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Question
Read the following extract and do the given activities:
B.1) Fill in the Balloons with suitable ideas from the poem:
“Oh, the value of the elderly! How could anyone not know?
They hold so many keys, so many things they can show.
We all will read the other side this I firmly believe
And the elderly are closest oh what clues we could retrieve.
For their characters are closest to how we’ll be on high.
They are the ones most developed, you can see it if you try.
They’ve let go of the frivolous and kept things that are dear
The memories of so sweet, of loved ones that were near.
As a nation, we are missing our greatest true resource,
To get to know our elders and let them guide our course.”
B.2) Find Evidence:
Pick out the line from the extract which supports the given ideas:
(i) The elders have many things to share.
(ii) Everybody knows the value of elderly people.
(iii) The elderly people have vast experience.
(iv) The elderly people are a boon to the nation.
B.3) Write a pair from the extract that rhymes with the given word:
| Fear | ........................... | .......................... |
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Solution
B.1)

B.2)
(i) They hold so many keys, so many things they can show.
(ii) Oh, the value of elderly! How could anyone not know?
(iii) They are the ones most developed.
(iv) As a nation, we are missing our greatest true resource.
B.3)
| Fear | Dear | Near |
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