THINKING ABOUT THE TEXT PAGE 8
1. Here are some headings for paragraphs
in the text. Write the number(s) of the paragraph(s) for each title against the
heading. The first one is done for you.
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(i) Einstein’s equation |
9 |
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(ii) Einstein meets his future wife |
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(iii) The making of a violinist |
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(iv) Mileva and Einstein’s mother |
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(v) A letter that launched the arms
race |
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(vi) A desk drawer full of ideas |
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(vii) Marriage and divorce |
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Answer:
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(i)
Einstein’s equation |
9 |
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(ii)
Einstein meets his future wife |
7 |
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(iii)
The making of a violinist |
3 |
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(iv)
Mileva and Einstein’s mother |
10 |
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(v)
A letter that launched the arms race |
15 |
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(vi)
A desk drawer full of ideas |
8 |
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(vii)
Marriage and divorce |
11 |
2. Who had these opinions about Einstein?
(i) He was boring.
(ii) He was stupid and would never succeed in life.
(iii) He was a freak.
Answer:
(i) He was boring. - Einstein’s playmates
(ii) He was stupid and would never succeed in life. - Einstein’s headmaster
(iii) He was a freak. - Einstein’s mother
3. Explain what the reasons for the following are.
(i) Einstein leaving the school in Munich for good.
Answer: Despite scoring good marks in almost every subject, Albert Einstein hated the school's regimentation and often clashed with his teachers. When he was 15, he grew so suffocated that he decided to leave school for good.
(ii) Einstein wanting to study in Switzerland rather than in Munich.
Answer: The city that Einstein thought of relocating to in Switzerland was much liberal than Munich in Germany. It was the city of Zurich.
(iii) Einstein seeing in Mileva an ally.
Answer: Mileva was against the philistines, who happened to be the very same people in his family and at the university that Einstein was at odds with. Thus, he found an ally in her.
(iv) What do these tell you about Einstein?
Answer: These tell us that Einstein was a man who valued freedom and liberty. He was against anyone who infringed upon his freedom to live the life he wanted to live.
4. What did Einstein call his desk drawer at the patent office? Why?
Answer: Einstein called his desk at the patent office 'bureau of theoretical physics' because that happened to be the place where he was secretly inventing his own ideas. The place, therefore, stood as proof for the efforts he was making.
5. Why did Einstein write a letter to Franklin Roosevelt?
Answer: Einstein wrote a letter to Franklin Roosevelt to warn him that just a single nuclear bomb can lead to a massive explosion.
6. How did Einstein react to the bombing
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Answer: Einstein was deeply disturbed by the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was so disturbed that he wrote a public missive to the United Nations, proposing the formation of a world government.
7. Why does the world remember Einstein as a “world citizen”?
Answer: Einstein was an advocate of peace, liberal values, and democracy. He was also in favour of a world government and wrote a letter to the United Nations proposing the formation of a world government. He also always shared his thoughts on issues that mattered to the world at large. Thus, the world remembers him as a “world citizen”.
8. Here are some facts from Einstein’s life. Arrange them in chronological order.
[
] Einstein publishes his special
theory of relativity.
[
] He is awarded the Nobel Prize in
Physics.
[ ] Einstein writes a letter to U.S.
President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and warns against Germany’s building of an
atomic bomb.
[
] Einstein attends a high school in
Munich.
[
] Einstein’s family moves to
Milan.
[
] Einstein is born in the German city
of Ulm.
[
] Einstein joins a university in
Zurich, where he meets Mileva.
[
] Einstein dies.
[
] He provides a new interpretation of
gravity.
[
] Tired of the school’s
regimentation, Einstein withdraws from school.
[ ] He works in a patent office as a technical expert.
[ ] When Hitler comes to power, Einstein
leaves Germany for the United States.
Answer:
1. Einstein is born in the German city of Ulm.
2. Einstein attends a high school in Munich.
3. Einstein’s family moves to Milan.
4. Tired of the school’s regimentation, Einstein withdraws from school.
5. Einstein joins a university in Zurich, where he meets Mileva.
6. He works in a patent office as a technical expert.
7. Einstein publishes his special theory of relativity.
8. He provides a new interpretation of gravity.
9. He is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
10. When Hitler comes to power, Einstein leaves Germany for the United States.
11. Einstein writes a letter to U.S President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and warns against Germany’s building of an atomic bomb.
12. Einstein dies.
THINKING ABOUT LANGUAGE PAGE 8
I. Here are some sentences from the story. Choose the word from the brackets which can be substituted for the italicised words in the sentences.
1.
A few years later, the marriage faltered. (failed, broke, became
weak).
2. Einstein was
constantly at odds with people at the university. (on bad terms, in
disagreement, unhappy)
3. The newspapers
proclaimed his work as “a scientific revolution.” (declared, praised,
showed)
4. Einstein got ever
more involved in politics, agitating for an end to the arms buildup.
(campaigning, fighting, supporting)
5. At the age of 15,
Einstein felt so stifled that he left the school for good. (permanently,
for his benefit, for a short time)
6. Five years later,
the discovery of nuclear fission in Berlin had American physicists in an
uproar. (in a state of commotion, full of criticism, in a desperate state)
7. Science wasn’t the only thing that appealed to the dashing young man with the walrus moustache. (interested, challenged, worried)
Answer:
1. became weak
2. in disagreement
3. declared
4. fighting
5. for his benefit
6. in a state of commotion
7. interested
II. Study the following sentences.
Complete the sentences below by filling
in the blanks with suitable participial clauses. The information that has to be
used in the phrases is provided as a sentence in brackets.
