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प्रश्न
Why do you think that the poet has chosen the title ‘Telephone Conversation’? If you were to suggest another title for the poem, what would it be?
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उत्तर
'Different- are We?' could be another suggestion for the title of the poem.
However, the poet has chosen a very appropriate title for the poem - 'Telephonic Conversation'. It refers very aptly to the shallow racism being projected by the conversation between the landlady who is 'white' and the poet who is 'dark'. The telephone symbolises the gap between the two ends of the line, the impossibility for both ends to meet.
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Answer any four of the following in 30 − 40 words each:
(a) "It is his karam, his destiny." What is Mukesh's family's attitude towards their situation?
(b) What were the terms of the indigo contract between the British landlords and the Indian peasants?
(c) How will 'keeping quiet' protect our environment?
(d) Which objects of nature does Keats mention as sources of joy in his poem, 'A Thing of Beauty'?
(e) Why did the Tiger King decide to get married?
(f) What was Sadao's father's dream for him? How did Sadao realise it?
Read the follow ing extract and answer the questions given below:
Not gold but only men can make
A people great and strong;
Men who for truth and honor's sake
Stand fast and suffer long.
Brave men who work while others sleep,
Who dare while others fly...
They build a nation's pillars deep
And lift them to the sky.
(1) What makes a nation strong?
(2) According to you, what makes India a strong and powerful nation?.
(3) Write down the rhyme scheme used in the extract.
(4) What does the phrase 'others fly ... ' mean?
Notice these expression in the text. Infer their meaning from the context.
careered down
Tick the statement that is true.
Rajendra Desphande was a historical event.
What kind of a person do you think the narrator is?
Look at the words given in the box below
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snigger |
wriggle |
sneak |
squeak |
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squawk |
titter |
pant |
chuckle |
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giggle |
jeer |
chortle |
guffaw |
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sigh |
sidle |
boo |
shriek |
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scramble |
croak |
straggle |
plod |
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gasp |
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Now classify them according to their closeness in meaning to the words given below
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A |
B |
C |
D |
E |
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snigger |
wriggle |
squeak |
jeer |
sigh |
Adi Song for the Recovery of Lost Health' is in Miri Agom while Adi Agom is the Adi community's language for routine conversation. How does this reflect upon the high level of language sensitivity of the Adi? Can you think of other parallels in modern languages between the literary variety and the colloquial variety?
Make sentence of your own using the following expression.
overcome:
Make sentence of your own using the following expression.
put up with:
Answer in your own words.
What message does the poem convey to all of us?
Complete the following sentence.
Sujoy reported about ___________________.
Answer in your own words.
What are the provisions in the Declaration of the United Nations, to ensure the equality of men and women?
Read the poem aloud and you will find some old outdated words that we do not use in the everyday language now.
However, some writers/poets use them to impart an old-fashioned flavour to suit the background of their write-up. Such words are called Archaic words.
Give the modern words for the archaic words from the poem.
- thy
- being
- bestow'd
- thee
- thou
- cans't
Find proof from the poem for the following.
The poet’s minute observations of the steady growth of the cherry tree.
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Discuss in your class.
What are the advantages of learning science?
Proverbs associated with the word season: for eg: Make hay while the sun shines.
- _________________________
- _________________________
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- Indoor and outdoor games.
- Games played with and without any equipment.
- Games which have one-to-one matches and those in which teams play against each other (Single-player or team)
- Games played mostly by children and games played by adult players.
- Shape and size of the court or field.
Use the following figures to show your classification.
Write a useful ‘ad’ for the importance of games, drinking enough water, your own school.
Discuss and write 1-2 lines about the following,
Yonamine’s ideas about marriage.
Write a conversation between a donkey and a school boy.
To whom is the poem addressed?
Find one example of the following given below from the poem: Metaphor
What is direct and indirect.
List the phrases which have the expression 'many a ______'.
Who said the following, to whom, and when?
"Ah no, to thee I sing: he sings to God.”
Find the meaning of the following word.
starlets
Have you ever been on an adventurous journey? If yes, share your experience.
Identify the character or speaker.
I was Duke of Milan, and you were a princess.
What woke up the mother?
Why were the policeman prevented from entering grandfather's room?
What were Chulongs plans for the bird?
The______ of ______ are nearly run.
- soft
- vain
- fear
- joy
- love
- heard
- toiled
- mild
- good
- sand
- life
- harsh
When are we in a state of trance?
Pick out the rhyming words from the first stanza of the poem.
Everyone in the ship started to pray because ______.
When did the garden become a happy place for the author?
Why did the author leave town?
Identify the speaker/character.
"Don't let us down now, Gulliver; we need your help."
________ was a young talented doctor.
How can we make our nation proud?
How was he honoured by the Indian government?
Jaswant was captured alive.
The scene is set inside a thick forest and it is nearing dusk. Relate this time frame with the behaviour of the animals in the forest.
Vicky’s father decided to change his son’s character.
The rich man ______ at the beggar.
The bird-catcher decided to sit under the ________.
Some words sound the same but their spelling and meaning are different. Such words are called homophones. There are many homophones.
How were her strokes?
Try your own.
Circle and write the adverbs.
I'm waiting here. ______
Write the word with same meaning.
post- ______
What incident made Mugund make a wooden drum?
Why was his father unable to sleep?
A person who overcomes problems, will get ______ at the end.
Do we worry when the progress is slow?
Name a few things that sink.
How did the boy enjoy the company of the tree?
What did the books in the library look like ?
What did Pinocchio say in the end?
