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प्रश्न
Explain the following statement with reference to the context.
Because your father can't do without my help.
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उत्तर
This dialogue is said by Hovstad to Petra, shortly after Petra discovers that the only reason Hovstad had offered support to her father was because of his own attraction to her. This discovery infuriates Petra and she voices her disappointment and mistrust of Hovstad. In response to her bitterness, Hovstad remarks that she should be careful not to be rude to him because her father needs his help. The dialogue is clearly meant as a threat as if to say that if Petra offends Hovstad, he would withdraw his support to her father.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
B1. What does the poet want us to do in the following situation?
(a) While struggling ………..
(b) While making money ………
(c) While dreaming ………………
(d) While losing …………..
It's doing your job the best you can,
And being just to your fellow man;
It's making money-but holding friends,
And being true to your aims and ends.
It's figuring how and learning why,
And looking forward and thinking high;
And dreaming a little and doing much,
It's keeping always in closest touch.
With what is finest in word and deed,
It's being through, yet making speed;
It's daring blithely the field of chance,
While making labour a brave romance.
It’s going onward despite defeat
And fighting staunchly, but keeping sweet;
It's struggling on with the will to win,
But taking loss with a cheerful grin.
B2. Achieving Success
Hints given by the poet to become successful are
(a) Doing your job the best
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
B3. Poetic Device
Select the appropriate rhyme scheme for the 3rd stanza.
(1) abab
(2) aabb
(3) aaba
Attempt a character sketch of Mr Gilman as a teacher.
Read the extract and do the following activities :
B1 Likes and dislikes :
(i) The child likes eating _______
(ii) The child dislikes eating _______
They won’t eat peas, don’t like your bread -
For something in it crunches;
They gag on fat, the gravy’s gross,
They won’t eat grapes in bunches.
Tomatoes, onions, peppers, fish
Garlic nor cottage cheese;
Oh, it’s a dish uncommon rare
That truly seems to please.
No red sauce may the ice cream have,
“It’s bleeding,” they will say;
And gravely hand it to their mum
To take it to clean away
But let us speak of chocolate cake,
It must be frosted o’er;
They’ll devour three full slabs,
And calmly ask for more.
Oh, I do so always love to eat
With picky little pests,
Whose parents joy to make them
The most undesirable guests!
B2 What message does the poem convey for children?
B3 Pick out two pairs of rhyming words from the poem.
Notice these expressions in the text. Infer their meaning from the context.
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the thought was almost revolting
-
an expanse of pure white serenity
-
a turning-point
-
accepted her seclusion with resignation
-
a veritable bedlam of chirrupings
-
frivolous rebukes
-
the sagging skins of the dilapidated drum
Tick the item that is closest in meaning to the following phrase.
to meet one's match
Explain the associations that the colour 'white' has in the story.
Identify instances in the story that show the business acumen of Ramanand.
Locate expressions in the text reflect the Indian idiom, for example, the pride of the generations of his ancestors.
How do the patterns of creativity displayed by scientists differ from those displayed by poets?
Comment on the use of the phrase ‘fresh-peeled voice’.
Read the following statement and mark those that apply to you.
I have a small group of close friends and have no wish to interact with anyone else.
Write words from the poem that describe the following.
- sky ____________
- heart ____________
- hand ____________
- beginning ____________
- surprises ____________
State whether the following statement is True or False. Correct the false statement by finding evidence from the poem to support your remark.
The cherry tree did not take long to grow.
Make a list of words related to agriculture.
Discuss in groups and share with one another.
Do you spend time admiring and thinking over the beauties of nature? Elaborate on your response.
Write four reasons why animals in a zoo suffer more than those who live free in the wild.
We all know that blogs can be written on many topics. Your teacher will divide the class into groups and assign a task to every group to make a list of various topics on which blogs are normally written. One is given to you.
- Social Awareness
- _________________
- _________________
- ________________
List five of your favourite Hindi or Marathi poems or songs. Try to translate any one of them into English.
Discuss the question after you have seen a presentation of the ‘ad’.
What does the ad tell you?
How do the following avoid giving anything to the traveller?
Motiram
(Answer in one or two lines.)
Visit a library:
Find and read stories and poems written by Edith Nesbit.
Apart from class/school, where else are you likely to find a time table useful?
Form groups. Discuss the first two paragraphs. Try to present their content in the form of a series of conversations among the volunteers and the villagers.
Find one example of the following given below from the poem: Metaphor
Answer in your own words.
What did the ancestor from 1910 wish to do instead of making his bed?
Write in your own words.
In which professions is a person forced to stay away from his home/ homeland for a long time? Try to guess why the poet is forced to stay away from his home?
An announcement can be made in every class, orally. Or, it can be put up on the school notice-board. Discuss and decide what method should be used for the announcement given here.
Oral aanouncement
Guess the meaning of the following word.
water-logged
Guess the meaning of the following word.
barefoot
Name the following.
Hosts of the 1936 Olympic Games.
Find a picture of a computer with the help of your teacher and label the different parts you see.
For example, monitor, screen, speakers, processor, mouse, mousepad, keyboard, etc.
Find a word that has a similar meaning.
unfair
Guess the meaning of on the wing.
Read the following line from the poem and answer the question that follow.
So let the way wind up the hill or down, O'er rough or smooth, the journey will be joy: Still seeking what I sought when but a boy, New friendship, high adventure, and a crown,
- How is the way of life?
- How should be the journey of life?
- What did the poet seek as a boy?
Two scary events from this section are listed here. Write the events that take place in between in the correct order.
Read the comic strip and answer the following question.
Which website do you often access? Why?
Teachers help me to learn ______ things.
- new
- bad
- difficult
Identify the character/speaker.
Wake up. You've been sleeping for too long.
He exercised with Louise every day.
Read these lines and answer the questions given below.
Where the voice of the wind calls our wandering feet
Whose ‘Wandering feet’ is referred to here?
What are the characteristics of a courageous man?
Mithali’s mother tongue is Telugu.
Read the lines and answer the questions given below.
Autumn is English
in red, yellow and brown
Autumn is Indian
Whenever leaves fell down
- How is autumn in India?
- Compare the English autumn with the Indian autumn.
Find example of alliteration and write them in the blank.
Spring Is pretty
but short and sweet
Name the character or speaker.
"Why don't you do that yourself?"
What was the dish served to the old man?
The hen-pigeon returned home when it started to _______.
The old man put _____ on the mouth of the gourd.
Why did Uthaman become angry with the old man?
Choose the champion of the year.
Circle and write the adverbs.
He laughed merrily ______.
Try your own.
Read the passage three times on your own. Colour a Piggy bank each time you read.
Piggy bank is a coin box used by children. The real use of a piggy bank is to store coins. Piggy banks look like pigs. They come in many shapes and sizes. In Tamil, they are known as Hundial. It is a red, mud pot. We can drop the coins into the pot. Once the pot is full, we must break the pot and use the coins. Start saving with your hundial today!
Did the seeds given to Ani sprout? why?
Read the passage 3 times and colour the trees for each time.
Trees help us in many ways. The colour green is calming and heals your worries. By planting and caring for trees, we help improve our surroundings, as they give fresh air. When air is dirty the people of Delhi suffered a lot. But people of Madhubani district in Bihar have shown how art can be used to make our air clean. So that people made paintings on trees to stop people from cutting the trees.
How many marks did he score in his 12th board exam?
Do you think Nasruddin was good at archery?
The rabbit had
How did he challenge everybody?
Why did grandfather give the children money?
