2. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: (4x2)+(4x1)=12 With at least a month-and-a-half break in the school schedule for the summer, entertaining children can be a tough challenge. While students look forward to vacations to let off steam, looking after them or taking them on a holiday is a tough task. As more and more couples are taking to work and opting out of the joint family fold, children’s recreation options during vacations are limited to just television or comics. Sending a kid to a summer camp during vacations, something unheard of till a decade ago has become an unavoidable circumstance today. These summer camps are conducted over a short period of four to five weeks involving interesting and fun- filled activities. A whole new world is opened up for the child, who can have a taste of adventure or sports or he can be a part of a personality development camp. Camps offer interesting and fun-filled activities and artistic pursuits like painting, organic, art music; classes like craft, cookery, courses in spoken English to lessons in yoga, cricket or even trekking, rafting and rock-climbing. Camps develop the child’s confidence, as he is encouraged to do things on his own. Hyperactive and aggressive children are benefited by these camps as their energies are fruitfully channelised. They are an ideal place for a child to learn about social skills and also have fun in the process. The camp experience is uniquely positioned to provide all of these developmental needs for children. Consider camp as the perfect partner to family, school, and community youth activities in helping your child learn independence, decision-making, social and emotional skills, character building and values - all in an atmosphere of creativity and enrichment under the supervision of positive adult role models. In today's pressure-oriented society, camp provides a non-threatening environment for the youth to be active, to develop competence in life skills, to learn about and enhance their own abilities and to benefit from meaningful participation in a community designed just for them.
(a) What is a ‘summer camp’?
(b) What helps negate the stress from the pressure oriented society, for the youth?
(c) How are camps beneficial for hyperactive and aggressive children?
(d) Why are ‘camps’ considered a perfect partner for children?
(e) What is meant by ‘schedule’? (Para 1)
(f) What is meant by ‘recreation’? (Para 1)
(g) Find the word opposite to ‘ordinary’. (Para 3)
(h) Find the word opposite to ‘detriment’. (Para 4)