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Discuss the following with your partner and complete the following sentence. In a farmers’ market, we find _______________.

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Discuss the following with your partner and complete the following sentence.

In a farmers’ market, we find _______________.

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In a farmers’ market, we find seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, etc.

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अध्याय 1.3: The Call of the Soil - Ice Breakers [पृष्ठ २५]

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बालभारती English Yuvakbharati [English] Standard 11 Maharashtra State Board
अध्याय 1.3 The Call of the Soil
Ice Breakers | Q 1. (b) | पृष्ठ २५

संबंधित प्रश्न

Read the following extract and answer the questions given below :
They whisper like drizzle
as they roam the streets
with a lost gaze as though
something they had thrown up
never returned to earth.

They shiver like December nights
in their dreamless sleep
on shop verandahs.

(1) Why do the old women in this extract roam the streets?

(2) What would you like to do for the betterment of the old people? 

(3) Find out an example of 'onomatopoeia' from the first stanza of the extract.

(4) Pick out the expressions from the extract showing the sad situation of the old women.


In the following items, sentence A is complete, while sentence B is not. Complete sentence B, making it as similar as possible to sentence A.  Write sentence B.

(A) No other planet is as big as Jupiter.
(B) Jupiter ............................................................................... 


Fill in the blank with the suitable word. 

He agreed to carry _____________ the manager’s orders. 


What could these persons have done?


Explain the phrase, that ‘shocking ghastly junk’.


What do ‘trade winds’ and ‘fat worms’ symbolise?


Explain, ‘Just a palsied few at the windows set;’


The air broke into a mist with bells,
The old walls rocked with the crowd and cries.
Had I said, "Good folk, mere noise repels....
But give me your sun from yonder skies!"
They had answered "And afterward, what else?"

Read the above lines and answer the question that follow.

What did the patriot want form the “Good folks”?


Thus I entered, and thus I go!
In triumphs, people have dropped down dead,
"Paid by the world, what dost thou owe
Me? "....God might question; now instead,
'Tis God shall repay: I am safer so.

Read the above lines and amswer the question that follow.

Explain with reference to the context.


Do you think the title of the poem is justified? How?


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(B) No ………………………………..


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You are the President of the Nature Club in your school which is hosting the Earth Day Celebrations. Write a letter to the Principal of a neighbouring school inviting the school to participate in the event. State when, why and how you plan to celebrate Earth Day.


Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: 

Lying in bed, Swami realized with a shudder that it was Monday morning. It looked as though only a moment ago, it had been the last period on Friday; already, Monday was here. He hoped that an earthquake would reduce the school building to dust but that my good building, Albert Mission School, had withstood similar prayers for over a hundred years now.

At nine o'clock, Swaminathan wailed, “I have a headache.”

His mother said, “Why don’t you go to school in a bullock cart?”

“So that I may be completely dead at the other end? Have you any idea what it means to be jolted in a cart?”

“Have you any important lessons today?”

“Important! Bah! That geography teacher has been teaching the same lesson for over a year now. And we have arithmetic, which means for a whole period we are going to be beaten by the teacher............ Important lessons!”

And Mother generously suggested that Swami might stay at home.
At 9:30, when he ought to have been lining up in the school prayer hall, Swami was lying on the bench in Mother’s room.

Father asked him, “Have you no school today?”

“Headache,” Swami replied,

“Nonsense! Dress up and go.”

“Headache.”

“Loaf about less on Sundays, and you will be without a headache on Monday.”

Swami knew how stubborn his father could be and changed his tactics.

“I can’t go so late to class.”

“I agree, but you’ll have to; it is your own fault. You should have asked me before deciding to stay away.”

“What will the teacher think if I go so late?”

“Tell him you had a headache, and so are late.”

“He will beat me if I say so.”

“Will he? Let us see. What is his name?”

“Mr. Samuel.”

“Does he beat the boys?”

“He is very violent, especially with boys who come late. Some days ago, a boy was made to stay on his knees for a whole period in a corner of the class because he came late, and after getting six cuts from the cane and having his ears twisted, I wouldn’t like to go late to Mr Samuel’s class.”

“If he is so violent, why not tell your headmaster about it?”

“They say that even the headmaster is afraid of him. He is such a violent man.”

And then Swami gave a lurid account of Samuel’s violence; how when he started caning, he would not stop till he saw blood on the boy’s hand, which he made the boy press to his forehead like a Vermillion marking. Swami hoped his father would be made to see that he couldn’t go to his class late. But his father’s behaviour took an unexpected turn. He became excited.

“What do these people mean by beating our children? They must be driven out of service. I will see…..”

The result was that he proposed to send Swami late to his class as a kind of challenge. He was also going to send a letter with Swami to the headmaster. No amount of protest from Swami was of any avail: Swami had to go to school.

By the time he was ready, his father had composed a long letter to the headmaster, put it in an envelope, and sealed it.

“What have you written, father?” Swaminathan asked apprehensively.

“Nothing for you. Give it to your headmaster and go to your class.”

Swami’s father did not know the truth—that, actually, Mr. Samuel was a very kind gentleman. 

 

(a) Give the meaning of each of the following words as used in the passage. (3)

One-word answers or short phrases will be accepted.

  1. jolted 
  2. stubborn 
  3. avail 

(b) Answer the following questions briefly in your own words: 

  1. What did Swami wish for on a Monday morning? Why was his wish unlikely to be answered?  (2)
  2. Which sentence tells us that Swami’s father was completely unsympathetic to his son’s headache? (2)
  3. In what way was Swami’s mother’s response different from his father’s? (2)
  4. Why did Swami give a colourful account of Mr. Samuel to his father?  (2)
  5. In what way did Father’s behaviour take an unexpected turn?  (2)
  6. What was Swami finally ordered to do by his father? (2)

(c)

(i) In not more than 60 words, describe how Swami tries to prove that Mr. Samuel is a violent man. (8)
(ii) Give a title to your summary in 3

(c). Give a reason to justify your choice. (2)


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As soon as Sania sat down to study, the lights went off.
(Begin: No sooner……….)


Not many people read for pleasure these days.
(Begin: Few ................................. ) 


Since her childhood, Meera has been good in Mathematics. 
(End: ............................ childhood) 


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Padding transient

Now, look up the dictionary to see if your inference is right.


Give reasons for the following.

List the deeds that led Ray Johnson to describe Akhenaten as “wacky”.


Below is a topic for essay writing. Follow the steps listed above to write on these topics.
Himalayan Quake 2005


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Reading plays is more interesting than studying science.


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bed ______ ______


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young ______ ______


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  • a sports event,
  • a quiz or a competition, and
  • a test or examination.

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Grandpa is walking but Rajiv is jogging.


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