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Who do you think helped the narrator to reach safely? Discuss this among yourselves and give reasons for your answer.
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We know that the word ‘fly’ (of birds/insects) means to move through air using wings. Tick the words which have the same or nearly the same meaning
| swoop | flit | paddle | flutter |
| ascend | float | ride | skim |
| sink | dart | hover | glide |
| descend | soar | shoot | spring |
| stay | fall | sail | flap |
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Match the compound words under ‘A’ with their meanings under ‘B’. Use each in sentence.
| A | B | |
| 1 | Heartbreaking | - obeying and respecting the law |
| 2 | Homesick | - think about pleasant things, forgetting about the present |
| 3 | Blockhead |
- something produced by a person, machine or organisation |
| 4 | Law-abiding | - producing great sadness |
| 5 | Overdo | - an occasion when vehicles/machines stop working |
| 6 | Daydream | - an informal word which means a very stupid person |
| 7 | Breakdown | - missing home and family very much |
| 8 | Output | - do something to an excessive degree |
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What is the story about the Kodavu people’s descent?
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What is some of the thing you now know about the people of Coorg?
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What is some of the thing you now know about the main crop of Coorg?
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What is some of the thing you now know about the sports it offers to tourists?
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What is some of the thing you now know about the animals you are likely to see in Coorg?
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What is some of the thing you now know about its distance from Bangalore, and how to get there?
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What is a “dust of snow”? What does the poet say has changed his mood? How has the poet’s mood changed?
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How does Frost present nature in this poem? The following questions may help you to think of an answer.
(i) What are the birds that are usually named in poems? Do you think a crow is often mentioned in poems? What images come to your mind when you think of a crow?
(ii) Again, what is “a hemlock tree”? Why doesn’t the poet write about a more ‘beautiful’ tree such as a maple, or an oak, or a pine?
(iii) What do the ‘crow’ and ‘hemlock’ represent − joy or sorrow? What does the dust of snow that the crow shakes off a hemlock tree stand for?
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Read the poem again, and work in pair or groups to do the following task.
Find the words that describe the movements and actions of the tiger in the case and in the wild. Arrange them in two columns
Now try to share ideas about how the poet uses words and images to contrast the two situations.
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Read the poem again, and work in pair or groups to do the following task.
Find the words that describe the two places, and arrange them in two columns.
Now try to share ideas about how the poet uses words and images to contrast the two situations.
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Notice the use of a word repeated in lines such as these:
(i) On pads of velvet quiet,
In his quiet rage.
(ii) And stares with his brilliant eyes
At the brilliant stars.
What do you think is the effect of this repetition?
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Read the following two poems − one about a tiger and the other about a panther. Then discuss:
Are zoos necessary for the protection or conservation of some species of animals? Are they useful for educating the public? Are there alternatives to zoos?
The Tiger
The tiger behind the bars of his cage growls,
The tiger behind the bars of his cage snarls,
The tiger behind the bars of his cage roars.
Then he thinks.
It would be nice not to be behind bars all
The time
Because they spoil my view
I wish I were wild, not on show.
But if I were wild, hunters might shoot me,
But if I were wild, food might poison me,
But if I were wild, water might drown me.
Then he stops thinking
And...
The tiger behind the bars of his cage growls,
The tiger behind the bars of his cage snarls,
The tiger behind the bars of his cage roars. PETER NIBLETT
The Panther
His vision, from the constantly passing bars,
has grown so weary that it cannot hold
anything else. It seems to him there are
a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world.
As he paces in cramped circles, over and over,
the movement of his powerful soft strides
is like a ritual dance around a centre
in which a mighty will stands paralysed.
Only at times, the curtain of the pupils
lifts, quietly. An image enters in,
rushes down through the tensed, arrested muscles,
plunges into the heart and is gone. RAINER MARIA RILKE
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What does the young man mean by “great honey-coloured/Ramparts at your ear?” Why does he say that young men are “thrown into despair” by them?
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What colour is the young woman’s hair? What does she say she can change it to? Why would she want to do so?
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How old do you think Amanda is? How do you know this?
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Who do you think is speaking to her?
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