Advertisements
Advertisements
प्रश्न
Form pairs. Imagine you are a pair of Trojans and you have come to know about Odysseus’s plan. Make a counter plan to defeat the Greeks. Write down your plan as you would explain it to your fellow Trojans.
Advertisements
उत्तर
- Listen to Trojan, I have come to know from one of our Spies about Odysseus’s plan that the big wooden horse that will come close to us won’t be an offering to the god of the sea, but it is a conspiracy.
- There will be many soldiers hidden inside that wooden horse who will attack us on reaching there.
- So I have a plan: we will pretend to show them that we are assuming a wooden horse as our destiny and as an offering to the god of the sea. But as soon as that horse will come close to us we will destroy it with cannons and save our Troy.
संबंधित प्रश्न
Correct the following sentence using facts from the passage.
During the war, Trojans jumped over the fort gates to fight the enemy.
Correct the following sentence using facts from the passage.
Helen eloped with Menelaus.
Correct the following sentence using facts from the passage.
Troy was attacked because it was a strong, rich city
Correct the following sentence using facts from the passage.
Both the enemies were eager to continue fighting.
Find and write the Greek and Trojan names used in the story (Part I and II).
List all the words related to ‘war’ from both parts of the story.
Note the following construction carefully and then use them to express your ideas:
A horse big enough to hold men inside it.
______ enough to ______.
Note the following construction carefully and then use them to express your ideas:
The Greeks were tired of the long war.
______ tired of ______.
Note the following construction carefully and then use them to express your ideas:
They are afraid of the long voyage home, too.
______ afraid of______ .
Note the following construction carefully and then use them to express your ideas:
They were so excited that they paid no attention to his words.
______ so ______ that ______.
Who is your favourite warrior?
If you could visit a place in the ancient world or the mythological world, which place would you choose? Which event would you like to see?
What was the cause of the ten-year-old war between the Greeks and Trojans?
Who were the brave heroes on either side who were killed in the war?
Read the story and ‘retell’ it in your mother tongue. When you ‘retell’ a story, you tell it using your style and not translate it word by word. (Part I)
Underline the subject in the following sentence:
Paris had brought her to Troy.
Underline the subject in the following sentence:
The Greeks waited to take revenge on Troy.
Underline the subject in the following sentence:
The Greek armies sailed to Troy.
Underline the subject in the following sentence:
The Trojans, too, fought hard.
Underline the subject in the following sentence:
The fighting went on.
How did Odysseus plan to defeat the Trojans?
What was the reason for Troy to rejoice and celebrate?
Was it enough to use the wooden horse to hide?
What was done to make the Trojans take it inside the city?
Was the big wooden horse really an offering to the god of the sea?
How did the cunning Greek explain the presence of such a large wooden horse?
How did the Greek ships remain hidden from Troy?
What did the Greek soldiers hidden in the wooden horse do after nighfall?
What distressing sounds and sights could be witnessed at Troy, that fateful night?
What was the destiny of the royal family of Troy and that of Helen?
Refer to the Language Study pages and read the following entries:
- word
- phrase
- clause
- sentence.
A phrase is a meaningful group of words. Read the following phrases:
- The wise Odysseus
- A great horse of wood
- A skilful engineer
- The greatest heroes
- The secret of opening and shutting the entrance
- On the seashore outside the walls
- In the darkness
- Watching for the return of the fleet
- Part of their strong wall
All the above phrases are parts of sentences; they do not form a complete sentence by themselves. A sentence expresses a complete idea. You know that it has a subject and a predicate. A sentence has at least one finite verb in it. Read the following examples:
- The tents had been burnt.
- The shore was deserted.
- The Greek ships had all gone.
Write three sentences using your own ideas.
