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प्रश्न
Discuss the following topic in groups.
Do you think there is life on other planets? Can you guess what kind of people there may be on them? In what ways are they likely to be different from us?
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उत्तर
Scientists are trying hard to find out if there is any form of life on planets around the sun. So far they have sent spacecraft to the moon and Mars, collected samples of soil, and taken snapshots. But they have not found definite proof of life on them. The kind of people, if they exist at all on any other planet, would be quite different from us. They must have adjusted themselves to a strange and unfriendly environment there.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Here are some words with silent letters. Learn their spelling. Your teacher will dictate these words to you. Write them down and underline the silent letters.
| knock | wrestle | walk | wrong |
| knee | half | honest | daughter |
| hours | return | hornet | calm |
| could | sign | island | button |
Thinking about the Poem
What do the following phrases mean to you? Discuss in class.
(i) humid shadows
(ii) starry spheres
(iii) what a bliss
(iv) a thousand dreamy fancies into busy being start
(v) a thousand recollections weave their air-threads into woof
Answer following question in short.
Write the central theme of the poem.
Whom does Portia ultimately marry? Who were the two other suitors who took the test? Why, in your opinion, is the person whom she marries worthy of her?
Answer the following question
Whom does Golu ask, “Why don’t you ever fly like other birds?”
Why did Gopal’s wife find his activities strange?
How did the daimios reward the kind farmer?
How did the author said to encourage his friend to fix the gear-case?
What, according to the python, were the advantages of a long nose (trunk)?
Why did the bear climb up a tree and ate the apples?
Read the lines in which the following phrases occur. Then discuss with your partner the meaning of each phrase in its context.
Velvet grass
Multiple Choice Question:
How can a singer create beauty?
Talk to your partner and say whether the following statement is true or false.
Deserts are endless sand dunes.
What does the poet tell you about the world of words? Do you agree with him?
The hawker passes time _________.
What does he see the gardener doing?
Write ‘True’ or ‘False’ against each of the following sentences.
Gopal was a madman. ________
Play detectives with each other. Find a person in your class (or some other acquaintance) to speak to. Find out the answers to the questions given below. Be careful to ask your questions in a polite and inoffensive way. Do not force the person to answer you. Then allow the person to ask you the same questions.
- Name?
- What newspapers or magazines does the person read?
- How long has the person lived at the current address?
- What does she/he do during the day, i.e. the daily routine?
- What do neighbours and friends say about the person?
- Who are his/her visitors and what are his/her eating habits? (You can ask a few others about this.)
- What do you think about the person?
| Caliban: |
No noise, and enter |
In the above lines taken from Act IV Scene i of the play, The Tempest, what does Caliban refer to by the phrase “good mischief“?
At the end of the Masque in Act IV, Scene i of the play, The Tempest, Ferdinand feels that Prospero's behaviour is unusual because ______.
