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Class 10 ENGLISH
School's Goodbye

School's Goodbye – Book Q A Class 10 ENGLISH

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Chapter: School's Goodbye (Lord Eustace Percy)

Section E: Let's understand the text | www.WithTeachers.in

Question ❓.1 Who is the speaker in the essay? Who are the audience?
Answer 🎯.1 The speaker in the essay is Lord Eustace Percy, a former Minister of Education in Britain. The audience are the school children who are in their final year and are about to leave school.

Question ❓.2 What does the speaker speak about?
 Answer 🎯.2 The speaker speaks about the future welfare of the students, advising them on continuing their education, choosing a profession, maintaining good health, building a strong character, and becoming good citizens.

Question ❓.3 What is the wrong notion pupils generally have when they say goodbye to their school?
Answer 🎯.3 The wrong notion pupils generally have is thinking that their education is finished once they leave school.

Question ❓.4 Why is it necessary to continue your education even after leaving school?
 
Answer 🎯.4 It is necessary because success in any trade or profession is not easily secured; it only comes to those who work hard and continue learning.

Question ❓.5 What care should be required for the choice of a profession?
Answer 🎯.5 One should choose with the greatest care, avoid occupations that lead nowhere, and aim at work that promises an interesting and happy future.

Question ❓.6 What should you do if you are forced to take up a job you do not like?
Answer 🎯.6 If forced to take a job you do not like for a short time, you should try to get one that is to your liking as soon as possible.

Question ❓.7 Who should you seek advice from if you are not able to decide on the right profession?
Answer 🎯.7 If you are in doubt, you should not hesitate to ask advice from one of your teachers.

Question ❓.8 What are the things that prevent someone from achieving success?
 Answer 🎯.8 Lack of hard work, stopping one's education, poor health, smoking, drinking, and a tarnished character prevent someone from achieving success.

Question ❓.9 What is most essential for achieving success in life?
Answer 🎯.9 Working hard, continuing learning, and maintaining good health are the most essential things for achieving success in life.

Question ❓.10 How can you keep in good health?
 Answer 🎯.10 You can keep in good health by maintaining cleanliness, getting fresh air, forming regular habits, and engaging in suitable recreations.

Question ❓.11 What should we avoid to remain healthy?
Answer 🎯.11 We should avoid anything that saps our health, particularly smoking in youth and drinking, which is the deadly enemy of health and efficiency.

Question ❓.12 What is the priceless possession of an individual?
Answer 🎯.12 A person's character is their priceless possession.

Question ❓.13 How can one's character be kept sound and strong?
Answer 🎯.13 It can be kept sound by being truthful in all things, considerate to everybody, fair to rivals, kind to the weak, and having the courage to stand up for what is good, pure, and noble.

Question ❓.14 What should be avoided to safeguard one's character?
Answer 🎯.14 One should avoid gambling in every form, mere idling, and bad company to safeguard their character.

Question ❓.15 How should one spend one's leisure hours?
Answer 🎯.15 One should avoid mere idling and instead fill leisure hours with interesting hobbies, good books, and companionships that exercise a good influence.

Question ❓.16 How can an individual prove himself an asset to the nation?
Answer 🎯.16 An individual can prove to be an asset by maintaining a sound mind in a sound body, good character, courteous manners, and loyalty to the duties of the nation and its high ideals.

Section F: Let's understand the text better | www.WithTeachers.in

Question ❓.1 Who are the real audience in the essay?
Answer 🎯.1 The real audience are the young students who are stepping out into the wider world to face the reality and challenges of life.

Question ❓.2 Why does the speaker advise the audience to continue their education after school?
Answer 🎯.2 He advises this because school is only the beginning, and if they are ambitious to succeed in any profession, continuous learning and hard work are mandatory.

Question ❓.3 Why do students seek advice from their teachers?
Answer 🎯.3 Students seek advice from their teachers because teachers are experienced, they know the students' capabilities, and can guide them properly when they are in doubt about choosing a career.

Question ❓.4 How does good health help you?
Answer 🎯.4 Good health helps make you strong enough to play the game of life efficiently and achieve success.

Question ❓.5 What is the harmful effect of smoking?
 Answer 🎯.5 Smoking in youth stunts the growth of the body and clouds the brain.

