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प्रश्न
Use the option to fill in the blank.
The flowers ______kept in a vase.
पर्याय
was
were
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उत्तर
The flowers were kept in a vase.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Whose family has been referred to earlier in the context?
Who is the we referred to in the first line?
What does Wordsworth compare himself to? Why?
Alack, it was I who leaped at the sun
To give it my loving friends to keep!
Naught man could do,have I left undone:
And you see my harvest, what I reap
This very day, now a year is run.
Read the above lines and answer the question that follow.
What does the word ‘harvest ‘ connote here?
Referring closely to the essay On Going on a Journey, give Hazlitt's views about the manner in which a change of place brings about a.change in ideas, opinions, and feelings.
Discuss the following in groups of two pairs, each pair in a group taking opposite points of view.
Traditions, rituals, and funerary practices must be respected.
Other sounds that occur frequently in the poem.
List the pair of opposites found in the poem.
Discuss in groups of four.
“We have not inherited this earth from our forefathers; we have borrowed it from our children”.
Distinguish between the following pairs of sentences.
You will find the historian and the scientist in the archaeology and natural science sections of the museum respectively.
Discuss the following with your partner and complete the following sentence.
Organic food is grown by using __________________.
Discuss the following and write about the following in your own words in 5-6 lines.
Which events in the story (Part I and Part II) changed Mathilde’s life?
Discuss the following elements of a detective or mystery story.
- a mystery
- strange happenings
- a smart detective who investigates the happenings
- a crime/possibility of a crime
- preventing the crime and catching the criminal.
- characteristics of the victim
- characteristics of the criminal
- characteristics of the detective
Use the elements to prepare outlines of detective stories using your imagination. Write a story using any one of the outlines.
Archaic words are those that are no longer used in a language, but sometimes their usage adds a historical or old-times flavour to a piece of writing.
Examples:
- behold – look
- afeared – frightened
- forsooth – indeed
- hither – this place
Now find out some archaic words from your mother tongue or another language that you are proficient in and write down at least ten of them, and against each, their modern equivalent and meaning in English.
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Prepare a set of questions to interview-
a person who has just returned from a trek in the woods
Read the acrostic poem on ‘Friend’. Write an acrostic poem like this on ‘Tree’.
| Friend | Tree |
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Friends always love each other |
T |
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Respect each Other |
R |
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Interact with each other |
E |
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Enjoy playing with each Other |
E |
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Never hurt your friends |
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Do everything together |
Imagine you are going on a journey to the centre of the earth. What do you think you will see? What would you feel?
What kind of relationship existed between Miss Meadows and the Science Mistress?
What was the very first thing that the children noticed when it stopped raining on Venus in Ray Bradbury's story. 'All Summer in a Day'?
In your opinion what things will help to make the world a better place? Discuss with your friends and write down at least three of the things.
