West Bengal Board
The Great Escape
Activity 1
Rearrange the following sentences in the correct order and put the numbers in the given boxes:
(1) Subhas and Sisir chose the wanderer of their journey. [6]
(2) Sisir entered Subhas’s bedroom that December afternoon. [1]
(3) The police were keeping a watch on subhas’s house. [4]
(4) Sisir was to help plan and carry out Subhas’s escape from India. [2]
(5) Subhas‘s nephew helped him listen to foreign broadcast. [5]
(6) Sisir walked back to his own house in a state of wonder and excitement. [3]
Activity 2
Complete the following sentences with information from text:
(a) On a December afternoon Sisir, Subhas’s nephew entered Subhas’s bedroom.
(b) The task that Subhas gave Sisir was to help planning and carry out Subhas’s escape from India.
(c) 1, Woodburn Park was the residence of Sisir Kumar Bose.
(d) The escape plan of Subhas and Sisir was to drive out, in the most natural fashion through the main gate.
Activity 3
Answer the following questions:
Question - Why did Subhas and Sisir ,as their plan of escape, decide to drive out in the most natural fashion through the main gate ?
Answer - Subhas and Sisir drove through the main gate in most natural fashion because they can elude whatever suspicions of the British soldiers keeping a watch on Subhas .
Activity 4
Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements in the given boxes. Give supporting statements for each of your answers:
(A) Akabar Shah operated in the northeastern frontier provinces. [F]
Supporting Statements - He fully tried to operate in the northeastern frontier provinces but failed in it.
(B) The items of clothing for Subhas’s disguise were purchased from a shop in South kolkata [F]
Supporting Statements - the shop they want in central Calcutta where they bought beggy ,shalwars ,trousers and a black Fez for Subhas’s disguise.
(C) Everyone in subhas’s family was aware of his plan of escape [F]
Supporting Statements - only Subhas’s niece lila and a male cousin , Damien knew everything.
(D) The policemen preferred warm blankets on the cool winter night of 16 January [T]
Supporting Statements - on January 16 in the night of winter , the policemen preferred that there should be warm blankets on charpoi.
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Activity 5
Answer the following questions:
(a) What items were purchased for subhas to be carried with him on his Journey?
Answer - A suitcase , Bedroll , Shirts , Baggy shalwars etc. items were purchased for Subhas.
(b) What was the real identity of Muhammad Ziauddin?
Answer - Muhammad Ziauddin was Subhas Candra Bose in reality.
(c) Why do you think Subhas had to put on a false identify?
Answer - Because I think Subhas ji surely decided to free from his house arrest and therefore he had to put on a false identify.
Activity 6
Fill in the following chart with information from the text:
| What | Why |
| (i) Subhas and Sisir tip-toeddown the back stairs | They wanted to keep their plan secret from other family members and to avoid the police. |
| (ii) The light glowed in Subhas’s bedroom | They wanted to give the impression that Subhas was still in his room. |
| (iii) Subhas and Sisir shared a few anxious moments. | The car engine faltered. |
| (iv) Subhas left for Gomoh station in disguise. | Subhas wanted to catch the Delhi-Kalka Mail. |
Activity 7
Answer the following questions:
(a) In which direction did Sisir drive after leening Elgin Road?
Answer - After Leening Elgin Road he drove the Car to Howrah Bridge.
(b) Who was Ashok ? How did he help in Subhas’s escape?
Answer - Sisir’s brother was Ashok who helped the Subhas Chandra Bose to be stayed for while some time in his house at the time of escape from India .
(c) Describe Sisir’s last sight of Subhas.
Answer - When Subhas and Sisir decided to escape from India then for that first they purchased some dresses so that they can move in disguise from there .Then Sisir picked Subhas up in his wanderer and reached Gomoh Station in the moonlight night .Subhas said as parting words and Sisir watched him Mount the railway over bridge and walked along it with his usual majestic gait thus last sight of the Subhas.
(d) Why did Sisir pick Subhas up in his Car a little further from Ashok’s house?
Answer - Because Subhas was unknown for Ashok who only knew him as Muhammad Ziauddin in order to keep the identification belongs to Subhas secret .And so Sisir was able to pick up Subhas in his car a little further from Ashok’s house.
Activity 8 (a)
In the following sentences, underline the words that act like verbs and take objects:
(i) He likes to playbadminton.
(ii) His habit is to read the newspaper daily.
(iii) Her greatest pleasure is to dance.
| The expressions that you have underlined are called the Infinitives. |
| Note: The word ‘to’ is frequently used with the infinitive. |
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Activity 8 (b)
Underline the Infinitives in the following sentences:
(i) Raja is not afraid to speak the truth.
(ii) The teacher was extremely sorry to hear it.
(iii) The guava is fit to eat.
(iv) To find fault is easy.
Activity 9
Add suitable prefix or suffix to the given words in brackets and fill in the blanks to complete the sentences meaningfully:
(a) The children were full of excitement(excite) as they went for a picnic.
(b) We should not discourage (courage) anyone.
(c) It was a comfortable (comfort) journey, as I got a place to sit.
(d) India became an independent (dependent) nation in 1947.
Activity 10(a)
Suppose you have read an interesting adventure story recently. Write a letter in about eighty words to your aunt describing the story and telling her why you liked it.
Your Addresses
Date 11/05/2022
Dear aunt,
I hope you are doing fine. Receive many greetings from me, hope you are doing fine. I wanted to write and tell you about a story I loved so much, it was a story on adventure, I loved it because I love nature. All are doing fine. Recently I read an interesting adventure story named 'the dangerous journey. It was a story of four friends who were returning from a jungle after hunting. On the way, the leader of the group broke his arm and then they faced a strong flowing river which they had to cross by a weak boat. Then two of them fell on the river. I liked the story because it was a gripping story and was written in simple English.
Your nephew,
(Your Name)
Activity 10(b)
Write a summary of the following passage:
Mahatma Gandhi was very honest from his childhood. He never resorted to any unfair action. One day, while Gandhi was in school, an Inspector of schools came on a visit. The Inspector entered the classroom where Gandhi was sitting with other students. The Inspector gave a couple of English spellings to the students to write. Gandhi had written one incorrect spelling. The class teacher noticed this and indicated with his eyes to Gandhi to copy the correct spelling from another student's exercise book. But he did not do this. After the Inspector left, the class teacher scolded him for not following his instruction. Gandhi replied bravely that copying was dishonest and that is why he had not done it.
Answer: - From this passage, we get an example of Mahatma Gandhi's honesty and his stand against unfairness. One day in his visit, an inspector of schools asked students to write two spelling in English. Failing to write, Mahatma Gandhi was signalled by his teacher to copy it. But Mahatma Gandhi boldly refused to do that by saying it was immoral and unjust
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