Unit 7: The Secret of Success

 Unit 7: Life Skills

THE SECRET OF SUCCESS

CRITICAL SUMMARY

Once there lived a king, who was in search of the secret of success. After deep consideration, he came to know that if he got the answer of three questions, he would discover the secret of success. Those three questions ere

 

"What is the most important time to start some work?"

"What is the most important work to do?"

 "Who is the most important person?"

 

A reward of 5,000 gold coins was announced for the correct answers. Many learned men tried but could not convince  the king. The king was very disappointed at this situation. He finally decided to meet a saint who as not interested in meeting rich people so the king disguised himself as a poor man and went to meet him. then the king reached the saint, he saw him digging the ground. Feeling tiredness of the saint, he offered him dig and the saint accepted it. The king politely asked his three questions to the saint but he remained silent; instead, he pointed out a bearded man, who was wounded and running toward him with a dagger in his hand he king ran toward him and brought the wounded man into the hut and treated his wounds.

 

Then the king decided to return back at dusk, the saint told him to spend the night in his hut. In the next morning, the king came to know about the plans of the bearded man who wanted to kill him because the king this brother killed. The king's servants recognized him and wounded him however. He was too thankful to king for his kind care, saluted him, and left The king again repeated the three questions and the saint then replied that they had already been answered and disclosed to him that the most important time was when the king wanted to help the saint, the most important work was digging, and the most important person was the saint.

Saint also gave him another example that the most important time was the time when he helped the bearded in the most important work was the dressing of his wounds and the most important person was the bearded man use in this way, he got a sincere and loyal servant instead of an enemy. The moral of this lesson is The  important time for doing anything is the present, the most important work is what we are doing now, the most important person is the one whom we are with at the moment."

SAMPLE SOLVED SHORT ANSWERED QUESTIONS

Q1. What were the three questions asked by the king?

Ans. The three questions asked by the king were:

1.What is the most important time to start a work?

2. What is the most important work to do?

3. Who is the most important person?

Q2. Why was the king in search of secret of success?

Ans. The king was in search of success. He believed that after discovering the secret of success, he would never face failure in his life. He also thought answers to the three questions were the key to secret of success.

Q3.  Why did king decided to see the wise man in the jungle and why did he dressed himself in rags?

Ans. The king decide to see the wise man in the jungle because he herd his fame of the saint and was sure that he would get his answers from him. He dressed himself in rags because the wise man doesn’t use to meet with the rich man so wanted to be look poor.

 

Q4. What could have happened if the king had returned earlier from the saint’s house?

Ans. If the kind had returned earlier, he would have been killed the bearded man who was waiting for him in hidden place.  The bearded man was the brother of the bearded man a person. The person was killed by the king.

Q5. What did the king say to the saint?

Ans. The saint said that he had come long away to find out the answers of three questions. Then he requested old saint to help him to answer three questions. The saint did not pay attention.

Q6. What was the saint doing when the king went to the saint? Why did the king help the saint?

Ans. The saint was digging the ground in front of his hut when the king went to see him. The king offered the saint his help. He felt that the king was too tired and breathless.

Q7. Why and how the king helped the bearded man?

Ans. The bearded man was badly wounded and faint. The king felt pity on him and took him inside then he managed to stop the bleeding by putting bandage on his wound. With his treatment he felt asleep.

Q8. Why did the bearded man want to kill the kind?

Ans. The bearded man wanted to kill  the king because he killed his brother. He wanted to take revenge of his brother’s death. Therefore he tried to attack with a dagger but he did not success.

Q9. What is the moral of the lesson “The Secret of Success”?

Ans. The moral of the lesson is, “The most important time for doing anything is  present. The important work is  what we are doing now. And the most important person is the one whom we are at the moment.”

 

SOLUTION OF IMPORTANT EXERCISES FROM TEXT BOOK

WHILE READING:

EXERCISE #01:

The king asked the following people three questions. However, the order in which these people were asked is jumbled up. Read the text and put them in right order, by writing the number in the blanks. One is done for you.

a.     Common people                                            5

b.     Ministers                                                       2

c.      Saint                                                              6

d.     Scholars and wise man                                  4

e.     King himself                                                  1

f.       Courtiers                                                        3

EXERCISE #02:

Answer the following:

Q1. Did the king find his answers?

Ans. Yes. The kind fund the answers eventually with the help of wise man’s wisdom.

Q2. Who gave him the answers?

Ans. An old and wise elderly man, known as saint, living in jungle answered his questions 

VOCABULARY:

EXERCISE #03 :

Read the text. Find these words/phrases and underline them.

EXERCISE#04:

Work in pairs and see how many of the given words in exercise 3 you can use in your own sentences. The one who can make the more sentences will be the winner.

WORDS	MEANING	Sentences
Discover	Get to know	Fleming discovered penicillin early in the twentieth century.
Evaded	Did not come within reach	Friends helped him to evade capture for a time.
Disappointed	Unsuccessful	I don’t want to disappoint anyone by postponing the tour.
Consult	Seek information from	If you consult with a doctor about this disease then you will soon get rid of it.
Pondered	Think carefully for long time before deciding	I pondered what clothes to wear for the occasion.
Destitute	Very poor	The ch arity cares for the destitute of the children.
Frequently	Many times at short interval	They go abroad frequently.
Determined	Not changing a decision once made	Alina was determined to be herd.
Glanced	Gave a quick look	The stone glance of a crag and hit the Tom on the head.
Straight away	Immediate	The clerk recognized her straight away.
Hospitality	Kindness in well coming guests of strangers	Sindh is well-known for  its hospitality.
Break of the day	The first light of the day	I slept so long and woke at the break of the day.
Bitter	Very difficult to accept	I don’t feel jealous or bitter.
Grief	Deep sadness	She was overcome with grief.
Count on me	Judge to be probable	The whole team was counting on me, and I let them down.
Departed	Left	They departed for Germany.

