A LETTER TO GOD______By G.L.Fuentes

A LETTER TO GOD______By G.L.Fuentes

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 A LETTER TO GOD

Gist of the Lesson- 

       The story A Letter to God  deals with Lencho's strong believe  in God. Lencho was a poor yet dedicated farmer. When he  hoped for a good harvest a hailstorm suddenly destroyed all his crops. This made him very sad. But he had a strong faith in God. He was certain that God would definitely help him if he asks for. Thus, he decided to write a letter to God stating his problems. He requested God to send him one hundred pesos in order  to sow his fields again and protect his family from starvation. He went to the post office and dropped it into  the mailbox.

An employee or  postman collected the letter from the letterbox, and took it to the Postmaster who laughed heartily after reading the letter. But the post Master was  moved by the faith of the poor farmer on God. He praised the poor farmer’s faith in God and decided to help him at any cost. Then he asked the employees of the post office to contribute some amount of money , collected from his friends' and he, himself gave a part of his salary so that Lencho’s faith in God is not disturbed. But the money collected was a little less than what Lencho had requested from God (70 pesos out of 100). He then put all the money collected in an envelope, wrote God on the letter and kept it ready for the poor farmer.

The following Sunday, Lencho went to the post office to check if there was a letter for him. The postmaster gently handed over the letter to him. Lencho was not surprised at all to see the letter with money inside the envelope. He confidently opened the envelope to count the money but became angry when he saw that there were only seventy pesos in it. He was sure that God could have never made such a grave mistake. He instantly went to the window to ask for paper and ink and wrote another letter to God, and dropped it into the letterbox. Lencho arrived the following week, asked about any reply from God-if any, took the the money from the envelop. After he counted it, again he wrote a letter and put it in the letter box, After he  had left the place, the postmaster opened and read his second letter immediately. In it, Lencho wrote to God that he had  requested for one hundred pesos, but he was sad enough to find seventy pesos inside. He even blamed the post office employees and felt that they must have stolen the remaining thirty pesos from his envelope. He urged God to send him the rest of the money since he was in urgent need of it. However, he requested God not to send the money through the mail because Lencho thought that the post office employees were ‘a bunch of crooks’ who might have stolen the remaining money from the envelope.

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR--

      This story is written by G.L. Fuentes. He was a great Mexican poet and novelist. The message that the author wants to delicately convey to his readers is that – a common man’s faith in God and humanity still prevails in society. Lencho is just an example.

Textual Question answers:

1. What did Lencho hope for?

Answer-

Lencho hoped for a downpour or at least a shower for his ripe corn fields.

 2. Why did Lencho say the raindrops were like ‘new coins’?

Answer-

Lencho, the needy  farmer, compared the raindrops to ‘new coins’. He considered the big drops as ten-cent pieces and the little ones as fives. Since his crops were ready for harvest, he hoped that the rains would bring him wealth. Hence, he compared the raindrops with ‘new coins’.

3. How did the rain change? What happened to Lencho’s fields?

Answer:

In front of Lencho’s eyes the rain started pouring down as he expected. But in an instant a strong wind blew and very large hailstones began to fall along with rain. The hailstorm continued for an hour and destroyed Lencho’s entire corn field and also all the flowers from the plants of his cultivation.

4. What were Lencho’s feelings when the hail stopped?

Answer:

As soon as the hailstones stopped, Lencho’s soul was filled with sadness. He witnessed that everything of his cultivation was ruined by the hailstorm instantly. Nothing was left even to feed his family for that year.

Oral Comprehension: 

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 1.Who or what did Lencho have faith in? What did he do?

Answer:

Lencho, the needy farmer had a strong faith in God. He believed that God’s eyes can see everything, even what is deep in one’s conscience. So he wrote a letter to God stating that he needed a hundred pesos to sow his field and feed his family that year.

2.Who read the letter?

Answer:

An employee  collected the letter and the Postmaster read Lencho’s letter addressed to God and laughed as well.

 3.What did the Postmaster do then?

