Knowledge is Power

   Understanding the text Answer the following questions.

  Refund by Fritz Karinthy || Exercise Understanding the text

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Reported Speech (Direct Indirect Speech): All Mixed Exercise with Answers

    Answer the following questions. a. What is the story about Steve Jobs’ birth?

 A Red, Red Rose Exercise Answer the following questions. a. To which two things does the speaker compare his love in the first stanza?

Understanding the text Answer these questions. a. Where did the narrator and his servant make a forcible entrance? Ans: The narrator and his servant made a forcible entrance into a chateau in the Apennines. It was a deserted and desolate place with a dark, gloomy, and shabby environment. It had rich but tattered and antique decorations.

  Vocabulary Babbling: the action or fact of talking rapidly and continuously in a foolish, excited, or incomprehensible way. Jabbering: talk in a rapid, excited, and often incomprehensible way.

  Summary and Analysis of “Sharing Tradition” by Frank Lapena In the introductory paragraph, Lapena juxaposes two separate things: death of some traditional people and the problem of maintaining tradition. Later he shows the interrelation between these two as traditional people are the source of tradition and their death causes problems in maintaining tradition in a community. He claims that the oral tradition is an art form and it is important in maintaining the values of culture. No one lives forever but no one ever dies if they share the tradition to another generation.

  Understanding the text Answer the following questions. a. Who is the speaker in the poem? Ans: Coronavirus is the speaker in the poem. b. Who claim that they are superior to all? Ans: Humans claim that they are superior to all. c. Why has the speaker come to the Earth? Ans: The speaker has come to the Earth because it was compelled to come due to human activities against mother earth, and it wanted to teach humans a lesson. d. What positive changes have occurred on Earth after the speaker's visit? Ans: The positive changes that have occured on Earth after the speaker’s visit are: i. The pollution level decreased, so we got to see how clean the blue sky looks without dust and smoke. ii. Mother earth got a little rest as the human exploitation of nature halted for a while. iii. Humans understood how the caged animals in a zoo feel and also that the earth is not their personal property. iv. They understood that If they do not preserve nature, it will take them back to the stone age.

Ways with words A. Find the words from the text which mean the following. a. a messenger or representative, especially one on a diplomatic mission : Envoy b. the state or quality of being worthy of honor or respect : Dignity

  Understanding the text Answer the following questions.