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प्रश्न
How is humour employed to comment on the pains that the author took to get his watch set right.
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उत्तर
It is funny how the author and his dear watch had to go through all the pain that was delivered by seven watch makers. In the end, it was all futile and no good was done to the watch. The seven episodes with the watch makers are humorous as while all the watch makers tried their hand on the watch, toying it all up and operating and exploring and dissembling and then assembling every inch of it, it all gave sheer pain to the author to whom the watch was so dear. Every time with all the hope and strength he took it to a new watch maker; however, not a single of all the tinkers could put it all back to place to make it function all properly. How strange it is that none of the seven watch makers could mend the watch while they all experimented and did all sorts of research and development on it.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
B1. Complete the following statements:
(i) The poet is talking about............................. .
(ii) As a nation weare missing our .................................... .
(iii) Old people havekeys ........................... .
(iv) The elderly remember .......................... .
"Oh the value of the elderly! How could anyone not know? They hold so many keys, so many
things they can show.
We all will read the other side this I firmly believe.
And the elderly are closest oh what clues we could retrieve.
For their characters are closest to how we'll be on high.
They are the ones most developed, you can see it if you try.
They've let go of the frivolous and kept things that are dear.
The memories of so sweet, of loved ones that were near.
As a nation we are missing our greatest true resource,
To get to know our elders and let them guide our course."
B2 Express
State what the underlined words mean:
(i) Oh the value of the elderly! State the value ............. .
(ii) They are the ones most developed. 'They' stand for ............. .
B3: Match the words in Column A with their rhyming word in Column B:
| Column A | Column B |
| (i) Course | (a) Show |
| (ii) Believe | (b) resource |
| - | (c) retrieve |
Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words:
How do you perceive Dr. Kemp based on his interaction with Griffin ? (The Invisible Man)
Read the passage carefully and complete the activities given below :
A1 True or False
A2 Mention the two things that were found when the tall grass was hacked.
A3 The narrator prayed that Rex should not make any sudden movements meets. Explain giving reasons.
Read the following extract and do the given activities:
B.1) Fill in the Balloons with suitable ideas from the poem:
“Oh, the value of the elderly! How could anyone not know?
They hold so many keys, so many things they can show.
We all will read the other side this I firmly believe
And the elderly are closest oh what clues we could retrieve.
For their characters are closest to how we’ll be on high.
They are the ones most developed, you can see it if you try.
They’ve let go of the frivolous and kept things that are dear
The memories of so sweet, of loved ones that were near.
As a nation, we are missing our greatest true resource,
To get to know our elders and let them guide our course.”
B.2) Find Evidence:
Pick out the line from the extract which supports the given ideas:
(i) The elders have many things to share.
(ii) Everybody knows the value of elderly people.
(iii) The elderly people have vast experience.
(iv) The elderly people are a boon to the nation.
B.3) Write a pair from the extract that rhymes with the given word:
| Fear | ........................... | .......................... |
Tick the statement that is true.
The story hinges on a particular historical event.
Astrologers' perceptions are based more on hearsay and conjecture than what they learn from the study of the stars. Comment with reference to the story.
Look at the following set of words and mention what is common to them both in form and meaning.
|
Snuffle |
snort |
sniffle |
snore |
Comment on the subtlety with which the poet captures the general pattern of communication within a family.
Discuss in groups, reasons/ consequences/ effects:
The cherry blossomed.
Answer the given question in your own words.
To whom did the Prince gift the two gemstones of his eyes?
Compare and contrast the two opposing human feelings as expressed by the poet.
Say where . . . . . . .
______ do the cows and sheep stand?
Out of all names of birds and animals given in the poem, pick out 4 names that are similar in English as well as in Hindi/Marathi or your Mother's tongue.
Write four reasons why animals in a zoo suffer more than those who live free in the wild.
Write a sentence each about three of your friends. Each time you should say what your friend cannot do, and yet, pay a compliment to your friend.
Find at least five other Akbar and Birbal stories and share them with your friends. Make a list of the stories collected by the entire class. Put your list in alphabetical order.
From the internet or other sources, find the other names by which Kabaddi is known in different parts of our country and the world.
