Christmas day function in St.Joseph's convent hr sec school 6.12.2018

Tenses 9th std

Verbs come in three tenses: past, present, and future. The past is used to describe things that have already happened (e.g., earlier in the day, yesterday, last week, three years ago). The present tense is used to describe things that are happening right now, or things that are continuous. The future tense describes things that have yet to happen (e.g., later, tomorrow, next week, next year, three years from now).

Direct and indirect speech 8th std

Direct Speech: the message of the speaker is conveyed or reported in his own actual words without any change.

Indirect Speech: the message of the speaker is conveyed or reported in our own words.

Some rules followed in direct and indirect speech are

1.    All inverted commas or quotation marks are omitted and the sentence ends with a full stop.

2.    Conjunction ‘that’ is added before the indirect statement.

3.    The pronoun ‘I’ is changed to ‘she’. (The Pronoun is changed in Person)

4.    The verb ‘am’ is changed to ‘was’. (Present Tense is changed to Past)

5.    The adverb ‘now’ is changed to ‘then’.

The Anteater and the Dassie 8th std

"The Anteater and the Dassie" is a story about two friends. Tendai was helping his grandmother to cook. They heard a news from radio that an anteater was captured by a farmer and he presented it to the president. Grandmother told a story to Tendai. The two friends, anteater and dassie had a race and dassie won because anteater was not fast. They had a race again. This time anteater won because it curled and rolled to reach the destination. The theme is that there are more than one way to do a thing.

Earthquake 9th std

"Earthquake" is a story written by M.S.Mahadevan. This story is about a boy, Brij. He tells his story to a traveller. His village faced a terrific earthquake. Rescuers found all the corpses belongs to his family except his little sister. Finally an army officer helped him to find his sister. She had been alive under the

A Tiger in the zoo 8th std

"A Tiger in the zoo" is a poem written by Leslie Norris. The poem is about a tiger which is inside the cage. The poet feels that the tiger should be in the forest, frightening the villagers but the tiger is inside a cage seeing the stars. The poet expresses his feeling about tiger's freedom and its chivalry.

Water the elixir of life 9th std

"Water the elixir of life" is about the importance of water and the importance of natural resources. The prose gives a detailed account of rain water, the changes occur in water colour, reasons for soil erosion, measures to prevent soil erosion etc... The wastage of water and how to prevent it are also explained here by C.V. Raman, the nobel prize winner.