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प्रश्न
Read the lines given below and answer the following question:
| Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Agean… |
Who is Sophocles?
विकल्प
A Shakespearean character.
The poet’s ancestor.
A Victorian poet.
A Greek tragedian.
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उत्तर
A Greek tragedian.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Answer these question in a few word or a couple of sentences .
How old are Margie and Tommy?
Read the following and share your feelings with the class.
INTROSPECT: Realise Your Potential.
Sixteen year old Shreya, a student of XI, angrily outbursts at her parents and says, "No one likes me".
She has not been able to develop an interest in any activity, be it painting, swimming, games or studying. She is not sure what types of relationships give her comfort.
She has never had a good friend. She is not clear about her choice of career.
Shreya is good-looking, as well as physically healthy. During the interview, she was preoccupied with what others think about her.
When asked to talk about her positive qualities, she thought for a long time but could not list any. Nor was she able to mention her negative aspects.
Self Awareness
Knowing your strengths and weaknesses will help you succeed.
Knowing our helps us in acknowledging our success as well as appreciating our capacity to do something with or without support from others.
This givee us a sense of well being and we are able to learn new skills and develop assets , thereby developing our confidence. Confident people attract friends and other stable relationships.
In due course , we are ready to accept various challenges with the right kind of Investment of energy towarde task completion.
Knowing our weaknesses helps us In accepting our limitations, and developing a willingness to take help when offered and enabling us to overcome our deficits.
This paves way to expansion of skills and qualities, which prove useful ln the long run. It is worthwhile to Introspect and reflect so as to realise our potential . This help to bring about a change in us and we are able to meet challenges .
lf Shreya had introspected or had been helped by her parents or teachers to reflect on herself, she would have understood her positive and negative qualities , her likes , dislike , strengths , weakness , feelings , emotions , outlooks , choices , values and attitude towards life.
self awareness paves the way to pregress with respect to relationships , academic success , professional and personal fulfillment .
Adapted from "The Quest",
The Hindu
What does he plant who plants a tree?
He plants cool shade and tender rain,
And seed and bud of days to be,
And years that fade and flush again;
He plants the glory of the plain;
He plants the forest's heritage;
The harvest of a coming age;
The joy that unborn eyes shall see___
These things he plants who plants a tree.
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow:
What is meant by the ‘forest’s heritage’?
Six humans trapped by happenstance
In black and bitter cold.
Each one possessed a stick of wood,
Or so the story's told.
Their dying fire in need of logs;
The first man held his back.
For on the faces around the fire,
He noticed one was black.
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow:
What do the logs denote?
Bangle sellers are we who bear
Our shining loads to the temple fair...
Who will buy these delicate, bright
Rainbow-tinted circles of light?
Lustrous tokens of radiant lives,
For happy daughters and happy wives.
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow.
Explain with reference to context.
It was a summer evening,
Old Kaspar's work was done,
And he before his cottage door
Was sitting in the sun,
And by him sported on the green
His little grandchild Wilhelmine.
She saw her brother Peterkin
Roll something large and round,
Which he beside the rivulet
In playing there had found;
He came to ask what he had found,
That was so large, and smooth, and round.
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow.
Who was Peterkin?
Complete the following sentences.
i. An ant is the smallest,————————————————————————————————
ii. We know a number of facts about an ant’s life because————————————————————————————————
Discuss the following topic in groups.
Retell an episode in the story which is a good example of irony in a situation.
Answer the following question.
What did the crocodile do to show that it was a real crocodile?
When Timothy was about six months old, a change came over him. The phrase in underlined means that
Tilloo pressed the red button and “the damage was done”. What was the damage?
Find in the poem lines that match the following. Read both one after the other.
He says cats are better.
Find in the poem lines that match the following. Read both one after the other.
He recommends dogs.
What were the remarks of two men on seeing Gopal in the market?
How did Golu help the python?
What is the moral/message of the story?
Have you seen animals or birds making houses in trees?
Watch a tree or a plant, or walk across a field or park at the same time everyday for a week. Keep a diary of what you see and hear. At the end of the week, write a short paragraph or a poem about your experiences. Put your writing up on the class bulletin board.
“But mother says that kind is good…” What is mother referring to?
How did Vijay Singh outwit the ghost with his wit and wisdom?
Make noun from the word given below by adding –ness, ity, ty or y
Active ___________.
Multiple Choice Question:
According to the passage the home is a ________
What happens when the kite gets entangled on the top of a tree?
Multiple Choice Question:
How can we play the game of words?
Multiple Choice Question:
Which of the fears is not applied to the speaker?
Answer the following question.
Algu found himself in a tight spot. What was his problem?
Replace the italicised portion of the sentence below with a suitable phrase from the box. Make necessary changes, wherever required.
I will examine the matter carefully before commenting on it.
Which is more desirable-friendship or enmity? When does a person hear strongly the voice of his conscience?
Your partner and you may now be able to answer the question.
The speaker in this poem is a school-going child. Every day he happens to meet the hawker selling bangles, the gardener digging away at the garden, and the watchman walking the street all night.
Which of the given options contains the figure of speech that appears in the following line from Leigh Hunt's poem “The Glove and the Lions’: ‘Ramped and roared the lions’:
