Class 10 English › NCERT Words and Expressions II · Unit 10

Workbook focus · Cause and effect, vocabulary and reflective response

Unit 10: The Sermon at Benares

Practise tracing Kisa Gotami’s search and the lesson she learns about grief. Focus on cause-and-effect links and distinguish a personal loss from the universal truth the story reveals.

Language focus

Cause and effect, vocabulary and reflective response

Practise tracing Kisa Gotami’s search and the lesson she learns about grief. Focus on cause-and-effect links and distinguish a personal loss from the universal truth the story reveals.

Practice activity

Make a cause-and-effect chain for Kisa Gotami’s actions. End with the understanding she reaches and one question it raises about compassion.

Solved workbook-style practice

Original practice for this guide; use the NCERT workbook for its complete exercises.

Question 1

Why does Kisa Gotami visit many houses?

She hopes to obtain a remedy for her child. The repeated search eventually helps her recognise that death has touched every household.

Question 2

Connect the ideas using “because”: Kisa Gotami was grieving. She could not initially accept the truth.

Because Kisa Gotami was grieving, she could not initially accept the truth. The conjunction links the reason to the result.

Question 3

How can a reader respond sensitively to a text about grief?

Focus on the character’s experience, avoid judging the stages of grief and explain how the lesson encourages compassion for others.

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