STD X - UNIT I FATHER'S HELP

Para 1

1. Lying in bed, Swami realised with a shudder that it was

Monday morning. It looked as though only a moment ago

it had been the last period on Friday. Already Monday was

here. He hoped that an earthquake would reduce the school

building to dust, but that good building—Albert Mission

School—had withstood similar prayers for over a hundred

years now. At nine o’clock Swaminathan wailed, ‘I have a

headache.’ His mother said, ‘Why don’t you go to school

in a jutka*?’

‘So that I may be completely dead at the other end? Have

you any idea what it means to be jolted in a jutka?’

‘Have you many important lessons today

‘Important! That geography teacher has been teaching the

same lesson for over a year now. And we have arithmetic,

which means for a whole period we are going to be beaten

by the teacher… important lessons!’

And Mother generously suggested that Swami might stay

at home.

Discourse

Write a paragraph on the video on earthquakes.

 Para  2

New  words

stubborn -  obstinate, inflexible
tactics      -  short-term procedure adopted in carrying out                   a  scheme or achieving an end
violent     -  involving or using great physical force

Discourse

Write a conversation between Swami and his father about  not going to school