Practice Time : Mumbai's Dabbawalas

Activity 1 A : Read the activity. Read the extract and do all the activities.  (12)
A1 : State whether the following statements are true or false       2
1. Small army of dabbawalas delivers lunches sharply at 12:30 a.m. on the dot.
2. Lunches can be ordered over Internet.
3. Mumbai Dabbawala Association is a streamlined organisation with 5000 illiterate members.
4. At Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus BBC crew found other fast moving Dabbawalas.


Hungry? Would you like to have a fresh, hot meal from home? Most managers don't have that choice. It's either a sandwich, a pizza or a trip to a restaurant, unless you live in Mumbai, that is, where a small army of 'dabbawalas' picks up 300,000 lunches from homes and delivers them to students managers and workers every working day at their desks, 12.30 pm on the dot. Served hot, off course.
And now you can even order over the Internet. The Mumbai Dabbawala Association is a streamlined organization with 5000 semiliterate members providing a quality door-to-door service to a large and loyal customer base. What should we learn from this unique, simple and highly efficient120-year-old logistics system? How has it managed to survive through these tumultuous years? The answer lies in at win process that combines competitive collaboration between team members with a high level of technical efficiency in logistics management. It works like this. After the customer leaves for work, the lunch is packed into a tiffin box provided by the dabbawala. A colour-coded notation on the lid identifies its owner, destination and dabbawala. Once the dabbawala has picked up the tiffin, he moves fast using a combination of bicycles, trains and his two feet.A BBC crew filming dabbawalas in action was amazed at their speed. "Following our dabbawala wasn't easy, our film crew quickly lost him in the congestion of the train station. At Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus we found other fast moving dabbawalas, but not our subject... and at Mr. Bapat's ayurvedic pharmacy, the lunch had arrived long before the 'film crew” the documentary noted wryly. This efficiency has marvelled all management gurus. So, how do they work so efficiently?

A2:Describe briefly the working of Dabbawala in the following flowchart    2


A3 : Read the statement and point out the conclusion by selecting appropriate
options: 2        
Hungry.Would you like to have a fresh, hot meal from home? Most Managers don't have that choice.
 1. All managers can have fresh hot meal from home.
2. A few managers can have a fresh hot meal from home.
 3. All managers cannot have a fresh hot meal from home.
 4. Some managers cannot have afresh hot meal from home.
A4 :  Write the antonyms of the following words       2
i) Efficient       ii)loyal      iii) management                   iv)  technical
A5: List the qualities that you learn from dabbawalas    2
A6:  Grammar: 1.The lunch is packed into tiffin box.(Identify the tense)  1
 2. Following our dabbawalas wasn't easy. (Replace ‘easy’ with ‘difficult’)  1

Poetic Sense

Be strong enough to fight evil.
Be wealthy enough to be happy.
Be healthy enough to work for civil.
Be wise enough to work with floppy.

Editing Errors

The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheet against the correct question number. Remember to underline the word you have supplied.

Incorrect / Correct

The degree to which we accepted other a)people depend in the degree of our own self awareness,
 b)Only If we is well established psychologically,
  c)we are able too relate to people in such a way
 d)that they can mobilize there feelings and energies
 e)towards grow and fulfilment, We do not feel
 f)accepted unless the very worst in we is accepted too,
g)We do not like when Judgment is pass on us,
 h)A godlike wisdom or immunity from human
 frailties is required for acceptance.

       Incorrect / Correct

e.g. accepted/accept
a)_______/________
b)_______/________
c) _______/________
d)_______/________
e)_______/________
f)_______/________
g)_______/________
h)_______/________
(A4) (i) Edit the given paragraph using a/an/the wherever necessary.
Rakesh is a/an ideal son who remains devoted to his father as he grows
professionally to become a/the famous doctor. As his father grows old, he
takes care to spend time with his father, bringing him tea in a/the morning
and taking him out for a/the walk in an/the evening.

Ans: Rakesh is an ideal son who remains devoted to his father as he grows
professionally to become a famous doctor. As his father grows old, he takes care to spend time with his father, bringing him tea in the morning and taking him out for a walk in the evening.

(ii) Spot the errors in each of the following sentences and correct the incorrect
ones.
(a) Radha brought pens and distributed them between her five children.
(b) Jayshree and Sujata sat besides each other in complete silence.
(c) His best friend Vijay was blind within one eye.
(d) One could dare to encroach on his rights.
(e) She was taken with surprise when she saw the famous Taj Mahal.
(f) It is not possible to exchange the goods once the sale has been completed.
(g) Dr. Sengupta has been trying to master the craft for the last five years.
(h) The top-ranking candidates will be appointed in senior jobs in banks.
(i) She knows very well what is expected from her but she is unable to perform.
(j) They will put on a note in this regard for your consideration.

