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Listen and Learn • Communication Skills

• Listening to a passage for specific details
A. Your teacher will read the passage given in the listening text. Listen to it carefully
and then tick () the answers to the following questions.

1. Who was Akbar? (Courtier/Emperor)

2. How many men acted as advisers to the emperor? (Nine/Nineteen)

3. Who were jealous of Birbal? (Other ministers/Akbar)

4. Why did Akbar like Birbal? (Only for his sense of humour/For his wit, wisdom

and sense of humour)
• Communication Skills
• Critical Thinking
Converse and Connect • Collaboration
• Creativity
• Speaking about a situation in the story
A. Sit in groups of three and discuss. Imagine you owned the well mentioned in the
story and sold it to Sadiq.

1. Would you allow him to use the water in the well or not?
2. Give reasons to support your answer. As a farmer, if Iqbal was not allowed to use

the water, how would it affect him and his work?

• Communication Skills
Speak and Express • Creativity
• Critical Thinking
• Speaking about a picture
A. Look at the picture and talk about it with your partner. Discuss what is happening in
the picture and why the activity is important for the person you see here. Does it

affect all of us, too?

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