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प्रश्न
Identify some of the improbable images the author has used to effect greater humour.
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उत्तर
There are instances when the author goes on exaggerating the actual situation to add humour to the story. For example, when the watch is repaired for the second time, it slowed down. The description is a hyperbole of the actual happening. No matter how slow a watch is, it will show the time according to 12 hours, it cannot literally travel in the past. However, the way the author describes its watch enjoying snowfall before the season arrives is humorous. Also, the citation of the mummy is funny, plus it describes the mental state of the poor author.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Write a character sketch of Mr. Barrymore in about 125 words
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Far far from gusty waves these children's faces.
Like rootless weeds, the hair torn round their pallor;
The tall girl with her weighed-down head.
(a) Who are these children?
(b) Which figure of speech has been used in the first two lines?
(c) Why is the tall girl's head weighed down?
(d) What does the word, 'pallor' mean?
The author’s grandmother was a religious person. What are the different ways in which we come to know this?
Describe the changing relationship between the author and his grandmother. Did their feelings for each other change?
Comment on the way in which the theme of the story has been introduced.
Although Paul's mother liked to be rich she did not approve of betting on horses.
The power of poetry lies in suggestion and understatement. Discuss this with reference to the poem.
Identify the words that help you understand the nature of the poet's father.
How does the poet bring out the immortality of the bird?
How do stories/biographies of such famous people help youngsters?
Find from the story one word for the following.
the highest-ranking officer in the Municipality of a city/town ______
Add the appropriate Prefix to make the following word opposite in meaning.
continue
Think and answer in your own words.
How do parents react when they see children soil their clothes in dust and heat?
Make a list of the preparations made for an assault on Tiger Hill.
Throughout the last week of June 1999, 18 Grenadiers ____________.
Find from the library or internet other poems composed on tiny living creatures. Try to understand the message in each of them.
Say where . . . . . . .
______ does Beauty’s smile begin?
Discuss in your class.
Do you like to study science?
Say WHY. . . . . .
Ramanujan found the number 1729 very interesting.
What characteristics are needed to be a good player of Kabaddi? What should you do to develop each? Discuss this in groups of 5 and write a composition on it.
What do fairy-tale witches do?
Form groups and discuss the following question:
Why are the clothes compared to living things?
Choose any one of the objects we use daily and find out how it is made. Present the information in the form of a chart.
Discuss and write 1-2 lines about the following,
The lesson that Bushi learned.
Where does the story take place?
Complete the following sentence with reference to the passage:
To this day, we venerate this tree as ____________.
Write a character sketch of each of the animals. Write about their actions and thoughts and the qualities that emerge through them. You may present the sketch in the form of a graphic.
Find three lines, that contain images of nature in the autumn season.
During daytime
- _______________________
- _______________________
- _______________________
Answer the following question and write in short, why the parody sounds funny.
Why does the bee work hour after hour?
Form a group of four to six. As a group activity, write a conversation in which a person/a group of person thanks to someone.
Write a short note on ‘money’.
What is the world wide web?
What different names is ‘Rangoli’ known by in different regions?
Your parents sometimes behave like the young bird’s parents. They may seem cruel and unrelenting. Does it mean that they do not care for you? Explain your views about it with reference from the story
____________ raised a dreadful storm.
Who were the narrator neighbours?
How did the Bodwells react, when a shoe was thrown into their house?
What kind of joy is unfurled during the festival of sacrifice?
What do you think is going to happen next?
What did Mr. Fogg mean by, ‘it was foreseen’?
Read the story and fill in the grid by ticking each character’s qualities.
Discuss in pairs to rate the characteristic and give marks from 1 to 10 depending on the grade of each quality.
Justify your views in one or two sentences.
| Characteristics | Jane Eyre | Mrs. Reed | Bessie | Helen Burns | Miss. Temple |
| arrogant | |||||
| bitter | |||||
| caring | |||||
| courageous | |||||
| cruel | |||||
| emotional | |||||
| friendly | |||||
| kind | |||||
| sensitive | |||||
| rich | |||||
| poor | |||||
| patient | |||||
| self-disciplined | |||||
| unjust |
Geetha madam couldn’t stop the children running out of the train because they ______.
Work in pair, find answer for the question and share in the class.
When is it autumn in India? Why does the poet say this? Is there an autumn season in India?
_____ is called the red planet.
Imagine you are the girl and give a different ending to the story.
How do we see the earthworm often?
Put the given time expressions in the correct columns.
| winter | morning | 2’ o clock | evening | 1947 |
| March | Sunday | 15th August | 4.30 PM | wedding day |
| in | at | on |
Which place was the last stand of the Indian army?
Vicky’s father decided to change his son’s character.
Write the rhyming word.
Tree - ______.
What was the age of Robinson Crusoe when he left for sea?
What was the lesson learnt by Uthaman?
Fill in the blank
Do you like apple______ orange?
Leafcutter ants can carry leaves that weigh ______ times of their body weight.
What do you save? Why it is needed?
Divya loved solving _______.
Whose word are these? Name the character.
“Utensils made of brass and tin for sale!”
We ______ yarn to make sarees.
Read the passage carefully and complete the activities:
A1. Complete the following sentences. [2]
- Female sparrows lay ______.
- Sparrows build their nest out of ______.
- The eggs are ______.
- In cities, sparrows build their nest in ______.
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A sparrow is a small bird which is found throughout the world. There are many different species of sparrows. Sparrows are only about four to six inches in length. Many people appreciate their beautiful songs. Sparrows prefer to build their nests in low places-usually on the ground clumps of grass low trees and low bushes. In cities, they build their nests in building nooks or holes. They rarely build their nests in high places. They build their nests out of twigs grasses and plant fibers. Their nests are usually small and well-built structures. Female sparrows lay four to six eggs at a time. The eggs are white with reddish-brown spots. They hatch within eleven to fourteen days. Both the male and female parents care for the young. Insects are fed to the young after hatching. The large feet of the sparrows are used for scratching seeds. Adult sparrows mainly eat seeds. Sparrows can be found almost everywhere where there are humans. Many people throughout the world enjoy these delightful birds. The sparrows are some of the few birds that engage in dust bathing. Sparrows will first scratch a hole in the ground with their feet then lie in it and fling dirt or sand over their bodies with flicks of their wings. They will also bathe in water or in dry or melting snow. Water bathing is similar to dust bathing with the sparrow standing in shallow water and flicking water over its back with its wings also ducking its head under the water. Both activities are social with up to a hundred birds participating at once and are followed by preening and sometimes group singing. |
A2. How do sparrows take a bath? [2]
A3. Find out adjectives for the following nouns from the passage. [2]
- ______ Song
- ______ Water
- ______ Bird
- ______ species
A4. Do as directed. [2]
- A sparrow is a small bird which is found throughout the world.
(Underline the subordinate clause) - Female sparrows lay four to six eggs at a time.
(Frame a ‘wh’ type question to get the underlined part as an answer.)
A5. ‘We have to save the birds.’ Do you agree with this statement? Why? [2]
Being a bachelor, the stranger had no patience with children.
