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प्रश्न
Comment on the contemporary concern that the poem echoes.
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उत्तर
Poet is concerned about the pace with which the traditions are changing and are affected by modern notions. The value attached to the trees in earlier times is not of concern to people living in modern society. The old cultural values are breaking free giving way to western science and studies. The religious values that were inculcated in a child from her/his childhood are payed no heed. Life is busy and is consuming not just our time and space but our lifestyle. The moral values our tradition was raised on are now treated as bygones. The poet wonders at the change our society is undergoing and has written the poem on it.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Answer any two of the following questions in about 30‒40 words:
(a) How does Kamala Das try to put away the thoughts of her ageing mother?
(b) Which is the exotic moment that the poet refers to in 'Keeping Quiet'?
(c) What are the difficulties that aunt Jennifer faced in her life?
Dolly Winthrop has a very noble nature. Comment.
Read the extract and do the following activities:
A1 Complete :
| Night |
Morning |
| (i) | (i) |
| (ii) | (ii) |
There was a roaring in the wind all night;
The rain came heavily and fell in floods;
But now the sun is rising calm and bright,
The birds are singing in the distant woods;
Over his own sweet voice the Stock-dove broods;
The Jay makes answer as the Magpie chatters;
And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters
All things that love the sun are out of doors;
The sky rejoices in the morning’s birth;
The grass is bright with raindrops-on the moors
The hare is running races in her mirth;
And with her feet she from the plashy earth
Raises a mist; that, glittering in the sun,
Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.
A2 What do the different birds do? Discuss.
A3 The sky rejoices in the morning’s birth. (Name and explain the figure of speech)
Read the following passage and do the given activities:
A.1) True or False
State whether the following statements are true or false:
(i) The patient stirred and looked about in cheerful anticipation
(ii) The patient’s wife wanted to know the truth …………
The lady went away to the kitchen. She felt restless. She felt she must know the truth whatever it was. Why was the great man so evasive? The suspense was unbearable. Perhaps he could not speak so near the patient’s bed. She beckoned to him from the kitchen doorway.
The doctor rose and went over. She asked, “What about him now? How is he?” The doctor bit his lips and replied, looking at the floor, “Don’t get excited. Unless you must know about it, don’t ask now.” Her eyes opened wide in terror. She clasped her hands together and implored, “Tell me the truth.” The doctor replied, “I would rather not talk to you now.” He turned around and went back to his chair. terrible wailing shot through the still house; the patient stirred and looked about in bewilderment. The doctor got up again, went over to the kitchen door, drew it in securely and shut off the wail.
A.2) Give reasons for the following:
(i) Her eyes opened wide in terror.
(ii) The lady went away to the kitchen.
A.3) How, according to you, should the nature of the doctor be?
Guess the meaning of the following word:
Drokba
In which language are these word found?
Tick the statement that is true.
The story hinges on a particular historical event.
Discuss the following statement in groups of two pairs, each pair in a group taking opposite points of view.
The methods of inquiry of history, science, and philosophy are similar.
The story revolves around characters who belong to a tribe in Armenia. Mourad and Aram are members of the Garoghlanian family. Now locate Armenia and Assyria on the atlas and prepare a write-up on the Garoghlanian tribes. You may write about people, their names, traits, geographical and economic features as suggested in the story.
Explain the associations that the colour 'white' has in the story.
You notice a sense of urgency in the poet's request – what is the reason for this?
Taking off from Forster’s references to Emily Bronte, Sterne and Proust, discuss the treatment of time in some of the novels you have read.
Answer in your own words.
How did the plants respond when Revathi played her favourite tune?
Answer in your own words.
How did Revathi prove to the organisers of the competition, that the plants truly belonged to her?
Discuss the activities carried out by a farmer.
Think and answer in your own words.
'Beauty' in stanza 5 to 6 can refer to a beautiful maiden as well as nature itself. Explain when and how nature ‘dances’ and also 'smiles'.
Discuss what a friendly and good-natured peacock would say to a crane. Write his speech. (5-8 lines.)
The merchant ships brought spices and other treasures from India and other countries to Italy.
Write about one occasion when you have behaved like -
Mr. Nobody
Write the meaning of doth.
The story has a very heart-warming and touching end. Now try to change the end of the story to make it sound very funny.
Correct the following sentence and rewrite it.
Jesus had actually visited Papa Panov only once on Christmas Eve.
Do you know of similar stories in your mother tongue or in other languages? Narrate it in short.
Read the word. Write the words that combine to make it.
snowwhite
Write what the poet is doing.
Does the poet like the experience?