Answer:

In the beginning, having read the letter, the Postmaster laughed loudly. But very soon he became serious thinking over Lencho’s strong faith in God. He didn’t like to shake the Lencho’s faith in the God. Therefore, he came up with an idea to collect money from his employees and friends, give a part of his salary and sent it to Lencho through an envelop.

Oral Comprehension Check

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1. Was Lencho surprised to find a letter for him with money in it?

Answer:

Not at all, Lencho was not surprised receiving a letter from God with money in it. He was very confident and had strong faith in God that his request was specially considered by Him.

2. What made him angry?

Answer:

As soon as Lencho counted the money, he found only seventy pesos, instead of the hundred pesos which he demanded or asked for. He was confident that God could neither make a mistake, nor could he have denied Lencho what he had requested for. So he understood that the post office employees must have stolen thirty pesos from the envelope. According to him they are ‘a bunch of crooks’.

EXERCISE:::

1.Why does Lencho have complete faith in god ? Which sentence in the story tell you this?

Ans: Lencho has complete faith in god. The sentences which indicate this are--

A) There was single hope: help from god.

B) All through the night Lencho thought only of his one hope: the help of god.

C) 'God', he wrote, :if you donot help me my family and I will go hungry thisyear.'

D) He wrote to od on the envelop, put the letter inside.

1. Why does the Post Master send money to lencho? Why does he sign the letter 'God' ?

Ans: In order to keep Lencho's faith in god alive, the postmaster sands the letter to the farmer. In fact, the postmaster become serious as soon as he reads Lencho's letter. He wished that he had the same faith in god. Then, when he saw that Lencho had requested for money, the postmaster struck to his resolution that he wold rely to the letter of the old man along with money.

    Finally, he took steps to accumulte as much as money that he could ans send it to Lencho. He evensigned it 'God' so that Lencho's faith in godmight not get shaken by any means.

3. Did Lencho try to find out who had sent the money to him ? Why / why not ?

Ans: No, Lencho did not try to find out who had sent the money along with the letter to him.He did not even suspect that it could be somebody else other than god. He had so strong faith in god that it was none but god himself sent him the letter and monay as he asked for.

4. Who does Lencho think has taken the rest of the money? What is the irony of the situation?

Ans: After opening the letter and getting seventy pesos, Lencho thought that the post office employees had taken away rest of the money sent by god.

      The irony of the situation is that the post office employees whom he called 'bunch of crooks' were, in fact some kind hearted and helpful persons who came forward to help the old farmer in the name of charity.

5. Are there people like Lencho in the world ?

 What kind of a person would you say he is? You may select appropriate words from the box to answer the question.

    Greeddy, stupid, ungarteful, selfish, comical, 

...There may be some people like Lencho in the real world. He may be regarded as kind person.

6. There are two kinds of conflicts in the story between humans and nature and between human themselves. How are these conflicts illustrated ?

Ans: As far as destruction of Lencho's crops by the hailstorm is concerned, it is an illustration of the conflict between human beings and nature. The violent nature has destroyed Lencho's hope.

       On the other hand, Lencho blamed and accused of the post office employees of taking away his money ispite of the fact that they helped  him  with money.

ADDITIONAL QUESTION ANSWERS::

1. Who is Lencho?

Ans; Lencho was a hard working farmer who had blind faith in god.                

2. Pesos is the currency of ______

Ans:Latin America.

3. What did Lencho's field need ?

Ans: Lencho's field needed a downpour or a shower.

4.What was the woman preparing ?

Ans:The woman was preparing supper.

5.What were the older and younger ones doing?

Ans;; The older  boys were working in the field while the smaller one;s were playing near the house.

6.What pleasure did the man feel on his body?

Ans: The man felt the pleasure of the rain water on his body.

7.What according to Lencho are new coins?

Ans: the rain drops

8.What is ten cent pieces?

Ans: The big drop of rains are ten cent pieces.

9. What according to Lencho did resemble new silver coins?

Ans:The hail stones resemble new silver coins.

10. What is frozen pearls?

Ans:The snow balls of ice are called frozen pearls.

