CLASS 10 · WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS 2 · CHAPTER 8
Original student-friendly solutions and sample responses for Unit 8 workbook activities.
18 worked answers · short steps first, explanations when you need them
Textbook pages Discussion and Reading
Question Let’s Begin
A sermon is either a religious or moral talk, or a long warning/lecture. Here it is a religious teaching.
A sermon is either a religious or moral talk, or a long warning/lecture. Here it is a religious teaching.
Question Death Is Nothing At All
Both comfort people facing death. The Buddha teaches that death comes to every family; the poem says love and memory continue.
Both comfort people facing death. The Buddha teaches that death comes to every family; the poem says love and memory continue.
Question Reading: Dalai Lama passage
Work on the mind and join intelligence with compassion. A compassionate heart gives inner strength, less fear and doubt, happiness, and openness.
1. Tackle the root problem. 2. In the human mind. 3. Compassionate intelligence. 4. It guides helpful actions. 5. Individual choices affect society. 6. A good, compassionate heart. 7. Inner strength, less fear and doubt, happiness, and openness.
Question The Ballad of Father Gilligan
1. His tired body spoke. 2. (b) Passage of time. 3. He rode urgently, worried about the sick man. 4. (c). 5. He realised God sent an angel in his place. 6. God sent an angel to help.
1. His tired body spoke. 2. (b) Passage of time. 3. He rode urgently, worried about the sick man. 4. (c). 5. He realised God sent an angel in his place. 6. God sent an angel to help.
Question Texts together
Give the main idea and one relevant reason or example.
The Buddha story teaches that death comes to every family; the Holland poem comforts the living by stressing continuing love; Father Gilligan’s ballad shows compassion at the bedside.
Question Speaking
Grief may follow death, illness, a lost ability, friendship, or a life change. Patient listening, trusted support, and time can help.
Grief may follow death, illness, a lost ability, friendship, or a life change. Patient listening, trusted support, and time can help.
Textbook pages Vocabulary and Grammar
Question Vocabulary
fit; sorrow; discontent; lost; grieved; weary; troubled.
fit; sorrow; discontent; lost; grieved; weary; troubled.
Question Vocabulary
vow—promise/pledge; preach—teach/advocate; preserve—protect/conserve; awaken—wake/rouse; enlighten—inform/educate; reign—rule/govern.
vow—promise/pledge; preach—teach/advocate; preserve—protect/conserve; awaken—wake/rouse; enlighten—inform/educate; reign—rule/govern.
Question Fun Facts
Give the main idea and one relevant reason or example.
A silent letter is written but not pronounced. In “write,” the w is silent; the word begins with the sound /r/.
Question Fun Facts
Give the main idea and one relevant reason or example.
To allude to something is to refer to it indirectly. To elude someone is to escape or avoid being caught or understood.
Question Grammar: Reported Speech
“I am tired,” she said. → She said (that) she was tired. Remove quotes, adjust pronouns, and backshift the tense after a past reporting verb.
Kisa Gotami searched for mustard seeds from a house untouched by death, found none, and understood that death comes to every family. In the fable, a crow, swan, parrot, and peacock each admire another bird, until the peacock explains that beauty can bring confinement while the crow is free.
Question Grammar: Reported Speech
Question: “Where are you going?” → He asked where I was going. Request: “Please sit down.” → The teacher asked us to sit down.
Question: “Where are you going?” → He asked where I was going. Request: “Please sit down.” → The teacher asked us to sit down.
Question Reported Speech
The Buddha asked Kisa Gotami to find mustard seeds from a house untouched by death. She found no such house and understood that death comes to all families.
The Buddha asked Kisa Gotami to find mustard seeds from a house untouched by death. She found no such house and understood that death comes to all families.
Textbook pages Listening, Speaking, Writing, and Project
Question Editing
Use the phrases: on the way to, a flock of, shot an arrow into, in front of, filled with, and sent a messenger to claim.
to the gardens; to the river; a flock of geese; an arrow; in front of; filled with compassion; the poor bird; to claim; it belonged; tried to kill it.
Question Listening
Listen for six details: what the monument shows, who visits it, its date and patron, the relic chamber, later additions, and the stories and symbols on its gateways.
(a) Buddhist art and sculpture. (b) Indian and foreign tourists, archaeologists, and historians. (c) Ashoka commissioned it during the Mauryan period in the third century BCE. (d) The central chamber inside the dome contains Buddha’s relics. (e) Four toranas and a surrounding railing were added in the first century BCE. (f) The gateways show events from Buddha’s life and use symbols such as a tree, throne, wheel, and footprints.
Question Speaking and Writing
Give the main idea and one relevant reason or example.
Grief can follow death, illness, a lost friendship, or a major life change. Listen, be patient, offer practical help, and respect whether the person wants to talk or be alone.
Question Project
Give the main idea and one relevant reason or example.
In a group, find six Jataka tales, retell each in your own words, add original illustrations or comic strips, and combine them into a labelled class collage.
Question Writing
Gibran says parents should love and guide children while respecting their independence. Tagore asks to move beyond narrow aims towards a greater purpose.
Gibran values children’s independence; Tagore seeks a wider purpose beyond narrow aims.