(i) The puppy was hiding ___________ the sofa.
(ii) Stop worrying ______ your future.
(iii) When I stepped ________ the lift, I found it had stopped working.
(iv) We had to use a bridge to go ______ the river.
(v) I have lived in this town ______ ten years.
(vi) Please switch __________ all lights and fans when you leave the room.
(vii) Ronnie is married ______ my cousin.
(viii) The gift came _______ a birthday card.

Is there any significance of the logs of wood in the hands of the six people?

Why does the bride have preference for yellow coloured bangles for her wedding morning?

Define the following terms from the poem: rivulet, plough share (plowshare), yon, and childing.

What are the fears of the caged bird? Answer with examples from Maya Angelou’s poem.

Who is reminded of his past? Why?

What human value is displayed by the action of the eight contestants?

Discuss trans-culturation as represented in Seattle’s speech.

What is the theme of all summer in a day by Ray Bradbury?

What is the climax of Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day?”

You are the captain of your college cricket team. You have your final match on Sunday. Your teammates are nervous. Prepare a speech motivating them to face the challenge courageously. (About 100 words)

You had been waiting outside the examination hall. Describe what you saw and the sounds you heard when you arrived at the place. What were your feelings? Describe how the scene changed once you entered the hall and the examination started.

Choose two of the passages (a) to (c) and answer briefly the questions that follow:

Benedick: I can see yet without spectacles, and I see no such matter. There's her cousin, she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December. But I hope you have no intent to turn husband, have you?

Claudio: I would scarce trust myself though I had sworn the contrary if I Hero would be my wife.

(i) Whom is Benedick referring to in the above lines?
(ii) Benedick says: 'I see no such matter.' What does he mean by it?
(iii) Explain the lines:

"There's her cousin, she was not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December".
(iv) What does the comparison of Beatrice with May suggest about Benedick?
(v) What does Claudio mean by 'sworn the contrary'?
(vi) Give the meaning of the following words as they are used in the context of the passage: possessed; fury; intent

Fill in the blank with an appropriate word:

There is no use crying __________ spilt milk

Every family has a black sheep. (Begin: There is no ………….)

The chairman says that he will look________their complaints.

I was laid________for three weeks with a broken leg.

A number of loose electric wires are hanging from a lamp post near the main gate of your school. Write a letter to the Municipal Commissioner explaining the problem, the danger it poses and suggests a quick solution.

He drew a beautiful diagram________ the board.

The following are the meaning listed in the dictionary against the phrase `take on’. In which meaning is it used in the third paragraph of the account:

Take on sth:	to begin to have a particular quality or appearance; to assume sth
take sb on:	to employ sb; to engage sb to accept sb as one’s opponent in a game, contest or conflict
Take sb/sth on:	to decide to do sth; to allow sth/sb to enter e.g. a bus, plane or ship; to take sth/sb on board

What is the language spoken in Flanders?

Why are the last two lines put within brackets?

Guess what these words and phrases mean from the context

LSE	Grundig reel-to-reel	hollered
heralded	clamorous	stucco
forsythia bushes	ruffles	chapped
foyer	mortified

Give reasons for the following.

Srinath’s disappointment with Satyajit.

Use the phrase in a sentence of your own, after finding out its meaning.

streaked over

Use the phrase in a sentence of your own, after finding out its meaning.

went on

We add ‘un-’ to make opposites. For example, true — untrue. Add ‘un’– to the word below to make its opposite. Then look up the meaning of the word you have formed in the dictionary.

attended: ____________

Look at these sentences.

In the spring, birds of all kinds would flock into the banyan tree’s branches. I would spend the afternoons there.	Grandfather, at sixty-five, could no longer climb the banyan tree. I could hide myself in its branches. I could look down through the leaves at the world below. I could read there.
‘Would’ tells us what the author used to do, or what used to happen.	‘Could’ tells us what the author was usually able to do, or grandfather is now not able to do.

Choose would and could to replace the italicised words in the following sentences.

Choose would and could to replace the italicised words in the following sentences.

Grandfather says, in the old days,

1. elephants were able to fly in the sky, like clouds. They were also able to change their shapes. They used to fly behind clouds and frighten them. People used to look up at the sky in wonder.

