Balbharati solutions for English - Kumarbharati 9 Standard Maharashtra State Board chapter 3.4 - How the First Letter was Written [Latest edition]

List the materials that man has used for the following purposes in the different ages.

Write your name in Bold Capitals.

1. Now, within 3 minutes trying to make as many words as you can using the letters in your name. You cannot use the same letter twice in a word unless it is so in your name.
2. You may use the above idea to devise a game with your friends.

List words from your mother tongue or from Hindi which do not have an exact English equivalent. Try to write their meaning in English.

Now, list at least twenty English words that do not have an exact equivalent in your mother tongue.

Browse the internet to find names of people /places, etc. in any language that is not familiar to you. Can you pronounce the names correctly? How will you find the correct pronunciation?

Read the remaining part of the original story.

Make as many 5 to 8 letter words as you can within 5 minutes, from the name.

How does the following character in the story live up to their name? Provide points from the story.

Tengumai Bopsulai

How does the following character in the story live up to their name? Provide points from the story.

Taffimai Metallumai

How does the following character in the story live up to their name? Provide points from the story.

Teshumai Tewindrow

The story is written in an informal, colloquial style - the way it would be told orally. Find and write the expressions where the author addresses the audience directly in the story - for example, ‘but we, O Best Beloved, will...’, ‘Now attend and listen !’

Write a character-sketch of the ‘Stranger-man’ using examples from the story to support the following attributes.

1. ignorant, innocent, and polite
2. calm and cool
3. jumps to wrong conclusions
4. hasty and unwise at times

Note the punctuation used in the story. Here, single inverted commas or quotation marks have been used to show conversation. Rewrite the following using double quotation marks:

‘Here’s a pretty kettle of fish !’ said Tengumai.

Note the punctuation used in the story. Here, single inverted commas or quotation marks have been used to show conversation. Rewrite the following using double quotation marks:

‘It will take me half the day to mend this.’

Underline the main clause in the following sentence:

And she was Tegumai Bopsulai’s Best Beloved and her own Mummy’s Best Beloved, and she was not spanked half as much as was good for her, and they were all three very happy.

Underline the main clause in the following sentence:

One day Tegumai Bopsulai went down through the beaver-swamp to the Wagai river to spear carp-fish for dinner, and Taffy went too.

Underline the main clause in the following sentence:

They were miles and miles from home and Tegumai had forgotten to bring any extra spears.

Underline the main clause in the following sentence:

Just then a Stranger-man came along the river, but he belonged to a far tribe, the Tewaras, and he did not understand one word of Tegumai’s language.

Imagine Taffy comes to you for help to write a letter of apology, in the modern script we use. She wants to express her regret to the stranger-man for her mother’s action. Write that letter of apology (informal) on her behalf.

Imagine the Stranger-man narrates how the Neolithic ladies overpowered him. Write an account of the same making him the narrator.

Making suitable groups, convert the entire episode into a short skit, and write it down. Each group leader must discuss at first with the others and add a different end to the skit.

1. Happy ending
2. Sad ending
3. Surprise ending
4. Humorous ending

Write a short passage/essay on ‘Women Power’ in the Neolithic, Medieval, and Present Times.

Read: ‘Just So Stories’ and ‘The Jungle Book’ by Rudyard Kipling.