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Sports Day at School is Always Great Fun. Along with the Excitement of the Events, There is the Added Desire to Know If Your House Has Won the Sports Championship Cup! - English - Communicative

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Sports Day at school is always great fun. Along with the excitement of the events, there is the added desire to know if your House has won the Sports Championship Cup! 
Teacher/ student can read out the Sports Day commentary and fill in the House positions for each event - 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Then calculate the points to find out which House has won the Sports Championship Cup. 
GOVERNMENT SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL, DANAPUR 
                        ANNUAL ATHLETIC MEET 
                                   SCORECARD 

House  NEHRU  RAMAN  TAGORE  SHIVAJI 
Events  Position  Points  Position  Points  Position  Points  Position  Points 
(Previous tally)                 
March Past                
800m (Boys)                 
1OOm (Girls)                 
High jump (Boys)                 
Javelin (Girls)                 

 

House  NEHRU  RAMAN  TAGORE  SHIVAJI 
Events  Position  Points  Position  Points  Position  Points  Position  Points 
Shot put (Boys)                 
400 relay (Girls)                 
TOTAL                 

 

RESULT  HOUSE 
Champions   
2nd   
3rd   
4th   

 

SCORING (POINTS)       
Event  1st 2nd  3rd 
March Past  10 x x
Track and field  10 5 3
Relay  15 10 5
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पाठ 7.2: It's Sports Day - Exercise [पृष्ठ १४८]

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सीबीएसई English Communicative - Main Course Book Interact in English [English] Class 9
पाठ 7.2 It's Sports Day
Exercise | Q 1 | पृष्ठ १४८

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Now that you have enjoyed reading the story, answer the following question by choosing the correct option
Why did the grandmother touch her granddaughter's feet?


Answer the following question briefly
Could the grandmother succeed in accomplishing her desire to read? How?


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(a) Something that lives for one year                          biennial
(b) Something that lives for about two years              perennial
(c) Something that lives for more than two years        annual


Answer the following question.

What is a 'refrain' in a poem? What effect does it create?


The poet could not understand the words of the song, yet he raised several
possibilities about its theme. In the chart below are some of these possibilities.
Read the third stanza again, and find the phrase that matches each. Complete the
chart, by writing a phrase in each of the empty boxes. Work in pairs.

NCERT Solutions for Class 9 English Literature Chapter 8 The Solitary Reaper 1


In the sixth line of the first stanza, we read:
"... and sings a melancholy strain,..."
This "s" sound at the beginning of sings and strain has been repeated. Poets often do
this. Do you know why? Do you know what this "poetic repetition" is called? Can you
find other instances of this, in The Solitary Reaper?


Answer the following question.

Give an appropriate proverb that conveys the message that this poem carries.


The convict is the product of the society he had lived in, both, in terms of the
suffering that led him to steal a loaf of bread, as well as the painful sentence he
received as a punishment for his "crime". He was imprisoned for stealing money
to buy food for his sick wife. This filled him with despair, hopelessness,
bitterness and anger at the injustice of it all.
Conduct a debate in the class (in groups) on the following topic. Instructions for
conducting a debate and use of appropriate language are given in the unit “Children” of
the Main Course Book.
'Criminals are wicked and deserve punishment'


The verb ‘to have’
Be careful with the verb ‘to have’, which has many different uses and meanings. Study the box below and consider the sentences that follow.

  Health (H) Possession (P) Relationship (R)
Mr Sinha headache Maruti car two daughters

Put a tick (✓) or cross (✗) against each sentence according to whether it is correct or incorrect.

  • Mr Sinha has a severe headache. ___________
  • He is having a blue-coloured Maruti car. ___________
  • Mr Sinha has two daughters and no sons. ___________

Another technique adopted by the writer is to use figures of speech such as a simile. A simile is used to express similarity between two things. e.g. He is as fast as lightning. The rain/ell heavily on the metal roof like a machine-gun. Similes usually start with 'like' or 'as'. 
Find two similes in the last section of the story. 


Edit the following narrative by choosing the appropriate word from the options given at the end of the paragraph.

(a) Wander along the streets of New York City, my daughters and (b) me stop at shoe stores wherever we (c) happens to be. This is their choice. These women, who as little (d) girl, teetered around the house (e) balances like cranes in my mother’s high heels. I (f) sits on the bench and wait while they try on shoe (g) on shoe readjusting their positions in (h) mirror, eyes downcast considering their feet. 

“So?” one of them (i) will ask me. “What do you think of these?” “I love them,” say about (j) all pairs.