Write the line which tells us about it.
What is the ‘Internet’?
How did the parents support and encourage the young seagull’s brothers and sister?
Identify the character or speaker.
What a trouble must I have been to you then!
Who is wise according to you?
How were offerings carried during the ancient period?
Bring out a few differences between the two art forms: Therukoothu and Bommalattam.
Read the data below and answer the following question.
Choose the correct answer.
What is the difference between the percentage of women working in logistics and Medicine?
Write the name of the toys against each picture.
What did Suresh ask Usha? Why?
The wind hurried and passed through the ______
Why should we speak gently?
What are the disadvantages of speaking harshly?
Identify the character/speaker.
Go to my cottage and fetch my gloves and fan.
Look at the number pattern. Fill the blank in the middle of the series or end of the series.
CMM, EOO, GQQ, ______, KUU
There are seven kinds of sea turtles in the world.
Rearrange the following jumbled sentences in the correct order.
- Payal’s house was a home for abandoned animals.
- It was a small ball of brown and grey.
- She found an owlet in one corner.
- Payal’s mother picked her up gently.
- Payal’s mother opened the carton.
- One day they got a carton.
Complete the sentence given below with word/phrase.
The buffalo ______ in the hole.
Why did the farmer have to travel far?
Why did the family move to Patna?
How did the third daughter use the grain?
Name the character or speaker.
"You want me to strain my back?"
Write the rhyming word.
culture - ______.
The message was to gather on ______.
Who guessed the location of the real necklace?
The official's family visited the rehabilitation centre for ______ years.
Find and write the clues.
Clue for lame ______.
Meena went to ______ her father.
When do you feel proud?
Rani and Divya informed the happening to the ______.
Try your own.
Let us learn a few more word by joining the dots. Join the dots and fill the table below.
| subway | |
| holiday | |
| closet | |
| pants | |
| chips |
Which part of the plant should be watered?
What did he make out of it?
Read the extract and complete the activities given below:
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The call of the seas has always found an echo in me. Not being rich enough to roam in a private yacht, I have taken the poor man's way out. I swim across them. I have always been fascinated by the Indian ocean, whether at Mumbai, at Puri or at Gopalpur. I have swam in all these places and have felt the thrill. But the idea of swimming the Palk Strait did not occur to me until after I swam in the English channel. Steeped in the history and tradition of this nation, practically unconquered. teaming with hair-raising hazards, the sea between India and Sri Lanka had all the elements of challenge, danger and difficulty that tempted me. By the way, for preparation, I continued a strict and rigorous course of training which began in 1960. I also had to collect a comprehensive range of facts and information about this sea. Neither of these was easy. Despite all the information I had gathered, I soon found that very little was known about the Palk Strait, especially about the tides and currents. Everything about the English channel is known-there is the Channel Swimming Association, there are trained pilots there are wants to be hired, accurate weather forecasts, dependable tide tables and every other form of assistance was readily available. All that one needed was money. Here in the Palk Strait one has to find out firstly from where information could be obtained and then decide how much of it could be incorrect or misleading! |
A1. Rewrite the following as per their sequence in the extract: (2)
- I also had to collect a comprehensive range of facts and information about this sea.
- I have swam in all these places and have felt the thrill.
- All that one needed was money.
- Despite all the information I had gathered, I soon found that very little was known about the Palk Strait.
A2. Explain: (2)
What does the writer man by saving, "Steeped in the history and tradition of this nation, practically unconquered, teeming with hair-raising hazards, the sea between India and Sri Lanka had all the elements of challenge, danger and difficulty that tempted me"?
A3. Give reason: (2)
The narrator had an intense desire to swim in the Palk Strait. Explain the reasons for it.
A4. Personal Response: (2)
Do you like to have an adventurous life? Express your opinion.
A5. Grammar:
Do as directed: (2)
- Very little was known about the Palk Strait. (Rewrite as a negative sentence)
- I had to collect a comprehensive range of facts. (Rewrite the sentence beginning with 'A comprehensive ........)
A6. Vocabulary: (2)
Give the synonyms of the following words:
- rigorous - ______
- thrill - ______
Read the following sentence.
‘A very wise man once remarked that of the unspoken word, you are a master; of the spoken word, you are a slave.’
The sentence has two pairs of opposites - spoken and unspoken, and master and slave. The contrasting ideas make the sentence more effective. Putting together opposite or contrasting ideas in one sentence is a literary device. It is called antithesis.
Read the following examples of antithesis.
- Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
- Man proposes and God disposes.
- Speech is silver, but silence is gold.
- Patience is bitter, but it has a sweet fruit.
