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प्रश्न
What makes you laugh?
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उत्तर
I like intelligent comedy, including sharp punchlines, entertaining conversation, and delightful rhymes that surprise and excite me. Just as a programmer finds humour in a well-placed bug joke, an unexpected twist in a story or a suitable remark in a conversation brings a virtual smile to my face.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
What is the tone of the poem?
Explain the use of figurative language in the poem.
Can it be argued that this is an anti- war poem?
What tells you that the speaker was swayed by the enthusiasm of his admirers? What proves him wrong?
Write a short note on Abou bin Adhem.
(A) Ramesh said, "Rajiv, please bring your physics book to school tomorrow."
(B) Ramesh………………………….
Write a composition (350 - 400 words) on the following:
Write an original short story that begins with the words : “The day started off well enough, whoever thought it would ……….”
Given below is an interesting combination of words. Explain why they have been used together.
eternal brilliance
Write a letter to the President, Residents’ Welfare Association of your locality suggesting some measures that could be taken for solving the problem of water scarcity and conserving water.
The cleverest of criminals leave behind clues to their crime.
Why does John Ipe consider retirement to be a dishonour?
Comment on the way in which the story is narrated from Satyajit's perspective.
Read the poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ by Robert Frost.
Use the phrase in a sentence of your own, after finding out its meaning.
cheered along
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.
answerable: ____________
The words in the box are all words that describe movement. Use them to fill in the blanks in the sentence below.
The snake _______________ his head ______________ to strike at the crow.
Look at these sentences.
- Deserts are the driest places on earth.
- Gerbils spend the hottest part of the day in cool underground burrows.
Now form pairs. Ask questions using a suitable form of the word in brackets. Try to answer the questions too.
Do you know
1. Which animal is the _______________________ (tall)?
2. Which animal runs the _______________________ (fast)?
3. Which place on earth is the _______________________ (hot) or the _______________________ (cold)?
4. Which animal is the _______________________ (large)?
5. Which is the ————————————— (tall) mountain in the world?
6. Which is the _______________________ (rainy) place on earth?
7. Which is the ________________________ (old) living animal?
Can you add some questions of your own?
Write your views/opinions in brief on the following topic.
Steps to be taken to eradicate inequality.
Compose 8 to 10 lines. Narrate an incident in your life without using any rhyming pattern.
Write a letter to your friend about the Great Indian Bustard. You may use the following points:
- Why we need to protect the bird.
- What you plan to do to help the bird.
Making suitable groups, convert the entire episode into a short skit, and write it down. Each group leader must discuss at first with the others and add a different end to the skit.
- Happy ending
- Sad ending
- Surprise ending
- Humorous ending
Pick out the nouns from the poem. Write as many Cinquain poems as you can.
Read Sheela's notice. Discuss the questions that follow.
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Notice The Drama Committee will meet in the classroom on Monday, at two o’clock. We’ll plan a play for our Annual Day. Will each one of you please bring a play? SHEELA |
- Who was to meet?
- When were they to meet?
- Where were they to meet?
- What were they to do?
The hunter shot at the ______of birds.
Where did the author study in his childhood?
What was the happiest time of the day for grandmother?
What does each of the following mean in the story? Choose the right option.
arm in arm:
Complete the summary of the play, choosing the appropriate words from the list given below the passage.
A number of patients wait at the (1) ______of a dentist’s clinic. Everybody is tensed at the thought of a painful (2) ______being extracted. One of the women is bent on showing everyone her (3) ______. After the arrival of the dentist, Joe, the first (4) ______is called in. Sometime later, the nurse comes out and goes in with a (5) ______. Everyone is (6) ______at this, imagining Joe being subjected to a lot of hammering in the process of his tooth being pulled out. Once again the nurse comes out to fetch a large pair of (7) ______and later on she takes in a (8) ______. A little boy confesses that he pretended to have (9) ______, because he did not wish to go to school. The loud (10) ______and screeching from within the room makes everyone leave the (11) ______, one by one. Finally there are only two women in the waiting room, one of them being Joe’s wife. She weeps (12) ______about her husband. But Joe comes out and explains that he had shifted his (13) ______to the evening and had been given some pills for the pain. After they leave, the dentist comes out and locates the key of his tool (14) ______. He had been trying to open it using the hammer, the pliers and the hacksaw only in vain. The woman with the photographs is surprised to see that the (15) ______had moved quickly and she was the next patient to go in.
| hammer | patient |
| hacksaw | cabinet |
| frightened | queue |
| worried | waiting room |
| pliers | tooth |
| photographs | clinic |
| toothache | sawing |
| appointment |
Why did Woman 1 panic more than the others?
Read the given sentence and underline the no word.
Was Gopal nowhere around?
