SSC (English Medium) 9th Standard - Maharashtra State Board Question Bank Solutions for English

Why should one learn to tackle one's problems by one’s own self?

Why should seniors not overprotect or over - pamper juniors?

Find out and write down some proverbs/axioms/quotations that convey a message similar to ‘Self-help is the best help.’

Maintain a diary at least for a week. Write about your interactions with other people in your surroundings in 3-4 lines. Also write whether you find the interactions happy unhappy, satisfactory-unsatisfactory, enjoyable-stressful, etc.

Write an informal letter from a teenager to his/her parent, expressing a few thoughts from the poem.

(My dear ______/Dearest ______./Hi! ______ Are you surprised to see this letter? I wanted to talk to you about this, but then I thought I will be able to express myself better in a letter. Love,/Yours lovingly/Yours ______).

‘Invictus’ is an example of Traditional Poetry. ‘Please Listen’ is an example of Free Verse.

Complete the following story using the verbs in the brackets in their proper form:-

Footprint

One night a man ______ (have) a dream. He ______ (dream) that he was ______ (walk) along the beach with god. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene, he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand; one ______ (belong) to him and the other, to God.

After the last scene ______ (flash), he looked back at the footprints in the sand. He ______ (observe) that many times along the path of his life there ______ (be) only one set of footprints and that it ______ (happen) at the saddest, most ______ (trouble) times of his life.

He ______ (question) God about it. “God, you ______ (say) that once I ______ (decide) to follow you, you ______ (will) walk with me all the way. So I don’t understand, why you ______ (leave) me alone when I ______ (need) you most.”

God replied, “During your times of trials and sufferings, where you ______ (see) only one set of footprints, they ______ (be) mine for it was then that I ______ (carry) you in my arms.”

From the story (Part I and Part II), find 4 words that begin with the prefix ‘un-’ and write their opposites.

• ______ × ______
• ______ × ______.

Find one example of the following punctuation mark from the story and copy the sentence in which they are used - colon.

Find one example of the following punctuation mark from the story and copy the sentence in which they are used - semi-colon.

Write your opinion, in your own words:-

Why do you think the children dislike their aunt’s story?

Write your opinion, in your own words:-

Why did they appreciate and praise the stranger’s story?

Write your opinion, in your own words:-

What did the aunt fail to realize in Bertha’s story?

Write your opinion, in your own words:-

Write down two or three proverbs/axioms that suit the message in Bertha’s story.

Write 3 to 5 sentences about the following character.

The Aunt

Write 3 to 5 sentences about the following character.

The Bachelor

Write 3 to 5 sentences about the following character.

Cyril

Write 3 to 5 sentences about the following character.

Bertha

‘The Storyteller’ has a story within a story.

Search from the Internet or your library books for other stories that have another story within. Enlist at least 3 to 5 of them.

List all the verbs related to the verb ‘say’ or ‘tell’ from the story. Note where they occur. Rewrite at least 3 of the speeches near which they occur using indirect speech.