3.4 Let's March | Kailas Satyarthi | English Workshop

 

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'3.4 Let's March!' 

(Nobel Acceptance Speech by Kailas Satyarthi)

Kailas Satyarthi

Questions-Answers

1.What does the speaker feel honoured to recite?
Ans: A mantra from the ancient texts of wisdom, Vedas

2. How does the speaker describe his journey from India to Norway?

Ans: His journey from India to Norway is a connect between the two centres of global peace and brotherhood, ancient and modern.

3. What terrible thing was the Sudanese child force to do?

Ans: The terrible thing was that the Sudanese Child was forced to kill his friends and family.

4. What does Satyarthi refuse to accept?

Ans: Satyarthi refused to accept that all the Temples and Mosques and Chuches and prayer houses have no place for the dreams of our children.

5. What is the only aim in life for Kailash Satyarthi?

Ans: Kailash Satyarthi’s only aim in life is that every child is free to be a child, to grow and develop, to eat, sleep, laugh, cry, play, learn, to go to school and to dream.

6. What are the signs of progress that the speaker mentions?

Ans: 1. The number of out-of-school children is reduced by half.

2. The number of child labourers is reduced by one third.

3. Child mortality and malnutrition are also reduced.

4. Million of child deaths have prevented in the last couple of decades.

7. What social role are the three ‘daughters’ playing?

Ans: The three daughters are rising up and choosing peace over violance, tolerance over extremism, and courage over fear.

8. What lesson does the story of the lion and the tiny bird teach us?

Ans: We have to do our best though it is so small /little.

9. What did millions of individuals demand eighteen years ago?

Ans: millions of individuals demanded a new international law for the abolition of worst form of child labour.

10. What problems do the poor children face?

Ans: The children stitch footballs, yet never played with one, they harvest cocoa, yet have never tasted chocolate, they are dying of Ebola, they are kidnapped and held hostage.

11.Why does the eight year old girl’s question ‘shake’ Mr. Satyarthi?

Ans: The eight years old girl’s angry question shakes Mr. Satyarthi because he had no answer to give.

12. What matters according to Satyarthi?

Ans: Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.

13. What does Satyarthi challenge?

Ans: The passivity and pessimism surrounding the children, the culture of silence and naturally challenges Mr. Satyarthi.

14. What was Mr. Satyarthi’s vision as a child?

Ans: Mr. Satyarthi’s vision as a child was to see the cobbler boy sitting with him in his classroom.

15. What was the response of the boy’s father? What was Satyarthi’s reaction to it?

Ans: The boy’s father said that they were born to work. That answer made Satyarthi feel angry.

16. What is your vision of tomorrow?

Ans: My vision of tomorrow is that, every child should have the right of quality education.

17. What rights should every child have, in our times?

Ans: In our times, every child should have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to safety, right to dignity, right to equality and right to peace.

18. What does Mr. Satyarthi request the listeners to do?

Ans: Mr. Satyarthi requests the listeners to put your hand and close your eyes and feel the child inside you.

19. According to Mr. Satyarthi, who are calling on us?

Ans: According to Mr. Satyarthi thousand of Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mendelas and Martis Luther Kings calling on us.

English Workshop

1. Name the following.

a) The persons to whom Kailash Satyarthi gives the highest credit of his honour-

Ans: Kaalu Kumar, Dhoom Das and Adarsh Kishore from India and Iqbal Masih from Pakistan.

b) The greatest personalities from the land of Buddha-

Ans: Guru Nanak and Mahatma Gandhi.

c) The ‘Daughters’ of Kailash Satyarthi mentioned in his speech-

Ans: Malala, Kayanats, Shazia nad the daughters from Africa and over the world.

d) The foreign activists of equal rights, mentioned in the speech-

Ans: Nelson Mendelas, Martin Luther Kings.

