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प्रश्न
State whether the following statement is True or False. Correct the false statement by finding evidence from the poem to support your remark.
The poet was exalted at the sight of the cherry tree.
विकल्प
True
False
उत्तर
This statement is True.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Answer any three of the following in 30-40 words each:
(a) Why has the poet’s mother been compared to the ‘late winter’s moon’?
(b) The poet says, ‘And yet, for these Children, these windows, not this map, their world.’ Which world do these children belong to? Which world is inaccessible to them?
(c) What was the plea of the folk who had put up the roadside stand?
(d) What will happen to Aunt Jennifer’s tigers when she is dead?
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swathe
Notice these expression in the text. Infer their meaning from the context.
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She makes too much steam–you want to hang the monkey wrench on the safety valve!
What does the reference to raw mythology imply?
Correct the following statement.
Behrman was a very heartless person.
What is the Rhyme scheme of stanzas 1 to 3 and the last two stanzas?
How does it differ in the remaining stanzas 4 to 7?
Given below are various professions in column A and in column B, the nature of work in respective professions. Match the columns.
| A | B |
| (i) Anaesthetist | (a) Specialist in the treatment of problems concerning the position of teeth and jaws. |
| (ii) Pharmacist | (b) A person who designs buildings and supervises the process of constructing them. |
| (iii) Orthodentist | (c) A person who is in charge of a newspaper or of a part of a newspaper. |
| (iv) Dermitologist | (d) The medical study of the skin and its diseases. |
| (v) Architect | (e) A person who has been trained to prepare medicines and sell them to the public. |
| (vi) Chartered Accountant | (f) A person whose job is to give drugs which makes the person not feel pain especially in preparation for a medical operation. |
| (vii) Editor | (g) A person who is engaged in the profession of accounting and examining the statements and records of accounts. |
Go through the poem and state whether the following statement is true or false.
Planners paint beautiful pictures of the upcoming changes in the city that charm the citizens.
Go through the poem and state whether the following statement is true or false.
Planners make tactful changes so that citizens do not recognize familiar landmarks.
The term 'Anaesthesia' in the poem means - 'The planner gives beautiful pictures of the new modern city'. Now find out what is Amnesia and Hypnosis in the given context.
Read 'The City Planners' by Margaret Atwood.
Read the passage and answer the following question:
What is seen on the obverse and reverse of the PVC medal?
Read aloud with the leader: Form groups of five. Read the passage aloud in groups. The leader begins every sentence and stops after a few words. The other members complete the sentence, reading it aloud in the chorus.
Collect as many pictures as you can, or draw diagrams of all the sources you have listed above. Make a scrapbook using them.
What time is being described in the poem?
Form groups. Discuss the first two paragraphs. Try to present their content in the form of a series of conversations among the volunteers.
Gather information about your favourite great historical personality. You may use the internet. You may also gather photographs, pictures, etc. Prepare a collage using the pictures, inspirational quotes, and a brief description of the person’s importance. Hold an exhibition of your collages in the classroom.
Find pairs of rhyming words from the poem.
Complete the following sentence with reference to the passage.
At the back rose the high peak of Mount Ida, from which _______________.
Choose the appropriate phrase to insert in the gap, to make the sentence meaningful. Use the appropriate form of the verb.
The minister ______ his personal body-guards.
Choose the appropriate phrase to insert in the gap, to make the sentence meaningful. Use the appropriate form of the verb.
Sorrowful times are ______ darkness.
Write the symbol that is used in the poem to represent the following idea.
Choice of two options.
Pick out the line that means:
Sing in such a manner:
The poet uses a free, conversational style in his poem. It is also called Colloquial style.
Pick out and write down such lines or expressions that support the above statement.
- ______ you have not done what I asked.
- _______________________.
- _______________________.
- _______________________.
- _______________________.
- _______________________.
List the rhyming words in the (On the water) poem.
Find a word that has a similar meaning.
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What did the Bodwells think when they heard the mother shout.
Find a sentence/word from the text which express the following.
Words related to prize.
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Neerja passed on the warning in a code to the pilots because she______.
Grandmother had wanted the peepul tree cut down because______.
Grandfather helped grandma out with the gardening because he______.
Read the story on your own. Discuss in a group and complete the story map below.
| A story map is the main events of the story given in a flow chart. |
The boy was so inspired by Mithali that he was happy for his sister to play cricket.
The little bird broadened the hole with her______.
The dry earth soaked up the moisture as a hungry puppy laps up milk. It means______.
Amuthan locked the door behind him.
They went out through the broken windows.
How did Santhosh spend his time in the river?
How can we make our nation proud?
Arrange the pictures by using numbers.
The old man helped ______ and ______.
They would rest on the tree.
Take out the correct rhyming pair from the poem and match with the given word.
| 1. | tall | |
| 2. | light | |
| 3. | might |
Why did Robinson name the tribe Friday?
What was the message on the chit?
What is the name of the girl?
Parents help us to overcome our______.
Join the word with the correct prefix.
| paid | un |
| send | dis |
| able | re |
| continue | pre |
Write the word with same meaning.
dustbin- ______.
What does she paint?
Read the passage 3 times and colour the trees for each time.
Trees help us in many ways. The colour green is calming and heals your worries. By planting and caring for trees, we help improve our surroundings, as they give fresh air. When air is dirty the people of Delhi suffered a lot. But people of Madhubani district in Bihar have shown how art can be used to make our air clean. So that people made paintings on trees to stop people from cutting the trees.
Why did Nasruddin say, “It was my aim,” the third time?
Read the given sentence and underline the 'no' word.
Nobody is at home.
Enact any one anecdote in the classroom.
