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प्रश्न
Discuss in groups and share with one another.
The daily routine of your mother and father on working days.
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उत्तर
- My mother wakes up at 5 in the morning and prepares tiffin for me and my father. Then she wakes us up and helps us get ready. Then, she starts preparing lunch. After lunch, she takes a nap and then goes out to meet her friends. She comes in the evening and prepares dinner. She watches TV for a while and then sleeps.
- My father is my hero. I’ve seen him work hard for us all his life. He usually wakes up at 6 a.m. Then he brushes his teeth, has his breakfast, and goes jogging. He comes back and gets ready for work. He’s a librarian. He helps my mother prepare for our tiffins and leaves for his office. He comes back around 6 in the evening and has some snacks. After that, he helps me with my homework. Sometimes he hangs out with his friends and comes back and gets some dinner. After that, he reads his newspaper, has his dinner, and sleeps by 11.
संबंधित प्रश्न
Anne describes herself as a 'little bundle of contradictions'. Why? Explain in your own words.
Say WHY. . . . . .
Ramanujan found the number 1729 very interesting.
Link the items in the three columns properly.
| A | B | C |
| The past | A sea beneath a cloudless sun | A pleasant time which has ended |
| The present hour | A soft and mild autumn evening | An exciting, thrilling time which has no end. |
| The future | A green and flowery spray Where a young bird sits | A time, full of life in which you gather strength |
Why did Anne want to exchange the book ‘Camera Obscura’?
Read the story and fill in the grid by ticking each character’s qualities.
Discuss in pairs to rate the characteristic and give marks from 1 to 10 depending on the grade of each quality.
Justify your views in one or two sentences.
| Characteristics | Jane Eyre | Mrs. Reed | Bessie | Helen Burns | Miss. Temple |
| arrogant | |||||
| bitter | |||||
| caring | |||||
| courageous | |||||
| cruel | |||||
| emotional | |||||
| friendly | |||||
| kind | |||||
| sensitive | |||||
| rich | |||||
| poor | |||||
| patient | |||||
| self-disciplined | |||||
| unjust |
Read the poem aloud in pairs.
Read the story on your own. Discuss in a group and complete the story map below.
| A story map is the main events of the story given in a flow chart. |
Try your own.
Write the rhyming word.
Tree - ______.
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.
