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प्रश्न
Copy the exclamations from the play. (At least 5)
उत्तर
- How boring!
- Halt!
- Let the court begin!
- The first complainant!
- Justice!
- Oh, Most Great King!
- O king!
- A life for life!
- The merchant must be hanged!
- O Noble King!
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संबंधित प्रश्न
What is the name of the town?
What is the name of the King?
What is the speciality of the land?
Can we call thieves ‘truly hard-working and honest’?
Why is the Daughter so confident that the king will not hang her? Does her prediction come true?
Is the Daughter’s complaint about the Goldsmith true?
List all the different titles they use to address the King.
Copy the orders (imperative sentences) from the play.
Write what following should have said after listening to the complaint against her:
Daughter
Write what following should have said after listening to the complaint against him:
Potter
Write what following should have said after listening to the complaint against him:
Mortar-maker
Write what following should have said after listening to the complaint against him:
Bricklayer
Will a thief appear in a court on his own? Why does this Thief dare to do so?
What is the Goldsmith’s excuse?
What is the Sage's request?
List the characters that appear for the first time in this part of the play. Write one or two lines about each of them.
The King thought that the Goldsmith had a good reason to delay the Daughter’s work.
The noose did not fit the Goldsmith’s neck.
The noose did not fit the disciple’s neck.
Write any three instances of funny rules and twisted logic used in Andher Nagari.
List the proverbs and sayings used in the play.
Form groups. Translate one page of the play into your mother tongue as a group activity. Gather the pages translated by different groups and prepare a translated script of the entire play.
Divide the play (Part I as well as Part II) into sections. Form groups and assign roles. Practise your lines in groups. Hold play reading sessions in the classroom. Which group/student presents the most effective reading?
Note the features that make an oral presentation effective. Some of them are :
- Meaningful reading - taking proper pauses (breaking the speech into meaningful chunks)
- Using suitable intonation
- Speaking clearly
- Good pronunciation - using English sounds and stress patterns
- Pleasant and confident appearance of the speakers.
Note the way the dialogue in the play is presented. Look up the word ‘colon’ in the ‘Language Study’ pages and note how it is used in the play.
