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Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: (Delhi, All India 2009) Effective speaking depends on effective listening. It takes energy to concentrate on hearing and to concentrate on understanding what has been heard. Incompetent listeners fail in a number of ways. First, they may drift. Their attention drifts from what the speaker is saying. Second, they may counter. They find counter-arguments to whatever a speaker may be saying. Third, they compete. Then, they filter. They exclude from their understanding those parts of the message which do not readily fit with their own frame of reference. Finally, they react. They let personal feelings about a speaker or subject override the significance of the message which is being sent What can a listener do to be more effective? The first key to effective listening is the art of concentration. If a listener positively wishes to concentrate on receiving a message his chances of success are high. It may need determination. Some speakers are difficult to follow, either because of voice problems or because of the form in which they send a message. There is then a particular need for the determination of a listener to concentrate on what is being said. Concentration is helped by alertness. Mental alertness is helped by physical alertness. It is not simply physical fitness, but also positioning of the body, the limbs and the head. Some people also find it helpful to their concentration if they hold the head slightly to one side. One useful way for achieving this is intensive note-taking, by trying to capture the critical headings and sub-headings the speaker is referring to. Note-taking has been recommended as an aid to the listener. It also helps the speaker. It gives him confidence when he sees that listeners are sufficiently interested to take notes; the patterns of eye-contact when the note-taker looks up can be very positive; and the speaker’s timing is aided-he can see when a note-taker is writing hard and can then make effective use of pauses. Posture too is important. Consider the impact made by a less competent listener who pushes his chair backwards and slouches. An upright posture helps a listener’s concentration. At the same time it is seen by the speaker to be a positive feature amongst his listeners. Effective listening skills have an impact on both the listener and the speaker. (a) On the basis of your reading of the above passage, make notes on it using headings and sub-headings. Use recognisable abbreviations wherever necessary. (b) Write a summary of the passage in not more than 80 words using the notes made and
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Yogita Ingle 4 years, 10 months ago

The title is suitable and appropriate as 'landscape' is suggestive of European art like landscape has necessary components I.e mountains and water, in the same way European art is , u need to have a specific view point ,but on the contrary the word 'soul' in the title represents chinese art , because soul symbolizes spirituality and also it tells thateveryone has a different perspective in the same way chinese painters want u to look in ur own way and enter into the world of painting from wherever u wish and understand it at ur own level

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Yogita Ingle 4 years, 10 months ago

In the story the " The portrait of a Lady " by khushwant Singh. The grandmother was not pretty but had a divine beauty. She dressed in spotless white, Her silver locks were scattered untidely over her pale, puckered face , and her lips constantly moved in an inaudible prayer. The author describes her " like the winter landscape in the Mountains " - A personification of “ serenity, breathing peace and contentment ”.

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Kavya Kanishka 4 years, 10 months ago

English corw

Aarohi Singh 4 years, 10 months ago

Hello

King Kohli❤? 4 years, 10 months ago

Hi

Aarohi Singh 4 years, 10 months ago

English elective or English core
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Yogita Ingle 4 years, 10 months ago

Carter wanted to loosen the hardened resins. He put the body in the blazing sunshine. But it didn’t work. There was only one alternative. The resins had to be chiselled away before raising the king’s remains. Carter’s men removed the mummy’s head and severed nearly every major joint.

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Yogita Ingle 4 years, 10 months ago

Quinten  once sneaked into his beloved father's studio and painted a fly on his latest panel. It looked so much real that the painter tried to swat it away before realising that it was actually a painting. In this way, Quinten impressed his beloved's father, i.e., through his realistic painting. 

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Kavya Kanishka 4 years, 10 months ago

It is a source of communication that brings the cosmos together. He is 'the eye of the landscape' as it is man who has the wisdom to distinguish between the good and the evil, between beauty and filth.
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Yogita Ingle 4 years, 10 months ago

Middle void is the third element where there is the interaction between Yang and Yin.

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Yogita Ingle 4 years, 10 months ago

The painter does not draw the eye of a dragon because he thought that they would fly away from the wall.

Sung-Yow was a Chinese painter and he had a great ability to make his painting alive only after finishing his work.  He loved to paint a dragon but he never painted their eyes because he didn’t want them to come alive so that he could keep his secret.

