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प्रश्न
There is mention of three communities in the story: the Marathas, the Mughals, the Anglo-Indians. Which language do you think they used within their communities and while speaking to the other groups?
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उत्तर
The Muslims were Urdu speaking, the Marathas spoke Marathi, while the Anglo-Indians generally used English to speak with their communities. But while interacting with other groups they must have used the local dialect of Hindustani.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Life is a gift to be used every day,
Not to be smothered and hidden away,
It isn’t a thing to be stored in the chest
Where you gather your keepsakes and treasure your best;
It isn’t a joy to be sipped now and then
And promptly put back in a dark place again
Life is a gift that the humblest may boast of
And one that the humblest may well make the most of
Get out and live it each hour of the day,
Wear it and use it as much as you may,
Don’t keep it in niches and corners and grooves,
You’ll find that in service its beauty improves.
(1) What do we treasure in a chest?
(2) How does the poet went us to use the gift of life?
(3) Do you agree that life should be measured un deeds and not in years? Why?
(4) Which words in the poem mean the following :
(a) Kept from developing
(b) Hollow places in a wall
(5) Life is a gift to be used every day. [Name and explain the figure of speech]
It was her determination that helped Helen Keller get admission to Radcliffe College. Comment.
Does the poem talk of an exclusively personal experience or is it fairly universal?
Notice these expression in the text. Infer their meaning from the context.
cairn of rocks
“I have done something; oh, God! I've done something real at last.” Why does Andrew say this? What does it mean?
Why do you think Paul's mother was not satisfied with the yearly birthday gift of 1,000 pounds for five years.
How does the connection drawn between the tail and the eyes add to the descriptive detail of the poem?
The poem is a satire against the present political class. How effectively does it convey the anger and anguish of the common man trapped in the system?
Read the extract 'Being Neighborly' and complete the following statement:
Jo swept a path around the garden for ________________.
Find from the story one word for the following.
a low constant sound made by cats ______
Read the story and choose the appropriate meaning.
Masterpiece ____________.
For preparing questions based on the poem, an overall understanding of the poem is a must. Discuss with your partner and prepare a set of five questions.
For example:
- What is the name of the bridge?
- ________________________________
- ________________________________
- ________________________________
- ________________________________
- ________________________________
Match the terms in ‘A’ with their explanation in ‘B’.
| 'A' | 'B' | ||
| (1) | tooth- extraction | (a) | a cut made for surgery |
| (2) | cardiac | (b) | having length, breadth, and depth |
| (3) | sedative | (c) | plastic surgery |
| (4) | tumor | (d) | related to the heart |
| (5) | incision | (e) | a control unit for a robotic surgery |
| (6) | a console | (f) | removing a decayed tooth |
| (7) | 3-D | (g) | a substance that makes a person sleep |
| (8) | Cushing clip | (h) | an extra growth in the body |
| (i) | a device to stop blood loss in neurosurgery |
Honey-bees live an organized life like human beings. Discuss what work the following honey-bees do, as per the poem. Write it down in your own words, in your notebook.
- King/Emperor bee
- Magistrate bees
- Merchant bees
- Soldier bees
- Mason bees
- Civilian bees
- Porter bees
- Judge bee
The ______ bees make honey from nectar.
Complete the phrase using a word from the poem.
______ march
Akbar wanted to punish the person who pulled his moustache.
Find at least five other Akbar and Birbal stories and share them with your friends. Make a list of the stories collected by the entire class. Put your list in alphabetical order.
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To learn about meditation, you have to see ____________________________________________________________ Watch your thinking. Do not ________________________ Do not ____________________________________ Begin to learn ______________________________ Just watch thought. Do not ____________________________________________________.
Suggest what you would do in the following situation:
One particular friend of yours is always late for college, social functions, movies, etc. and delays everyone.
State the difference between drama and novel.
Write a conversation between a donkey and a horse.
Write the following in short:
What the young lawyer pleaded.
Hold a mock trial for the following offence. There should be a complainant, a defendant, and lawyers to argue the case on behalf of them. The whole class can vote to pass the judgment. On what occasions will you plead for justice? What punishment will you suggest? When will you plead for mercy?
A poor man stole some ornaments from a rich girl.
Complete the following sentence with reference to the passage:
To this day, we venerate this tree as ____________.
Discuss what makes the following sentences funny.
- Your wasted time will be refunded.
- There was no highway attached to the booth.
Prepare a short note on sea turtles with the help of the information given in the passage.
Answer in your own words.
How is the boy from the 1500s dressed?
Choose the appropriate phrase to insert in the gap, to make the sentence meaningful. Use the appropriate form of the verb.
Before we ______ let us stand in attention for the National Anthem.
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“He dwells within a cave of Himalaya.”
Describe the following in one or two lines.
The world around the bird’s nest.
Listen carefully and guess how the sentence would end.
When the teacher read the answer papers, she was ______.
Read the word. Write the words that combine to make it.
stepmother
Name the following.
Not comfortable with the wet ground.
Write any one of these stories, not as told by Gulliver, but by some other person.
Write what you can do to welcome birds in your surroundings.
What is used to make Rangoli designs?
The second human being that Miranda saw on the island was __________________.
The taxi driver took away the narrator’s suitcase.
Identify the speaker/character.
‘ It’s Somu’s thoughtless ways that reduce me to tears’
With their treasure, the boys would buy ______ in Eidgah.
Tom lay thinking. Presently it occurred to him that he wished he was sick; then he could stay home from school. He examined himself. He found no symptoms or sickness, and he investigated again. This time he felt he had a stomach ache, but it soon grew feeble, and presently died wholly away. He reflected further.
What did he detect?
Work in pairs and answer the following.
Pick out the alliterated words.
Vasantha’s imagination run wild because ______.
When Amma said,'Don’t upset our foreign visitor' she meant______.
Geetha madam couldn’t stop the children running out of the train because they ______.
Match the planet with its feature.
| 1. | Mars | blue ice giant |
| 2. | Saturn | red storm |
| 3. | Jupiter | red planet |
| 4. | Neptune | ring and moons |
How do we see the earthworm often?
What happened to Dr. Karmugilan in the story?
Where is Jaswantgarh located?
It keeps the sack in every little______.
Look at the picture and Choose the correct word.
Identify the character or the speaker.
“Oh no! What shall I do now?”
Anbu was talented in catching______.
The old man put _____ on the mouth of the gourd.
The tank in Divya’s village was almost ______.
The brush ______ to her will.
What was different about the rabbit that Alice saw?
