1.2 On to the Summit: We Reach the Top Activity-2

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 1.2 On to the Summit: We Reach the Top

Activity No. 2

I have been asked many times …………… But we couldn’t hear. We had our oxygen masks on.

Pg no.

Read the extract and complete the activities given below.

A.1 Global Understanding

Describe the opinion of Tenzing about the question – Who was the first?

Ans-Tenzing’s opinion was that such a question had no importance. Both of them reached the top was more important. There was no one to decide the difference of distance in between Tenzing and Hillary. So he neglected the question.

A.2 Complex Factual-

Rewrite the statement choosing the correct alternative.

1. The pact was signed in the office of the Prime Minister of Nepal/India.

2. Tenzing had a copy of his/ Hillary’s statement.

3. The two mountaineers did not care/ cared about reaching first to the summit.

4. Tenzing held flags of India, Britain, Nepal, and The United Nations/United States of America.

A.3 Conclusion-

Give the list of Tenzing’s activities after reaching the summit.

Ans-The list of Tenzing’s activities after reaching the summit-

        I.            He embraced Hillary.

     II.            He held the flags and asked Hillary to take photographs.

   III.            He was overjoyed at the success.

  IV.            He told Hillary that they had done it.

A.4 Personal Response-

Narrate your own experience of Mountaineering.

Ans-

A.5.Language Study-

1. We crossed over the South Summit and moved along the Summit ridge. (Use not only ….but also)

Ans- We not only crossed over the South Summit but also moved along the Summit ridge.

2. We made a pact. (Rewrite the sentence beginning with ‘A pact……)

Ans- A pact was made by us.

A.6 Vocabulary

1. s-m-i- ( top of the mountain)

2. p-c- (Formal agreement)

3. e-b-a-e- (Held closely in one’s arm)

4. c-l-n-l- (post in the military)

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