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प्रश्न
Discuss these questions in small groups before you answer them.
When are you likely to be told this?
Say thank you.
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उत्तर
The children are likely to be reminded to Say thank you when they receive a gift or a favour from someone.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Thinking about the Text
Answer these question.
Why does the intruder choose Gerrard as the man whose identity he wants to take on?
Thinking about the Poem
How many common features can you find in stanza 2? Pick out the words.
How does Toto come to grandfather’s private zoo?
What actions of the schoolmates change the author’s understanding of life and people, and comfort him emotionally? How does his loneliness vanish and how does he start participating in life?
Look at the following sentences. They each have two clauses, or two parts each with their own subject and verb or verb phrase. Often, one part (italicised) tells us when or why something happened.
• I reached the market when most of the shops had closed. (Tells us when I reached.)
• When Rahul Dravid walked back towards the pavilion, everyone stood up. (Tells us when everyone stood up.)
• The telephone rang and Ganga picked it up. (Tells us what happened next.)
• Gunjan has been with us ever since the school began. (Tells us for how long he has been with us.)
I. Identify the two parts in the sentences below by underlining the part that gives us the information in brackets.
1. Where other girls wore traditional Indian dresses, Santosh preferred shorts.
(Contrasts her dress with that of others)
2. She left home and got herself enrolled in a school in Delhi. (Tells us what happened after the first action.)
3. She decided to fight the system when the right moment arrived. (Tells us when she was going to fight the system.)
4. Little Maria had not yet celebrated her tenth birthday when she was packed off to train in the United States. (Tells us when Maria was sent to the U.S.)
Based on your reading of the story, answer the following question by choosing the correct options.
Private Quelch was nick-named ‘Professor’ because of ____
Complete the following sentences.
i. An ant is the smallest,————————————————————————————————
ii. We know a number of facts about an ant’s life because————————————————————————————————
In what ways is an ant’s life peaceful?
What do you think the mechanical hand was trying to do?
Describe the change the cherry tree underwent after the kind old poured a pinch of ash over it.
How did the mongoose oblige its master? What was the reward of his service?
How did Saeeda’s mother feel on that sunny day?
With the help of your partner, try to rewrite some lines in the poem, or add new ones of your own as in the following examples.
Trees are for birds to build nests in. Trees are for people to sit under.
Now try to compose a similar poem about water, or air
Now complete these sentences about your house and home.
(i) My house is ____________.
(ii) The best thing about my home is ____________.
Why do rebels always contradict the others?
What decides the choices made by the rebel?
Fill in the blanks with the words given in the box.
| how, what, when, where, which |
Do you know ______ to ride a bicycle? I don’t remember ______ and ______ I learnt it
Study the following phrases and their meanings. Use them appropriately to complete the sentences that follow.
Nitin has always ……………. his uncle, who is a self-made man.
Who asks permission to speak at Caesar’s funeral?
Read the following extract from Maya Angelou’s poem, ‘When Great Trees Fall’ and answer the questions that follow:
| When great trees fall in forests, small things recoil into silence, their senses eroded beyond fear. |
- What effect does the falling of a ‘great tree’ have on the creatures of the forest? [3]
- How does the death of a great soul affect the lives of those left behind in the immediate aftermath of their passing? [3]
- What long-term effect does the death of a ‘great soul' have? [3]
- What feeling is being expressed by the following lines/phrases? [3]
- small things recoil into silence
- kind words/unsaid,
- Beand be/better. For they existed
- What is a ‘Great tree’ a metaphor for? [4]
What is the central message of Angelou’s poem, “When Great Trees Fall"?
