Balbharati solutions for इंग्लिश कोर्सबुक कक्षा १० महाराष्ट्र राज्य बोर्ड chapter 3.1 - If ... [Latest edition]

Form groups and chat.

How do you react when your parents scold you?

Form groups and chat.

How do you feel when someone insults you?

Form groups and chat.

How would you react when you are cheated by your friends?

Form groups and chat.

Why is it wrong to make a difference among friends who belong to a different class, colour or community?

Complete the table by providing suitable responses to the given actions.

Complete the sentences meaningfully and share them with the class.

1. If you do exercise daily, ______.
2. If ______, you will pass the exam.
3. If ______, ______.
4. ______, if _______.

Classify the following into weaknesses and strengths.

fear, confidence, clarity, confusion, worry, courage, cowardice, compassion, bravery, hesitation, punctuality, laziness, anger, faith, patience, ambition, generosity, impatience, cheerfulness, tolerance, arrogance, aggressiveness

Read the following bit of advice and state whether you agree or disagree with it.

Get angry when others commit mistakes.

Read the following bit of advice and state whether you agree or disagree with it.

Keep friendship with all classes of people.

Read the following bit of advice and state whether you agree or disagree with it.

Run away from troubles

Read the following bit of advice and state whether you agree or disagree with it.

Hate the rich people and help the poor.

Read the following bit of advice and state whether you agree or disagree with it.

Get angry when others blame on us.

Read the following bit of advice and state whether you agree or disagree with it.

Reconstruct something we have built with care even if it has been broken by others.

Pick out and enlist the positive and negative qualities from the poem in the respective columns.

Why do the lines in the poem begin with, “If you can .....?” What effect does this have?

Look at the use of opposite reactions in the poem.
For example, “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs”

Find four other such opposite reactions from the poem. Note them down in your notebook.

Say WHAT.....

are the two imposters?

Say WHAT.....

can the unforgiving minute be made up of?

Say WHO.....

should you trust, when doubted?

Say WHO.....

can you talk with and walk with?

Say WHEN.....

can the Earth become yours?

Say WHEN.....

should you start rebuilding with old tools?

Say WHY......

do knaves twist the truth?

Say WHY......

should you consider all men equally important?

What should be our attitude towards people of different strata and classes?

What according to Rudyard Kipling is the highest quality that makes a man a true human being?

Identify the Figures of speech used from those given in the bracket.

(Simile/Repetition/Antithesis/Personification/Metaphor/Alliteration/Apostrophe)

“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs”

Identify the Figures of speech used from those given in the bracket.

(Simile/Repetition/Antithesis/Personification/Metaphor/Alliteration/Apostrophe)

“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two imposters just the same”

Identify the Figures of speech used from those given in the bracket.

(Simile/Repetition/Antithesis/Personification/Metaphor/Alliteration/Apostrophe)

“And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise”

Identify the Figures of speech used from those given in the bracket.

(Simile/Repetition/Antithesis/Personification/Metaphor/Alliteration/Apostrophe)

With worn-out tools

Write a letter to your parents, thanking them for advising you, when you were in a confused state of mind. Cover up the following points in the body of the letter.

• Your problem and confusion.
• The advice of your parents.
• How you followed their advice.
• How the problem got solved.
• Your deep gratitude to them.

Draft a speech to be given during the farewell for Standard X, on the topic ‘Changes, I would like in School Education of our State’.

Steps:

• Greeting and salutation
• Self-introduction and introduction of the topic
• A catchy thought/episode/news etc. to start with
• 2 to 3 changes that you suggest with their reason
• Conclusion
• Thank you/greeting

Rudyard Kipling’s work is known to all of us. Write at least five poems of Kipling in your notebook and submit it to your teacher. You can take help of your school library or search for these poems on the internet.

Rudyard Kipling’s book, entitled ‘The Jungle Book’ is world wide famous. It’s theme and setting of the story attracts the readers from the beginning. Write a book review of Kipling’s book ‘The Jungle Book’ in 100 to 150 words.

If I like it, ______.

If it rains, ______.

Complete the following sentence.

If, ______ you would catch the train.

If she had obeyed her parents, ______.

Pick out lines that contain the following Figure of Speech.

Antithesis (Opposite ideas)

Pick out line that contain the following Figures of Speech.

Personification

Pick out line that contain the following Figure of Speech.

Repetition

Pick out line that contain the following Figure of Speech.

Metaphor