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प्रश्न
Do you think this is a good land to settle in? Why?
उत्तर
The laws of Andher Nagari are unreasonable and unfair; thus, it is undoubtedly not a nice place to settle down. The basic sense of belonging to a society is absent from the people there. The King and everyone who lives there adhere to strange laws and twisted reasoning.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
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Copy the orders (imperative sentences) from the play.
Use your imagination and the details from the play and draw a map of Andher Nagari.
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Daughter
Write what following should have said after listening to the complaint against him:
Bricklayer
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What is the Sage's request?
What does the king want to know?
Is the King willing to hang the Sage?
What is your opinion about the king - is he wicked, greedy, stupid or all of these? Which of his actions/words show that?
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The King thought that the Goldsmith had a good reason to delay the Daughter’s work.
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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.
