English IX - Chapter No. 5 - Words / Meaning and Summary

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Helen Keller

Words / Meaning

S.NO.	Words	Meanings
1.	Admire	Praise
2.	Affection	Love
3.	Beauty	Loneliness
4.	Blind	Unable to see
5.	By and by	Slowly
6.	Bloom	Blossom
7.	Cheerful	Happy
8.	Colourless	Dull
9.	Content	Please
10.	Count	Tally
11.	Courageous	Bold
12.	Curse	Swear, Execration
13.	Deaf	Unable to hear
14.	Dull	Insipid
15.	Dumb	Unable to speak
16.	Exclaim	Cry out
17.	Forget	Fail to remember
18.	Fortune	Lucky
19.	Indeed	Infact
20.	Learn	Acquire knowledge
21.	Miserable	Sorrowful
22.	Misfortune	Bad luck
23.	Mountain	A tall hill
24.	Movement	Motion
25.	Patient	Uncomplaining
26.	Points	Dots
27.	Raissed	Elevated
28.	Selfless	Unselfish
29.	Several	Many
30.	Soul	Spirit
31.	Voluntarily	Intentionally
32.	Welcome	Greet
33.	Wonderful	Marvellous
34.	Zeal	Ambition

Short Note Or Summary of "Helen Keller"

Helen Keller was a wonderful and courageous woman. She was born in 1880 in a little town in  the United States of America. She could see and hear everything up to the age of two. Then In February 1882, she became blind and deaf as a result of a serious illness. At the age of seven Miss Sullivan began to look after her and started teaching her. One day, she took Helen to river bank and put her hand in water. Slowly Miss Sullivan made her to write the word "w,a,t,e,r" on the sand. In this way Helen learn how to spell : w,a,t,er".
Miss Sullivan taught Helen about mountains, rivers and about history and geography. She even, taught her how to count and do sums.
She started going to a school for blind children at eight. She started speaking again at ten by feeling the movements of her teachers lips with her hands. She learnt to read by touching the raised points of special books for the blind with her fingers. She graduated from the Harvard University. She devoted her whole life to help the blind and the deaf. She also visited Pakistan in 1956 for the same purpose at seventy-six. She gave message to blind and deaf children that always be happy and cheerful and never curse their fate. They could do everything in this world. She was an admirable lady.