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प्रश्न
Read the lines and answer the questions given below.
They may sound your praise and call you great,
They may single you out for fame,
But you must work with your running mate
Or you’ll never win the game;
- Whom does ‘they’ refer to?
- Which line talks about team spirit?
- Pick out the rhyming words from the given lines.
उत्तर
- ‘They’refers to the people around you.
- The 3rd line ‘But you must work with your running mate’ talks about the team spirit.
- The rhyming words are ‘great – mate ; fame – game’.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Choose the rhyming words from the box and write them in the correct blanks.
claws, jaws, ______ , ______
- file
- din
- caws
- nail
- while
- paws
- thin
Listen to the poem read by your teacher.
Read the poem aloud in pairs. One person reads out Raj’s words and the other reads the mother’s. Take turns and read.
Read the poem aloud and fill in the wheel with its rhyming pair. Also try giving your own rhyming word. One is done for you.
Read the lines and answer the questions given below.
It’s helping your fellowman to score When his chances hopeless seem;
Its forgetting self till the game is o’re And fighting for the team.
- What does 'it' stand for here?
- Write the rhyme scheme for the above lines.
What do you think the poem is about?
What solution did he arrive at for the mystery that he found?
Did something dreadful happen? How would you describe the events in the poem– comedy or tragedy?
Read the poem line and answer the question given below.
But wondered much and sorrowed more
Because it hung behind him.
- What was he wondering about?
- What does the word ‘it’ refer to here?
Fill in the table with the appropriate poem lines. A few lines may be used more than one time.
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1. suggest the sage lacked practical common sense |
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2. make the poem humorous |
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3. show the clowning movements of the sage |
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4. that are actually funny but have a serious tone |
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Role play
Work with a partner. Let one student read the poem and the other to pantomime (communication by means of gesture and facial expression) the poem as he or she reads.
