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dIgItal lIteracy
Vocabulary

India has recently unveiled world’s first portable hospital—Arogya Maitri Cube. Search
the internet about the same and answer the following questions:
1. Who unveiled the hospital and under which project?
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2. Where and in which year it was launched?
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3. For which situation will it be used and how?
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4. What inspired this cube and how many cubes it consists of?
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actIvIty-baSed learnIng
Learn with Fun

Join these sentences to form simple sentences and rewrite them in the given space.
1. Winston Churchill was a politician and statesman. He won the Nobel Prize for
Literature.
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2. The gate was unlocked. We quietly went inside.
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3. The thieves robbed the bank at gunpoint. They escaped in a helicopter.
Synthesis of Sentences
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4. He drove at 100 miles per hour. He arrived on time.
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5. Kalidas was the greatest Sanskrit poet. He lived in the 5th century.

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6. He was a leader. He was born as such. He took orders from no one.
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7. The Taj Mahal was built by hundreds of masons. Nobody knows their names. It is a
tomb.
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8. She disguised herself as a beggar. She escaped out of the country.
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