. Making adverbs: bi erly, imperturbably, violently, and evidently are some words you have come
across in the story. These are adverbs. A few words are given below. Make adverbs of these words
and use them in sentences of your own. (Take care of the spelling when you convert these into
adverbs.)
Answer:
a) Angry – Angrily: Some corporators reacted angrily to the chairman’s remarks.
b) Vague – Vaguely: I can vaguely remember my first day at school.
c) Indignant – Indignantly: He indiginantly rejected the claim.
d) Threatening – Threateningly: The enemy plane came threateningly close.
e) Hurry – Hurriedly: I hurriedly got up and dressed.

2. Now, look at the word given below in italic.

He was immovable.
‘im’ is the prefix added to the word ‘movable’. The prefix’im’ made ‘immovable’ an antohym of
‘movable’. Now, make more words with the prefixim- which are antonyms
Answer

 mobile – immobile

 possible – impossible

 mortal – immortal

 probable – improbable

 mature – immature

 perfect – imperfect

 balance – imbalance

 penetrable – impenetrab

3. In groups of five, create a word-web or colloca on chart of words with prefixes’il’ and ‘in’.

Example: logical – illogical Example : secure insecure

1. legal – illegal 1. complete – incomplete

2. literate – illiterate 2. significant – insignificant

3. legible – illegible 3. sane – insane

4. legi mate – illegi mate 4. expensive – inexpensive

5. licit – illtcit 5. dependent – independent

Grammar

A. Phrasal verbs

Find out the meaning of the following phrasal verbs and use them appropriately in sentences.
a) walk in
b) walk out
c) take away
d) take up
e) take in
f) take out
g) give away
h) give in
i) give up
j) put in
k) put away
I) put out
Answer:
a) walk in : to enter a room when others there are not expec ng one
Mohini walked in the manager’s chamber when he was speaking to their CEO.

b) walk out : to leave a mee ng, performance etc suddenly especially in order to show your
disapproval
They hinted that they would walk out of the peace talks.

c) take away : to make a feeling, pain etc disappear

They gave me some pills to take away the pain.

d) take up : to start doing something

George takes up his new job next week.

e) take in : to allow someone to stay in your home

He was homeless, so we took him in.

f) take out : to remove something from inside somebody’s body especially a part of it
How many teeth did the den st take out ?

g) give away : to present something

The Mayor gave away the prizes at the community fair.

h) give in : to admit that you have been defeated by someone or something

The rebels were forced to give in.

i) give up : to stop trying to do something

He gave up smoking.

k) put in : to give a performance of something, especially one of a par cular kind

All the actors put in great performances.

k) put away : to save money to spend later

She has a few thousand dollars put away for her re rement.

l) put out: to stop something from burning or shining

Firefighters soon put the fire out.

B. The Passive
Use the words given below and frame sentences using the passive forms of the verbs.

Examples:

 Rice/cuI vate/Gange c valley and coastal region. (Simple Present)

Rice is cul vated in Gange c valley and coastal region.

 The documents /sign/principal. (Present Perfect)

The documents have been signed bv the principal.

a) Taj Mahal/build/Shah Jahan. (Simple Past)

b) Malaria virus/transmit/female Anopheles mosquito. (Simple Present)
c) The case /solve/police and two persons arrest. (Present Perfect)
d) Many houses /and lives/destroy/the volcanic erup on in Mt. Etna. (Simple Past)
e) The ultraviolet rays/prevent/the ozone layer/entering the earth’s surface. (Simple Present)
f) The field/convert/playground. (Present Perfect)
Answers
a) The Taj Mahal was built by Shah Jahan.
b) Malaria virus is transmi ed by female Anopheles mosquito.
c) The case has been solved by police and two persons have been arrested.
d) Many houses and lives were destroyed by volcanic erup on in Mt. Etna.
e) The ultraviolet rays are prevented by the ozone layer from entering the earth’s surface.
f) The filed has been converted into playground.

