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Have you known someone like the author’s grandmother? Do you feel the same sense of loss with regard to someone whom you have loved and lost?
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Which language do you think the author and his grandmother used while talking to each other?
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Which language do you use to talk to elderly relatives in your family?
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How would you say ‘a dilapidated drum’ in your language?
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Can you think of a song or a poem in your language that talks of homecoming?
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Notice the following uses of the word ‘tell’ in the text.
1. Her fingers were busy telling the beads of her rosary.
2. I would tell her English words and little things about Western science and learning.
3. At her age, one could never tell.
4. She told us that her end was near.
Given below are four different senses of the word ‘tell’. Match the meanings to the uses listed above.
1. make something known to someone in spoken or written words
2. count while reciting
3. be sure
4. give information to somebody
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Does the poem talk of an exclusively personal experience or is it fairly universal?
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How is the father’s helplessness brought out in the poem?
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Identify the phrases and lines that indicate distance between father and son.
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Does the poem have a consistent rhyme scheme?
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What does the word ‘cardboard’ denote in the poem? Why has this word been used?
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What has the camera captured?
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What has not changed over the years? Does this suggest something to you?
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The poet’s mother laughed at the snapshot. What did this laugh indicate?
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What is the meaning of the line “Both wry with the laboured ease of loss”.
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What does “this circumstance” refer to?
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The three stanzas depict three different phases. What are they?
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Notice these expressions in the text. Infer their meaning from the context.
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honing our seafaring skills
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ominous silence
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Mayday calls
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pinpricks in the vast ocean
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a tousled head
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List the steps taken by the captain
(i) to protect the ship when rough weather began.
(ii) to check the flooding of the water in the ship.
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Describe the mental condition of the voyagers on 4 and 5 January.
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