Look at the following words carefully for one minute. Now close your book and try to write down as many of the words as you can remember.
| crust, tremendous, lava, crater, volcanic, tsunami, island, extinct, disaster, dormant, eruption, plume, inland, molten, active, coast |
Discuss the following question after you have seen a presentation of the ‘ad’.
What would happen if you never ate fruits and vegetables?
Answer the following question in one sentence.
What would he do if he had the power to do it?
Complete the following using your own idea:
His head was too big to ______.
Visit a library:
Read other tales from Shakespeare, for example, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, Macbeth, and The Tempest.
Imagine you are visiting the Science Fair. What other stalls (apart from the ones mentioned here) are you likely to find there? Try to list at least five more stalls.
Complete the following table.
| No. | Utterance | Who said it | To whom | When |
| (a) | I touched it in the hall at the ministry. | ___________ | ___________ | ___________ |
| (b) | It will give us time to look some more. | ___________ | ___________ | ___________ |
| (c) | I might have needed it. | ___________ | ___________ | ___________ |
| (d) | You must have made a mistake. | ___________ | ___________ | ___________ |
| (e) | Well, I lost it. | ___________ | ___________ | ___________ |
| (f) | Mine was an imitation. | ___________ | ___________ | ___________ |
The items in the programme below have got mixed up. Rearrange them in the proper order. Just add the number in the left-hand column.
| Balanand Vidyalaya Art Festival Programme | |
| ( ) | → Koli Dance |
| ( ) | → igniting the Lamp |
| ( ) | → Chief Guest Speaks |
| ( ) | → Appraisal of the Art Festival |
| ( ) | → Dignitaries Arrive |
| ( ) | → Recital of ‘Taal kacheri’ |
| ( ) | → Welcome and Introduction of Guests |
| ( ) | → Prize Distribution |
| ( ) | → The Boy Comes Home - A skit by Std IX |
| ( ) | → Vote of Thanks |
Rewrite in your own words.
One of the Caesar’s traits that makes you laugh.
What is the difference between a 'dream' and a 'daydream'?
Listen carefully and guess how the sentence would end.
This step is broken. Please be ______.
Find out how the following game is played.
Kabaddi
Find out how the following game is played.
Hockey
What part did Anne Sullivan play in Helen’s life?
Guess the meaning of the following word.
fragrant
Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Ibn Battuta, Amerigo Vespucci, Xuanzang, Ferdinand Magellan, Bartolomeu Dias, Herodotus, Captain James Cook, Vasco De Gama.
What is common among these individuals? Browse Internet or refer books and share some information about them.
How should you speak with old people?
Read the lines and answer the questions.
They are of all forms and shapes
They all have an excellent ending
What do have an excellent ending?
It is a problem for sea turtles to come ashore because ______.
Women/Men can achieve anything, provided they put their heart and soul into it. Discuss in the class. Do you think being a man or a woman makes a difference?
The horses were four and a half inches tall.
When did the richest farmer get upset? Why?
How is water produced in Mars?
The boy and the girl were taken by the cavalry to explain their action.
Find the rhyming word from the poem.
alike – _________
Mother nature gives everything for all ______.
Did she give up the fight?
Write the rhyming word.
away
Write the rhyming word.
gale
Meena went to ______ her father.
Amir switched off the fan wheFalsen he walked out.
If we didn’t have boundaries, we don’t need _______.
Name the places that Tenzin’s family lived in.
Try your own.
Write the rhyming word.
save- ______
What will help us grow?
Whose word are these? Name the character.
“Utensils made of brass and tin for sale!”
Mugund learnt the art from his ______.
Why should a fisher wait?
Why did everyone support Megala?
Why is your nose important for you?
Read the following sentence.
‘A very wise man once remarked that of the unspoken word, you are a master; of the spoken word, you are a slave.’
The sentence has two pairs of opposites - spoken and unspoken, and master and slave. The contrasting ideas make the sentence more effective. Putting together opposite or contrasting ideas in one sentence is a literary device. It is called antithesis.
Read the following examples of antithesis.
- Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
- Man proposes and God disposes.
- Speech is silver, but silence is gold.
- Patience is bitter, but it has a sweet fruit.
