Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
Form pairs. Discuss how ‘Part II’ of the story could have been different. Write your storyline in the form of bullets showing the main events.
Advertisements
Solution
The frantic search for a necklace for a day. Mathilde confessing to Mme. Forestier about losing the necklace and reimbursing the cost. Mme. Forestier asking for five hundred francs. difficult but the Loisels manage to pay. Mathilde learns a valuable lesson and decides not to be so materialistic in the future.
RELATED QUESTIONS
What is universal about the theme – that is, what can we all learn from the poem?
Comment on the feminine elements in Naidu’s poetry.
What made the old man shake his head and sigh?
What does Wordsworth compare the daffodils to? Is the comparison appropriate?
What do ‘trade winds’ and ‘fat worms’ symbolise?
'Appearances can be deceptive'. Give your views on this topic.
Write a composition (350 - 400 words) on the following:
Write an original short story that begins with the words : “The day started off well enough, whoever thought it would ……….”
Ichabod Crane, the central character of the short story 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow', is a person who arouses both our amusement and pity. Discuss.
Write a composition (350 – 400 words) on the following:
All Girls or all-Boys Schools provide a better learning environment than co-educational schools. Express your views either for or against the statement.
Fill in each of the numbered blanks with the correct form of the word given in brackets. Do not copy the passage, but write in the correct serial order the word or phrase appropriate to the blank space.
Example:
(0) One morning, I (0) ……. (see) the python curled up on the dressing table.
Answer: saw.
It was (1) ……. (gaze) at its own reflection in the mirror. I (2) ……… (go) for grandfather, but by the time we (3) ……… (return) to the room, the python (4) …….. (move) on. He was seen in the garden, and once the cook saw him, (5) ……… (crawl) up the ladder to the roof. Then we (6) …….. (find) him on the dressing table again, (7) (admire) himself in the mirror. “He’s trying to look better for Aunt Mabel,” I said. I (8) ……. (regret) this remark immediately because grandmother overheard it and held up my pocket money for the rest of the week!
Re-write the following sentence according to the instruction given. Make other changes that may be necessary, but do not change the meaning of the sentence.
Arun gave Ramesh some excellent advice.
(Begin: Ramesh was……)
Re-write the following sentence according to the instruction given. Make other changes that may be necessary, but do not change the meaning of the sentence.
As soon as Sania sat down to study, the lights went off.
(Begin: No sooner……….)
Have you heard any boatmen’s songs? What kind of emotions do these songs usually express?
Explain the following phrase
Sure as eggs
Use it in a sentence of your own.
Examine the subtle humour in the narration of the story that lightens the gravity of the subject matter.
Take help from the sources available on the internet and make a list of proverbs and quotations about ‘road’.
Discuss with your partner and complete the web of different activities related to climbing.
Write a summary of the poem.
- Title
- Introductory paragraph (about the poem, type, nature, tone)
- Main body (central idea, the gist of the poem)
- Conclusion (opinion, views, appeal).
Your examinations are only two months ahead. Plan your schedule of studies and write in your notebook.
Convert the stories into dialogues and read the dialogues aloud in the class.
The diagram below encircles the various features that make the script of a skit/ play. List the other words and mention the form of writing of which it is a feature.
Do you have pet animals? Write an interesting story about your own or your friends' pet.
Write the reason in your own words.
After the song, Ostad had vanished.
Find more topics from your Environmental Studies or Mathematics textbooks for drawing tree diagrams. Draw and label the diagrams.
| Life on earth began with unicellular I organisms known as protozoa. The following are the stages of evolution of animals. Invertebrates are animals without a backbone, for e.g., a snail. The vertebrates are animals which have a backbone. E.g., Aquatic animals like fish. Animals which: live in water and also on land are called amphibians. E.g. A frog. A few invertebrates are worms and mosquitoes and a few I vertebrates are reptiles. |
Make a poster of any natural disaster, giving details about the devastation caused.
Write a letter of inquiry for the following.
Venkat hails from a remote village of Kancheepuram District, Tamil Nadu who aspires to become an IAS officer. Currently, he is in class X. He notices an advertisement on free classes for the IAS aspirants by a trust in a news paper. He writes a letter to the coordinator of the trust inquiring for further details.
Connect the pairs of sentences below using and or but.
- Sheila got some chocolates for her birthday.
- She got some new clothes too.
Use the option to fill in the blank.
The cows ______ grazing in the field.
Words like morning, evening, watering end in ing. Write six more words to which ing can be added at the end to form a new word.
- ______.
- ______.
- ______
- ______.
- ______
- ______.
Why did the grandmother accompany the author to school?
What does each of the following mean in the story? Choose the right option.
on the beat:
What would you do in this situation, if you were Jimmy Wells? Substantiate your reason.
Explain the following phrase selected from the story in your own word and work with a partner to make sentence using these phrase:
a double-distilled idiot
Write conversation on the following situation.
Between two friends about planting trees
The photograph did not look like ______.
Why had Miss Meadows chosen 'A Lament' as the lesson that particular day?
Briefly explain the cause of Miss Meadows' joy at the end.
Read the given sentence and underline the no word.
Was Gopal nowhere around?
Do you have a role model? What qualities do you appreciate in your role model?
Write a composition (300-350 words) of the following:
Write an original short story in which a woman, her strange neighbour and a police officer form the main characters.
