Great Moment For All Those Children
Summary
- The chapter is about Kailash Satyarthi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for his efforts to protect children’s rights, especially the rights to education, and to fight child slavery.
- There is a telephonic interview between Adam Smith (of Nobel Media) and Kailash Satyarthi. Smith congratulates Satyarthi on receiving the Prize, and Satyarthi says that this is a “great moment for all those children” who have been deprived of their childhood, health, education, and basic freedoms.
- Satyarthi says that the Nobel Prize will bring greater attention to the plight of neglected children and encourage more people, governments, corporations, and civil society to join the cause.
- He emphasizes two main requirements to eliminate child slavery:
- Awareness / recognition — people must acknowledge that child slavery exists and that it is a crime against humanity.
- Political will and engagement — need for stronger political commitment, corporate responsibility, and public support to fight child slavery.
- He also proposes holding an End Child Slavery Week every year (from 19 to 25 November) to highlight different aspects of child slavery and press for change.
- The chapter ends by urging children and citizens to play their part — by spreading awareness, reporting violations, and standing up for the rights of children everywhere.
Grammar
I. Fill in the blanks with the most suitable determiners from the list given below:
(a, an, the, every, one, a little, her, little, the little, first, his)
A seed was no bigger than the nail on Deepa’s little finger. It was as hard as a nutshell.
“I’ll plant it, and a flower will grow from it,” Deepa said to herself. She fetched a flowerpot and planted the seed. She watched it every day. Every day a little shoot sprang up. The plant was no bigger than the little finger. No one knew what it was.
“We’ll have to wait until it flowers,” said Deepa’s mother. The plant grew and grew.
It grew very tall.
“We’ll have to measure ourselves to see who is bigger,” said Deepa to her baby tree as she set off for school for the first time.
By summer, the tree had grown much taller than her. It almost filled the sitting room.
“I wonder what kind of a monster it is,” said mother. So she borrowed a book on plants, buried her nose in it and finally called out, “Here we are! It is a Semul also called Silk Cotton an enormous tree. It’ll bring the whole house down!”
Father dashed off to the shed to get an axe. “No!,” shrieked Deepa. “If you chop its top off, it will die. Father dear, please!”
II. Fill in the blanks with ‘some’ / ‘any’:
- Would you like some milk?
- There are some books on that table.
- No. I don’t want any book.
- She wants some papers to write a story.
- They do not have any money with them.
III. Fill in the blanks with ‘little’, ‘few’, ‘a little’, ‘a few’:
- They are not happy because little food is left with them.
- She is quite satisfied now. She has done a little better than she expected.
- Raju has made few mistakes in English paper that’s why he is sad.
- He has a little hope to get success.
- There are a few points to discuss still to get the expected result.
IV. Insert ‘much’ or ‘many’ in the following:
- Did you buy many story books?
- How much water is left in this tank?
- They do not have many houses.
- Raj is fond of reading books but he has not brought many books with him.
- How much money you want?
- How many students have their textbooks?
Writing
One day a father took his son to a village.
He wanted to show him how poor someone can be. They spent time on the farm of a poor family.
Dad asked, “Did you see how poor they are? What did you learn?”
Son said,
“We have one dog, they have four;
we have a pool, they have rivers.
We have lanterns at night, they have stars;
we buy food, they grow theirs.
We have walls to protect us, they have friends;
we have encyclopedias, they have the Bible.”
Then they headed home.
“Thanks Dad, for showing me how poor we are!”
Q. You are a reporter impressed with this boy. Imagine that you have interviewed this boy. Complete the interview given below.
Reporter: Good morning, Beta. I am Arnav Ghosh from Wisdom.
Boy: Good morning, ‘Sir’.
Reporter: What is your name?
Boy: I am Sankalp Sharma.
Reporter: How was your experience to see village life?
Boy: It was a very nice experience.
Reporter: What did you learn from this experience?
Boy: They are much rich than us!
Reporter: What do you mean by that?
Boy: That we see only small dimensions of life but people of village see things in large and positively.
Reporter: That is really great!
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