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GEOGRAPHY , CLASS IX- LESSON-1:

GEOGRAPHY , CLASS IX- LESSON-1:

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Q.1: Give an outline of the distribution of continenets and oceans of the world.

Ans: The surface of the earth is composed of 71% continenets and 29% oceans.

       In the continents there are plains, pleateaues, hills, mountains, rivers, valleys, deserts and coastal plains are found. Whereas in the oceans submerged plains, ridges, trenches, coral reels are found.

Q.2: Explain why there has been change over the earth's surface ?

Ans: The surface of the earth is never uniform. The natural factors take time to mark its impact, but they have long time effects. These factors include exogenic factors and endogenic factors.

     The modification of the surface of the earth due to exogenic facto is known as changes of the earth's surface.

Q.3: What is meant by exogenic factor ? Mention some exogenic factors .

Ans: The exogenic factors or forces are those natural forces which act upon the earth's surface externally. Tjese factors mainly include sunshine, wind, rain, river glacier and sea waves.

Q.4: Why are earthquake and volvcanic eruptions are  called endogenic factors ?

Ans: earthquake and volcanic eruptions are called endogenic factors because these factors operate in the earth's interior as well as inthe ocean bottoms.

Q.5: What do you mean by river basin ? Draw a diagram of river basin .

Ans: A river basin is an area from where the river along with their network of tributories carry water. All rivers along with its tribitories from their own river basin. 

  Diagram (see book)

Q.6. What is tributory / name two major tributories of the Brahmaputra.

Ans: Tributory is a river or a stream flowig into a large river or lake.

        The two major tribitories of the river Brahmaputre are- Dibang and Sobansiri

Q.7: Give an outline of river erosion.

Ans: Erosion means 'wearing out' of the river surface. It is one of the major river activities.When a river flows down from a highland to a lowland, it erodes the basin surface.The erosional works mainly depends upon geological formation of the channel. There is less erosional activity in the plain areas than the highland.

Q.8. What do you mean by lateral erosion of a river?

Ans: River water falling from highland reaches the lowland or plains with a decline of slope towards the plain. The flow of water reduces towards the plain and river channel becomes wider.  The river bank erosion in the plain areas is called bank or lateral erosion.

Q.9: What is Ox-bow lake ? Draw diagram to show how it is formed ?

Ans: In certain parts of the plain, the river channel may be highly meandering. Such a course fails to carry huge amount of water during summer. Then the river straightens its course leaving the widening course aside.The cut off part then takes the form of a lake like a horse-shoe.This is called horse-shoe lake.

 Diagram (see book)

Q.10: What is floodplain ? Write how it is formed .

Ans:  While in the middle and lower curse, sediments are deposited on the bed and the banks of river. Due to this kind of continuous sediment deposition, alluvial plains are dormed on both the banks. Such plains are claaed flood plain.

       The flood plains are fertile and suitable for cultivation. Extensive flood plains are there on the banks of the  rivers like the Brahmaputra, Ganga, Indus etc.

Q.11; Write how and where sandbars are formed i a river channel?

Ans: The sandbars are formed by the sediments on the river bed. They form both on the sides and the middle of the river bed. They are of various shape and size. During rainy season, speedy water current wipes away them.Again when the river water subsides, the sandbars are visible.

Q.12: How are the deltas formed ?

Ans: In the shallow viver or sea side area, small  islands take shape looking like assames 'b' (greek -...) These islands are called delta. Ther are found in the river mouth. 

Q.13: Write why the wind action is strong in the desets.?

Ans: Inthe deserts also the wind action passes through three stages- erosion, transportation and deposition. This causes change over them. So the wind action is strong in deserts..

Q.14; What is meant by Deflation ?

Ans: Sand and dust are easily transported from one part to the other . This type of blowing away of sand and dust is called deflation.

Q.15: How are sand dunes formed ?

Ans: Ths sand and dust transported through deflation get deposited in certain places, where surface may be raised gradually to form hills. These hills are called sand dunes.

Q.16: What is 'Inselberg'?

Ans: The german term 'inselberg' means isolated island mountain. In fact, inselberg is formed due to abrasion of the highlands.

Q.17: Define glaciers and state how it differs from a river.

