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प्रश्न
Describe Plan A and its consequences
उत्तर
According to Plan A, father would have reached the tree top with the help of the ladder. However, the ladder slipped and father fell on the ground.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
What do you think happens in the end? Does the child find his parents?
Why is the author deeply embarrassed the next day in school? Which words show his fear and insecurity?
Now dramatise the play. Form groups of eight to ten students. Within each group,
you will need to choose
- a director, who will be overall incharge of the group's presentation.
- the cast, to play the various parts.
- someone to be in charge of costumes.
- someone to be in charge of props.
- a prompter.
Within your groups, do ensure that you - read both scenes, not just your part within one scene if you are acting.
- discuss and agree on the stage directions.
- read and discuss characterization.
- hold regular rehearsals before the actual presentation.
Staging - The stage can be very simple, with exits on either side representing doors to the outside and
to the rest of the house respectively.
The next man looking 'cross the way
Saw one not of his church
And Couldn't bring himself to give
The fire his stick of birch.
The third one sat in tattered clothes.
He gave his coat a hitch.
Why should his log be put to use
To warm the idle rich?
The rich man just sat back and thought
of the wealth he had in store
And how to keep what he had earned
From the lazy shiftless poor.
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow.
In stanza 3, why did the man refuse to use his stick of wood?
Some are meet for a maiden's wrist,
Silver and blue as the mountain mist,
Some are flushed like the buds that dream
On the tranquil brow of a woodland stream,
Some are aglow with the bloom that cleaves
To the limpid glory of new born leaves
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow.
Explain ‘silver and blue as the mountain mist’
Suddenly all the tension seemed to ebb out of my body as the truth of what he said hit me. Confidently, I drew a line a full foot in back of the board and proceeded to jump from there. I qualified with almost a foot to spare.
That night I walked over to Luz Long’s room in the Olympic village to thank him. I knew that if it hadn’t been for him I probably wouldn’t be jumping in the finals the following day. We sat in his quarters and talked for two hours—about track and field, ourselves, the world situation, a dozen other things.
When I finally got up to leave, we both knew that a real friendship had been formed. Luz would go out to the field the next day trying to beat me if he could. But I knew that he wanted me to do my best—even if that meant my winning.
Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.
Suddenly all the tension seemed to ebb out of my body as the truth of what he said hit me.
The phrases on the left in the following box occur in the text. Match each of them with a phrase on the right.
| (i) an endless stretch of sand | •fertile place with water and plants in a desert |
| (ii) waterless and without shelter | •not visible because the grass is thick |
| (iii) an oasis | •nothing but sand as far as one can see |
| (iv) hidden by a cover of grass | •no water and no shade |
Answer the following question.
When was the bear tied up with a chain? Why?
The following sentence has two blanks. Fill in the blanks with appropriate forms of the word given in brackets.
The committee has_______ to make Jagdish captain of the team. The_________is likely toplease everyone. (decide)
Nishad decides to trust Mr Nath. Do you think we should trust others, why so?
What are the functions of feelers or antennae for an ant?
How did the monkey and the crocodile become good friends?
Why did Plan B fail?
Multiple Choice Question:
According to the poet, a house is ________
How did the villagers come to know of the magic waterfall?
Multiple Choice Question:
‘And its wings fill’. What do the ‘wings’ bring to your mind?
Can there be a good reason behind speaking when everybody else is silent?
In the poem, We are the Music Makers, what are the 'sea-breakers'?
Complete the following sentence by providing a reason:
Towards the end of the poem Birches, the poet expresses a wish to return to Earth because ______.
Referring closely to the poem, The Darkling Thrush, examine the poet's encounter with the aged thrush as a passage from amazement to introspection.
