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प्रश्न
Define drama.
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उत्तर
Drama is a creative work in verse or prose that aims to tell a story through action, costume, setting as well as dialogue and is typically performed in a theatre.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Answer the following question in 120-150 words :
Nancy Lammeter is a typical country girl. Comment.
Complete the call-outs:
A.1)
Our world is an institution
Of environmental pollution
We choose not to care
For our future generations
And I for one am guilty
For buying the hundreds of electronic gadgets
That attracts the industries to produce like maggots
environmental pollution is at the heart of our planet
The forests are dying
Wildlife is crying
Millions of fish are dying
Mother earth is sighing
Tell me is it right
That we sleep well at night
Replenishing ourselves
For tomorrow’s greedy fight
Overcrowded trains
Overloaded brains
Where is the light? What is our plight?
While the river break their banks
And greedy industries play their polluted pranks.
A.2) Find the examples that show that we do not care for our future generation
A.3) Match:
Match the lines in Column ‘A’ with the figures of speech in Column ‘B’:
| Column ‘A’ | Column ‘B’ | ||
| (i) | Our world is an institution | (a) | Personification |
| (ii) | Mother earth is sighing | (b) | Simile |
| (c) | Metaphor |
Discuss in groups of four.
The accounts of exotic places in legends and the reality.
Read the text below and summarise it.
The Great Desert Where Hippos Once Wallowed
The Sahara sets a standard for dry land. It’s the world’s largest desert. Relative humidity can drop into the low single digits. There are places where it rains only about once a century. There are people who reach the end of their lives without ever seeing water come from the sky.
Yet beneath the Sahara are vast aquifers of fresh water, enough liquid to fill a small sea. It is fossil water, a treasure laid down in prehistoric times, some of it possibly a million years old. Just 6,000 years ago, the Sahara was a much different place.
It was green. Prehistoric rock art in the Sahara shows something surprising: hippopotamuses, which need year-round water.
“We don’t have much evidence of a tropical paradise out there, but we had something perfectly liveable,” says Jennifer Smith, a geologist at Washington University in St Louis.
The green Sahara was the product of the migration of the paleo-monsoon. In the same way that ice ages come and go, so too do monsoons migrate north and south. The dynamics of earth’s motion are responsible. The tilt of the earth’s axis varies in a regular cycle — sometimes the planet is more tilted towards the sun, sometimes less so. The axis also wobbles like a spinning top. The date of the earth’s perihelion — its closest approach to the sun — varies in cycle as well.
At times when the Northern Hemisphere tilts sharply towards the sun and the planet makes its closest approach, the increased blast of sunlight during the north’s summer months can cause the African monsoon (which currently occurs between the Equator and roughly 17°N latitude) to shift to the north as it did 10,000 years ago, inundating North Africa.
Around 5,000 years ago the monsoon shifted dramatically southward again. The prehistoric inhabitants of the Sahara discovered that their relatively green surroundings were undergoing something worse than a drought (and perhaps they migrated towards the Nile Valley, where Egyptian culture began to flourish at around the same time).
“We’re learning, and only in recent years, that some climate changes in the past have been as rapid as anything underway today,” says Robert Giegengack, a University of Pennsylvania geologist.
As the land dried out and vegetation decreased, the soil lost its ability to hold water when it did rain. Fewer clouds formed from evaporation. When it rained, the water washed away and evaporated quickly. There was a kind of runaway drying effect. By 4,000 years ago the Sahara had become what it is today.
No one knows how human-driven climate change may alter the Sahara in the future. It’s something scientists can ponder while sipping bottled fossil water pumped from underground.
“It’s the best water in Egypt,” Giegengack said — clean, refreshing mineral water. If you want to drink something good, try the ancient buried treasure of the Sahara.
Staff Writer, Washington Post
What makes the urgency of the child's demand seem logical?
Discuss the following in pairs or in small groups.
Exceptionally talented people are born so; talent cannot be cultivated
Read the following statement and mark those that apply to you.
