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The document is a worksheet for Grade 11 English Core students at Presidency School Bangalore North, focusing on the story 'The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse' and the conditions of slum areas in metropolitan cities. It includes comprehension questions, character comparisons, and a long answer question about childhood memories. Additionally, it discusses the living conditions in slums, highlighting issues like overcrowding, inadequate sanitation, and health risks.

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The document is a worksheet for Grade 11 English Core students at Presidency School Bangalore North, focusing on the story 'The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse' and the conditions of slum areas in metropolitan cities. It includes comprehension questions, character comparisons, and a long answer question about childhood memories. Additionally, it discusses the living conditions in slums, highlighting issues like overcrowding, inadequate sanitation, and health risks.

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PRESIDENCY SCHOOL BANGALORE NORTH

WORKSHEET-1
SUBJECT: ENGLISH CORE
TOPIC – The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse/Note Making
Grade:11

SECTION-A/C
LITERATUR/NOTE MAKING

I. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
A lovely name, John Byro said, for a lovely horse. I could swear it is the horse that was stolen from me many
weeks ago.
May I look into his mouth?
Of course, Mourad said, the farmer looked into the mouth of the horse.
Tooth for tooth, he said, I would swear it is my horse if I didn’t know your parents. The fame of your family
for honesty is well known to me. Yet the horse is the twin of my horse. A suspicious man would believe his
eyes instead of his heart. Good day, my young friends.

a. What does the line, ’ A suspicious man would believe his eyes instead of his heart’ suggest?
b. How was John Byro feeling over his missing horse?
i. he was sad
ii. he was overwhelmed
iii. he got enraged
iv. he was excited
c. John Byro didn’t suspect the boys. This is because ________________________.
d. How did John Byro examine the horse and what was his conclusion?

II. Answer the following questions, in about 40 ‐ 50 words.

1.Compare and contrast the characters of Mourad and Aram.


2. Give a brief account of Mourad’s adventure with the white horse.

III. Long answer type question:


One day back there in the good old days, when I was nine and the world was full of every imaginable kind
of magnificence, and life was still a delightful and mysterious dream ...The story begins in a mood of nostal-
gia. Can you narrate some incident from your childhood that might make an interesting story? (The Sum-
mer of the Beautiful White Horse)

IV. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:-
The conditions of the slum areas in metropolitan cities have deteriorated to such an extent due to the high
density of population that the people there hardly enjoy even the basic amenities. The lanes are narrow and
the houses are nothing but a single room tenement without the facilities of an open courtyard or an enclo-
sure, thus depriving the people of natural gifts like sunshine and air.

In such areas, people use common latrines and water taps. Some of the slum areas do not even have single
rooms, they are thick clusters of small, dilapidated mud huts, the roofs and ceilings of which are made of
scraps of wood, gunny sacks, metal or some sort of waste material. Sometimes. 10 to 12 people live, eat and
sleep in the same room. The streets are narrow and the sewage water stagnates in open surface drains, which
emit bad smell. The children often play in places where the drains are used as open latrines.

Living conditions in main urban slums are worse than those in the poorest rural areas of the country. This
can be attributed to the slum’s exceptional unhealthy environment Many of the most serious diseases in
cities are ‘environmental’ because they are transmitted through air. water, soil and food or through insect or
animal vectors.

The concentration of people in areas where the provision of water, sanitation, garbage collection and health
care is inadequate creates the conditions where infectious and parasitic diseases thrive and spread. Around
half the slum population is suffering from one or more of the diseases associated with inadequate provision
of water and sanitation.

Despite the exterior appearance of chaos, slum life is highly structured, with many economic, religious,
caste and political interests expressed in the daily activity. Living conditions are extremely difficult, and
slum dwellers fear the constant threat of having their homes bulldozed in municipal slum clearance' efforts.
Nonetheless, slum life is animated by a strong sense of joie de vivre.

Growth of slums is a problem peculiar to the urban areas. Slums come up near industrial areas, railway lines,
ports, platforms, river banks, large drains and around wholesale markets. They emerge in metropolitan cities
and in the million plus cities. In metropolitan cities, more than 25 per cent of the population lives in slums.
Dharavi near Mumbai is the largest slum in Asia.

The houses in slums are mostly kutcha houses made of bricks, mud, tin sheets, bamboo, tarpaulin sheets etc.

the living area is not more than ten square metres, which is used mainly for storage of household items,
whereas cooking, bathing and sleeping is done mainly in the open. There are common water taps and public
conveniences. An open space, shaded by trees, may be used as the community space. Slums are often prone
to floods, waterlogging, fire etc. There is no proper drainage and sewerage and this leads to :e of water-
borne diseases like cholera, gastro-enteritis and jaundice.

The slum dwellers are mostly rural migrants who live near their workplaces, since they cannot afford high
transportation costs. Generally, workers from the same community or those coming from the same place and
working at the same place, live together. The slum dwellers also include the self-employed, petty traders,
household servants, vendors and hawkers.

The efforts by various governments for resettlement of slum dwellers have not been successful, because of-
ten the resettlement colonies are on the outskirts-far away from the workplace.

a. Make Notes on the above passage using proper abbreviations (4 ) and a suitable title.
b. Write the summary of the above passage in about 50 words.

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