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पाठ 6.3: Never Never Nest (Play) - Warm up [पृष्ठ १९०]

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सामाचीर कलवी English Class 11 TN Board
पाठ 6.3 Never Never Nest (Play)
Warm up | Q C. c. | पृष्ठ १९०

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) must be installed in every classroom. 

Give your views, either for or against this statement.


How has the poet described a tree earlier in the poem?


How does Dahl compare the leisure activities of children in the past and their activities now.


What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?


Explain the phrase, that ‘shocking ghastly junk’.


How can the heart dance?


The free bird thinks of another breeze
And the trade winds soft through
The sighing trees
And the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright
Lawn and he names the sky his own.

Read the above lines and answer the question that follow.

Explain with reference to the context.


Who was talking to the old man?


Join the following sentence to make one complete sentence without using and, but or so. 

Mumbai is densely populated. It is one of the major cities in the country.


Below is a topic for essay writing. Follow the steps listed above to write on these topics.

Success begins in the mind


Discuss in groups of four.

Are we to leave our successors a scorched planet of advancing deserts, impoverished landscapes and an ailing environment?”


Try to write four lines of poetry or four sentences of prose with one of these as the starting point.


Distinguish between the following pairs of sentences.

The librarian spoke respectfully to the learned scholar.


Complete the web highlighting the feelings/emotions of Tenzing after reaching the summit.


The cherry tree is a narrative poem. Features that make it a narrative poem are given below. Justify them with proper examples.

It is a time-bound poem.


Convert the stories into dialogues and read the dialogues aloud in the class.


‘Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.’ Mahatma Gandhi

Collect some more quotes on education by famous thinkers.


Divide the class into groups of 4-6. Each group selects for itself, one of the difficult situations listed below. Each group imagines itself to be in that situation.

(a) marooned on an island

A group of passengers is marooned on an island in the middle of the ocean.

(b) lost in a forest

A group of pilgrims walking through a thick jungle have lost their way.

(c) stranded on the highway

A team of players from an office has got down at the wrong place on a highway at night. It is a lonely spot.

  1. Describe their surroundings in 4-5 sentences.
  2. Write the reactions of the companions using exclamations.
  3. Using your imagination, write what is the only ray of hope for them.
  4. Two members of the group are going out to try to get help. They can take any five things with them. Write what they choose, and why they choose it.

Given in a mixed order below are some good human attributes of the family. Pick out from the box and write it against the line that reflects it.

Thinking ahead of winter, the father decided to create a place safe from the elements.


Write a report of an event held at your school using Passive voice. Use Simple Past Tense to narrate the event.


Fill in the value trees with the best qualities you like to follow in your life from the given list. Write a few lines about your favourite quality in the box.

Best qualities in life
Affectionate Cooperative Gratitude Loving Responsible
Ambitious Courageous Happiness Loyal Self-confident
Brave Dependability Helpfulness Good manners Self-control
Calm Diligence Honest Patriotic Self-esteem
Caring Enthusiastic Humble Peaceful Sensitive
Cheerful Fairness Imaginative Perseverance Sincerity
Committed Faithfulness Intelligent Polite Successful
Compassionate Flexible Joyful Positive Tolerant
Concerned Forgiveness Kind Rational Truthful
Confident Generosity Leader Resourceful Versatile
Contented Giving Logical Respect Witty
My favourite quality is...
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________

Create a pamphlet for the following:

Make an attractive pamphlet for your school’s Fair organised for raising funds for (any) relief (Specify the date, time, types of stalls, and the reasons for the fair).


Write down at least two questions using ‘why’?

  1.  ______
  2. ______

The children in the picture are watching an exciting sporting event, where their school team is winning. Suggest suitable utterances reflecting their feelings:


State whether the following statement are true or false

The cop suddenly slowed his walk, when he heard the barking of dogs.


Given below are hints about a renowned British science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. Write a biographical sketch on the author in not more than 80-100 words based on the information given below.

Name Arthur C. Clarke
Pen names Charles Willis, E.G.O’Brien
Birth 16 Dec 1917, England
Career novelist, television host, inventor, and film screenwriter.
Genre Science-Fiction, Television series, Film screenplay
Awards and Honours 1961, Kalinga Prize - an award given by UNESCO for popularising science Hugo and Nebula Awards Chairman of the Interplanetary Society Highest Civil Honour of Sri Lanka – ‘Sri Lankabhimanya 2005’
Titles Clarke, Robert Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov – ‘Big Three’ of Science Fiction ‘The Prophet of the Space Age’
Famous Works Childhood’s End 2001: A Space Odyssey Rendezvous with Rana

Complete the summary of the play, choosing the appropriate words from the list given below the passage.

A number of patients wait at the (1) ______of a dentist’s clinic. Everybody is tensed at the thought of a painful (2) ______being extracted. One of the women is bent on showing everyone her (3) ______. After the arrival of the dentist, Joe, the first (4) ______is called in. Sometime later, the nurse comes out and goes in with a (5) ______. Everyone is (6) ______at this, imagining Joe being subjected to a lot of hammering in the process of his tooth being pulled out. Once again the nurse comes out to fetch a large pair of (7) ______and later on she takes in a (8) ______. A little boy confesses that he pretended to have (9) ______, because he did not wish to go to school. The loud (10) ______and screeching from within the room makes everyone leave the (11) ______, one by one. Finally there are only two women in the waiting room, one of them being Joe’s wife. She weeps (12) ______about her husband. But Joe comes out and explains that he had shifted his (13) ______to the evening and had been given some pills for the pain. After they leave, the dentist comes out and locates the key of his tool (14) ______. He had been trying to open it using the hammer, the pliers and the hacksaw only in vain. The woman with the photographs is surprised to see that the (15) ______had moved quickly and she was the next patient to go in.

hammer patient
hacksaw cabinet
frightened queue
worried waiting room
pliers tooth
photographs clinic
toothache sawing
appointment  

Imagine you are a tourist guide at Tadoba. Write two sentences each about the following points to help foreign tourists.

  1. About the place: History, languages spoken, special attractions
  2. Food: speciality, local delicacies, options (Indian, continental)
  3. Shopping: authenticity of local artefacts, price, variety

What makes you laugh?


Write a composition (in approximately 400 – 450 words) on the following subject.

Life


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