Ans:  The extremely cold areas of th earth's surface are under ice cover. Such areas include the polar and the high mountainous part. There are huge amount of ice in such areas. The deposits of ice come down slowly over the surface slope. Such moving ice down the slope's is called glacier.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEEN GLACIER AND RIVER.

GLACIER:

Glacier is ice and snow. It is pre-stage of water and does not depend on rainfall.. Its movement is very slow. Glacier is found mainly in cold countries and continents.

RIVER;

On the other hand river carries water. Its basic source is rainfall. Rivers have channel and depends on climatic condition.Some rivers dry in winter season,whereas some remain full with water whole year.

Q.18: What is moraine ? Draw a diagram to show different types of moraine.

Ans: The glaciers in the mountain carry lot of materials other than ice. Such materials are called moraine.

Moraines are four types:

I) Lateral moraine.

Ii) Ground moraine.

Iii) Medial moraine.

Iv)Terminal moraine.

   Generally moraines go through the portion between the steep valley side and the moving ice.

Q.19: Write how the glacier horn is formed ?

Ans: The glacier channels are long with U shaped cross profile. Due to the friction caused by the transported materials, the glacier channels become deep. Several glacier may flow down from some mountain. In such situation, the erosional activities on all sides of the mountain make its peak sharp. Such peaks are called glacial horn. 

Q.20: What is coast ?

Ans: The land margins of the oceasn and seas are called coast. In fact, a large part of the earth's surface (about 71%) is covered by ocaens.

Q. 21: What is beach beach ? State its importance.

Ans: A sand deposited vast plain  area  found in the sea shore is called beach.This area is mainly formed of sand.

   Beach is attractive , hence tourists visit that area for refreshment and enjoying vacations. There are a large number of commercial beach in this world.

Q.22: Write how sea- waves bring about change inthe coasts >

Ans: Sometimes big earthquakes which occur in the ocean cracks the sea floor. Then water rush out from the sea floor. It produces  dangerous water waves in the ocean. Such waves attain great height outside and reach out the sea shore . Also the wave water cause extensive damage to the coast. This type of devastating waves are called Tsunami.

Q.23: Connect the arrows the factors and the features on the basis of their cause -effect relation.

Ans: River--------Flood plain, V-shaped valley,                                    sandbar, Horse-shoe lake,                                       Delta.

   Wind-------------yardang, Sand dune

    Glacier----------U-shaped valley, Lateral                                          moraine, 

    Sea-wave--------beach.

Q.24: Think and write about the probable changes of the earth's surface in future.

Ans: The exoginic factors act upon the earth's surface very slowly.   On the other hand, the endogenic factors suddenly cause extensive change over the earth and disturb the balance of its surface.

     In fact, the present pattern of our earth is the result of both the endogenic and exogenic factors. In future also these factors will continue their activities for further change in it's surface in course of time.

INSIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS::

1. What percentage of earth's surface are respectively water and land?

Ans: Water (hudrosphere)- 71%

        Land (landmass/continent)--29%

2.Write two names of exogenic factors.

Ans: sunshine, wind

3. What are the groups of river work ?

Ans:  Three --- Erosion, transportation and deposition.

4. Where are the works of river is evident ?

Ans: River channel.

5. What is a river channel ?

Ans: River channel means the elongated path through which the river flowa from source to mouth.

6. Where are the delta formed?

Ans: A delta is a landform. It forms from the deposition of sediments carried by a river water.

7. Write two name of wind related hazards .

Ans: Hurrican, Typhon.

8. Where is wind action is dangerous?

Ans: deserts.

9. The word 'inselberg' is taken from  ____?

Ans: German.

10. Write name of a basin .

Ans: Tarim basin.

11. Write two features formed by a river.

Ans: Leeves, delta.

12. What is the total length of coastline in the world?

Ans; 0.5 km.

13. The geographic feature formed by wind is called _______

Ans: yardang.

14. What is the other name of river bank erosion ?

Ans: Lateral erosion.

15. What is meandering course of river?

Ans: The river bank erosion makes the river more zigzag. Such a zigzag course is called Meandering course.

