State whether the following statements are True or False :- 

(1) The people of Ratnam woke up very late in the morning.

(2) Rajan had ideas of his own and did not listen to anyone.

(3) Rajan's friends thought he was a very intelligent and clever boy.

(4) Rajan decided about his future only after seeing the footwear of the villagers.

(5) The villagers were too poor to afford the shoes from the city.

(6) Rajan went to the city to buy new shoes and machinery to make shoes.

(7) Rajan made new shoes for his family members so that the villagers could see them.

(8) The shoes that Rajan made for the villagers were cheap and affordable.

(9) Rajan worked alone in his house and made shoes for everyone.

(10) Rajan became a respectable man in his village.

Letter writing (150 words):

 You recently bought a micro-wave oven for your kitchen but it did not work properly. Write a Letter to the shop manager. In your letter, say when you bought the oven, what the problem is and say what you would like the manager to do.

Look at these words and phrases taken from the reading passage. Match them with the correct meaning given in the box.

05 (1) Tattered footwear (2) Word spread like fire (3) Wrong in the head (4) Dwell (5) Given charge

(a) to work (b) crazy (c) torn shoes (d) live (e) given a battery (f) new shoes (g) news went around (h) give responsibility.

Write a composition of about 150 words on any one of the following topics.   Emotional Intelligence

 The Role of Sports in shaping young minds

 Sustainable Development

 Pick out the sentences where the subject does not agree with the verb and correct them. 

i  Politics play an important part in our lives.

ii  Neither she nor her sister are to blame.

iii  Dombey and Son is an interesting novel by Dickens.

iv  During difficult times the poor suffers more than the rich.

v  Renu and her friends has decided to study through the night.

vi  Nobody has any objections about the new rules.

vii  Either the accused or his cronies have the diamonds.

viii  The committees have unanimously voted for the resolution.

ix  A lot of milk have been wasted in preparing the new recipe.

x  All the books by the author have been sold.

Write a composition of about 150 words on any one of the following topics.   Emotional Intelligence

 The Role of Sports in shaping young minds

 Sustainable Development

Fill up the blanks with the correct form of the word 5 given in brackets. 

(1) Nowadays, many people have made a lot of money and have become _______(Wealth)

(2) Many Clinics have come up all over the city ________ (Fertile)

(3) People nowadays are supposed to be more than people in the past ________ (civilize)

(4) Handloom mills have been in India for many years. ________ (Flourish)

(5) In our state, sugarcane grows ________ (abundant)