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प्रश्न
Read 'The City Planners' by Margaret Atwood.
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उत्तर
Do it yourself.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
How is the social life at Raveloe different from that at Lantern Yard ?
Why did the narrator of the story want to forget the address?
Both Ramanand and Azam Khan seem to have very fixed views. How does Ramanand score over Azam Khan towards the end of the story?
Discuss in pairs or groups of four.
It is difficult to part with personal items like a watch which have a sentimental value attached to them.
Comment on the symbols used in ‘A Munda Song’. What aspect of the tribal worldview do they reflect?
Why does Ruskin feel that reading the work of a good author is a painstaking task?
The poetic effect is achieved in the poem through understatement and asides. Discuss this with examples.
What were the lessons of life learnt in her younger days that Kumudini carried into her adult life?
'He is free to play the flute all day as well-fed tigers and fat sheep drink from the same pond
with a full stomach for a common bond.'
What do the phrases 'play the flute all day' and 'a common bond' refer to?
Join the sentence using appropriate Co-ordinators. (but, or, so, and)
He places his fingers into the master controls. He operates all four arms of the Da Vinci.
Fill in the gap, choosing a word from the bracket to make an appropriate comparison.
(tall / quiet / humble / merry / busy / slippery / fast / sly / slow / big)
as ______ as a lark
From the internet or other sources, find the other names by which Kabaddi is known in different parts of our country and the world.
Read the passage and answer the following question:
What makes Indra’s vajra or weapon invincible?
Prove with the theme of the play/extract that the deeper human emotion which profoundly interested Shakespeare was jealousy.
Discuss and write 1-2 lines about the following,
Why Bushi told Yonamine not to travel at night.
Visit a library: Find poems about animals. Copy them and recite them to your friends.
Portia’s suitors chose the gold and silver caskets.
Hold a mock trial for the following offence. There should be a complainant, a defendant, and lawyers to argue the case on behalf of them. The whole class can vote to pass the judgment. On what occasions will you plead for justice? What punishment will you suggest? When will you plead for mercy?
A young man was injured in a road accident due to another man’s careless driving.
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.
List the lines that begin with 'Here' or 'And here'.
Also, list the sentences or phrases that begin with ‘And there’.
These phrases and sentences tell us about things that appear one after the other as the carriage moves. Can we tell which ones are closer to the train and which ones are at a distance? How?
From the play, find all the words that are related to the following:
knowledge and learning
Add other related words you know to the list.
Prepare a table to show 'Caesar’s Pranks' at home and outside.
Mention the various places that the brook flows past.
The poet uses words to create pictures or 'images' in the reader’s mind. For example, 'And sparkle out among the fern.'
Write down other lines that create images or pictures in your mind. (Any 3)
Discuss how you will measure the worth of a book.
How was Gulliver taken to the city?
Where was the well situated?
Find a word that has a similar meaning.
unfair
What different names is ‘Rangoli’ known by in different regions?
____________ had provided Prospero formerly with books and provisions.
What made the reporter gaze at the author?
Who used the zither and how?
Find a sentence/word from the text which express the following.
Words related to prize.
How does the ability to question help us?
Teach it in accents______ and______.
- soft
- vain
- fear
- joy
- love
- heard
- toiled
- mild
- good
- sand
- life
- harsh
Tackling the Issues
Ask the class to discuss solutions to an issue that plagues contemporary society at large or just your community—for example, homelessness, violence, environmental degradation, hunger.
Half the class should mention idealistic solutions to the chosen issue; the other half should mention only realistic approaches to solving the problem.
See if, in listening to both sides, someone can come up with a proposal that is both realistic and unconventional—an idea that hasn't been tried yet.
Read the following lines and answer the questions.
It’s part of his hours, his days and his years,
Back of his smiles and behind his tears.
What does ‘tears’ mean?
The captain presented a gift to Vasantha because ______
The author did not want to plant saplings in the forest because______.
Mithali Raj was not encouraged to play cricket by her family members.
Mithali is one of the women players to score seven consecutive 50s.
Write the story in your own words
The poor farmer’s crop was______.
Who was challenged for a race?
How does Patna differ from Delhi?
What was the epidemic that broke out in the story?
Where is Jaswantgarh located?
Every ______ they would go fishing.
Choose and write the adverbs to complete the sentence.
She coloured the picture ____.
Meena’s father was a fisher man.
The squirrel ran to the _________ tree.
What did the grandfather announce?
Ani valued honesty.
Write the word with same meaning.
queue- ______
What incident made Mugund make a wooden drum?
Write the correct word.
| rooster, king, hen, tiger, queen, tigress. |
What did the carpenter buy?
Find words from the passage which are antonyms of the following.
- artificially (para 1)
- strength (para 2)
Enact any one anecdote in the classroom.
Look up the following entries in the Language Study pages given at the end.
- stress
- intonation
- sound
- consonant
- vowel