C. Unscramble the following sentences to make meaningful ones:

a) records/flying/many/who/American aviator/was an/ Amelia Earhart/set

b) the first/across/woman/solo/to fly/the Atlan c Ocean/ she/became
c) a flight/July 1937/the globe/Earhart/disappeared/ to circumnavigate/somewhere over
the/Pacific/in/during
d) was never/found/and/she was/officially declared/plane wreckage/lost/at sea/her
e) century/her/disappearance /remains/of the/one of the/greatest/unsolved mysteries/ twen eth
Answers
a) Amelia Earhart who was an American aviator set many flying records.
b) She became the first solo woman to fly across the Atlan c Ocean.
c) During a flight in July 1937 to circumnavigate the globe, Earhart disappeared somewhere over the
Pacific.
d) Her plane wreckage was never found and she was officially declared lost at sea.
e) Her disappearance remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the twen eth century.

Edi ng

1. Use capital le ers, commas, and full stops to edit this paragraph.

In some parts of our country, there are frequent reports about Uniden fied Flying Objects (UFOs)
which people claimed to have seen flying in the sky and which are believed to be space ships carrying
aliens from other planets some people have given evidences to support their observa ons they said
that they have found mysterious objects in paddy fields. Some others, a er seeing a film on space
said that they had seen unusual objects flying in the sky. Public panicked there were arguments and
discussions all over the country. Police were on red alert Many community centres’ were established
people become more vigilant gradually the number of sigh ngs reduced.
Answer
In some parts of our country, there are frequent reports about Uniden fied Flying Objects (UFOs),
which people claimed to have seen flying in the sky and which are believed to be space ships carrying
aliens from other planets. Some people have given evidences to support their observa ons.

They said that they have found mysterious objects in paddy fields. Some others, a er seeing a film
on space, said that they had seen unusual objects flying in the sky. Public panicked. There were
arguments and discussions all over the country. Police were on red alert. Many community centres
were established. People became more vigicant. Gradually the number of sigh ngs reduced.

Listening

1. Do you like riddles? Riddles make us think and a empt to solve puzzles through various ways and
means. Read this riddle out loud and find answers to it. You can also discuss with your Mends. You
will no ce that we speak out what we think. This is known as Think-aloud protocol. As you solve the
riddles, speak out all the ideas that come to your mind to solve it.

Riddle 1
A farmer returns from the market, where he bought a goat, a cabbage and a wolf (what a crazy
market). On the way home he must cross a river. His boat is small and won’t fit more than one of his
purchases. He cannot leave the goat alone with the cabbage (because the goat would eat it), nor he
can leave the goat alone with the wolf (because the goat would be eaten).
How can the farmer get everything on the other side in this river crossing puzzle ?
Answer:
The first step that must be taken is to let the goat go across the river, as any other t ac ons will result
in the goat or cabbage being eaten. When the farmer returns to the original side, he has the choice
of taking either the wolf or the cabbage across next.

If he takes the wolf across, he would have to return to get the cabbage, resul ng in the wolf ea ng
the goat. If he takes the cabbage across second, he will need to return, to get the wolf, resul ng in
the cabbage being eaten by the goat. The dilemma is solved by taking the wolf (or the cabbage) over
and bringing the goat back: Now he can take the cabbage (or the wolf) over, and finally return to
fetch the goat.

Summary of his ac ons in the following steps:

 Take the goat over

 Return empty-handed

 Take the wolf or the cabbage over

 Return with the goat

 Take whichever wasn’t taken in step 3 over

 Return empty-handed

 Take the goat over.

Riddle 2
Three humans, dne big monkey, and two small monkeys are to cross a river:
a) Only humans and the big monkey can row the boat.
b) At all mes, the number of humans on either side of the river must be greater or
equal to the number of monkeys on that side (or else the humans will be killed by the monkeys!).
c) The boat only has room for two (monkeys or humans).
d) Monkeys can jump out of the boat when it’s on the river bank.
How will they cross the river? Help them out.
Answer
First trip : The big monkey and a small monkey cross the river. A er dumping the small monkey on
the other bank, the big monkey rows back to the first bank.

Status review a er the first trip : On the first bank, you have 3 humans and 1 small monkey and on
the second bank just 1 small monkey. The big‘monkey has just reached the first bank in the boat.

