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What did Aunt Jane like about Jack’s ‘little nest’? - English

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What did Aunt Jane like about Jack’s ‘little nest’?

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Aunt Jane liked the furniture, the car, the piano, the refrigerator, and the radio in the house.

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पाठ 6.3: Never Never Nest (Play) - Exercises [पृष्ठ १९५]

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पाठ 6.3 Never Never Nest (Play)
Exercises | Q A. 1. | पृष्ठ १९५

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Fill in the blank with the suitable word. 

She turned _____________ the offer to work at the factory. 


Why does the poet use repletion in the poem?


Explain the use of figurative language in the poem.


What is the activity referred to later in the poem, that sharpens their brains?


The traffic outside your school is very heavy and chaotic. Write a letter to the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic) pointing out the danger of such heavy and chaotic traffic in a school zone. Suggest possible solutions for the problem.


(A) We did not know that Mr. Francis was retiring and leaving for Ooty.
(B) Little……………………………


You walk home from school one afternoon to find the door unlocked and on entering you are shocked to see the house in total disarray. You call out but get no answer. Describe in detail what you saw, the reason behind your house being in total disarray and how you found your family. Mention also how the experience ended and what impact it had on your life.


The Last Leaf explores the theme of Friendship and Self-sacrifice. Discuss this with close reference to O’Henry’s ‘The Last Leaf’.


The following words used in the text as ship terminology are also commonly used in another sense. In what contexts would you use the other meaning?

Knot stern boom hatch anchor

Discuss the following statement in groups of four.

“The landscape is an inner one, a spiritual and conceptual space.”


We add ‘un-’ to make opposites. For example, true — untrue. Add ‘un’– to the word below to make its opposite. Then look up the meaning of the word you have formed in the dictionary.

trained: ____________


Discuss with your partner and complete the web of different activities related to climbing.


Imagine that you are one of the soldiers from 18 Grenadiers on the mission Tiger Hill. Narrate your experience of the war to your friend.


Write down the consequences of the following occurrences with the help of the play.

Mayor Peter Stockmann persuades Mr. Hovstad and Mr. Billing from printing the article.


Think and write in 5-6 lines, why most of the people on a road/street ignore those in need of help. What about you? Write about your feelings after you have helped/ not helped when needed


Answer the following question :

What are the benefits of travel?


Form groups of 5. Find at least two fairy tales/folk tales each and share them with other members of your group. Make a collection of 10 different stories in each group.


Divide the class into groups and conduct a poster-making competition for an Eye /Blood Donation Camp. Fix up the details of the above camp, like time, place, etc.


Create a poster for the following.

You are Sita/ Sudhan. Design a poster in not more than 50 words to focus on not wasting water. Be creative.


Do the singers have hopes and dreams? If not, why?


Here is a word, clock. Write down words relating to clock.


Which of the following would you expect a carpenter to use at work?

bench, poker, plane, chisel, fork, spade, blotting paper, lawn-mower, telescope, pincers, jaw, scissors, hammer, map, nails, lathe, pencil, anvil.


Complete the summary of the play, choosing the appropriate words from the list given below the passage.

A number of patients wait at the (1) ______of a dentist’s clinic. Everybody is tensed at the thought of a painful (2) ______being extracted. One of the women is bent on showing everyone her (3) ______. After the arrival of the dentist, Joe, the first (4) ______is called in. Sometime later, the nurse comes out and goes in with a (5) ______. Everyone is (6) ______at this, imagining Joe being subjected to a lot of hammering in the process of his tooth being pulled out. Once again the nurse comes out to fetch a large pair of (7) ______and later on she takes in a (8) ______. A little boy confesses that he pretended to have (9) ______, because he did not wish to go to school. The loud (10) ______and screeching from within the room makes everyone leave the (11) ______, one by one. Finally there are only two women in the waiting room, one of them being Joe’s wife. She weeps (12) ______about her husband. But Joe comes out and explains that he had shifted his (13) ______to the evening and had been given some pills for the pain. After they leave, the dentist comes out and locates the key of his tool (14) ______. He had been trying to open it using the hammer, the pliers and the hacksaw only in vain. The woman with the photographs is surprised to see that the (15) ______had moved quickly and she was the next patient to go in.

hammer patient
hacksaw cabinet
frightened queue
worried waiting room
pliers tooth
photographs clinic
toothache sawing
appointment  

Write conversation on the following situation.

Between two friends on an exciting cricket match


The given bar graph shows the preferences of children in a school in playing different games over the span of six years. Write an analytical paragraph about the given information in about 109 words:


Write an original short story that begins with the following words:

My mother stopped suddenly at the doorway and stared in amazement at ..........


What might success mean to the following people? Think about it and write.

A businessman


Write a short note on your mother tongue and the attempts you make to study it well.


Use the following charts to prepare meaningful dialogues.

Use your ideas to fill in the blanks.     


How does John Brown convey his firsthand experience of war to his mother and evoke a deep emotional response in the readers? Justify your answer in about 200-250 words with supporting details from the poem, by John Brown.


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