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A. Work in small groups and do the following:
1. Talk to your friends and seek their opinion on the lifestyle of modern youth. Ask them:
- (I) Do you find life leisurely or fast?
- (II) Are you satisfied with what you see today?
B. Answer the following questions briefly:
1. Where did the writer watch the play?
2. Who was the chief character in the play?
3. Does the writer dislike rapid movement in every field?
4. In which situation does the writer find himself in the cinema?
5. How does the writer classify himself?
6.1 LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS
1. Write a few sentences about the elderly corn-merchant.
2. *"They tell me there's an aeroplane now that goes at 1,000 miles an hour. Now that's too fast!"* What light does the remark of the corn-merchant throw on the fast life today?
3. What sort of excitement do we have today which our ancestors lacked? Is it an advantage or a disadvantage?
4. Who are taken to be slow thinkers? How are the slow thinkers handicapped today?
5. What enlightenment does the writer seek from his wife? What does it suggest about the plight of the modern man?
6. Summarise the central idea of this essay.
6.2 GROUP DISCUSSION
Discuss the following in groups or pairs:
1. Life has become too fast today.
2. The fast life of Western society is compelling the Westerners.
6.3 COMPOSITION
1. Write a letter to your mother about a hectic day that you spent.
2. As the secretary of the Drama Society of your school, write a notice to invite the students to watch a play in Hindi. Mention the title of the play, its writer, the venue, and the time.
WORD STUDY
D.1. Dictionary Use
1. Correct the spelling of the following words:
- funtasticn
- Asestors
- complent
- greatfully
- ninty
- garantid
D.2. Word-Formation
Look at the words of Latin or Greek origin and the way new words are derived from them without adding any prefix or suffix:
- mind - mental
- long - lengthy
- king - royal
- ears - aural
- eyes - ocular
- moon - lunar
- sun - solar
Use these new words in your own sentences.
#### D.3. Word-Meaning
Match the words in column A with their meanings in column B:
- **A:** notion, despair, illustration, gratefully, tribe, prejudice
- **B:** a group of people of the same race, every conceived idea, state of hopelessness, example, with a feeling of gratitude, an idea
Grammar
Look at the sentences given below:
1. I enjoy swimming. (*Swimming* is an object here.)
2. Swimming is a good exercise. (*Swimming* is the subject of the sentence.)
3. My job is swimming. (*Swimming* is a complement.)
4. My friend is fond of swimming. (*Swimming* is the object of preposition.)
5. I saw him, the swimming god, moving swiftly across the deep and fast current. (*Swimming* is an apposition to the pronoun *him*.)
The verb ending in *-ing* (here, *swimming*), which functions as a noun, is called a **gerund** or **verbal noun**. It can be used as a subject, object, complement, or noun in apposition.
Ex. 1. Use the verbs as gerunds in the sentences:
- I. Tom stopped (work).
- II. My father doesn't enjoy (go) to the doctor.
- III. (See) is (believe).
- IV. I like (swim) in this river.
- V. (Fly) planes is not an easy job.
- VI. I like (watch) games.
- VII. I don't like (wait) here for an hour.
Ex. 2. Correct the following sentences using capital letters wherever necessary:
1. I went to Delhi and stayed there for three days.
2. I spoke to Rajan about my visit to Mysore.
3. We went to Delhi University via Aruna Asaf Ali Marg.
Ex. 3. Correct the following sentences using capital letters in direct speech:
- (a) I said, "Do you see films?"
- (b) John said to me, "My brother is ill."
- (c) Mohit said to his father, "Please get me a new shirt."
- (d) Rajindra said to his brother, "Do not waste your time in idle gossiping."
- (e) Sanjay told his mother, "In Delhi, I will buy a handbag."
#### Ex. 4. Change the following statements into indirect speech:
1. My mother said, "It may rain."
→ My mother said that it might rain.
2. I said, "I can do it."
→ I said that I could do it.
3. The culprit said to the judge, "I am innocent."
→ The culprit told the judge that he was innocent.
4. Mukul said to me, "You don't help me."
→ Mukul told me that I didn’t help him.
5. Vinayak said to Amar, "You will play tomorrow."
→ Vinayak told Amar that he would play the next day.
6. Rajan said, "You are doing well."
→ Rajan said that I was doing well.
7. My teacher said to me, "You are doing well."
→ My teacher told me that I was doing well.
8. "We shall help the poor," Arif said to Lata.
→ Arif told Lata that they would help the poor.
9. "He does not sing well," the teacher said to the Principal.
→ The teacher told the Principal that he did not sing well.
10. She said, "He had not seen the Taj Mahal."
→ She said that he had not seen the Taj Mahal.
11. My teacher said, "The Sun rises in the east."
→ My teacher said that the Sun rises in the east.
### F. ACTIVITY
1. Make a list of the items which have made human life luxurious and fast.
### G. TRANSLATION
Translate the following passage into Hindi:
*"As an example, when I go to the cinema I find myself in a hopeless fog, and after two or three minutes I have to turn to my wife for enlightenment. I whisper: 'Is this the same girl as the one we saw at the beginning?' And she whispers back: 'No, there are three girls in this film—a tall blonde, a short blonde, and a medium-sized brunette. Call them A, B, and C. The hero is that man who takes his hat off when he comes indoors. He is going to fall in love with girls B, C, A in that order.' And so it proves to be. There you have a mind which has trained itself to work in high gear—though as a matter of fact it can work in other gears just as well. But my point is that most of my fellow-patients in the cinema do think fast enough to keep up comfortably with rapid changes of scene and action. They think much faster than people did thirty years ago: possibly because those who do not think fast in the High Street nowadays may not get another chance in this world to think at all."*