Question ❓.6 Why is drink called the deadly enemy of health and efficiency?
Answer 🎯.6 Drink is a deadly enemy because it ruins physical health, weakens the mind, and completely destroys a person's ability to work efficiently.

Question ❓.7 Why is character a priceless possession of a human being?
Answer 🎯.7 Character is priceless because it defines a person's true moral worth and forms the foundation for becoming a good citizen and a real success in life.

Question ❓.8 Why should we help the weak and the suffering?
Answer 🎯.8 We should help them because being kind and helpful to the weak is a mark of an untarnished, noble, and pure character.

Question ❓.9 What do you mean by hard times?
Answer 🎯.9 Hard times refer to phases of life filled with difficulties, financial crises, lack of resources, or personal struggles.

Question ❓.10 How can we spend our leisure hours wisely?
Answer 🎯.10 We can spend them wisely by avoiding idleness and associating ourselves with good books, interesting hobbies, and good companions.

Question ❓.11 How can we achieve real success?
Answer 🎯.11 We can achieve real success by possessing a sound mind in a sound body, good character, polite manners, and being loyal to our nation's high ideals.

Section G: Let's read between the lines | www.WithTeachers.in

Question ❓.1 Even after school one should continue one's education. Suggest various ways in which one can continue learning.
Answer 🎯.1 a. Self-study b. Reading good books and literature c. Engaging in interesting and educational hobbies d. Keeping the company of good associations and companionships

Question ❓.2 We should seek advice from our teachers. Our teachers advise us to:
Answer 🎯.2 a. Work hard in our studies. b. Choose a trade or profession with the greatest care. c. Keep our body fit and health strong. d. Keep our character untarnished and avoid bad habits like smoking and drinking.

Question ❓.3 We must make provisions for hard times. Match Hard Times with Provisions:
Answer 🎯.3

  • Hard times: Monetary crisis -> Provisions: Savings
  • Hard times: Bad Health / Illness -> Provisions: Good habits, fresh air, and cleanliness
  • Hard times: Loss of a job -> Provisions: Continuous education and learning new skills
Question ❓.4 We should be loyal to our nation and be good citizens. List the duties of a good citizen.
Answer 🎯.4

  1. Sacrifice for the nation
  2. Stand up for what is good, pure, and noble
  3. Be truthful in all things and considerate to everybody
  4. Be fair to your rivals
  5. Be kind and helpful to all who are weak and suffering
  6. Keep a sound mind in a sound body to ensure efficiency
  7. Maintain loyalty to the high ideals of the nation

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Chapter: School's Goodbye (Lord Eustace Percy)

Section H: Let's listen and speak | www.WithTeachers.in

Question ❓.1 Discuss in pairs / groups: I. Rights of a good citizen | II. Duties of a good citizen.
Answer 🎯.1 (Model points for classroom discussion)

  • Rights of a good citizen: Right to equality, right to freedom of speech and expression, right to education, and right to constitutional remedies.
  • Duties of a good citizen: To abide by the Constitution, to be loyal to the duties of the nation and its high ideals, to be truthful and courteous, to safeguard public property, and to help the weak and suffering.

Section I: Let's learn some words | www.WithTeachers.in

(i) Match the words under 'A' with their meanings under 'B'

Question ❓.2 Match the following words:

  1. beware of | 2. untarnished | 3. stunt | 4. for good | 5. above all | 6. courteous | 7. grace | 8. largely | 9. gambling | 10. fair
    Answer 🎯.2
  2. beware of - be careful
  3. untarnished - pure and bright
  4. stunt - stop something from growing
  5. for good - permanently
  6. above all - most importantly
  7. courteous - polite or well-mannered
  8. grace - mercy
  9. largely - chiefly or mainly
  10. gambling - habit of betting money
  11. fair - honest
(ii) Express the following in a single word:

Question ❓.3 i. the health and happiness of people Answer 🎯.3 Welfare

Question ❓.4 ii. having ambition Answer 🎯.4 Ambitious

Question ❓.5 iii. to obtain something Answer 🎯.5 Secure

Question ❓.6 iv. profession or a job of a person Answer 🎯.6 Occupation (or Trade)

Question ❓.7 v. to prevent something or somebody from growing properly Answer 🎯.7 Stunt