I make friends easily.
Rearrange the following events as they occur in the story. Put the correct number in the boxes.
| (a) | Mr Fitzwarren provided shelter to Dick. | |
| (b) | A carter gave Dick a lift to London. | |
| (c) | A cat sailed to the African coast. | |
| (d) | The captain sold the cat for a very high amount of money. | |
| (e) | Dick left his village on foot, to go to London. | |
| (f) | Dick became rich, and later, the Mayor of London. | |
| (g) | Dick was homeless, helpless, cold and hungry. | |
| (h) | Dick bought a cat to get rid of the mice. | |
| (i) | The rats and mice ate up all the dinner, laid for the king and queen. |
Say why the speaker of the poem wishes to be a-
hawker
You have heard the proverb ‘Plan your work, work your plan’. It means - ________________.
Go through the text again to understand the important features of blogs. Discuss various blogs and their features with your friends.
A blog helps us to express our - ___________.
- Feelings
- _________
- _________
- _________
Write a short note on Emperor Akbar.
What do the following words in the poem mean?
- crown
- round
- draw
- blind
Do these words have other meanings? List them.
What does the poet pray for? Why?
Write the following in short:
The story of the three caskets.
What themes did the committee identify?
Relate the themes of the Fair to your science textbook by writing the relevant chapter numbers under each theme.
What is your favourite time of the day? Describe it in detail.
Recite the poem with proper rhythm and intonation.
Read: ‘The Listeners’ and ‘Someone’ - poems by Walter de la Mare.
Write the symbol that is used in the poem to represent the following idea.
Choice of two options.
Write in your own words.
How should that person sing?
Write in your own words.
How does the poet describe his home in the second stanza?
Say whether you agree or disagree.
The children showed disinterest even in the bachelor’s story-telling, throughout.
Say whether you agree or disagree.
The bachelor had narrated an improper story to the children.
Find two examples of the following from the lesson.
A Statement
What does the poet want to know from the goldfish?
What does 'Rangaawali' mean?
What made the reporter gaze at the author?
Read the incident again and answer the following question.
Why were the other passengers in the flight gazing at the writer?
Write a paragraph on ‘The Grumble Family’ and their attitude towards other folks.
Answer the following question based on the reading of the story. Do not forget to go back to the passage whenever necessary to find and confirm the answer.
| Action | Effect |
| While you warm yourself | I will prepare the best tea. |
| I saved enough money | |
| Six hundred and two villages were destroyed. | |
| It was a terrible earthquake and it was felt | |
| I ran back to the village | |
| They lifted the door | |
| I went to thank the Army Officer |
When and where was the first ATM installed?
Write the name of the toys against each picture.
Learning About Nature
Learn about caterpillars and butterflies. Read a book about a caterpillar turning into a butterfly. You can get one from the library or go online and find information with pictures.
Read these lines and answer the questions given below.
With lutes in our hands ever-singing we roam,
All men are our kindred, the world is our home.
- Who does ‘we’ refer to? What do they have in their hands? What is its name?
- How are the men in the world related to the singers?
Neerja leapt into action when she______.
Read the incidents. Work in small groups to role play the situations in which they showed their presence of mind. Each group should perform the skit for the rest of the class. Share similar situations in the class.
The ______ is a biological relative of tortoises.
Amma bought the vegetables from the______.
Gulliver managed to reach the land as he was______.
The blue lights seen through the window were aliens.
Who asked the Robot to charge the phone?
What is the use of mechanical parts?
The rich man ______ at the beggar.
They use ______ as bait.
Appu felt hungry and ate a______.
What party is that?
People ran off when the seawater receded.
Where did Kani see the old cracked cup?
Leafcutter ants grow fungus.
What is the main idea of the text?
How long did the competition take to reach the final?
The grandmother had kept the plate in memory of her ______.
Name the animal and sound it makes.
Bala's home doesn't have ______.
Where did the rabbit go?
Who came to Akbar’s court?
Being a bachelor, the stranger had no patience with children.