One day a king invited to make four dragons painting on his wall. He made the panting but left their eyes.

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Yogita Ingle 4 years, 10 months ago

He was a famous Chinese painter, who lived in the eighth century. He was a master painter and had been commissioned by the Tang Emperor Xuanzong, to decorate a palace wall. He made a wonderful painting on the palace wall. When the painting had been completed, he called the emperor its exquisite beauty. The emperor was stunned with his creation. When the emperor was admiring the painting, the master painter clapped his hands; a door of the cave in the painting opened; Wu Daozi entered the door and the door closed. And the painting disappeared. Wu Daozi was never seen again.

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Yogita Ingle 4 years, 10 months ago

Wu daozi was a painter who painted a scenery and according to him their was a soul in the feets of the cave and when he told abt that painting to his emperor .they decided to go inside the painting but wu daozi go first and get invisible even their were not a single of his paint brush and he was never seen after that incidence.

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Yogita Ingle 4 years, 10 months ago

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The unique traits of garoghlanian family was, from eleventh centuries they were famous just because of their honesty. Once they were one of the wealthiest family. Then also they were very honest in nature. Honesty was in their blood.

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They consider proud first and honesty second as nature. They also believed to do the right thing. None of them of the family there was nobody to take advantage from anyone of the world even if they are alone in somewhere.  

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Yogita Ingle 4 years, 10 months ago

Aram found it hard to believe because the tribe that both Aram and Mourad belonged to was known for their honesty. No member of their tribe could think of taking undue advantage of anyone; stealing was considered despicable among them. For this reason, Aram could not believe Mourad could have stolen the horse. 

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Gaurav Seth 4 years, 10 months ago

The narrator's grandmother was a very religious lady. She used to hobble around the house telling the beads of her rosary. Even as she bathed him, she would recite her morning prayers and hope that he would learn it too. While the narrator was at school, she would sit in the temple and recite scriptures. Even after the narrator went to the University, she would sit by her spinning wheel and recite prayers. Even at the time of her death, she did not waste her time talking to her family, but went on saying her prayers.

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Pooja Bhardwaj 4 years, 10 months ago

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Yogita Ingle 4 years, 10 months ago

Court councilor Kondrashkin is the other important character in the story after Pyotr Petrovich Milkia.

The story does not tell us about the personal appearance. He is the father of seven daughters. He wants to settle them in marriage. That is why he has encouraged the visits of young men like Milkin. Even Milkin's friend says that if he marries Nastya, it will be good for Kondrashkin. That poor man has burden of seven daughters.

He is the father in a great hurry. He does not mind handing over his daughter to an irresponsible, immature, and cowardly man. We get the impression that he wants to get rid of his daughters. He does not mind giving his daughter to the devil himself.

This proves that he was not a father in real sense.

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Yogita Ingle 4 years, 10 months ago

Ranga was the son of the village accountant who sent him to Bangalore for studies. After six months he returned back. All villagers rushed to see any possible changes in his physique or manners. The author also went to see him. Ranga did a proper namaskar to him and the author was very much impressed with him. Ranga had his own peculiar views about marriage. He did not want to rush into it. He wanted to marry a mature girl. However, there is an irony about his views. In spite of having such clear and well defined views of marriage, he fell prey to immediate marriage, and that too with an eleven year old girl, Ratana! 

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Yogita Ingle 4 years, 10 months ago

The camera had captured all three girls alive in it.
It has captured the pretty face of the poet's mother who as a girl of twelve years are the time.
It has also captured the smiling face of the two cousins Betty and dolly. They are holding the hands of the poet's mother.

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Ashi Isha 4 years, 10 months ago

Soon the author decided to go to abroad for further studies. She came to the railway station to leave him off. She was not sentimental, Continously reciting her prayers and she kissed him on the forehead. After five years as he returned home , she was there came to pick him from the station , was still the same as she had been the five years ago. She clasped him within her hands and didn't say a word. She still used to feed her sparrows.

Ashi Isha 4 years, 10 months ago

As the days passed, he grew older and soon he went to university. He was given his own room and this made their relationship sour. She stopped talking to everyone and spent her all day by sitting at the spinning wheel , reciting prayers and moving beads of her rosary . However she loved feeding sparrows in the verandah at the dawn. Breaking breads into pieces and feeding if I to sparrows was her daily routine. The birds would sit on her legs, her head some even on her shoulders.

