Love for Humanity | Class 9-10 & SSC English | Unit 7, Lesson 5

Welcome to EngNook.com! In this lesson, Love for Humanity (Unit 7, Lesson 5) from English for Today, we learn about the life, kindness and selfless service of Mother Teresa. She devoted her life to helping poor, sick, dying and destitute people. This lesson teaches us the importance of love, compassion and humanity. Here, students of Classes 9–10 and SSC candidates will find important vocabulary with Bangla meanings, multiple-choice questions (MCQs), and questions with answers to help them understand the lesson and prepare for their examinations.

Love for Humanity

Mother Teresa was moved by the (1) sight of the sick and dying on the streets of Kolkata. She (2) founded a home for the dying (3) destitute and named it ‘Nirmal Hriday’, meaning ‘Pure Heart’. She and her (4) fellow nuns brought the dying people off the streets of Kolkata to this home. They were lovingly (5) looked after and cared for. Since then many men, women and children have been taken from the streets and carried to Nirmal Hriday. These unloved and uncared for people get an (6) opportunity to die in an (7) environment of (8) kindness and love. In their last hours they get human and (9) divine love, and can feel they are also children of God. The (10) Missionaries of Charity try to find jobs for those who (11) survive, or send them to homes where they can live happily for some more years in a caring environment.

(12) Regarding (13) commitment to family, Mother Teresa said, “May be in our own family, we have somebody, who is feeling lonely, who is feeling sick, who is feeling (14) worried. Are we there? Are we (15) willing to give (16) until it hurts (17) in order to be with our families, or do we put our (18) interest first? We must (19) remember that love (20) begins at home and we must also remember that future of humanity (21) passes through the family”.

Mother Teresa’s work has been (22) recognised (23) throughout the world and she received a number of (24) awards. These (25) include the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize (1971), the Nehru Prize for Promotion of International Peace & Understanding (1972), the Balzan Prize (1978), the Nobel Peace Prize (1979) and the Bharat Ratna (1980). 

Mother Teresa died at the age of 87, on 5 September 1997. The world (26) salutes her for her love and (27) compassion for (28) humanity. She has taught us how to (29) extend our hand towards those who need our love and support (30) irrespective of (31) creed, (32) caste and (33) religion. The picture of Mother Teresa, (34) draped in a white and blue-bordered sari, with a (35) wrinkled face, ever soft eyes and a (36) saintly smile, lives on in our (37) mind.

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Exercise

Choose the best answer from the alternatives.

1. What does the phrase “Missionaries of Charity’ mean?

2. What did Mother Teresa teach us?

3. The word ‘divine’ means —.

4. She got the Nobel Prize for peace in —.

5. What were the uncared people given?

6. The streets of Kolkata are trodden by —.

7. How many prizes did Mother Teresa receive?

Answers: 

Answer the following questions  in your own words.

1. Why did Mother Teresa win the Nobel-Prize?
2. Why did Mother Teresa want the dying people to feel that they too deserve care and love?
3. Why does the world salute her? 
4. How did the missionaries of Charity help the people who survived?
5. What does ‘Nirmal Hriday’ stand for?

Answers:

1. Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her selfless service, love and compassion for poor, sick and destitute people. 
2. Mother Teresa wanted the dying people to feel that they were also human beings and children of God. She believed that everyone deserves love, care and respect. 
3. The world salutes Mother Teresa for her extraordinary love, kindness and compassion for humanity. She devoted her life to serving poor, sick and helpless people. 
4. The Missionaries of Charity tried to find jobs for those who survived. They also sent them to homes where they could live happily for some more years in a caring environment. 
5. ‘Nirmal Hriday’ means ‘Pure Heart’. It was the name of the home Mother Teresa founded for dying and destitute people. 

Fill in each gap with a suitable word based on the information of the text.

Mother Teresa was a great lover of (a) ________. She founded a home named Nirmal Hriday for the sick and (b) ________ people. She and her fellow (c) ________ cared for them with kindness and love. The dying people received human and (d) ________ love there. Mother Teresa believed that love begins at (e) ________. Her work was recognised (f) ________ the world. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in (g) ________. She died on 5 September (h) ________. The world still (i) ________ her for her love and (j) ________ for humanity. 

Answer: 

Mother Teresa’s life is a wonderful example of love, kindness and selfless service to humanity. Through this lesson, we learn that we should help others irrespective of their caste, creed or religion. We should remember that true love begins at home and extends to all human beings. We hope this lesson, along with its vocabulary, Bangla meanings and exercises, will help Class 9–10 students and SSC candidates understand the text and prepare confidently for their English examinations.

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