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प्रश्न
(a) Given below are five lines from a poem but they are not in the right order.
Get into groups of four. Read the lines and put them in the right order. Read
the version that you develop to the whole class.
(b) Who is 'I' in these lines?
(c) Imagining yourself as the subject of this poem, write five lines about
yourself in less than five minutes.
You may like to
- define yourself
- state what you do
- explain why people like/dislike you
- mention any other characteristic about yourself
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उत्तर
(a)
(b) ‘I’ stands for the rain.
(c) For self-study.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Pick out word from the text that mean the same as the following word or expression. (Look in the paragraph indicated.)
a strong desire arising from within : _________
What does he plant who plants a tree?
He plants, in sap and leaf and wood,
In love of home and loyalty
And far-cast thought of civic good____
His blessing on the neighbourhood,
Who in the hollow of his hand
Holds all the growth of all our land____
A nation's growth from sea to sea
Stirs in his heart who plants a tree.
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow:
What is the reference to in the phrase ‘stirs in his heart’?
It was my business to cross the bridge, explore the bridge head 3 beyond and find out to what point the enemy had advanced. I did this and returned over the bridge. There were not so many carts now and very few people on foot, but the old man was still there.’’Where do you come from?” I asked him.
“From San Carlos,” he said, and smiled.
That was his native town and so it gave him pleasure to mention it and he smiled.
“I was taking care of animals,” he explained.
“Oh,” I said, not quite understanding.
“Yes,” he said, “I stayed, you see, taking care of animals. I was the last one to leave the town of San Carlos.”
He did not look like a shepherd nor a herdsman and I looked at his black dusty clothes and his gray dusty face and his steel rimmed spectacles and said, “What animals were they?”
“Various animals,” he said, and shook his head. “I had to leave them.”
Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.
What was the name of the old man’s native town?
He flungs himself down in a corner to recoup from the fatigue of his visit to the shop. His wife said, “You are getting no sauce today, nor anything else. I can’t find anything to give you to eat. Fast till the evening, it’ll do you good. Take the goats and be gone now,” she cried and added, “Don’t come back before the sun is down.”
Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.
How much money did Muni owe to the shopkeeper?
What test had Portia’s father devised for her suitors? What oath did the suitors have to take before making their choice?
Discuss the following topic in groups.
Why, in your opinion, did the man set the doves free?
Why did Abbu Khan’s goats want to run away? What happened to them in the hills?
Had the beggar come to Rukku Manni’s house for the first time? Give reasons for your answer.
We should not give up in any situation. If we try hard we can definitely find a solution. Why do you think so?
How did Mr Gessler found that the boot was not comfortable for author?
How was Nishad spending his unexpected holiday?
What did the narrator do when he found Kari stealing the bananas?
Which word is the opposite of ‘badly’?
Discuss the question in pairs before you write the answer.
Who did he finally choose as his master and why?
Mark the right item.
Taro decided to earn extra money ______
Answer the question.
Why does the poet want to know where the teachers go at four o’clock?
What does the broken glass window suggest?
Study the following phrases and their meanings. Use them appropriately to complete the sentences that follow.
After a very long spell of heat, the weather is ………….. at last.
Complete the following sentence by providing a reason:
In the poem, The Darkling Thrush, the poet thinks the bird had some awareness which the poet did not because ______.
Which of the following statements is used by Angelou to describe the caged bird?