Second trip : The big monkey and one human cross the river and leaving the human on the other
bank the big mpnkey returns to the first bank.

Status a er the second trip: On the first bank, you have 2 humans and 1 small monkey and on the
second bank. 1 human and 1 small monkey. The big monkey has reached the first bank jn the boat.

Third trip : Two humans cross over, one human calmly gets off, outnumbering the lone small monkey
on the other bank and second human rows back.

Status a er the third trip: On the first bank now you have the big monkey and 1 small monkey. On
the opposite bank 2 humans and 1 small monkey with the third human just reaching the first bank in
the first bank in the boat.

Fourth trip : The third human ferries the big monkey across, puts him on the other bank and rows
back to the first bank.

Status a er the fourth trip : On the first bank, the hapless small monkey waits alone, on the second
bank 2 monkeys and 2 humans coexist amicably and third human reaching the first bank.

Fi h and last trip : Reaching the first bank, the third human now picks up the small monkey the small
monkey lovingly, rows across with him and both get off the boat. Story is over with all being on the
second bank.

Wri ng

Ar cle Wri ng

1. ‘Rules are meant to be observed in spirit not only in le er’. Explain what you understand by this
statement. Write an ar cle in about 120-150 words on how the rules can be effec vely implemented
in the society and ci zens can follow it in the true spirit. You may use any of the ideas given in the
box. Follow the stages involved in the process approach to wri ng.
a) Use it in the context of gender (protec on of women’s rights/dowry/female infan cide, etc.).
b) In the context of environment (cu ng of trees/poaching/pollu on).
c) Smoking in public/following traffic rules, etc. (add cartoons with fun facts, for example parking in
front of no parking sign), d) In the context of value and self discipline.
Answer:
Recently the concept ‘The le er versus the spirit of the law (rule)’ has been gaining importance in
society. It explains the rela onship between the law, social norms and fairness in society. We are
going to highlight a scenario in which the le er of the law or the spirit of the law may be breached.
We hypothesize that it may be unfair to violate the spirit of the law,, even if the le er of the law has
hot been violated.

Even in the context of environment rules are to be observed in spirit but not in le er. Government
has brought many rules to demote deforesta on. The Foresta on Conserva on Act of 1980 aimed at
slowing dowp the deforesta on caused by the .

conversion of forest lands to non-forest purposes. But with a growing popula on, we are running out
of land to grow crops and keep livestock. For building mul purpose irriga on projects forests have to
be cut down in large areas of land. In this context the rules against deforesta on are to be violated.
Rapid industrialisa on, agricultural moderna sa on, burgeoning popula on and other factors are
combining in many less developed countries, to damage the natural environment so severely.

Economy and Economics are closely related issues. Development is not possible without adequate
emphasis on environmental protec on. Development and environment are complementary to each
other, helping each other to grow and antagonist terms because one hinders and spoils the other.
The more the development, the more the degrada on of environment.

The more the development, the more the deforesta on. But without these industries, there will be
no development in means of transporta on, revolu on, in communica on and network. Thus there
is a conflict between environmentalists and developers. The developers say there is no development
without environmental degrada on.

On the other hand, the environmentalists allege that the developers are destroying the environment.
Thus in the course of development we should follow the rules of environmental protec on in spirit
but not in le er. That does not mean we have the right to destroy forests by taking up deforesta on
measures.

We have to make up the loss of deforesta on by means of afforesta on or reforesta on methods. In

short we have to grow what we have cut. Thus the development and environment are balanced and
they lead to prosperity of the country.

Ques on 2.
You have read and experienced how the li le seagull learnt to fly and then the story of the
mysterious black aeroplane. You have also read the story, ‘All about a dog’. How were these
experiences? You may have also experienced some such situa ons in your life: learning to ride on a
bicycle, watching a cat or any other animal trying to jump over the wall, your own bi er experience
in a difficult situa on, etc. Think of such an experience and write down the points and develop the
ideas into an outline. Write your experiences like a short story.
Answer:

Story Wri ng

I was then a 12 year old boy. I did not know how to ride a bicycle. All my friends, brothers and my
cousins can ride a bicycle. Even the li le children younger to me can ride a bicycle. Some of my
classmates can even ride scooters. This made me shy of myself. My friends and classmates used to
make fun of me.
They used to humiliate me for not learning how to ride a bicycle. Some of my friends used to suggest
me that I should learn riding a bicycle as early as possible. They used to encourage me by saying that
it is not a hard task. They promised me they would help me to learn to ride a bicycle.

