Activities On India's Underclass Gets Upwardly Mobile.

A1 Rearrange the following jumbled statements into order as the events occurred.
1. The narrator and his friend had had fresh coconut water
2. The narrator visited the country farm of a friend.
3. The narrator’s friend pulled out his cellphone and dialed a number.
4. Toddy tapper brought the coconuts down.
1.The narrator visited the country farm of a friend.
2.The narrator’s friend pulled out his cellphone and dialed a number.
3.Toddy tapper brought the coconuts down.
4.The narrator and his friend had had fresh coconut water .
A2 “Having a telephone was a rare privilege.” Support the statement with examples from the extract.
In India only upper class people have the privilege to have telephone. Government officials, doctors and journalists would have the telephone. Others might have languished in a long waiting list without guarantee of getting telephone. 90% of the population had no access to a telephone line. The MPs had the right to allocate 15 telephone connections to whomever they deemed worthy.
A3 “India’s transformation is like a makeover of an elephant into a tiger.” The statement implies that………
The statement 'India’s transformation is like a makeover of an elephant into a tiger' implies that India was underdeveloped. It was lumbering, sleepy, ponderous like elephant. It was slow to move and slow to change. But in recent years with advent of technology and telephone and other devices of communication India became as powerful as tiger.
A4 Match the words in column ‘B’ which collocate with the words in column ‘A’.

Column A	Column B
1. refreshing	a. privilege
2. self	b.drink
3. rare	c. official
4.government	d. explanatory

A5. Write your counterviews on ‘the cellphone has made us global’.
(Students are expected to write opposite views of the statement)
A6. Rewrite the following sentences as instructed.
1. My friend asked if I wanted fresh coconut water.
( Choose the correct direct speech.)
A. My friend said, “Do I want fresh coconut water? “
B. My friend asked, “Did you want fresh coconut water?”
C. My friend said, “I want fresh coconut water.”
D. My friend said, “Do you want fresh coconut water? ”
2. He pulled out his cellphone and dialled a number. (Rewrite as simple sentence. )
Pulling out his cellphone he dialled a number.

Activity Sheet No. 2
A1. DIFFERENTIATE a 'trunk call' and a lightening call completing the following table.

Trunk Call	Lighting Call

A2. Give reason : Having a telephone was not necessarily a blessing in the past.
A3. Justify :The cellphone has made a great difference to the lives of the less privileged class.
A4. Give the antonyms of the following by adding one of these affixes (Prefix /Suffix) {un-, in-, - ful, dis-}
usual, satisfied, honorable, important, fruitless,
A5. It is not just the cellphone that has caused a paradigm shift in Indian society. There are other electronic devices that have played a key role changing our society. State the names of those electronic devices along with their roles.
A6. Rewrite in the ways instructed.
1. I was able to report in it. (Rewrite using proper modal auxiliary. )
2. India has been breaking its own record. (Identify the type of tense. )