EXERCISE #05:

Following are the statements about the story ‘The Secret of Success’. Read them and write (T) if the statement is true and (F) if the statement is false. In the blanks provided.

1.     The King wanted to find the answers of 5 questions. (F)

2.     The answers were important to him to be able to control his army. (F)

3.     The King was looking for the answers in order to succeed in life (T)

4.     The king was happy with the answers that the group of learned men found.(F)

5.     The Saint was living in jungle with his family. (F)

6.     The King accepted the invitation of the saint to visit him in the jungle. (F)

7.     The bearded man wanted to kill the King. (T)

8.     The bearded man had been injured by King’s servants. (T)

9.     The saint ask the king to look after the bearded man. (T)

10. The bearded man became the king’s loyal citizen (F)

 

POST READING

EXERCISE #06:

Work with partner and tick the right answer.

1.     Which of the following statement is best to summarize the story.

a.     The present has all the answers

b.      The present is not what matters

c.      The present is most important time

d.     The present gives you the most joy.

2.     The Saint who lived in the jungle was very.

a.     Rich man

b.     Poor man

c.      Severe man

d.     Wise man

3.     The King went to see the saint

a.     All alone

b.     Along with his family

c.      With all his soldiers

d.     With all his courtiers

4.     Who warned the king that the bearded man is coming

a.     His soldiers

b.     The Saint

c.      His servants

d.     His ministers

5.     After the bearded man left the saint told the king that

a.     He would not answer his questions

b.     His questions were too difficult

c.      The bearded man had answered the questions

d.     All his questions had been answered

 

EXERCISE #07:

Read the text and complete the following sentences. Write the completed sentences in your notebook.

a.     The king wanted to find the answers to the three questions because he thought if he could find out the answers to three questions he would discover the secret and never fail.

b.      The wise and learned men were unable to give the answers because they could not see eye to eye with each other, and ended up arguing amongst themselves.
c. The king dressed himself in rags to meet the saint because the saint did not mix with rich and wealthy.
d. The king told his servants not to go with him because he wanted to appear poor and destitute.
e. The king realized the saint's tired easily because he was old and weak.
f. Although the saint did not answer his questions the king waited because he hoped that he would find the answers to his questions.
g. The bearded man was running towards the king because he wanted to kill the king.
h. The bearded man fainted when he reached the king because he was wounded and bleeding.
i. The king agreed to stay the night in the saint's hut because he was too tired to return home.
j. The bearded man became the king's loyal servant because the king bandaged his wounds, took care of him and saved his life.

LANGUAUGE PRACTICE:

TRANSLATION

Translating from one language to another require special skills. One can not translate word for word, as words take different meanings in different context, even in the same language, look at the following examples and translate them into Sindhi/Urdu.

Translate the following two sentences into Urdu//Sindhi

EXERCISE 1:

Translate the following into Urdu/Sindhi

EXERCISE 2

Exercise 4:
A. Fill the blanks in the following exercise by using the prefix 'un' with the appropriate given words.

happy, friendly, wise, healthy, grateful

1. An unhealthy person often falls sick.
2. Saba is very unfriendly and does not like meeting people.
3. People who are ungrateful never thank others for helping them.
4. Badar was very unhappy because he lost his favourite watch.
5. My uncle took an unwise decision due to which he suffered a big loss.

B. Fill the blanks in the following exercise by using the prefix 'in' with the appropriate given words.

correct, sufficient, active, attentive, complete

1. This small boy is very inactive and does not take part in any work.
2. The judge was upset with the prisoner for giving an incorrect statement to the court.
3. Don't leave your work incomplete or the boss will be angry.
4. Sajid is very inattentive in class; hence, he often fails in the tests.
5. This amount of money is insufficient if you want to buy a new computer.

Note: 'if clause will be In the past tense and the main clause will have the modal (would, could, might) along with the verb.'

C. Fill the blanks in the following exercise by using the prefix `dis' with the appropriate given words.

satisfied, obedient, honest, loyal, agree

1. We sometimes disagree even with our very close friends.
2. We cannot trust dishonest people as they can cheat us.
3. A disobedient child can cause many problems for the whole family.
4. Our teacher was dissatisfied with our performance in the competition.
5. We should never be disloyal to our country.

 

EXERCISE #02:

Find the rhyming words from the poem and fill them in the first two column in the following table. (see book)

RHYMING WORDS FROM POEM		ADDITIONAL RHYMING WORDS
Increase	Peace	Cheese	Geese
Room	Bloom	Groom	Whom
Gold	Bold	Sold	Hold
Said	Head	Raid	Bread
Accord	Lord	Roared	Scored
So	Low	Bow	Row
Then	Man	Den	Hen
Night	Height	Sight	Right
Blessed	Rest	Depressed	Pressed

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