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प्रश्न
Mention the way in which the sparrows expressed their sorrow when the author’s grandmother died.
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उत्तर
The author’s grandmother shared a unique bond with the sparrows. She seemed at her happiest self while feeding the sparrows.
The day the author’s grandmother died, thousands of sparrows sat scattered around her dead body. They sat there in utter silence mourning the death of the grandmother. They took no notice of the bread crumbs thrown at them and flew away silently after the body was carried for the final rites. The next morning, the bread crumbs were swept away into the dustbin by the sweeper.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
There were many reasons for Helen Keller's embittered childhood. What were they and how were they overcome?
Read the extract and do the following activities:
A1 Complete :
| Night |
Morning |
| (i) | (i) |
| (ii) | (ii) |
There was a roaring in the wind all night;
The rain came heavily and fell in floods;
But now the sun is rising calm and bright,
The birds are singing in the distant woods;
Over his own sweet voice the Stock-dove broods;
The Jay makes answer as the Magpie chatters;
And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters
All things that love the sun are out of doors;
The sky rejoices in the morning’s birth;
The grass is bright with raindrops-on the moors
The hare is running races in her mirth;
And with her feet she from the plashy earth
Raises a mist; that, glittering in the sun,
Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.
A2 What do the different birds do? Discuss.
A3 The sky rejoices in the morning’s birth. (Name and explain the figure of speech)
Answer the following question in 150-200 words:
Why did Anne like her father more than she liked her mother?
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How does the insertion of dialogue in the story contribute to its interest?
Discuss the importance of time in the narration of a story.
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Give your write-up a suitable title.
Make groups and discuss the following:
Name a few scientists/explorers/social reformers/inventors/discoverers, who spent most of their lives to find solutions to some major problems/setbacks, that mankind faced.
Read the story and complete the following.
Revathi’s grief knew no bounds because, ____________.
Read the poem and fill in the table.
| Time of the day | Location | Poet’s Activity | Hawker’s Activities | Gardener’s Activities | Watchman’s Activities |
| Morning | __________ | __________ | __________ | __________ | __________ |
| Afternoon | __________ | __________ | __________ | __________ | __________ |
| Night | __________ | __________ | __________ | __________ | __________ |
The word 'report' means -
(a) Give a spoken or written account of something.
(b) Cover an event or subject as a journalist or reporter.
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
- _________________
- _________________
- ________________
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Prove with the theme of the play/extract that the deeper human emotion which profoundly interested Shakespeare was jealousy.
In each of the following line, spot the sound that is used repeatedly -
- There’s a silver house in the lovely sky.
- As round as a silver crown
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Answer the following question in one sentence.
What does the man who misses all the fun do?
How long a period did Shalihotra allow to find the missing things?
What did Mr. Gizare appreciate the most?
Choose a 'question' through your own observation. Try to follow the scientific method to find the answer to that question. Take the help of your teacher/parents to set up the experiment.
Write a short note on the following:
The message in the vision.
Discuss what makes the following sentences funny.
- Your wasted time will be refunded.
- There was no highway attached to the booth.
Read the following sentence aloud. Write who said it and to whom.
“What! ... how ! ... That’s impossible! ”
Write one line about the following with the help of the poem.
wind in the autumn evening
Form groups. Discuss the first two paragraphs. Try to present their content in the form of a series of conversations among the volunteers.
Find out the following with the help of your teacher and the internet.
Rain in countries like the UK which experience spring-summer-autumn-winter.
Write the following:
The sights mentioned in the third stanza.
A parody is a playful, comic imitation of a writer’s style. A parody is like a verbal cartoon. Compare the original poem and its parody given on page 35 using the following points:
|
How doth the little busy bee |
How doth the little crocodile (parody) |
| Choice of a subject (an animal) | __________________ |
| __________________ | __________________ |
| Number of lines and stanzas | __________________ |
| __________________ | __________________ |
| Same or similar constructions | __________________ |
| __________________ | __________________ |
| Tone of the poem | __________________ |
| __________________ | __________________ |
Complete the following diagram.
‘Unke, Munke, Timpetoo,
I wish, my wish is coming true.’
Try to compose two other funny magical chants that have rhyming lines.
Describe the following with the help of the (The Twelve Months) story.
Summer
Find out how the following game is played.
Lawn Tennis
Find out how rice is cultivated. Describe the process with the help of pictures or diagrams.
Write other meaningful words that begin/end with springtime.
Find a word that has a similar meaning.
Sorry
How did Miranda feel when her father raised the storm to destroy the ship?
The taxi driver took away the narrator’s suitcase.
Find a sentence/word from the text which express the following.
Words related to prize.
Learning About Nature
Learn about caterpillars and butterflies. Read a book about a caterpillar turning into a butterfly. You can get one from the library or go online and find information with pictures.
“I will die, but not run away.” – Justify the saying of Neerja.
The hatchlings use a tiny egg-tooth to come out of the eggs.
Grandfather helped grandma out with the gardening because he______.
How is water produced in Mars?
Read the events of the story. They are in the wrong order. Put them in the correct order.
| 1. And it charged straight at the cavalry officers on horseback. |
| 2. And so she flew onto the back of the cow. |
| 3. So everybody panicked and made a general rush to safety |
| 4. The startled cow charged off in fear |
| 5. She applied brakes, but was thrown off the cycle. |
| 6. Just then she saw a lone cow in the middle of the road. |
| 7. Finally the cow fell into a ditch and dislodged the girl. |
| 8. The girl cried out in delight as she overtook her brother on her cycle. |
We don’t use _________ in the soil.
Find the rhyming word from the poem.
Language - ______.
When did the battle of Nauranang start? How long did it continue?
How was he honoured by the Indian government?
Choose the odd one out.
Choose the correct option from the given homophones.
You should never ______ to your parents.
How will you treat your guest?
______always stays to the last in our needs.
Name the places that Tenzin’s family lived in.
Jana saw a _______ behind her.
The goose is swimming with its ______.
The king gave______ seeds.
Read the passage carefully and answer the following question.
What did the farmer find in the field?
Why did he rub the circle again and again?
Why did Nasruddin say, “It was my aim,” the third time?
Here is an amazing news item on how the qualities of duty and devotion is not restricted to humans alone but shared by animals. Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.
Caesar, the Hero of Mumbai on 26/11
- Mumbai: Caesar, the last surviving hero of his kind, died of a heart attack on Thursday. Caesar, a Labrador Retriever, was covered with tri-color and given an emotional farewell from the city Police Force. The Mumbai Police Commissioner too marked the passing of the hero with a tweet.
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- Caesar was also a part of the search team at Nariman House, where terrorists were holed up for three days. Earlier he was also pressed into service for bomb search operation after the 2006 serial train blasts and July 2017 blast in Mumbai. The Mumbai police officials also tweeted their grief saying, “Services of retired members of Dog Squad during 26/11 will be unforgettable. We will remember our heroes forever.”
Answer the following questions.
- The Labrador Retriever was covered with tri-color. What does this signify?
- How did Caesar save several lives at the CST railway station?
- Which word in the third paragraph of the passage means the same as ‘forced’?
- “Services of retired members of Dog Squad during 26/11 will be unforgettable”. Mention three services rendered by Caesar.
- Caesar is a Labrador breed of dogs. Name a few other native breeds that are used by the Police Force.
- Try to rewrite the news item in your mother tongue without losing the spirit and flavour of the text. Give a suitable title to the translated version.