Question ❓.8 vi. too valuable to have a price Answer 🎯.8 Priceless

Question ❓.9 vii. quality of being loyal Answer 🎯.9 Loyalty

Question ❓.10 viii. to weaken someone's strength slowly Answer 🎯.10 Sap

Question ❓.11 ix. quality of being efficient Answer 🎯.11 Efficiency

Question ❓.12 x. be on your guard against something Answer 🎯.12 Beware

(iii) Convert the following verbs to nouns and frame sentences:

Question ❓.13 calculate, associate, consider, educate, hesitate, profess, occupy
Answer 🎯.13

  • Calculate -> Calculation: His mathematical calculation is always accurate.
  • Associate -> Association: Keep companionships and associations calculated to exercise an influence for good.
  • Consider -> Consideration: You should take your parents' advice into consideration.
  • Educate -> Education: You must continue your education if you are ambitious to succeed.
  • Hesitate -> Hesitation: She answered the teacher's question without any hesitation.
  • Profess -> Profession: Choose a trade or profession with the greatest care.
  • Occupy -> Occupation: Avoid any occupation that leads nowhere.
(iv) Write "the -ing" forms of the following verbs:

Question ❓.14 decide, make, occupy, part, begin, gamble, sap, promise, forget, study, provide.
Answer 🎯.14
deciding, making, occupying, parting, beginning, gambling, sapping, promising, forgetting, studying, providing.

Section J: Let's learn language | www.WithTeachers.in

(a) Combine the following sentences using though / although

Question ❓.15 i. My bicycle is very old. It will run well.
Answer 🎯.15 Although my bicycle is very old, it will run well.

Question ❓.16 ii. It was raining heavily. I went out without a raincoat.
Answer 🎯.16 Though it was raining heavily, I went out without a raincoat.

Question ❓.17 iii. The man is poor. He is happy.
Answer 🎯.17 Although the man is poor, he is happy.

Question ❓.18 iv. He went on running. He was tired.
Answer 🎯.18 Though he was tired, he went on running.

Question ❓.19 v. The bus was overloaded. We were able to find seats.
Answer 🎯.19 Although the bus was overloaded, we were able to find seats.

Question ❓.20 vi. My granny is eighty. She still likes singing devotional songs.
Answer 🎯.20 Though my granny is eighty, she still likes singing devotional songs.

Question ❓.21 vii. Bubli has a scooty. She often goes to school on foot.
Answer 🎯.21 Although Bubli has a scooty, she often goes to school on foot.

Question ❓.22 viii. They are sisters. They never talk to each other.
Answer 🎯.22 Though they are sisters, they never talk to each other.

Question ❓.23 ix. Jyotishree invited me cordially. I did not attend her birthday.
Answer 🎯.23 Although Jyotishree invited me cordially, I did not attend her birthday.

Question ❓.24 x. The boy looks weak. He is really very strong.
Answer 🎯.24 Though the boy looks weak, he is really very strong.

(b) Turn the following statements to imperatives:

Question ❓.25 1. I want you to go ahead.
Answer 🎯.25 Go ahead.

Question ❓.26 2. I want you to get up early in the morning.
Answer 🎯.26 Get up early in the morning.

Question ❓.27 3. The commander ordered the soldiers to march forward.
Answer 🎯.27 March forward.

Question ❓.28 4. The doctor advised him to take this medicine after food.
Answer 🎯.28 Take this medicine after food.

Question ❓.29 5. The watchman warned you to beware of the dog.
Answer 🎯.29 Beware of the dog.

Section K: Let's write | www.WithTeachers.in

Question ❓.30 Prepare notes on the following areas: Choosing a profession, Good health, Sound character, Use of leisure hours.
Answer 🎯.30 (Model write-up points for students)

  • Choosing a profession: Choose your profession with the greatest care and avoid occupations that lead nowhere. Aim for work that promises a happy future and seek advice from teachers if in doubt.
  • Good health: Keep your body fit through cleanliness, fresh air, and suitable recreations. Avoid anything that saps your health, like smoking, which stunts the body, and drinking, which destroys efficiency.
  • Sound character: Character is a priceless possession. Keep it untarnished by being truthful, courteous, fair to rivals, and helpful to the weak. Never hesitate to stand up for what is noble.
  • Use of leisure hours: Avoid mere idling. Fill leisure hours with interesting hobbies, good books, and companionships that exercise an influence for good, because you are known by the company you keep.
 
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