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questions would you have asked him? Write down three to four
questions you would have liked to ask him. Conduct an inter-
view. Let one person in your class play the role of Dr. Kalam and
answer your questions.
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3. Read a part of an interview with Dr. Kalam that appeared
in the DNA newspaper.
Interviewer: What are your favourite leisure-time activities?
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Kalam: Books are my favourite friends, and I consider my home
library, with many thousand books, to be my greatest wealth.
Every new book, based on some new idea inspires me and gives
me a new thought to ponder over. I enjoy reading and writing
poetry. I like music, which heals the mind; I especially like Car-
natic and Hindustani Classical music.

Interviewer: You inspire many, but who’s it that you are
inspired by?

Kalam: My inspiration is my science teacher in school, Shri

Sivasubramania Iyer, who taught me when I was in 8th standard
at the age of 13.
Interviewer: Any message for the youth?

Kalam: First, be unique. Second, remember that the 21st cen-
tury India requires you to ‘work with integrity and succeed with
integrity’. Third, the spirit of ‘What Can I Give’ shall replace the
attitude of ‘What Can I Take’ — which is what causes greed,
leading to problems like corruption, environmental degradation
and moral turpitude.

Now, take the roles of the Interviewer and that of Dr Kalam and
practise asking and answering questions.

Study the Words:
1. Phrasal verbs

In the sentence ‘Sir Syed Ahamed Khan set up Aligarh Muslim

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