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प्रश्न
What is your mother tongue?
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उत्तर
Do it yourself.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Form groups and use the following topic for discussion. Take the help of your college library and your teacher.
Features of the Constitution of India
Find and discuss some examples of reports related to the given topic.
Bravery awards
How do trees access the internet?
They simply ___________ in.
Mr. Anand Tony, director of the award-winning movie ‘Poo’, is meeting the press. Take turns to be the director and media person. Conduct a perfect discussion.
A road map is given below. Answer the questions that follow with the help of the road map. Work in pairs and discuss to give directions to get to one place from another.
- You are at the market. You need directions to go to the pharmacy.
- You are in a book shop. Ask your partner to direct you to the Art Gallery.
- Give your partner the directions to go from the Bank to the hotel.
- Direct your partner from the post office to the market.
- Your partner wants to go to the library from school. Give suitable directions.
Identify the poetic lines where the following figures of speech are employed and complete the tabular column.
| Figure of speech | Meaning | Lines |
| Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa. e.g. “The Western wave was all a-flame. ” The “Western wave” is a synecdoche as it refers to the sea by the name of one of its parts i.e. wave. |
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| Paradox |
A figure of speech in which a statement appears to contradict itself. e.g. To bring peace we must war. Be cruel to be kind. |
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| Onomatopoeia |
A figure of speech wherein the word imitates the sound associated with the object it refers to. e.g. Pitter-patter, pitter-patter Raindrops on my pane. |
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| Rhetorical Questions |
A figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked to make a point rather than to elicit an answer. e.g. And what is so rare as a day in June? |
Take a few minutes and make hints of the picture. Arrange your thoughts. Using the points you write, deliver a small speech focusing on the issue picturized here. Give an interesting and informative speech. Your speech should include the cause and the solution.
Tips for effective speaking
• Organise your points and ideas well.
• Don’t memorise the speech. If you forget a point, it will make you nervous.
• Avoid the things that are of no value or interest to the audience.
• Before you speak, take a deep breath, smile, greet the audience.
• Don’t be nervous about making a mistake.
• Interesting speech makes your mistakes nothing.
Imagine that below are some of the paintings of Jane Eyre. Discuss with your partner and describe the paintings.
Change the following into Indirect Speech.
“What do you want?” he said to her.
Change the following into Indirect Speech.
“Don't you know the way home?” asked I.
Change the following into Indirect Speech.
“Sit down, boys,” said the teacher.
What are the things your mother asks you to do?
| Things you like to do | Things you do not like to do |
Don’t Give Up
If you keep on going
And never stop,
You can keep on going,
You can make it to the top.
Life is full of mountains,
Some are big and some are small,
But if you don’t give up
You can overcome them all.
So keep on going
Try not to stop,
When you keep on going
You can make it to the top.
Look at the picture and describe it. Why do you think the boy is happy?
How do people who cannot see, read?
At the end of the play, only the stump of the tree is left. Find out if it will grow into a tree again.
Have you been to another place recently? What is it like? How is it different from your own place?
You are Mani/Megalai of Class XI, President of the English Club of your school. Draft a speech on the topic ‘Reading Maketh a Complete Man’, to be delivered in the school assembly
Speak to the class for a minute, as to how one should conduct oneself on formal occasions. (You could talk about table manners especially while eating, general appearance, manner of speaking, etc.)
Build a conversation for the following situation with a minimum of five exchange.
A passenger and a railway staff regarding the cancellation of the reserved tickets.
