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प्रश्न
The narrative has many phrases to describe the scenic beauty of the mountainside like:
A flawless half-moon flated in a perfect blue sky.
Scan the text to locate other such picturesque phrases.
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उत्तर
Here are a few extracts from the text that describe the scenic beauty of the Tibet region:
"Extended banks of cloud like long French loaves glowed pink as the sun emerged to splash the distant mountain tops with a rose-tinted blush."
"We entered a valley where the river was wide and mostly clogged with ice, brilliant white and glinting in the sunshine. The trail hugged its bank, twisting with the meanders as we gradually gained height and the valley sides closed in."
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Answer any two of the following questions in about 30‒40 words:
(a) How does Kamala Das try to put away the thoughts of her ageing mother?
(b) Which is the exotic moment that the poet refers to in 'Keeping Quiet'?
(c) What are the difficulties that aunt Jennifer faced in her life?
Attempt the following in 150-200 words.
Bring out the importance of the diary in Anne's life.
Answer any four of the following in 30-40 words each:
(a) Why was the peddler amused at the idea of the world being a rattrap?
(b) Why did Gandhiji agree to a settlement of mere 25 percent?
(c) Aunt Jennifer's efforts to get rid of her fear proved to be futile. Comment.
(d) What does Stephen Spender want to be done for the children of the school in a slum?
(e) How did the ten-day-old baby (the future Tiger King) react to the prediction about his future made by the astrologers?
(f) Why was Dr. Sadao not sent abroad along with the troops?
Mention the odd way in which the author’s grandmother behaved just before she died.
Look for a story, a poem and a newspaper article on environment conservation and see how the style of each is different from the other.
Look at the words given in the box below
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snigger |
wriggle |
sneak |
squeak |
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squawk |
titter |
pant |
chuckle |
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giggle |
jeer |
chortle |
guffaw |
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sigh |
sidle |
boo |
shriek |
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scramble |
croak |
straggle |
plod |
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gasp |
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Now classify them according to their closeness in meaning to the words given below
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A |
B |
C |
D |
E |
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snigger |
wriggle |
squeak |
jeer |
sigh |
How is humour employed to comment on the pains that the author took to get his watch set right.
How does Shelley's attitude to science differ from that of Wordsworth and Keats?
Why do you think that the poet has chosen the title ‘Telephone Conversation’? If you were to suggest another title for the poem, what would it be?
Study each of the following sentences and notice the balance between its parts. Pick out other sentences in the text that reflect this kind of balance
a. It is right that a false Latin quantity should excite a smile in the House of Commons; but it is wrong that a false English meaning should not excite a frown there.
b. Let the accent of words be watched, by all means, but let the meaning be watched more closely still, and fewer will do the work.
Read the extract 'Being Neighborly' and complete the following statement:
In order to tidy the room, Jo __________________.
Fill in the blank.
“Hybrids need more _____________”, said Devu Handa.
Go through the text again and find the reasons that forced Peter to shoot down a person.
- The keepers spotted him.
- _________________________
- _________________________
Write down any two Slogans on 'Gender Equality'.
Which two sayings about God are conveyed through the poem 'The Plate of Gold'?
- God helps those, who help themselves.
- God loves those, who love their fellow beings.
- God loves those, who give away their wealth, to please Him.
- Service to mankind is service to God.
Prepare an Acrostic from the word ‘Leisure’. The words should be related to what one likes to do in free time.
L______
E______
I______
S______
U______
Reading stories
E______
Complete the web with the help of adjectives used to describe eyes and nose in all respects. Two are done for you.
Say where the image from nature given in the poem exists.
AIR / LAND / WATER
beneath the boughs
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
What are the clothes compared to? Give two examples.
What did one of the fluttering creatures do?
Visit a library:
Read more stories from Japan, China, and Korea.
Find four words ending with ‘-ous’ from the story.
Can you add three more words ending with ‘-ous’ to this list?
What two basic rules were followed in the Science Fair?
Read the following.
- I mean what I say. I say what I mean.
- I see what I eat. I eat what I see.
Use your imagination to write a funny sentence on this pattern.
Read the passage and answer the following:
Which book is introduced in the passage?
Present these points in the form of a review, and give it a suitable title.
Read: ‘The Listeners’ and ‘Someone’ - poems by Walter de la Mare.
Find the meaning of the following words or phrases :
- ridges
- brimming
- eddying
- babble
- fallow
- trout
- netted
Rohan and Muk entered the garden at midnight ______.
Name the following.
Third-time winners of the Olympic gold medal for hockey.
Imagine you are one of the three brothers. Write in short what you did with the rice.
Have you ever been on an adventurous journey? If yes, share your experience.
What conclusions did grandfather jump to when he saw the cops?
Were the policemen willing to leave the house?
Is the bird a crow?
Write the name of the toys against each picture.
Who told the children the story about the ghosts on Haunted Hill?
Read the comic strip and answer the following question.
Can we read and access the information free of cost?
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.
Everyone in the ship started to pray because ______.
Find out the idiom that relates to ‘whatever the circumstances’, from the first paragraph.
The land was wet and green.
Name some of the activities that the village children were doing on their vacation.
Vicky's father bought a______ robot
Who sews the cloth?
Write the rhyming word.
Tree - ______.
Circle and write the adverbs.
He laughed merrily ______.
Leafcutter ants grow fungus.
Speak and win.
Join in one of the two groups. Choose two characters. Support or oppose any one of the characters. Say some sentences for the one you support and say some sentences against the other one, to win.
| I support | I oppose |
Match the rhyming words.
| 1. | say | fall |
| 2. | go | day |
| 3. | all | grow |
In memory of his mother, he carved ______ statue.
What did his mother say in his dream?
Write the word with same meaning.
Sink
Before going to bed that night, Chris gave his new teacher a ______.
What was the truth finally learned by Chris?
What did the boy wonder about?
Look up the following entries in the Language Study pages given at the end.
- stress
- intonation
- sound
- consonant
- vowel
