Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
Read the clues given below and develop your story. Narrate your story to the class.
Robert Bruce - King - lying on the ground in a dejected mood - failed to defeat his enemies - was thinking of giving up the attempt - saw a spider falling down from the ceiling - the ceiling far away - wondered how it would get there - the spider fell back again - again it tried - again it fell - it made nine such attempts - no success - climbed up once more - at last succeeded in reaching the roof - Bruce imitated its example - he too tried once again - was successful.
Advertisements
Solution
Robert Bruce and the spider:
Once King Robert Bruce was lying on the ground in a cave. He was in a very dejected mood. He had failed to defeat his enemies. He tried many times to defeat them but in vain. So he was thinking of giving up his attempt to win over his enemies. At that moment, he saw a spider falling down from the ceiling of the cave. The ceiling was far away.
He wondered how it would get there again. The spider climbed up and fell back again. Again It tried to climb up to the ceiling. But it fell again. It made nine such attempts. The spider did not get any success. He climbed up once again. At last, the spider succeeded in reaching the roof. Bruce imitated the spider and its example. He too tried once again. He was quite successful this time. He overcame his enemies easily.
APPEARS IN
RELATED QUESTIONS
Last year at this time I ______.
Prepare a welcome address on the occasion of Republic day celebration.
Take a few minutes and make hints of the picture. Arrange your thoughts. Using the points you write, deliver a small speech focusing on the issue picturized here. Give an interesting and informative speech. Your speech should include the cause and the solution.
Tips for effective speaking
• Organise your points and ideas well.
• Don’t memorise the speech. If you forget a point, it will make you nervous.
• Avoid the things that are of no value or interest to the audience.
• Before you speak, take a deep breath, smile, greet the audience.
• Don’t be nervous about making a mistake.
• Interesting speech makes your mistakes nothing.
Put students into groups of three and let them act as Jane.
Student A: You are Jane. You live with the Reeds. Tell the other students about your life there.
Student B: You are Jane. You have been at Lowood School for a few months. Tell the other students about your life there.
Student C: You are Jane. You are eighteen. You are going to work at Thornfield Hall as a teacher. Tell the other students about your hopes for your life.
After this, decide who is the unhappiest of the three ‘Janes’.
Change the following into Direct Speech.
The stranger asked Nasrin where she lived.
Betty bought a bit of butter,
But the bit of butter that Betty bought was bitter.
So Betty bought some better butter,
To make the bitter butter better.
Using sign language make these letters with your hand
‘C’, ‘H’, ‘E’, ‘K’
Say the given sentences with different expressions.
- Come and play with me.
- I want to buy things and have fun.
- Come and climb up my trunk and swing from my branches.
- Cut down my trunk.
- I am too old to swing on branches.
- I am too tired to climb.
Now use these ideas and prepare a speech on the topic ‘The importance of developing a positive attitude’ and deliver the speech in the school assembly
Now, write a set of 8 to 10 instruction for the following situation.
A mother to her children, on safety measures to be taken before leaving home on vacation.