2. because there was no electricity, he used to get up with the sun, and he used to go to bed with the sun, like the birds.

3. like the owl, he was able to see quite well in the dark. He was able to tell who was coming by listening to their footsteps.

Imagine that you are the fellow pilgrim and you wish to share your experience of the incident in the poem.
Write a short article about it for a magazine/journal. Also, convey what change it has brought in your life.

State whether the following statement is true or false. Correct the false statement.

Liberty cannot be divorced from equality.

Refer to the library and collect at least five poems of any Nature poet. Write the poems along with their summary.

If you could change the end of the story i.e. after the Swallow refused to fly to Egypt, how would you change it? Summarise your idea in 10 to 12 lines.

Choose the correct alternative for the given line. Focus on the inference of the poet.

‘Earth has not anything to show more fair:’

The line means - _________________.

A brilliant student from your school has won a Mathematics Quiz at the National Level.

Frame questions to interview him/her when the school felicitates him/her. Follow the steps given below.

Greetings
Introduction of the interviewee and achievements.
2 or 3 questions about growing years.
4 to 6 questions about the achievements.
2 or 3 questions about future plans and prospects.
Expression of thanks and good wishes.

The present review concludes with two words 'Heartwarming and enjoyable'. Write your opinion about 100 to 150 words.

Write the rhyme scheme of the poem (Invictus).

Think and write in your own words.

How can the tender maiden Autumn become a full-grown woman? What change in nature does this imply?

Form groups of 5-8. Translate the play into your mother tongue (or Hindi) as a group activity. Enact the translation in the classroom.

Relate the life-story of Caesar, rearranging the facts in a proper sequence in the form of a flow chart:

Caesar begins to upset things at home
Neighbour flings a stick at Caesar
Young crow is saved by the narrator
Caesar begins to trouble neighbours
The crow is named Caesar
Caesar passes away
Caesar objects to being caged.

Think and write in your own words.

Why did the traveller choose the road less travelled? What attribute of the traveller does it bring out?

Read the following Headline and write the dateline, intro, and a short continuing paragraph.

Achievers narrate their success stories at career counseling events.

Ask the students to read different news from English Newspapers and write the given points in the news.

Write an autobiography of a hundred-rupee note. (8-10 lines.)

Prepare a ‘tourism leaflet’ on any one of the following.

Your Home Town
A Historical Place
A Place of Natural Beauty
A Place of Pilgrimage

‘What Men Can Do, Women can do better’ Divide your class in 2 groups. Let one group offer points ‘For the topic’ and the other, ‘Against the topic.’ Note down the points in your notebooks, expand the points in two separate paragraphs of about 15 to 20 lines each. Suggest suitable titles for each.

Write a letter to the manager of a famous daily, ordering a subscription for your school library.

Do you want to try to write your own paragraph now?

Write a paragraph on Cow.

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Now complete the following suitably.

________ the teacher walked into the room.

Punctuate the following sentence.

wasn't tim born on the 26th of january 1989.

Describe Hiawatha, his home and friends in ten lines.

What was the daily routine of the grandmother at home?

Lack of adequate financial resources and sponsorships often affect sportspersons. How is this evident from Mary Kom’s life?

Can you spot 10 differences between these pictures?

How observant are you? Individually, try to spot as many differences as possible in five minutes. If you have spotted less than five, then you really need to improve your observation skill just to save yourself from being misled.

Why had Miss Meadows chosen 'A Lament' as the lesson that particular day?

Write a composition in approximately 350 – 400 words on the following subject:

(You are reminded that you will be rewarded for orderly and coherent presentation of material, use of appropriate style and general accuracy of spelling, punctuation, and grammar.)

Lockdown.

Read the given sentence and underline the no word.

None of the two boys came.

Write letter to your father asking permission to go on a educational tour.

Work in groups and prepare an attractive wrapper or packet for any product of your choice. Prepare an advertisement for your product.

Prepare a speech to deliver in an interschool competition on ‘How to achieve success in life’ with the help of the following web chart.

Write a composition (300-350 words) of the following:

Your teacher has asked you to form a group and work on a particular project. Write an account of how you worked together and what each of you learned from the experience.