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  Supplementary Unit - 5 A Day in 2889 of an American Journalist       PART - 1                   PART - 2                      A. Answer the following questions in two or three lines. Question 1. Why did Francis Bennett wake up with a bad temper? Answer: Francis Bennett woke up with a bad temper because he was feeling lonely and bored. It was eight days, since his wife had gone to France. Question 2. What was a mechanized dressing room? Answer: The machine in the mechanised dressing room washes a person, shaves him, dresses him and buttons him from top to toe on the threshold of his office. Question 3. How was food served to him? Answer: Food was served to him through a network of pneumatic tubes. It was an expensive system, but cooking was better. Question 4. Why was Bennett curious about astronomy? Answer: Bennett was curious about astronomy because one of the astronomers had just determined the elements of the new planet ‘Gandini’. He was delighted to know about the accuracy of it.

              Poem Chapter 5 The Secret of the Machines                A. Answer the following questions briefly. 1. Who does ‘we’ refer to in first stanza? (a) Human beings (b) Machines. The Secret of the Machines Poem Questions and Answer: (b) Machines. 2. Who are the speakers and listeners of this poem? Answer: The speakers are the Machines and the listeners are the readers. 3. What metals are obtained from ores and mines? Iron ore Answer: Steel, Copper, Nickel, Lead, Tin, Aluminum, Gold and Uranium are some of the metals that we obtain from Ores and Mines. The Secret of the Machines Questions and Answers Class 8 Question 4. Mention a few machines which are hammered to design. Answer: The lever, the inclined plane, the wedge, the screw, the wheel, the axle and the pulley. 5. Mention the names of a few machines that run on water, coal or oil. Answer: Steam engine, generator, washing machine, and turbine of power plants. 6. Mention a few machines used for pulling, pushing, lifting, dr

                                Vocabulary                                  DIRECT & INDIRECT VIDEO CLASS SOON                C. Pick out the contractions from the lesson and expand them. Answer: Contractions Expansions can’t recent i’m I am you’re you are It’s It has Don’t Do not didn’t did not I’d I would D. Expand the following abbreviations or acronyms. Answer: SIM – Subscriber Identity Module ISRO – Indian Space Research Organisation WHO – World Health Organisation CCTV – Closed Circuit Television HDMI – High Definition Multimedia Interface LASER – Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation MRI – Magnetic Resonance Imaging CRY – Child Rights and You RAM – Random Access Memory ROM – Read Only Memory CPU – Central Processing Unit ALU – Arithmetic Logic Unit E. Complete the sentences with the correct abbreviations or acronyms from the given list. etc. BCE e.g HD m IQ GPS p.m. vs My dad wakes up very early in the morning because he has to be at work at 6.00___________