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प्रश्न
Multiple Choice Question:
How can we play the game of words?
पर्याय
By dividing the children into several groups
By using our presence of mind and talent
By looking for suitable words/phrases to express our ideas
By learning more and more English words.
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उत्तर
By looking for suitable words/phrases to express our ideas
APPEARS IN
संबंधित प्रश्न
Now fill in the blanks with suitable words from the ones that you have formed.
(i) Mass literacy was possible only after the ___________ of the printing machine.
(ii) Ramesh is unable to tackle the situation as he lacks ____________.
(iii) I could not resist the _____________ to open the letter.
(iv) Hardwork and ___________are the main keys to success.
(v) The children were almost fainting with ______________after being made to stand in the sun.
Thinking about the Poem
The poet finds the snake beautiful. Find the words he uses to convey its beauty.
Bill Bryson “ached to be suave”. Is he successful in his mission? List his ‘unsuave’ ways.
What does he plant who plants a tree? a
He plants a friend of sun and sky;b
He plants the flag of breezes free;
The shaft of beauty, towering high;
He plants a home to heaven anigh;
For song and mother-croon of bird
In hushed and happy twilight heard____
The treble of heaven's harmony_____
These things he plants who plants a tree.
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow:
What does he plant who plants a tree?
He plants, in sap and leaf and wood,
In love of home and loyalty
And far-cast thought of civic good____
His blessing on the neighbourhood,
Who in the hollow of his hand
Holds all the growth of all our land____
A nation's growth from sea to sea
Stirs in his heart who plants a tree.
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow:
What is the reference to in the phrase ‘stirs in his heart’?
The black man's face bespoke revenge
As the fire passed from his sight.
For all he saw in his stick of wood
Was a chance to spite the white.
The last man of this forlorn group
Did nought except for gain.
Giving only to those who gave
Was how he played the game.
Their logs held tight in death's still hands
Was proof of human sin.
They didn't die from the cold without
They died from the cold within.
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow.
What does this say about what prejudice can do to people and the importance of working together?
Describe the stranger who came to the pet shop. What did he want?
Complete the sentence below by appropriately using anyone of the following:
if you want to/if you don’t want to/if you want him to
My neighbour, Ramesh, will take you to the doctor____________________.
How did the dog repay to his masters?
With the help of your partner, try to rewrite some lines in the poem, or add new ones of your own as in the following examples.
Trees are for birds to build nests in. Trees are for people to sit under.
Now try to compose a similar poem about water, or air
Fill in the blank in the sentence below with the words or phrases from the box. (You may not know the meaning of all the words. Look such words up in a dictionary, or ask your teacher.)
Some people find household —————— a bore, but I like to help at home.
Talk to your partner and say whether the following statement is true or false.
Most snakes are harmless.
Multiple Choice Question:
What does the word “marvellous’ mean?
Why do you think she/he has these worries? Can you think of ways to get rid of such worries?
Answer the following question.
Why was Jumman happy over Algu’s nomination as head Panch?
What does the rebel do when everybody talks during the lessons?
Why does the rebel demand for the rain when everybody is praising the sun?
When Lorenzo says, 'Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way/of starved people.' he means that Portia and Nerissa have ______.
The short story 'The Little Match Girl' can be called a fairy tale because ______.
What strategy does Cassius suggest that the conspirators follow?