Ashi Isha 4 years, 10 months ago

Soon, the parents of the author who went to the city to settle in and called them. As they reached the city, his relationship with his grandmother took a turn though they shared the room , there bond grew apart. He used to go to an English medium school , she no longer accompanied him to his school and there were no longer stray dogs roaming around them while walking back home. She however, used to ask him about his say and what he had learned. She didn't understand anything as they was in another language of which she couldn't understand. She didn't approve with the new syllabus which he was studying because she thought that they did not teach him about God and scriptures. They saw less of each other

Ashi Isha 4 years, 10 months ago

In the initial days, the author and his grandmother had a good relationship. She used to wake him up and get him ready for school. She used to pack the things required by him for the day and walked with him to school everyday. She used to visit the temple that was attached to the school. The author and other children sat on verandah singing alphabet and morning prayer. They both used to come back home with stray dogs roaming around them as his grandmother would carry stale chappattis to feed them

Ashi Isha 4 years, 10 months ago

The chapter. The portrait of a lady is the story of the author and his grandmother. The grandmother was an old woman with wrinkled face. The author had always seen her like this for the past twenty years. She appeared to be so old that he couldn't imagine her being 'young and pretty' someone who had a husband. She was short fat and slightly bent. The author had seen his grandfather's portrait, an old man with a turban and long white beard covering half of his chest. To the author his grandfather didn't seem like a man who could have a wife and children but someone who could have lots of grandchildren . His grandmother used to move around the house in' spotless white' with her one hand on her waist and the other hand counting beads of her rosary.
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Ashi Isha 4 years, 10 months ago

As the days passed, he grew older and soon he went to university. He was given his own room and this made their relationship sour. She stopped talking to everyone and spent her all day by sitting at the spinning wheel , reciting prayers and moving beads of her rosary . However she loved feeding sparrows in the verandah at the dawn. Breaking breads into pieces and feeding if I to sparrows was her daily routine. The birds would sit on her legs, her head some even on her shoulders.

Ashi Isha 4 years, 10 months ago

Soon the author decided to go to abroad for further studies. She came to the railway station to leave him off. She was not sentimental, Continously reciting her prayers and she kissed him on the

Ashi Isha 4 years, 10 months ago

In the initial days, the author and his grandmother had a good relationship. She used to wake him up and get him ready for school. She used to pack the things required by him for the day and walked with him to school everyday. She used to visit the temple that was attached to the school. The author and other children sat on verandah singing alphabet and morning prayer. They both used to come back home with stray dogs roaming around them as his grandmother would carry stale chappattis to feed them

Ashi Isha 4 years, 10 months ago

forehead. After five years as he returned home , she was there Soon the author decided to go to abroad for further studies. She came to the railway station to leave him off. She was not sentimental, Continously reciting her prayers and she kissed him on thecame to pick him from the station , was still the same as she had been the five years ago. She clasped him within her hands and didn't say a word. She still used to feed her sparrows.

Sree Ram P M 4 years, 10 months ago

The chapter. The portrait of a lady is the story of the author and his grandmother. The grandmother was an old woman with wrinkled face. The author had always seen her like this for the past twenty years. She appeared to be so old that he couldn't imagine her being 'young and pretty' someone who had a husband. She was short fat and slightly bent. The author had seen his grandfather's portrait, an old man with a turban and long white beard covering half of his chest. To the author his grandfather didn't seem like a man who could have a wife and children but someone who could have lots of grandchildren . His grandmother used to move around the house in' spotless white' with her one hand on her waist and the other hand counting beads of her rosary.
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Zainab Anjum 4 years, 10 months ago

Yes

Jasmeen Kaur 4 years, 10 months ago

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Gaurav Seth 4 years, 10 months ago

VASANTHA SURYA


The story 'A gift of chappals' explores many themes: kindness to animals is one of them. the children rescue and feed a stary cat. Also, they show compassion towards a beggar and hand over their uncle's chappals to him. At the same time, there is a sarcastic comment on the practice of beggary in India: how beggars play on people's emotions to take advantage.
 

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