Make posters to highlight the importance of the Green Movement.

 Laws are never respectcd nor enforced in India.

‘Are we to leave our successors a scorched planet of advancing deserts, impoverished landscapes and an ailing environment?”

“We have not inherited this earth from our forefathers; we have borrowed it from our children. ”

The phrase ‘inter alia’ meaning ‘among other things’ is one of the many Latin expressions commonly used in English.

Find out what these Latin phrases mean.

1. prima facie

2. ad hoc

3. in camera

4. ad infinitum

5. mutatis mutandis

6. caveat

7. tabula rasa

1. Locate the following phrases in the text and study their connotation.

1. gripped the imagination of

2. dawned upon

3. ushered in

4. passed into current coin

5. passport of the future

II. The words ‘grip’, ‘dawn’, ‘usher’, ‘coin’, ‘passport’, have a literal as well as figurative meaning. Write pairs of sentences using each word in the literal as well as the figurative sense.

Make posters to highlight the importance of the Green Movement.

Maintain a record of the trees cut down and the parks demolished in your area, or any other act that violates the environment. Write to newspapers reporting on any such acts that disturb you.

What is the Green Movement?

Describe the shift that has come in the viewpoint of man.