Practice Time : The Best Advice

A1. True/ false
Read the extract, read the activity and do all the activities.
1. The best advice the narrator had was from Mahatma Gandhi. T
2. The narrator was in deep sorrow because she lost her job. F correct : she lost her husband.
3. The narrator had participated in the national struggle for India. T
4. The narrator was a widow. T
The best advice I ever had came from one of the greatest souls the world has ever known – Mahatma Gandhi – on a sunny afternoon a decade ago.
Most people pass through a period of anguish when their belief in humanity is at a low ebb. I was in such a period. My husband had recently died. My deep sorrow over his loss was followed by the humiliating realization that in the eyes of Indian law I had no individual existence. Along with other Indian women I had participated for years with men in the national struggle for freedom, working and suffering side by side with them until it had finally been achieved – yet in law we women were still recognized only through our relationship to men.
Now as widow without a son, I was not entitled to any share of the family property, nor were my two daughters. I resented this galling position. I was bitter towards those members of my family who supported this antiquated law.
At this time I went to pay my respects to Gandhiji and say good-bye before leaving for America to take part in a conference. After our talk he asked, “Have you made your peace with your relatives?”
I was amazed that he would take sides against me. “I have not quarreled with anyone,” I replied, “but I refuse to have anything to do with those who take advantage of an outworn law to create a difficult and humiliating situation for me.”
Gandhiji looked out of the window for a moment. Then he turned to me and smile and said, “You will go and say good-bye because courtesy and decency demand this. In India, we still attach importance to these things.”
“No,” I declared, “not even to please you will I go to those who wish to harm me.”
“No one can harm you except yourself,” he said, still smiling, “I see enough bitterness in your heart to cause you injury unless you check it.”
I remained silent, and he continued: “You are going to a new country because you are unhappy and want to escape. Can you escape from yourself? Will you find happiness outside when there is bitterness in you heart? Think it over. Be a little humble. You have lost a loved one – that is sorrow enough. Must you inflict further injury on yourself because you lack courage to cleanse your own heart?”


A2. Arrange in order
1. She was amazed when Gandhiji took side against her.
2. The narrator went to pay my respects to Gandhiji.
3. She went to America to take part in conference.
4. Gandhiji advised her to make peace with her relatives.
Ans: 2,4,1,3

A3. Pick out the instances used in text which suggest that Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit the narrator believed in gender eqality.
Ans : ' Now as a widow without a son, I was not entitled to any share of the family property, nor my two daughters. I resented this galling position. I was bitter those members of my family who supported this antiquated law.' These instances suggest that the narrator believed in gender eqality.
A4. Give the meanings of the following words.
1. anguish
2. existence
3. widow
4. outworn
A5. Write a peice of advice to your friend who is in deep sorrow and bitter about the relatives .
A6. Rewrite ad instructed.
1. I resented this galling position. ( Begin with ______ This galling........)
This galling position was resented by me.
2. No one can harm you except yourself. ( Rewrite as rhetorical question using wh word )
Who can harm you except yourself?




Extra Activities on the complete text.

1. Complete the statement and rewrite the fact that embittered the writer towards some members of her family is.........

2. Choose the correct options:
 When the writer met her in laws she felt........
1) that her visit had brought a feeling of relief
2) that effect of meeting on her was  miraculous
3) that her peace was lost
4) as if a great burden has been lifted
3. Pick out the instances used in the text which suggest that  the narrator believed in gender equality.

4. Complete the following statements with words or phrases from the text
1)The narrator was the leader of......... delegation.
2) The delegation went to......

5. Correct the statement and rewrite.

The issue that was to be addressed was the treatment of people in New York origin in United Nation.

6. Pick up the incorrect statement
1) The writer retaliated to personal attack.
2) The writer refused to retaliate to  score cheap point.

Practice Time : 3.1 City

1.The speaker in the poem is  old woman. Give evidence from the poem.

2.Write true or false
I) She is young.
II) She is old.
III) She belongs to Village.
IV) She belongs to city.

3. Pick up an expression that shows : she has permanently settled in the City

4.Pick up the lines from the poem that referred to city life.

5. Pick out the words that describe her life.

6. Complete the statement. The words painted on her door indicates that.,.......

7. The way  Woman is living her life indicate no sign of happiness. Pick up examples from the poem to support this statement

8.Look at the lines from the poem referring to friendship. State opinion about her attitude to friendship

9. Compare the life in the village and her life in the City

10. She is now living the life of pretence. Prove it.

11. Complete the statement. The curses of city life described in the poem are........

12. The woman has shut up herself from friends or from others because.......

13. Currently dressed in modern dresses, taking yesterday as a very old hag.  Identify and explain the figures of speech used here .
Pick out an example of each:  metaphor,antithesis and alliteration.

Practice Time : Bike Ride

A 1 : Arrange the following events in order
1.The tears dried  on her cheek .
2. She had received bike that Christmas.
 3.  Her sister gently picked her bike up and motioned her.
4. She was so frustrated that she threw her bike.
Read activity, read the extract and do all the activities
Extract from 2.2 Bike Ride : " I still remember the day ................Perhaps she felt something, too.
A 2 : Complete the statement: The  narrator took it upon herself to learn bike because ........   ......
A 3 : The bike riding experience changed the narrators life. Give instances.
 A 4 :Match the words with their meaning
           A                                  B
    1. Intimacy.         a)  remaining

    2. Doting.            b) close association

    3. Exalted           c) loving

    4. Rest                d) raised up in dignity


A 5 : Write down at least two life skills which will help you.
Ans : Some of the life skills which help us are fearlessness in helping others, showing compassion, treating others with respect and making right decision.

