Saturday 4 August 2018

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

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Helen Keller

Words / Meaning



S.NO. WordsMeanings
1.AdmirePraise
2.AffectionLove
3.BeautyLoneliness
4.BlindUnable to see
5.By and bySlowly
6.BloomBlossom
7.CheerfulHappy
8.ColourlessDull
9.ContentPlease
10.CountTally
11.CourageousBold
12.CurseSwear, Execration
13.DeafUnable to hear
14.DullInsipid
15.DumbUnable to speak
16.ExclaimCry out
17.ForgetFail to remember
18.FortuneLucky
19.IndeedInfact
20.LearnAcquire knowledge
21.MiserableSorrowful
22.MisfortuneBad luck
23.MountainA tall hill
24.MovementMotion
25.PatientUncomplaining
26.PointsDots
27.RaissedElevated
28.SelflessUnselfish
29.SeveralMany
30.SoulSpirit
31.VoluntarilyIntentionally
32.WelcomeGreet
33.WonderfulMarvellous
34.ZealAmbition


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.



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