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A Two Billion Dollar Dream (Text book \page 5) Preparation (Text book page 5) (1) What truth does it bring out? (2) Why should we not have a low aim? (3) What do you dream to be in your life? (4) What efforts will you make to fulfill your dreams? (5) How will you react to the odds that may come in your way? (6) Look at the title of the text and guess what it suggests. Global understanding (Skimming) Questions (1) What does Dell fondly say about any good idea? (2) Who were the other members of Dells family? Complex Personal (Scanning) Question How did Michael succeed in catching more fish? Inference / Interpretative Question Why did Michaels family feel that he was wasting his time? Personal Response Question: What idea do you get from Michaels family? Grammar in Context Questions: (1) He has become the fourth largest manufacturer of personal computers in America. (pick out the verb and state its tense) (2) Growing up in Houston, Texas, Michael and his two brothers were imbued by their parents with the desire to learn. (Rewrite as a Compound Sentence) (3) Michael kept working. (Rewrite as a negative sentence.) (4) Youre wasting your time, the rest of the family called to Michael. (Rewrite in indirect speech.)

Vocabulary in Context Questions: (1) Find examples of Noun Compounds and Adjective Compounds from the extract: (2) Give one word from the extract for the following: (i) With great care or trouble (ii) Specialist in straightening crooked teeth (iii) Filled with a quality. Global Understanding (Skimming) Questions: (1) Write whether the following statements are True or False. (Correct the false statements) (i) In high school, Michael had a job of selling newspaper subscriptions. (ii) At 29, Dell bough n expensive BMW car. (2) What marketing strategy did Dell apply? Complex Factual (Scanning) Questions: (1) How did Dell, as a school boy, succeed in earning $ 18000? (2) What did Dell do after buying personal computers from dealers? Inference, Interpretative Question Why was the car salesman flabbergasted? Personal Response Question: Do you admire Dell for the manner in which he stared his business? Grammar in Context Questions: (1) The car salesman was flabbergasted when the 17-year old paid cash. (Identify the clauses). (2) Soon he was selling to business, doctors offices and law firms. (3) A few years later, Michael had another good idea. (Rewrite beginning It was .)

Vocabulary in Context Questions: (1) Find examples of Noun Compounds, and Adjective Compounds from the extract: (2) Give the antonyms of the follo0ing words: (i) recipient (ii) expensive (iii) available (iv) surplus. Extract 3 (Textbook pages 6 & 7) Global Understanding (Skimming) Questions: (1) Write whether the following statements are True or False.Correct the false statements: (i) Dells parents told him that they were concerned about the money he earned. (ii) Dell risked all his savings and incorporated Dell Computer Corp on August 20, 1972. (2) How did Dell display the first ad of his company? Complex Factual (Scanning) Question) What was the deal between Dell and his parents? Inference / interpretative Question: Why did Dells father dislike his starting of a business? Personal Response Question: Do you think that Dells father was right in asking him to st art his business after he got his degree? Grammar in Context Questions: (1) What exactly is it that you want to do? asked his father. (Rewrite in reported speech.) (2) Under a deadline, his pace was frantic. (Rewrite as a complex sentence.) (3) Dell confessed to his parents that he was still in the computer business. (Rewrite using the noun form of the underlined word)

Vocabulary in Context Questions: (1) Find examples of Noun Compounds and Adjective Compounds from the extracts. (2) Give the adjective forms of the following words: (i) Chaos (ii) compete (iii) opportunity Extract 4 (Textbook page7) Global Understanding (Skimming Questions): (1) Write whether the following statement is True or False. (Correct the statement if it is false: Dell introduced a 24-hour-day phone service for customers to talk directly with computer technicians. (2) How did Dells company know what the customers wanted? (3) How were inventory and overheads kept low? Complex Factual (Scanning) Question: How did Dell respond to customers whose computers developed problems? Inference / Interpretative Question: How did Dell react to the situations when the manager quit? Personal Response Question: What qualities of Dell can we see from this extract? Grammar in Context Questions: (1) From necessity, he learned accounting basics. (Rewrite beginning Since ? (2) Unlike other manufacturers, Dell gave his customers money-back guarantees. (Rewrite beginning Dell was ) (3) The manager that Dell had hired quit. (Identify the clauses.) Vocabulary in Context Questions: (1) Find examples of Noun Compounds and Adjective Compounds from the extract:

(2) Give the verb forms of the following: (3) (i) production (ii) delivery (iii) necessity Extract 5 (text book page 7) Global Understanding (Skimming) Questions

(iv) service

(1) Write whether the following statements are True or False: Correct the false statements. (i) Dells company has revenues of over $ 2 billion. (ii) He also regularly lectures on surgery to medical students at the University of Texas. (iii) His dream was to become the worlds largest personal -computer maker. (2) How does Dell Computer Company encourage greater productivity? (3) What is Dells message to us? Complex Factual (Scanning) Question: What is the present status of Dell Computer? Inference / Interpretative Question: What personal qualities helped Dell to fulfill his dream? Personal Response Question: What do you think, can you learn from Dells story? Grammar in Context Questions: (1) Our success has forced giants to become more competitive, Dell says. (Rewrite in reported speech) (2) His company was selling $ 70 million worth of computers a year. (Change the voice) (3) Thats good for the consumer (Add a question tag.) Vocabulary (1) Write down the full forms of the following Abbreviations / Acronyms:

Abbreviations GMY UNO PTO MLA UGC NCC

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Acronyms UNESCO SAARC CRY AIDS UNICEF BEST

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(2) Write3 down the meanings of the following idiomatic expressions: (1) To kick the bucket _____ (2) A dead end-______ with no way out insight (3) To make an ass of oneself _________ (4) To let the cat out of the bag ___________________. (5) A feather in ones cap _________________. (6) To get the sack____________________ (7) To turn the tables on (somebody) ___________________ (3) Give an example of a word from the text (like trotline) whose meaning you can understand from the description given or from the context. Vocabulary in Context Questions: (1) Find examples of Adjective Compounds from the extract: (2) Write two adjectives that describe Dells charity. Extensions: (1) Prepare a project report about the success story of a personality like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Dr. Vijay Bhatkar or Sam Pitroda. You may use the following outline: (2) (1) catchy title (2) theme (3) purpose (4) body (5) conclusion Questions: (1) Prepare a write up for your school // college wall paper / magazine on Michel Dell.

(2) Quality control is a key word in the modern business world. Employees are asked to apply SWOT analysis technique. (1) S = strengths (2) W weaknesses (3) O possible opportunities (4) T = possible threats. Apply the SWOT technique to yourself and write in brief about the SWOT related to your dream career. Also write about the ways to overcome the odds (threats).

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