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Study Time

a. Listen to the audio material and write ‘True’ for the true statements
and ‘False’ for the false ones.
i. The daughter is helpful

ii. Her mother wants her children to be independent.
iii. There are three members in the family.
iv. Hira Devi is a single mother.

Curriculum Development Centre
b. Listen again and answer the following questions:
i. Who wants to drink water?
ii. Why did Hira Devi not give water to Dilrupa?

iii. Did mother allow Dilrupa to help her brother? Why? Why not?
iv. Who has the sense of caring and helping? How do you know it?
v. Why didn’t they call the father?

Put into Practice

You want people to do their things independently as Hira Devi does. Listen
to the audio material once again and respond to the following situations
using suitable reflexive pronouns like: yourself, yourselves, themselves,
himself, herself, etc.

Your friend : Please go and tell the class teacher I want to go home.

You : --------------------------------------------------------------------------.

Your Mother : Your brother can’t wash his clothes properly. Go and
wash them for him.

You : -------------------------------------------------------------------------.
Class captain : The group of Mandira, Krishna and Rajnarayan can’t
write the report to be submitted to the teacher. Can you
prepare it for them?
You : -----------------------------------------------------------------------.

Rojina : Laxmikant told me to request you to write his leave
application and give it to the class teacher.
You : ----------------------------------------------------------------------.

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