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प्रश्न
Read the poem aloud with proper pace and rhythm.
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उत्तर
Students can do it on your own.
संबंधित प्रश्न
Listen to the passage about Nammazhwar, an environmental crusader from Tamil Nadu. As you listen, answer the following question. The listening act can be repeated if required.
“He never pushed ideas down anyone’s throat” means.
Raj understood that failures are stepping stones to ______.
Near the beginning of the story, “Ms. Gervis’ eyes are full of tears. Her hands are shaking.” How does Ms. Gervis probably feel?
Listen to the passage carefully and write the answer.
What did he discover?
Dad has talked a lot about this fishing spot in the past.
What did Rahul engrave?
All the children are coming only by bus.
Listen to the sounds around you when you are on your way to school. Discuss with your friend the sounds that you heard. List them here
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Listening Activity
First, read the questions given below. Next, listen to an excerpt from a poem read out by your teacher or played in a recorder. Note how a child admires and praises the abilities of his/her father. Then tick the right answers from the options given.
by Edgar Albert Guest
My father knows the proper way
The nation should be run;
He tells us, children, every day
Just what should now be done?
He knows the way to fix the trusts,
He has a simple plan;
But if the furnace needs repairs,
We have to hire a man.
My father, in a day or two
Could land big thieves in jail;
There’s nothing that he cannot do,
He knows no word like “fail.”
‘Our confidence” he would restore
Of that there is no doubt;
But if there is a chair to mend,
We have to send it out.
In conversation, father can
Do many wondrous things;
He’s built upon a wiser plan
Then presidents or kings.
He knows the ins and outs of each
And every deep transaction;
We look to him for theories,
But look to ma for action
i) When the ______ needs to be repaired, they have to hire a man.
- heater
- furnace
- stove
- oven
ii) Father knows no word like______
- fail
- frail
- jail
- snail
iii) It is certain that the father would restore the _______of the family members.
- glory
- prosperity
- confidence
- happiness
iv) The father will not be able to mend a broken
- table
- bench
- chair
- stool
v) The children expect their _________ to guide them in action.
- mother
- father
- teacher
- guardian
Some words have been left out in the poem below. First, read the poem. Then, fill in the missing words on listening to the reading or the recording of it in full. You may listen again, if required.
The Drum
John Scott (1731–83)
I hate that drum’s ______ sound,
Parading round, and round, and round:
To thoughtless ______ it pleasure yields,
And lures from cities and from fields, sell their ______ for charms
Of tawdry lace, and glittering arms;
And when______ voice commands,
To march, and fight, and fall, in______.
I hate that drum’s discordant sound, Parading round, and round, and round; To me, it talks of______plains, And burning towns and ruin’d swains, And all that Misery’s hand bestows, To fill the______of human woes.
