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प्रश्न
Explain the following phrase selected from the story in your own word and work with a partner to make sentence using these phrase:
on approval
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उत्तर
Seetha went abroad on her dad’s approval.
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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) She said that she would return the book to the library the next day.
(B) She said, “She will return the book in the library tomorrow”.
Fill in the blank with the suitable word.
He ran _____________ from home at the age of ten.
Who are ‘they’ referred to in the third line of the last stanza? When had the poet come across them?
Which poetic device is used in the line: ‘Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom,’
Discuss theme of kindness and compassion in “Hearts and Hands” by O. Henry?
Fill in the blank with an appropriate word:
The poet's mother was stung __________ a scorpion.
(A) Ramesh said, "Rajiv, please bring your physics book to school tomorrow."
(B) Ramesh………………………….
If Mary catches the first bus, she will be on time for school.
(Begin : Unless …………….)
He drew a beautiful diagram________ the board.
Give reasons for the following.
List the deeds that led Ray Johnson to describe Akhenaten as “wacky”.
There are certain words that are repeated in the poem. For example, ‘no more’ (Line 7).
Find out other similar expressions.
Explain the effect they have created in the poem.
Rewrite the following incomplete sentences carefully, so that the reader does not have to guess what is left out.
1. more and more books
2. too difficult
3. got up late, missed the bus
4. solved the mystery
What do you know about Kalpana Chawla’s birth, education, a great achievement, and tragic end?
Write a few lines about what Mathilde had and what she dreamt about.
Prepare a News Report in brief on this Art Festival.
Write a short passage/essay on ‘Women Power’ in the Neolithic, Medieval, and Present Times.
Write a letter to the manager of a famous daily, ordering a subscription for your school library.
Write a letter of inquiry for the following.
Venkat hails from a remote village of Kancheepuram District, Tamil Nadu who aspires to become an IAS officer. Currently, he is in class X. He notices an advertisement on free classes for the IAS aspirants by a trust in a news paper. He writes a letter to the coordinator of the trust inquiring for further details.
“I met you yesterday.” Sam told me that he had met me ______
Have a conversation with your partner based on the picture below. You can start as -
| Hunter 1 | “Look at the footprints in the mud!” |
| Hunter 2 | |
| Hunter 1 | |
| Hunter 2 |
Use the following clues to complete the following exercise.
| play | stop | buy | learn | see | meet | learn |
| be | eat | go | travel | start | read | visit |
Write three things you have not done in the last three years.
- I have not played ______
- ____________
- ____________
Punctuate the following sentence.
when I went fishing I caught an old shoe a plastic bag and a bad cold.
Find one word from the story that means
at once q ______.
When and how did Bob realise that the tall man was not his friend?
Explain the following phrase selected from the story in your own word and work with a partner to make sentence using these phrase:
a double-distilled idiot
Write a paragraph of about 150 word, on the following topic.
The value of discipline
Certainly anyone who insists on condemning all lies should think about what would happen if we could reliably tell when our family, friends, colleagues, and government leaders were deceiving us. It is tempting to think that the world would become a better place without the deceptions that seem to interfere with our attempts are genuine communication. On the other hand, perhaps there is such a thing as too much honesty. - Adapted from Allison Kornet, "The Truth About Lying"
Would the world be a better place if everyone always told the complete truth? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
What was the very first thing that the children noticed when it stopped raining on Venus in Ray Bradbury's story. 'All Summer in a Day'?
Which of the following lines tells us that the poet Wordsworth carried a mental picture of the daffodils?