A 6 : a) I couldn't ride bike. It can be written as
1. I reqested to ride bike.
2. I am not able to ride bike.
3. I was able to ride bike.
4. I was not able to ride bike.
b ) I had received the bike that Christmas.( Identify the tense )

GATEMAN'S GIFT
Read the following extract and do the activities that follow it:
(4 Marks) a pension of twelve rupees for life.
l) Choose :

choose most appropriate statements from the following and write them:
j) Govind Stngh was a military personnel participated in the war (2)
j) Govind Singh wanted to get retired because he didn't like his job.
iii) Govind Singh was rewarded with a pension for his sincerity through his service.
iv) Govind Singh had a thought of retirement though he could see and hear well.
If) Extend the above extract by adding your own imaginative paragraph in about 50
(2)
A. Read the following extract and do the activities that follow it: (4 Marks)
After war service in 1914-18, , a pension of twelve rupees for life.
J) True or False:
State if the following statements are True or False: (2)
i) Govind Singh was very sincere about his duty through the service.
ii) The company forced him to get retired though he performed his duties well.
fJi) The chief of the company was not happy with Govind Singh's work.
tv) Irrespective of his physical deficiencies Govind Singh wanted to continue his job. Il) Write the gist of the story in your own words in about 50 words.
(4 Marks)
A Read the following extract and do the activities that follow it:
On his next pension day....  "No, no, why should he be?" said the accountant.
(2) L Select two most appropriate statements that describe the extract exactly:
i) The extract projects Govind Singh as an artist.
ii) Govind Singh gifted some of his crafts to the accountant.
iii) The model of his office frontage made Govind Singh nostalgic.
M) The Chief of the company got angry with Govind Singh for creating sensation in the
office. (2)
Il) Convert the extract into a dialogue between Govind Singh and the Sahib.
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Activity Based Grammar

l .  Complete the following sentences using the correct Infinitive or gerund forms of the verbs in brackets and rewrite them. You may also need to add a
preposition in some sentences

A. For some people 'success' just means . . a lot of
money. (earn )

 B.  Have you remembered.........your medicine today? (take)

C.  I accused him ........the situation.(exaggerate)

 D. His doctor advised him..... .more exercise. (get)

2. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate infinitive forms from the verbs given: (study, go, use, postpone, arrive, )

  i) I'll tell you when . . ..at the platform.
 ii) Will you please tell me how.......the camera?
 iii) The teacher taught us how.......with the experiment.
iv) The principal decided ....... the meeting

3. Complete the following sentences choosing the correct alternatives from those given In brackets:

i) The teacher punished him. ..(to come late, for coming late)
ii) I avoided .............him. (meeting, to meet)
ill) I regret... those nasty words (to say. saying)

iv) He assisted me.... ....the accounts (in checking, to check)

 4 Supply 'if or 'unless' in the fol!owing sentences.

 i) Nobody gets anything.. .they ask for it.
ii)........you don't ring the bell, the servant won't come
iii) ...... .you do that I shall be very pleased.
iv) There can be no new growth.... ..the ground is cleared.

5. Correct the following incorrect sentences using the appropriate prepositions:
i) He was prevented to come.
ii) He walked ten miles by foot.
iii)I shall inform them this.
iv) He wrote me.

6. Combine each pair of sentences Into one simple sentence.
i) The king was happy. He saw the people dancing.
ii) They came to a country. It was uncivilized and barbarian.

7. Choose the correct alternative which expresses the Past Perfect tense form of the given sentence: We will examine this theory in detail.
i) We will have examined this theory in detail.
 ii) We had examined this theory in detail.
iii) We examined this theory in detail.
iv) We examine this theory in detail.

8. Choose the correct alternative which is the Passive Voice form of the given sentence, Th government will implement the report.

i) The government will have implemented the report.
ii) The report was implemented by the government.
iii)The report will be implemented by the government.
iv ) The report is being implemented by the government.

9. Match the sentences under column 'A" with their corresponding language functions in column
B

 Column A
i) Could I ask you a few questions?  
  ii) She can dance well.
iii) You should follow traffic rules.
iv) We must respect our elders.
Column B
1. advice
2. compulsion
3. request
4. ability


10. Identify the verbs and state their tense forms in the following sentences:
i) We are trying to create a more democratic society.
ii) The mother had been living with her daughter.

11. Read the following sentences and state whether they are grammatically correct or incorrect
The teacher said that the sun rose in the east.
 She asked me where I was going  iii) He advised his friends that not to indulge in bad activities.
iv) They exclaimed with joy that they had won the match.
12. Identify the main clause and state the kind of subordinate clause in the following sentence: I still remember the time when I graduated.
13. Insert the articles wherever necessary in the following sentence:
Now I must acknowledge first miracle of sunny day and write few lines glorifying sun.