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Question
- Talk to your friend about all the things related to ‘Seven.’
For example: Seven wonders of the world. - Pair up with your partner and name those given below all of the under:
- The seven wonders of the world .............................................
- The seven continents .............................................
- The seven colours of the rainbow .............................................
- The seven notes of the music .............................................
- The seven seas of the world .............................................
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Solution
- The Great Wall of China (China), Colosseum (Italy), Petra (Jordan), Christ the Redeemer (Brazil), Taj Mahal (India), Machu Picchu (Peru) and Chichen Itza (Mexico).
- North America, South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, Asia, and Europe.
- Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red
- The seven notes of music in English are - A, B, C, D, E, F, and G
The seven notes of Indian music are - Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni - Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico.
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Read the following extract and do the given activities:
A1. Match the following:
| 'A' | 'B' | ||
| i. | Infant | a. | Act like the pard |
| ii. | Schoolboy | b. | Mewling and puking |
| iii. | Lovers | c. | Whining |
| iv. | Solider | d. | Sighing like furnace |
All the world’s a stage
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth
A2. Complete the following table:
| Stages of man | Role | Qualities/Action |
| First | ||
| Second |
A3. All the world’s stage:
a. Alliteration
b. Metaphor
c. Simile
(Choose the correct answer from the given options and explain the chosen figure of
speech)
Life is often compared to many things. Write down 7 things that life can be compared to and justify the comparison. For example,
- Life is a keyboard, because if you press the right keys you have typed a good destiny.
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- ........................................................
- ........................................................
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Read the words in given table. Match them with what they signify.
| Stage | Birth |
| Characters | Situations/Incidents |
| Script | Story of Life |
| Dialogues | Death |
| Entry | Conversation |
| Exit | Roles played by human |
| beings | |
| Life |
Read the poem carefully and complete the following table.
| Ages of man | Role | Qualities/Actions |
| 1 | .......................... |
1. .......................... 2. .......................... |
| 2 | .......................... |
1. .......................... 2. .......................... |
| 3 | .......................... |
1. .......................... 2. .......................... |
| 4 | .......................... |
1. .......................... 2. .......................... |
| 5 | .......................... |
1. .......................... 2. .......................... |
| 6 | .......................... |
1. .......................... 2. .......................... |
| 7 | .......................... |
1. .......................... 2. .......................... |
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2nd stage and the 4th
Think and write on your own.
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Think and write on your own.
The last (7th) stage of life sounds very sad and miserable. How can you make old age also cheerful and happy?
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Read the poem again and write an appreciation of the poem in a paragraph format.
(A1) Identify the stages in man’s life from the given description and complete the table: (2)
| Actions | Stage | |
| i. | Full of strange oaths | _________ |
| ii. | Creeping like a snail | _________ |
| iii. | Sighing like furnace | _________ |
| iv. | Having fair round belly | _________ |
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All the World’s a Stage
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms;
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
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(A2) Write down the similarities between the first and the 7th (last) stage of man’s life: (2)
(A3) Choose the correct alternative to identify the figure of speech used in the following line: (1)
All the world’s a stage...
- Simile
- Metaphor
- Personification
- Alliteration
