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प्रश्न
Read the following statement and mark those that apply to you.
I have a small group of close friends and have no wish to interact with anyone else.
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उत्तर
No, this does not apply to me. Although I have many friends, I am open to interacting with everyone.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
What was Mr. Otto Frank's major contribution to the world?
Read the extract and do the following activities:
A1 Complete :
| Night |
Morning |
| (i) | (i) |
| (ii) | (ii) |
There was a roaring in the wind all night;
The rain came heavily and fell in floods;
But now the sun is rising calm and bright,
The birds are singing in the distant woods;
Over his own sweet voice the Stock-dove broods;
The Jay makes answer as the Magpie chatters;
And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters
All things that love the sun are out of doors;
The sky rejoices in the morning’s birth;
The grass is bright with raindrops-on the moors
The hare is running races in her mirth;
And with her feet she from the plashy earth
Raises a mist; that, glittering in the sun,
Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.
A2 What do the different birds do? Discuss.
A3 The sky rejoices in the morning’s birth. (Name and explain the figure of speech)
The author’s grandmother was a religious person. What are the different ways in which we come to know this?
Discuss in groups of four.
The accounts of exotic places in legends and the reality.
Did the boys return the horse because they were conscience-stricken or because they were afraid?
Identify some of the improbable images the author has used to effect greater humour.
State the central issue in the poem.
Why did Ajamil refuse to meet the sheepdog's eyes?
Read the extract 'Being Neighborly' and complete the following statement:
Jo swept a path around the garden for ________________.
Answer in your own words.
Why did the old man have no need to build the bridge, across the chasm?
Complete the following sentence.
Sujoy reported about ___________________.
Some poets do not use uniformity in rhyming words, nor a steady rhythm. Such poems with no uniformity in rhyme, rhythm, length of lines or stanzas are called Free Verse. Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Rabindranath Tagore are some famous poets who have composed poems in Free Verse.
A quick glance at the poem ‘Vocation' reveals that the style used by Tagore is Free Verse.
Now turn the pages of your textbook and see if you can find other poems in Free Verse.
Make a list of the preparations made for an assault on Tiger Hill.
They also explored to ______________.
Find proof from the poem for the following.
The colour imagery in the poem.
The kite - Bazar in Ahmedabad, is open day and night for a week.
The special thread for kite - flying is sharpened by adding sugar and glass pieces.
Read the story and choose the appropriate meaning.
Struggling artists ____________
Where do we find all types of wild animals in urban areas?
Write any five illnesses of the animals in the poem that you find most amusing / laughable.
Portia’s suitors chose the gold and silver caskets.
Read aloud a paragraph of your choice from the passage.
Does the poet expect anything in return? What is the poet’s reward?
Complete the following table.
| No. | Utterance | Who said it | To whom | When |
| (a) | I touched it in the hall at the ministry. | ___________ | ___________ | ___________ |
| (b) | It will give us time to look some more. | ___________ | ___________ | ___________ |
| (c) | I might have needed it. | ___________ | ___________ | ___________ |
| (d) | You must have made a mistake. | ___________ | ___________ | ___________ |
| (e) | Well, I lost it. | ___________ | ___________ | ___________ |
| (f) | Mine was an imitation. | ___________ | ___________ | ___________ |
Link the items in the three columns properly.
| A | B | C |
| The past | A sea beneath a cloudless sun | A pleasant time which has ended |
| The present hour | A soft and mild autumn evening | An exciting, thrilling time which has no end. |
| The future | A green and flowery spray Where a young bird sits | A time, full of life in which you gather strength |
Read: ‘Last Chance to See’ by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine.
Find three lines, that contain images of nature in the autumn season.
During daytime
- _______________________
- _______________________
- _______________________
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 ______.
Pick out Archaic words from the poem and give their modern equivalents.
| Archaic Words | Modern Equivalents | |
| (a) | ||
| (b) | ||
| (c) | ||
| (d) | ||
| (e) |
Find the meaning of the following word.
starlets
Describe the following with the help of the (The Twelve Months) story.
Springtime
How did the middle brother use rice?
Read the word. Write the words that combine to make it.
springtime
List the characters in the play.
Human characters
What are search engines?
____________ raised a dreadful storm.
Who used the zither and how?
The author left the ties in the taxi.
Read the following line from the poem and answer the question given below.
Let us learn to walk with a smile and a song,
No matter if things do sometimes go wrong;
- What does the poet expect everyone to learn?
- What should we do when things go wrong sometimes?
What did Hamid buy at the fair? And for whom?
Pick out the rhyming words from the first stanza of the poem.
If you are a flight attendant how will you deal with the hijackers?
Selvi asked, 'Did they come in an aeroplane?' because she______.
Who is Muthu?
Geetha madam couldn’t stop the children running out of the train because they ______.
He got _________ the disease.
What happened to the two girls at the end of the war?
What did they use as net?
Who guessed the location of the real necklace?
Pick and write the adverbs to complete the sentence.
A jackal cheated the crow ______.
Read the advertisement and answer the question given below.
What is free, for LED TV?
Moles bite and ______ the earth worms.
What are the difficulties they faced in India?
Divya loved solving _______.
Every year the children visit the______.
Write the word with same meaning.
queue- ______
Mugund learnt the art from his ______.
Here is an amazing news item on how the qualities of duty and devotion is not restricted to humans alone but shared by animals. Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.
Caesar, the Hero of Mumbai on 26/11
- Mumbai: Caesar, the last surviving hero of his kind, died of a heart attack on Thursday. Caesar, a Labrador Retriever, was covered with tri-color and given an emotional farewell from the city Police Force. The Mumbai Police Commissioner too marked the passing of the hero with a tweet.
- Caesar, who was 11 years old was the sole survivor among the dogs of Mumbai Police who took part in bomb detection operations during the terrorist attack on Mumbai that began on November 26, 2008. He died of a heart attack at a farm in Virar where he and his three canine buddies had been sent after retirement. During the terror attack in Mumbai, Caesar saved several lives when he sniffed out the hand grenades left by the terrorists at the busy CST railway station.
- Caesar was also a part of the search team at Nariman House, where terrorists were holed up for three days. Earlier he was also pressed into service for bomb search operation after the 2006 serial train blasts and July 2017 blast in Mumbai. The Mumbai police officials also tweeted their grief saying, “Services of retired members of Dog Squad during 26/11 will be unforgettable. We will remember our heroes forever.”
Answer the following questions.
- The Labrador Retriever was covered with tri-color. What does this signify?
- How did Caesar save several lives at the CST railway station?
- Which word in the third paragraph of the passage means the same as ‘forced’?
- “Services of retired members of Dog Squad during 26/11 will be unforgettable”. Mention three services rendered by Caesar.
- Caesar is a Labrador breed of dogs. Name a few other native breeds that are used by the Police Force.
- Try to rewrite the news item in your mother tongue without losing the spirit and flavour of the text. Give a suitable title to the translated version.
Which of the following should one avoid while using social media? Tick against the correct options.
Read the given sentence and underline the 'no' word.
Nobody is at home.
Read the following sentence.
‘A very wise man once remarked that of the unspoken word, you are a master; of the spoken word, you are a slave.’
The sentence has two pairs of opposites - spoken and unspoken, and master and slave. The contrasting ideas make the sentence more effective. Putting together opposite or contrasting ideas in one sentence is a literary device. It is called antithesis.
Read the following examples of antithesis.
- Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
- Man proposes and God disposes.
- Speech is silver, but silence is gold.
- Patience is bitter, but it has a sweet fruit.