16. Where is Deepar bill located?

Ans: Guwahati.

17.What are the ways that a river carries away the sediments?

Ans: three ways--dissolved state, suspended state and rolling state.

18. Name the biggest river island and the place where it is located.

Ans: majuli, it is located in Majuli (river-Brahmaputra).

19. What is sand dunes.?

Ans: A kind of hills formed by sands are called sand dunes.

20. What are the types of Moraine ?

Ans: lateral, ground, medial and terminal.

21. Where is Chandubi Beel located ?

Ans: Rani, Guwahati.

22. When did devastating earthquake occured in Assam?

Ans: in 1950..

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION ANSWERS(MCQ)

     

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THE FUN THEY HAD......

THE FUN THEY HAD......

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About the lesson:.....

  This lesson is about future school about 30-50 years later than present age. At that time school, books teachers etc will no longer exist . The children will study inside their home in a room or cabin (in a virtual classrom without any classmate). In fact they will learn through computers where Robotic teacher (on screen) will give them command and check their homeworks as well. Their lessons/books  will be called E-text which will not be fixed on screen. They would be moving e-text or sentences and could be deleted, copied, pasted or even taken to any other page.Overall, there  will neither be any  school building nor any human teacher in future schools.

About the author.....

 Issac Asimov ( 2 Jan,1920---6 April,1992) was an American author and professor of Biochemestry in Boston University. He was one of the three famous science fiction writers of America.

Textual Question Answer:

I

1. How old are Margie and Tommy ?

Ans:- Margie was eleven and Tommy was thirteen years old.

2. What did Margie write in her diary ?

Ans:- Margie wrote on the page headed 17 May 2157 that "today Tommy found a real book."

3. Had Margie seen a book before ?

Ans:- No, Margie had never seen a book before.

4. What things about the book did she find strange ?

Ans:- The pages of the book were yellow and crinkly and the words stood still. Besides, when they turned back to the page before, it had the same word on it when they read it the first time. These were the things about the book which she found strange.

5. Where was Margie's school? Did she have any classmate ?

Ans:- Margie;s school was right next to her bedroom at her own house.

  No, she did not have any classmate.

6. Which subject did Margie and Tommy learn ?

Ans:- Margie learnt geography and Mathematics whereas Tommy learnt Hstory and mathematics.

7. What do you think a telebook is ?

Ans:- A telebook is a book which is displayed on the television or computer screen.

II

1. "I would not throw it away."

1. Who said this ?

Ans:- Tommy said this.

2. What does 'it ' refer to ?

Ns:- It refers to the textbook found by Tommy in the attic.

3. What is it being compared with by the speaker ?

Ans:- The speaker compared it with a teleboook which must have a million book in it.

2. "Sure they had a teacher but it was not regular teacher. It was a man."

1. Who does 'they ' refer to ?

Ans:- They refers to the students of earlier days. It indicates the time when Margie's grandfather was a little boy.

2. What does 'regular' mean here ?

Ans:- Regular means 'normal' or of the usual kind. But here the word 'regular' refers to the mechanical teacher that Tommy and Margie have.

3. What is it contrasted with ?

Ans:- It (mechanical teacher) is contrasted with the human teacher of the earlier times.

III

1. What kind of teacher did Margie and Tommy have ?

Ans:- Margie and Tommy had mechanical teacher. Their teacher was not a human being. He was rather an image that flashed on a television screen. The students  were taught by computers and television screens.

2. Why did Margie's mother send for the county Inspector ?

Ans:- Margie's mother sent for the county Inspector becuse the mechanical teacher had been giving Margie test after test in Geography and she had been doing worse and worse. In fact, the the Inspector found that the Geography sector was geared a little too quick.

3. What did he do ?

Ans:- He (county Inspector) had slowed down the speed of the mechanical teacher upto an average ten year level. The speed of the mechanical teacher was controlled and adjusted as per Margie's intelligence.

4. Why was Margie doing badly in Geography ? What did the county Inspector do to help her ?

Ans:-  Margie was doing badly in geography because the geography sector was geared  a little too quick and the teacher had been giving test after test.