2. Mention the social issues highlighted by Satyarthi in his speech. One social issue is given for you.

Ans: a) Child labour           b) slavery

c) trafficking              d) child marriage

e) sexual abuse           f) illiteracy

3. Complete the following diagram/ chart.

4. Complete the following web-chart.

5. Find out the describing words used for the following nouns and make your own sentences by using any three combinations.

a) Supreme sacrifice        

b) Smiling faces        

c) Extremist militia

d) Biggest challenge         

e) rapid globalisation

f) intergovernmental agencies

a) Many solders gives Supreme sacrifice during war.

b) I still remember those smiling faces.

c) To walk on the wave of truth is the biggest challenge.

d) Rapid globalization is the way of success for any business.

6. Choose the correct option and write in front of the given word.

a) divinity:

i) goodness     ii) godliness    iii) god-fearing

b) extremist:

i) militant    ii) robber     iii) spy

c) culminate:

i) destroy     ii) succeed     iii) rise to a peak

7. A) What will you do in the following situations?

a) If you see a child working in a restaurant.

Ans: I will enquire about his reason for working in a restaurant. If possible I will request the owner not to make work the child.

b) If you find a child working on a construction site.

Ans: I will go to the construction in charge (contractor) and tell him that it is crime to keep child labour on a construction site.

c) If you find a child working on a brickwork site.

Ans: I will find the reason for working of the child, and request the owner not to make the child work otherwise I will call the police.

d) If you come across a beggar child.

Ans: If it is possible, I will inform about the child beggar to child Helpline or police or social activist in our area. So that the child gets proper help and shelter.

8. Today, it is time for every child to have a right to-

Ans: education, speak, freedom, health, safety, dignity, equality, peace

9. Make a list of Indian Nobel Laureates.

Ans: a) Rabindranath Tagore

          b) Mother Teresa

          c) C.V. Raman

10. Make a list of prestigious awards in India.

Civilian Awards	Highest Gallantry Awards
Barat Ratna	Paramveer Chakra
Padma Vibhushan	Mahavir Chakra
Padma Bhushan	Veer Chakra
Padma Shri	Ashok Chakra
row5 col 1	Kirti Chakra

11. Make meaningful sentences by using the following phrases.

a) in the pursuit of : A cat crouches in the grass in pursuit of a bird.

b) to be afraid of : I am afraid of the dark when I am alone at home.

c) to give up: Don’t give up trying in just one failure.

12. Write minimum 5 hidden words of more than 4 letters from- ‘intergovernmental’

Ans: i) inter ii) govern iii) government iv) internal v) governmental vi)mental

13. Imagine your school invites Malala to preside over celebration of ‘Children’s Day’. Draft a welcome speech for this noble young girl. Gather her biodata from the Internet.

Ans: Good morning, every one, we are here for the celebration of Children’s Day. I heartily welcome you all on the behalf of school, for this occasion. I feel privileged to extend my warm welcome to all the dear parents who are constantly extending their support and love to pupils as well as faculty members of our school.

          I, on the behalf of everyone present here, heartily welcome the chief guest, inaugurator and the dignitary of the priceless function today, the guest of honour, Miss Malala Yousafzai who is the Nobel Laureate, Children’s Activist and women’ rights Activists. I am especially thankful her as when we approached her with the invitation card and requested her to grace the morning as the Chief Guest, she accepted our request and readily agreed when she looked at today’s event and its program.

          Born on July 12, 1997 Malala became an advocate for girl’s education. As a young girl, Malala defied the Taliban in Pakistan and demanded that girls be allowed to receive an education. She was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in 2012 but survived and went on to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in October 2014, at the age of 17 and became the youngest person to receive the award. Though a gunman shot Malala, when she was travelling home from school, she survived and has continued to speak out on the importance of education. In 2013, she gave a speech to the United Nation and published first book, ‘I am Malala’. In 2014, she won the Nobel Peace Prize.

          So, give a huge round of applause as I call upon Miss Malala, for the lamp lightening ceremony and request her to speak a few words about her life experience.

Thank you.

14. Use the same words as a noun and a verb to make meaningful sentences (March, honour, credit, stitch)

1) March- 

a) We  have exams, in the month of March.(Noun)

b) The procession marched ahead. (Verb)

2) honour- 

a) She got so many honours. (Noun)

b) She was honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize. (Verb)

3) Credit- 

a) He was given credit of his work. (Noun)

b) My father credited my account with Rs. 1000/-. (Verb)

4) stitch-  

a) A stitch in time saves nine. (Noun)

b) My mother stitched me a beautiful dress. (Verb)

1. a) Match the sentences given in part ‘A’ with the sentences given in part ‘B’ ( Note the differences in structure.

