SSC (English Medium) ९ वीं कक्षा - Maharashtra State Board Question Bank Solutions for English

Complete the following idioms using the appropriate colour term.

vanish into the ______ (leave without any trace).

Complete the following idioms using the appropriate colour term.

______ blood (royal blood, aristocratic origin).

Complete the following idioms using the appropriate colour term.

______ eyed boy (favourite person).

Complete the following idioms using the appropriate colour term.

catch someone ______ handed (catch someone in the act of doing something wrong).

Complete the following idioms using the appropriate colour term.

roll out the ______ carpet (give a special welcome).

Complete the following idioms using the appropriate colour term.

a ______ herring (something that diverts attention from the main issue).

Complete the following idioms using the appropriate colour term.

see ______ (become angry).

Think and write in your own words.

In which season does a greenwood turn to a yellow wood? Which stage in our life can be compared to that season?

Think and write in your own words.

Why did the traveller choose the road less travelled? What attribute of the traveller does it bring out?

Think and write in your own words.

Why does the traveller doubt that he shall ever come back?

Think and write in your own words.

If you were in the traveller’s place, which road would you choose? Justify your choice.

Write a letter to your friend or cousin telling him/her about a difficult choice you have recently made, for example, pursuing one sport or hobby rather than the other or choosing between your studies and hobbies.

Tell your friend/cousin how his/her example helped you to make a decision.

Collect quotations on the topic ‘choice’. Example :

Present the quotations in a beautiful hand on card paper.

Write your name in Bold Capitals.

1. Now, within 3 minutes trying to make as many words as you can using the letters in your name. You cannot use the same letter twice in a word unless it is so in your name.
2. You may use the above idea to devise a game with your friends.

The story is written in an informal, colloquial style - the way it would be told orally. Find and write the expressions where the author addresses the audience directly in the story - for example, ‘but we, O Best Beloved, will...’, ‘Now attend and listen !’

Write a character-sketch of the ‘Stranger-man’ using examples from the story to support the following attributes.

1. ignorant, innocent, and polite
2. calm and cool
3. jumps to wrong conclusions
4. hasty and unwise at times

Note the punctuation used in the story. Here, single inverted commas or quotation marks have been used to show conversation. Rewrite the following using double quotation marks:

‘Here’s a pretty kettle of fish !’ said Tengumai.

Note the punctuation used in the story. Here, single inverted commas or quotation marks have been used to show conversation. Rewrite the following using double quotation marks:

‘It will take me half the day to mend this.’

Underline the main clause in the following sentence:

And she was Tegumai Bopsulai’s Best Beloved and her own Mummy’s Best Beloved, and she was not spanked half as much as was good for her, and they were all three very happy.

Underline the main clause in the following sentence:

One day Tegumai Bopsulai went down through the beaver-swamp to the Wagai river to spear carp-fish for dinner, and Taffy went too.