English
Maharashtra State BoardSSC (English Medium) 9th Standard

Form groups. Discuss the first two paragraphs. Try to present their content in the form of a series of conversations among the volunteers.

Advertisements
Advertisements

Question

Form groups. Discuss the first two paragraphs. Try to present their content in the form of a series of conversations among the volunteers.

Writing Skills
Advertisements

Solution

Conversations between volunteers

First Volunteer: Hey, look here, its like eggshells! I wonder how it is here?
Second Volunteer: Eggshells? Where? Oh, it's there deep in that pit in the sand!
Third Volunteer: I have never seen this before!
First Volunteer: Something unusual. We should ask these villagers.
Second Volunteer: They say that they are turtle eggshells.
Third Volunteer: But we had never come across turtle eggs in our walks along the beaches of Konkan in all these years.
First Volunteer: Let’s have a detailed inquiry about this from villagers.
Second Volunteer That’s right.
Third Volunteer: Let’s go.
shaalaa.com
Reading Skills
  Is there an error in this question or solution?
Chapter 2.2: A True Story of Sea Turtles - English Workshop [Page 35]

APPEARS IN

Balbharati English Kumarbharati [English] Standard 9 Maharashtra State Board
Chapter 2.2 A True Story of Sea Turtles
English Workshop | Q 1.1 | Page 35

RELATED QUESTIONS

In English, the peacock is associated with pride. ‘As proud as a peacock’ is a commonly used simile. With what qualities is the peacock associated with the literature of your language?


Taking off from Forster’s references to Emily Bronte, Sterne and Proust, discuss the treatment of time in some of the novels you have read.


Read the extract and state whether the following statement is true or false. Correct the false statement.

The author did not succeed in finding Kasbai.


The emperor-bee supervises the building of ______.


Draw a diagram to show how life returned to the island. Label the diagram.
(Use the technique of drawing diagrams when you study science, geography, etc.)


Be a poet. Try to complete the following poem with words that rhyme with each other.

I’d love to live a life that’s ______
Relax under a shady t______
And fall into a dreamy s______p,
With no strict hours, forced to k______
And sing aloud a merry ______,
Untrodden paths, as I walk a______g.
You ask me what I’d get to ______?
Fruits and nuts and berries sw______
You ask me with whom I’d get to p______
Birds and animals, happy and g______
And if a woodcutter put a c______p
Firmly, I would put a st______
So that’s the life I’d like l______d
Free from worries, free from gr______d

Guess the meaning of the following word in the poem.

lined


Write what the poet is doing. 
Does the poet like the experience? 
Write the line which tells us about it.


Guess the meaning of the following word.

magnificent


What was the most important thing that Helen finally understood?


Share
Notifications

Englishहिंदीमराठी


      Forgot password?
Use app×