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Fill in the blank.

Baban’s father and some elders mentioned the name of __________.

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Baban’s father and some elders mentioned the name of Kasbai.

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अध्याय 1.3: The Call of the Soil - Brainstorming [पृष्ठ ३२]

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बालभारती English Yuvakbharati [English] Standard 11 Maharashtra State Board
अध्याय 1.3 The Call of the Soil
Brainstorming | Q (A1) (iii) (c) | पृष्ठ ३२

संबंधित प्रश्न

Read the following extract and then do all the activities that follow :

I rain into a stranger as he passed by
“Oh, excuse me please” was my reply.
He said, “please excuse me too; wasn't even watching for you.”
We were very polite, this stranger and I.
We went on out way and we said good-bye.
But at home a different story is told.
How we treat out loved ones, young and old.
Later that day, cooking the evening meal,
My daughter stood beside me very still.
When I turned, I nearly knoked her down.
“Move out of the way,” I said with a frown.
She walked away, her little heart broken.
I didn't realize how harshly I'd spoken.
While I lay awake in bed,
God's still small voice came to me and said,
“While Dealing with a stranger, common courtesy you use,
But children you love, you seem to abuse.”

A1. Order- 
The incidents narrated in the extract are arranged in a jumbled manner here, Rearrange them in a proper order as they occur in the extract:
(i) The poet and the stranger went on their way saying good-bye.
(ii) Seeking excuse politely from the stranger, she went her way.
(iii) The poet ran into a stranger on the road.
(iv) The poet yelled at her daughter.

A2. Poetic device:
Make a list of rhyming pairs from the second stanza and note down the rhyme scheme of the same stanza.

A3. Personal Response:
Understanding and politeness are the essentials of out everyday life. Explain your views in brief.

A4. Creativity -
Frame two poetic lines on the following situation using a rhyming pattern with the help of clues given:
“While introducing great personalities, we praise them highly and talk about their qualities, but while speaking
about our friends we may not follow the same trend.”
While introducing great personalities, — a
------------------------------------ — a
But while speaking about our friends, — b
------------------------------------ — b


To what end have humans used their superior intelligence ?


When and how did the people of Iping grow suspicious of the invisible man ? 


Discuss the following in pairs

Empathy and understanding are going out of modern society. The individual experiences intense alienation from the society around him or her.


Try rewriting the lecture as a formal essay and examine Forster’s statement:  'since the novel is itself often colloquial, it may possibly withhold some of its secrets from the graver and grander streams of criticism’.


Find from the story one word for the following.

a small room just below a sloping roof ______


Find from the story one word for the following.

the highest-ranking officer in the Municipality of a city/town ______


Make a list of the preparations made for an assault on Tiger Hill.

After confirming the multidirectional assault as the best strategy the commanding officer ________________.


Compare and contrast the two opposing human feelings as expressed by the poet.


Read the story and choose the appropriate meaning.

Struggling artists ____________


Say where . . . . . . .

______ do stars shine in the daytime?


Form pairs. Make a list of as many games as you can. (At least 25) Then classify the games using the following criteria: 

  • Indoor and outdoor games.
  • Games played with and without any equipment. 
  • Games which have one-to-one matches and those in which teams play against each other (Single-player or team)
  • Games played mostly by children and games played by adult players.
  • Shape and size of the court or field.

Use the following figures to show your classification. 


Go through the following web that highlights the essential qualities of a compere. Discuss with your partner the essential qualities and also the precautions that a compere should take while compering a program.

Precautions to be taken :

  1. __________________________
  2. __________________________
  3. __________________________
  4. __________________________

The description of the character is given below. Identify the character from the play. Find some sentences which support your choice.

He is a major character. He dominates in the story.


Read the following sentence aloud. Write who said it and to whom.

“I would rather not go to the party.”


Talk about the good qualities of any one person you do not like. (You need not name the person.)


Guess the meaning of the following word:

exorbitantly 

Write the smaller and related words that you see within this word.


Find three lines, that contain images of nature in the autumn season.

At night

  1. ______________________
  2. ______________________
  3. ______________________

Answer in your own words.

What task did Grandpa wish to avoid?


Complete the following diagram.


Read the poem again. Does it have a uniform rhyme scheme throughout?

Write down the rhyme scheme of every stanza separately.

  • 1st stanza ______
  • 2nd stanza ______
  • 3rd stanza ______
  • 4th stanza ______.

From any collection of classic poetry or the internet, find another famous poem by Robert Frost titled ‘Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening’. Try to understand the symbolism used in that poem in 8-10 lines.


Which other things in nature can say –

'For men may come and men may go,
             But I go on for ever.'


Listen carefully and guess how the sentence would end.

When the teacher read the answer papers, she was ______.


Write other meaningful words that begin/end with footprint.


Write some more expressions like ‘hundreds of’. Expand each expression.

Example, ‘Hundreds of children in the school.’


Show the major events in the story of Pheidippides on a ‘time-line’.


What is a password?


____________ had provided Prospero formerly with books and provisions.


Give two reasons why Miranda was so concerned about Ferdinand.


How did the Bodwells react, when a shoe was thrown into their house?


Hamid’s granny scolded him for buying iron tongs. Then she understood that Hamid had bought it ______.


What were the children doing beside the stone wall?


Which of these statements do you find in the speech?

  1. Inclusion is essential for us to do well in life. 
  2. We should neglect others. 
  3. Communicate politely with the less privileged.
  4. Teachers teach us to communicate well.
  5. Effective Communication is inessential to excel in life.

What kind of learning brings joy to you?


Pick out the rhyming words from the first stanza of the poem.


Amma bought the vegetables from the______.


Mithali Raj was not encouraged to play cricket by her family members.


Geetha madam couldn’t stop the children running out of the train because they ______.


We get water by burning _______.


Match the following.

cuckoo blows
breeze sings
river swims
fish flows

What does it give to the farmer?


What is our core?


Name the character or speaker.

"Why don't you do that yourself?"


Vicky's dad bought a ______ robot.


The rich man ______ at the beggar.


What does Megalai do with elders?


Identify the character or the speaker.

“I was cruel and selfish.”


Some words sound the same but their spelling and meaning are different. Such words are called homophones. There are many homophones.


Circle the animals which are in the voyage.


List out the questions to which you seek answer using 'Why?'


Choose and write the adverbs to complete the sentence.

She won the game _____


Number the pictures in the correct order of the story.


Where did Kani see the old cracked cup?


Divya loved solving _______.


The king gave______ seeds.


What will help us grow?


What would you like to learn in school? why?


What did he call his puppet?


How can we identify insecure websites?


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