Connie Macpherson is the wife of Jim Macpherson. He was very brave, kind, open-hearted and the leader of his English troop. His letters are evidence that he loved his wife very much. She spent her whole life waiting for her husband after he went for the war. She loved her husband extremely. She was burnt partially when a fire broke in her house.

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Dear Friend!

How are you? I am very fine here. I want to share my experiences that I had during our summer vacation. Our examinations were hectic and I really needed to relax myself. This vacation was a boon to me as I was able to enjoy as well as learn something new. My grandparents took me on a trip to Shimla for three days and the climate was really snowy. It was the first time that I ever saw snow. I had a lot of fun skiing and playing with the snow. After that, I enrolled for computer classes for 5 days. I was taught about how to use adobe Photoshop and other related tools. The classes were very interesting and I feel that you will like it too. I will share my experiences with you at school. I am waiting to see you my friend.  

Hoping to hear from you.

Take care!

Yours Lovingly,

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A nuclear family generally only includes a man and a woman that are married and their children. A joint family includes three generations of family members, including the grandparents, parents, and children.

Joint family : Where more than one or two generation family live together in common house is a joint family system.

Nuclear family : A family which have two parents ( father & mother) and their children is a nuclear family system.

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The Tsunami- Summary

The lesson begins with a few stories from the Andaman and Nicobar group of islands. The first is of a manager of a cooperative society named Ignesious who was woken up by his wife because she felt the earthquake. After keeping his television on the floor, he rushed his family out of the house where they saw large waves coming towards them on the beach. Two of his children who had held hands with their mother’s father and brother, were swept away along with their mother. Only two children who stuck with Ignesious were saved. 
Next is the account of a policeman in the Nicobar islands named Sanjeev who managed to save his wife and baby daughter but upon hearing cries from his guesthouse cook’s wife, he ran into the water which swallowed both of them.
Meghna, a thirteen-year old who was swept away by the waves, along with her family and seventy other people, managed to stay alive by holding on to a wooden door. She could not be seen by relief helicopters for two days and came to the shore only through a wave.
Fourth is the story of Almas Javed’ family. As soon as her father got to know about the tsunami, he took everyone to a safer place. In the process of doing so, Almas’ grandfather got hit in the head by something and when Almas’ father tried to save him, they got carried away with the waves. Almas’ mother and aunts held on to the leaves of a coconut tree which was uprooted by the giant waves when Almas found a wooden log, she climbed on it and managed to save herself.
 Next is the story of the Smith family from South England but had come to visit Thailand to spend their vacations on a beach resort. Penny and Colin Smith had two daughters,  out of which the elder one, a ten-year old named Tilly, helped save the entire family and a lot of other people from the gigantic waves. As she saw the sea rise and the beach getter smaller, she recalled a lesson from her geography class that illustrated visuals of the tsunami that hit the Hawaiian islands in 1946. She got hysterical and shouted for everyone to run. Her parents took the children to the third floor of the hotel that survived at least three waves of the tsunami. Along with their family, a lot of other people who followed them were saved.

The third and the last part of the lesson talks about how animals managed to stay safe. Two beliefs offer an explanation for the same. First, they possess sixth sense and can predict disasters. Second, they have acute hearing abilities that make them sensitive towards the earth’s vibrations. Facts state that animals at the The Yala National Park in Sri Lanka managed to protect themselves while sixty human lives were taken by the giant and strong waves. Only carcasses of two water buffalos were found. One such man in Galle reported that his two dogs refused to go for their usual run along the beach which they are usually very excited for. This saved his life as well.

In the beginning the camel was a lazy animal. He didn’t want to work and lived in the middle of a desert away from other working animals. But the animals never forgot him and his nature. They wanted him to work like them. They complained against him to the Djinn, who was in-charge of all deserts. The Djinn decided to punish such an idle animal. He told the Camel to work like other animals but the Camel showed no willingness to work. This made the Djinn angry. He put a curse on the Camel. Soon the Camel’s back puffed up into a big bump. This is how the Camel got a hump.

Michael Morpurgo

Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo OBE (born 5 October 1943) is a British writer. Michael Morpurgo grew up in London during a war there. He was a teacher, but the book Poetry in the Making by Ted Hughes, made him decide to write instead of teaching. He is the author of over one hundred books, mostly for children, many of which have given many prizes and awards. Five of his books have been made into films. My Friend Walter (1988) and Out of the Ashes (2001) have both been made into television.

‘Gold moments’ was written by Jay Dubashi. The chapter is about the author who works very hard to attend her convocation and to receive her 100 gm gold medal. She tries her best to look terse and neat. She comes across many obstructions to attend and participate in the convocation ceremony. Finally, the moment comes. The governor honours her by pinning the medal. And even at that point, she faces difficulty because of her shirt gets so hard to take in the pin. But finally, she receives the medal. How memorable the whole process was in receiving her most valuable medal. But the irony is that she needs to search for the medal now. She doesn’t know where she placed it. A 100 gm gold medal pinned to memory forever but lost in transition.

In the chapter, "My Big Brother" by Munshi Premchand, the narrator says that although his brother is elder to him by five years, in school he is only three years beyond him.

The narrator also says that he could find drawings of dogs, cats and birds in his brother's books which only meant that he took breaks in between studies. The elder brother also had a negative attitude towards subjects like History, English and Geometry - subjects that provide a lot of knowledge.

The three questions the king wanted to know were -

1 . What was the right time to begin everything .

2 . Who was the right people to listen and whom to avoid .

3 . What was the most important thing to do .

NCF is national curriculum framework published by NCERT . It provides framework for making the textbooks and setting syllabus for the books which are published by NCERT and read by students in most of the Indian schools . It focuses on making books interesting for the students and to inculcate a habit of reading books . it also focuses to shift education from rote learning to understanding . it tries to reduce the gap between what students read inside schools and what they encounter outside the schools. it’s basically aims to provide an interesting , useful , proper study material to to the students of India so that they can learn efficiently.

Some common figures of speech are alliteration, anaphora, antimetabole, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance, hyperbole, irony, metonymy, onomatopoeia, paradox, personification, pun, simile, synecdoche, and understatement.

Ramakant Vitthal Achrekar (1932 – 2 January 2019) was an Indian cricket coach from Mumbai. He was most famous for coaching young cricketers at Shivaji Park in Dadar, Mumbai, most notably Sachin Tendulkar.