CLASS 10 · WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS 2 · CHAPTER 4
Original, student-friendly answers and samples for the Unit 4 workbook activities.
16 worked answers · short steps first, explanations when you need them
Textbook pages Let’s Begin
Question Let’s Begin
Compare an everyday feeling of isolation with Anne’s much more serious wartime experience.
Sample: Anne’s isolation was far more dangerous than ordinary loneliness, but her diary helps us understand how painful it is to be cut off from friends and safety.
Textbook pages Texts I and II
Question Reading Comprehension
Use the passage: Leningrad is under siege, clouds hide the city, and food is rationed. Answer each sub-question from those details.
Phrases: extreme hunger and cold; the city being cut off; a limited bread ration. The people feared bombing and starvation. Cloud reduced visibility. The ration-card sentence means option (d).
Question Vocabulary
Follow the timeline: rumour from Holland, word-of-mouth news, two deaths, medical inspection, official confirmation.
News spread through letters and word of mouth. Doctors confirmed the plague after inspecting two bodies. “Weekly bill of mortality” means option (d), a weekly list of deaths.
Textbook pages Vocabulary, Grammar, and Editing
Question Idiomatic Expressions
Use the context to choose the meaning, then give a clear example.
“Quaking in one’s boots” means very frightened. Example: I was quaking in my boots before the speech.
Question Idiomatic Expressions
Use the context to choose the meaning, then give a clear example.
Lose heart—become discouraged; have a heart—show kindness; learn by heart—memorise; take heart—become hopeful. Example: The team took heart after the coach’s praise.
Question Idiomatic Expressions
Use the context to choose the meaning, then give a clear example.
All’s fair in love and war—people excuse unusual actions; icing on the cake—an extra benefit; chalk and cheese—very different; raining cats and dogs—raining heavily; call the shots—make decisions; break the ice—ease awkwardness.
Question Grammar
Join the words that are commonly contracted and keep the original tense and meaning.
shouldn’t; they’ve; let’s; didn’t; couldn’t; here’s; I’d; aren’t.
Question Grammar
Match each idiom with its meaning, then make a sentence showing that meaning.
All’s fair in love and war—excuses unusual actions; icing on the cake—an extra benefit; call the shots—make decisions; chalk and cheese—very different; raining cats and dogs—raining heavily; break the ice—ease initial awkwardness.
Question Vocabulary
Use grammar and meaning: reflexive pronoun, person-relative word, possessive pronoun, uncountable “damage”, and the phrase “concerned with”.
it; oneself; who; yours; damage; concerned with.
Question Grammar
Correct the verb forms and pronouns, then reread the whole quotation for agreement and natural meaning.
were; some of her; has found; those who; should point; ask myself; have; the Jews; wanted.
Question Grammar: Phrasal verbs
Use the verbs in story order and change them to the past where needed.
go out; broke down; look for; checked out; found out.
Textbook pages Listening and Speaking
Question Listening
Put the main events in order and include how civilians were affected.
Leningrad was surrounded in September 1941. Residents faced bombing, cold, and hunger; supplies came across Lake Ladoga. The siege ended after 872 days, in January 1944.
Question Speaking
List qualities from the poem and support one or two with a real example.
The poem praises willpower, persistence, determination, bravery, strength, intelligence, and steadfastness. Give an example of someone who developed these through effort.
Textbook pages Writing and Project
Question Writing
Compare present-day media with Defoe’s letters and word-of-mouth reports, and mention how readers can check accuracy.
News is shared through newspapers, radio, TV, websites, apps, and social media. Check reliable sources before sharing.
Question Writing
Choose one activity and report who took part, what they did, when and where it happened, and its result.
A report needs a headline, byline, date/place, key events, and outcome. For example, describe who joined a local clean-up, what they did, and what changed.
Question Writing
Organise the poster under the four required headings. Use a simple map or timeline and credit any image you did not create.
Show Bengal on a map; list food shortages, wartime disruption, inflation, and delayed relief as contributing causes; name food kitchens, grain or gruel, low-cost food, and medical relief. Use original or permitted visuals with credits.