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Build a conversation of eight to ten sets of exchanges , with your grandmother, discussing the incidents that happened in your school that day.

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Build a conversation of eight to ten sets of exchanges , with your grandmother, discussing the incidents that happened in your school that day.

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Myself  Grandma, I am back home.
Grandma  Please go and wash your face, hands, and legs.
Myself  Why should I, grandma?
Grandma  I have prepared some sweets and pakora for you.

Myself  That’s really lovely grandma.
Grandma  What did you learn today?
Myself  I learned about bees.
Grandma  How do bees communicate among themselves?
Myself  Grandma, when a bee discovers honey, he performs a kind of dance that conveys the availability of honey, type of flower, and distance from the beehive to the farm.
Grandma  That’s excellent. I never knew it.
Myself  Give me sweets and pakora.
Grandma  Stay here, I will bring them for you.
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अध्याय 1.1: The Portrait of a Lady - Speaking Activity [पृष्ठ ८]

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सामाचीर कलवी English Class 11 TN Board
अध्याय 1.1 The Portrait of a Lady
Speaking Activity | Q b. | पृष्ठ ८

संबंधित प्रश्न

The cunning spider was waiting for a chance to pull the fly into its web and it used all the possible ways to trap her. Have you ever been trapped by flattery to do something you did not want to do? Discuss in pairs and share your experience in the class.


Figures of speech

Anaphora: Repetition of a word or a phrase at the beginning of a sequence of sentences, paragraphs, and lines.

(e.g.) How handsome are your gauzy wings, how brilliant are your eyes!

Identify the figures of speech.

”Your eyes are like the diamond bright, but mine are dull as lead!”


“Do you know why she is unhappy?”

He asked me if ______ unhappy.


Read the conversation of the simple machines. Take roles to play. Then discuss in pairs to describe any simple machine. Create your own storyboard and take roles to play.

Jack: Don't you know how simple machines make your life easy?

Jimmy: Um... I don't know what simple machines are.

Jack: Simple machines are mechanical devices for applying force like a wedge or ramp.

Jimmy: Oh! wow! How I did not know this!

Jack: Like the wheels on hospital bed and IV pole. They help you move people faster by reducing the friction.

Jimmy: Is the stick over there that the TV is attached to, is that a simple machine too?

Jack: Yes it is, it's a lever. The wheels on the bus are simple machines, they make the bus move.

Jimmy: What about the doors?

Jack: 'Yeah' the driver pulls a lever and the doors open and you climb up the inclined plane aka the stairs. The cable in the elevator is wrapped around a groove in the wheel and axle, an electric motor pulls the cable, lifting the car between floors.

Jimmy: So the wheels on the rolling chair are too by rolling the chair back instead of lifting the chair back.

Jack: 'Yes' they are, they move the chair and reduce the friction.


Identify a sentence and a phrase which tells us that the story took place in summer.


Name the character or speaker.

“Are you alright?”


Join in either of the following groups and say some valid points to win.

Group A. I like to live in the Earth because ______  
Group B. I like to live in the Mars because ______  

Structures that are useful for this situation.


Find the qualities of these animals from the passage.

A little

red hen had some wheat seeds. “Will you help me sow this seed?” asked the hen,“No” replied the selfish dog. Then the hen did it by herself. The seeds grew into a field of wheat. “Will you help me reap the wheat?” asked the hen, “No” replied the sleepy cat. She did it by herself. “Will you help me grind the wheat?” asked the hen, “No” replied the noisy duck. She did it by herself. “Will you help me make a bread?” asked the hen, “No” replied the lazy cow. She made the bread by herself. “Will you all help me eat this bread?” asked the hen, “Yes” replied everyone,“No” said the hen.


Speak and win.

Join any group. Pick and support any one of the characters. Say some sentences for the one you support and say some sentences against another one to win.

I support the archer ______
I support the old man ______

See how they speak at this situation and practise as if you were in that situation.


Look at the picture below. In the yellow box there are eight things You can see six of them in the picture. You cannot see the other two. Write down the four things that you can see.

  1. ______.     
  2. ______.
  3. ______.   
  4. ______.

beneath, breeze, meet, fear, each, meadow.


Some letter are missing in each word.

f ______ t


What do you think Alice saw in the garden?


Where did the tip of the tongue touch?


Say these words and feel what your tongue does when you say –

toe, top, tie, ten


Don’t Give Up

If you keep on going
And never stop,
You can keep on going,
You can make it to the top.
Life is full of mountains,
Some are big and some are small,
But if you don’t give up
You can overcome them all.
So keep on going
Try not to stop,
When you keep on going
You can make it to the top.

Look at the picture and describe it. Why do you think the boy is happy?


Do you think that –

Do birds have secrets?


Use words beginning with 'h' sound like -

hat, house, hen, hide, horse, heart, hand etc.

Make a pair of words, one a ‘describing word’ and one a ‘naming word’.

Happy Hiawatha, hungry hippopotamus, high horse, heavy hand.


Pick out the silent letters from these words

  silent letter
hour  
knit  
wrong  
doubt  
often  
know  
night  
could  
write  
knife  
high  
walk  

At the end of the play, only the stump of the tree is left. Find out if it will grow into a tree again.


Say the given sentences with different expressions.

  1. Come and play with me.
  2. I want to buy things and have fun. 
  3. Come and climb up my trunk and swing from my branches. 
  4. Cut down my trunk. 
  5. I am too old to swing on branches.
  6. I am too tired to climb.

Tell the class about your favourite story book. Talk about the character you liked most in the book.


All cultures have their own folk songs in which each line is repeated. This line is sung in a chorus. Sing a folk song in your own language.


Speaking Activity

Based on your understanding of the play ‘The Never – Never Nest’, organise a classroom debate on the topic: ‘Is Equated Monthly Instalment Scheme - a boon or bane to middle-class families?’


Everybody enjoys holidays but, when it comes to safety ‘There is no holiday for Safety’. Discuss in groups what safety measures one should take while driving a car/two wheeler.


Your school has arranged for a road safety campaign, Share a few ideas with your classmates which can be used during the campaign. For example ‘Speed thrills but kills’.


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