Lesson
12 – Beyond Barriers Best and Accurate Solutions 

ACTIVITY
– 1

Let’s find out
and write down facts about Rakesh Sharma:

1.      Place of
birth: Patiala, in the state of Punjab.

2.      Year of
Birth: 1949

3.      Name of the
schools attended: George’s Grammar School.

4.      Year of
joining the National Defence Academy: 1966

5.      Total time he
spent in space: Seven days, twenty – One hours and forty minutes.

ACTIVITY
– 2

Write T for
true and F for false statements in the given boxes:

a) The space shuttle was named Soyuz T-11. [T]

b) Rakesh Sharma went into space in 1985. [F]

c) Indira Gandhi spoke to Rakesh Sharma. [T]

d) Barun got the book on India’s space travels from his
mother. [T]

e) Osman and Barun were friends. [T]

ACTIVITY
– 3

What do you
want to be? Give reasons for your choice. Write five sentences. Begin like
this:

Answer:

·        
I want to be a Police Officer.

·        
I want to help the needy people.

·        
I want to serve my country.

·        
Police duty is responsible and I want to be a
responsible person.

·        
I want to prevent crime and disorder.

ACTIVITY
– 4

Find answers
from the text. Work in pairs:

a) Where was Kalpana Chawla born?

Answer: Kalpana Chawla was born in 1962 in Karnal.

b) Where did Kalpana go in 1982?

Answer: In 1982, Kalpana went to the U.S.A to study
at the University of Texas at Arlington.

c) What was Kalpana called by her family?

Answer: Kalpana was called ‘ Montu’ by her family.

d) What was the name of the space shuttle that was lost?

Answer: The name of the space shuttle that was lost
after a successful flight was Columbia.

e) When did Kalpana die?

Answer: Kalpana died during re-entry into earth’s
atmosphere, on 1st February, 2003.

f) What has been named after Kalpana?

Answer: A hill on Mars and a star in deep space
have been named after Kalpana.

ACTIVITY
– 5

Let’s read the words:

Pinky, Ravi, Soyuz T-11 , Rakesh, Kalpana, Columbia, India, USA,
Haryana, California, Barun , Osman.

All these words are names. Now, fill In the table.
One is done for you.

Name of Person	Name of Place	Name of Things
Pinky	India	Soyuz T-11
Ravi	USA	Columbia
Rakesh	Haryana
Kalpana	California
Barun
Osman

ACTIVITY
– 6

Complete the
following sentences with the information from the text:

1.      The first
Indian in space was Rakesh
Sharma.

2.      Kalpana took
up the position of research
scientist at NASA.

3.      Kalpana’s
story shows the value of hard work and
sincerity.

4.     
The Indian Prime Minister Kalpana
talked to was Mr.
Inderajit K.Gujral.

 

ACTIVITY
– 7

Look at the
table given below:

Achievement	Name
First man in space	Yuri Gagarin
First woman in space	Valentina Tereshkova
First man to talk in space	Alexei Leonov
First woman to walk in space	Svetlana Savitskaya
First animal in space	Laika, the dog

 Write five sentences using the information. One is done for you:

·        
The first man in space was Yuri Gagarin

·        
First Woman in Space was Valentina Tereshkova.

·        
First man to walk in space was Alexei Leonov.

·        
First Woman to walk in space was Svetlana
Savitskaya.

·        
First animal in space was Laika, the dog.

 

ACTIVITY – 8

Fill in the blanks with the present Continuous forms of the
given Verbs in brackets:

 

1.      Rina is studying (study)
for her exams at the moment.

2.      Where
you are meeting (you
meet) Ravi next week?

3.      Pinky is coming (come) to my
place tomorrow.

4.      They are playing (play)
football now.

5.      She is eating (eat)
oysters for lunch.

6.      The company is finishing (finish)
their project this week.

7.      Rubina is not going (not go)
to Kolkata next week.

8.      I am working (work)
on a special report today.

9.      We are not cooking (not cook)
dinner because we’re eating out.

10.  Barun is walking (walk) to
school right now.

ACTIVITY
– 9

Write six
connected sentences about your experience of seeing the night sky. You may use
the following points:

Time of seeing – place from where you looked – how the sky
looked – other things that you saw – sounds of the night – your feelings.

  Answer:

Last Sunday I went to my uncle’s house. It was night when I was
looking at the sky from the floor and the sky looked very amazing. The other
things that I noticed were that the stars were twinkling. The sound came from
outside of the village when I was looking at the sky. I really felt very good
to do this.

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