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Communication Skills-I

Notes Keywords

Commerce : Trading

Defer: Postpone, keep it for future.
Fragile: That which breaks easily
Infl uenza: Bad cold
On top of Life: High above in life

Trying: Hard and tiring
Exercise

1. Answer the following questions on the text:
(a) How did the young, strong and healthy man feel in life?
(b) What happened to the healthy man? And how did he move about then?
(c) What did he see in a train or bus? And what did he think and feel at that sight?
(d) How did he act afterwards?

(e) What is the thing all boys and girls are going to learn before very long?
(f) Why are good manners important even when we are with out friends?
(g) Why do we have to express the truth differently for different people?
(h) What should be our rule about conversation?

(i) What was the conclusion of the experiment done by showing on a screen a picture of
the bull-fi ght?
(j) How do we acquire good manners?
2. On the basis of your understanding of the text say whether the following statements are
true or false?
(a) When the young man got his strength back he thought that he should never show
any consideration for those older people who had lost their strength for ever.

(b) It is an insult to a person to talk to him loudly.
(c) The truth is what you say is true for you.
(d) People who do not take remarks too literally are always stupid.
(e) In a company we should talk as much as the occasion demands.

(f) When we argue we should feel confident that we are absolutely correct.
(g) We should always realise out importance in a company.
(h) No man really understands himself.
(i) We should be proud of our being the most important creature on this earth.
(j) Understanding of others limitations is the source of good manners.

3. Find out a word in the text which means the same, or come closest to the meaning of the
following words:
(a) Imitation (Hint: 2nd paragraph)

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