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Introduction
Class: Nine
Subject: English First Paper
Unit: One
Lesson: 4
Duration: 45 Minutes
Responsibility
Provide
Fundamental
Reliability, duty, obligation
Furnish, supply, give, offer
Elementary, essential, basic
Equality
Effectively
Discharge
Balance. Equilibrium, similarity
Actively, fruitfully
Release, unload,
whole
skill
Society
All, total, complete
Knack, facility
Community,
Freedom
Shelter
Carry
Accept
Liberty, emancipation
House, dwelling place
Bear, maintain, hold
Take, receive, admit
What is responsibility?
A responsibility is a duty or an obligation TO DO something. For
example, you have the responsibility to take care of your parents in
their old age, to attend school and pursue your studies properly
and so on. You have also the responsibility to society and the
government, e.g. to help a neighbour in trouble or to cast your vote
if you are 18 or over.
A responsibility is also an obligation or a duty NOT TO DO
something. For example, you have the responsibility not to steal a
book from a public library or not to put your building materials on
the footpath. These are your responsibilities as citizens. But
there are responsibilities of the government as well.
Our government has the responsibilities to provide for its citizens
“the basic necessities of life, including food, clothing, shelter,
education and medical care”1.
The government also has the responsibilities to protect the
fundamental rights of its citizens to freedom of speech and
expression, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, equality of all
before law2 etc. The knowledge, skills and attitudes you have gained
at home, at school and in society
will help you to accept your responsibilities and to carry them out
effectively. Remember, discharging your responsibilities will be good
for you, good for your family and friends, and good for your society
and country as a whole.
1. Choose the best answer
a) What is the first responsibility according to the passage?
i) Attending school and preparing lessons.
ii) The responsibility to the government
iii) The responsibility to the parents
iv) None of these
b) To help a neighbor in trouble meansi) A duty to God
ii) A duty to teacher
iii) A duty to parents
iv) All the above
c) What is the minimum age of casting vote?
i) 21
ii) 20
iii) 18
iv) 16
d) What is the freedom of speech?
i) To say something quickly
ii) to say something lightly
iii) To say something openly
iv) to perform in a stage
e) What is the freedom of press?
i) To publish something secretly
ii) to publish something for once
iii) To publish something publicly
iv) to publish anything privately
f) A good citizen is ----of a country.
i) An asset ii) the general person
iii) the famous wit
iv) a liability
g) The word fundamental means-
Answer the following questions
a) What is responsibility?
b) What is your responsibility?
c) What are the responsibilities of the government?
d) What return will you get by discharging your responsibilities?
e) What rights has to be protected by the government?
a) A responsibility is a duty or an obligation to do something.
b) Our responsibility is to take care of our parents in their old age,
to attend school and peruse our studies properly.
c) Government has the responsibility to provide for its citizens the
basic necessities of life, including food, clothing, shelter,
education, medical care and employment.
d) Discharging our responsibilities will be good for us, good for
our family and friends, and good for our society and country as a
whole.
e) The government has to protect the fundamental rights of its
citizens; freedom of speech and expression, freedom of the press,
freedom of religion, equality of all before law.
Read the passage and fill in the gaps below
care
to
something
basic
steal
Responsibility
not
library
government
attend
Words
Fill in the gaps
A a)-------------------is a compulsion to do something and
b)----------------- to do c)----------------. It is our duty and
responsibility to take d)------------------ of our parents, to
e)-------------- school, not to f)------------- a book from a
public g)------------------. The h)-------------- has also some
responsibilities. The govt. has i)---------------- protect the
j)--------------- rights of citizens.
Thank you