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Creative Activity Write eight words you associate with success. Use the words to write eight lines that mean success to you or how success makes you feel. Arrange your lines - English

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Creative Activity

  • Write eight words you associate with success.
  • Use the words to write eight lines that mean success to you or how success makes you feel.
  • Arrange your lines into a poem.
  • Share your poem with the class and post a copy on the notice board.
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उत्तर

Success

Real success is when you strive
for what you want
when you have that guts to flaunt
Not thinking about the world and wise
when you can alone suffice
With upright will and determination
where finally you reach your destination.
Real success is hard to find. But it's one of a kind.

(OR)

  1. brave
  2. hunt
  3. learn
  4. mistakes
  5. encounter
  6. failure
  7. never
  8. If

Poem

You’ll never be brave.
If you don’t get hurt
you’ll never learn.

If you don’t make mistakes
you’ll never be successful.
If you don’t encounter failure.

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Poem (Class 11th)
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पाठ 5.2: Everest is not the Only Peak - Exercises [पृष्ठ १५९]

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पाठ 5.2 Everest is not the Only Peak
Exercises | Q D. | पृष्ठ १५९

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Guess what friendly words these two gentlemen exchange when shaking hands.


What is the relationship between the narrator and the listener?


How is the poet’s laugh reflected in the mirror?


What does the poet long for?


Do you think the narrator is heroic? Why?


Why would the referee ask whether there was a doctor in the stands? What stands is he referring to?


Read the poem and answer the following in a short paragraph of 8–10 sentences each.

When officialdom demands Is there a doctor in the stands?

  1. Why are doctors called from stands by the sponsors?
  2. Why does the poet make such an observation?

Read the poem and complete the table with suitable rhyming words

e.g. enter center
  hockey
admire  
  romp
  deeds
score  
please  
  wrist
demands  
  stadium

Do you go for leisurely walks? If you are a city-dweller, what or who would you expect to see on your way?


Explain the following line with reference to the context in about four to five sentence each.

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts

Bring sad thoughts to the mind.


Explain the following line with reference to the context in about four to five sentence each.

Have I not reason to lament

What Man has made of Man?


Read the following line and identify the figure of speech used in each extract.

To her fair works did Nature link

The human soul that through me ran.


How do people bring grief and sorrow to one another?


Why does the poet think that the birds were happy?


The poem speaks of ______.


Why is Macavity called the ‘Napoleon of Crime’?


Read the poem once again and complete the summary using the words given in the box.

‘Macavity – The Mystery Cat’ is a humorous poem, where the poet T.S. Eliot describes the mysterious (a) _______of a shrewd vile cat. He commits a crime at every possible opportunity. He is an elusive master (b)______who leaves no evidence after he commits a crime. Even the Scotland Yard, the London (c) ______ agency is unable to arrest him. The Flying Squad is (d) ______ because every time they rush to the crime spot to seize Macavity, he is not there. He breaks the human law as well as the law of (e) ______. He baffles even a (f) ______ with his powers of levitation. Macavity appears tall and thin with (g)______ eyes. He is always preoccupied with some serious (h) ______. His coat is dusty and his (i)______are unkempt. Macavity is a (j) ______in the guise of a cat. He appears to be outwardly (k) ______ but his actions disprove it. Macavity loots the (l)______, ransacks the jewel-case, and breaks the (m)______glass but wonder of wonders he is not to be found anywhere there. He is always a mile away from the scene of crime, happily relaxing or doing difficult (n) ______ sums. He is clever at making up an (o) ______every time he plots a crime. All the notorious cats are nothing but the (p) ______Macavity, the Napoleon of Crime.

larder whiskers
respectable criminal
devil thought
sunken division
agents detective
alibi desperate
fakir qualities
gravity greenhouse

Explain the following line with reference to the context.

There may be a scrap of paper in the hall or on the stair

But it’s useless to investigate…


Identify the following personalities and their fields of achievement.

  Name Field
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  1. Mention a remarkable achievement of any of these personalities.
  2. What quality do you admire the most in each of these achievers?
  3. What are the qualities that you may share with them?
  4. Name a few more popular personalities who have made our nation proud.
  1. ______.
  2. ______.
  3. ______.
  4. ______.

Why does the speaker say ‘Everest is not the only peak’?


Discuss the following topic in groups of five and choose a representative to sum up the view and share them with the class.

‘Success is not final, failure is not fatal.’ It is the courage and perseverance that counts.


Fill in the blank with appropriate word from the box and complete the statement suitably:

The fortress was ______and could not be conquered by the enemies.


What do the three words, ‘graves, worms and epitaphs’, refer to?


Who is Bolingbroke? Is he a friend or foe?


Are all deposed kings slain by the deposer?


Read the poem once again carefully and identify the figure of speech that has been used in each of the following line from the poem:

“Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!”


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