English (Compulsory) Class 10 Chapter 10: Comprehension 2: Technology, Digital World, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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Chapter summary
Passages on this theme discuss mobile devices, social media, online learning, artificial intelligence, media literacy, careers and start-up businesses. They often include technical words (algorithm, platform, data) and sometimes a table or chart. The basic Q2 skills are the same as in Unit 1; here we add four special skills.
Topics in this chapter
- Main idea and supporting details
- Summary/precis
- Interpreting charts, graphs and tables
- Inference and writer's viewpoint
- Contextual meanings
- Mixed topics
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- Read: A school collected data on how students travel: bus – 120; walking – 60; bicycle – 20.
(i) How many students were surveyed? (ii) What fraction travel by bus? (3 marks) - Read: 'Technology gives us the tools,' the teacher said, 'but it is we who decide whether we build with them or break with them.'
What does the teacher mean? (3 marks) - Write the contextual meanings of the underlined words: The shop was struggling when the owner decided to modernise it. A new website helped him to attract young customers. (3 marks)
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