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प्रश्न
Explain the phrase.
Time's fool
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उत्तर
Shakespeare says that love is not at the mercy of time. True love is ageless. No matter how old a human grows, with it love grows; though the physical beauty falls prey to time's sickle. It is the constancy that holds two people in a relationship together.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Read the following extract carefully and complete the activities given below :
A1 Complete the following :
(i) Books were found on the _____________ and ____________.
(ii) The tales are described as ______________ and __________.
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Have you forgotten? Don't you know?
We'll say it very loud and slow:
THEY ... USED ... TO ... READ! They'd READ and READ,
AND READ and READ, and then proceed
To READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks!
One-half of their lives was reading books!
The nursery shelves held books galore!
Books cluttered up the nursery floor!
And in the bedroom, by the bed,
More books were waiting to be read!
Such wondrous, fine, fantastic tales
Of dragons, gypsies, queens, and whales
And treasure isles, and distant shores
Where smugglers rowed with muffled oars,
And pirates wearing purple pants,
And sailing ships and elephants,
And cannibals crouching 'round the pot,
Stirring away at something hot.
(It smells so good, what can it be?
Good gracious, it's Penelope.)
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Does the poem talk of an exclusively personal experience or is it fairly universal?
Briefly explain the following statement from the text.
“You have passed through a fantastic experience: or more correctly, a catastrophic experience.”
What do you think are the reasons for the references made to the English people and the British monarchy?
Identify the common characteristics shared by tribal communities all over the world.
Comment on the use of the phrase ‘fresh-peeled voice’.
Read the extract 'Being Neighborly' and complete the following statement:
In order to tidy the room, Jo __________________.
There are different types of short stories. Use a dictionary/internet and find out what each of the following types refers to.
- fable:
- anecdote:
- fairy tale:
- parable:
- tragedy:
- humorous story:
- detective story:
- myth:
Discuss the activities carried out by a farmer.
'Uttarayana' starts from Makar Sankranti onwards.
Kite - flying in Gujarat, is a competitive sport - cum - festival.
Say where the image from nature given in the poem exists.
AIR / LAND / WATER
beneath the boughs
Read different stories about intelligent ministers of kings, whose judgments helped to bring about law and order in society. For example - Birbal, Tenalirama, etc. Write 5 such stories in your notebook.
Read the poem and complete the web about the activities the planners do.
Go through the poem and state whether the following statement is true or false.
Planners are concerned about the environment of the area.
How do we realize that animals are not feeling well?
Join the sentence using appropriate Co-ordinators. (but, or, so, and)
He places his fingers into the master controls. He operates all four arms of the Da Vinci.
Form pairs and decide whether the following statements are those of a Great Indian Bustard or not.
| Statements | Great Indian Bustard | Some Other Bird |
| (a) I am the heaviest flying bird in India. | ||
| (b) I am known as Maldhok or Hoom in Marathi. | ||
| (c) I live in mountainous regions. | ||
| (d) I don’t like grasshoppers or beetles. | ||
| (e) We don’t believe in building nests. | ||
| (f) Our chick stays with the mother for a period of nearly one year. | ||
| (g) I am the State bird of Maharashtra. | ||
| (h) We have been pushed away from more than 90 percent of our home regions. |
Ask your parents to show you TV programs on animals, wildlife and conservation on channels like the following:
DD National, National Geographic, Discovery, and Animal Planet.
Write the following in short:
What the young lawyer pleaded.
Read the following chains of words:
- fortune - fortunate - fortunately - unfortunately
- know - knowing - knowingly - unknowingly
- amaze - amazing - amazingly
- possible - impossible - impossibly
Prepare similar word chains using the following ideas.
wind - breeze __________________.
Prepare similar word chains using the following ideas.
size - small _______________.
Read the poem aloud with the proper rhythm. What does the rhythm remind you of?
Form groups of 4. Find all the references to the time given in the passage. Then make a chart to show the events described in the passage along with the time when they occur. Example:
| All night long: | The crew stayed on their feet. |
| Near midnight: | ________________________ |
| At 12.53: | ________________________ |
(Use as many lines as you need.)
Who said the following, to whom, and when?
"Ah no, to thee I sing: he sings to God.”
Form groups. Discuss how one can be a 'good reader'. Use the points in the above passage in your discussion. Write down the points that show what makes a 'good reader'.
Read the poem and answer the following.
Which strawberries are plump and juicy?
Discuss how you will measure the worth of a book.
Which event in the story tells us that the scarecrow was intelligent?
Helen Keller’s life is the story of ______.
Guess the meaning of dreary.
Read the following line from the poem and answer the question given below.
Let us learn to walk with a smile and a song,
No matter if things do sometimes go wrong;
- What does the poet expect everyone to learn?
- What should we do when things go wrong sometimes?
What did Aravind confess?
Which gift did Anne value the most?
Write about Hamid in one or two sentences.
Tom lay thinking. Presently it occurred to him that he wished he was sick; then he could stay home from school. He examined himself. He found no symptoms or sickness, and he investigated again. This time he felt he had a stomach ache, but it soon grew feeble, and presently died wholly away. He reflected further.
What was the result of Tom’s self-examination?
Pick out the rhyming words from the first stanza of the poem.
Amma bought the vegetables from the______.
In the Earth, we get water from ______.
Which line tells you that the girl was faster than the boy?
Were the girl and her brother friendly with each other?
What were Anandhan and Yazhini watching in the television?
Read the passage and colour one flag each time you read.
Our national emblem is taken from Ashoka’s pillar at Sarnath. It is found on all government documents, coins, currency notes, postcards, and envelopes. It consists of four lions standing back to back but, we can see only three lions at a time. There is a Dharma chakra in the centre of the base plate, with the figure of a bull in the right and that of a horse in the left. The entire structure is sitting on a lotus. The words ‘Sathyameva Jayate’ is written under it in Devanagari script. These words mean, ‘Truth alone Triumphs’.
Vicky decided to ______ the robot at the end.
They would rest on the tree.
Choose what the elephant did.
They use ______ as bait.
Why did he grow crops?
Choose the champion of the year.
Who disguised himself as an old man?
Leafcutter ants can carry leaves that weigh ______ times of their body weight.
Leafcutter ants drink______.
Leaf cutter ants drink ______.
Who wins the world at the end?
Why did Nasruddin say, “It was my aim,” the third time?
Where did the rabbit go?
“Something is wrong,” said Helen’s mother. What was wrong with Helen?
How did the boy enjoy the company of the tree?
Choose the right word.
“Eat the leaves of the tamarind tree, and you’ll also sing like ______.