(a) (i) wandered (ii) wandering (iii) were wandering (iv) was wandering
(b) (i) they (ii) I (iii) we (iv) us
(c) (i) happen (ii) happened (iii) are happening (iv) are happened
(d) (i) girls (ii) woman (iii) boys (iv) people
(e) (i) are balancing (ii) is balancing (iii) balanced (iv) balance
(f) (i) sit (ii) am sitting (iii) sat (iv) was sitting
(g)  (i) after (ii) before (iii) in (iv) by
(h) (i) that (ii) the (iii) their (iv) x
(i) (i) is asking (ii) asks (iii) are asking (iv) asked
(j) (i) every (ii) few (iii) some (iv) a

As a Conservationist, write a report to the World Wildlife Federation, based on 5. Remember 'CODER' 

From: (your name), Conservationist. 
To: The Chairman 
      WWF 
(Date) 
(Suitable Heading) 
(Suitable introduction) e.g. You recently asked me to submit a report on my study of YAK - in particular, their future. The following are my findings and recommendations. 
1. The current problem. 
2. Reasons why this problem has arisen. 
3. Effects of the problem 
4. Recommendation 
5. Conclusion (Suitable ending, including other ideas for increasing YAK population) 
Your name 
(Conservationist) 

Working in groups of four, write a dialogue between 
• A tiger behind bars and a man 
• A man in a cage and a tiger. 


The table below provides you with a list of modals that are used to express necessity and permission.

Necessity I obligation Permission

Positive

must                            obeying

have to                        authority

need to

ought to                      right thing

should                         to do

Positive

can (less formal)

may (more formal)

 

 

 

Negative

must not

cannot

ought not to

Negative

need not

do not have to

 


Here are a police constable's notes or his investigation or the murder at Manor House. After reading the notes, discuss where the murder could have taken place. What was the motive behind the evil act? How was the act committed? 

Murder at Manor House 
Birlstone : January 6th 
Manor House - state of wild confusion and alarm 
- white faced servants 
- frightened butler 
- man horribly injured- terrible marks 
- we have no clues yet 

On the basis of your reading of the extract, tick the most appropriate answer : 

a. Tom's mind had drifted away because 
• Becky Thatcher had stopped coming to school 
• he no longer took an interest in war. 
• the charm oflife was gone. 
• he had put his hoop and his bat away. 
b. Aunt Polly was concerned because: 
• Tom was hanging around Becky Thatcher's father's house all night 
• Tom no longer took an interest in anything 
• she was infatuated with patent medicines 
• she had a fever 
c. She was filled with gratitude when she tested the new medicine as 
• it was simply fire in a liquid form. 
• her troubles were instantly at rest 
• Tom's indifference was broken. 
• Tom was responding well 
d. 'Mending the health of a crack' means 
• repairing a crack in the sitting-room floor 
• looking after his health 
• pouring the medicine into a crack in the sitting-room floor 
• giving the medicine to the cat 


In pairs, discuss the following aspects of the story, and then have a class discussion.

  1. Tom was not really ill but he pretended to be ill
  2. Usually, he made a lot of fuss to take Aunt Polly’s medicines, but this time he took the medicines quietly.
  3. His aunt was worried because he was not his usual self: instead, he showed an unusual interest in the medicine.
  4. Aunt Polly could read Tom’s thoughts.
  5. Aunt Polly loved Tom Sawyer.

Choose the right word from the options given below and fill in the blanks.

(а) The weekly forecast says that I _________ an old friend this week.
(b) I have to catch the 5.00 am train tomorrow. So, I _________ go to bed late tonight.
(c) The casualties _________ to a nearby hospital.
(d) The majority of the news _________ about violence.

(a) (i) will meet
(ii) meet
(iii) am meeting
(iv) ought to meet
(b) (i) have to
(ii) needn’t
(iii) may
(iv) mustn’t
(c) (i) was taken
(ii) were taken
(iii) taken
(iv) took
(d) (i) are
(ii) is
(iii) has
(iv) have

Read the following sentences. Each sentence has four words underlined. Select one underlined word that is incorrect and write it in the space provided. The first one has been done as an example:

1. The statue of liberty is designed by Fedreric Auguste Barthold.

is

2. Is was completely in france in july 1884. 

                   

3. The statue was shipped to New York with 350 pieces.

 

4. She arrieved there on 17 june 1885.

 

5. The pieces were put together but the opening ceremony took place on 28 Oct 1886.

 

On the basis of your reading of the exctract on Chess , complete the following table with your partner . 

Figure  Name  Order of importance  Function  Significance 
       
       
       
       
       
       

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