Lesson 10 A Great Social Reformer

Activity-1

Complete the following sentences with information from the text:

1. Begum Rokeya was born in an affluent Muslim family.

2. At home she learnt Arabic and Persian and also received lessons in Bengali and English.

3. She never went to school.

4. She wrote extensively on the need for social reforms.

Activity-2

Table A and Table B have words with opposite meanings.

Let’s match Table A with Table B :

A	B
(a) kind	cruel
(b) poor	rich
(c ) advantaged	disadvantaged
(d) remember	forget

Activity-3

Let’s write T for true and F for false statements in the given boxes:

1. Begum Rokeya never thought about others. [F]

2. Begum Rokeya demanded education for women. [T]

3. She wrote against social injustice. [T]

4. She never felt the importance of women in a family. [F]

Activity-4

Find out the word-clusters (describing word + naming word) from the above text:

Example :

i. Social reforms

ii. healthy habits

iii. Disadvantaged women

iv. First lesson

v. Strong humanist

vi. Famous person

vii. Ideal unity

viii. Great books

Activity-5

Put the punctuation marks in the following sentences. The first one is done for you :

i. Vivekananda said, “All Indians are my brothers”.

ii. i am rokeyas friend said the lady = “I am Rokeya’s friend”, said the lady.

iii. who are you oh you are wounded = “Who are you? Oh, you are wounded!”

iv. i know there are many birds like crow parrot mynah = I know there are many birds like crow, parrot, mynah.

v. nataji founded ajad hind fauj = Netaji founded Ajad Hind Fauj.

vi. vidyasagar was a social reformer = Vidyasagar was a social reformer.

Activity-6

Let’s fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions:

Swami Vivekananda was born in 1863. He was born in Calcutta. He belonged to a rich family. In those days our country was under the British rule. Vivekananda felt for the misery of the Indians.

Activity–7(a)

Let’s classify the personal pronouns and possessive pronouns from the passage:

Raja Ram Mohan Roy was a great social reformer. He lived in the 19th century Bengal. He worked hard for the betterment of our country. His fight was for abolishing the evil system of sati, and his contribution to the improvement of Indian education will be remembered forever. We are all proud of him.

Personal Pronouns

Possessive Pronouns

Our

His

him

Activity-7(b)

Change the personal pronouns used in Activity 8(a) into possessive pronouns. One is done for you :

Personal Pronouns	Possessive Pronouns
he	his
we	ours
him	his

Activity–8

Use the following hints and write ten sentences about Henry Louis Vivian Derozio:

Name: Henry Louis Vivian Derozio

Date of Birth: 18. 04. 1809

Parent’s names: Francis Derozio; Sophie Johnson

Place of Birth- Entally, Kolkata

School - David Drummond’s’ Dhurramtallah Academy.

Service- Teacher of English Literature and History, Hindu College

Achievements - Assistant editor of ‘The India Gazette’, editor of ‘The Clacutta Gazette’, ‘The East Indian’ and ‘The Bengal Annual’ etc.

Notable works - ‘To India, My Native Land’, ‘The Harp of India’, ‘The Fakir of Jungheera’ etc

Death - 26th December, 1831

Henry Louis Vivian Derozio

Henry Louis Vivian Derozio was born on 18th April 1809 at Entally, Kolkata. His father was Francis Derozio and his mother was Sophie Johnson. Derozio received his education at David Drummond’s Dhurmatallah Academy. After that, he joined the service as a teacher of English Literature and History in Hindu College. Though he lived for only 22 years still he achieved much. He became the assistant editor of ‘The India Gazette’, editor of ‘The Calcutta Gazette’, ‘The East Indian’ and ‘The Bengal Annual’. His notable works include- ‘To India’, ‘My native land’, ‘The Harp of India’, The Fakir of Jungheera’ etc,” He died on 26th December 1831.

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