1. ________________ , the firefighters
finally put out the fire. (They worked round the clock.)
2. She watched the sunset above the mountain, -____________. (She noticed the colours blending softly into one another.)
3. The excited horse pawed the ground rapidly, ___________. (While it neighed continually.)
4. ____________, I found myself in Bangalore, instead of Benaras. (I had taken the wrong train.)
5. _____________, I was desperate to get to the bathroom. (I had not bathed for two days)
6. The stone steps, __________
needed to be replaced. (They were worn down).
7. The actor received hundreds of letters from his fans, ________________ (They asked him to send them his photograph.)
Answer:
1. Working round the clock
2. noticing the colours blending softly into one
another
3. neighing continually
4. Having taken the wrong train
5. Having not bathed for two days
6. having worn down
7. asking him to send them his photograph
WRITING NEWSPAPER REPORTS PAGE 11
Here are some notes which you could use to write a report.
21 August 2005 — the original handwritten
manuscript of Albert Einstein unearthed — by student Rowdy Boeynik in the
University of the Netherlands — Boeynik researching papers — papers belonging
to an old friend of Einstein — fingerprints of Einstein on these papers —
16-page document dated 1924 — Einstein's work on this last theory — behaviour
of atoms at low temperature — now known as the Bose-Einstein condensation — the
manuscript to be kept at Leyden University where Einstein got the Nobel Prize.
Write a report which has four paragraphs, one
each on:
• What was unearthed.
• Who unearthed it and when.
• What the document contained.
• Where it will be kept.
Your report could begin like this:
Student
Unearths Einstein Manuscript
21 AUGUST 2005. An original
handwritten Albert Einstein manuscript has been unearthed at the University of
the Netherlands...
Answer:
Student Unearths
Einstein Manuscript
21 AUGUST 2005. An original handwritten Albert
Einstein manuscript has been unearthed at the University of the Netherlands. A
student of the university who goes by the name Rowdy Boeynik is said to have
discovered the papers.
These papers, it is learnt, belong to an old friend
of Einstein. Fingerprints of Einstein found on these papers corroborate the
evidence that is presented by the student.
Be that as it may, this 16-page document dated 1924
details Einstein’s work on his last theory. Now known as Bose-Einstein
condensation, the document explains the behaviour of atoms at low temperature.
It is also worth mentioning here that the manuscript
unearthed by the researching student is to be kept at Leyden University. This
is the very same university where Einstein received the Nobel Prize for
Physics.
Poem: The
Lake Isle of Innisfree by William
Butler Yeats
THINKING
ABOUT THE POEM PAGE
12
I. 1.What kind of place is Innisfree?
Think about:
(i) the three things the poet wants to do when he goes
back there (stanza I);
(ii) what he hears and sees there and its effect on him
(stanza II);
(iii) what he hears in his “heart’s core” even when he
is far away from Innisfree (stanza III).
Answer:
Innisfree
is a tranquil place that is dominated by linnets and the honeybee.
(i) In Innisfree, the
poet wants to live in an open forest inside a cabin made of clay and wattles,
have nine-bean rows, and build a hive for the honeybee.
(ii) He sees intermittent
flashes of light at nights besides the purple glow of the moon. He also hears
the linnets. All of this has a peaceful effect on the poet.
(iii) In the heart’s
core, the poet hears the sound of lake water overlapping with the low sounds by
the shore.
2. By now you may have concluded that
Innisfree is a simple, natural place, full of beauty and peace. How does the
poet contrast it with where he now stands? (Read stanza III.)
Answer:
The
poet contrasts the simple, natural place of Innisfree which, beyond a doubt, is
a place full of beauty and peace with the place he now stands by referring to
the latter as a roadway and pavement. He also says that despite his being on
the pavement, which is presumably a place devoid of peace and calm, he hears
the calm waters of the lake overlapping with the low sounds by the shore in
Innisfree.
3. Do you think Innisfree is only a
place, or a state of mind? Does the poet actually miss the place of his boyhood
days?
Answer:
I
think Innisfree is a place. And the poet does seem to miss his boyhood days. It
is also evident that the place where he is currently living is devoid of any
peace and tranquility. And that's exactly why he wants to get back and live
peacefully in an open forest area situated in Innisfree.
II. 1. Look at the words the poet uses to
describe what he sees and hears at Innisfree
(i) bee-loud glade
(ii) evenings full of the linnet’s wings
(iii) lake water lapping with low sounds
What pictures do these words create in your mind?
Answer:
(i) Creates an image of
bees buzzing an open space in a jungle
(ii) linnets flying all
around during the evening
(iii) the sound of lake
water merging with the sounds by the lake
2. Look at these words:
….peace comes dropping slow
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the
cricket sings
What do these words mean to you? What do
you think “comes dropping slow...from the veils of the morning”? What does “to
where the cricket sings” mean?
Answer: These words suggest that one can find peace only in a place like Innisfree that’s devoid of the urban commotion. It is tranquility and calmness that comes dropping slow…. from the veils of the morning. The phrase “To where the cricket sings” indicates the place that is calm because of the lack of movement of people and vehicular traffic. It is so calm that sounds made by crickets can be heard loud and clear at the time of dawn.
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