Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
When does the kite seem to take rest?
Advertisements
Solution
The kite seems to take rest as the wind falls.
APPEARS IN
RELATED QUESTIONS
Discuss these question in class with your teacher and then write down your answer
in two or three paragraphs .
Kezia’s efforts to please her father resulted in displeasing him very much. How did this
happen?
Do you like rain? What do you do when it rains steadily or heavily as described in the poem?
Answer the following question in one or two sentences.
Who were Abdul Kalam’s school friends? What did they later become?
“If you are rested I would go,” I urged. “Get up and try to walk now.”
“Thank you,” he said and got to his feet, swayed from side to side and then sat down backwards in the dust.
“I was taking care of animals,” he said dully, but no longer to me. “I was only taking care of animals.”
There was nothing to do about him. It was Easter Sunday and the Fascists were advancing toward the Ebro. It was a grey overcast day with a low ceiling so their planes were not up. That and the fact that cats know how to look after themselves was all the good luck that the old man would ever have.
Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.
Explain the line, ‘There was nothing to do about him.’
When there was a strong wind, the pine trees made sad, eerie sounds that kept most people to the main road. But Mr. Oliver was not a nervous or imaginative man. He carried a torch – and on the night I write of, its pale gleam, the batteries were running down – moved fitfully over the narrow forest path. When its flickering light fell on the figure of a boy, who was sitting alone on a rock, Mr. Oliver stopped.
Boys were not supposed to be out of school after seven P.M. and it was now well past nine. What are you doing out here, boy, asked Mr. Oliver sharply, moving closer so that he could recognize the miscreant.
Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.
Why did the people keep to the main road instead of taking the shortcut?
Answer the following question.
Who advised Golu to go to the Limpopo river?
Mridu had noticed in front of Meena’s house a pair of chappals. Whom did they belong to?
What all facts Maya collected about Mr Nath?
Who looks after the grubs and how?
Why were the sunrays keen to go down to the earth the next day?
Was it really a ghost who Vijay Singh befooled? Who do you think it was?
Discuss these questions in small groups before you answer them.
When do you think an adult would say this?
No one thinks you are funny.
Complete the following sentence
The chatter is electrical because ______
Make noun from the word given below by adding –ness, ity, ty or y
Sad ___________.
Read these lines from the poem:
Then soars like a ship
With only a sail
The movement of the tailless kite is compared to a ship with a sail. This is called a simile. Can you suggest what or who the following actions may be compared to?
He runs like _______________
He eats like ________________
She sings like _____________
It shines like _______________
It flies like _________________
Multiple Choice Question:
What does the word ‘soars’ in the above extract mean?
Mark the right item:
“This, said the emperor, was to encourage all children to honour and obey their parents.”
‘This’ refers to ______
Answer the following question.
“Then the situation changed.” What is being referred to?
Study the following phrases and their meanings. Use them appropriately to complete the sentences that follow.
After a very long spell of heat, the weather is ………….. at last.
In Ama Ata Aidoo’s short story, ‘The Girl Who Can’, Nana expressed her disapproval of Adjoa’s legs because ______.
