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Working in small groups of 4–5 students, go back over the two passages on Santosh Yadav and Maria Sharapova and complete the table given below with relevant phrases or sentences.
Points of Comparison/Contrast | Santosh Yadav | Maria Sharapova | |
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1. | Their humble beginning | ||
2. | Their parents’ approach | ||
3. | Their will power and strong desire to succeed |
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4. | Evidence of their mental toughness |
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5. | Their patriotism |
Points of Comparison/Contrast | Santosh Yadav | Maria Sharapova | |
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1. | Their humble beginning | She was born in the small village of Joniyawas of Rewari District in Haryana, India. |
She was born in the frozen plains of Siberia. |
2. | Their parents’ approach | Her parents disapproved of her going to Delhi for a better education, |
Her father has worked as much as he could to keep her tennis training going and took her |
finally, they agre-ed to fulfil her de-mands. | to the US so that she could get the best training. | ||
3. | Their will power and strong desire to succeed |
Education was a struggle for her. She enrolled herself in a mountaineering institute and finally due to her will power and strong desire she scaled Mount Everest, not once but twice. |
She never thought of quitting even in the most difficult circumstances. Her desire to become number one kept her going. |
4. | Evidence of their mental toughness |
Despite her strugg- le to get a proper education and scaling the Mount Everest twice, she also saved the life of a fellow mountaineer by sharing her oxygen. |
She learnt how to take care of herself. She never thought of quitting because she knew what she wanted. |
5. | Their patriotism | When she unfurled the Indian tricolor and held it aloft on the roof of the world, her feelings were indescribable. It was truly a spirit-ual moment. She felt proud as an Indian. |
Maria says that though she spent a big part of her life in the US but her blood is totally Russian. She will play the Olympics for Russia if they want her to. |
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