But 1 am afraid of riding bicycle. I had a feeling that I would fall down and incur injuries. I am afraid
of heavy vehicles such as lorries, buses and cars. I would be scared of speeding vehicles. I would
always have a feeling they might hit me or run over me. I am not confident of myself.

But one day during summer holidays, my friends forced me to learn riding a bicycle. They threatened
that they would cease to be my friends if I didn’t learn how to ride. They gave me confidence by
ci ng so many examples. They told me how even small birds could fly great heights if they were
scared of falling down from such great heights. Even animals and birds threw their li le offsprings
out of huts and dwellings and forced them to fly and run on their own.

Thus they tried to build confidence in me. They tried to explain to me how difficult it would be if we
don’t know how to ride a bicycle / vehicle. In this world of dash and dart the life will be impossible
without knowing how to drive. There words soothened my fear. I gathered confidence from their
words. 1 expressed my acceptance finally. Three of my friends made me learn how to get on and off
the bicycle. They made me wear knee and elbow pads.

They selected a flat, smooth, comfortable and low traffic area. They brought a cycle with training
wheels. The seat of the cycle is very low so that I was able to balance by stopping myself with my
feet. Very soon I was able to learn pedalling, dismount the bike, how to balance, how to change
direc ons etc. Three days con nuously they helped me to learn cycling. Day by day I perfected
cycling. On the third day I was able to ride on my own. Now I can ride the bicycle with a lot of
precision and perfec on.

Project

Go around your neighbourhood and talk to people, par cularly elders, and collect riddles and puzzles
in their languages.

 Ask them how and why such riddles could have emerged.

 Collect at least 10-15 riddles and write them in an order with informa on.

 Find out more about the riddle.

 Present it to the class as a chart and oral presenta on.

1. There is only one word in the dic onary that’s spelled wrong. What is it ?
Answer: The word‘wrong’. It’s the only word that spelled WRONG.

2. I have a tail and a head, but no body. What am I ?

Answer: A coin.

3. Two fathers and 2 sons spent the day fishing, but only caught 3 fish. This was enough ‘for each of
them to have one fish. How is this possible ?
Answer: There were only three people fishing. There was one father, his son and his son’s son. This
means there were 2 fathers and two sons.
4. How many months of the year have 28 days ?
Answer: All the 12 months. Every month has at least 28 days.

5. A man who was Outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat, didn’t get a single hair on his head
wet. Why?
Answer: He was bald.

6. A man dies of old age on his 25th birthday. How is this possible ? .
Answer: He was born on February 29. Every fourth year only he will get a birthday. That means that
he died at the age of 100.

7. I am light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
Answer:
Breath.

8. What three numbers, none of which is zero, give the same result whether they are added or
mul plied ?
Answer:
One, two and three [1 + 2 + 3 = 6; 1 x 2 x 3 = 6]

9. Three doctors said that Bill was their brother. Bill says he has no brothers. How many brothers
does Bill actually have ?
Answer:
None. He has three sisters.

10. A man died on the same day on which he was born. But he was 22 years old when he died. How
was it possible ?
Answer:
He was born on the same day of Vikram era and died on the same day of the Saka era. The difference
between the two eras is 22 years. Vikram era was started in 56 A.D. and the Saka era was started in
78 A.D.

11. What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 2/4 goat ?

Answer: Chicago

12. A tree doubled in height each year un l it reached its maximum height over the course of ten
years. How many years did it take for the bee to reach half its maximum height?
Answer: 9 years.

13. I am tall when I am young, and I’m short when I am old. What am I ?
Answer: Candle.

14. Where is the only place where today comes before yesterday ?
Answer: In the dic onary.

15. What’s always found on the ground but never gets dirty ?
Answer: A shadow