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Bio-Diversity

Telangana Board · Class 10 · English

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Key Topics to Revise

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A. Environment - Interview with Wangari Maathai

  • Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her environmental activism
  • She founded the Green Belt Movement to address deforestation and women's rights in Africa
  • Basic human needs (water, food, energy, building materials, fodder) are directly connected to environmental health
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B. Or Will the Dreamer Wake? - Poem by Medora Chevalier

  • The poem warns about the extinction of various species across different regions
  • Four animals represent different geographical areas: tiger (East), white bear (North), song thrush (West), whale (Ocean South)
  • Each stanza follows a similar pattern describing the animal's current state and the threat of extinction
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C. A Tale of Three Villages

  • Three villages represent different types of environmental disasters: chemical waste (Nigeria), industrial pollution (India), and nuclear disaster (Ukraine)
  • Koko Village, Nigeria: Toxic chemical drums from Italy dumped illegally, causing deaths and illness
  • Ponnimanthuri Village, India: Leather tanning factories polluting air, water, and soil with heavy metals
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Language Skills and Grammar

  • Non-finite clauses: Clauses without tense markers that depend on finite clauses
  • Non-finite verbs include: gerunds (-ing), participles (-ing, -ed), infinitives (to + verb)
  • Reported speech: Converting direct speech to indirect speech with appropriate tense changes

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Wangari Maathai explains how environmental destructionA grassroots environmental movement started byMaathai's threeMedora Chevalier's poem warns about variousThe three villages (Nigeria

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