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Why did one of the girls wail?

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In the midst of their running, one of the girls wailed and held out her hand to other children, because in the center of her palm, there was a single raindrop. On seeing that she started crying.

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अध्याय 5.3: All Summer in a Day - Exercise [पृष्ठ १७५]

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सामाचीर कलवी English Class 12 TN Board
अध्याय 5.3 All Summer in a Day
Exercise | Q 1. j) | पृष्ठ १७५

संबंधित प्रश्न

 Fill in each blank with the suitable word. 

He broke _____________ in the middle of his speech at the function. 


What are the five words used in the poem to describe the role of a middle-aged woman?


How was the great victory a personal tragedy for Kaspar?


The free bird thinks of another breeze
And the trade winds soft through
The sighing trees
And the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright
Lawn and he names the sky his own.

Read the above lines and answer the question that follow.

According to the poem, how can the free bird be best described ?


Thus I entered, and thus I go!
In triumphs, people have dropped down dead,
"Paid by the world, what dost thou owe
Me?"....God might question; now instead,
'Tis God shall repay: I am safer so.

Read the above lines and answer the question that follow.

What does the rain imagery signify?


What kind of person was Abou Ben Adhem?


How does the story “A Horse and Two Goats” develop the idea of the need to interact with people who have vastly different identities from your own?


Why was Margot unhappy on Venus in “All Summer in a Day”?


Fill in each of the numbered blanks with the correct form of the word given in brackets. Do not copy the passage, but write in the correct serial order the word or phrase appropriate to the blank space. 

Example:
(0) One morning, I (0) ……. (see) the python curled up on the dressing table.

Answer: saw.

It was (1) ……. (gaze) at its own reflection in the mirror. I (2) ……… (go) for grandfather, but by the time we (3) ……… (return) to the room, the python (4) …….. (move) on. He was seen in the garden, and once the cook saw him, (5) ……… (crawl) up the ladder to the roof. Then we (6) …….. (find) him on the dressing table again, (7) (admire) himself in the mirror. “He’s trying to look better for Aunt Mabel,” I said. I (8) ……. (regret) this remark immediately because grandmother overheard it and held up my pocket money for the rest of the week! 


Discuss with your partner and make a list of steps that you feel are essential to unite the people of different castes, races, religions, and languages in India.


The cherry tree is a narrative poem. Features that make it a narrative poem are given below. Justify them with proper examples.

Characters are referred to.


Compose 8 to 10 lines. Narrate an incident in your life without using any rhyming pattern.


Guess the meaning of the above proverbs and write them down along with a sentence of your own.


Write in your own words, how the Robinson family made each of their homes.


Write what you think about the following thoughts and actions of Mathilde :

Mathilde worked very very hard to pay the debt.


Prepare a News Report in brief on this Art Festival.


Answer the following question :

What are the most savage controversies about?


Answer the following question :

What are the benefits of travel?


Divide the class into groups and conduct a poster-making competition for an Eye /Blood Donation Camp. Fix up the details of the above camp, like time, place, etc.


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Read the jumbled lines from the poem and rearrange them in correct order.

1. cinnamon, betel leaves
2. and ginger and garlic”
3. Go to Muthu’s
4. My mother would say:
5. and get some
6. “Little boy Raj…
7. And so I go to the shops
8. singing all the way
9. tomatoes and pickles”
10. “Sesame seeds, onions
11. I rattle off a list:
12. what I’d want
13. and when Muthu asks me
14. my mother twists my ear
15. and back home
16. ouch!

Let s imagine a topsy-turvy scene and describe it in the lines below.


Connect the pairs of sentences below using and or but.

  1. It is time to get up for school.
  2. I want to sleep for some more time.

Answer the question by looking at the picture.

Example: What is happening in picture 5?

The girl is diving into the water.
Where are the boats racing in picture 2?
______ are ______

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Explain the following phrase selected from the story in your own word and work with a partner to make sentence using these phrase:

a tinge of coldness


Bring out the significance of what Leacock was reading at the photographers.


What kind of relationship existed between Miss Meadows and the Science Mistress?


Which one of the following is correctly matched?


Write a dialogue between a student and teacher on 'Importance of Yoga'.


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