Advertisements
Advertisements
प्रश्न
“He liked to tease and play”. Who is teasing whom? How?
उत्तर
The poet and his companions are being teased by the squirrel. The squirrel would always go to the opposite side of his tree whenever they ran around it.
APPEARS IN
संबंधित प्रश्न
Match the meanings with the words/expressions in italic, and write the appropriate
meaning next to the sentence.
I got a fright when I realised how close I was to the cliff edge.
Answer of these question in a short paragraph (about 30 words).
What incidents during the Everest expedition show Santosh’s concern for her team-mates?
You can find more information about Robert Frost at the following websites.
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=1961.
Hear the poet (who died almost forty years ago!) reading the poem at
http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm ?prmID= 1645
To view a beautiful New England scene with each poem on this web site: "Illustrated
Poetry of Robert Frost":
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/1487/index.html
Read the following statement and imagine you are Jack.
"I can't afford to, after what Jack's done to his teeth."
What is it, you think, you can not afford to do and why? Write a diary entry of not
less than 125 words.
(In-class activity; not to be set up as homework).
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in springhtly dance.
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow.
How many did the poet see at a glance?
The following sentence has two blanks. Fill in the blanks with appropriate forms of the word given in bracket.
It’s a fairly simple question to__________,butwill you accept my________ as final? (answer)
Complete the sentence below by appropriately using anyone of the following:
if you want to/if you don’t want to/if you want him to
Don’t go to the theatre__________________.
What did the beggar feel about the ladies of the household?
How did Mr Gessler found that the boot was not comfortable for author?
Give one stance from the lesson that proves that Mr Gessler was getting older.
Complete the following sentences.
i. An ant is the smallest, ——————————————
ii. We know a number of facts about an ant’s life because ————————————————————
Which bird directed Golu to go to the Limpopo river and why?
Why did the customer free the imprisoned doves?
What was troubling the talking fan?
Make noun from the word given below by adding –ness, ity, ty or y
cruel ___________.
Multiple Choice Question:
According to the passage the home is a ________
With your partner try to guess the meaning of the underlined phrase.
And somehow we fell out.
Put each of the following in the correct order. Then use them appropriately to fill in the blanks in the paragraph that follows. Use correct punctuation marks.
- English and Hindi/both/in/he writes
- and only / a few short stories/many books in English/in Hindi
- Is/my Hindi / than my English/much better
Ravi Kant is a writer and ………….. Of course, he is much happier writing in English than in Hindi. He has written …………….. . I find his books a little hard to understand ………………… .
Study the following phrases and their meanings. Use them appropriately to complete the sentences that follow.
We have no right to …………. people who do small jobs.
Read the following extract from Maya Angelou’s poem, ‘When Great Trees Fall’ and answer the questions that follow:
| When great trees fall in forests, small things recoil into silence, their senses eroded beyond fear. |
- What effect does the falling of a ‘great tree’ have on the creatures of the forest? [3]
- How does the death of a great soul affect the lives of those left behind in the immediate aftermath of their passing? [3]
- What long-term effect does the death of a ‘great soul' have? [3]
- What feeling is being expressed by the following lines/phrases? [3]
- small things recoil into silence
- kind words/unsaid,
- Beand be/better. For they existed
- What is a ‘Great tree’ a metaphor for? [4]
What is the central message of Angelou’s poem, “When Great Trees Fall"?