 

Part 'A'	Part 'B'
1. He was kidnapped by an extremist militia	b) An extremist militia kidnapped him.
2. The child was forced to kill his friends and family	a) They forced the child to kill his friends and family.

b) In the following sentences the underlined words are called infinitives. Find such examples from the speech and underline the infinitives.

1) Every child is free to grow.

2) I refuse to accept that all the laws and constitutions, police and judges are unable to protect our children.

3) I am going to extinguish the fire.

4) I am unable to do that.

5) Friends, all the great religions teach to care for our children.

6) Friends, I want you to see and feel this TODAY inside you.

c) Pick from the lesson, the Antonyms of

Words	Antonyms
Ignorance	knowledge
Immortality	mortality
deny	accept
violence	non-violence
well-known	unknown
Slavery	liberty/freedom

e) Do as directed.

i. Make noun of the following.

Words	Nouns
organise	organisation
deliberate	deliberation
prescribe	prescription
violent	violence
distant	distance
tolerant	tolerance
extreme	extremist
educate	education

ii. Make verbs of the following.  

democratic       - democratize

Universal        - universalize

Global            - globalize

f) Change the following sentences to the other Degree of Comparisons, without changing meaning.

a) The biggest challenge knocking on the doors of human kind is fear and intolerance.

Ans: 1) No other challenge knocking on the doors of human kind is as big as fear and intolerance.

2) Fear and intolerance are bigger than other challenge knocking on the doors of human kind.

b) The Nobel Prize is one of the greatest honours in the world.

Ans: 1) Very few honours in the world are as great as the Nobel Prize.

2) The Nobel Prize is greater than many other honours in the world.

Passage 1 (My dear children.......... my countrymen)

A1. Write whether the given sentences are true or false.

1. The speaker bow to  his parents only

Ans: False

2. The speaker asks us to walk together to pursuit the global progress.

Ans: True

3. The speaker gives all credit of the honour to himself.

Ans: False

4. The speaker expects the global progress for only East and West

Ans: False

A2. Complete the web.

A3. Write opposites from the passage.

i) modern         ×      ancient              

ii) mildly         ×      deeply

iii)natural        ×      man-made       

iv) regress       ×      progress

A4. Do as directed.

i) Let’s walk together. (Question Tag)                

Ans: Let’s walk together, shall we?

ii) This mantra carries a prayer, an aspiration. 

(Change into perfect past tense)

Ans: This mantra had carried a prayer, an aspiration.

A5. Can you guess the type of the passage/ write up? How did you decide that?

Ans: The passage is a speech. We can easily find out it by observing the beginning lines. They are addressed to the various people.

Passage 2 (I have come .........dream of our children)

A1. Choose the correct option.

a) The speaker said that he has come to share voices and dreams of.......

i) his own    ii) elders    iii) children

Ans: Children

b) He told that he was held their........bodies and felt their broken spirits.

i) weak    ii) feeble    iii) injured

Ans: injured

c) He met a child..........years ago.

i) twenty    ii) militia    iii) police

Ans: militia

A2. Complete the web.

A3. Cross the odd one / Underline the correct-

Soldier, solider, solidre, solider

Skiny, siknny, skinny, sinkny

Gestur, gesture, getsure, getsrue

Labuorer, lebuorar, labuorcr, labourer

A4. Do as directed.

1. He was kidnapped by an extremist militia. (Change the voice)

Ans: An extremist militia kidnapped him.

2. He asked me, “What is my fault?” (Change into indirect speech)

Ans: He asked me what my fault was.

A5. How will you help a child labour? Write at least four ways.

Ans: 1.Giving it my pocket money, old book, clothes etc

2. Request his parents not make him work.

3. Try to speak the child and encourage him to come to school.

4. Tell my parents about him.

Passage 3 (My only aim.........restored through education)

1. Complete the web.

2. The biggest challenge is fear and intolerance.(Change into Positive Degree)

Ans: No other challenge is as big as fear and tolerance.