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प्रश्न
Find in the poem lines that match the following. Read both one after the other.
The rebel refuses to cut his hair.
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उत्तर
The rebel refuses to cut his hair. - The rebel lets his hair grow long.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Thinking about the Text
Discuss in pair and answer question below in a short paragraph (30 − 40 words).
Why did the narrator (Jerome) volunteer to do the packing?
Thinking about the poem
Where does the traveller find himself? What problem does he face?
Why do the courtiers call the prince ‘the Happy Prince’? Is he really happy? What does he see all around him?
There are many ways of expressing differences and similarities. Read the passage below, and study the expressions printed in italics.
Day School and Boarding School
Both day school and boarding school are institutions where children go to study.
While the former does not provide any residential accommodation, the latter expects children to live on campus. A boarding school has an advantage over a day school as their classes are normally smaller. However, the two schools are similar in aiming for high standards of education for all students.
The most important thing we've learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set-----
Or better still, just don't install
The Idiotic thing at all.
In almost every house we've been,
we've watched them gaping at the screen
They loll and slop and lounge about,
And stare until their eyes pop out.
(Last week in someone's place we saw
A dozen eyeballs on the floor.
They sit and stare and stare and sit
Until they're hypnotised by it,
Until they're absolutely drunk
With all that shocking ghastly junk.
Read the lines given above and answer the question given below.
How does television keep the children still?
Answer the following question.
What is “the master call”? Why is it the most important signal for an elephant to learn?
Give some examples of fuel.
Why did the customer hate Mr. Purcell?
Why did Abbu Khan name his young goat as Chandni?
Why did the farmer bring a baby mongoose into the house?
What is the moral/message of the story?
Who really helped Vijay Singh in defeating the ghost? How?
What does the poet call ‘buttercup’ as? Why?
Multiple Choice Question:
A family is made of the people who ________
With your partner try to guess the meaning of the underlined phrase.
And somehow we fell out.
Answer the following question:
Why do you think Rasheed’s uncle asked him not to buy anything in his absence?
Find out the meaning of the following words by looking them up in the dictionary. Then use them in sentences of your own.
comical
Why were the hinges of the door rusty?
Play detectives with each other. Find a person in your class (or some other acquaintance) to speak to. Find out the answers to the questions given below. Be careful to ask your questions in a polite and inoffensive way. Do not force the person to answer you. Then allow the person to ask you the same questions.
- Name?
- What newspapers or magazines does the person read?
- How long has the person lived at the current address?
- What does she/he do during the day, i.e. the daily routine?
- What do neighbours and friends say about the person?
- Who are his/her visitors and what are his/her eating habits? (You can ask a few others about this.)
- What do you think about the person?
Complete the following sentence by providing a reason:
In the short story, The Sound Machine, Dr. Scott thought Klausner was ill when Klausner rang up the doctor because ______.
