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SUPP.READER- GULLIVER’S TRAVELS ·        Gulliver- a ship’s doctor started on an voyage, but the ship gets stuck on an violent storm and six of the crew members including Gulliver is thrown off and he alone managed to get on a land. ·        The coast was strange and lonely. As he was hungry he fell into the grass and went to deep sleep. ·        When he woke up, he was unable to move as he was securely tied with slender strings, even his hair which was long and thick was tied down the same way. ·        He saw human beings not 6 inches high moving over his body with bow and arrows. They were called the Lilliputians. He was startled and tried to free himself, but the Lilliputians fired dozens of tiny arrows into his hand, face and body until he remained calm. ·        An important person of Lilliput made a 10 minute ...

POEM- FROM A RAILWAY CARRIAGE- ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON ·        Faster than Fairies, Faster than Witches, Bridges and houses, Hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle. a.     The poet shares his experience of a railway journey. He describes its speed in a rhythmic manner bridges-hedges, Witches-Ditches, Battle-cattle. b.    Poet says that train runs more quickly than the fairies can fly or the witches can move. When train advances forward it seems as the soldiers are attacking enemy in a battle field. The train rushes on leaving bridges, houses, fences and ditches behind. It also leaves behind the green fields where horses and Cattle are grazing. ·                           All of the sights of the hill and plain Fly as the thick as driving rain; And ever again, in the wink o...

PROSE-TRIP TO OOTY ·        The lesson starts as a letter reply to Malli Merlin’s friend. Malli asks Merlin to tell about her trip to Ooty with her friends and teacher. ·        20 girls and boys accompanied by Geetha mam and two others set on a trip to Ooty. ·          Merlin’s Grandmother has said about the Toy Train in Ooty. Toy train- The Nilgiri Mountain railway was built by the British in   1908. The rail connects Udhagamandalam and Mettupalayam. The train travels through 208 serpentine curves, 16 tunnels, 250 bridges, waterfall hood etc for a distance of 26 km. In 2005, UNESCO declared Nilgiri Mountain Train(Toy Train) as one of the World Heritage Sites, other one is Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. ·        Suddenly the train stopped and everyone from the compartment came out to see what’s the problem..they saw a baby elephant sittin...

Budget through the years:  The men who made India India is the fastest-growing trillion-dollar economy and the 6th-largest with a nominal GDP of $2.61 tn. TT Krishnamachari held the office of India's Finance Minister for two terms, first from 1956-1958 and the second from 1964-1966. India is the fastest-growing trillion-dollar economy in the world and the sixth-largest with a nominal GDP of $2.61 trillion.  India is forecast to overtake the UK to become the world's fifth largest economy this year and projected to surpass Japan to feature at the second position in the Asia-Pacific region by 2025.  Budget presentation is often seen as one of the most important events in the Indian economy.  Here are the  Finance ministers  who made an impact not only on the economy then, but whose policies helped shape the Indian economy to its current status. 👉 R.K.Shanmukham Chetty (1947-1948) * R.K.Shanmukham Chetty became the first fina...

THINK TO WIN- LATA KAKU ·        10 yr old Rucha wants to learn to ride a bicycle, she is taught by Vishnu for the past two weeks. ·        But she falls of whe she comes to know that Vishnu is not holding the cycle. ·        Her mother encourages her to ride the cycle even if she falls down. ·        Rucha’s younger sister Seema wants to ride the cycle. She is 3 yrs elder than Rucha. But Rucha tells her that it is not possible as she is shorter than Rucha. ·        Rucha was overprotective of her sister Seema. But Seema was bold and prone to taking risks. ·        In the inter-house badminton match, Rucha was in the senior team, but she lost to Aruna by couple of points. Rucha’s house won the second place. Aruna encouraged her not to give up. ·      ...