          The county Inspector had helped Margie since he adjusted it's speed upto an average ten year level. He further commented that the overall pattern of her (Margie's)  progress was quite satisfactory.

5.What had once happened to Tommy's teacher ?

Ans:- Once the history sector of Tommy's teacher had blanked out completely and it was taken away for nearly a month.

6. Did Margie have regular days and hours for school ? If so, why ?

Ans:- Yes, Margie has regular days and hours for school because her school was located right next to her bedroom. Her mother said that little girls learn better if they learn at regular hours..

7. How does Tommy describe the old kind of school ?

Ans:- Tommy says that old kind of schools were different. The students of the earlier schools had a special building to attend in. All the kids of neighbourhood assembled to study there at fixed time. They came laughing and shouting and sat together in the school room. They learnt the same thing together as guided by men teachers.

8. How does he describe the old kind of teachers ?

Ans:- Tommy says that the old teachers were not mechanical teachers. They were rather human beings. They told things to the boys and girls and gave them homework and asked them questions.

IV. 

1. What are the main features of the mechanical teachers and the school rooms that Margie and Tommy have in the story ?

Ans:- Margie and Tommy have mechanical teachers. Their teacher is not a human being. He is an image that flashes on the screen in their study room. The classroom of margie and Tommy is in their home. They donot require printed books as they have many telebooks on the screen.Even their mechanical teacher has been adjusted to fit the minds of each student whom it teaches. Moreover, the mechanical teacher does not have the ability to understand the psychology of a child. In fact, it guides a child according to its adjusted models.

        Thus, these are the features of the mechanical teachers and the school rooms that Margie and Tommy have in the story.

2. Why did Margie hate school ? Why did she think the old kind of school must have been fun ?

Ans:- Margie hated school because she was taught by mechanical teacher in her study room. Her teacher was, however, an image which flashed on a screen in her study room.

       The teacher gave her instructions and she had to obey them. She just solved the sums and put her papers in a slot. The teacher checked them in no time. The mechanical teacher gave her home work and test after test in geography and she had been doing worse. So, Margie hated school more than ever.

        Margie thought that the old kind of school must have fun, because, all the kids from the neighbourhood came together, laughing and shouting in the school yard to study under single roof.

      They even went home together at the end of the day. So, they could help one another with their homewrok.

3. Do you agree with Margie that today's school have more fun than the school in the story. Give reason for your answer.

Ans:- Yes, I agree with Margie that today's school have more fun than the school in the story. There is nothing special except a mechanical teacher in the story. Such a teacher has neither emotios nor sentiments. Such a teacher was placed in one of the rooms of the house. Then students are supposed to sit in that room and the mechanical teacher never understands the psychology of a child. It rather guides a pupil according to its adjusted modals.

         On the other hand, in today's schools there are more fun because students sit together in the same classroom. Teachers understand them and guide them personally. Both the teacher and students enjoy laughing and shouting together in the school yard and thus enjoy every single day.

INSIDE/ EXTRA QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS:

1. Who wrote the 'The Fun They had'?

Ans:- Isaac Asimove

2. What did she write in his diary ?

Ans:- She wrote "Today Tommy found a real book."

3. How old was Margie ?

Ans:- Margie was eleven years old.

4. How old was Tommy ?

Ans:- Tommy was thirteen years old.

5. Why were the pages if the real book turned yellow and crinkly ?

Ans:-The real books were printed on papers. They were very old books. Hence the pages of such real books turned yellow and crinkly.

6. Where did Tommy find the old book ?

Ans:- In the attic of their house..

7. What was the subject matter of the book ?

Ans:- About school.

8.What did Margie hate ?

Ans:- Margie hated school.

9. Who was the county Inspector ?

Ans:- The county Inspector was a round little man with a red face and a whole box of tools with dials and wires.

10. What was the problem with Margie's mechanical teacher ?

Ans:- The mechanical teacher had been giving her test after test in geography and she had been doing worse and worse.

1. What was the name of Marge's mother ?

Ans:- Mrs. Jones.

MCQ ....

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