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8th Notes
8th Notes
Day in the Ashram – C.F Andrews
I. Answer th e following qu estions.
1) Who named the School Shantiniketan?
Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore named the School Shantiniketan.
2) When does the day in Shantiniketan begin?
The day begins long before the sunrise.
5) The boys in Shantinlketan get up early in the morning. Who else are the early risers?
The Choristers and the birds on the amloki groves are early risers.
2) What are Shantinikethan boys famous for?
Shantinikethan boys are famous for their sports and games.
3) How do the boys spend evenings before they go to bed?
Before they go to bed some fairy tales are told, short dramas are recited Gurudeva's songs are sung and different
school gatherings are held.
4) Read the second Paragraph carefully what it describes is_
Ans- (b) the song of the choristers.
5) How does Shantiniketan prepare the boys for life?
The education here is the living education.
Boys are taught according to their tastes and preferences.
They enjoy learning and become exports in the subject of their liking.
That is how Shantiniketan prepares boys for life.
IV.
Unimaginative
Living Education Instruction
Meditating learners Memorizing,
Learning outside in nature, Students asking questions to Teachers E punishing dictating notes, Passive listeners, bookis
xperimenting h learning
Creative thinking. Identifying, students natural tastes.
6) Write a few lines about your school using the following clues.
Our School is located in the heart of the city. The name of our School is G.G.J.C HIGH SCHOOL SECTION
CHANNAPATNA. It is located near the Hospital. The building of our School is beautiful and solid. There is a beautiful g
arden in front of our school. There is vast playground behind the school building we play different games after school
hours. There are good experienced and learned teachers in our School. They take utmost interest in teaching us. Th
ey allow us to ask questions and solve our problems. There is a big laboratory. All the facilities for experiments are
available Teachers help us to conduct experiments. Students are allowed to play different games like football, Cricke
t, hockey, kabaddi, basketball etc. Our school is a model School; It prepares good citizens of our country.
V. 1. VOCABULARY
Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with the help of clues given in brackets. (Completed).
1) When you blow air into balloon it becomes bigge r and
bigge r.
2) As the train approaches the station the sound of its whistle becomes louder and louder.
3) If you practise harder and harder you will feel more and more confidant to solve the problems.
4) Man has been constructing taller and taller buildings in
cities.
5) As you move away from a tree it looks smalle r and
smaller.
V.6. Fill in the blanks with appropriate prefixes choosing from the ones given above (vs)
1) The School re-opens on June 1.
2) Manish eats meat. He is a non-Vegetarian.
3) Terrorists are anti-social.
4) Bakra Nangal is multipurpose project.
5) Plastic chairs are in-expensive.