English For class IX - Chapter No.15 - Text Book Exercise

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Nursing

Exercise

Textual Study:-

1. Learn the following words, look up their meaning in the dictionary and use them in your own sentences: 

S.NO.	Words	Meanings
1.	Wounded	Injured
2.	Accompanied	Companion, Follow, Go along with
3.	Devoted	Very loving, Loyal, Dedicated
4.	Worshiped	Praying to, Reverence

1. Use the following words  in your own sentences:

S.NO.	Words	Sentences
1.	Wounded	Ahmed was seriously wounded in the bus accident.
2.	Accompanied	Students of our class accompanied with our teachers, went for picnic
3.	Devoted	The soldier devoted his life for the sake of his country.
4.	Worshiped	We worship God five times in a day in our prayers.

Comprehension:

(a) Check the right answer:
1. What does nursing mean?
(a) Nursing means looking after the sick. ✔️
(b) Nursing means looking after the garden.

2. What did the Holy Prophet (P.B.U.H) give to Hazrat Ghifaria?
(a) He gave her one thousand rupees.
(b) He gave her necklace. ✔️

3. Where did Florence Nightingale go for training as a nurse?
(a) She went to France.
(b) She went to Germany. ✔️

(c) She went to Russia.
(b) Answer the following:

Q.1: What did the Holy Prophet do for the sick?
Ans: He visited the sick regularly, comforted them and spoke kind words to them. He even visited his ailing enemies.

Q.2: Where did he establish a hospital?
Ans: He established a hospital in Medina.

Q.3: Who was Florence Nightingale?
Ans: Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy, in 1820. She belonged to a wealthy and cultured English family. She was the founder of modern nursing. She devoted her life to serve the suffering humanity.

Q.4: What was her aim in life?
Ans: Her aim in life was to serve suffering humanity and therefore inspite of being wealthy and being opposed by her family, she took up nursing.

Q.5: What did she do with the money offered to her by the British Government?
Ans: With the money offered to her by the British Government, Florence Nightingale founded an institution for training nurses in London.

Composition:

1- Describe the Muslim Contribution to nursing?  
Ans: Islam is religion of peace. The Muslims are kind and like to give peace and relief. It may be either in kind of a nurse. Nursing was also important at the days of our Holy Prophet. The nurses looked after the sick and patients even at the time of war. In the battle of Khyber Hazrat Ghafaria proved to be a very good nurse. Our Holy Prophet established the hospital at Medina, where good nurses were looking after the sick. Hazrat Fatima, the dearest daughter of our Holy Prophet; Hazrat Asma and many other ladies served the wounded in the battle fields. Islam gives great importance to Nursing.

2. Give an account of the life and work of Florence Nightingale? 
Ans: Florence Nightingale was the founder of modern nursing and one of the greatest women in history. She was born in Florence in Italy in 1820. She belonged to a noble English family. She was always thinking to serve the poor peoples to be a nurse and she proved to be a competent nurse. She was admitted in the institution of nursing in Germany. In 1854, she went to Crimean to manage the military hospitals. She served sincerely in the Crimean war. For her good work, she was a given a price of 45,000 as a prize for her good work. From this amount; she founded an institution for training of nurses in London. She will always be remembered as the founder of modern nursing. She was kind and she spent her whole life in serving the humanity.

Study of Structures:-

Look at these verbs:

Present	Past	Participle
Write	Wrote	Written
Educate	Educated	Educated
Drive	Drove	Driven
Crowed	Crowded	Crowded
Draw	Drew	Drawn

Note: These are three forms of the verb. They are called present, past and past participle. Let us do some work today with the past participle of verbs. This form, as you know is used in the perfect tense or in the passive voice.

Examples:
1. I have written a letter.
2. A new map was drawn by me.
But these "participles" can also be used as " Adjectives" or qualifying words, e.g.
1. No written records are available about the people of Moen-jo-Daro.
2. It is difficult to drive through the crowded street.

Exercise: 
1. Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with participles formed from verbs in brackets:
(a) Educated girls of good families were not coming forward. (educate)
(c) Her parents were wealthy and cultured English people. (culture)
(d) Pakistan was defended by her dedicated soldiers in 1965 war. (dedicate)
(e) How can you write with a broken pen? (break)
(f) You must read some selected story book. (select)

2. Make past participles from the following verbs and then use them in sentences as verbs as well as adjectives: 

S.NO.	Word	Past Participle
1.	Complete	Completed
2.	Injured	Injured
3.	Control	controlled
4.	Establish	Established
5.	Use	Used

Sentence As Verb: 

S.NO.	Word	Sentences
1.	Completed	I have completed my home work.
2.	Injured	She was not injured in that accident.
3.	Controlled	She controlled the meeting very ably.
4.	Established	Pakistan was established on 14th August 1947.
5.	Used	Police used tear gas to put the riot down.

Sentence As Adjective:

S.NO.	Word	Sentences
1.	Completed	I shall meet you when my work is completed.
2.	Injured	The doctor looks after the injured person.
3.	Controlled	Mustafa played very controlled football.
4.	Established	They are an established company with a good reputation.
5.	Used	She had gradually grown used to him.

Exercise: 
Pick out the most appropriate words of comparison among the following: 
1. As black as coal.
(coal,iron, dirt)

2. As green as grass. 
(a cabbage, a tree, grass)

3. As sweet as honey.
(a cake, honey, a rose)

4. As cold as ice.
(ice, water, iron)

5. As dry as a stone. 
(a stone, a bone, a brick)

6. As soft as wool. 
(wool, silk, cotton)

7. As light as leaf. 
(a flower, a leaf, a fly)

8. As happy as a bird.
(a clown, a king, a bird)

9. As hard as iron.
( copper, iron, gold)

10. As brave as a lion.
(a lion, a dog, a monkey)

Non-Textual Study Exercise:-

Fill In The Blanks:
1. A man who records history is called historian.
2. A man who takes part in politics is called a politician.
3. A man who entertains guests is called a host.
4. A woman who entertains guests is called a hostess.
5. A man who writes poems is called a poet.
6. A man who writes book is called an author.
7. A man who makes experiments in various branches of science is called a scientist.
8. A man who composes music is called a musician.
9. A man who repairs shoes is called a cobbler.
10. A man who makes ornaments out of gold is called a gold smith.