Balbharati solutions for माय इंग्रजी बूक एकात्मिक इयत्ता ८ महाराष्ट्र राज्य मंडळ chapter 3.4 - The Two Gentlemen of Verona [Latest edition]

What is your favourite pastime?

Do you read books for entertainment? 

What is your favourite story / poem / book? 

What role do books play in the lives of great people?

How can we decide if a story is average / good / excellent?

Make suitable groups in the class. Decide upon a favourite book or story in the following details, as many as possible.

• Name of the story/Book: 
• Writer: 
• Some information about the writer:
• Background or setting
• Main characters:
• Central idea/summary of contents:
• Style and language used:
• Illustrations (if any):
• Strong (positive) aspects:
• Drawbacks:
• Conclusion: 

What is the story about?

How does the narrator meet the two brothers? 

What kind of odd jobs do the two brothers do? 

How does the narrator help the two brothers, one day?

What secret about the brothers, does the nurse tell the narrator? 

Explain the proverb: Where there is a will, there's a way. 

Complete the following:

Cronin's story focuses of ______.

Complete the following.

The narrator ______ to encourage the two brothers. 

Complete the following.

The narrator develops a liking for the two brothers because they are ______.

Complete the following. 

The boys wish to visit the village Poleta to ______.

Complete the following.

So, one can conclude from the story that '______', which means '______'. 

Solve the puzzle of words from the text. The clues are given below. 

1. disallow
2. make known
3. unexpected meeting
4. giving pleasure to the mind, feelings or senses; enjoyable
5. sincere
6. look like 

Answer in your own words and write in your notebook.

What illness did the sister suffer from?

Answer in your own words and write in your notebook.

What surprised the narrator, when he saw the brothers, the second time?

Answer in your own words and write in your notebook.

What did the narrator find about the boys at the hospital? 

Answer in your own words and write in your notebook.

What was the touching story told by the nurse?

If the narrator offered the boys a large amount of cash, would they have accepted it? Say why? Or why not?

Read the text and find the Noun form of the following word used in the text:

important - 

Read the text and find the Noun form of the following word used in the text:

dedicate - 

Read the text and find the Noun form of the following word used in the text:

treat - 

Read the text and find the Noun form of the following word used in the text:

narrate - 

Read the text and find the Noun form of the following word used in the text:

eager -

Read the text and find the Noun form of the following word used in the text: 

appear - 

Read the text and find the Noun form of the following word used in the text: 

amplify -

Read the text and find the Noun form of the following word used in the text: 

realize - 

Identify the main/Principal clause and subordinate clause and write the subordinator.

They pay for their sisters treatment, who suffers from tuberculosis.

Identify the main/Principal clause and subordinate clause and write the subordinator.

When he asks the nurse, she tells him their story.

Identify the main/Principal clause and subordinate clause and write the subordinator.

They have shown that war has not shaken their spirit. 

Identify the main/Principal clause and subordinate clause and write the subordinator.

Although it doesn't come in the narrator's way, he takes them there.